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Jamie Foxx is an Academy Award-winning American actor, Grammy-nominated R&B singer, pianist, and comedian. He won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Ray, a biopic about the life of the late musician Ray Charles.
   
Stevie Wonder , a singular musical talent, is an African American singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and social activist. Wonder has recorded more than thirty Top 10 hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards record for a solo artist, plus one for lifetime achievement, he has won an Oscar for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti once referred to him in a concert as a "great, great musical genius".Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as an adolescent, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has become one of the most successful and well-known artists in the world, with nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his labelmates and outside artists as well. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the drums, congas, bass guitar, organ, harmonica and most famously the piano.
   
Yolanda Yvette Adams is a American singer, with 4 Grammy Awards. She is one of the most popular gospel music artists of the contemporary period. Along with Kirk Franklin, Adams is among the artists who have achieved the greatest critical and commercial success in blending R&B styles and gospel music, an achievement which, while it initially caused criticism among the conservative Christian church, later helped gospel gain airplay in secular venues.
     
  
   
Tara Conner is a beauty queen from Russell Springs, Kentucky who is Miss USA 2006 and has also competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.Conner graduated from Russell County High School in 2004 and at the time of her Miss USA win was studying toward a degree in Business Administration from Somerset Community College. Apart from her role as Miss USA, Conner has been employed as a model and waitress. She was a featured model on the HDNet series Bikini Destinations in 2004, posing for the cameras in Lake Tahoe. She has held the titles Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2002, Miss Kentucky USA 2006 and Miss USA 2006.In late 2006, Conner became the center of a public scandal when news reports claim she had been drinking underage, tested positive for the use of cocaine, and kissed Miss Teen USA Katie Blair in public, among other things.She was allowed to retain her title and entered a drug rehabilitation programme.
   
     
  
George Clinton is an musician, widely considered one of the forefathers of funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and was a solo funk artist as of 1981. He has been hailed as "The Prime Minister of Funk" as the leader of Parliament, as well as "The King of Interplanetary Funk"
   
Chaka Khan is an singer best known for her 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel For You", for her smash hit "I'm Every Woman" and as a member of the funk band Rufus, with whom she recorded the legendary soul record "Ain't Nobody". In her career she has earned many accolades, including eight Grammy awards. Though regarded an R&B singer, she has in fact explored numerous musical genres including funk, disco, jazz, ballads, hip hop, adult contemporary and pop standards.
   
Chuck Brown is an African-American jazz guitarist and singer who is affectionately called "The Godfather of Go-Go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed in and around Washington, D.C. in the mid- and late 1970s. While its musical classification, influences, and origins are debated, Brown is regarded as the fundamental force behind the creation of go-go music.
     
  
A nice sit down and with new great jazz sensation Euge Groove.Steven Eugene Grove adopted the name Euge Groove, which consists of a shortening of his middle name and a very frequent mispronunciation of his last. The name is presumed to be coined by fans who saw him perform in Europe.Euge Groove's best-known solo hits include "Sneak a Peek," "Slam Dunk," "Rewind," "Livin' Large" and "XXL." His most recent hits include "Get 'Em Going" and "Chillaxin'".
   
Nelust Wyclef Jean is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Haitian-American rapper, reggae artist, producer, and member of the superstar hip hop trio The Fugees, known popularly for a series of low-profile singles in the 1990s but respected within the hip-hop community as one of the most influential groups of the 90's for their album The Score.
   
     
  
Neil Portnow president of the Grammy'stalks to the Wahington, DC chapter.
   
  
Howie was the lead singer of the 90's boy band the Backstreet Boys
     
  
Norman Lear was the writer and producer of such great TV sitcoms Good Times,The Jefferson, Sanford- Son and All In The Family hes also a producer and philanthropist.In 1999, President Clinton bestowed the National Medal of Arts on Mr.Lier
   
Recording artist legends at the Grammy's Award show in Washington, DC.
   
Anthony Frank Hawk is a professional American skateboarder. He is considered one of the most successful and influential persons of modern vertical skateboarding. Hawk's nickname is the "Birdman". He is credited with the invention of many skateboard tricks including the Stalefish, Madonna, and McHawk, but is most famous for being the first to land the 900 (two and a half rotations—900°—in the air before landing back on the pipe) during the televised 1999 X-Games, for which he received an enormous amount of media coverage. It marked the beginning of his rise to fame beyond skateboarders to his status as a household name. He retired from competitive skateboarding afterwards, but continues to skate and demo.
     
  
Lenny Krayzelberg Olympic Gold Medallist in swimming meets the press and talks about winning his god medal.
   
Leela James sits by herself prior to her on stage performance, she says she must have this time to herself it help her to relax her.
   
Drew Barrymore talks to the press at George Washington University in Washington, DC
     
  
A candid one-on-one talk with jazz artist Norman Brown.
   
He began piano lessons at an early age, even though he professed no great interest in the instrument. His love of music picked up considerably when he was given a saxophone that belonged to his piano teacher. It was further reinforced when he attended Locke High School, a breeding ground for many young West Coast musicians, After high school, he attended the University of Redlands where he received a B.S. degree in Business Management, minoring in Music. Already a polished saxophonist by the time he enrolled in college, Albright suddenly switched to bass guitar after he saw Louis Johnson in concert. A few months after graduating from college, Gerald joined Patrice Rushen, who was in the process of forming her own band, in which he played the saxophone. Later, when the bass player left in the middle of a tour, Albright replaced him and finished the tour on bass guitar. From then on, he often performed on both instruments.Immediately after college, Albright began to master his talent by working extensively in the studio with such artists as Anita Baker, Ray Parker, Jr., The Temptations, and Olivia Newton-John. He has also toured with Jeff Lorber, Teena Marie, Quincy Jones, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, and many others. In addition to numerous appearances at clubs and jazz festivals, Albright had also been a part of the popular Jazz Explosion tours, which saw him teaming up with contemporary jazz stars like Will Downing, Jonathan Butler, Hugh Masekela, Chaka Khan, and Rachelle Ferrell, to name a few.Albright has also made several television appearances on shows such as A Different World, Melrose Place, and BET jazz segments, as well as piloting a show in Las Vegas with Designing Women star Meshach Taylor.Albright was one of the ten featured saxophonists who performed at Bill Clinton’s inauguration. He was also featured at the Presidential Summit, as well as several private functions for the President.