Alicia Keys Accomplishments

successful at this kind of music. She also fell in love with Chris Pérez, a member

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

When you hear the name Aretha Franklin what do you think? The woman of soul music, I hope! Not only did Aretha have a successful career, but she was able to maintain her personal life and accomplish what she wanted to. We are going to look at Aretha Franklin starting with her beginning and early career, the success from her career as one of the Queen’s of soul and her personal accomplishments. Let's take a look at Aretha Franklin’s beginning and early career.

Berry Gordy was a visionary, entrepreneur and a teacher to become one of the, if not the most talented music producers of all time. Gordy paved the way for all African American producers and musicians to make history by being the first African American owned record label to reach national acclaim. Gordy fist recording studio was made from a converted garage with the control room from the kitchen in his home. His first artist was signed in 1959 with the Miracles, and first Billboard’s song was “That’s What I Want” which reach #2. Within that year Gordy sign the girl group the Marvelettes and reach No1 on the pop list. Then three years later he signed two more group the Supremets and Temptations that gave him five more No. 1 hits. By the late 1960’s Motown had five records on the Billboard charts.

Following her brief career on the MSNBC, she took a step forward in her career, as she began to guest appear on the numerous TV and radio talk shows, such as “American Morning”, “Real Time With Bill Maher”, “The Michael Medved Show” and others. She slowly build her career as a controversial personality, which benefited to her popularity, but as well to her net worth, due to the increased media attention.

Not only was she doing all of this at the young age of 17, but Alicia also managed to graduate out of her high school a year early, and as the schools prized valedictorian. In late 1999, Alicia followed the renowned Clive Davis to his new company J Records, where she continued to show signs of success. Now, at the age of 20 in the year 2001, releasing her Debut CD “Songs in A Minor,” Alicia Keys is still rising. Her CD has already gone triple platinum, (the first number 1 album for her new label). She has also won the 2001 Best New Artist MTV video music award. Her music is incredible, with well-written and very wise lyrics. Her sound is very unique and different from many of the artists out there right now.

Beyoncé also known as the queen of pop received many awards some being Grammy awards and MTV video music award due to her amazing talents.Those were just 2 of the awards she has received ( Waters 58).Beyoncé was born on September 4,1981 Houston,Texas(Waters 19).Her fame has expanded worldwide because of her talent and entertaining skills that is not all she has accomplished she has also won many award and inspired many people. Beyoncé grew up in Houston,Texas with her parents Tina and Mathew Knowles.

She came from a disadvantaged background but worked very hard to overcome poverty and discrimination. She was an honors student in high school, and she seemed to have a knack early on for public speaking. She stared on schools speech team. Winning a speech contest got her a scholarship TSU. Her talk show is broadcasted to all of America. Oprah became the richest women of the 20th century.

In addition, Aretha spent her teenage years traveling the gospel circuit with her father. Aretha met and was inspired by many famous musicians like “Mahalia Jackson” and “Sam Cooke” She almost signed with “Cook” to RCA, but after meeting Mr. John Hammond, she signed with Columbia Records in 1960. She was 18 years old at the time. In 1961, Aretha married Ted White, who would eventually be her manager once she signed with Atlantic a few years later.

Everyone knew Aretha was incredibly talented at a very young age. At twelve years old, Aretha cut her first record on her first solo for Chess Records. After that she went on tour with her father. In 1960, Aretha came to New York and took dancing and vocal lessons (Moritz 132). She signed a five-year contract with Columbia Records one year later in 1961 (Moritz 132). While at Columbia Records, she recorded nine long-playing albums, only selling moderately (Moritz 132). Toward the end of 1966 Aretha turned down an offered renewed contract by Columbia, signing with Atlantic Records instead (Moritz 133). Aretha had “a reputation of being difficult to handle” in the early part of her career according to Phyl Garland of Ebony in 1967 (Moritz 133-134). She caused a small riot when she walked out of a concert in Denver because she was only paid half of what she was promised (Moritz 134).

She played softball and basketball in her teen years, and also got her first job as a freshman. Her first job was at a gas station. She also worked at a hotel, pizza place, and veterinary office in her teen years. When she graduated, she wanted to go to college to major in broadcasting journalism. This plan took a turn when she tried out for American Idol.

She was one of the first African American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine, but music remained her true love. As a child, she was a shy and polite but also knew how to stand up for herself. In 1984, she launched her career in a duet with Pendergrass on the hit single “Hold

Whitney Houston was born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Her parents are Cissy and John Houston. At an early age Whitney knew with the guiding hands of cousin Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin she would become an amazing singer. Cissy Houston was the choir minister at New Hope Baptist Church, and that’s where she got her start. On her first interview with Diane Sawyer, Houston said “I think I knew then that [my singing ability] was an infectious thing that God had given me.”

It was all started in Newark , an eleven years aged girl with an angelic voice singing at the “New Hope Baptist Church” and made all the audience stunned with her powerful voice. Yes folks ! we are talking about the undisputed diva of pop music in 90s- Whitney Houston . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukxayxN4Iao ( Whitney Singing in New Hope Baptist Church at the age of 15) Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in New Jersey on August 9, 1963.

R ‘n’ B soul pianist, singer, and mom-to-be (twice-over!) Alicia Keys has just released a new music video for her single “We Are Here.” Just yesterday, she posted a teaser for the new single, as well as Tweets enticing fans to give the song a preview listen and to purchase it off of iTunes in anticipation of her upcoming 2015 album release. Today, she made the music video for the new single public, and will be performing it live for the first time on the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this evening at 11:30pm. The single is a unifying anthem addressing all the negative happenings in the world right now, from Baghdad, to Gaza, to Israel, to Nigeria, to the Chinatowns and Harlems of the world.