Angela Simmons

Angela Simmons, the American socialite and business woman. She is best known as the daughter of hip-hop legend Rev Run. She is co-owner of her company Pastry Footwear with her sister Vanessa Simmons. She also has a magazine deal with Word Up Magazine called Angela's Rundown. She appears on the MTV reality show Run's House with her family, and its spin-off show Daddy's Girls.

Angela is the daughter of Run DMC member Rev Run. She is the second of Rev's seven children. Her siblings, with whom she appears on Run's House, include Vanessa Simmons, Jojo Simmons, Daniel "Diggy" Simmons, Russell "Russy" Simmons, and Miley Justine Simmons. Her sister, Victoria, died at birth from a birth defect September 26, 2006. She also has other siblings on her mother's side.

Angela has taken part in many business ventures. She began with her own magazine when she teamed up with Word Up Magazine and started Angela's Rundown. She also started her own company, Pastry Footwear, with her sister Vanessa.

She has appeared on Run's House for the past five years and counting. The show surrounds the Simmons family and the struggles of everyday family life. She also appears on her own show and is seen with her sister Vanessa Simmons and their cousin Jessica Brown.

Angela and her sister Vanessa appear on the MTV spin-off of Run's House, Daddy's Girls. Also on the show are Angela and Vanessa's cousin Jess. The show also displays their friends Alicia and Lynn. The girls' Los Angeles location of Pastry can be seen on the show.

Jessica Jarrell

Jessica Jarrell, the American pop-R&B singer. She began to write lyrics and record songs when family friend, Terrance Korran, had connections to several Los Angeles recording studios. She was then signed by David Massey to Mercury Records, which is a part of the Island Def Jam Music Group.

Jarrel was born on January 15, 1995 in Diamond Bar, California. She started modeling when she was four-years-old, and became featured in print campaigns for major brands like K-Mart, American Girl, and Mattel. In 2006, when she was eleven, she auditioned for one part in her school's Christmas play, and ended up getting two parts. Even though Jessica always loved singing she was way too shy! A family friend who had connections to recording studios in Los Angeles encouraged her to try to write her own songs and start singing. Soon she met music producer/writer Toby Gad who saw her talent and helped her write an entire album! Then she was signed to Kite Nyc Records/Mercury Records and so began her exciting singing career! Her very first gig was performing for President Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll in 2009. Talk about starting big! Jessica is also the new face of Pastry,company ran by Angela Simmons and Vanessa Simmons, Jessica also wore the shoes on tour with Justin Bieber to promote the shoe line.

Diana Ross

Diana Ross, the American singer and actress. Ross served as lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film andBroadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her 1972 role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, for which she won a Golden Globe award. She won 8 awards American Music Awards, garnered twelve Grammy Award nominations, and won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, in 1977.With a career total 18 #1 records, Diana Ross is considered the most successful female recording artist of the twentieth century.

In 1976, Billboard magazine named her the "Female Entertainer of the Century." In 1993, theGuinness Book of World Records declared Diana Ross the most successful female music artist in history due to her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any female artist on the chart. Ross is one of the few recording artists to have two stars on theHollywood Walk of Fame—one as a solo artist and the other as a member of The Supremes. In December 2007, she received a John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Honors Award. Diana Ross has sold more than 150 million records worldwide.

After living at 635 Belmont Avenue in Detroit's North End for several years, Ross's family settled on St. Antoine Street in the Brewster-Douglass housing projects on Diana's fourteenth birthday in 1958. Ross aspired to be a fashion designer, and studied design, millinery, pattern-making and seamstress skills while attending Cass Technical High School, a four-year college preparatory magnet school, in downtown Detroit. She was a majorette, on the school's swim team, studied cosmetology in the evenings & modeling(via a loan from former neighbor, William "Smokey" Robinson)on the weekends. In her late teens, Ross worked at Hudson's Department Store where, it was claimed in biographies, that she was the first black employee "allowed outside the kitchen". Ross graduated in January 1962, one semester earlier than her classmates. Ross' parents had a difficult marriage and separated when Ross was still in her teens.

Though Ross had previously appeared in two films while a member of The Supremes, it wasn't until the early 1970s when Berry Gordy began to focus on making Ross an actress. In late 1971, Motown announced that Diana Ross was going to portray jazz icon Billie Holiday in a Motown-produced film loosely based on Holiday's autobiography Lady Sings the Blues (1956) written by Holiday and William Dufty. Some critics ridiculed Ross's casting in the role. Ross and Holiday were considered to be "miles apart" in vocal styling and appearance. Ross immersed herself in Holiday's music and life story; she knew little about Holiday and was not a big fan of jazz in general. Instead of imitating Holiday's voice, Ross focused on Holiday's vocal phrasing.

