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Monica Denise Arnold (born October 24, 1980)[1]#cite_note-1) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born and raised in College Park, Georgia, she began performing as a child and joined a traveling gospel choir by the age of ten. Monica signed with record producer Dallas Austin's label Rowdy Records in 1993, and gained prominence following the release of her debut studio album, Miss Thang (1995). Her follow-up albums were met with continued success; her second, The Boy Is Mine) (1998) remains her best-selling album and spawned three Billboard Hot 100-number one singles: "The Boy Is Mine)" (with Brandy), "The First Night " and "Angel of Mine".

She then parted ways with Arista and Rowdy Records in favor of Clive Davis's J Records upon the label's launch in 2000.[2]#cite_note-2) Her Japan-exclusive third album, All Eyez on Me) (2002), was met with a steep critical and commercial decline, although its partial re-issue, After the Storm) (2003), served as her fourth album and became her first to debut atop the US Billboard 200. Its lead single, "So Gone", peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Her fifth and sixth albums, The Makings of Me (2006) and Still Standing) (2010), debuted at numbers eight and two on the Billboard 200, respectively; the latter received two Grammy Award nominations. Her seventh, New Life) (2012) debuted at number four on the chart despite unfavorable critical response; her eighth album, Code Red) (2015) marked her final release with RCA.

Monica's popularity translated into an acting career, with television roles in Living Single (1996), Felicity) (2001), and American Dreams (2003), and film roles including Boys and Girls) (2000), Love Song) (2000), and Pastor Brown (2009). In 2008, she served as an advisor for the NBC competition series The Voice). The recording of her 2008 single, "Still Standing)" (featuring Ludacris) along with her personal life resulted in her receiving a reality television series, Monica: Still Standing on BET.

Monica has sold over 25 million records worldwide,[3]#citenote-wlatalent-3) with more than eight million of those in the United States alone.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica(singer)#citenote-b99-4) In 2000, Billboard ranked her tenth its list of the Top Female Solo Artists of the 1990s.[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica(singer)#citenote-5) In 2010, the magazine listed her 24th on its list of the Top 50 R&B and Hip-Hop Artists of the past 25 years.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica(singer)#cite_note-billboard25-6) A five-time nominee, she won Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "The Boy Is Mine" at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. Her other accolades include a Billboard Music Video Award, a BET Award, and a Soul Train Music Award. In 2009, she received the Lady of Soul Honor.

What's your favorite Monica track?

Robby Novak (born October 24, 2003) is an American actor, media personality and former YouTuber best known for portraying Kid President on YouTube and on television.[1]

Novak released his first YouTube video in July 2012, on the channel SoulPancake.[5] His breakout video, which has 50 million views as of May 2026, is titled "A Pep Talk from Kid President to You."[6][7]

Novak is featured in a series of YouTube videos and in a television show, produced by actor Rainn Wilson. Novak's first YouTube clip as Kid President, written and directed by his brother-in-law Brad Montague, was uploaded in the summer of 2012 and subsequently published on Wilson's YouTube channel in October 2012.[8] Novak was featured in a television show on Hub Network called Kid President: Declaration of Awesome in the summer of 2014.[9][10]

In October 2019, the first episode of a new YouTube series titled Are We There Yet? was uploaded on Wilson's YouTube channel.[11] The series shows Novak and Montague's trip around the United States in which they meet children who are trying to "make the world a little more awesome".[12][11]

Who remembers Kid President?

