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Her career launched when Rene Angelil, manager/future husband, mortgaged his home to
finance her first record
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As a French- Canadian, Dion would become a veteran of the Quebec music scene at a young age
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Dion sings “The Power of the Dream” at the 1996 Olympic games
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The song was written by Babyface and David Foster for the opening ceremony of the 1996
Summer Olympics
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Dion performed the piece in front of 100,000 people and half a billion TV viewers
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1999 is a great year for Dion, with her Let’s Talk About Love album released the same day as the
Titanic soundtrack
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Her performance of the song “My Heart Will Go On” is featured on both albums
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That song pushes both albums to sales of over 27 million copies worldwide
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Dion has sold 220 million records worldwide
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Dion has recorded in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin
Chinese
Spice Girls
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Britain’s biggest and most visible Pop phenomenon since The Beatles were the Spice Girls
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“A group initially manufactured by men with no intention of generating anything beyond a
sizable profit
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“These scantily clad ‘90s feminists spouted philosophy of ‘Girl Power’ to an army of pre-teen and
teen girls”
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Their UK debut album, Spice, is the first album by an all-female group to top the UK charts
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“Wannabe” is the first #1 single in Britain by an all-female group
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The song is a “light hearted romp where the Spice Girls’ lyrics declare their purported fell
control”
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The song will quickly catch fire worldwide, topping the charts in countries
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Sexy, bare-midriff, and attitude made them instant celebrities
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They would briefly become the #1 act in the U.S., yet they did no concerts
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They appeared on David Letterman once and rarely did interviews; none in-depth
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By the end of 1997, the Spice Girls had earned nearly $70 million
‘90s Teen Pop
Britney Spears
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No female artist has generated as much attention from fans and the media than Britney Spears
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“Spears… had the greatest influence on music during the first half-decade of the new millennium
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Born in the small town of Kentwood, Louisiana in 1981, Spears showed an early aptitude for
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She moves to New York, where she studies voice with professionals and finds work in
commercials
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In 1992, at age eleven, Spears joins the Mickey Mouse Club as a mousketeer along with Justin
Timberlake
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She bursts onto the scene in October of ’98 when she releases “Baby One More Time,” her
biggest hit and a #1 record
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Spears was likely the first teen Pop star to put sex on equal footing with her music with no
qualms or apologies
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“Oops!...I Did It Again” appears on the album of the same name
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The track reaches #9 on the charts
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Released as a single in May of 2000, The song is dance style teen pop
Christina Aguilera
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Christina Aguilera has four-octave vocal range, and tremendous sensitivity and power
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Rooted in Soul music, some refer to her as the “Queen of Riffing”
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Born in December of 1980 on Staten Island, New York, Aguilera was a natural singer at an
extreamely early age
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