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Canadian singer, actress, occasional songwriter and an entrepreneur Celine Dion established herself as a pop teen star with the release of her first album Unison in 1990. The singer, even before her debut album gained international recognition quite before by winning two reality shows Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in 1982 and Eurovision Song Contest in 1988.

During 1990’s, Dion was able to achieve fame world wide after signing contract with Epic Records and released various English albums accompanied with various French albums. This made her the most famous female pop artist worldwide. She was on her height of success in 1999 when she decided to take a temporary retirement from the music world as she wanted to spend some quality time with her family and specially her husband who was diagnosed with cancer.

Although in the year 2002, the singer was back at the top position of pop music and she signed with a theatrical show at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

Dion’s music is usually influenced by various genres including rock, classical, R&B, pop and gospel. Her powerful and technically vocals accompanied with grace in her voice makes her the best selling pop artist of all times.
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The most famous band of the 20th Century was the Beatles. This English band was basically a rock band and was formed in the English city of Liverpool. The members were John Lennon on the vocals and rhythm guitar, Paul McCartney on the vocals as well as the bass guitar, George Harrison on the vocal again and the lead guitar and Ringo Starr on the drums as well as the vocals again.

Now they had a varying genre which started from psychedelic pop to folk rock. They incorporated the elements of classical music in very futuristic and innovative ways. For three years the band performed in local pubs in Liverpool starting from 1960. Now before the four there were two other additions to the band which was Stuart Sutcliffe who was on bass guitar and Pete Best on the drums and at that time Ringo Starr was not there in the band. But after Sutcliffe and Best left the band Starr replaced them.

In 1962 the Beatles had started to gain a lot of popularity in the UK due to the release of their very first single which was called Love Me Do. In the next year, it also managed to gain popularity internationally as well. The band had toured a lot till 1966 and after this they had gone back to recording in the studio.
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