Madonna - singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur

Madonna is an famous American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. To pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music group Breakfast Club and Emmy, she out her debut album in 1983. She followed it with a sequence of albums that attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Her career was further improved by film appearances that began in 1985, despite mixed commentary. She won important acclaim and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in Evita (1996).

In 1992, she establishes entertainment company Maverick as a joint venture with Time Warner. In 2007, she signed an unprecedented US $120 million agreement with Live Nation. She has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is known as the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time by the Guinness World Records. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the top selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female performer in the United States, behind Barbra Streisand, with 64 million certified albums. In 2008, Billboard journal ranked Madonna at number two, behind only The Beatles, on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, creation her the most successful solo artist in the history of the Billboard chart. She is recognized for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry.

Birth Name	Madonna Louise Ciccone
Date Of Birth	August 16, 1958
Place Of Birth	Bay City, Michigan, U.S.
Origin	New York, New York, U.S.
Genres	Pop, rock, dance
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, percussion, drums
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress, film producer, film director, fashion designer, author, entrepreneur, philanthropist

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Stephen E. Ambrose - American historian and biographer

 Stephen Edward Ambrose was famous American historian andbiographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was along time professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the authorof several best selling volumes of American popular history. Beginning late inhis life and continuing after his death, however, proof and reports havecontinued to surface documenting long time patterns of plagiarism,falsification, and inaccuracy in many of his published writings and other work.In reaction to one of the early reports, Ambrose said he was not "outthere stealing other people's writings."

In 1998, he got the National Humanities Medal. In 2000,Ambrose got the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service,the top honorary award the Department of Defense offers to civilians. In 2001,he was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for illustrious Service from theTheodore Roosevelt Association. Ambrose won an Emmy as one of the producer forthe mini-series Band of Brothers. Ambrose also got the George Marshall Award,the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, and the Bob Hope Award from theCongressional Medal of Honor Society, and the Will Rogers Memorial Award.

Date Of Birth	January 10, 1936
Place Of Birth	Lovington, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Historian, Author
Date Of Died	October 13, 2002
Place Of Died	Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, U.S.

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Selena Gomez - actress, singer and businesswoman

Selena Gomez is an American actress and singer best identifiedfor portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel TV seriesWizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently venture into feature films and hasstarred in the television movies one more Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place:The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She prepared her starringtheatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.

Her career has extended into the music industry; Gomez isthe lead singer and originator of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene,which has released two RIAA Gold certified studio album, Kiss & Tell and AYear without Rain and spawned two RIAA Platinum certified singles,"Naturally" and "Who Says". As of April 2011, the band has sell1,354,000 albums in the United States. Gomez has also give to the soundtracksof Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and ShakeIt Up after signing a record contract with Hollywood Records. In 2008, Gomezwas chosen a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Birth name	Selena Marie Gomez
Date Of Birth	July 22, 1992
Grand	Prairie, Texas, United States
Genres	Electropop, Pop rock, dance-pop
Occupations	singer, businesswoman, Actress
Instruments	piano, guitar, drums, Vocals

Emmy Award - television production award

An Emmy Award called as the Emmy, is a television productionaward, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused onentertainment, and is measured the television equivalent to the Academy Awards andthe Grammy Awards. A mass of Emmys are presented in various sectors of theAmerican television industry. As such, the awards are presented in differentarea-specific ceremonies held annually throughout the year. The two ceremoniesthat generally receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmys and theDaytime Emmys, primarily identify excellence in American primetime and daytimeentertainment programming, respectively. Other important Emmy Award ceremoniesinclude those honoring national sports programming, national news and documentaryshows and engineering success in television.

Regional Emmy Awardsare also presented throughout the country at different times through the year, identifyexcellence in local and state-to-state television. In addition, InternationalEmmys are awarded to know excellence in TV programming produced and originallyaired outside the United States. Three related but divide organization presentthe Emmy Awards: the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), theNational Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), and the globalAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences. Each is conscientious foradministering a particular set of Emmy award shows.

Awarded for	Excellence in Television
Presented by	ATAS/NATAS
Country	United States
First awarded	1949

Gwyneth Paltrow - singer, actress, author

Gwyneth Paltrow  one of the American actress and singer. She made her acting debut onstage in 1990 and started appear in films in 1991. After appearing in manyfilms throughout the decade, She gained early on notice for her work infilms such as Se7en (1995) and Emma (1996). Following the films Sliding Doors(1998) and A Perfect Murder (1998), she garnered worldwide recognition throughher presentation in Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which she won an AcademyAward for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors GuildAwards, for wonderful Lead Actress and as a member of the Outstanding Cast. Shealso won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011for her character as Holly Holiday on the FOX hit TV show Glee in the episode"The Substitute."

Paltrow has portrayed sustaining as well as lead roles infilms such as The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Shallow Hal (2001), and Proof(2005), for which she receive a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress inMotion Picture Drama. In 2008, she appear in the highest grossing movie of hercareer, the superhero film Iron Man (2008), and then reprised her role asPepper Potts in its sequel, Iron Man 2 (2010). Paltrow also has been the faceof Estee Lauder's pleasure perfume since 2005. In the same 2011 weekend aswinning her Emmy Award she appear in the number one film at the US box office,the band plague drama Contagion. She is wedded to Chris Martin, the leadvocalist of Coldplay. 

Birth Name	Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
Date Of Birth	September 27, 1972
Place Of Birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer, author
Spouse	Chris Martin

Tony Award - Award for Excellence in Theatre

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more usually known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live American theatre. The awards are offered by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an yearly ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway making and performance, and an award is given for regional theatre. Several discretionary non competitive awards are also given, with a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The prize are name after Antoinette Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing.

The rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official certificate "Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards", which relate for that season only. It measured the highest U.S. theatre honor, the U.S. theatre industry's equal to the Academy Awards (Oscars) for motion pictures, the Grammy Awards for music and the Emmy Awards for television. In British theatre, the equal of the Tony Award is the Laurence Olivier Award. Since 1997, the Tony Awards ceremony has regularly been held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and transmit live on CBS television. The 64th Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 13, 2010, at Radio City Music Hall, with a three-hour televise on CBS television.

Awarded for	Excellence in Broadway theatre
Presented by	American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League
Country	United States
First awarded	1947

Grammy Award - AMPAS, Achievement in the music industry

A Grammy Award or Grammy is an award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to identify outstanding achievement in the music industry. The yearly awards ceremony features performance by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a extensively viewed televised ceremony. It is the music equal to the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for stage, and the Academy Awards for film. The awards were start in 1958. Prior to the first live Grammys broadcast in 1971 on American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a series of taped annual specials in the 1960s called The Best on proof were broadcast on National Broadcasting Company (NBC).

The first Grammy Award broadcast took place on the night of November 29, 1959, as an episode of the NBC anthology series Sunday Showcase, which was usually devoted to plays, original TV dramas, and variety shows. Until 1971, awards ceremonies were held in both New York and Los Angeles, with winners accept at one of the two. Pierre Cossette bought the civil rights to broadcast the ceremony from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and planned the first live telecast. CBS Broadcasting bought the rights in 1973 after moving the ceremony to Nashville, Tennessee; the American Music Awards were formed for ABC as a result. The 53rd Grammy Awards will get place on 13 February 2011 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It will be show on CBS.

Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the music industry
Presented by	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Country	United States
First awarded	1958