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...English and moved them to San Francisco. After graduating from a California public high school, CoCo returned to Asia. Though she lacked formal training in Chinese-language singing (she speaks Cantonese at home), she won second place in Hong Kong's annual New Talent Singing Contest. A minor Taiwan label gave her a recording contract and, after a fast course in Mandarin (the lingua franca of the recording industry in Taiwan, China and smaller markets in Singapore and Malaysia), she recorded a song that became a hit in Taiwan's karaoke bars. Within six months she had churned...
...English. Her first internationally released CD came out last year, but it flopped in the U.S. Regardless, industry types believe CoCo has a fighting chance. "She has matured incredibly in the five years I've known her," says Alan Yavasis, vice president of marketing in Asia for Sony, her label since 1995. "She's more focused on what she wants and what she wants to accomplish." One project will combine rhythm and blues with Chinese-influenced vocals and instruments. "At first people said, 'You're a dreamer, there's no way you could become an international singer,'" CoCo says...
...Naomi Campbell from Berlin. The collection was well-received, and she set up her own company. Two years later when the French house of Chloé rang and asked if she'd succeed Karl Lagerfeld as designer, she replied with a resounding yes and gave up her own label. McCartney, famous for tight jeans and sexy tops ("She's the Diane Von Furstenburg of our generation," said designer Jeremy Scott), dramatically increased sales at Chloé. Now, at age 30, she's ready to launch the Stella McCartney label again - this time with a little help from her friends...
...revival of his fashion house used to design uniforms for the Japanese license partner! But under Nicolas Ghesquière's direction, the brand has become super hot. When Ghesquière told Gucci Group that he'd rather continue designing for Balenciaga than launch his own label, they bought the house...
...painfully aware) that the typical pop album is generally quite disposable. Sorry to tell you, kids, but 'N Sync didn't get on the radio every four minutes because of talent. Record companies buy their way onto airwaves by threatening to ban stations from playing any songs under the label--that is, you can't play our other top 40 hits if song X is not played Y times every day until consumer Z couldn't get it out of his head with an electric chair. To some extent, our music tastes are chosen...