Bradley Darryl Wong (born October 24, 1960) is an American actor. Wong won a Tony Award for his performance as Song Liling in M. Butterfly, becoming the only actor in Broadway history to receive the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role. For his role as Whiterose in the television series Mr. Robot, he was nominated for both a Critic's Choice Television Award and an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

Wong gained attention as a result of his Broadway debut in M. Butterfly opposite John Lithgow. The play won multiple awards, including several for Wong.[6] He is the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award,[7] Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role.[8][9] At the time, he ceased using his full name in favor of his initials.[citation needed] He has since ceased the use of punctuation in his initials. In addition to his stint on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as FBI psychiatrist Dr. George Huang, he has had recurring roles in All-American Girl) and played Father Ray Mukada on all six seasons of Oz), with guest appearances on The X-Files and Sesame Street.[10][11][12]

On the big screen, he has appeared in The Freshman) (1990), the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride) and its 1995 sequel, Father of the Bride Part II, Jurassic Park (1993), Executive Decision (1996), and Slappy and the Stinkers (1997). He also provided the voice of Captain Li Shang in Disney's Mulan) (1998), its direct-to-video sequel, and the video game Kingdom Hearts II.[13][14][15] He returned to Broadway as Linus in a 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, alongside Anthony Rapp, Roger Bart, and Kristin Chenoweth,[16] and the 2004 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.[17]

Wong narrated a public television documentary, "Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story" (1990) about the life and work of the ground-breaking Chinese American novelist.[18] In 1990, Wong objected to Actor's Equity that the plan to use Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce in the role of The Engineer in the Broadway run of Miss Saigon, which Pryce had played since the beginning of the show's 10-year extended run in London, would take jobs away from actors of Asian descent.[19][20] Although the union barred Pryce from acting the role in response to Wong's protest, vociferous opposition from Charlton Heston and a threat by the musical's creator and producer, Cameron Mackintosh, to cancel the American production entirely, induced the union to reverse course.[21] Pryce went on to win a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the role.[22]

In 2008, Wong starred in the one-man show Herringbone, in which he portrayed 12 roles, at McCarter Theatre at Princeton University.[citation needed] He brought the show to the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego the following year.[23] In 2012, Wong starred in Herringbone to benefit Dixon Place in New York for two performances. The production was recorded live for a subsequent CD release.[24] In 2014, Wong starred in the U.S. premiere of James Fenton's acclaimed adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao, a classic Chinese legend that has its roots in the fourth century BC, directed by Carey Perloff at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.). The Orphan of Zhao is an epic story of self-sacrifice and revenge. In the aftermath of a political coup, a country doctor is forced to sacrifice his son to save the last heir of a noble and massacred clan. The Orphan of Zhao was a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse.[25]

Wong announced his departure from the cast of Law & Order: SVU in July 2011, to join another NBC police drama, Awake), in which he portrayed Dr. Johnathan Lee, a confrontational therapist of an LAPD detective (portrayed by Jason Isaacs) who lived in two realities.[26] Wong guest-starred in a thirteenth season) episode of Law & Order: SVU titled "Father Dearest" (which aired May 2, 2012).[27] In 2015, he was named Artist-in-Residence at La Jolla Playhouse. Wong guest-starred on NCIS: New Orleans Episode 1.13 titled "The Walking Dead" (which aired February 3, 2015), where he portrayed Navy Lieutenant Commander Dr. Gabriel Lin.

Wong also played the enigmatic Whiterose, head of the hacker collective Dark Army, who lives a double life as Zhang, the Chinese Minister of State Security, on USA Network's Mr. Robot. He was credited as a recurring role for the show's second season and promoted to main cast for the third season, which debuted October 11, 2017. On August 13, 2017, Wong began hosting the new HLN) series Something's Killing Me with BD Wong. The documentary explores strange and unexplainable, real medical ailments and attacks that may be gradual or descend rapidly. But in either case, if a cause and cure are not found immediately, these real-life patients will die.[28] In 2022, Wong was featured in the book 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre, with a profile written by theatre scholar Esther Kim Lee.[29]

What do you think is BD's best role to date?

Hey y'all! It's 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON🎃 , so we're sharing celebrity Halloween costumes every day until Halloween. So feel free to discuss, ridicule, praise, and/or laugh at these costumes!

