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Monday, July 11, 2011
Alicia Keys was born on 25th January 1981, in New York, New York. Blending pop, gospel, R&B and soul, Keys burst onto the music scene in 2001 with her debut album Songs in A Minor.She was raised by her mother, Nikki Augello, a part-time actress and paralegal.
While she was accepted to Columbia University on a full scholarship, after a four-week stint at the school, Keys departed to devote herself fully to her music.In 1999, Clive Davis, the head of Arista Records, left the company to start J Records.
At the 2002 Grammy Awards, Keys took home awards for Song of the Year, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist. Keys fronted for fellow R&B sensation Maxwell in 2001. Her album "Diary" won her four Grammys in 2005.
In July 2010, Keys married Swizz Beatz (real name: Kasseem Dean) and the couple welcomed their first child together in October 2010, a baby boy named Egypt Daoud Dean.
Kate Hudson gave birth to a Beautiful baby boy on Saturday in Los Angeles, Us Weekly reports.She and Muse rocker fiance Matthew Bellamy are parents together for the first time; publicly dating since early 2010, Hudson told InStyle in April that a baby wasn't necessarily part of the plan -- not that she was complaining when she found out.
Well, it wasn't like we didn't know what we were doing," she said. "There were no ovulation kits involved. We were tempting fate, and it worked.
I didn't think I was going to have another kid until I was maybe 33 – that was in the back of my mind before I met Matthew. But we were so in love when it happened, it was just so exciting for both of us."
Hudson has a child, 7-year old son Ryder, from her previous marriage to Black Crowes rocker Chris Robinson. Hudson announced the pregnancy in January.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Jaime Pressley was born on 30th July 1977 in Kinston, NC, she dove headlong into sports at an early age, studying gymnastics and dancing for 11 years. Modeling became a vocation when she was just 14, where she made a name for herself in the highly competitive field in both the U.S. and abroad.
Pressley stated that she was unaware that nudity would be required for the picture) as well as a 1998 layout in Playboy, for which she was full aware. She would go on to pose for the magazine again, though in a more demure pictorial, in 2004. On the bright side, all of the exposure essentially cemented her in the minds of producers as a nubile and somewhat predatory femme fatale.
It was not for a lack of trying - between 2002 and 2005, she appeared in almost every genre of film - from comedies (2005's "Death to the Supermodels," which she also produced), horror flicks (2005's "Cruel World," which pitted lunatic reality show castoff Edward Furlong against an unwilling cast of victims), action movies (2004's dreary "Torque," in which she played a venal biker girl), and even family features (the bizarre "Karate Dog" in 2004).
That same year, she took home an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy. In 2006, she became engaged to her longtime boyfriend, DJ Eric Calvo, with whom she had a son, Desi James, in 2007 - named after famed Cuban entertainer Desi Arnaz. That same year, Pressley lent her distinctive voice to an animated character in the feature film version of Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who" (2008) with Jim Carrey and Steve Carell.
