Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker,
and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed
success in music, television and film. Newsweek has called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been nominated
for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards. Smith rose to fame as a rapper under
the name The Fresh Prince in the late 1980s and his role in the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979), who performs under the stage name Pink (often stylized as P!nk), is an American
singer and songwriter. To date she has sold over 31 million albums worldwide. Her songs are characterized by their personally
rebellious tone and a statement-like strict use of the first person. She released her first single "There You Go" and first
album, the R&B-oriented Can't Take Me Home, in 2000 via LaFace Records, which garnered commercial success.
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed
Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her
vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all,
she was admired for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing.
George Benson is an Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz
guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B, and scat singer. This one time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with
the triple-platinum album, Breezin'. He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s. Benson uses a rest-stroke
picking technique very similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, and came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the
film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in several hit films including
An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, and Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor, as
well as a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Best Cast.
