" Jim Cullen observed in Popular Culture in American History ( 2001 ) that although it was Michael Jackson's Thriller that originally synchronized music video with album sales, Janet Jackson was also among the first generation of artists that saw the visualization of their music elevate them to the status of a pop culture icon.

Popular R & B artists such as Rhianna, British R & B stars Jay Sean and Taio Cruz, as well as British pop star Lily Allen on her second album, have also embraced the genre.

Popular songs by contemporary artists not specific to Earth Day that are under copyright or new lyrics adapted to children's songs.

Popular artists on Christian radio stations with this format include Third Day, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, Mercy Me, Steven Curtis Chapman, Carman, Sandi Patty, Sandawg Hailey, Relient K, Dotty Danhour, Switchfoot, and the Bill Gaither Trio.

Popular artists played on Black Gospel stations include Yolanda Adams ( who also hosts a nationally syndicated morning show aired on several stations with such a format ), Kirk Franklin, The Clark Sisters, Kierra Sheard, Dottie Peoples, Marvin Winans, Trin-i-tee 5: 7 and Shirley Caesar.

* February 26-Eight Popular Victor Artists record " A Miniature Concert ," the first recorded ( cf March 16 entry below ) electrical recording by the Victor Talking Machine ; the artists were Billy Murray, Frank Banta, Henry Burr, Albert Campbell, Frank Croxton, John Meyer, Monroe Silver, and Rudy Wiedoeft.

On July 2, 2010, the Smithsonian Institute Museum of the Native American opened the exhibit " Up Where We Belong-Native Musicians in Popular Culture ", in which Wray is one of 12 artists presented.

He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and tropicália movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso.

Popular artists created ukiyo-e, woodblock prints for sale to commoners in the flourishing cities.

Popular artists of the 18th century became patrons and governors of the Foundling Hospital and donated some of their work to the foundation.

* Beatmania Pocket-Best Hits 2000 -: Popular songs from various artists from the year 2000.

Popular artists like Yaba Angelosi sings Afro-beat, R & B, and Zouk ; Dynamiq is popular for his reggae releases ; and Emmanuel Kembe who sings folk, reggae and Afro-beat

Popular British R & B artists include Taio Cruz, Jay Sean, Tinie Tempah, M. I. A, Tinchy Stryder, Jessie J, Dizzee Rascal, Rita Ora, Joss Stone and N-Dubz.

Popular artists utilized by poppers included Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Twighlight 22, Egyptian Lover, and World Class Wrecking Crew.

Popular artists like Yaba Angelosi sings Afro-beat, R & B, and Zouk ; Dynamiq is popular for his reggae releases ; and Emmanuel Kembe who sings Folk, Reggae and Afro-beat.

Popular and influential rock bands and artists have included Indexi, Bijelo dugme, Divlje jagode, Plavi orkestar, Crvena jabuka, Zabranjeno pušenje, Hari Mata Hari and others from the Sarajevo School of Pop Rock

Popular producers and artists include Adi Lukovac ( Adi Lukovac & The Ornaments ), Mirza ( Mizi ) Čaušević ( mentalEscape ), Dr Mladen Milicevic, Dr. Igor Karača, Axa, Basheskia, Vuneny, Velahavle, Billain and dZihan & Kamien.

Popular Hip hop artists of the 1980s include Run D. M. C., Beastie Boys, NWA, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Eric B.

Popular Hip hop artists of the 1980s include Run D. M. C., Beastie Boys, NWA, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Eric B.

Popular American contemporary R & B artists included Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, D ' Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Whitney Houston, Sade, En Vogue, Toni Braxton, Boyz II Men, Dru Hill, Gloria Estefan, Vanessa L. Williams and LeAnn Rimes.

Popular artists include Foo Fighters, Creed, Nickelback, Matchbox 20, Audioslave, Muse, 3 Doors Down, Our Lady Peace, Lifehouse, Switchfoot, Silverchair, Staind, Puddle of Mudd, Shinedown, Seether, and Daughtry.

