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- ...ssissippi]]. Her birth parents were unmarried, although they married later and had a son. ...1995 and she participated in The Best of Country Sings The Best of Disney and For Our Children Too, both in 1996. Faith was released in 1999.3 KB (386 words) - 06:47, 27 February 2018
- ...with other mythology [[books]]. Disney created a film in 1997 for children and adults about this hero.'' ...ly strength. When he is a teenager his parents tell him how they found him and the medal that was with him. Hercules goes on a journey to Zeus’ statue t3 KB (480 words) - 04:47, 5 March 2018
- ...en he was six months old. His father ran a pool hall in Austin, [[Texas]], and he was raised by his grandparents in the village of Abbott, [[Texas]]. His ...st-selling albums, won three Grammy awards, and was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.2 KB (223 words) - 04:35, 5 March 2018
- ...at 15 to convince unwilling social workers to finance her ballet training and to endure the vicissitudes of show business. ...sports scholarship foundation for foster children and does speaking events and lobbying for foster children's organizations.1 KB (206 words) - 13:31, 12 October 2022
- ...LaBelle, who later had a successful solo career. Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash and Cindy Birdsong rounded out the group, with Hendryx especially notable as a ...lled the Ordettes in Philadelphia, [[Pennsylvania]]. In 1962, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash joined after leaving a group called the Del Capris.4 KB (693 words) - 16:59, 2 June 2014
- '''American hippy and singer''' ...e more music and recorded some himself (Eden's Island was his first album, and he also recorded with the Beach Boys).2 KB (252 words) - 05:00, 27 February 2018
- ...s a Gilbert and Sullivan, classical opera and concert singer. Between 1909 and 1929, when she retired from the stage, she made over 130 recordings. She ma Alda, Frances. Men, Women and Tenors. ([[New York]]: AMS Press, 1971)1 KB (200 words) - 18:27, 21 May 2014
- ...in 1972, while he was in high school. He plays mostly American folk music, and has recorded an album, Night Ride. ...eral different Internet sites including: www.artistic-gym.4biz.net/BA.htm] and www.bottleneckblues.co.uk/acts/ben/ben.htm1 KB (150 words) - 04:12, 24 February 2018
- '''German Musician and Composer''' ...s mother died in 1694 and his father in 1695. The nine-year-old [[orphan]] and his brother Jacob were then raised by an older brother, Johann Christoph, a3 KB (395 words) - 05:53, 1 March 2018
- ...the militaristic overtones of scouting, with more emphasis on nature lore, and a great sympathy with Native American philosophies. (Seton had previously b Her father and his first wife also had a born-to daughter who was the novelist Anya Seton.1 KB (191 words) - 04:32, 26 February 2018
- '''British musician, actor, and hotelier''' ...Trendle was born in Stoke Newington, London, and raised by his great-aunt and -uncle, believing his mother was his Auntie Lily. He overheard that he was2 KB (283 words) - 18:57, 15 May 2014
- '''US dance band leader and arranger''' ...assics, such as "Sentimental Journey," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," and "This Could Be the Start of Something Big."1 KB (153 words) - 20:31, 28 May 2014
- ...x|thumb|'''Darcey Bussell at a curtain call after a performance of ''Theme and Variations'''''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...but separated before she was born. Her mother (also a ballerina) remarried and she was adopted by her step-father, a dentist.1 KB (188 words) - 17:06, 20 May 2014
- ...a permanent, major figure in the history of the cinema, as actor, director and composer, as well as a victim of the House Un-American Activities Committee ...seldom seeing Charlie's father again (he died in 1901). From 1901 to 1905 and again from 1909 or 1919 their mother was back in hospital; during these tim3 KB (404 words) - 03:31, 26 February 2018
- ...a permanent, major figure in the history of the cinema, as actor, director and composer, as well as a victim of the House Un-American Activities Committee ...seldom seeing Charlie's father again (he died in 1901). From 1901 to 1905 and again from 1909 or 1919 their mother was back in hospital; during these tim3 KB (399 words) - 04:04, 5 March 2018
