Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on 30^th March 1979 to concert producer Sue Jones and the world famous Grammy Award-winning sitar player Ravi Shankar, Norah Jones learned to sing and took piano lessons at a young age. She eventually majored in jazz piano at the University of North Texas and worked as a lounge singer for a couple of years before signing with Blue Note Records as a solo artist in late 2000.

After releasing the EP This Is My Time in 2001, Jones shot to fame a year later with the release of her debut contemporary jazz album Come Away with Me. The record debuted at the top of the US Billboard 200 chart, with the single Don’t Know Why reaching number 25 on the singles chart. The release earned Jones eight Grammy Awards, including for Best New Artist, Album of the Year and Record of the Year (Don’t Know Why), and has sold in excess of 22 million copies to date.

Jones’ second album, Feels Like Home, was also an enormous success, selling over a million copies in the first week of its US release and eventually shipping over ten million copies worldwide. The album produced the smash hit single Sunrise and earned Jones another three Grammy Award nominations, winning one for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Sunrise).

The singer’s third album Not Too Late followed in 2007. It reached the number one position in twenty countries around the world, including the US, UK and Germany, and eventually sold over six million copies. It also produced the singles Thinking About You, Not Too Late, Sinkin’ Soon and Until the End.

Her latest album, 2009’s The Fall, reached number three in the US and produced the singles Chasing Pirates, Young Blood and Stuck. Jones began her fourth world tour in March 2010.

Elvis Presley was a phenomenally successful American singer and musician, widely known by the single name ‘Elvis’ or as, quite simply, ‘The King’.

Born on 8^th January 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley received his first guitar at the age of ten. At 19, he recorded That’s All Right with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, which received a lot of airplay on local radio. The trio performed at several live venues before Elvis was signed up to RCA Records for an unprecedented $40,000.

Presley’s first recordings included Heartbreak Hotel, which became the biggest selling hit of 1956, and Blue Suede Shoes, and his debut self-titled album became the first rock and roll record to top the Billboard chart. His fame increased with more hit singles and a controversial appearance on the Milton Berle Show – where he was accused of sexually suggestive dancing during a performance of Hound Dog – to the point where by September his appearance on the Ed Sullivan show was watched by an unprecedented 82.6% of the television audience. By the end of 1956, Billboard declared Elvis had placed more songs in the Top 100 than any previous artist.

The hits kept coming for Elvis – including All Shook Up, (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear and Jailhouse Rock – until he was drafted into the US Army, leading to a two-year hiatus. While Presley returned from his service in 1960, he spent the next several years focusing on his movie career before staging his infamous Comeback Special in 1968.

A wave of new hits followed, including In the Ghetto, Suspicious Minds, The Wonder of You and Burning Love, and on January 14 1973 Presley’s live concert Aloha from Hawaii enjoyed a global audience of around 1.5 billion viewers.

However, shortly after this appearance he became addicted to prescription drugs and started gaining a significant amount of weight. Although he attempted to keep up with tour commitments, his health deteriorated rapidly and on August 16^th 1977 he passed away from a suspected drug overdose.

Although he died prematurely, Elvis’ legacy lives on. With a reported one billion records sold all around the world, he is now officially the best-selling solo artist in the history of popular music.

Gwen Stefani is a popular American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is the lead singer of rock band No Doubt and also a successful solo artist – as well as the creator of fashion line L.A.M.B.

Born in Orange County, California on 3^rd October 1969, Gwen Renée Stefani was named after a stewardess in Arthur Hailey’s bestselling 1968 novel Airport. She made her onstage debut in her early teens, singing ‘I Have Confidence’ from The Sound of Music during a high school talent show.

While still at high school, she was invited by her brother Eric to be the lead vocalist for his newly formed ska band No Doubt and, after several years of touring and promotion, the band was finally signed to Interscope Records in 1991.

Their self-titled debut album was released in 1992 but was commercially unsuccessful. Undeterred, the band returned to the studio and recorded the hugely successful Tragic Kingdom, which topped the charts after the release of the single Just a Girl – though the album’s biggest hit was undoubtedly Don’t Speak. The album sold more than 16 million copies worldwide and received two Grammy Award-nominations. The band subsequently released two more successful albums, Return of Saturn in 2000 and Rock Steady in 2001, with the singles Hey Baby and Underneath It All both receiving Grammy Awards.

Although still performing with the group, Gwen Stefani has arguably become better known in recent years for her solo career. Her two solo albums to date – 2004’s Love. Angel. Music. Baby. and 2006’s The Sweet Escape – have combined sales of 18 million, while singles like Hollaback Girl and Cool have given Stefani a number of award nominations and wins.

Gwen Stefani is also known for her unique fashion style. She made many of the clothes she wore on stage with No Doubt herself, and this led to her launching her own fashion line L.A.M.B. in 2004. The label is popular with celebrities like Teri Hatcher and Nicole Kidman and also includes the signature perfume ‘L’.