Popular Malawian gospel artists include Ndirande Anglican Voices, Ethel Kamwendo-Banda, Grace Chinga, Lloyd Phiri, George Mkandawire and the Chitheka Family.

Popular artists of the 70s included Harmonium, Offenbach, Plume Latraverse, Garolou and Beau Dommage, as well as Michel Rivard.

Popular artists include _aa_, Binary Beats, and the Evolution Control Committee.

He was a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the " Popular Unity " ( UP or " Unidad Popular ") coalition of the Socialist, Communist, Radical, and Social-Democratic Parties, along with dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement ( MAPU ), and the Independent Popular Action.

The dictatorial regime operated as a one-party-state, which saw most of the powers concentrated between President Mobutu, who was simultaneously the head of the state-party ( Popular Movement of the Revolution ), and a series of essentially rubber-stamping institutions.

Popular performers of Hachijō-daiko include the group, Rokuninkai, who regularly appear in concerts and festivals throughout the Japanese archipelago.

The new armed forces were formed by integrating those soldiers of the former Popular Forces for the Liberation of Mozambique ( FPLM ) and the rebels Mozambican National Resistance RENAMO who wished to stay in uniform.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

The exhaustion of most opposition forces enabled Stroessner to crush the Paraguayan Communist Party ( Partido Communista Paraguayo-PCP ) by mercilessly persecuting its members and their spouses and to isolate the exiled Colorado epifanistas ( followers of Epifanio Méndez Fleitas ) and democráticos, who had reorganized themselves as the Popular Colorado Movement ( Movimiento Popular Colorado-Mopoco ).

* Siddur Aliyos Eliyahu ( Popular among followers of the Vilna Gaon who live in Israel and abroad ) ( Hebrew )

The Finnish IWW community produced several folk singers, poets and song-writers, the most famous being Matti Valentine Huhta ( better known as T-Bone Slim ), who penned " The Popular Wobbly " and " The Mysteries of a Hobo's Life ".

Nonetheless, in the 1987 general election that he lost, Powell campaigned in Bangor for James Kilfedder, the devolutionist North Down Popular Unionist Party MP and against Robert McCartney, who was standing as a Real Unionist on a policy of integration and equal citizenship for Northern Ireland.

Popular revolt broke out a few years later, and the weakened empire soon fell to a Chu lieutenant, who went on to found the Han Dynasty.

Popular legends include an ox named " Bloem " owned by one of the pioneer farmers that was taken by a lion near a fountain on his property, while another story names Jan Blom ( 1775 – 1858 ), a Korana KhoiKhoi leader who inhabited the area.

Among the protesters who organised the unsanctioned rally were the Sevastopol branches of the National Salvation Front, the Russian Popular Assembly, and the All-Crimean Movement of the Voters for the Republic of Crimea.

On 6 September, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked and blew up four emptied international airplanes on Jordanian soil, despite protests from Nasser who issued condemnations against the hijackers.

Popular characters and historical figures who have come to symbolise the city include Januarius, the patron saint of Naples, the comic figure Pulcinella, and the Sirens from the Greek epic poem the Odyssey.

The Unidad Popular government had enormous support among Nueva canción musicians who composed the campaign song Poder Popular for the presidential election of 1970 and recorded El pueblo unido jamás será vencido in June 1973.

Popular power forward Charles Oakley, who had led the league in total rebounds in both ' 87 and ' 88, was traded on the eve of the 1988 draft to the New York Knicks along with a Round 1 draft pick used by the Knicks on Rod Strickland for center Bill Cartwright and a 1st round draft pick which the Bulls used to obtain center Will Perdue.

Controversial both inside and outside the newspaper is its ownership by a person who also controls a major military supplier, as well as being a mayor and senator from the ruling Union for a Popular Movement party, whose son Olivier Dassault is a member of the French National Assembly for the same party.

Popular songwriters were also featured on radio, such as George Gershwin, who in addition to appearing as a guest, also had his own program in 1934.

Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre ( 22 February 1895 – 2 August 1979 ) was a Peruvian political leader who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA ) political movement.

" Popular accounts during and after the war years tended to portray Dolley Madison as the one who removed the painting, and she became a hero.