Seether is a post-grunge band, formed in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1999. It consist of Shaun Morgan,
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David Archuleta was born on December 28, 1990 in Miami, Florida to Jeff Archuleta and Lupe Marie. David Archuleta’s family moved to the city of Sandy, Utah, when Archuleta was six. That’s the same age when he started singing inspired by a Les Miserables video. He has since cited his musical influences as Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Kirk Franklin and Bryan Adams. When he listed his top pop music artists, he cited Natasha Bedingfield, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Bryan Adams, Kirk Franklin, and Robbie Williams. In 2003, at the age of twelve, David Archuleta sang on several episodes of the television variety show Star Search. At the age of 16 he competed on the television show American Idol. David Archuleta won his ticket to the Hollywood final auditions at the San Diego tryouts at the end of July 2007. He performed John Mayer’s song "Waiting on the World to Change". In the finale he sang "Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "In This Moment" and "Imagine. He ended up losing to David Cook, garnering 44 percent of the vote. In June 2008, Archuleta signed with Jive Records and in August of 2008 released his self titled debut album. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 29, 2009.
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A regular on the cover of various tabloid magazines, Lindsay Lohan is the poster girl of celebrity scandal. She was born on July 2,1986 in New York City to Michael and Dina Lohan and began her acting career at the age of 10 years old, starring in numerous television commercials and landing a role on the soap opera Another World. In 1998 she starred in the Disney remake of the parent trap. Since then she has been in various movies such as Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Herbie Fully Loaded. In 2004 she started her music career by releasing her debut album, Speak. The album sold over a quarter million copies it’s first week and hit the number four spot on the Billboard 200. It generated two hits singles, First and Over. The single First was featured in Herbie The Love Bug Fully Loaded. The album was later certified platinum. She followed up Speak’s success with the lackluster effort, A Little More Personal (Raw) in 2005. It debuted on the number twenty spot on the Billboard 200 and was eventually certified gold in January of 2006. She has since started work on her third album but it’s unsure when and if it will be released.
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Sarah Connor is the stage name of Sarah Terenzi. She was born on June 13, 1980 in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, Germany. Connor is the eldest of six siblings born to Michel Lewe, an advertising writer of American descent, and his wife Soraya Gray, a former fashion model and homemaker of Scottish and German heritage. She has four sisters: Anna Maria, who is married to Pekka Lagerblom, Marisa, Sophia-Luisa, and Valentina; and one brother, Robin. She took vocal lessons once a week and worked as a waitress in a hotel to pay for them. In 1997, Connor was picked to sing with the backing choir during the performance of "Heal the World" at Michael Jackson’s HIStory concert tour in Bremen, Germany. A year later she signed a contract with a management company and made a few demos. In 2001, Sarah Connor released her debut album, Green Eyed Soul. The album spawned three singles, "Let’s Get Back to Bed – Boy!", "French Kissing" and the ballad "From Sarah with Love". On September 30, 2002 she released her sophomore album, Unbelievable. Sarah Connor has since released six albums and has sold over twelve million copies of her albums worldwide.
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Moby is the stage name of Richard Melville Hall. He was born on September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York. Moby started playing music when he was nine years old, originally studying classical guitar and music theory, and eventually learning piano and drums. From 1982 to 1985 Moby was in a hardcore punk band called the Vatican Commandos, who released an EP called Hit Squad for God. He was also in a Joy Division-inspired post-punk group called AWOL, who released an eponymous album in 1983. After years of pursuing a record deal he signed a recording contract with Instinct Records in 1989. His first single for Instinct was "Mobility," but it was the second single, "Go," a progressive house track using the string line from "Laura Palmer’s Theme" from the TV drama Twin Peaks, which reached the UK top ten in October 1991 and earned him his first appearance on Top of the Pops. In 1993 Moby signed with Mute Records and released an EP entitled Move. He then released his first album, Everything Is Wrong, on Mute Records in 1995. He followed this up in early 1996 with the double album Everything Is Wrong-Mixed and Remixed. In 1996 he released a punk rock album called Animal Rights and toured Europe with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Soundgarden. Moby has since released six albums.
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