Katy’s full name is Katheryn Elizabeth Katy Hudson. Katy was born on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California. She has a younger brother named David, who is a singer, and an older sister, Angela. Katy rose to fame in 2008 with the release of “I Kissed a Girl”. Perry released her first studio album “Katy Hudson” in 2001 with Red Hill Records. Throughout her career, she has sold 11 million albums and 81 million singles worldwide. Katy is currently thirty one years old. Katy’s album “Teenage dream: The Complete Confection” was released on March 23, 2012 by Capitol Records. It was recorded from 2009 - 2012 and has sold one million copies globally. Perry announced “Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection” in February 2012. She described it
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
Lana Lanetta was born and grew up in the quaint town of Ogre, Latvia. Coming from a blue-collar family, she marches to the beat of her own drum and has achieved the American dream and beyond. Don’t let her certification in gardening fool you, she is anything but a girly girl and She had no time to try to conform to anyone’s standards, early on she began to shape her own future, working her way up from a street janitor to becoming an adept artist. In her youth she was incredibly active, contributing to her amazing figure that she still maintains today, getting great aerobic workouts from soccer and gymnastics. Extracurricular activities aside, sewing has always been an enduring passion that has stayed near and dear to her heart. Despite her
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
Janet Jackson was born in Gary Indiana on May 16, 1966. She is a member of the
From a glance, we see the women of the nineteenth century as devoted wives, educators of their children, poised members of society, and the religious cornerstone of their families. However, as Texas became a “land for the taking” in the early 1820s, this “cult of domesticity,” the idea that the lady cultivated Piety, Purity, Submissiveness, and Domesticity in her home and in public, became altered as many of these women, striped away from all that they had ever known, dutifully followed their husbands to an unknown land, never knowing if they would see their families and friends again. They faced the frontier, and sometimes they faced it alone. Some would face the frontier concerning the wild, while some faced the frontier of dealing with the “southern way,” and others would face a frontier of their own internal battles with the subject of death. But as each woman faced different challenges in the prospective years they settled in Texas, what might have appeared as an exceedingly difficult challenge for one woman might not have seemed quite as difficult to another. We also see that some of these women had no choice but to abandon the “cult” and
Melissa Peirce has been living in Nashville for 20 years as a professional songwriter. Within the past several years, her songs have been recorded by Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Hunter Hayes, David Nail, Tyler Farr, Eli Young Band, Joss Stone, Randy Montana, John Paul White (The Civil Wars), Kenny Chesney, and many more. Her latest songs on the Country Top Ten chart are David Nail’s “Red Light,” Tyler Farr’s “Guy Walks Into a Bar,” Reba’s “I’m Gonna Take That Mountain,” and Eli Young Band’s “Say Goodnight,” all earning multiple awards. Melissa has also written two international hits: Doc Walker's "I Am Ready" went top 10 in Canada in 2005, and Bella's "Tumbling Down" went top 10 in Australia in 2004.
Our imagination turned a mound of dirt into a native village. Janelle Makela is my closest friend and aunt. Since we are only nine months apart, we did lots of crazy things, almost insane, especially when we were younger. Janelle has been a positive influence to me by our adventures when we were younger, our amazing cooking skills, and making anyone smile when anybody is feeling low.
Taylor Swift was born on December thirteenth, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. At five years of age, Swift had begun writing songs and performing for her family. But it wasn’t until about 4th grade that she really discovered her passion and talent for music, after winning an award for her poem, “Monster in my Closet”. “I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.” Swift said. “I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties. My friends turned into the girls who stood in the corner and talked about me. But as soon as I picked up a guitar…I literally played until my fingers bled. My mom had to tape them up, and you can imagine how popular that made me: “Look at her fingers. So weird”. But for the first time in my life, those girls could say anything they wanted about me, because I was just going to go home after school and write a song about it.“ Swift, as said in the quote, wasn’t exactly the most popular girl in school, but she sure showed her “friends”. Who would want to settle with knowing that in school they talked about a girl behind her back, and she just so happens to now be a pop-country sensation? Swift’s childhood is really what began...
Britney Spears was born on December 2, 1981. She lived in Kentwood, Louisiana and was constantly performing in front of people and always wanted to be on 'Star Search'. Britney tried out for the New Mickey Mouse Club at age 8 and then again at 11 and made it. Then she went solo because her talent was evident and she wanted more (A & E Television Networks, 2011).
Miley Ray Cyrus was born on November 28, 1992 in Franklin, Tennessee. When she was growing up, as a small child, she was given the nickname “Smiley” because she was always smiling. It later got shortened to “Miley” as she had gotten older. On January 29, 2008 she changed her biological name. Her biological name is Destiny Hope Cyrus. She changed Destiny to Miley because she wanted it to always be a reflection on her life. She changed Hope to Ray because her father had been a huge inspiration in her life and had always had a huge impact on her career.
Pop music is defined as a type of music, mostly played on electronic instruments, which can be appealing to individual of large age range due to the short, catchy phrases with beats and simple tunes (Macmillan). One of the notable pop singers is Katy Perry. She grew up around gospel music since her parents are both pastors and she used to sing in their church. Katy Perry started her music career during her first year of high school. In 2007, she changed her style from religious music to pop music. In 2008, she released her second single "I Kissed a Girl", and later on "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", and "Firework”. Katy Perry is the first female artist in history that recorded five No. 1 hits in an album. Her music consists of different elements including disco, electronic music, pop and rock. Her latest album, Prism (2013), includes her number-one singles "Roar" and "Dark Horse", which the main focus of the music is about self-empowerment (Perry). The song "Firework" is known to be an important single from her third album, Teenage Dream and is written by herself, Ester Dean, Stargate, and Sandy Vee. “Firework” was released on October 18, 2010 and it peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 9th. The song also lasted for 4 non-consecutive weeks at the triumph position on Hot 100 (Aceshowbiz). The song “Firework” makes a positive impact as it encourages listeners to express their individual worth, instills hope within listeners, and motivates individuals to achieve their goals without restriction.