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Cellokid and I were checking out Billboard.com and came across this article. Thought it would be interesting to see what some of today's hottest pop singers were like before they became big...
Here is Lady Gaga on a 2006 episode of the MTV show "Boiling Points".
Before she went "Gaga" and put pop music in its place, Stefani Germanotta got her start performing on the Lower East Side. Here, the singer looks more like a Flashdance extra than the "Just Dance" hit-maker she would become as she plays her original song, "Hollywood," for anyone who will listen at a NYC rock club.
Way back in 2000, 13-year old Kesha performed in a middle school talent show. Anyone else find it surprising and a bit strange she's performing Radiohead's "Karma Police?" She looks nothing like she does now...
Here is Aubrey Graham, better known as Drake. Before he became hip-hop's breakout star of 2009, he was a quadriplegic on the hit teen series "Degrassi: The Next Generation". This is one of the earlier episodes (I'm thinking Season 2 from 2002-2003) This is Drake's first documented "rap" for the upcoming talent show.
Another rap he did for another talent show with Degrassi girlfriend Ashley Brooks. Sorry the quality is so bad...it was the only video I could find on YouTube...
In the last seven years, singer and dancer Chris Brown has gone from adorable R&B-boy next door to sexy, hit-making crooner. That's not to say that he didn't have it going on at the tender age of 13, though, which is when he made the video for "Whose Girl Is That?"
Plenty of stars got their first taste of the spotlight on Ed McMahon's "Star Search": Britney, Justin, and Beyonce. At the age of 12, Ms. Knowles brought her pipes and her Houston hip-hop group Girl's Tyme to living rooms across the country. And while they didn't win the competition, they won elsewhere -- Girl's Tyme eventually became Destiny's Child, and we all know what happened from there. This is from 1993.
Before Fergie Ferg was added to the Black Eyed Peas' lineup, Stacy Ferguson was a bleach blonde R&B singer struggling to make it in an all-girls group called Wild Orchid. Here's a video the group made in 1997 for a single called "Talk To Me."
Speaking of Wild Orchid, they hosted a Saturday morning talent show that used to come on Fox Family (before it was ABC Family) "The Great Pretenders". It was on in the late 90's. Nobody seems to remember this show! I used to watch it every Saturday morning, complete with a bowl of cereal and OJ.
This is going back even further. All of you late 20-somethings remember this show. Fergie got her start on a 1980's kids show on the Disney Channel appropriately titled "Kids Incorporated". Jennifer Love Hewitt also got her start on this show. Here is Fergie when was 9 years old.
Speaking of the Disney Channel, I gotta mention the Mickey Mouse Club. Lots of talented stars got their big break on that show. Anybody from Justin Timberlake, to Britney, to Christina, to JC Chasez (from NSync), to Keri Russell (Felicity). Interestingly, Jessica Simpson tried out for the show but didn't make it. Here is Britney, Justin and Christina from their MMC days in 1993.
More to come later...Next edition is gonna feature rock stars "Before They Were Famous"
T-bone OUT
Here is Lady Gaga on a 2006 episode of the MTV show "Boiling Points".
Before she went "Gaga" and put pop music in its place, Stefani Germanotta got her start performing on the Lower East Side. Here, the singer looks more like a Flashdance extra than the "Just Dance" hit-maker she would become as she plays her original song, "Hollywood," for anyone who will listen at a NYC rock club.
Way back in 2000, 13-year old Kesha performed in a middle school talent show. Anyone else find it surprising and a bit strange she's performing Radiohead's "Karma Police?" She looks nothing like she does now...
Here is Aubrey Graham, better known as Drake. Before he became hip-hop's breakout star of 2009, he was a quadriplegic on the hit teen series "Degrassi: The Next Generation". This is one of the earlier episodes (I'm thinking Season 2 from 2002-2003) This is Drake's first documented "rap" for the upcoming talent show.
Another rap he did for another talent show with Degrassi girlfriend Ashley Brooks. Sorry the quality is so bad...it was the only video I could find on YouTube...
In the last seven years, singer and dancer Chris Brown has gone from adorable R&B-boy next door to sexy, hit-making crooner. That's not to say that he didn't have it going on at the tender age of 13, though, which is when he made the video for "Whose Girl Is That?"
Plenty of stars got their first taste of the spotlight on Ed McMahon's "Star Search": Britney, Justin, and Beyonce. At the age of 12, Ms. Knowles brought her pipes and her Houston hip-hop group Girl's Tyme to living rooms across the country. And while they didn't win the competition, they won elsewhere -- Girl's Tyme eventually became Destiny's Child, and we all know what happened from there. This is from 1993.
Before Fergie Ferg was added to the Black Eyed Peas' lineup, Stacy Ferguson was a bleach blonde R&B singer struggling to make it in an all-girls group called Wild Orchid. Here's a video the group made in 1997 for a single called "Talk To Me."
Speaking of Wild Orchid, they hosted a Saturday morning talent show that used to come on Fox Family (before it was ABC Family) "The Great Pretenders". It was on in the late 90's. Nobody seems to remember this show! I used to watch it every Saturday morning, complete with a bowl of cereal and OJ.
This is going back even further. All of you late 20-somethings remember this show. Fergie got her start on a 1980's kids show on the Disney Channel appropriately titled "Kids Incorporated". Jennifer Love Hewitt also got her start on this show. Here is Fergie when was 9 years old.
Speaking of the Disney Channel, I gotta mention the Mickey Mouse Club. Lots of talented stars got their big break on that show. Anybody from Justin Timberlake, to Britney, to Christina, to JC Chasez (from NSync), to Keri Russell (Felicity). Interestingly, Jessica Simpson tried out for the show but didn't make it. Here is Britney, Justin and Christina from their MMC days in 1993.
More to come later...Next edition is gonna feature rock stars "Before They Were Famous"
T-bone OUT
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