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1. Alejandro Fernandez -- Albums
   Alejandro Fernandez has just finished recording his first new CD. The yet to be titled album is scheduled for a September 7th release. Fernandez worked with Grammy winning producer Kike Santander (David Bisbal, Jennifer Lopez, Ricardo Montaner) and popular Mexican producer Aureo Baqueiro (Natalia Lafourcade, Sin Bandera) at the Sony Studios in New York all this month to complete the recording.
2. Rihanna
   Rihanna is a super talented singer from the Barbados (an exotic Caribbean island). She was born on February 20 1988 in St. Michael. She is the first of three children. Her father Ronald was of Irish Barbadian descent and her mother Monica was Guyanese. After finishing school at 2004 (she finished Combermere) her big music adventure started! Just notice that she had already won some talent and beauty contests in her school.
3. Diddy -- Sean John
   Calling it "the future of fashion," Diddy introduces his Sean John clothing line for men and boys. "I always had the idea that I would start my own apparel line," he tells DNR, the men's fashion magazine. "I wanted to make sure the timing was right." In 2004, he expands with a women's line and scent, and is named the year's best menswear designer by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
4. Harvey Weinstein
   One half of the infamous behemoth brother producing team, Harvey Weinstein was born on this day in 1952. While at the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Flushing, Queens native produced concerts with his brother, Bob. It was with the profits from this venture that the boys began Miramax Studios in 1979. Through persistence and bravado, the company went on to become one of the earliest driving forces behind the independent film movement.
5. Avril Lavigne
   Renown singer and songwriter Avril Lavigne was born Avril Ramona Lavigne in Napanee, Ontario, Canada, on September 27, 1984, to Judy and John Lavigne, whom both are French-Canadians. She is the mid child in the family, in which she has an older brother, Matthew and a younger sister, Michelle. During her childhood, Avril grew up singing country music and in a church choir and taught herself to play guitar since 12-years-old. She had ... started to write her own songs, which was written every time she got home and mainly talks about what happened to her that day. Later she explored more of her skills by joining many talent shows and left her hometown when she was 16 years old.
6. Andy Garcia
   Movie star Andy Garcia is a Cuban American leading man known especially for his Oscar-nominated role as Vincent Mancini, the hot-headed nephew from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather:  Part III (1990). Garcia emigrated to the U.S. as a boy; his family fled Cuba in 1961 after that country's takeover by Fidel Castro. After school in Florida, Garcia headed to Hollywood to make it as an actor in the late 1970s. He finally began getting regular work as an actor in the mid-1980s and had memorable roles in the feature films 8 Million Ways to Die (1986, starring Jeff Bridges) and The Untouchables (1987, starring Kevin Costner). He was the lead in 1990's Internal Affairs (opposite Richard Gere) and his appearance in The Godfather made him an international star, and during the 1990s he had a steady career on the big screen. His movies have included Jennifer Eight (1992, with Uma Thurman); When a Man Loves a Woman (1994, with Meg Ryan and Ellen Burstyn); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997); and Desperate Measures (1998, with Michael Keaton).
7. Scarface
   Directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone, "Scarface" is a movie that will not be forgotten. A Cuban refugee named Tony Montana (Pacino) comes to America for the American Dream. Montana then becomes the "king" in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his empire of crime in Miami, Florida. This gangster movie is very violent, and some scenes are unpleasant to watch. This movie has around 180+ F-words and is almost three hours long. This movie is entertaining and you will never get bored. You cheer for the Drug-lord, and in some scenes you find out that Montana isn't as evil as some other Crime Lords.
8. Matt Stone -- South Park
   Along with friend and collaborator Trey Parker, 33-year-old Matt Stone is one of the more terrible enfants in the American comedy mainstream. Swimming against the current of political correctness they created the award-winning animation series South Park in 1997, which was followed by the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut two years later. Other features include the porn industry-set Orgazmo and Cannibal: The Musical. As well as providing the usual chorus of voices for Team America: World Police Stone co-wrote and produced the pic while Parker directed.

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