Jamai Johannes Loman (born June 30, 1986 in Gouda, the Netherlands) was the winner of the first series of Idols, the Dutch variant on Pop Idol, pop singer and Dutch musical artist. 
In 2003 he entered the Dutch Idols competition. To his surprise, he survived round after round and was voted the winner. At the 2003 World Idol however, he only received 36 points and came in last, with a slashing Jury report. 
Shortly after releasing his third single, Jamai decided to move from the music business to acting and he starred in the musicals Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty), Hello, Dolly! and Jesus Christ Superstar. Currently (January 2007) he is in The Wiz, where he is playing the role of the Wiz and alternating the role of the Scarecrow. Jamai’s management announced that he will be playing the role of Marius Pontmercy in the musical Les Misérables, at London’s West End in the summer of 2007. This however proved to be false, the producers of the show claiming he had auditioned, but was never promised the role.[citation needed] In 2008 Jamai played the role of Marius in the Dutch revival version of Les Misérables, for which he received a John Kraaijkamp Musical Award for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ in a large musical production. In 2009 Jamai is set to play the part of Bobby Strong in the M-Lab production of Urinetown.
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In 1997, Skinner joined the original Broadway cast of Jekyll and Hyde as an ensemble member and understudy for the leads of Emma and Lucy. During previews, Linda Eder, who played Lucy, developed laryngitis, and Skinner sang some of Lucy’s songs from backstage, while Eder acted and sang some songs onstage. Other Broadway credits include “Side Show” (1997), James Joyce’s The Dead (1999; with Christopher Walken), The Full Monty (2001), Dinner at Eight, the Encores! stagings of the Gershwin musical Pardon My English, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and “No Strings”, all at New York City Center, and Broadway Actor’s Fund benefit concert performances of Dreamgirls and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. 
Skinner has appeared Off-Broadway in numerous productions at The WPA Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, and the York Theatre. She has also directed several concerts in the “Broadway By the Year” series at Town Hall, New York City, including “Musicals of 1979” on June 16, 2008. She was also in the American premiere at Carnegie Hall of Jerry Springer: The Opera (with Harvey Keitel) in 2008. 
Skinner’s role as one half of a pair of Siamese twins in Side Show earned her critical acclaim and a Tony Award nomination shared with co-star Alice Ripley. It was the first time in Tony history that two performers were co-nominated as a team for the Best Actress award. Variety noted that “If Ripley and Skinner should win, it would be the first time since 1975 that a pair of actors shared a single Tony. That year John Kani and Winston Ntshona, two South African actors, won a nod for the Athol Fugard double bill “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and “The Island.” (Other joint nominations for the Tony include John Kani and Winston Ntshona who won for best dramatic actor, Sizwe Banzi is Dead in 1975; Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford for Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1966; the children playing the seven Von Trapp children were nominated for best featured actress in a musical in 1960.) 
Nawal Al Zoghbi (born 29 June 1972, Byblos, Lebanon) is a Lebanese singer. Performing in Arabic she has a solid fan base throughout the Arab world and extending into Iran, North America and Europe. Her musical career has spanned over 20 years. Zoghbi believes her success is due to the true emotion she delivers through her voice. She is quoted as saying “whether a voice is big or small, if it lacks emotion it will never succeed”. 
On the 23rd of March 2007, it was announced that Nawal al Zoghbi would be producing her next album with the production company Rotana. Nawal officially joined Rotana at a press conference at the Movenpick in Beirut on the 28th of March, 2007. At a press conference held by LG Global at Dusit Dubai on 25 April 2007, it was announced that Nawal Al Zoghbi will be the face to advertise LG cellular phones which the company will put out in 2007–2008 in the Middle East. The conference was attended by a large crowd from various media, which exceeded a variety of over 100 means of information between written, visual and audible. On 12 June 2007 Nawal released the music video of her song, “Aghla El Habayib” from her album “Yama Alou” which was a continuation to the song “Shou Akhbarak” from the same album and in which she promoted the new LG mobile. On 8 August 2007, Al Zoghbi notably returned to the Carthage Festival after an eight-year absence. 