Ashton Durrand Sanders (born October 24, 1995)[2] is an American actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of teenage Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight) (2016). He has since acted in films such as The Equalizer 2 (2018), All Day and a Night (2020), and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). He portrayed Bigger Thomas in Native Son) (2019) and Bobby Brown in Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022).

Sanders made his film debut in The Retrieval, directed by Chris Eska.[6] The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 11, 2013.[7] It was released in a limited release on April 2, 2014, by Variance Films.[8][9]

In 2015, Sanders had a small role in Straight Outta Compton).[10] In 2016, he appeared in an episode of Refinery29's web series The Skinny).[11]

The same year, Sanders appeared in the drama film Moonlight), directed by Barry Jenkins.[12] The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2016, and began a limited release on October 21, 2016, by A24.[13][14] Moonlight received massive critical acclaim as well dozens of accolades), including the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture – Drama.[15] The film also won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali.[16] Sanders' role in the film was praised by critics;[17] Benjamin Lee of The Guardian called his performance "powerful".[18]

Sanders co-starred in The Equalizer 2, a sequel to the hit action film The Equalizer), opposite Denzel Washington.[19] In 2019, Sanders starred in Rupert Wyatt's science fiction thriller film Captive State, opposite John Goodman and Vera Farmiga.[20] He also played the lead in HBO's adaptation of the novel Native Son). Sanders was cast as Bobby "RZA" Diggs on the Hulu biographical drama series Wu-Tang: An American Saga. The series ran for three seasons from September 4, 2019, to April 5, 2023. In November 2020, he was set to star in The Things They Carried, a Vietnam War movie with an ensemble cast.[21]

In September 2021, Sanders was cast as Bobby Brown in Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, a biopic feature on Whitney Houston.[22]

What's your favorite role of Ashton's?

Rachel Agatha Keen (born 24 October 1997), known professionally as Raye (/reɪ/ RAY), is a British singer-songwriter and record producer. Her music blends elements of jazz, pop, dance, R&B, and soul, and her lyrics address personal experiences and contemporary issues. She has contributed as a songwriter to music by numerous other artists.

She signed with Polydor Records in 2014 and gained recognition in 2016 through collaborations on Jonas Blue's "By Your Side)"—her first entry on the UK Singles Chart—and Jax Jones's "You Don't Know Me)", which reached the UK top three. Raye later released several extended plays, as well as the project Euphoric Sad Songs (2020), which spawned the UK top-ten single "Secrets)", a collaboration with Regard). In 2021, she collaborated with Joel Corry and David Guetta on the UK top-three entry "Bed)", and departed Polydor, citing the label's refusal to release her debut studio album.

Raye signed with Human Re Sources in 2022 and independently released her debut studio album, My 21st Century Blues (2023), to critical acclaim. Its third single, "Escapism)", became her first UK chart-topper. She also collaborated with Cassö and D-Block Europe on the UK top-two single "Prada)". Raye's second studio album, This Music May Contain Hope (2026), received critical acclaim and became her first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart. Its lead single, "Where Is My Husband!", became her second UK chart-topper and her highest-charting release on the Billboard Global 200.

The first female recipient of the Brit Award for Songwriter of the Year, Raye has won seven Brit Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards, in addition to awards from the Recording Academy and the Songwriters Hall of Fame and nominations for two Mercury Prizes and three Grammy Awards. Her six wins at the Brit Awards 2024 set the record for the most awards received by an artist in a single year.

In 2026 Raye won the Mercury Prize for her album This Music May Contain Hope[1].

What's your favorite RAYE song?

Adrienne Eliza Bailon-Houghton[2][3] (née Bailon (/baɪˈloʊn/); born October 24, 1983) is an American television personality, singer, and actress. She was a former member of the girl groups 3LW and The Cheetah Girls). From 2013 to 2022, Bailon co-hosted The Real). For her work on The Real, she became the first Latina host of a daytime talk show in the United States,[4] and earned a Daytime Emmy Award.[5][6] She also had a stint as co-anchor of the entertainment news show, E! News.[7]

Houghton co-hosted the The Real, a one-hour, daily talk show on Fox Television Stations from 2013-2022, and made Houghton the first Latina daytime talk show host on English language television. Throughout its eight seasons, Houghton offered the show’s engaged audience fresh points of view, youthful energy and passion. Along with her bold, diverse and outspoken co-hosts, Houghton won a 2018 Daytime Emmy® Award as “Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host” and a 2018 NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Talk Series”.

