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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

Born in San Antonio TX Paula DeAnda grew up listening to Selena and other female vocalists often performing their songs with her cousins at family gatherings Soon she started taking piano lessons and singing around town both as a soloist and as a bac…