On 29 May 2009, Nawal released the single, Mona Ainah, which is in the Khaliji dialect. It began airing on radio stations in the Middle East, and was performed first time on the programme Star Academy 6, on the same day. After much problems with Rotana not wanting to air it, Mona Ainah was then released by Melody in October 2009, as a music video directed by Yehya Saade. Al Zoghbi spent her own money to make the video. Nawal left Rotana in October 2009 and signed on with Melody who will produce her next album, while her management was now taken care of by Pascal Mghames. On Mother’s day of 2010 Nawal released “Faw2 Jrouhi” which was considered as a very touching song that related to nawal’s own life with her kids and ex-husband. The song spread so fast and was literally the talk of people and the press. Also during the summer of 2010, Nawal released “Amanah” as a single which was a moderate hit throughout the summer. 
Nawal’s Album “Ma’rafsh Leih” and her Smash Hit Song “Alf W Miye” both got major awards in Lebanon for best album and best song of the year respectively and are considered a big return to popularity for Nawal since the album stayed more than 4 months in the number 1 spot of Virgin mega-stores Physical Album charts in Lebanon, Egypt and UAE. Nawal released her single “Gharibi Hal Denyi” on TV and radios at the same time on the 13th of February 2013. The video for this single debuted on her official YouTube channel and had more than 1 million viewers in just 2 weeks. The song became the number one song in the Official Lebanese top 20 charts on the 3rd of March 2013 proving one more time the popularity and ongoing success of the Golden Star. Nawal released her first Iraqi song “Ghazilni” in May 2013 with a TV performance on the “Arab Idol” prime. The song was well received by fans and music critics and managed to enter the top 10 of most airplay charts in the Arab world. Ghazilni peaked at number 7 in the Official Lebanese top 20 charts on the 9th of June 2013 . 
Egan has appeared in several commercials and did some modelling, but his ability and ambition for acting came out when he performed in the Glen Street productions of Les Misérables and West Side Story. He also appeared in the TV soap Home and Away. He has also been trained in gymnastics at the KICK Performance Group in Sydney. As well as competing in several eisteddfods at an early age, Egan has been able to use his gymnastics skills extensively in the thriller film Crush. 
He moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2006, he appeared in the film adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s novel Eragon. In 2007, he played a small role in the movie Resident Evil: Extinction, the third movie in the Resident Evil series, where he played Mikey, a member of Claire Redfield’s (played by Ali Larter) convoy. In the summer of 2009, he shot the movie Letters to Juliet in Italy, with Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave and Gael García Bernal. The movie has gone on to great success and has become Christopher’s most popular role. 
Egan has been cast as the lead in ABC’s Poe. He plays the character Dorian Gray (“a beautifully charming and devastatingly sexy man with a smile like a switchblade”), opposite Janet Montgomery as Grace Van Helsing, in the ABC pilot series Gothica. 
Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor, who has appeared in feature films such as Coco Before Chanel, Best Laid Plans, Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, and the first two films of the Goal! trilogy. 
Nivola began his acting career while still an undergraduate at Yale, landing the leading role in a Seattle production of Athol Fugard’s Master Harold…and the Boys. After college, Nivola debuted on Broadway in 1995 as the young lover of Helen Mirren in A Month in the Country. The next year he appeared in the 1996 NBC miniseries Danielle Steel’s The Ring and landed his first film role as Joanna Going’s preppy husband in Inventing the Abbotts before being cast as Nicolas Cage’s paranoid sociopath brother in John Woo’s Face/Off (both in 1997). 
Nivola adopted an English accent to play a mystery man from former girlfriend Rachel Weisz’s past in I Want You (1998), directed by Michael Winterbottom. He then appeared in the thriller Best Laid Plans and again as an Englishman inPatricia Rozema’s screen version of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park, both in 1999. He played a rock singer involved with his record producer, played by Frances McDormand, in the film Laurel Canyon. Nivola was one of the faces for theGAP’s 2002 Ads campaign “For Every Generation”. 
Nivola trained hard for the filming of the Goal! trilogy, and has picked up a lot of skill and pace and was commended for his sudden burst of talent by the directors of Goal! 2. In the film Coco avant Chanel, Nivola again played an Englishman and learned to speak French for the role. In 2010, Nivola appeared in the Off-Broadway play A Lie of the Mind, directed by Ethan Hawke at the Theatre Row in New York Cit 
The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2011, Breslin voiced Priscilla, a cactus mouse in the animated comedy Rango,
In December 2011, it was confirmed that she will appear in the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game 
Ray Slijngaard (born Raymond Lothar Slijngaard, June 28, 1971, Amsterdam) is a member of the Dutch techno-dance band, 2 Unlimited, along with vocalist Anita Doth, and producers, Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde. He is sometimes known as Kid Ray. 