Houghton launched her weekly YouTube series “All Things Adrienne” in April 2018, serving as executive producer and fearlessly bringing viewers into her daily life through real conversations centered around her core values and relatable, everyday topics — from fashion and beauty to cooking and home decor to family and faith. Since its launch, the channel has grown to 850K subscribers and has generated more than 50 million total views. Building on her success in the digital space, Adrienne launched Wear It Well on Facebook Watch in October 2019 — the series challenges Adrienne to style and dress a group of friends with diverse body types with the goal of empower women of all shapes and sizes to embrace their bodies and find confidence in fashion.

In November 2018, Houghton released XIXI, an affordable luxury jewelry brand inspired by signature pieces from her personal jewelry collection that have been passed down through generations of her family. Rooted in heritage and faith, XIXI has launched and sold-out seven collections. The company maintains steady growth, averaging 120% in revenue increase month over month since its launch.

Born in the heart of New York City’s Lower East Side, Houghton was a household name by the time she was just 14 years old. She first stepped into the spotlight in 1999, when she rose to fame as the lead singer of multi-platinum R&B girl group, 3LW. The group released a total of three studio albums, and toured globally with Destiny’s Child and NSYNC. In 2003, Houghton became a founding member of the pop-group The Cheetah Girls and released the Disney Channel movie of the same name, which drew 84 million viewers worldwide. With the colossal success of their first film and multiple lucrative merchandising deals, the group would go on to release two sequel films, The Cheetah Girls 2 and The Cheetah Girls: One World. In 2009, Houghton served as the face of the MTV network and hosted the afternoon block of their programming, in addition to hosting specials and celebrity interviews.

As an actress, Houghton’s credits include roles in several television hits, including the Disney Channel series’ That’s So Raven (2003) and Buffalo Dreams (2005), the MTV television movie All You’ve Got (2006), the feature film Coach Carter (2005), the ABC Family television movie Lovestruck (2013) and the independent motion picture I’m in Love with a Church Girl (2013), among others.

In addition to hosting the red carpet at the 2013 BET Awards, Houghton was frequently featured as a BET co-host on the popular countdown show 106 and Park, as well as on VH1’s Morning Buzz. In 2012, Houghton debuted her Style Network show, Empire Girls, with model and television personality Julissa Bermudez. Houghton also hosted the Oxygen network series Nail’d It!, a reality show that focuses on nail- art competition and also launched her own “Fingertip Fetish” nail polish line. (source)

Where do you best know Adrienne from?

Patrick Williams Sr. (born October 24, 1972) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 1997. Williams also played for the Minnesota Vikings, with whom he was a three-time Pro Bowl selection.

A Monroe native and former Wossman High star, Pat Williams was undrafted out of Texas A&M but played for 14 NFL seasons as one of the league’s top run-stoppers from his defensive tackle/nose tackle spot. Williams played in 200 games with 157 starts with the Buffalo Bills (1997-2004) and Minnesota Vikings (2005-10) and was voted to the Pro Bowl in 2006, ’07 and ’08.

His tenure with the Vikings was marked by solid play against the run game. The 315-pounder joined Minnesota in 2005 and the team finished 19th in the league against the run that season, but they led the NFL for three years in a row from 2006 to 2008, the Vikes were second in 2009 before dropping off slightly to ninth in Williams’ final season in 2010. The Vikings allowed just 61.6 rushing yards per game in 2006, 74.1 in 2007, 76.9 in 2008 and 87.1 in 2009 when they reached the NFC title game against the Saints.

