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…

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…

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…

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…

Hilary Duff, along with her one-time rival Lindsay Lohan, is a product of the Disney idol machine and the star of the long-running LIZZIE MCGUIRE television series. Duff's image has gone from squeaky-clean teenybopper to slightly vampy teenybopper si…

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…

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…

In 2005 Louisiana-born and North Carolina-raised singer Kellie Pickler landed a spot in the fifth season of American Idol Though she finished sixth the former waitress and Miss North Carolina contestant charmed American audiences with her Southern tw…

As the very first winner of the AMERICAN IDOL television show competition, Kelly Clarkson was inevitably pegged as little more than a manufactured pop commodity. The surprisingly versatile singer managed to survive against expectations, however, and …

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…

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 …

b. Joanna Noelle Levesque, 20 December 1990, Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA. Teen pop starlet JoJo made her way into the music business via the high-profile world of children's television. The daughter of musical parents (her father is a blues singer wh…

Denver-based band the Fray was formed in 2002 by Isaac Slade vocals piano and Joe King guitar vocals when the two former school friends met up again in a local music store They soon began regular two-man jam sessions that led to writing songs and dev…

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…

Carrie Underwood was the winner of the fourth AMERICAN IDOL reality-TV competition. Underwood sparked a mild controversy for being the first IDOL contestant to fully embrace country music--as opposed to the more preferred Top 40 pop styles of previou…