Top 10 singers facts

Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance. Will Smith is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter. He has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, but never won one. In 1989 Smith, as a part of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, received the first Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance.

Elvis Presley. Presley was introduced to karate by The Army, during his service in Germany. He included some karate moves in his live performances.

Farrokh Bulsara. Mercury was born of Parsi descent in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. He spent most of his childhood in India. At the age of 18, he moved with his family to Middlesex, England.

Robert Allen Zimmerman. Bob Dylan was born as Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941 in a Jewish family in Duluth, Minnesota. He adopted the stage name "Bob Dylan" influenced by poems by Dylan Thomas. In August 1962 he legally changed his name to Robert Dylan.

Bruce Springsteen and Tom hanks have been friends from childhood. They won two Oscars for 'Philadelphia' - Bruce for music, Tom for the role.

He was a truck driver. Elvis Presley began working for the Crown Electric company as a truck driver in 1954. His friend Ronnie Smith suggested he contact Eddie Bond, leader of Smith's professional band, which had an opening for a vocalist. Bond rejected him after a tryout, advising Presley to stick to truck driving "because you're never going to make it as a singer".

Madonna. Having sold more than 300 million records worldwide, Madonna is noted as the best-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records.

A-ha. "Take On Me" is a song by Norwegian synthpop band A-ha, first released in 1984. The self-composed original version was produced by Tony Mansfield, and remixed by John Ratcliff. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.

James Newell Osterberg. Iggy Pop's father, who was of Irish and English descent, was adopted by a Swedish American family and took on their surname (Österberg).

Zanzibar. Freddie Mercury was born in 1946 in Stone Town, Zanzibar - an island off the eastern coast of Africa, belonging to the British Empire at the time. At the age of 18, he moved to London because of the civil war.