Celebrities

Born on the second of December in 1981, Britney Spears has become one of the most recognizable popular icons today, and still remains in a class that has seemed to fuel the many various tabloid stories entwined around her fame. This Grammy-award winning American pop star has made occasional forays into acting as well as writing, and has been prominently recognized for her studio albums and music videos, with which she has gained worldwide attentions after coming to fame as a young child.

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Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24 in 1969, and has since created a plethora of intriguing albums mixing Latin and pop influences, as well as pursuing acting roles that have truly given her a large repertoire from which to draw much success from. She is an American-born actress that has achieved great success in Grammy-nominated music combining rhythm & blues, Latin pop, and pop music qualities together, and she is also a well-known dancer and fashion designer with the commonly referred to nickname of J. Lo.

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Born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll on the second of February in 1977, Shakira has come to be known for her provocative dancing style, and for her aid in bringing Latin music further into the mainstream of popular culture with her songs. Born in Colombia, Shakira began writing music when she was merely eight years old as one of seven siblings, but was teased by peers and was not accepted into the school choir for having too strong a voice. Between the ages of ten and thirteen, Shakira was invited to many events around her area, and even gained some recognition through participating in those competitions.

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Born July 10th in 1980, Jessica Simpson has since become one of the biggest pop stars to make the leap into films and television, and rose to fame throughout most of the late Nineties with other luminaries of popular music such as her former husband Nick Lachey and fellow chanteuses Britney Spears and her sister Ashlee as well. From a start as an American singer to starring in a reality TV series to producing her own line of products, as well as endorsing a few, and on into serious film acting, she has a certain sense of momentum that has yet to stop her singing career.

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Born on March 27th in 1970, Mariah Carey has since seen a meteoric rise to stardom even through many varied opinions about her talent, and attacks on her personality. She is an American pop and rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, who throughout her career to have also filled the shoes of record producer and even actress, and all this amidst many varying stories of her actions beyond the stage. She made her debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia executive Tommy Mottola, and had her first five singles top the charts, totally unheard of before her time.

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Born Curtis James Jackson the Third on July 6th in 1975, 50 Cent is an African-American rapper who rose to fame after his first two albums, and selling over six million albums worldwide. Jackson is known for image, and prides himself on being shot nine times and surviving the ordeal, though police statements have since revealed that those nine times were done with three bullets. Jackson grew up in New York in poverty-stricken circumstances, and moved in with his grandparents after his mother was killed during a drug deal when he was eight years old.

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Born William Bradley Pitt in Oklahoma on the 18th of December in 1963, he has since become one of the most prolific actors in the popular motion pictures of our time, but he began by being raised in Missouri shortly after his birth. During his time in school, Pitt became involved in many extracurricular activities such as sports and debating, but took to acting early on in school musicals and the like. In college, he attended a school of journalism, but was two credits shy of graduating before leaving to try his hand in Hollywood.

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Michael Jeffery Jordan was born in 1963 on February 17th, and retired from the scene from which he exploded when others were beginning to make names for themselves, throughout his prolific career from the Eighties to the Nineties he has been a truly outstanding basketball player and coach. Jordan has been considered a remarkable asset at both ends of the spectrum in relation to how the sport is played and how it is viewed, and elementally instrumental in making the sport a worldwide forum for fans of all generations and nationalities.

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When Tiger Woods first appeared on the professional golf scene in 1996, his long driving is one of the things that impressed fans the most. Yet when he didn’t upgrade his equipment in the following years, several of his opponents came closer to him and even caught up in the standings. This pattern became apparent throughout the 2002-2003 PGA Tour seasons.

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Armstrong began competing in adult competitions from the age of fourteen as a triathlete, and soon became understood that an aptitude for cycling was his skill, receiving an invitation to join the Junior National Cycling Team in training at the age of seventeen. On October 2 of 1996, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain, and he continued with training after removal of his right testicle and two brain lesions and extensive chemotherapy to cure the cancer.

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