Versatile Ukrainian star Ruslana

Ruslana performs on stage

Ruslana performing "Wild Dances" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

Ruslana performing at her Charity Concert for children suffering from the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear leak tragedy

Versatile Ukrainian pop singer and performer Ruslana, 37, (full name: Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko, also known, Lana and Rusiya), is also known for her multifaceted talents such as singer, politician, dancer, producer, composer, conductor, pianist, songwriter, and voice actress. Apart from the piano, she plays guitar, drums, keyboards, and trembita, an ancient Hutsul music instrument producing trumpet-like sound.

Ruslana is the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, winner of World Music Award, was nominated for MTV Europe Music Award. She was also honored with the golden statue of The Best Artist Award of The Asia Song Festival 2009, and the second special award for the contribution to the cultural exchange between Ukraine and Asia in music.

Born on May 24, 1973 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine), Ruslana studied from the age of four at an experimental musical school and performed with various bands. After secondary school education, Ruslana entered the Lviv Conservatory where she graduated as a classical pianist and conductor in 1995.

As an activist, with her project Wild Energy, Ruslana promotes the use of renewable energy. She considers solar energy and energy from water and the wind as independent energy sources. Also, Ruslana wants to make people aware of the dangers of global climate change.

For some time Ruslana has been the face of Garnier in Ukraine, and in the spring of last year L’Oreal Cosmetics offered Ruslana an endorsement contract as a new face of L’Oreal. She has also appeared in various commercial campaigns.

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Mariah Carey at Edwards Air Force Base in Dec 1998

Photo: Mariah Carey at the Edwards Air Force Base during the making of her ‘I Still Believe’ video in 1998

Cropped photo from the above showing Mariah Carey with her Marilyn-Monroe-look makeover

Mariah Carey performing at the Edwards Air Force Base sporting a Monroe hairstyle

Mariah Carey performing in a Monroe-look gown

‘I Still Believe’, the pop-ballad song written by Antonina Armato and Giuseppe Cantarelli and originally recorded by pop singer Brenda K. Starr, was later re-recorded/ performed by Mariah Carey and Hongkong-born Cantopop singer Sandy Lam.

‘I Still Believe’ is a ballad in which the theme is that the writer is confident she will never be together again with her former boyfriend, but she still believes that some day she will be. The ballad is based on the real life love/ relationship of Antonia Armato, whose former boyfriend had proposed to her, but she felt that the time for marriage was not right. Not pleased with her decision, he gave her an ultimatum to get married or break up. But Armato stuck to her decision and the couple broke up, and she deals with her emotional pains in the pop ballad ‘I Still Believe’.

In her version of ‘I Still Believe’ Mariah Carey co-produced her cover song with Stevie J and Mike Mason for her eighth album released as the album's third single in 1998. She re-recorded the song as a tribute to Brenda K. Starr, as Carey had been Starr's back-up singer in the late 1980s and Starr had helped Carey's career by handing over a demo tape to Sony Music Entertainment executive Tommy Mottola who signed Carey's first music recording contract.

‘I Still Believe’ peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It was certified platinum by the RIAA, and was ranked 36 on the Hot 100 year-end charts for 1999. Outside USA it settled in the middle of the charts, such as the United Kingdom where it reached the top twenty and it entered the Canadian top ten.

The single's music video was inspired by Marilyn Monroe's visit to entertain American troops in Korea in a United Service Organizations show in 1954. The video shows Mariah Carey copying Monroe's make-up and hairstyle and Judy Garland's performance gestures, visiting the Edwards Air Force Base in California in December 1998 and singing for airmen and soldiers as Monroe had done during the Korean War. Watch the design of Carey’s gown and compare it with the gown Monroe was wearing in Korea, and compare her Monroe-look hairstyle too in her photos here.

Brenda K. Starr - Exclusive Live Appearance

Brenda K. Starr performing @ Sidetracks "Home of Freestyle Fridays" in Sunnyside, Queens 07/23/10, originally uploaded by fontenelleii.

Brenda K. Starr - Breakfast in Bed

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Cantopop singer Sandy Lam in 2009

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Sandy Lam, also known as Lam Yik Lin, is a Cantopop singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese languages.

Sandy Lam was born in Hong Kong and began her career at the age of sixteen as a DJ for Commercial Radio Hong Kong, and her singing career in 1984 with CBS Sony. Sandy Lam has also recorded with Warner Music, Rock Records, Virgin Records and Capitol Music. In 2001 Lam appeared as cast member of an Andrew Lloyd Webber concert Masterpiece, which also featured West End and Broadway star Elaine Paige and China's best-selling recording artist, American-Chinese Kris Phillips.

Beyonce on Sports Illustrated

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Frankie Sandford at #4 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women List

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The 21-year-old English singer and member of girl group ‘The Saturdays’ Frankie Sandford came at #4 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women World list, in which she was ranked number 17 in 2009.

Sandford started her career in 2001 with pop music S Club 7 spin-off group, S Club Juniors, later renamed to S Club 8 in April 2003. Prior to joining S Club 8, she also appeared on SMTV Live as a cheerleader.

Since 2007, Sandford is a member of The Saturdays, whose other members are Una Healy, Mollie King, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman. They have achieved six top ten singles and two top ten albums. Their debut album, Chasing Lights, has been certified platinum. In November 2008, along with her other band mates from The Saturdays, she appeared in the Channel 4 Hollyoaks spin-off Hollyoaks Later. Sandford is to appear as a guest vocalist on Kids in Glass Houses' second album Dirt, appearing on the track "Undercover Lover".

Sandford had earlier worked in a bar and had a Saturday job as a salesperson in All Saints and House of Fraser in London. She dated and lived with Dougie Poynter from McFly. After over a year together the pair split up in March 2010, and resumed their relationship after a two-week break, and now lives together in Edmonton, London.

Amy Winehouse to remarry ex-husband

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According to news sites, singer Amy Winehouse has plans to remarry her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil in Las Vegas, and she doesn't want a traditional ceremony and wants it to be similar to their first wedding. Also, she is planning to launch her own line of clothing, as a designer. Winehouse has teamed up with Fred Perry to create a 17-piece wardrobe, consisting of capri trousers, cardigans and mini-dresses. She has been wearing Perry creations for long and she loves them. Fred Perry marketing director Richard Martin said that she had a hands-on role in the creation of the range. Winehouse's debut fashion collection is expected to appear in stores in October this year.