- ...lbum Voice of an Angel. Her mother married James Church when she was three and he formally adopted her in October 1999. Although she only gets £50 a mont [[Category: Music and Dance]]1 KB (151 words) - 16:07, 19 May 2014
- '''British musician and composer''' ...1957, but for some years the fiction was maintained that they were brother and sister.2 KB (265 words) - 06:36, 27 February 2018
- ...who already had three born-to children. His foster brother was named Mark, and there was also a cousin named Mark McManus - who grew up to become the acto ...e rock group Sweet. In adulthood he cut himself off from his foster family and claimed that he was in fact the half-brother of the actor.2 KB (225 words) - 02:59, 26 February 2018
- ...either by relatives, her godmother, or [[Foster Parents|foster parents]], and Alexandra was then separately [[adopted]] by a wealthy St. Petersburg famil ...m Turning Point (1977). She had a long relationship with George Balanchine and also married twice.3 KB (410 words) - 03:48, 24 February 2018
- ...nds, the extremely wealthy and powerful Democratic Party grandees, Averell and Marie Harriman. ..., famous and powerful, and made his own independent career as a bandleader and pianist.2 KB (220 words) - 17:09, 2 June 2014
- ...kholm. She was [[adopted]] there by an American family of Swedish heritage and emigrated with them to the USA when she was 10. ...ut turned to singing in her teens. She studied in [[New York]] and Berlin, and made her professional operatic début in Cologne in 1895 as Azucena in Il T3 KB (363 words) - 20:14, 3 March 2018
- ...mpany. She came to London in 1897 for a six-week run at the Empire Theatre and stayed for 10 years as their prima ballerina. ...and gradually reduced her appearances, retiring from regular work in 1917 and giving her last public performance in 1933. She was president of the Associ2 KB (237 words) - 23:11, 9 February 2015
- ...n their mother remarried her new husband insisted she get rid of the boys, and they were sent to a terrible orthodox [[orphanage]], where among other thin ...d won Brooks an Oscar; the Broadway show based on the movie opened in 2001 and won 12 Tonys.4 KB (583 words) - 04:17, 5 March 2018
- ...n their mother remarried her new husband insisted she get rid of the boys, and they were sent to a terrible orthodox [[orphanage]], where among other thin ...d won Brooks an Oscar; the Broadway show based on the movie opened in 2001 and won 12 Tonys.4 KB (585 words) - 03:47, 5 March 2018
- Harry was adopted aged three months. Her family includes a born-to sister and a cousin who lived with her parents. ...uding spells as a secretary, a cocktail waitress and a Playboy bunny girl, and rubbing shoulders with the Andy Warhol set at a club called Max's [[Kansas]2 KB (258 words) - 04:31, 26 February 2018
- ...Hirst.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Hirst in a 2010 documentary by Erik Niedling and Ingo Niermann'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...rth father]] was a photographer). He did not do well in school [[ART|art]] and was rejected by St. Martin's College (but was later accepted by Goldsmith's2 KB (243 words) - 04:15, 26 February 2018
- ...hen he was three or four years old. After studying at the Royal College of Music, 1939-42, he began composing. ...r Man, Beggar Man, Saint; John and the Music Man and The Man from Tuscany, and other large works.1 KB (197 words) - 16:17, 15 May 2014
- ...émigrés in London and raised in England. His mother emigrated to the USA and had another child by the same father, before marrying another man. ...met her in 1984, but their [[reunion]] was not successful. He has a sister and three half-brothers. His French adoptive mother was herself abandoned in an1 KB (198 words) - 01:55, 1 March 2018
- James was a singer with Transvision Vamp (1986-89), and now records on her own, signed with MCA. She was adopted and was raised in Sussex.766 B (99 words) - 04:27, 5 March 2018
- ...t. John, who took her under her wing and introduced her to other reporters and other, more respectable, aspects of show business. ...on by her last husband, who was adopted by her friends, actress ZaSu Pitts and Tom Gallery.2 KB (282 words) - 04:08, 24 February 2018