He was also famous for his original hairstyle, by keeping the rest of his head shaved, leaving only a few rastas on top of his forehead. In music videos and at concerts, he often showed off his well trained body by wearing open shirts or no shirts at all. After 2 Unlimited broke up in 1996, he turned his attention more to his own record company, called X-Ray Records/Rayvano Productions. The record company was named after his son Rayvano, whose mother is Hortence Gooding. He also released a few singles during 1997 called “3x a Day”, “When It’s My Turn” and “Do You Think I’m Sexy?”, but they were not commercially successful. 
In 1999, he teamed up with rapper Marvin D. to form a new rap-group, called VIP Allstars, which had a minor hit in the summer of 1999 called “Mamacita”. Slijngaard now lives in Germany. In January 2009 he was working on a dance track with Rachel Stevens. It is a cover version of Wendy Moten’s, “Come In Out Of The Rain”. In April he appeared together with his 2 Unlimited partner, Anita, on stage for the first time in thirteen years at the ‘I Love The 90s’ party in Hasselt, Belgium, and later on Queensday in Amsterdam. In 2010 Ray & Anita made a comeback with their newest single “In Da Name Of Love”. The single reached 6th place in the Dutch Top 40. Ray & Anita promised more songs and a new album. 
On April 11, 2009, Slijngaard and Doth reunited to perform together for the first time in 13 years at the I love the 90’s concert in Hasselt, Belgium.Further gigs followed on April 30 at the Radio 538 Queen’s Day concert at Museumplein in Amsterdam, and as support act for Milk Inc at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp on September 25. Following months of speculation, it was confirmed on December 29 that the duo would release a new single together in 2010 called “In Da Name Of Love” as “Ray & Anita”. Jean-Paul DeCoster is thought to have denied permission for them to use the name “2 Unlimited”, as he still owns the rights to the brand. The single “In Da Name Of Love” debuted on the final Tipparade chart of 2009 at number 28. It has reached number 1 at the Dutch Dance Top 30 and number 3 at the Belgium Dance Top 30. It’s a top 5 at the Dutch 100 singles. On January 5, 2010, the world premiere of the new single was broadcasted on Radio 538, accompanied by an exclusive interview with Ray. The premiere was uploaded to YouTube by their label Spinnin’ Records which released the first single. The artist management made YouTube take down any video of the song that had been mislabeled as 2 Unlimited. On January 8, 2010, iTunes officially released the new single on the Dutch site only. It contains the Radio Edit & Extended mixes only. The “In Da Name Of Love” CD single was released officially on the 22nd of January and the video clip was released on 30 January. In 2012 Ray & Anita once again started performing as 2 Unlimited. 
Measha Brueggergosman (born Measha Gosman; June 28, 1977) is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards. Her recordings of both classical and popular music have also received awards. In 2007, Brueggergosman discovered her family’s deep history in Canada and the United States. Her paternal 4xgreat-grandparents were John Gosman and his wife Rose, African Americans who each escaped from slavery in New England colonies during the American Revolution by going to British lines. John was from Connecticut and Rose from Rhode Island. They probably met in New York City, then occupied by the British. The British gave freedom to American slaves who left rebel slaveholders and sought refuge with them. Tens of thousands of slaves, mostly in the South, took advantage of the war’s chaos to escape, so many that the plantations were disrupted in South Carolina and Virginia, especially. 
After the war, the British arranged transport to Nova Scotia for nearly 3500 Black Loyalists from the former Thirteen Colonies. John and Rose Gosman and their five-month-old daughter Fanny, born free in British lines, were recorded in the British embarkation record known as the Book of Negroes. They had passage in 1783 on one of the last ships to leave New York for Nova Scotia. Measha’s 4xgreat-grandparents first lived in Shelburne, but later settled in Fredericton. Brueggergosman learned of her African-American roots on Who Do You Think You Are, a British-based program bought by the CBC. According to Y-DNA genetic testing of her brother, it is likely their direct-line paternal African ancestors came from the Bassa people of Cameroon. 
