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Even she admits it. "singers are a dime a dozen," says Toni Braxton. "And record companies have a dollar." So what makes vocalist Braxton, just 28 years old, so special? Why is her new album, Secrets, only her second, fighting it out for the top slot on the Billboard charts with such heavyweights as thrash-metal veterans Metallica...
Many fathers have such wishes for their little girls, but Jose Manuel's came true. Little Gloria grew up to become Gloria Estefan, the popular singing star, with 45 million albums sold worldwide. Her latest recording, Destiny, is climbing the Billboard charts, and its featured single, Reach, has been designated as the official theme song of the Atlanta Olympics (she will perform it during the closing ceremonies). But singing star or no, Estefan, a 38-year-old mother of two, still has the unused portion of her round-trip ticket from Havana to Miami. Even as she chats, relaxed...
...asked him to join his band; and at 25 he won first prize in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. His subsequent career as a recording artist also met with early success--he is the first musician to have had his first three albums reach No. 1 on Billboard's traditional-jazz chart...
Johnny Mathis, the make-out maestro of MTV? It looked as if it could happen when, almost 39 years after Wonderful! Wonderful! hit the charts, Mathis' new album debuted at 119 on the Billboard 200. Alas, it charted for only a week. Not that Mathis, 60, cares. "Music is like food or sex," he says. "You like...
...distinction between an album and a single, between a 12-inch 33 and a seven-inch 45, blurred. Since all recorded material now came on a standard CD, the special status singles enjoyed was eroded. Sales dipped; artist interest declined. Says Geoff Mayfield, director of charts at Billboard magazine: "For a while rock acts, particularly alternative acts, thought singles weren't cool...