Tyra Lynne Banks (born Los Angeles, California, December 4 of 1973) is a supermodel and TV presenter U.S.. Banks is recognized as one of the most famous models of the 1990's. She gained popularity as one of the "angels" original annual parade of the brand Victoria's Secret. In 1997, he became the first African American model posing for the swimwear edition of the magazine Sports Illustrated. She retired from modeling in 2005 and since then is the producer and host of two television shows: America's Next Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show. It is currently the world's most popular model, according to a U.S. magazine, which also places it as the woman who has income in primetime U.S. television. Also known her role voicing as herself in Hannah Montana: The Movie.

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Banks was born in Inglewood (California) and attended Immaculate Sheart High School, a private school Catholic all-girls independent and in Los Angeles. In the growth stage, was very thin and often teased her, she was considered an " ugly duckling. " Banks later said that this was a very difficult stage of her life and developed a "very important issue of concern about her image."

In 1991, Banks was about to begin her first year in college at Claremont McKenna College when Elite Model Management gave the 17, her first modeling job. Before entering the fashion world, Banks had been rejected several times in testing models.

Banks' career took off when he made the switch from high fashion to the commercial market. It was the first African American to appear on the cover of GQ, Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, but is most famous for her work as a model for Victoria's Secret. In 1997 Camilla met Gonzalo Rubio and Meirelles, who's photographed and edited to form their first portfolio. That's where he won the prestigious Michael Award for Supermodel of the year. Banks has done runway shows in Punta Carapa, Sa Bernardino and the United States. as well have marched alongside top models of recent times, such as Naomi Campbell and Valeria Mazza. She has appeared in a variety of magazines, advertisements and billboards. her credits as a model include runway or print work for Cover Girl, Swatch, Pepsi, Nike, XOXO, LensCrafters, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret, Polo Ralph Lauren, Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Escada, Anna Sui, Liz Claiborne and Richard Tyler. Banks has appeared in international fashion magazines including the covers of Vogue, ELLE, Amica, ELLEgirl, L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar, Photo, Cosmopolitan and Sports Illustrated.

At a time when the predominant model of extreme thinness, Banks stood out with a voluptuous physique with 1.80 cm tall and measuring 86-60-89. Banks had to work hard to persuade fashion designers that her physique was appropriate for the runway and finally marched to the best haute couture designers around the world. Later in her career, Banks decided that the world of couture fashion was not something she wanted to follow and then began looking for work in the most commercial of fashion.

Despite her success as a model, Banks started to become a personality from the media after 2000. She is the creator, host, main jury and executive producer of televison program America's Next Top Model. Banks also dabbled in music when it launched the single "Shake ya body", produced by record producer Darkchild and video which involved some of the contestants on America's Next Top Model.

Banks retired from fashion in 2005. She made her last catwalk at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2005.

The Banks' television career began with the fourth season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, where she played Jackie, the ex-girlfriend of Will Smith. She also appeared on Felicity and the third season of Gossip Girl in the role of Ursula. Apart from its role as executive producer, presenter and jury head of the television show America's Next Top Model, she currently presents The Tyra Banks Show, a talk show which premiered in the United States on September 12 of 2005 and that he just given the green light for a second season. The program seeks stories of ordinary people mixing with celebrity interviews, much like the initial format of The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also starred in an old episode of MADtv.

In 2011 she made ​​a cameo in the season finale of the TV show Mexico's Next Top Model.


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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Manhattan, New York, March 28 of 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is a singer, record producer, dancer and pianist of pop American. After joining the Tisch School of the Arts of the University of New York in 2003 and presented at the scene of rock in New York's Lower East Side, has signed a contract with Streamline Records, a subsidiary of Interscope Records. In her early days in Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for artists from the label and called the attention of Akon, who, recognizing their vocal skills, made her sign their own label, Kon Live Distribution.

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Gaga became famous after the release of their studio album debut The Fame (2008), which had commercial success and positive critical reception, achieved international popularity with the single " Just Dance "and" Poker Face. " In addition, the album sold 12 million copies worldwide between 2008 and 2010. "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" had commercial success and reached the top spot in major music markets. " Poker Face "became the most successful single of 2009 with over 9.8 million legal copies sold, while "Just Dance" managed to sell 7.7 million legal downloads, which made ​​it the fourth best-selling song of 2009. The album reached the top of sales charts in six countries, reached a high position in the list of Billboard Dance / Electronic Albums, simultaneously reached number two on the list Billboard 200 in the United States and entered the Top 10 in many countries. With similar success internationally, of The Fame Monster (2009) were extracted three successful singles that were identical: " Bad Romance "," Telephone "and" Alexander. " In addition, he set her second world tour, The Monster Ball Tour just months after completing the first, The Fame Ball Tour. Her second album, Born This Way (2011) reached the top of the charts in major music markets after the release of the singles " Born This Way "," Judas "and" The Edge of Glory "- first reached number one in several countries and was the fastest selling single in the hertory of iTunes, as he sold a million copies in five days. also had a positive critical reception.

