Julie Andrews Accomplishments

It was the first time that Jennifer Lopez hosted the American Music Awards and as she did, the 46-year-old star simply nailed it. The actress impressed everyone not just with her stint but by wearing a jaw-dropping 10 outfits.

After her split with Desi Arnaz, "Lucille Ball at last realized her dream of Broadway success, opening in the musical comedy Wildcat on Dec. 16, 1960" (Moritz 34). Clearly her talents were varied.

From performing in musicals and television shows, composing music, and writing Broadway musicals, Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of the most influential celebrities of recent years. He has done so many amazing things with his musical theatre talents including writing two Broadway musicals and writing music for some Disney movies. Many people know about his accomplishments with Broadway, but what they don’t know is why he started doing musical theatre in the first place. His love of Broadway started long ago, when he was growing up in New York City. Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in New York City, New York on January 16, 1980.

mother at 16.She went on to join a dance company, act in an off Broadway play wrote several

“On Broadway, although some female roles are narrow, demeaning, passive, or long-suffering and convey weakness, the performer sings with incredible strength. Listening to the female singing voice is a more complicated phenomenon. Visually, the character singing is the passive object of our gaze. But aurally, she is resonant; her musical speech drowns out everything in range. A singer, more than any other musical performer, stands before us having wrested the composing voice away from the lyricist and composer who wrote the score.” Said Musicologist Carolyn Abbate (Wolf, p.31)

Without a doubt there is one major performer that certainly stands out within our pop culture world. The name of this very famous American icon is, Dolly Parton. Dolly has surpassed any rags to riches story that ever lived. She has touched the lives of so many individuals over many decades through her many talents. Dolly started her career at a very young age and continued fulfilling her life endeavors through country music, pop music, and even acting. This American icon didn’t stop with just her talents, she also gave back to our society through charity, fundraising, and establishing her own theme park. Dolly Parton was brought up in a very poor family, however through much dedication she became the famous icon everyone idolized today.

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.

Susan B. Anthony, an American women’s rights activist is one of the most famous women in American History. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and passed away March 13, 1906 due to pneumonia and heart failure. She had 8 brothers and sisters. When her family moved to Battenville, New York, she became homeschooled. She is most famous for her prominent role in the women’s suffrage movement pushing the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote, but she has numerous additional accomplishments including: founding the National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869, the International Council of Women in 1888, and the International Woman Suffrage Council in 1904, publishing “The Revolution”, wrote the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in 1878, which became the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote, first person to be arrested for illegally voting in a presidential and put on trial for voting, campaigning for women to learn self-reliance and self-confidence, the first women to appear on a U.S. coin. Anthony worked as a teacher in Canajoharie, New York and became involved in the teacher’s union where she discovered the inequality of male teachers salary versus

Dorothy's career spanned over five decades, she collaborated with some of the greatest of the industry. Many of her songs became instant classics, and she was one of the biggest co-librettists of all Broadway.

Today we will discuss Carrie Underwood’s childhood, how she became famous, and what she has accomplished during her career.

Lena was hired and began her show business career dancing in the chorus line at the Cotton Club, which booked black performers for a white only audience. While at the Cotton Club Lena sang with jazz composer Duke Ellington as well as Avon Long who had starred in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Success at the Cotton Club encouraged Lena to try her talents on Broadway. After appearing in a Broadway musical revue, she joined a well-known swing band, the Charlie Barnet Orchestra.

Judy Garland’s professional triumphs are why so many pans still watch her films and listen to her music and her personal tragedies are another reason why people identify with her as an icon. Judy Garland has wonderful singing voice, she is so beautiful, and passionate acting in her films. Her loving, passionate acting in her films was just a viewing of her true self off the screen. Judy Garland’s pill addictions were formed by MGM forcing her to keep taking them, and how she got dumped and betrayed by several different men that she thought loved her. Her life was so tragic but she had great voice and talent, also in her films or songs or her performances was

She was fortunate to have a musically gifted father, who was known to be an excellent piano teacher. She studied piano under her father and by the age of nine she began performing as a solo artist. Her formal education was slight, but she had a lot of music education, including education on

Julie Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. She is a born natural at performing, and she loves the stage. She made her first stage appearance at the very young age of two, as a fairy. Her aunt, Joan worked for dancing school where her mother, Barbara provided piano accompaniment for classes and performances, and her father, Ted made the stage sets. It was all too natural for her to come to be on the stage. Due to her mother’s stage ambitions for her, she was home taught and as her father was a teacher, it became convenient.

Oprah Winfrey reinvented the paradigm of the daytime talk show host because she was an African American female who utilized her personality to connect with audiences of all backgrounds. Oprah Winfrey quickly received recognition for her show as soon as it aired and competed with The Phil Donahue Show because both shows covered similar topics that were catered to a female audience. In the September 2002 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, Oprah Winfrey interviewed Phil Donahue and he noted, “The show [The Phil Donahue Show] became a place where women discussed issues that didn’t naturally come up, and certainly not in mixed company. Much of what we talked about on the air is what women had been talking about in ladies’ rooms” (Donahue, 2002).