Suffering a heart condition in June 2009, Brueggergosman took some time off to recover from open heart surgery. She returned to the stage in September 2009 for a performance at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2007, Brueggergosman became the Goodwill Ambassador for the African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF), a charity working for Better Health in Africa. In June of that year she travelled to the war-affected village of Patongo in East Africa to share her voice as a form of musical therapy for children. Brueggergosman described herself after the trip as “never the same” and continues her work with AMREF today. In 2012 Brueggergosman was a judge on the short-lived Canadian reality show Canada’s Got Talent. The show was subsequently cancelled after one season. 
In 2005, Brueggergosman was a soloist in recording William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, which won three Grammy awards, including Best Classical Album. In July 2007 she was a new performer at the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, singing in the ‘Phantom of the Opera’ medley and closing the show with “Ave Maria”. She has also performed in the United States, for instance in the fall of 2009 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, in their performance of Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time. She performed the Olympic Hymn at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Games. During NBC’s broadcast of the opening ceremony, Bob Costas remarked to Matt Lauer, co-host of Today, as the two hosted it about Brueggergosman’s performance of the Olympic Hymn: “That’s a hymn for you, right there,” and laughed. She performed an arrangement of the English sung version of the hymn in English and French to reflect Canada’s official languages. 
Kathryn Felicia Day (born June 28, 1979) is an American actress and writer. She played the character “Vi” on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and acted in movies such as Bring It On Again and June, as well as the Internet musical, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and currently has a recurring role as Charlie on Supernatural. She is the star, writer, and producer of the original web series The Guild, a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also wrote and starred in the Dragon Age web series Dragon Age: Redemption. Day was a member of the board of directors of theInternational Academy of Web Television beginning December 2009 until the end of July 2012. 
Day is the creator, writer, and star of The Guild, a web series which started airing its sixth season in October 2012. The first season was primarily hosted on YouTube where it garnered millions of views. Its second season premiered on Microsoft’s three major video channels Xbox Live, MSN Video and The Zune Marketplace after Microsoft made a deal with The Guild, allowing Day, her cast, and her crew to be paid for their work. Day also created a song and music video called “(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar”, featuring the cast dressed up as their in-game personae. 
The final moments of the music video itself also detailed that the release date for the 3rd season of Day’s The Guild would be August 25, 2009. A second song and Bollywood style video “Game On” was released prior to the premiere of the 4th season ofThe Guild. A third video (their most recent to date) called “I’m the One That’s Cool” features the members of the cast in the guise of an alternative band performing at a local venue, intercut with scenes of the cast as younger versions of their characters experiencing bullying at the hands of “cooler” and more popular kids while at school. 
The Guild has won multiple awards, including the Greenlight Award for Best Original Digital Series Production at the South by Southwest festivals, the YouTube Video Award for Best Series, the Yahoo! Video Award for Best Series, and 2009 Streamy Awards for Best Comedy Web Series, Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series, and Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series. In March 2012, Day announced that she would be launching a premium YouTube channel, “Geek & Sundry,” on April 2. Geek and Sundry took over production of The Guild for Season 6. Day hosts several shows on Geek & Sundry, most notably The Flog, Vaginal Fantasy, Felicia’s Ark, and Co-Optitude. Day is a recurring guest on Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop and is also billed as an executive producer for the series. 
Driscoll’s first role was as Brandon on Young Americans, in 2000, in a recurring role. He also had a recurring role on Dawson’s Creek (2001–2002). In 2004, he appeared on an episode of One Tree Hill. In 2006, he had a starring role on the short-lived NBC series, The Book of Daniel. He also guest starred on Law & Order: Criminal Intent that year. 
Driscoll is best known, however, for his portrayal of “Coop” (Henry Cooper Bradshaw) on the daytime drama Guiding Light. He joined the show in 2004 and played his final scenes in February 2009, when the character died after injuries sustained in a car accident. 
In July 2009, Driscoll made his debut as Chance Chancellor, another scion of an established soap family, on The Young and the Restless. He continued in this role until September 2010, when his character was shot and apparently killed by his half-brother, Ronan. However, it was disclosed to Nina and Philip that Chance was not dead. The character was in the Witness Protection Program. Driscoll returned for several appearances in February 2011 as Chance became a donor for half-brother Ronan’s liver transplant. In May of that year his character rejoined the Army and returned to war in the Middle East on a touching Memorial Day episode, May 30, 2011. In September 2007, he made his New York stage debut in Matt Morillo’s play, Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans with High-Class Issues. 
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