- ...couple who already had raised five birth children. He was slow developing, and has been diagnosed as severely mentally retarded, with [[Cerebral Palsy|cer ...His playing is mechanical and loud, but note-perfect. He loves performing and his adoptive family have encouraged him.2 KB (289 words) - 19:01, 3 March 2018
- ...nd a soldier), was [[adopted]] by another family and raised in [[Norway]], and she did not trace her birth family until 1996. ...often in trouble with the headmaster; he and friends also stole from shops and threw stones at trains.3 KB (412 words) - 06:17, 1 March 2018
- ...her "salvation" - her father and step-mother emigrated to [[South Africa]] and their children have all had difficult lives. She specializes in French chansons and the songs of Mikis Theodorakis and has been called the grande dame de chanson.1 KB (205 words) - 19:03, 3 March 2018
- ..._1965.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Melcher on the left with Gene Clark (center) and [[David Crosby]] in 1965'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...Day and her first husband, Al [[Jordan]]. She divorced [[Jordan]] in 1942 and Terry was later [[adopted]] by her third husband, Marty Melcher.1 KB (216 words) - 04:11, 5 March 2018
- ...brother, Pendleton Vanderver, who was also a considerable influence on his music. ...record in 1936, for Bluebird followed by about 60 more tracks for Bluebird and well over 200 for other studios.3 KB (436 words) - 04:32, 5 March 2018
- ...l. She graduated from Oberlin College in [[ART|art]], but it is in popular music, girly sound, that she has made her name. "Article Archives." [Articles, reviews and interviews from Details, Rolling Stone, the Chicago Tribune, Out, etc]. For2 KB (226 words) - 06:33, 27 February 2018
- ...s after he was born (in [[Switzerland]]) and he was then raised by an aunt and uncle. ...ised him until he was 10, and then gave him to the [[custody]] of his aunt and uncle, who sent him to boarding school.3 KB (388 words) - 05:29, 1 March 2018
- Schramm was born to Marie Hofmann and an unknown father, in Vienna. His mother later married Gustav Schramm, who ...na Soetermeer, a Dutch musician, in 1928. They worked together as teachers and performers for the next 18 years.2 KB (241 words) - 18:59, 3 March 2018
- ...her birth father. In any case, he [[adopted]] her, named her his heiress, and had her educated very well, which was unusual for the time. ...she raised herself. She is the only prominent woman composer of her period and region.2 KB (275 words) - 04:09, 24 February 2018
- ...e of the most successful stage musicals and films in history: The Sound of Music. ...s von Trapp, was born on a train in 1905. Her mother died when she was two and her father left her to be raised by cousins so he would be free to travel w4 KB (630 words) - 04:18, 5 March 2018
- Welch's mother died when he was five and he was raised by his aunt. ...ed albums for Richard in the 70s, wrote some of Richard's best-known songs and "discovered" Olivia Newton-John. He stayed with the band for the next 30 ye2 KB (238 words) - 03:01, 26 February 2018
- White's father disappeared before he was born and he was abandoned by his mother. The canteen manager of the hospital where h ...and Helena Rubenstein. He was president of a major advertising association and received 247 major advertising awards.1 KB (139 words) - 17:21, 20 May 2014
- ...laims to be one of the many Jewish children orphaned by the Nazi Holocaust and one of the few hundred young children to survive the death camps. ...liberated, sent to orphanages in [[Poland]] and [[Switzerland]], fostered and ultimately [[adopted]] by a Swiss family who refused to discuss his traumat4 KB (576 words) - 18:47, 15 May 2014
- ...that support the agriculture sector. Zac Efron was born in San Luis Obispo and has family members in nearby Arroyo Grande.<br><br> ...et mignon or leading sirloin, this wine will hold impressing you with each and every [http://www.prweb.com/releases/KurgisDermatology/Dermatologist-SkinC4 KB (638 words) - 12:49, 8 May 2014
- ...with their main centers in Tokyo and Kyoto. The tradition is centuries old and continues today, although the heyday of the geisha was before World War II. Until recently delicately beautiful and graceful young girls might be sold by their poverty-stricken parents to an3 KB (512 words) - 06:06, 28 February 2018