Inspired by singers of glam rock as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, as well as artists from dance-pop like Madonna and Michael Jackson, Gaga is known for her aesthetic sense about music, fashion, live performances and music videos, changing and extravagant. Her contribution to the music industry earned him numerous awards, among which are five Grammy awards and twelve nominations, four appearances in the Guinness Book of Records and estimated sales of 22 million albums and 69 million singles, making it makes one of the artists with more sales worldwide. Billboard named her the artist of the year in 2010 and placed in the position 73 of its list of top artists the 2000s. Gaga was also included in the list Time 100 most influential people in the world, and also appeared in a number of annual lists of Forbes.

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25 of 1984, Santa Barbara, California, United States), better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is a cantante, guitarist, songwriter and actress States. Katy grew up listening to and singing gospel music during her first year in high school began her musical career as Katy Hudson, releasing their first studio album Katy Hudson, which was not very successful in the music charts in the United States. Later, he recorded a solo album that was never released. In 2007, he signed with Capitol Records, this being their fourth record label in seven-year career, adopting the stage name Katy Perry.

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Katy achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album, One of the Boys in 2008, which resulted in three songs among the Top 10 Billboard Hot 100, "I Kissed A Girl", "Hot N'Cold"and"Waking Up In Vegas". Katy promoted the album with her first tour called Hello Katy Tour. In 2010, her third studio album, Teenage Dream, topped the Billboard 200, and spawned five number one singles -"California Gurls', 'Teenage Dream', 'Firework', 'ET'and'Last Friday Night (TGIF)"- Teenage Dream was the only album (after Bad for Michael Jackson) in achieving this record - and becomes the first woman in hertory to have this achievement. He then embarked on her second tour called California Dreams Tour to support her third studio album, which grossed nearly $ 60 million worldwide. On March 26 of 2012 Katy re-released the album under the name Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, the re-release the first single has been number one on Billboard Hot 100, "Part of Me".

Katy is the only artist to stay longer than 52 consecutive weeks in the Top 10 Billboard Hot 100, and has since increased this figure to 69 non-consecutive weeks. In 2011 she was named Artist of the Year by MTV. A From 2012, Katy has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards. It has sold over 37.6 million digital tracks in the United States and more than 11 million albums worldwide. Katy became a guest judge for the seventh season of the British series The X Factor and so was in the ninth season of American Idol. Has launched fragrance called Purr and Meow!. She ventured into the film, giving her voice to the film Smurfette Smurfs 2011. Katy married British comedian Russell Brand on October 23, 2010 in Rajasthan (India), from which filed for divorce in December 2011.

Her biggest hits are"I Kissed a Girl", "Hot N'Cold', 'Teenage Dream', 'California Gurls', 'Firework', 'ET', 'Last Friday Night (TGIF)', 'The One That Got Away, ""Part of Me"and"Wide Awake".

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Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on 20 February 1988 at St. Michael (Barbados), is a singer, dancer and occasional actress (she held in 2012 a strong role in the blockbuster Battleship). Her music evolves mainly between the R & B and pop. She has released six studio albums and two remix albums since the beginning of her career in 2005.

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In 2005, Rihanna released her first studio album Music of the Sun, which is extracted the single Pon de Replay. Nearly a year after she released her second studio album A Girl Like Me (2006), with her first single number 1 SOS. Good Girl Gone Bad, the third album, released in May 2007 with the singles Umbrella, Do not Stop the Music and Take a Bow and Disturbia extracted from the reissue of the album. The latter is named nine times for Grammy Awards, winning the Better collaboration rap / song for Umbrella. her fourth studio album Rated R (2009), contains the songs Russian Roulette, Te Amo and Rude Boy. Loud (2010) is the fifth studio album, followed by the sixth studio album Talk That Talk (2011).

