Smooth rapper Baby Bash cant recall where he got the Bash moniker but his alternate name Baby Beesh comes from the fact he used to drive around in a Mitsubishi Born in the Vallejo CA area in 1975 to a Latin mother and an Anglo father who both eventua…

Fergie fits in between a diminishing trance scene and the radical advent of UK garage with an uncomplicated take on hard house ethics Beginning his DJ career at the age of 14 and taken through the clubland ranks with the help of Tony De Vit Fergie ma…

Born in the suburbs of Chicago lead singer Tom Higgenson was originally fascinated with the drums performing in various pop and rock bands in high school One of these groups was Harveys Daughter where he met bass player Ken Fletcher The group disband…

Born into a Jamaican-American family in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan Shawn Mims grew up influenced by the rappers just south of him in Harlem Despite the fact that he lost both parents by the time he was 13 Mims focused on music h…

New Jersey siblings Joseph Kevin and Nicholas Jonas craft hook-filled power pop anthems in the vein of the Ramones Hanson and the Modern Lovers The young East Coast natives -- as of 2006 the trio topped out at 16 17 and 13 respectively -- were reared…