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mandag 12. januar 2015

Rihanna


Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), known by her stage name Rihanna is a Barbadian singer, actress, and fashion designer.


Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, her career began upon meeting record producer Evan Rogers in late 2003 through mutual friends; she recorded demo tapes with his guidance.


Her tape was sent to several record labels, and she subsequently signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for its then-president, hip-hop producer and rapper Jay-Z. 


Both her debut album, Music of the Sun (2005) and its follow-up A Girl Like Me (2006) peaked in the top ten on the US Billboard 200; the former featured the commercially successful song "Pon de Replay" while the latter produced her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, "SOS".


She rose to widespread prominence and became a household name with the release of her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad(2007), and its chart-topping lead single "Umbrella." 


The album and its 2008 Reloaded re-release were nominated for nine Grammy Awards, winning Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Umbrella".


From 2009 to 2012, following a highly publicized altercation with then-boyfriend, entertainer Chris Brown, she annually released four Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) platinum certifiedalbums: Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011), and her first Billboard 200 number one album Unapologetic (2012). 


The same year, she appeared in her first theatrical feature film, Battleship.


Rihanna has sold over 150 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time.


Many of her songs rank among the world's best-selling singles of all time, such as "Umbrella", "Take a Bow", "Disturbia", "Only Girl (In the World)", "S&M", "We Found Love", "Diamonds" and "Stay".


She has achieved thirteen number-one singles on theBillboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the youngest and fastest solo artist to accomplish this record.


Billboard named her the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade and the top Hot 100 artist of the 2010s decade.


Rihanna is known for frequently reinventing her style and image, most notably since Good Girl Gone Bad.


Her work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including eight Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, 22 Billboard Music Awards, and two BRIT Awards.


In 2012, Forbes ranked her the fourth most powerful celebrity of the year, with earnings of $53 million between May 2011 and May 2012.


The same year, TIME named Rihanna one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.


At theAmerican Music Awards of 2013, she received the first ever Icon Award.


On June 2, 2014, Rihanna received the Fashion Icon lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).





Geri Halliwell


Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell (born 6 August 1972) is a pop singer-songwriter, clothes designer, author and actress. 


Halliwell came to international prominence in the 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of girl group the Spice Girls.


Halliwell has reportedly amassed a $30 million fortune during her last two years in the group.


In 1999, Halliwell launched her solo career and released her debut album, Schizophonic, which spawned three number ones at theUK Singles Chart; "Mi Chico Latino", "Lift Me Up", and "Bag It Up", while the lead single, "Look at Me", peaked at number two.


In 2001, Halliwell released her second album, Scream If You Wanna Go Faster; the first single, "It's Raining Men", peaked at number one in the UK and went on to become Halliwell's biggest hit of her career worldwide, and she released her third studio album, Passion, in 2005.


After a few years of relative obscurity, in April 2010, Halliwell announced that she had started working on new music.




Linda Evans


Linda Evans (born on November 18, 1942) is an actress known primarily for her roles on television.


In the 1960s, she gained notice for playing Audra Barkley in the Western television series, The Big Valley (1965–1969).


However she is most prominently known for the role of Krystle Carrington in the 1980s ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989.


By the 1984-85 season, Dynasty was the number one show on American television, even outranking Dallas.


Audiences became enthralled by the onscreen rivalry and infamous catfights between Krystle and Alexis, and Evans and Collins became two of the most celebrated television stars of the decade.


Evans was nominated five times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a TV Drama series (every year from 1982 to 1986), winning in 1982.



Evans appeared in Playboy magazine, as a true and proven slut.

Pamela Bellwood


Pamela Bellwood (born Pamela Anne King on June 26, 1951) is an actress best known for her role as Claudia Blaisdel Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera, Dynasty.


Born in New York City, Bellwood studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.


Bellwood was an original cast member of Dynasty in January 1981, and was written off the series early in the third season, in late 1982. 


She appeared once in March 1983 to help usher in Jack Coleman as a recast Steven Carrington, and later returned full-time in October 1983.


Bellwood remained a key character for several seasons until leaving the series a final time in 1986 to become a full-time mother.


Twenty years later in 2006, Bellwood appeared alongside her former Dynasty castmates in the non-fiction special Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar.


Bellwood posed for an eight-page unforgettable pictorial in the April 1983 edition of Playboy magazine.


Bellwood also appeared in such films as Two-Minute Warning, Airport '77 and The Incredible Shrinking Woman, as well as a number of TV movies.


She is currently married to photographer Nik Wheeler and continues to perform in film and on stage.


She is now known and often credited as Pamela Bellwood-Wheeler.


She stays in her marriage, and I like that in a woman.


Her incitements are legendary.


It's not an easy task taming her.



Sandra


Sandra Ann Lauer, commonly known under her stage name Sandra (born 18 May 1962) is a pop singer, who enjoyed a mainstream popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s with a string of European hit singles, produced by her then-husband and musical partner, Michael Cretu, most notably "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" (1985), "In the Heat of the Night" (1985), "Everlasting Love" (1987), "Secret Land" (1988), "Hiroshima" (1990) and "Don't Be Aggressive" (1992).


Her albums Into a Secret Land (1988) and Close to Seven (1992) have won Sandra high critical acclaim.


A cult star with a devoted fan base, Sandra remains one of the most popular singers in Continental Europe.


During the height of her popularity, she even managed to outsell Madonna in a number of countries around the world.