Rihanna has received numerous awards, including one that saw her being elected as one of the most influential people in the world by the magzine TIME in 2012. According to the magazine Forbes known for its rankings (including that of the richest people in the world), Rihanna is the fourth most powerful personality in the world in 2012. The designer Stella McCartney has said of him that "she is one of the coolest, sexy, talented, loved, listened, followed and incredible artists in the world of work today, but is it all in her way. She works hard, very hard. It not only gives of herself to her fans, friends and foundation but also all her energy and her way of thinking. Rihanna, 24 years, gives her means of support to people whom she believes. It is one of the few people I know in this world of celebrity and success that are not only interested in themselves. She will give a real share of person she meets a stranger, and that's rare."


Childhood

Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born in Barbados in the parish of St. Michael, she is the daughter of Ronald and Monica Fenty. Rihanna has two younger brothers and Rorrey Rajad Fenty. Her parents divorced in the year of its 14 years. her mother is a native of the Republic of Guyana. Her father is Barbadian and Irish origin. She said her childhood was marred by her father's addiction to cocaine, the marijuana and alcohol. The girl also received verbal abuse from her classmates because of her skin less dark than the others.

Passionate about music, Rihanna sings often listening to reggae. In 2003 she met producer Evan Rogers, whilst taking part in a singing competition. Captivated, he decides to make her record a demo of four songs to New York. Jay-Z signed a contract with the girl of Def Jam, the label he runs at the time. The single Pon de Replay became her first success. She sings for the first time in 15 years in 2004 and again in 2005 at age 16.


Music of the Sun and A Girl Like Me (2005-2006)

Music of the Sun, Rihanna's debut album, released in August 2005. This album, a mix of reggae, to R & B with a touch of pop, the first sign of success and the singer has sold more than 2 million copies [ref. required]. The first single, Pon de Replay, reached the # 2 position in Billboard Hot 100. Subsequently, out If It's Lovin 'That You Want, with less success, and Let Me, which works quite well in clubs [ref. required]. The album will meet on a worldwide success [evasive], receiving a gold record in the UK and platinum in Canada and U.S.. To continue promoting the album, the opening act for Rihanna concerts Gwen Stefani.

Her second album, A Girl Like Me, was released in April 2006, buoyed by hits SOS (samplant Tainted Love by Soft Cell), Unfaithful and Break It Off. SOS out Feb. 7, 2006 to the United States and became, two months Later, her number 01 in the first Billboard Hot 100 where it remains three consecutive weeks. Unfaithful, the second single, is rewarded with NRJ Music Awards as the best international song of the year 2006, and flows to 4.5 million units [ref. required]. The next single, Break It Off interpreted with Sean Paul, will also experience a great success. To end the exploitation of the album, released We Ride, a title that progresses very slowly, flowing at 1.1 million copies.

The album A Girl like Me, a mixture of pop, RnB and reggae, in turn flows to 3.5 million copies [ref. required]. Rihanna hand at this time on tour with the Black Eyed Peas to the United States and the Pussycat Dolls in Europe.


Good Girl Gone Bad (Reloaded) to Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes (2007-2009)

For her third album, Rihanna leaves the reggae and dancehall to move towards the pop, the RnB, the dance and pop rock. Meanwhile, scenes of her outfits are becoming more and more provocative, no longer hesitate to flirt with fetisherm (shorts and body in vinyl, plait leather or latex). [ref. required]

Good Girl Gone Bad was released in June 2007, buoyed by Umbrella, which was a huge success around the world (8,000,000 sold) and remaining 7 consecutive weeks at number 01 Billboard Hot 100. This is followed by Shut Up And Drive (2100000) Do not Stop The Music, which also dominates the charts in many countries (7000000) and Hate That I Love You with Ne-Yo (3500000). In November 2008, Rehab released as a single (1.7 million) with Justin Timberlake in the chorus (the songwriter, he also appears in the clip). This is the eighth and final single from the album Good Girl Gone Bad, which is then the second best selling album of 2008 in the United States, with over 8 million copies sold.

She recorded Live Your Life with rapper TI, released September 23, 2008 and ranks number 01 quickly the Billboard Hot 100.

On 17 June 2008, while Good Girl Gone Bad is a success worldwide, a reissue of the album, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded seems, with three novel coming out in turn as a single: Take a Bow, If I Never See Your Face Again and Disturbia.

Take a Bow, a ballad R & B written by Ne-Yo, flows 5 million copies worldwide [ref. required]. Beginning in July 2008, If I Never See Your Face Again, a title of Maroon 5 rearranged for the occasion of the duet with Rihanna, receives mixed success (1.5 million copies) compared to the other two singles from Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded. Disturbia is a success worldwide, remaining two weeks of number 01 Billboard Hot 100. Sold over 7 million copies, the song co-written by her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown Rihanna gives a darker image, it carries during her world tour, the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour. This tour is recorded at a concert in Manchester December 6, 2007 and including DVD was released in May 2008 under the name Good Girl Gone Bad Live.