A month after the Lil Kim incident, authorities at London's Heathrow Airport detained Ross for "assaulting" a female security guard. The singer claimed that she had felt "violated as a woman" by the full-body search to which she was subjected. In retaliation, she was alleged to have touched the female airport security guard in a similar manner. The singer was detained but later released. In December 2002, Ross was arrested in Tucson, Arizona for drunk driving. She pleaded "no contest", and later served a two-day jail sentence near her home inGreenwich, Connecticut. Following the arrest and jail sentence, Ross stayed out of the American public eye during much of the following year. She performed a well-received set at Britain's Prince Charles' Prince's Trust concert, held in London's Hyde Park, in 2002, but would not return to touring until 2004.

Ross was a close friend and longtime mentor of Michael Jackson, with whom she co-starred in the 1978 film version of the Broadway musical, The Wiz (a remake of The Wizard of Oz). After Jackson's sudden death on June 25, 2009, Ross was named in his will as the custodian of his children in the event of the death of his mother, Katherine Jackson. Ross was invited to speak at the memorial held in Los Angeles on Tuesday July 7, 2009, but declined in a letter read by Smokey Robinson at the ceremony. Like Jackson's other close friends,Macaulay Culkin, Elizabeth Taylor, Quincy Jones, and Liza Minnelli, Ross stated that she wanted to grieve in private. Ross dedicated her 2010-11 "More Today Than Yesterday-Greatest Hits" tour to Michael Jackson.

Teala Dunn

Teala Dunn, the American actress, voice actress, singer, and comedienne. She currently has a role in the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet? as Lindsey Kingston-Persons, taking Aleisha Allen's place.

Dunn was born and raised in New Jersey.

Dunn is well known in many households for her recurring role as Juanita on the popularNickelodeon TV show, The Naked Brothers Band, and her voice is familiar because she has been the voice of Tuck the turtle on Wonder Pets since the show premiered in 2006.

Dunn made guest appearances in Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU. On the big screen, she was seen opposite Elle Fanning and Patricia Clarkson in Phoebe in Wonderland, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Dunn also appeared with Felicity Huffman inTransamerica, and can be heard as a bunny in Disney's Enchanted.

Ginuwine

Ginuwine, better known by his stage name Ginuwine, Is an American singer and performer. Signed to Epic Records since the mid-1990s, Ginuwine had released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums and singles, becoming one of R&B's top artists during the 1990s heyday of hip-hop soul.

Ginuwine was born on October 15, 1970 in Washington, D.C. He is named after NBA legend Elgin Baylor, who is also a Washington native. In 1993, he graduated from Forestville High School (now known as Forestville Military Academy) in Forestville, Maryland and later graduated from Prince George's Community College in Largo, Maryland with a paralegal associate's degree. Soon afterward he broke into the music industry.

Ginuwine met Solé in June 1999 and began dating in October 1999. They married on 8 September 2003 in the Caribbean. They live in Georgia and Maryland. They have two daughters together: Story (29 March 01) and Dream Sarae Lumpkin (1 November 02). He has son Elgin Jr (1992) from a previous relationship, as well as three other children. In February 2009 Ginuwine announced he has eight children total with four different women.Solé has daughters De'jan (9 March 1991) and Cypress (9 January 1994) from previous relationships.

Ginuwine recently signed on as a spokesman for the beverage Adult Chocolate Milk, a 40-proof vodka-based version of chocolate milk.

In May 2007, an album entitled I Apologize was released in stores. Although attributed to Ginuwine, the release was an unauthorized album and included only three Ginuwine songs - apparently from stolen masters - and ten songs by other artists. Ginuwine spoke against the unofficial release on both his MySpace page and through YouTube. In 2007, Ginuwine collaborated with Canadian hip-hop artist Belly in the latter's debut solo song "Pressure", which was featured in Belly's debut album the Revolution, released in June 2007.

Ginuwine's sixth album entitled A Man's Thoughts, was released on June 23, 2009. The album was produced by The Underdogs, B Cox, Timbaland, The Runners, Johnta Austin, Oak and Polow Da Don. The album includes guests appearances from Brandy, Missy Elliott, Bun B and Timbaland. Ginuwine formed a group with Tank and Tyrese named TGT. Their first single was a remix of Tank's "Please Don't Go". They were supposed to tour but plans fell apart due to conflicting schedules.

Ginuwine announced on his Myspace Blog on August 21, 2008 that due to label and legal issues, they will not be able to release an official TGT album. Ginuwine is the founder and CEO of LoveSong Incorporated, after completing his contract with 550 Music/Epic. Ginuwine announced on his Myspace blog on August 21, 2008 that he signed a major label deal with Notifi Records/Warner Brothers.

Ginuwine introduced producer MELROG and rapper Young Knight a.k.a. Knightron on the Back 2 Da Basics album. Currently Knightron is working on his own album under Ginuwine's label BAG ENT. Elgin will be released on Valentine's Day 2011.