Hip hop was started in the 1970’s as a combination of rhythmic music and rap. Till this day it is still one of the most popular genres of today’s music especially in the United States. Tupac is probably one of the most known hip hop artist since day one of hip hop. Tupac career was more about getting the word of how …show more content…
It first introduced in the mid 1960’s by a man named Sergio Mendes, a Brazilian artist that the band leader for Sexteto Bossa Rio. It was made popular in the late 1980’s and 1990’s thanks to artist like Marc Anthony, Jose Jose, and Andrea Bocelli. All of these artist have had a huge impact the Latin Pop community and on the music community. Marc Anthony is probably one of the biggest names in the Latin music world and started singing Latin Pop at about the time it started to rise to fame in the United States. He started off just as a backup singer to different freestyle groups in New York and quickly started growing to fame as a popular backup singer. Working hard to get this singing career started Marc decided to change his name from Marco Antonio Muñiz to what he is known now as Marc Anthony in order to not be confused with another Mexican artist that was well know when he was born. After the name change Marc started working on his solo career, and started to write lyrics for his very first salsa album. In 1993 “Otra Noche” was released through RMM Records. After 6 years with RMM Records Marc made the move to Sony records where there he released one of his best selling albums,”Libre”. This album made it and stayed in the number 1 Billboard Top Latin Albums for 14 weeks straight after its release. His career still continues and continues to be one of the …show more content…
One of the most recognized R&B female artist is Beyoncé Knowles who started as a really young age, she started singing in the 90s along with Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams and now it’s well known song writer, solo vocalist and actress. Another great R&B female artist is Adele Laurie Blue whom a little different from other artists, Adele always loved music and singing but never really persuade music like the other artists, her career as a singer grew in 2008 when she was discover through MySpace because one of her friends shared one of her demos, then after that she starting growing more and more as singer and today Adele has sold over 31 million worldwide copies of her album 21 which has been recognized 16 times platinum in the UK. Taking a little turn from female artist we have Peter Gene Hernandez known as Bruno Mars is not just a singer but a song writer, choreographer, and record producer. Mars started grew up in a of family of musicians, he passion for music started at a young and after he graduated high school he moved to Los Angeles to follow his dream in music. Bruno has made five number one singles in the Billboard Hot 100 and after that he’s career went through the top faster than any other male