Art And Literature

Sri Chinmoy Ghose was born in 1931 in East Bengal, India— today’s Bangladesh. He was the youngest of seven children. He lost his father to illness in 1943, and his mother a few months later. Orphaned, in 1944 the 12-year-old Ghose joined his brothers and sisters at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, French India, [...]

Christina María Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York. She is a pop musician.
Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel’s television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994.
In 1998, Aguilera entered into [...]

Tori Amos was born as Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963 in Newton, North Carolina. She moved with her parents to suburban Maryland a year later after her birth. She is a pianist and singer-songwriter of American citizenship.
Tori Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and [...]

Sheryl Suzanne Crow was born on February 11, 1962 in Kennett, Missouri. She is a singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a left-wing political activist.
Sheryl began piano lessons at age 5, and growing up on the music [...]

Lauryn Noel Hill was born on May 25, 1975. She is an American recording artist, musician, producer and actress.
She began singing at an early age, and was soon snagging minor roles on television in “As the World Turns” and in film “Sister Act II: Back in the Habit”.
Early in her career, she established her reputation [...]

Alicia Augello Cook was born on January 25, 1981 in New York.She is known as Alicia Keys. She is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She began taking piano lessons at the age of seven at her mother’s insistence. Keys made a television appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four. She [...]

Shania Twain was born on August 28, 1965 in in Windsor Ontario Canada. She is a pop artist.Her family grew up in relative poverty and Shania’s mother Sharon was often depressed. Sometimes they would join the local native reservation to hunt for food, usually in the winter months when there was no work and [...]