The Beat. The Beatstalkers. The Beatles. Putting the word “beat” in your band’s name is not exactly a new idea. But Miranda Zipse thought that calling her soul-punk group Miranda and the Beat just made sense.
“We originally started out as a duo,” explains the singer-guitarist in a phone interview. “It was just me and a drummer,” childhood friend Kim Sollecito. “So it was just a very literal reason why we said ‘Miranda and the Beat. Read More...
The youngest child of Theresa (née Volmar, deceased 2008) and notable businessman and philanthropist Eugene Lang (1919-2017), Lang was born in New York City. While Lang’s father was Jewish, his mother was a Catholic of German and Irish ancestry.
Jews from Russia and Hungary were the emigrants that made up Lang’s paternal grandparents. His two older siblings are David, a former executive of REFAC, the business their father founded in 1952, and Jane, an attorney, and activist. Read More...
Melissa Viviane Jefferson, popularly known by her stage name as Lizzo is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and flutist.
She was born on April 27, 1988 (age 33 years), in Detroit, Michigan to her parents Michael Jefferson and Shari Johnson-Jefferson.
After a few years in Detroit, she later moved to Houston, Texas, where she began performing before moving to Minneapolis, where she began her recording career in hip hop music. Read More...