☆ B.A.T. Artist Profiles ☆

ROUND OF 16 #1


SELENA GOMEZ
Submitted by: MrEuroVoice


Full Name: Selena Marie Gomez

Age: 20 years old

Nationality: American, Mexican and Italian

Career: Actress, singer and fashion designer.

Known songs: Love You Like A Lovesong, Hit The Lights, Who Says, Cruella De Vil, Tell Me Something I Don't Know etc.

She is known for portraying Alex Russo, the protagonist in the Emmy Award-winning television series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently ventured into feature films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She made her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.
Her career has expanded into the music industry; Gomez is the lead singer and founder of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has released three RIAA Gold certified studio albums, Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, and When the Sun Goes Down, spawned three RIAA Platinum certified singles, "Naturally", "Who Says" and "Love You Like a Love Song" and charted four No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs. Gomez has also contributed to the soundtracks of Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Shake It Up after signing a record deal with Hollywood Records.
In 2008, Gomez was designated as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

More information about Selena Gomez here

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DEMI LOVATO
Submitted by: OneDirectionTurkey


Full Name: Demetria Devonne Lovato

Age: 20 years old

Nationality: American, Irish, Italian, English and Mexican.

Career: Singer-songwriter, musician, actress, dancer, spokesperson, television personality.

Known songs: Give Your Heart a Break, Skyscraper, Remember December, Here We Go Again etc.

Lovato's earliest roles included Angela on Barney & Friends before rising to prominence as a starring cast member in the 2008 film Camp Rock. In 2009, Lovato received her own television sitcom, Sonny with a Chance, and was a starring cast member in the film Princess Protection Program.
Lovato's debut studio album, Don't Forget, was released on September 23, 2008. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 selling 89,000 copies in the first week. It has since shipped over 500,000 copies, earning a Gold certification in the United States. Her second album, Here We Go Again, was released on July 21, 2009. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 108,000 copies in the first week. Lovato's third studio album, Unbroken, was released on September 20, 2011 and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200. She is working on her fourth studio album.

More information about Demi Lovato here

ROUND OF 16 #2


ALICIA KEYS
Submitted by: patapucha


Full Name: Alicia Augello Cook

Age: 31 years old

Nationality: African-American, Italian, Scottish and Irish.

Career: Actress, singer-songwriter.

Known songs: Fallin', Empire State of Mind (Part II), No One, If I Ain't Got You, You Don't Know My Name etc.

She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records. Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'". Her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003 and was also another success worldwide, selling eight million copies. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005. Later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, which debuted at number one in the United States. She became the first female to have an MTV Unplugged album to debut at number one and the highest since Nirvana in 1994.

More information about Alicia Keys here

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MANDY CAPRISTO
Submitted by: DimitrisLoveIvi


Full Name: Mandy Grace Capristo

Age: 22 years old

Nationality: German and Italian.

Career: Singer-songwriter, dancer, model.

Known songs: Hurricane, The Way I Like It, Closer etc.

Born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg and raised in Bürstadt, Hessen, she was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions in 2001, when she won Kiddy Contest, a reality television singing competition for teens in Austria, with her song “Ich wünsche mir einen Bankomat”. In the mid to late 2000s, Capristo rose rose to fame as a founding member of the girl band Monrose, the result of the fifth season of the German television talent show Popstars. Until their disbandment in 2011, the trio released four studio albums and eleven singles.

Following the break-up of Monrose, Capristo launched her solo career as a singer. In 2011, she collaborated with singer Peter Maffay on his Tabaluga musical track “Die Zeit hält nur in Träumen an”. In between recording her first solo album Grace (2012), Capristo participated in the fifth season of Let's Dance. Her first solo single, "The Way I Like It", was released in April 2012.

More information about Mandy Capristo here

ROUND OF 16 #4


KE$HA
Submitted by: EurovisionChristian


Full Name: Kesha Rose Sebert

Age: 25

Nationality: American, Hungarian and Polish.

Career: Singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer.

Known songs: Tik Tok, We R Who We R, Die Young, Your Love Is My Drug etc.

