Céline Dion became renowned for having one of pop's biggest voices, full of emotion and fire on songs that examine all of love's most stirring facets. Dion released her first album at the age of 13, showing off her budding song writing talent and establishing herself as a francophone star in her home province.

The band was founded in 2007 by the two musicians Christian Marquis and Thomas Winters. The band name is composed of letters of the two first names, Christian and Thomas. Marquis and Winters met at their workplace, the LVR-Klinik Düren.

Cascada is a German dance music act founded in 2004 by singer Natalie Horler and DJ Manian and DJ Yanou. They are best known for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", "Evacuate the Dancefloor", and "Miracle".

Masterminded by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, the KLF was the ultimate evolution of the British pair's partnership (they previously worked as the more hip-hop-oriented Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and the Timelords).

Combining swirling psychedelic rock with hardcore hip-hop rhythms, the Shamen were one of the first alternative bands to appeal to dance clubs as much as indie rockers. Comprised of Colin Angus, Peter Stephenson, Keith McKenzie, and Derek McKenzie.

Country outfit Lonestar first came together in Nashville, Tennessee, but the band's name is a tribute to their roots-all five founding members were originally from Texas. "No News", a 1996 single from the group's self-titled debut LP, hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, a feat they've repeated eight times.

LMFAO are an American electronic dance music duo consisting of Stefan Kendal Gordy AKA "Redfoo" and Skyler Austen Gordy AKA "Sky Blu". Redfoo is the youngest son of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy and Nancy Leiviska. Sky Blu is Gordy's grandson and the son of Redfoo's half-brother.

From the streets of Miami to VIP rooms around the world, Pitbull has been one of the biggest pop stars on the planet since the turn of the 21st century, bringing together sounds from all over the globe and packaging them with urgent beats and his forceful, dynamic boasts.

Rotersand is a German electronic music act, formed in September 2002 by musician/producer Rascal Nikov with dance music producer/DJ Krischan Jan-Eric Wesenberg joining them shortly after. Rotersand's music can generally be described as futurepop, industrial pop.

Much like his idol, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson possesses cultural influence that's far-reaching and always evolving. The artist born Brian Warner in 1969 assumed his outrageous persona-the name is a portmanteau of Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson-in the early '90s and formed a band.

In the early '80s, as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was still ringing in headbangers' ears, Sheffield, England's Def Leppard bucked the trend by drizzling honey over hard rock. That audacious gambit sweetened a sound forged in the UK's industrial heartlands.

Sumptuous ambassadors of Philly Soul in the late '60s, The Delfonics sang wistfully romantic ballads kissed with radiant horns and William Hart's delicate falsetto. Hart later worked with vibe-heavy producer Adrian Younge for 2013's late-career triumph under the Delfonics name.

Legendary funk and soul band The Commodores launched the career of Lionel Richie and ruled the charts in the latter half of the '70s. They amassed seven No. 1 R&B hits-two of which also topped the pop charts.

Lionel Richie's genius for crisply soulful pop and broadly inclusive romantic balladry flowed from his unique upbringing. Being born in 1949 Alabama meant being surrounded on all sides by signs of segregation.

Everything about Bon Jovi is huge-the choruses, the sales numbers, the riffs, the arenas-and they earned their place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with explosive tunes that command singalongs.

Formed in 1992, Stereophonics rose up alongside the nascent Britpop movement, but they always seemed to exist just outside that scene. For one, hailing from the small Welsh village where singer/guitarist Kelly Jones and drummer Stuart Cable grew up on the same street.

As Beatlemania was transforming rock 'n' roll from passing teen fad to permanent pop-cultural movement, Paul McCartney (born in Liverpool in 1942) became the driving force behind the band's rapid, dramatic maturation.

One thing you have to remember about The Beatles is that there was no Beatles before The Beatles. No model for a white band that credibly mixed early rock with real R&B. No model for performers who wrote their own material instead of vocalising others'.

Disregard any hyperbole about John Lennon and The Beatles being the most important thing to ever happen to popular music and ask yourself: How many artists can you name whose work has left people so energized and divided more than 40 years after their death?

Appearing on a movie soundtrack can give even established bands a career boost. The soulful Scottish pop band Wet Wet Wet already had two No. 1 singles under their belt-a jaunty 1988 cover of The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" and the 1991 orchestral ballad "Goodnight Girl".

The qualities that make Guns N' Roses so divisive-the public altercations, the controversial outbursts, the scandalous decadence-are also the things that make them so captivating.