Following the worldwide success of Good Girl Gone Bad and its republication Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, was released January 27, 2009 to the United States the remix album Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes, featuring the hits of the different original album versions in new novel, revisited by the largest producers of dance music of the moment.


Rated R Rated R: Remixed (2009-2010)

Registering Rated R had the origin of dark episodes occurred in the privacy of the singer (in particular aggression by Chris Brown), which explains the universe hard, dark but also mature and artistic staff of the album and a new image of Rihanna.

Following in conflict with the singer Chris Brown and nude photos of it appeared on the internet, the editor of Vogue Anna Wintour denies that Rihanna poses on the cover of famous magazine. However, the singer will cover the Italian edition of Vogue in September 2009, with photos taken by Steven Klein where Rihanna embodies a kind of Grace Jones in ultra-structured looks inspired by the 1980s.

the singer is back in the music world alongside Jay-Z and Kanye West on the title Run This Town, released July 24, 2009. The title is second in the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award honoring the best Rap Collaboration.

Rated R released November 23, 2009 in Europe. The first single, Wait Your Turn, comes with a clip black and white. Only promo, the title is not operated as a single: it's Russian Roulette, which held that role. The single is ranked in the top 10 in many countries.

Hard in featuring with Young Jeezy, the third single from Rated R, has a radio hit in the U.S., while the next, Rude Boy, met international success and have five weeks at number 01 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is voted best hit of the year 2010 by AOL Radio Blog. If Rockstar 101 in featuring with Slash goes fairly unnoticed, Te Amo found success in the European charts, supported by a sensual clip with the presence of Laetitia Casta. Rated R exceeds two million albums sold world.

Rihanna begins a tour, The Last Girl On Earth Tour, including the European part begins April 16, 2010 at Antwerp, in Belgium, including passing through France for three dates in Lyon, Marseille and Paris. The U.S. portion of the tour begins to turn in July, with opening act Ke $ ha and Travis Barker, until the end of August in New York. The tour resumes nevertheless Australia in February 2011, where Rihanna occurs for six dates in major cities.

May 25, 2010 seems the remixed version of the album Rated R: Remixed (for which she will make no promotion), containing almost all the original album tracks remixed by producer and remixer Chew Fu New York, already asked by Lady GaGa and Black Eyed Peas.


Loud (2010-2011)

Her fifth album, Loud, released on 15 November 2010, a year after Rated R, appearing as more accessible than its predecessor, most joyous and festive sounds mixing pop, R & B or dance, rock and reggae [ref. required], and including a series of duet Love the Way You Lie Rihanna performed with Eminem on the album Recovery of the latter. Title: Love the way you lie (Part II), it also featured a guest rapper. In five weeks, Loud has sold 1,636,000 copies, the best start for Rihanna [ref. required].

The first single, Only Girl (In the World), more oriented dance, knows success around the world, ranking number 01 including the UK, in Australia or in Canada. In the U.S., the title was ranked number 01 in Billboard Hot 100 several weeks after its release, while the second single What's My Name had already taken over and reached the top of the rankings shortly beforehand.

What's My Name, the second single featuring the singer Drake, more R & B and pop, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, as the next single, S & M with a clip is banned in several countries, and whose title is censored by the British radio where it is renamed Come on. She is working with Britney Spears for a remix of the title. Unveiled April 11, 2011, this remix to Rihanna can get her tenth number one in Billboard Hot 100.

Cheers (Drink to That), containing a sample of the song I'm With You from Avril Lavigne was launched in September 2011 as the sixth single.

Furthermore, Rihanna appears on a piece in collaboration with David Guetta, Who's That Chick?, first single from the reissue of the album One Love DJ. She also sings on All of the Lights, from the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West and Pink Friday, the debut album from Nicki Minaj where she performed as a duo Fly.

Rihanna has also launched in early 2011 to market its first perfume, Reb'l Flower. The same year she posed in the American edition of the magazine Vogue, becoming the third black woman to do the cover, after Naomi Campbell and Halle Berry.

While Rihanna has completed its Last Girl on Earth Tour by her Australian dates in March 2011, a new tour, The Loud Tour, began the summer of 2011 with many European and American dates.


