* 1970 – Michael Wong, Malaysia-Chinese singer and composer

* 1968 – Michael Bivins, American singer, producer, and actor ( New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe )

* 1966 – Michael Franti, American singer, musician, composer, and poet ( The Beatnigs and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy )

Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an architect who worked for the World Bank.

* Conspiracy ( Michael Bormann album ), by the German rock singer

* 1971 – Michael McCary, American singer ( Boyz II Men )

* 1942 – Michael Nesmith, American singer, songwriter, actor, and musician ( The Monkees )

* 1953 – Michael Bolton, American singer

Anderson paid singer Michael Holliday £ 2, 000 to sing the songs in the shows that were composed by Barry Gray.

Internationally-recognised musicians such as metal acts Striborg and Psycroptic, indie-electro bands The Paradise Motel and The Scientists of Modern Music, singer / songwriters Sacha Lucashenko ( of The Morning After Girls ), Michael Noga ( of The Drones ), and Monique Brumby, two-thirds of indie rock band Love of Diagrams, post punk band Sea Scouts, blues guitarist Phil Manning ( of blues-rock band Chain ), power-pop group The Innocents are all successful expatriates.

American singer, pianist, musical historian Michael Feinstein worked for Gershwin in the lyricist's latter years, helping him with his archive.

* 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

* 1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.

* 1969 – Michael Kulas, Canadian singer ( James )

* 1960 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer ( INXS and Max Q ) ( d. 1997 )

* 1948 – Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer ( Power Station, Silverhead, and Detective )

* 1942 – Michael Crawford, British singer and actor

* John Michael Stipe, known as Michael Stipe ( born 1960 ), lead singer of the band R. E. M.

* 1949 – Philip Michael Thomas, American actor and singer

* 1950 – Michael Been, American singer / songwriter / musician ( The Call ( band )) ( d. 2010 )

* 1957 – Michael W. Smith, American singer

In 1996 King collaborated with Michael Jackson to create Ghosts, a 40-minute musical video in which the singer portrays a recluse living in a mansion confronting an unwelcoming group of townsfolk initially calling for his exodus from their community.

In this show she talked about her comeback, her breakup with Lance Armstrong, her past job as Michael Jackson's backup singer, and her experience as a breast cancer survivor.

* 1956 – Michael Feinstein, American singer, pianist, and archivist

** Michael Stipe, American rock singer ( R. E. M.

After their performance, singer Michael Stipe ( known for his shyness ) sat down on the drum riser, forcing Letterman to interview the other band members.

In 2007, to celebrate his 30 years as a singer, he released Papito, an album that contains remakes of his previous songs, re-interpreted in duets with Juanes, Alejandro Sanz, Fangoria ( band ), Ivete Sangalo, Laura Pausini, Shakira, Julieta Venegas, Ricky Martin, Amaia Montero ( past member of the Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh ), and Michael Stipe from R. E. M., along with many other singers.

lead singer Michael Stipe on backup vocals ), and " Reconsider Me ".

John Michael Stipe ( born January 4, 1960 ) is an American singer, lyricist and visual artist.

In 1999, author Douglas A. Martin published a novel, Outline of My Lover, in which the narrator has a six-year romantic relationship with the unnamed lead singer of a successful Athens, Georgia-based, rock band ; the book was widely speculated, and later confirmed by its author, to have been a roman à clef based on a real relationship between Martin and Stipe.

Stipe was once very close to fellow singer Natalie Merchant and has recorded a few songs with her, including one titled " Photograph " which appeared on a pro-choice benefit album titled Born to Choose, and they appeared live with Peter Gabriel singing Gabriel's single " Red Rain " at the 1996 VH1 Honors.

This message was suggested by his friend Michael Stipe ( singer of R. E. M.

Easter incorporated tape loops and recorded singer Michael Stipe singing outdoors.

singer Michael Stipe ( to the point that one Joplin song, " Happy at Last ," begins, " I sound like Michael Stipe and I dream like Carl Jung ").

The song was chosen by REM singer Michael Stipe.

lead singer Michael Stipe on vocals and drums, and Warren Zevon on vocals.

The following year, the band's singer Michael Stipe and Finster collaborated on a painting for the cover of their second album Reckoning.

Lead singer Michael Stipe was not as enthusiastic about recording the song as the other band members were, and as a result bassist Mike Mills debuted on lead vocals with Stipe providing background.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

In February 1684 he became Maestro di Cappella to the viceroy of Naples, perhaps through the influence of his sister, an opera singer, who might have been the mistress of an influential Neapolitan noble.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

While at Villanova he became friends with singer / songwriter Jim Croce.

In New York City, Sennett became an actor, singer, dancer, clown, set designer and director for Biograph.

These afforded great opportunity for virtuosic singing and during the golden age of opera seria the singer really became the star.

In the spring of 1968, Terry Luttrell became lead singer, and Bob Crownover and Gregg Philbin replaced Matt and Blair.

She became acquainted with regional country singer Mary Bailey who had had some country chart success in 1976.

Following the promotional tour for Becoming X, Kelli was dismissed from the group, and Corner became the singer.

In March 2011, the Tommy James song I'm Alive ( co-written with Peter Lucia ) became a top 20 hit in the Netherlands for UK singer Don Fardon after his version had been used in a Vodafone commercial.

The Escorts had Ken Ray as the lead singer and in 1962 they became the Seekers.

Following his departure, he became the subject of talk shows and newspapers as he acknowledged his plans to become a solo singer, and he was spotted partying with George Michael in France.

The Union Flag also became a prominent symbol of the movement, and its use as a symbol of pride and nationalism contrasted deeply with the controversy that erupted just a few years before when former Smiths singer Morrissey performed draped in it.

In 2006, she became lead singer of the pop rock band Ultra Orange, and the group's name was changed to Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle.

During his years in Germany, Sullivan became friendly with the composer Franz Liszt, the singer and later impresario Carl Rosa, and the violinist Joseph Joachim.

Mills became Jones ' manager and took the young singer to London, and also renamed him Tom Jones.

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

Holst's mother, Clara Cox von Holst ( née Lediard ), who died in 1882, was a singer and pianist who bore two sons, Gustav and Emil Gottfried ( who later became Ernest Cossart, a film actor in Hollywood ).

It was there he met singer Anna Mae Bullock, whom he married and renamed Tina Turner, forming the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which over the course of the sixties became a soul / rock crossover success.

Around the time he was starting out with The Kings of Rhythm, Turner and Ernest Lane became unofficial roadies for blues singer Robert Nighthawk, who often played live on WROX.

** Vertinsky, Alexander: Cabaret singer ( 1889 – 1957 )— became known as the " Russian Pierrot " after debuting around 1916 with " Pierrot's doleful ditties "— songs that chronicled tragic incidents in the life of Pierrot.

He was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in 1670, and in 1695 became the leading bass singer in the company with which Henry Purcell worked, playing roles such as the magician Ismeron in The Indian Queen, where he sang the major aria " Ye twice ten hundred deities ".

Amphion became a great singer and musician after Hermes taught him to play and gave him a golden lyre.