While many popstars started at the bottom and worked their way up, others were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Whether it was handed to them or not these stars have made big names for themselves. Following in the footsteps of their successful parents, they’re now the ones in charge of staying in the limelight.
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Redfoo
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Redfoo (née Stefan Kendal Gordy), the LMFAO front man and our favourite Speedo wearing shuffler, was born into the Gordy family in LA. Coming from a very long line of musicians in the R&B and Jazz world, Redfoo’s father, Berry Gordy, made his mark as the founder of Motown, making him the first African-American to own a record label. Redfoo’s fame and fortune has a very different style to that of his father, but tracks like Party Rockers and I’m Sexy and I Know It have earned him and the band worldwide recognition.
Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift, the youngest songwriter ever hired by Sony at the sweet age of 14 (!) did not come from humble beginnings. Taylor was born in Pennsylvania and her father Scott, a financial adviser for Merryl Lynch, has a history of bank presidency going back three generations. This, plus her mother’s financial background, did not manage to sway Taylor’s musical tendencies, she felt certain that a move to Nashville Tennessee was necessary to develop her career in country music. The family put their trust in her and Miss Swift has been pounding out hit after hit ever since proving her idea to be a good one as her fan base continues to flourish while her music continues to encapsulate the experiences of the girl next-door. Her biography is already extensive and über-impressive with Grammy Awards coming out of her ears and a fifth album coming out very soon.
Willow & Jaden Smith
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Willow & Jaden Smith, siblings born to superstar parents Will & Jada Pinket Smith, have been raised with more like diamond spoons in their mouths. These two have had fruitful careers acting in blockbuster movies and launching their own music careers whilst still in their early teens. Their parents provided an alternative attitude to raising them whereby being ‘told off’ was not something they did. Perhaps this assisted in their early successes or maybe it’s just that mummy and daddy knows everyone in the business? Either way, their careers are already booming and they’re both constantly noted in the press for their recent tweets, restaurant choices, appearance, friends and dates (as well as their acting and singing of course).
Miley Cyrus
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Miley Cyrus (née Destiny Hope Cyrus), fortunate daughter of the famous country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, became famous as a teen actor on the Disney channel as Miley Stewart. The sweet, sickly Hannah Montana alter ego has long been drowned in the media attention Miley has deliberately developed over the past few years. She has worked, twerked and jerked the media into a frenzy with her vulgarities, promiscuity and down-right disregard for the eyes of the general public to rid herself of her Disney persona and create a new career path. Whatever her goal she has reached superstardom with her most recent creation of herself, it will be interesting to see what she morphs into in the future.
Robin Thicke
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Robin Thicke was born into a showbiz family with famous actor, TV host & songwriter father Alan Thicke and mother, American singer and actress Gloria Loring for parents he was destined to be in the limelight. He has collaborated with many of the big names in music but attained worldwide fame with the hit Blurred Lines in 2013. For which we owe Miley’s twerking development a lot of credit. Thanks Robin.
Lady Gaga
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Lady Gaga or Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, as her family once knew her, was brought up in an affluent situation on Manhattan’s Upper West Side but claims that her family worked hard to get where they did and originally came from lower class families. Due to their hard work, and her fortunate upbringing, Gaga was given every opportunity to develop her talents going to all the best performing arts schools and mixing with the “right” people to find her path to success. And didn’t she just waltz up that path in a meat dress? Her crazy outfits and appearances sometimes seem to cloud the fact that Gaga is a very talented lady and has achieved a lot in her career to date becoming one of the world’s biggest and, despite her ever-changing appearance, most recognizable stars.
Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett – But Beautiful
Jordin Sparks
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This 6th season winner of American Idol was not unused to fame and fortune growing up as her father, Phillippi Sparks, played defensive back for the New York Giants. Sparks had the luxury of homeschooling in order to focus on her singing. Her privileged upbringing and money spent on her voice training has done her proud with numerous awards behind her; an NAACP Image Award, a BET Award, an American Music Award, a People’s Choice Award and two Teen Choice awards. This, and her record sales, made her not only the youngest winner of American Idol, aged 17, but one of the most successful to date.
Adam Levine
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Lead singer of Maroon 5 had a well healed start to life with wealthy father, Fred Levine, being the founder of US chain store giant M. Frederic. Levine attributes his musical path choice to his mother playing him music from Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel from a young age. After a failed band experience Levine moved to New York and shed his sheltered upbringing for an eye opening street view of Manhattan and got to grips with the R&B and Hip Hop scene. Following some major successes Maroon 5 re-hit and conquered the big time when they released Moves like Jagger which became a monster hit and launched them into major stardom. Levine touched base with his roots recently when launching a fashion line 222 (named after a guitar he designed alongside First Act) in partnership with his father.
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