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Joan Jett
By playing pure and simple rock & roll without making an explicit issue of her gender, Joan Jett became a figurehead for several generations of female rockers. Jett's brand of rock & roll is loud and stripped-down, yet with overpowering hooks -- a combination of the Stones' tough, sinewy image and beat, AC/DC chords, and glam rock hooks....

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Former Runaway and her band have been producing punk-edged hard rock since the early 1980s. ~ Rovi

Loretta Lynn
Born during the Depression to a Kentucky coal miner and his wife. Given a $17 guitar by husband Doolittle when she was 18 and taught herself to play, but didn't consider music as a career until years later....

Engelbert Humperdinck
Ultrasmooth balladeer Engelbert Humperdinck was often billed as "the King of Romance," and for millions of fans around the world, he more than lived up to that title. Despite the strange name and the latter-day ads hawking his music on late-night TV, Humperdinck was one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around, a sensitive lyric interpreter with excellent vocal technique and a three-and-a-half-octave vocal range....

Rodney Carrington
Stand-up comedian and comic actor Rodney Carrington grew up in Longview, TX, and attained national exposure via his humorous presence on a number of syndicated morning talk programs. Meanwhile, he constantly toured on the side, thus further broadening his exposure....