Currently, Rihanna sits second, behind Oprah Winfrey as the richest female entertainer. Her current net worth stands at $1.7 billion, much of which comes from the value of Fenty Beauty. However, we cannot forget that…

Henry John Deutschedorf Jr., later known as John Denver, was born on December 31, 1943, in Roswell, New Mexico. His grandmother bought him his first guitar when he was a teenager. Denver went to Texas…

The mid-’90s was a superb era for music, but not every band was meant to be. After some early success, members of the hardcore punk band Arcane were feeling limited by their genre and needed…

Whitney Houston was a singer and actress who was born in New Jersey on August 9, 1963. She was from a talented family, as her mother is singer Cissy Houston and her cousins are Dionne…

Although titled as Hall & Oates, the duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates prefers to be referred to as Daryl Hall & John Oates. They first formed their rock band in 1970, each of…

Hailing from Kitee, Finland is the black metal band known as Darkwoods My Betrothed. In 1993, they were originally set out to be the most blasphemous black metal band throughout Europe. When the band’s founding…

The deathcore metal band known as Whitechapel was first formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2006. Founding members Phil Bozeman, Brandon Cagle, and Ben Savage opted to name their band after the location of East London’s…

When The Weeknd released his debut mixtape, House of Balloons, in 2011 the project became an instant hit. His mysterious persona mixed with his airy and genre-defying sound was unlike anything anyone had heard. In…

Since starting his career in the late 1990s, 50 Cent has gone from being a struggling artist to one of the best-known rappers in the world. His debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was…