Keb’ Mo’ started his musical career playing the steel drums and upright bass in a calypso band. He moved on to play in a variety of blues and backup bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He first started recording in the early 1970s with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach through an R&B group. Creach hired him when Moore was just twenty-one years old; Moore appeared on four of Creach’s albums: Filthy!, Playing My Fiddle for You, I’m the Fiddle Man and Rock Father.

Around that time Moore was also a staff writer for A&M Records, and arranged demos for Almo – Irving music. Keb’ Mo’s early debut, Rainmaker, was released on Chocolate City Records, a subsidiary of Casablanca Records, in 1980. He was further immersed in the blues with his long stint in the Whodunit Band, headed by Bobby “Blue” Bland producer Monk Higgins. Moore jammed with Albert Collins and Big Joe Turner and emerged as an inheritor of a guarded tradition and as a genuine original.

He continued to be active in the recording industry, forming the group The Highwaymen with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson. Jennings released his last solo studio album in 1998. In 2001, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

The program seeks to discover the best singer in the country through a series of nationwide auditions. The outcomes of the later stages of this competition are determined by public voting by phone.

Jerry Darnell Stackhouse was born on November 5, 1974 in Kinston, NC, to George and Minnie Stackhouse. He grew up the youngest of 11 children (seven brothers and four sisters.) It’s no wonder that Jerry became so athletic as he spent his childhood trying to keep pace with his seven half-brothers. Athletic talent runs deep in Jerry’s family. Jerry’s older brother, Thomas Dawson, was a basketball star at Lenoir Community College in Kinston, NC during the 1970′s. At one point during his tenure at LCC, he led the nation in scoring, averaging better than thirty-five points per game. “And that’s before they had the three-point line,” he boasts. When Craig Dawson, Thomas’s son (Jerry’s nephew), was a star at Wake Forest University. From the time Jerry could dribble a basketball, he tried to imitate his seven older brothers. “You try to do what they can do,” Jerry said. “Then, you try to outdo them.”

Jerry traces his ambition and unflinching intensity to his upbringing. His father, George, never missed his 4 a.m. shift as a sanitation-truck driver in Kinston. Even today, while he battles diabetes and has a millionaire for a son, George refuses to let anyone else chop his firewood or mow his lawn. Jerry’s mom, Minnie, is a minister and worked for years as a short-order cook at the Surf & Turf Restaurant in Kinston. Jerry put in some time washing dishes at Surf & Turf during high school. He also briefly worked at a tobacco warehouse, suckering tobacco. “Jerry worked about three hours and barely made it through one row of tobacco before he decided that he had to try something else,” says George.

Jerry was very athletic growing up, playing baseball and football in addition to basketball. In 1987, he won a baseball championship. “I hit so many homeruns, that they stopped pitching to me,” claims Jerry. Jerry earned an MVP award as a quarterback of the football team at Savannah Middle School. “I played quarterback because I was the best we had, but if I had played in high school, I would have been a wide receiver,” says Jerry. “I could catch anything. I didn’t play in high school but I went to every game, home and away.”

The sport that Jerry did play in high school was basketball. He became a legend as he scored a total of 2,039 in only three seasons at Kinston High School. His highest scoring game of 43 points came against Wilson High School. “My mom raised us to have confidence in what we did and to show respect for our opponents no matter what sport we were playing,” says Stack. He averaged an amazing 29.8 points, 13.7 rebounds and 4.8 assists during his junior year! Overwhelmed by college recruiters, overzealous reporters and jealous classmates, he decided to play his senior season at Oak Hill Academy in quiet Mouth of Wilson, Va.

“Some of my friends had given up on school. “I just didn’t want to be coerced into trying some of those things. A couple of my friends dropped out of school and were selling drugs and trying to come up with fast money. I felt it could really jeopardize what I wanted to do,” says Jerry about leaving Kinston for Oak Hill.

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter and musician.

After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band. A roots rocker with a classic raspy, shouting voice, Seger was first inspired by Little Richard and Elvis Presley. He wrote and recorded songs that dealt with blue-collar themes. Seger has recorded many rock and roll hits, including “Night Moves”, “We’ve Got Tonight”, “Like a Rock” and also co-wrote the Eagles number one hit “Heartache Tonight.” His iconic signature song “Old Time Rock and Roll” was named one of the Songs of the Century in 2001. With a career spanning five decades, Seger continues to perform and record today.

Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

He died on June 10, 2004 of hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) at his home in Beverly Hills, California, surrounded by family and friends. His body was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.