14-year-old Willow Smith has been making headlines since the release of her debut single, “Whip My Hair” in 2010. The catchy pop tune helped Willow gain worldwide recognition and eventually achieved platinum status in the United…
In 1993, the now legendary Celine Dion scored her first number one song in the United States with her cover version of Jennifer Rush’s 1984 hit, “The Power of Love.” Although the song was a…
Actress Alyson Hannigan has been acting for nearly three decades. Her breakthrough role came in 1997 when she was cast to play the role of Willow Rosenburg on the popular series, Buffy The Vampire Slayer….
18-year-old actress, Abigail Breslin has been acting almost as long as she’s been alive. She made her on-screen debut in a Toys-R-Us commercial when she was just three years old, and her acting debut came…
The process of sampling music, borrowing one or more elements from a previously recorded song and adding them to something new, is very widely used within the music industry. The hip-hop genre especially, has used…
Kourtney Kardashian, member of the Jenner/Kardashian clan, has been a fixture in reality TV since the debut of Keeping Up with the Kardashians in 2007. The show, which wrapped its 9th season earlier this fall, focuses…
Cover songs are a very important part of the music industry. The term “cover” dates by to the 1950s when The Chicago Tribune defined the term as “trade jargon meaning to record a tune that…
Oprah Winfrey is one of the world’s most inspirational celebrities. Born into poverty in a small town in Mississippi, Winfrey moved several times during her childhood and eventually relocated to Chicago as a young adult…
Actress/comedian Amanda Bynes has gone through quite a bit of turbulence over the last several years. She has retired from acting twice, gotten her license suspended, been arrested multiple times, and been involved with a…