 | | Outasight is the alias of Richard Andrew, a rapper and singer who hails from Yonkers, New York and combines rap, R&B, and rock with occasional crossover appeal. |
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 | | A DJ, producer, and sometimes singer, Australia's Havana Brown began her career in a band called Fishbowl. |
 | | Best known as Austin Moon on the Disney Channel original series Austin & Ally, Ross Lynch is a singer, dancer, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. |
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 | | A unique combination of real life and fiction, the Naked Brothers Band are the project of the Wolff brothers, Nat and Alex, who started a band when they were in preschool. |
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 | | Teen performer Bella Thorne (born Annabella Avery "Bella" Thorne) first gained recognition in the music world for her role on the dance-oriented Disney Channel series Shake It Up. |
 | | As the unspoken leader of the Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas attracted legions of young fans with his fizzy, Disney-approved pop songs. |
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 | | New Zealand-born singer/musician/producer Willy Moon boasted a distinctive sound and look, mixing elements of '50s rock and contemporary hip-hop in his music and a retro, dressed-to-the-nines wardrobe. |
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 | | A nine-piece girl group from South Korea, Girls' Generation -- also known as SNSD or So Nyeo Shi Dae -- was a SM Entertainment creation, to go along with that company's other dance-pop group, the all-boy Super Junior. |
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 | | G-Dragon, born Kwon Ji-yong, is a rapper from Seoul, South Korea who also writes and produces. At the age of 11, he signed to YG Entertainment and, a few years later, joined his label's popular group Big Bang, for which he wrote and produced a significant amount of material. |
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 | | Teen heartthrob Mitchel Musso began his career as an actor, playing Oliver "Smoken" Oken on The Disney Channel's Hannah Montana before adding a music career to his résumé in 2009. |
 | | The size and membership of South Korean R&B combo Big Bang -- the brainchild of the YG Entertainment Group, a management and production outfit -- was determined via an 11-part documentary television series that made its debut in 2006. |
 | | Singer/actress Bridgit Mendler is best known as the star of the Disney Channel series Good Luck Charlie. |
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 | | The emo pop quartet Allstar Weekend was formed in 2007 by Zachary Porter (vocals), Nathan Darmody (guitar), Cameron Quiseng (bass), and Michael Martinez (drums) in San Diego, California, while all four members were still in high school. |
 | | With initials that stand for Best Absolute Perfect, B.A.P is a six-member pop-rap group from South Korea. |
 | | Crafting a pop-meets-hip-hop sound they call "swag-pop," Karmin is the project of singer/rapper Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan. |
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 | | Born in Brooklyn in 1989, Corbin Bleu began acting and modeling as a toddler, appearing in commercials and print ads for the likes of Hasbro, Nabisco, Gap, and Target. |
 | | Victorious premiered in 2010 as Nickelodeon’s answer to Hannah Montana and High School Musical, two Disney Channel franchises that amassed a large audience thanks to their combination of teen-oriented plot lines and music performances. |
 | | In April 2010, 12-year-old Greyson Chance performed Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” at a middle-school talent show, accompanying himself on the piano while his sixth grade classmates watched. |
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 | | Born Choi Dong-Wook on November 9, 1984, South Korean pop singer Se7en was part of the YG Entertainment stable of artists, and was widely popular in Asia. |
 | | Cher Lloyd came to notice as a contestant on series seven of Simon Cowell's U.K. talent program The X Factor. |
 | | Like the Naked Brothers Band, Big Time Rush is both a pop band and a Nickelodeon TV series. Launched in 2009, the show followed the fictional lives of four high school friends as they move to Los Angeles, sign a record deal, and become a chart-topping boy band. |
 | | Teen performer China McClain is known for her work on family comedy Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Disney Channel series A. |
 | | A singer/songwriter with a bent toward contemporary soul and pop, Andy Grammer is the son of children's music artist Red Grammer. |
 | | Best known as Troy Bolton, the captain of the basketball team who discovers a passion for singing in the Disney Channel movie High School Musical, Zac Efron has been an actor and singer since childhood. |
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