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English singer-songwriter with a very beautiful voice, Adele was born on May 5, 1988 in Tottenham, London, England.

Adele’s major music influence is the Spice Girls, she began singing at the age of four. She used to impersonate Spice Girls in parties when she was a kid. When she was 11 years old, they moved to West Norwood, South London. During this time, she became interested with R&B singers such as Mary J Blige, Aaliyah and Destiny’s Child.

 

Adele attended and graduated at The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in May 2006. She was a classmate of Jessie J and Leona Lewis in the said school. During this time, she was more interested to artists and repertoire, hoping to produce other people’s career in music. While at BRIT, she meet an inspirational singer named Shingai Shoniwa. She live next door to the singer and often jam around with her. Shingai made her think of wanting to be a writer and not just sing Destiny’s Child Songs.
Adele recorded three-song demo for a class project, then she gave it to a friend and her friend posted it on Myspace. When recording labels heard her song, they automatically called Adele. In particular, XL Recordings called her. She was recommended to manager Jonathan Dickins, soon Dickins became her official representative.

Soon the young Adele signed to XL in September 2006. Her breakthrough song, Hometown Glory was released on October 2007. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics Choice. In addition, she was named the number one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in annual BBC poll of music critics.
Adele released her debut album 19, in United Kingdom in 2008. The album charted number one on U.K album charts. Her Chasing Pavements single received wide attention, it’s music video gained he much audience in the music industry. The singer signed in Columbia Records to release the album in US in June 10, 2008.
Adele was nominated for four Grammy Awards and she won two of the nominations including Best New Artist and Best Vocal Performance. She also won a Urban Music Award for Best Jazz Act. Adele began her world tour in May 2008, entitled, An Evening with Adele, however, the tour was cancelled because she wanted to be with her ex-boyfriend.

Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in the song Hometown Glory. She released her second studio album in January 2011 in UK and February in US. She has sold over 2.5 million copies of 21 and 992,000 digital copies in the US, making 21 as the best-selling album by in the first half of the 2011. Its first single, Rolling in the Deep peaked at number one in 9 countries including the Billboard Hot 100.

Drew Barrymore

Drew is one of the most sought after actresses in Hollywood. She is considered as a figure in the film industry because of her excellence in acting. She has a charming look and free-spirit that makes the crowd love her even more.

Drew Barrymore was born as Drew Blyth Barrymore on February 22, 1975. Drew is an actress, film director, model, producer and talented screenwriter. The passion for acting runs in her family. She is a granddaughter of John Barrymore and a member of the Barrymore family of American actors.

 Drew first appeared in an advertisement when she was only 11 months old. In 1980, she had her first appearance in the film, Altered states. Her big break was when she was starred in the blockbuster E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial in 1982, directed by Steven Spielberg. While Drew was growing up, she was quite troubled on the media. In addition, she has a lot of movies while she was growing up that’s why media was always with her during her adolescence year.

 She also starred in the movies, Riding in Cars with Boys, Donnie DArko,  50 First Dates, Fever Pitch, Music and Lyrics, Lucky You, Grey Gardens, He’s Just Not That into You, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Everybody’s Fine, and Going the Distance.

 In addition, she was named as the Ambassador Against Hunger for the World Food Programme of UN. She was also hailed as top 40 on Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 List and she was the newest model of Covergirl. In addition, Barrymore was the current spokesperson of Gucci’s newest jewelry line.

As for the actress’ past relationships, she was first married to a Welsh bartender turned bar owner named Jeremy Thomas. They had their relationship from March 20 to April 28, 1994. After Thomas, she was married to Tom Green on July 7, 2001 and they divorced on October 15, 2002.

Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and after a series of minor roles and performances in several smaller films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), she broke into the mainstream, appearing in leading roles in Hollywood releases, such as Training Day (2001); All About The Benjamins (2002); 2 Fast 2 Furious, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Stuck on You (2003); Hitch (2005); Ghost Rider and We Own the Night (both 2007); The Spirit (2008); Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009); The Other Guys and Last Night (both 2010).

Jessica Biel

Born in Ely, Minnesota, and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Jessica Biel has paid her dues in the Hollywood scene. A breakout star as Mary Camden on the WB’s highest rated show, “7th Heaven” (1996), Jessica still manages to make a few appearances per season, even though she has left the show, in the midst of an exploding film career.

  

Last fall she excited and terrified moviegoers with her portrayal of Erin, “Leatherface’s” greatest nemesis to date, in New Line Cinema’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), a remake of the famous original. Having finished filming, Blade: Trinity (2004) in Vancouver with Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds, and Kris Kristofferson, she has recently transported her toned and trained body of a vampire hunter/killer to Australia to fill the uniform and project the integrity of one of filmdom’s first female jet-fighter pilots in Columbia/Sony Pictures new film, Stealth (2005), starring Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx, and Sam Shepherd, for director Rob Cohen.

 

Jessica’s film career began at age 14 when she played alongside Peter Fonda in his Golden Globe-winning performance in Ulee’s Gold (1997). Her other film credits include I’ll Be Home for Christmas (1998), Summer Catch (2001), Roger Avary’s The Rules of Attraction (2002), and the recently completed Cellular (2004), which stars Chris Evans, Kim Basinger, and William H. Macy.

 Few people know that this powerhouse of acting talent and versatility has a secret talent that has been put on hold for the past eight years, but surfaced last fall when she was offered lead roles on Broadway in “Rent” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Demands from her film career took precedence, but hopefully, one of these days soon, we will get to experience just another aspect of this fascinating young woman.