Sister actingsinging duo Aly AJ -- whose full names are Alyson and Amanda Joy Michalka -- showed a passion for both kinds of performing at a very young age they started playing piano at age six and began acting classes soon after Born in LA the Mich…

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…

Best known as Gabrielle Montez from the hit Disney Channel movie and soundtrack album High School Musical actresssinger Vanessa Anne Hudgens has also appeared on Drake Josh and The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody Born in Salinas CA and raised in San Die…

Timbaland ascended to the top of the rap industry in the late 90s remarkably balancing his in-demand hitmaking abilities with his outlandish production style Few rap producers were capable of such a balance between commerce and craft Timbaland produc…

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…

Going from a series of books about a girl pop band to a series of Disney TV movies about a girl pop band to an actual touring girl pop band the Cheetah Girls began as 16 young-adult books by Deborah Gregory The series began in 1999 and quickly became…

Taylor Swift has been singing all her life motivated by her grandmother who was a professional opera singer She began performing locally around her town and county at the age of ten and at age 11 sang the national anthem before a Philadelphia 76ers g…

Georgia-born singersongwriter Jordan Pruitt began her singing career at the age of four harmonizing with her fathers group in church The precocious Tennessee-based 15-year-olds demo found its way to Grammy Award-winning producer Keith Thomas in 2006 …

Poprock outfit Paramore began humbly enough in Franklin TN when lead singer Hayley Williams met brothers Josh and Zac Farro guitar and drums respectively after moving into town from Mississippi The two had a young band that the burgeoning singer was …

Pop singer and actor Jesse McCartney was a child performer dynamo singing on Broadway and landing an acting gig on All My Children before even joining his first boy band a feat that came at the age of 12 Teen poppers Dream Street scored a platinum al…