Emmy Nominee Idris Elba's Life And Music

Every music artist begins somewhere. Every artist had to do something to get their music out there. No one just automatically becomes famous. Then everyone wants to listen to your music. You start out new and anonymous and become more popular over time. Artist become famous by advertising. Every music artist should be able to advertise.

Here he is in Los Angeles walking in for the grammy awards. He walks on stage and is awarded for his hard work. Clive Davis is a businessman for Columbia Records and has been making improvements to music and musicians from many of his accomplishments.

Anthony Santos known artistically as Romeo Santos was born on July 21, 1981. He is from The Bronx, New York. Romeo Santos is a well-known singer; record producer, composer and songwriter. Also known as the king of the Bachata music genre. Before making his two solo albums he was the singer leader of the band Aventura. He gave a live concert on June 20, 2015, at the American Airlines Arena located on 601 Biscayne Blvd of his tour vol2 that I was able to assist. He performed twenty pieces during the concert including some of his most famous songs. “Cancioncitas de amor”, “Yo tambien”, and “Eres mia” were three different pieces that allowed the audience to experience different styles of the Bachata genre. Bachata music, as all kind of music tells a story. In Bachata especially, the songs are mostly romantic.

Following this through, take pop phenomenon, Justin Beiber, for instance; Justin was found on YouTube by Atlanta based manager, Scooter Braun (Kaufman, 2010). As stated by Gladwell, “Mavens are people who have a strong compulsion to help others” (69). A manager in music is somewhat similar; a manager’s job is to handle the business of an artist, making sure the labels are doing their job and helps the artist keep their focus on music (About.com: Music Careers). Continuing on, manager Scooter Braun insisted on meeting the soon to be pop sensation, so he set up a meeting with Justin and his mom where Justin would have then accidentally run into R&B superstar Usher (Kaufman, 2010). Usher, in this case would be referred to as the connector, an individual who has many ties in many realms and act as the passage between them. Ushers role would be connector since he landed Justin a professional deal and formed a joint-venture label with Braun and Antonio L.A. Reid, the

In 2000, he went on a tour with Faith Hill. This gave him opportunities to work with several other famous music icons including Usher, Will Smith, Justin Timberlake, and Sting among many other. He has worked on five albums.

Jon Urbana is a very skilled musician too. The entrepreneur was actually a late music bloomer. The former lacrosse player has exceptional talent and great love for electronic music. You might find him in his own studio mixing music tapes and sampling music until very late in the night. The skilled musician has added many of his original mixes to Soundcloud. His ultimate vision is to share his musical talent with the world.

As previously mentioned, his formal acting career was launched in 2005 in “Sandlot 2.” He followed that up with roles in the films “The Bondage,” “The Deaf Family” and “The Legend of the Mountain Man.” In addition to films, he

Carter landed a job on pianist Ramsey Lewis's BET Jazz show, "Bet on Jazz.” In January

suited to film. It is no accident that he was the composer for some of

Many rapper have went from rapping to acting, like Will Smith and Ice Cube. Both rappers have taking their acting career to the next level by scoring big blockbuster films. Rapper/Producer/Actor, Ice Cube help produce a biopic about the rise and fall of the hip hop group N.W.A., which he was a member of. There have been a few female rappers that have been bitten by the acting bug, such as Queen Latifah and Nicki Minaj. As a lover of all genres of music, MC Lyte spins for all backgrounds. She is great at being the parties with people, young and old. She DJ’s all types of functions. During Michael Jordan's 50th Birthday Celebration and wedding reception, MC Lyte was the DJ of choice. She also was able to DJ at Jay Leno's farewell party. Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne charging enormous amounts of money to be guest celebrity DJs at popular nightclubs. [3]

Steven Adam Markowitz, now known as Hoodie Allen was born on August 19th, 1988 and raised in a Jewish household along with his younger brother Daniel*DAMMMMNNNNN DANIEL*, on Long Island, NY. Hoodie attended the Long Island School for the Gifted from Pre-K to the 9th grade, then later attended John F. Kennedy High School, where he played football and then continued his football career at the University of Pennsylvania as a defensive back. After he finished college in 2010 with a degree in marketing and finance he started working at Google as an AdWords associate in their Standardized AdWords Reseller Training program. But while his Music career was taking off he felt like he was working 2 full time jobs and it was becoming very difficult

He has been the world’s worst director who happens to have an angora fetish in Ed Wood, a topiary artist with a manicure that is deadlier than wolverine’s in Edward Scissorhands, and both a hardnosed prison guard and a drag queen prisoner, with truly amazing smuggling skills, in Before Night Falls: and this is just a short list of his amazing roles.

At the young age of 15, Zac Efron had his first big role in the Disney movie "High School Musical." Not only is he a actor, but he is a dancer and music writer too. Zac Efron is famous for acting, dancing, and singing. He is known to be a very funny, kind person.

How he learned that is because Denzel Washington went to an audition in the same building that he would go to 30 years later. He auditioned after an extraordinary singer. He felt

Timbaland is one of the most sought-after producers in hip-hop and R&B music today. Born Timothy Zachery Mosley, his unique production style melds hip-hop sound with R&B music using a cleaner and non-sample-based approach, and blurring the line between the two genres. Over the years, He has produced hit albums for such artists as Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake, Ginuwine, Jay-Z, Ludacris, Madonna, Rihanna and OneRepublic, among many, many others, as well as three of his own solo albums. He is set to release his next album, Textbook Timbo, sometime in 2016. Read on to find out more about Timbaland, and check back for part two of this list, coming soon.