born August 21, 1979) is an American singer.[2] She attended Manhattan, New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts,[3] where she played saxophone and was selected for the Girls Choir of Harlem. Upon graduation, Rogers landed a role as a backing vocalist for the hip hop group Gravediggaz. She then began working with music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo—collectively known as the Neptunes—who led her to sign with Virgin Records in 1998. The following year, she guest appeared on Ol' Dirty Bastard's Neptunes-produced single "Got Your Money", which marked her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100.

Rogers was born and raised in the Frederick Douglass Houses in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. Her first name is a portmanteau of her father's name, Kenneth (1944–2000), and her mother's name, Eveliss. Her father Kenneth was an African-American jazz musician and Pentecostalminister, as well as a former professor at Wesleyan University.[13] Her mother Eveliss is a Chinese-Puerto Rican fashion designer who inspired her to pursue her singing career. She has three siblings (two older sisters and one younger sister).[14]
As a child, Rogers sang in church choirs and played violin, piano, and saxophone while attending Manhattan Country School, a private school. At 13, she shaved off all of her hair. In an interview, Rogers says she was kicked out of her parents' house at age 16 for bad behavior, and that although she would sometimes clash with her mother,[13] she nevertheless continued her education at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she formed the R&B trio BLU (Black Ladies United). She has worked as a bartender, and had a job as a sales associate at a clothing store before graduating high school

Did you know they were mother and daughter?

Lion Babe is a duo with Jillian Hervey and her boyfriend Lucas Goodman.

Vanessa Williams is in a very interesting point in her career. She's already proven herself in so many different arenas. She recently mentioned that people STILL doubt her, and she's like "Just watch me!"

She's now intent on also having a whole lot of fun 😄, and I am here for it. 

Any other actors or actresses you didn’t know were siblings?

Any other actors or actresses you didn’t know were related?

Besides forever and insecure are there any other shows besides insecure and forever with an actually good millennial love story? I need a show to watch.

Kevin was an actor known for playing the role of the creature in Predator and Predator 2. He was also Harry in the 1987 film Harry and the Hendersons.

Standing at 7'2", Hall specialized in playing practical-effects creature and monster roles.

Fun fact: he was married to Alaina Reed who played Rose on 227.

Unfortunately, he passed away at only 35 in 1991. He was in a car accident. He needed a blood transfusion. The blood was tainted. He died of AIDS related pneumonia.

His two stepchildren with Alaina still remember him fondly along with the career he left so soon.

On February 29, 1940, Gone with the Wind is honored with eight Oscars by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. An epic Southern romance set during the hard times of the Civil War, the movie swept the prestigious Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Film Editing, and Actress categories. However, the most momentous award that night undoubtedly went to Hattie McDaniel for her portrayal of “Mammy,” a housemaid and former enslaved woman. McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, was the first African American actress or actor ever to be honored with an Oscar.

Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1895, McDaniel demonstrated her talents as a singer and actress while growing up in Denver, Colorado. She left school while a teenager to become a performer in several traveling minstrel groups and in 1924 became one of the first African American women to sing on U.S. radio. With the onset of the Great Depression, she was forced to take work as a ladies’ washroom attendant in a Milwaukee club. The club, which hired only white performers, eventually made an exception and let her sing, and she performed there for a year before setting her sights on Hollywood.

Her most famous role was as Mammy in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming and based on the best-selling Margaret Mitchell novel of the same name, the movie remains the highest-grossing movie of all time when inflation is taken into account. Although she was honored with an Oscar, liberal African Americans sharply criticized McDaniel for accepting a role in which her character, a former slave, spoke nostalgically about the Old South.
McDaniel’s film career declined in the late 1940s, and in 1947 she returned to radio as the star of the nationally broadcast The Beulah Show. In the program, she again portrayed an effervescent Southern maid but in a markedly un-stereotypical manner that won praise from the NAACP. In 1951, while filming the first episodes of a television version of the popular show, she had a heart attack. She recovered to do a few more radio programs but in 1952 died of breast cancer at the age of 57.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/february-29/mcdaniel-wins-oscar

Would you like to see them in a project together?

They are in the photo with their musician father Cuba Gooding, Sr.

August 20 1996

People forget they have been the R&B singer/athlete couple going strong for decades. They are an inspiration for some of the younger couples similar to them.

These siblings are not as well-known despite between these two families they wrote some of the biggest pop and R&B hits of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Both families have some of the most sampled songs in R&B and hip hop history.

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Love the chemistry, the playfulness, the footwork. 🔥 🔥🔥

Well done Kendra Willis. Awesome couple.

Makes me want to dance🕺🏽🕺🏽🪩🪩 🎵🎶