It was hardly predictable when the boy from the Brooklyn projects became the world's first billionaire hip-hop star, Jay-Z. He turned his pain into passion and used the suffering to influence the words and lyrics in his music.

He did not grow up in a palace, yet Prince Rogers Nelson was born with a regal name. Other labels like the Love Symbol and The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, with his famous high-pitched screams would belong to him during his 57 years.

Jennifer Lopez, best known as 'J.Lo', was destined as a "Triple Threat Entertainer" for acting, song, dance. With strong Latin roots and success driven by grit, it's been a crazy ride on the way to the top for the Self-Made star.

It's hard to believe that Beyonce Knowles only came in second place on TV's Star Search show. The precocious child from Houston has broken records including #1 solo artist for four decades along with a powerful female image.

Call him a creative genius or just plain wacky. Either way Alfred Yankovic has carved his own brand of comedic parodies, polka medleys, and original songs for the outcast who never fit in.

Worlds collided as the biggest rivalry in music history between two of the most talented rappers, Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, ended in death as their careers skyrocketed. While there's no question surrounding they both started off as friends, their murders remain unsolved today.

In 1957, when Amy Turner was four years old, her father had to be talked down from a hotel ledge by a priest. The story of his attempted suicide received nationwide press coverage, and he spent months in a psychiatric facility before returning home. From then on, Amy constantly worried about him for reasons she didn't yet fully understand, triggering a pattern of hypervigilance that would plague her into adulthood. In 2010, fifty-five years after...

Jose "Pepin" Almeida is an unlikely hero. He never acted in the movies, never threw the winning pass, never sat in high office. Even his involvement in the event that u-turned his life, the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, failed and became a national embarrassment. He laments, "We were in a helpless and hopeless situation." But Pepin Almeida soon, out of necessity, created his own hope. Denied all tangible things- clothes, family, food, he discovered...

Why marriage? How do you know when you've met the right person? What should you do to prepare for marriage? Are there steps you can take as an older single to find a suitable life-partner? These are questions June addresses as she candidly shares her own struggles and triumphs as an older single and then her adjustment to married life.

2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award Winner National Indie Excellence Award Finalist When most women go through a mid-life crisis, they start a diet, get plastic surgery, or have an affair. My life went to the dogs...and horses...and llamas...and did I mention happy hour with the goats? My urban world came apart, so I took a leap of faith and crash-landed on a dilapidated would-be horse farm on the flat, windy, treeless prairie of Colorado....