Kesha attended Franklin High School and Brentwood High School. In addition to taking songwriting classes, Kesha was also taught how to write songs by Pebe, and they would often write together when she returned home from high school. Kesha began recording demos which Pebe would give to people she knew. Kesha was also in a band with Lagan. Kesha and Pebe co-wrote the song "Stephen" together when Kesha was 16, Kesha then tracked down David Gamson, a producer that she admired, from Scritti Politti who agreed to produce the song. She dropped out of school at 17, after being convinced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin to return to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, and earned her GED after. Around this time, Pebe answered an ad by reality series, The Simple Life, looking for an "eccentric" family to host Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. The episode aired in 2005. Luke and Martin had received one of Kesha's demo from Samantha Cox, senior director of writer/publisher relations at Broadcast Music Incorporated, and were impressed. Two of the demos were described in a cover story for Billboard, the first "a gorgeously sung, self-penned country ballad" and the second "a gobsmackingly awful trip-hop track" where Kesha raps ad lib for a minute when she runs out of lyrics near the end. Dr. Luke stated in an interview for the story that it was the latter track that caught his attention, saying "when you're listening to 100 CDs, that kind of bravado and chutzpah stand out."

More information about Ke$ha here

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MARIAH CAREY
Submitted by: MrGiorgos2012


Full Name: Mariah Carey (same )

Age: 42 years old

Nationality: African-American, Irish and Venezuelan.

Career: Singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, philanthropist.

Known songs: We Belong Together, Without You, Always Be My Baby, Vision of Love, Fantasy, All I Want for Christmas Is You etc.

In a career spanning over two decades, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 1998, she was honored as the world's best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards. Carey was also named the best-selling female artist of the millennium in 2000. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the third best-selling female artist in the United States, with 63.5 million certified albums. With the release of "Touch My Body" (2008), Carey gained her eighteenth number one single in the United States, more than any other solo artist. In 2012, Carey was ranked second on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Women in Music". Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Carey has won five Grammy Awards, 17 World Music Awards, 11 American Music Awards, and 31 Billboard Music Awards. Referred to as the "songbird supreme" by the Guinness World Records, she is famed for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and signature use of the whistle register.

More information about Mariah Carey here

ROUND OF 16 #6


MICHAEL LEARNS TO ROCK
Submitted by: AVSongContest


Band Members: Jascha Richter, Mikkel Lentz and Kåre Wanscher

Ages: Jascha (49), Mikkel (44) and Kåre (43)

Nationality: Danish, American and German. (Jascha Richter was born in New Hampshire, USA but by Danish/German parents.)

Career: Soft rock band, Singer-songwriters.

Known songs: Take Me to Your Heart, Paint My Love, Frostbite, The Actor, That's Why (You Go Away) etc.

Formed in 1988, the band has sold over 11 million records worldwide, mainly in Asia, and in addition, another 6 million or more paid downloads for their single "Take Me To Your Heart" which was awarded "most downloaded single of the year 2006". They have produced eight studio albums as well as many live and greatest hits albums, with their recently released eighth studio album, Scandinavia.

MLTR have won many awards and have earned Gold and Platinum status for their records in many countries, as well as the Gold Preis Award from RSH, Germany and "The Best Performing Act of the Year" at the SEA Grammy Awards in Singapore. The band has attributed its success in Asia to a clean-living image and singing in English as a second language.

During the peak of their popularity in the mid-90's, MLTR have been described by critics to be "as good (if not better) a band as any current big name group out of America or the UK."

More information about Michael Learns to Rock here

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ST. ANNE'S CHOIR
Submitted by: shadowtiger97


Band Member: N/A

Age: N/A

Nationality: Europeans.

Career: Choral singers.

Known songs: N/A

"For he that singeth praise, not only praiseth, but only praiseth with gladness: he that singeth praise, not only singeth, but also loveth him of whom he singeth. In praise, there is the speaking forth of one confessing; in singing, the affection of one loving." St. Augustine of Canterbury. In other words: "He who sings prays twice.".
The musicians at St. Anne's Parish offer different styles of music, from solo to choral. A cantor acts as the Leader of Song, accompanied with voices like: Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass and supported by instruments like by organ, piano, percussion, guitars, bass guitar, percussion brass and strings.

More information about St. Anne's Choir here