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Sunday, 18 September 2016

Ella Eyre (English singer and songwriter)

* Ella Eyre is best known for her collaborations with Rudimental on their UK number one single "Waiting All Night" (2013), which won the 2014 Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and with DJ Fresh on his single "Gravity" (2015). Her debut EP, Deeper, was released in 2013 and her debut album, Feline, was released in 2015. Eyre's musical influences include Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Basement Jaxx and Hans Zimmer.

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BIRTH DATA: Ella Norris McMahon, 1 April 1994, 02:50 (2:50am), London, England (51n30, 0w10). ASC: 3 Capricorn. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her mother Terry Norris on Twitter: "2.50am u were born at" after Eyre tweeted "i was actually born at 3 something am so technically i'm still 21" (posted 12:06am BST, 1 April 2016).

Thursday, 14 July 2016

Mika (British singer and songwriter)

* Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007, which sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped him win a Brit Award—winning Best British Breakthrough act, and earned him a Grammy Award nomination.

In an August 2012 interview with the magazine Instinct, the singer described himself as gay. In previous interviews he inferred he was bisexual.

Mika speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian fluently.

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BIRTH DATA: Michael Holbrook Penniman, Jr, 18 August 1983, 00:01 (12:01 AM) EET (-2), Beirut, Lebanon (33n53, 35e30). ASC: 18 Gemini. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "So cool. Thank you so much for the birthday wishes and the World Wide TT. Was born a few seconds after midnight, so your timing is perfect X" (posted 12:30 AM GMT, 18 Aug 2012), "Thank you so much for all your birthday messages. I'm overwhelmed and very grateful. Yup. I am 30. But am a very lucky man. Thank you. X" (posted 12:36am GMT, 19 Aug 2013), "Why am I alwways overly quized at customs about being born in Beirut and as to weather I visit Yemen and Afganistan regularly. Infuriating!". Previously Paddy de Jabrun quoted the website www.mikafrance.com for 12:05 AM, no source given.

Friday, 15 April 2016

Ariana Grande (American singer and actress)

* Ariana Grande is the first person in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart to have the lead single from each of her first three albums debut in the top 10. She released her debut studio album Yours Truly in 2013, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. The album's lead single, "The Way", reached the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100, with critics comparing her wide vocal range to Mariah Carey's. Grande's second studio album, My Everything (2014), also reached number one in the United States and charted well in various other countries. With the singles "Problem", "Break Free", "Bang Bang" and "Love Me Harder" from that album, she spent 34 continuous weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and had the most top 10 singles of any artist in 2014. In March 2016, she released "Dangerous Woman", the lead single from her upcoming third studio album of the same name. The album is set to be released in May 2016.

Grande's accolades include two American Music Awards, Music Business Association's Breakthrough Artist of the Year, an MTV Video Music Award, two MTV Europe Music Awards and two Grammy Award nominations. Grande has a large following on social media.

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BIRTH DATA: Ariana Grande-Butera, 26 June 1993, 21:16 (9:16pm) EDT (+4), Boca Raton, Florida, USA (26n21, 80w05). ASC: 20 Capricorn. RR: A. SOURCE: Sy Scholfield quotes her father Edward 'Eddie' Butera on Twitter for "9:16pm" after being asked "exactly what time was she born?" Butera also tweeted "Her mother went into labor and we waited long hours for her to arrive, we watched Godfather 1 & 2" and "it went smooth... I cut the chord." Five minutes after he tweeted "9:16pm" a follower posted an image of a baby photo inscribed "Welcome Ariana Grande Butera 6/26/93 9:10PM," prompting another follower to remark, "is this [image] fake then?," to which Butera did not reply. Place given by her father in a tweet, "miss you too. Boca Raton!!!" in reply to Grande's tweet, "homesick again."

Friday, 25 March 2016

Calvin Harris (Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter, record producer, recording artist, remixer)

* Calvin Harris topped Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid DJs for three consecutive years from 2013 to 2015.

His 2009 album, Ready for the Weekend debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and its lead single, "I'm Not Alone", became his first number one on the UK Singles Chart. Harris rose to international prominence in 2012 with the release of his third studio album, 18 Months. Topping the UK charts, the album became his first to chart on the Billboard 200 in the US, reaching number 19.

His collaboration with Rihanna led to two singles, "Where Have You Been" and "We Found Love". The latter became an international success, giving Harris his first US number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.

Harris holds the record for the most top 10 songs from one studio album on the UK Singles Chart with nine top 10 entries, surpassing Michael Jackson. In October 2014, he became the first artist to place three songs simultaneously on the top 10 of Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart. He also became the first British solo artist to reach more than one billion streams on Spotify.

Harris dated British singer Rita Ora from May 2013 to June 2014. In March 2015, Harris started dating American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

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BIRTH DATA: Adam Richard Wiles, 17 January 1984, 17:22 (5:22 PM) GMT (+0), Dumfries, Scotland (55n04, 3w37). ASC: 8 Leo. RR: AA (quoted birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested the data from Caroline Gerard, who quoted birth certificate in an email on 18 March 2016.

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

John Paul Young (Scottish-born Australian pop singer)

* John Paul Young had a 1978 worldwide hit with the single, "Love Is in the Air", which peaked at No. 3 on the Australian charts, No. 7 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and No. 5 in the UK singles chart. The associated album, Love Is in the Air reached the top 40 on the Australian albums chart. European chart success for "Love Is in the Air" included No. 2 in Norway and Sweden, No. 3 in Austria and Germany, No. 5 in Switzerland and No. 9 in the Netherlands. The song peaked at No. 2 in South Africa. As a result of his popularity in Australia he was crowned 'King of Pop' in October 1978.

Baz Luhrmann's internationally successful film Strictly Ballroom (released in 1992) featured a new version of "Love Is in the Air" and Young's single once again peaked at No. 3 on the Australian Singles Charts and became a top 50 hit in the UK. In 2000, he played to his largest audience as a featured performer at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

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BIRTH DATA: John Inglis Young, 21 June 1950, 08:15 (8.15am) BST (-1), Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 4w15). ASC: 9 Leo. RR: AA (birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield requested the data from Caroline Gerard who quotes birth certificate (20 March 2016).