Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941)
She is an Argentine pianist who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The family moved to Europe in 1955, where Argerich studied with Friedrich Gulda in Austria. Her parents had diplomatic posts in the Argentine embassy in Vienna.
Argerich has won innumerable competitions including the Geneva International Music Competition and Ferruccio Busoni International Competition at the age of 16. In 1965 she debuted in the United States in Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series.
She has won three Grammy awards in 2000, 2005, and 2006. In 2012, she was voted into Gramophone's Hall of Fame.
Eagles (formed in Los Angeles in 1971)
The original members of the Eagles were Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. They have sold more than 150 million records. Two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) and Hotel California, are among the 20 best-selling albums in the United States. The Eagles have won 6 Grammy Awards in 1975, 1977 (two awards), 1979, 2008, and 2009.
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. In 1999, the Recording Industry of America honored the group with the Best Selling Album of the Century for Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975). The Eagles were chosen last year for the Kennedy Center Honors, but because of Glenn Frey's poor health, the award was postponed. He died a month later.
Al Pacino (born April 25, 1940)
Pacino is an American actor of stage and screen, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He has won an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts.
Pacino is an American actor of stage and screen, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He has won an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts.
He was first nominated for Best Actor for Serpico in 1973 and won for his role as a blind Lieutenant Colonel in Scent of a Woman in 1992. He won Tony Awards for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel.
Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939)
Staples was born in Chicago, Illion and began singing with her family in 1950. She sang in local churches and appeared on a weekly radio show. she made her fir solo "Crying in the chapel" for Epic Records in the late 1960s.
She perforned at the 33rd Kennedy Center Honors, won her first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2011, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2011 from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and from Columbia College in Chicago in 2012.
James Taylor (born March 12, 1948)
James Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was born at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where his father was a resident physician. He has four siblings who are musicians and have recorded albums.
Taylor has won six Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Performance in 1971, 1977 and 2001, Best Pop Album in 1998, Best country collaboration with Vocals in 2003, and Grammy Award-sponsored MusiCares Person of the Year in 2006. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 and inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000.
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