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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Beyonce Knowles rose to fame as a member of the R&B ensemble Destiny's Child. With Beyonce's father as a manager, the group garnered massive success with their 2001 album, SURVIVOR. Soon Beyonce, sporting a sexy yet girl-next-door image, broke out on…

Teenage singer Jeannie Ortega terms her music hip-pop a blend of straightforward chart pop in the manner of Christina Aguilera or Natasha Bedingfield with hip-hop reggaeton and Latin influences Born Jeannette Ortega in the tough Bushwick section of B…

In 2002 one of the biggest stories in the music business was the ascendance of 17-year old Canadian singer Avril LaVigne. In an era dominated by pre-fabricated teen-pop, Avril was seen as a teen star with an edge. Instead of carefully crafted, studio…

As the lead singer of California neo-ska pop-punks No Doubt, Gwen Stefani gained notoriety for her spunky, riot grrrl-lite approach to fronting a rock band. On her 2004 solo debut, LOVE. ANGEL. MUSIC. BABY., Stefani pulled a musical about-face and fu…

Britney Spears proved that the same goldmine that Madonna and Cyndi Lauper mined in the 1980s was again ripe for the picking, and she was immediately followed up the charts by another female teenybop sensation, Christina Aguilera. Closely aligned wit…