At the Stratford Star Singing Competition in Ontario, a tween
Justin Bieber belts Aretha Franklin's "Respect," dancing
awkwardly, dropping the microphone and playing a mean air sax.
Bet no one in the room knew the Biebz would go off to become one
of the biggest pop sensations just years later.
Lady
Gaga
Before she went "Gaga" and put pop music in its place, Stefani
Germanotta got her start performing on the Lower East Side. Here,
the singer looks more like a Flashdance extra than the "Just
Dance" hit-maker she would become as she plays her original song,
"Hollywood," for anyone who will listen at a NYC rock club.
Chris
Brown
In the last seven years, singer and dancer Chris Brown has gone
from adorable R&B-boy next door to sexy, hit-making
crooner. That's not to say that he didn't have it going on at
the tender age of 13, though, which is when he made the video
for "Whose Girl Is That?
Rihanna
In the days before she got "fan mail from 27 million," sultry
singer Rihanna was just beginning to dabble in vocal
performances. Check out a clip from 2004 of RiRi singing Mariah
Carey's "Hero" at the Miss Combermere Pageant in her native
Barbados. Needless to say, she won the contest that year.
Beyonce
Plenty of stars got their first taste of the spotlight on Ed
McMahon's "Star Search": Britney, Justin, and Beyonce. At the
age of 12, Ms. Knowles brought her pipes and her Houston
hip-hop group Girl's Tyme to living rooms across the country.
And while they didn't win the competition, they won elsewhere
-- Girl's Tyme eventually became Destiny's Child, and we all
know what happened from there
Fergie
Long before Fergie Ferg was added to the Black Eyed Peas'
lineup, Stacy Ferguson was a bleach blonde R&B singer
struggling to make it in an all-girls group called Wild Orchid.
Here's a video the group made in 1997 for a single called "Talk
To Me."
Britney,
Christina and Justin (Mickey Mouse Club)
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