In year 1924, he first time appeared with Ben Bernie in a short film “Ben Bernie and All the Lads”, when he was only 17 year. In 1928 he went for Hollywood and there his career took a better turn. He composed the music in more than 20 movies from 1929 to 1948 and during this period he wrote many popular songs. Around year 1932 he started composing seriously and he successfully started a new orchestral work. Oscar Levant married an actress, Barbara Woodell and they divorced in year 1932.

He did second marriage in 1939 to a singer and actress June gale who was the part of the singing foursome “The Gale Sisters”. Until the death of Oscar Levant, they were married for 13 years and they had three children Marcia, Lorna and Amanda. He was so quick witted and popular that he became a regular part on the show in 1930s and 1940s. Oscar Levant was often challenged with the musical questions and he always impressed his audiences with his wise knowledge and quickness with the jokes.

He was always called the “Mr. Levant”. He appeared regularly on the NBC radio’s Kraft Music Hall from 1947 to 1949. During those appearances he became first celebrity who discussed in front of the national audience. Later he became addicted to prescription drugs and he died in August 14, 1972, in Los Angelis, California.

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Mills started her career in her first play at the age of 9. And after the two years later she won a record six times, the Amateur Night, at the world-famous Apollo Theater. By this great victory, she became the cast of her first Broadway role. She had many R&B hits like “I feel good all over”, “I have Learned to Respect the Power of Love”, “(You’re puttin’) A Rush On Me”, “Something in the way (You Make Me Feel)”, “Home” and many more with one certified single “Never Knew Love Like This Before”.

She also had five gold albums in addition to it: Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin’, Stephanie, If I Were Your Woman, Sweet Sensation and Home. Mill’s musical career started as she opened for the Ishley brothers in 1973. In 1975 Stephanie Mills won the role of Dorothy in The Wiz. The cast recordings for The Wiz were actually produced by Jerry Waxler.

In 1975, Stephanie Mills’ career took a great rise when mills portrayed Dorothy in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz entitled The Wiz, This she also started dating with Michael Jackson. Very soon she followed the success with Sweet Sensation in 1980’s which offered Mills a biggest hit to date. There is a great number of sites online that making dating women in the United States easier than ever. You may even find women similar to Stephanie Mills if you are lucky.

First single album from the Stephanie Mills was the “Stand Back”, in late 1985. This also included the “I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love”. This “I Have Learned To Respect the Power of Love” was initially written by Angela Winbush and Rene Moore. These were best known as the hit singing duo Rene and Angela. In a recent interview she stated that she would be releasing her live CD during the end of the year, which includes two new tracks.

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In the beginning of the career, Pendergrass was a drummer for The Candillacs, which then merged with the Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Pendergrass was invited by Melvin and Melvin gave him the chance to become the lead singer, after this Pendergrass started singing his heart out. The blue Notes had the great hits like “I Miss You”, “Bad Luck”, “Wake Up Everybody” and the great and two million seller “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”.

After some personality conflicts between the Pendergrass and Melvin, Pendergrass started a solo career and released his most hit songs like “The More I Get the More I Want”, “I Don’t Love You Anymore”, “Close The Doors” and “Turn Off the Lights” and many more. On March 1982, Pendergrass was involved in an accident. In this accident his passenger Tenika Watson who walked away with the minor injuries from the accident and Pendergrass got a spinal injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

While Pendergrass was recovering from his accident, in August 1982, the PIR released “This one for you”. In 1993, an album “Heaven Only Knows” was released and this was his last album. This album contains his some pre-accident recordings. In 2006, Pender grass announced his retirement from the world of music. He returned again in year 2007 for a small time to participate in Teddy 25: A celebration of Life, Hope & Possibilities.

Finally in the last years before his death, he suffered and underwent surgery for his colon cancer. And he eventually died by having difficulties recovering the disease on January 13, 2010, at the age 59.

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Vedera

During the year 2004 summer, a six song EP was recorded by Vedera and it is termed as “This Broken City” at the Black Lodge along with the support provided by the Ed Rose. During the year 2005, the Vedera band has released its LP which was named as “The weight of an empty room”. During the summer of year 2005, Vedera has toured with Dredg, Me without You, and Thrice, etc for many numbers of times.

Vedera had gone on an opening for forty tours for Mute Math which was followed by an opening stint of Owen. It has joined also with the Lucero and Murder by Death in the year 2006. One month later this tour, they went on a road with another tour with Mae and The New Amsterdam’s. During the December of year 2005, Second Nature Recordings which is the label of Vedera made an announcement about its decision to change its name from Veda to another name a similar moniker in order to avoid certain legal complications behind the name.

