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Connie Smith is an American country music artist. Active since 1964, Smith is widely considered to be one of the genre's best female vocalists. She... has earned eleven Grammy award nominations, twenty top ten Billboard country singles, and thirty one charting albums, three of which have hit number one. In 2012 Smith became the twelfth solo female vocalist and nineteenth woman to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Despite her success, Smith is often considered of the most underrated vocalists in country music history due to the decision not to pursue super stardom with the non-country general media market like such contemporaries as Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette . Artists such as Parton, George Jones, and Chely Wright have cited Smith as either one of the best vocalists in the music industry or their favorite female artist. Constance June Meador was born in Elkhart, Indiana, the daughter of Hobart and Wilma Meador. Her parents were originally from West Virginia, and when Smith was five months old, the family returned there. They would later move to Dungannon, Ohio.
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Jean Hagen was an American film actress. Hagen was born as Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, Illinois, to Christian Verhagen , a Dutch immigrant,... and his Chicago-born wife, Marie. The family moved to Elkhart, Indiana, when she was 12 and she subsequently graduated from Elkhart High School. She studied drama and worked as a theater usherette before making her Broadway theatre debut in Another Part of the Forest in 1946. Her film debut was as a femme fatale in Adam's Rib in 1949. The Asphalt Jungle provided Hagen with her first starring role beside Sterling Hayden and excellent reviews. She appeared in the film noir Side Street playing a gangster's sincere, but none-too-bright, gun moll. She is arguably best remembered for her comic performance in Singin' in the Rain as the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina Lamont; Hagen received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. By 1953, she had joined the cast of the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy.
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Tracy Ferrie is one of two current bass players of Christian metal band Stryper. He was formerly the bass player for Michael Sweet's solo band and... also a member of the bands Electrik, Sally Steele, Seraiah, Whitecross, Guardian, Rebecca St. James, Plumb, SONICFLOOd and Strange Celebrity. He is from Elkhart, Indiana and a national roller skating champion. Tracy is a Berklee College of Music alumni, and Nashville session bass player. Some of his recording credits are with: Stryper, Plumb, April McLean, Strange Celebrity, Whitecross, Jeff Deyo, Sonia V., Boe Braswell, Kristy Starling, Danielle Bollinger, Paul Alan, and Kimberly Locke.
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Lindsay Mintenko is an Olympic and former World Record holding freestyle swimmer from the United States. She swam for the USA at the 2000 and 2004... Olympics. She held the World Record in the short course 400 Freestyle for 12 years from January 2003 to December 2005. At the 2000 Olympics she was a member of the USA's gold-medal-winning 4×200 m freestyle relay. Four years later, at the 2004 Olympics, she earned gold swimming in the heats of the 4×200 m freestyle relay and silver swimming the heats of the 4×100 m freestyle relay. In 2005, she married Canadian swimmer Mike Mintenko. Lindsay currently works for USA Swimming as the national team managing director. Benko attended the Stanley Clark School, in South Bend, Indiana, for her elementary education. Upon graduating from Stanley Clark, she attended Elkhart Central High School, in Elkhart, Indiana.
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Carrie Newcomer is an American singer and songwriter. Carrie Newcomer was born in Dowagiac, Michigan, and raised in Elkhart, Indiana. She attended... Ball State University, Goshen College and received a B.A. in visual art and education from Purdue University. In the 1980s, Newcomer was a member of the pop-folk group Stone Soup which produced two albums. After leaving Stone Soup, she began a solo career and released her first album called Visions and Dreams. Between 1993-2010, she released twelve additional solo albums on Philo/Rounder. In 2003 Newcomer was awarded a Grammy for her song "I Should Have Known Better" Recorded by Nickel Creek on their Grammy Winning Best Contemporary Folk Album "This Side". In 2007, her album The Geography of Light received the Artist of the Year and Album of the Year awards from Folk Wax Magazine. In 2003 her Album "The Gathering of Spirits" also received the Artist of the Year and Album of the Year awards from Folk Wax Magazine.
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Connie Smith is an American country music artist. Active since 1964, Smith is widely considered to be one of the genre's best female vocalists. She... has earned eleven Grammy award nominations, twenty top ten Billboard country singles, and thirty one charting albums, three of which have hit number one. In 2012 Smith became the twelfth solo female vocalist and nineteenth woman to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Despite her success, Smith is often considered of the most underrated vocalists in country music history due to the decision not to pursue super stardom with the non-country general media market like such contemporaries as Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette . Artists such as Parton, George Jones, and Chely Wright have cited Smith as either one of the best vocalists in the music industry or their favorite female artist. Constance June Meador was born in Elkhart, Indiana, the daughter of Hobart and Wilma Meador. Her parents were originally from West Virginia, and when Smith was five months old, the family returned there. They would later move to Dungannon, Ohio.
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Greg Ladanyi was an American record producer and recording engineer, known for his work with many musicians, including Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon,... Type O Negative, The Church, Anna Vissi, Toto, Fleetwood Mac, Hollywood Undead, Don Henley and Jeff Healey. Ladanyi co-produced the Behind the Mask album with Fleetwood Mac. He also co-produced, engineered and mixed Don Henley's first two solo albums I Can't Stand Still and Building the Perfect Beast. He won a Grammy Award in 1983 in the Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical category for Toto IV by Toto. In 2007, he partnered with Starr Andreeff and Mike Renault to form Maple Jam Music Group. His most recent work involved producing Ligion's new album, External Affairs. He was also the main producer on Anna Vissi's album, Apagorevmeno, which was released on December 9, 2008 in Greece and Cyprus. Ladanyi died in Cyprus on September 29, 2009 after falling 13 feet just 15 minutes before Vissi's performance at Nicosia's GSP Stadium , suffering a fractured skull.
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Lindsay Mintenko is an Olympic and former World Record holding freestyle swimmer from the United States. She swam for the USA at the 2000 and 2004... Olympics. She held the World Record in the short course 400 Freestyle for 12 years from January 2003 to December 2005. At the 2000 Olympics she was a member of the USA's gold-medal-winning 4×200 m freestyle relay. Four years later, at the 2004 Olympics, she earned gold swimming in the heats of the 4×200 m freestyle relay and silver swimming the heats of the 4×100 m freestyle relay. In 2005, she married Canadian swimmer Mike Mintenko. Lindsay currently works for USA Swimming as the national team managing director. Benko attended the Stanley Clark School, in South Bend, Indiana, for her elementary education. Upon graduating from Stanley Clark, she attended Elkhart Central High School, in Elkhart, Indiana.
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