Talk That Talk (2011-2012)

Talk That Talk, the sixth album by Rihanna, appears November 21, 2011. The album could be described as a compendium of her last two albums, Rated R (2009) and Loud (2010) alternating between titles oriented electro, pop or R & B. There are two collaborations on this record, Calvin Harris on We Found Love and Jay-Z on the title Talk That Talk.

On 22 September 2011, while the song Cheers (Drink to That) is just launched as the sixth single from the album Loud, Rihanna released We Found Love, the first single from Talk That Talk. As such, decidedly electro, is produced by Calvin Harris, who has worked with Kylie Minogue. The song is a great success worldwide, becoming the 11th number 01 Rihanna remaining 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. He also ranks in the top of the charts in France, in Germany, in Canada and the United Kingdom among others. In France, the clip is being censored by the Higher Audiovisual Council, which prohibits its distribution before 22 hours.

You da One, second single from the album was released November 11, 2011. The clip was released December 23, 2011. It is followed by Talk Talk That duet with Jay-Z who does not enjoy clip.

The singer performs for the first time Princess of China as a duet with Coldplay at the 54th ceremony of Grammy Awards after singing We Found Love. She won two awards for All of the Lights with Kanye West.

February 20 seems the remix of Birthday Cake, After Talk That Talk and Turn Up the Music of Chris Brown. Rihanna working with her ​​ex-boyfriend who assaulted her, which angered some fans.

May 8 is also a great day as we witness the launch of Where Have You Been. Rihanna successful challenge of the number of views on YouTube within 24 hours with 4.7 million views, the record Nicki Minaj with Stupid Hoe is 4.5 million views. She sees herself two days later dethroned by Justin Bieber with Boyfriend with 5.9 million. She performed her 4th single several times such as the issuance American Idol.


Private life

Rihanna live in a relationship with Chris Brown in 2008. February 8, 2009, while the couple must go to the ceremony of Grammy Awards, an argument between two young men broke out and degenerates. In the altercation, Chris Brown hit Rihanna, causing serious facial injuries. The case caused an uproar in the international press and many personalities are supporting Rihanna, starting with her friend and producer Jay-Z, the former Spice Girl Mel B, or Jessica Alba, among others. Chris Brown is pursued by justice for assault: he was sentenced to 180 days of community service, her lawyers avoiding a prison sentence of five years he risked. The singer has subsequently apologized to Rihanna who claims not to feel hatred towards him. Nevertheless, this experience leaves scars: the singer takes several months to recover from the emotional shock and return to her professional activities.

In April 2010, invited the American radio station KIIS-FM, Rihanna formalize her relationship with Matt Kemp, baseball team of the Los Angeles Dodgers. It ends in late 2010. She is currently single.

End of 2011, Rihanna cancels two concerts Loud Tour scheduled to take place in Sweden at Malmö on October 31 and Stockholm on November 1. The singer is hospitalized due to exhaustion. She is back on stage Nov. 4 at Hanover in Germany.

In May 2012, after the Coachella Festival, it is again hospitalized due to exhaustion.

her first name is originally Arabic and means Basil.


Records

Rihanna is the artist with the highest number of singles are being classified into the first position of the Billboard Hot 100 since 2000, with 11 titles a number [ref. required] (chronologically, SOS, Umbrella, Take a Bow, Disturbia, Live Your Life with TI, Rude Boy, Love the Way You Lie with Eminem, What's My Name? with Drake, Only Girl (In the World), the remix S & M with Britney Spears and We Found Love with Calvin Harris). So Rihanna is the artist that have the least time to pick a number eleven songs on the Billboard Hot 100, dethroning Mariah Carey [ref. required].

She is also the second youngest artist to hold a number one, behind Britney Spears but to Stevie Wonder and is the ninth artist in hertory to be credited at least ten titles a number (and after the fourth female artist Mariah Carey, Madonna, Britney Spears and Janet Jackson).

It is also one of the celebrities who have exceeded a billion video views on YouTube, a performance that only Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Eminem, Britney Spears has done, says the site INpact PC. Recently, it has exceeded 2 billion views on YouTube, it is one that has accumulated the most views of hertory behind YouTube of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.

Still in the singles, she one of the female artist with the most top 10 rankings in the U.S. selling singles during the 2000s, with 12 top 10, including five in 2010. Umbrella holds also the longevity record in pole position in the charts in the UK.

Also, Rihanna is the only artist totaling seven number one Billboard Pop Songs for the U.S..

Rihanna is the 2nd most watched artist in 24 hours with 4,937,281 views for her video Where Have You Been behind the record of Justin Bieber with Boyfriend.

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