According to the recent news of year 2007, Vedera was preparing to record its next new album which was named as Epic records and it was started on October 17 of the same year. On October 6^th of year 2009, an album called Stages was released on Epic online. It was developed by Mike Flynn and Warren Huart.

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Moreover, Jared became part of Season 4 of Nashville Star as one of the contestants. Unfortunately, he was eliminated on Week 6.

Seamlessly amazing fans with the unparalled energy of his live shows and his honky-tonk country sound, Jared Ashley has been packing them in every weekend for more than two years at Nashville’s World Famous Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge performing with the Dirty South Band. A long list of well-known recording artist and musicians have frequently jammed with Ashley on the stage of the famed Lounge including Merle Haggard, ZZ-Top, Blues Traveler, Toby Keith, Joe Nichols, and Tracy Lawrence, to name a few. Born in Hobbs, New Mexico, on May 16, 1976, Jared and his family relocated to Newnan Georgia at age three where he spent most of his childhood.

At barely five years of age, Jared received his first guitar for Christmas. The gift, which sported a picture of Mickey Mouse, quickly became his favorite “toy.” When Jared was in the 10th grade, his family returned to Hobbs and Jared found himself honing his skills playing guitar and writing music in his spare time. After graduation from high school, Jared joined the US Navy where he served for four years in Yokosuka Japan.

Following his dream to play music, the charismatic, handsome sailor played weekend gigs at George’s Country Bar in the Honchu district of Yokosuka fronting the house band. While in the Navy, Jared also played two Persian Gulf DOD tours for over 20,000 military personnel and toured in more than ten countries around the world. Making new friends and accumulating fans in Japan, Ashley met a friend who became extremely interested in his music and offered to introduce him to his grandfather.

With fate working Ashley’s way, the young man’s grandfather, Everett Zinn, was well known in the music business in Nashville and had helped many a rising star, including George Strait. Everett heard a demo of Jared and asked him to come to Nashville to meet a partner of his named Howard Fields, manager of Arista Nashville recording artist, Rebecca Lynn Howard. With only one year left in the Navy, Jared planned a trip to Nashville to meet Fields and Zinn.

After the meeting, Fields sent him off with advice that would change the country singer’s life. Following his advice, and after completing his Navy creer, Jared made the big move to Nashville, once in Nashville, Jared picked up the house gig at the World Famous Tootsies Orchid Lounge and signed a management deal with Fields. Jared eventually caught the eye of Doug Johnson, former president of Giant Records and currently the head of A&R for Curb Records.

Impressed and supportive, Johnson took Jared into the studio and cut four songs. Later, Jared recorded a four-song demo which included the infectious “The Next Glass.” The impressive ballad has become a listener favorite on one of Nashville’s top radio stations, WSM FM, and is quickly creating a buzz about the new artist throughout the music industry. As Jared continues to win critical praise for his brand of high-energy country rock, his fan base continues to grow. It is only a matter of time before this talented young artist adds his name to the roster of a major record label.

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Dolla

The shooting occurred around 3:10 p.m. in the parking structure of the popular Westside mall. Dolla, a rapper whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, was shot in the head while he and another rapper, D.J. Shabbazz, were waiting in the valet area, according to Dolla’s publicist, Sue Vannasing.

Who is Dolla ?

Roderick Anthony Burton II (November 25, 1987 – May 18, 2009) better known by his stage name Dolla, was an American rapper. He made his debut with the single “Who the F*** Is That?”. His song, “Feelin’ Myself”, is featured on the Step Up soundtrack. The song “Feelin’ Myself,” was a “bite” of the Mac Dre song of the same name released while Dolla was in the lunch line at his local middle school. He also was a member of the Hip hop group Da Razkalz Cru.

Before he was signed to Akon’s label and climbed the charts with the hardcore single “Who the Heck Is That,” Atlanta rapper Dolla played talent shows and showcases as a member of Da Razkalz Cru. They released the 2003 single “So Fly” on the major-label imprint Elektra, but it went nowhere and the band was dropped from the label that same year. In the end, the best thing that would happen to Dolla as he was hanging with Razkalz was meeting both Akon, who was producing for the label, and Diddy, who would take Dolla under his wing not as a rapper, but as a model. Modeling clothes from Diddy’s Sean John label took him around the country and put his image on the huge billboard above the Hyatt Hotel in Los Angeles. He eventually ran into his old friend Akon and after some studio sessions, Dolla was signed to Akon’s Konvict Muzik label. In 2006 he landed on the Step Up soundtrack and partnered with mixtape DJ Nappy Wilson for The Beatdown Mixtape. He spent the next year working on his debut album. Early in 2008 the “Who the Heck Is That” single appeared, although the street version replaced “Heck” with the “F bomb.” Singers T-Pain and Tay Dizm appeared on the initial cut, while Akon was added to the remix.

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