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Born in a tiny town in Pennsylvania, Vanessa Carlton was listening to music before she was born, as her mother performed various classical pieces in the home’s piano At the age of two, Carlton and her parents went to Disney World, where she heard “It’s a Small World
Best known as Gabrielle Montez from the hit Disney Channel movie and soundtrack album High School Musical, actress/singer Vanessa Anne Hudgens has also appeared on Drake & Josh and The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody
A virtuoso pianist, Victor Arden was a major artist from the earliest days of recordings, beginning his New York career as the creator of both piano rolls and piano transcriptions
Victor Herbert was arguably the most important theatrical composer of the early 20th century, spearheading the transformation from the traditional Viennese operetta form of the past to the Americanized musical comedies which dominated the decades to follow
Pop singer Victoria Beckham, otherwise known as Posh Spice, is a well-known personality in her native Britain as well as a member of the ’90s girl group the Spice Girls
Part clever concept, part exaggerated camp act, the Village People were worldwide sensations during disco’s heyday and keep reviving like the phoenix Producer Jacques Morali in 1977 assembled a group designed to attract gay audiences while parodying (some claimed exploiting) that same constituency’s stereotypes
Most teen pop singers are actual teenagers who ostensibly try to shed their bubblegum image and shoot for credibility once they get older Vitamin C is a strange exception: The onetime Colleen Fitzpatrick was lead singer of the punk-pop band Eve’s Plum first, and then made the switch to explicitly teen-oriented dance-pop when that band broke up, by which time she was well into her late twenties
The daughter of film director Stanley Kubrick, Vivian Kubrick has had quite a varied career in association with her father, ranging from child actor in 2001 to documentary filmmaker (Making the Shining) to film underscore composer and musical director for Full Metal Jacket, for which she composed and performed the score on Fairlight keyboards