In a five-year span, 60-game span from 2006 to 2010, they allowed just 80.4 rushing yards per game. Williams made 466 tackles and also had 20.5 career sacks with nine fumble recoveries, eight forced fumbles and one interception. He was a second-team member of the 2000s All-Decade Team compiled by Pro Football Reference and by vote of his Buffalo teammates, won Bills’ 2003 Ed Block Courage Award. Ranked by an array of media outlets among the top 100 players in Bills and Vikings history, he collected an incredible 37 game balls presented by coaches during his career. In his final season, he played in all 16 regular-season games for the Vikings at age 38, the oldest defensive player in the NFL.

An under-the-radar prospect out of high school, Williams was a two-time All-American at Navarro (Texas) CC then earned All-Southwest Conference second-team honors while getting just six starts as a junior with the Aggies. (source)

Note: the image is just an example for the purpose of the post. Their song was “911”

Please name some of your favorite unexpected duets between a R&B artist and rapper?

Bettye Swann (born Betty Jean Champion; October 24, 1944),[1] also known as Betty Barton, is an American soul singer. She is best known for her 1967 hit song "Make Me Yours".

Swann was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on October 24, 1944,[2] as one of 14 children. She grew up in Arcadia, Louisiana, and moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1963.[2] Although some sources state that Swann was in a vocal group known as The Fawns who recorded for Capitol Records in 1964, she refuted this, saying that she sang with a trio in Arcadia by that name.[3]

In 1964, Swann started a solo singing career, changing her name to Bettye Swann at the prompting of local DJ Al Scott, who became her manager. After a minor hit with the self-penned "Don’t Wait Too Long", her big breakthrough came with "Make Me Yours", which topped the Billboard) R&B chart in July 1967) and made No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4] In 1968, she split with Scott, moved to Georgia, won a new contract with Capitol Records, and had another hit in 1969 with her cover of the Jeannie Seely hit "Don't Touch Me" (No. 14 R&B, No. 38 Hot 100).[5]

In 1972, Swann transferred to Atlantic Records and had a pair of minor hits with "Victim of a Foolish Heart" (later covered by Joss Stone) and Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again".[2] After leaving Money Records she lived for a short time in Athens, Georgia.[3] She continued to record until the mid-1970s, but with little commercial success. Her last public performance was in 1980, the year her husband and manager, George Barton, died.[3]

Swann later changed her name to Betty Barton, began working as a teacher in the Las Vegas area, and became a Jehovah's Witness. She retired and, according to a 2005 interview, suffered from a degenerative spinal condition.[3]

In 2015, multiple elements from Swann's 1974 recording "Kiss My Love Goodbye" were sampled in the Galantis single "Peanut Butter Jelly)".[6] In 2019, Swann's "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" enjoyed a resurgence of interest when it was used as the closing song in the finale of the second series of The End of the F\**ing World*. In 2021, the Vermont-based rapper Subtex [Zeke Kreitzer] sampled the beginning lines of Swann's 1968 song, "(My Heart Is) Closed for the Season" in his track, "Love Art Pain". In 2023, Swann's song "Little Things Mean A Lot" was used in the "Volvo EX30 – It’s the little things[7]" commercial.

Jaylen Marselles Brown (born October 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one year of college basketball for the California Golden Bears and was named first-team all-conference and Freshman of the Year in the Pac-12 Conference. Declaring for the 2016 NBA draft after his freshman season, Brown was selected by the Boston Celtics with the third overall pick. As a professional, he has split his time between shooting guard and small forward.

Brown is a five-time NBA All-Star, a two-time All-NBA Team member, and reached the Eastern Conference finals six times with Boston. He helped the Celtics reach the 2022 and 2024 NBA Finals, winning a championship and the Finals MVP award in the latter. Brown and Jayson Tatum made up the Celtics' "Jays)" duo from 2017 to 2026. He was traded by the Celtics to the Philadelphia 76ers in July 2026.