Celebrity X no. 19

Hey!! Guess what?? It’s time for another Celebritx X issue.. Hahahah, you never saw this one coming, now did you?? Yeah, right.. lol.. Ok, as I said, here’s another Celebrity X issue. This one is a kind of sad as we all felt a loss when he deceased.. He was born in Houston, Texas, the second child of Patricia, a choreographer, dance instructor, and dancer, and Jesse, an engineering draftsman. He was one of the greatest acting icons of Hollywood, he died of cancer at the age of 57, and he danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with his role in the movie “Ghost”. If you don’t know by now, haven’t watched television or rented a movie in the last 20 years.. Ok, run to your local video store, NOW, but first get inside the post to reveal who it is so you’d know what movies to rent..

Patrick Swayze "Sexiest Man Alive" 1991

Yes!! It’s Patrick Swayze, an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. As George Clooney was in 2006, Patrick Swayze was named “The Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine in 1991. Swayze’s breakthrough role came with his performance as a dance instructor Johnny Castle in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing”. He was also known for his role in the film “Ghost”(which was nominated for multiple Academy Awards) where he played the role of Demi Moore’s husband who was killed by a thief and became a ghost. He also co-starred in “Waking Up in Reno”, with Billy Bob Thornton and Charlize Theron, and in “Forever Lulu”, with Melanie Griffith.

Celebrity X no. 18

Today’s Celebrity X issue is a bit harder to guess then the previous ones.. I guess that you’re not even sure if it’s a boy or a girl ’cause of the hair and all. lol Well yeah, if I didn’t know who it is I’d probably be wondering too. Ok, it’s a boy.. and I’ll give you a few hints that will get that doubt right out of your head.. His father was a truck driver and a drummer and he died of cancer when his son was only 10 years old. He was born in Oakland, California and was raised in Rodeo, California. His interest in music started at a young age. As a teenager he originally was into metal music, but got into punk after hearing the Sex Pistols song “Holidays in the Sun”. He was the youngest of six children and he wrote the song “Wake Me Up When September Ends” as a memorial for his father. If you don’t know who it is by now by now.. Well, you really should.. lol. Ok His last name is Armstrong and he is the front man of a punk band that has a certain color it’s name.. The hexadecimal value of this colour is #0F7D19. Hahahah, lol, I’m sure that one helped!! Ok, just get inside the post and find out the answer..

Billie Joe Armstrong

Yes!!! It’s Billie Joe Armstrong, he is born on February 17, 1972 and he is the lead vocalist, chief songwriter and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. Greeeeen (#0F7D19), lol. Ok enough with my stupid jokes. In 1987, Billie Joe formed a band “Sweet Children” with his childhood friend Mike Dirnt(also on guitar), John Kiffmeyer(Al Sobrante) on drums and Sean Hughes on bass. The next year Hughes left the band and Dirnt switched to bass so they became a tree peace band. They changed the name of the band to “Green day” in April 1989, supposedly “green” was their color of choice ’cause of their fondness of marijuana. This band produced lots af big hits some of which are “When I Come Around”, “Basket Case” and “Jesus of Suburbia”.

Celebrity X no. 16

Hey!! It’s time for another celebrity X issue!! It’s time to introduce some fresh content in the Celebrity X section of Celebritiestan.com I’ll brag for a moment and say that we’ve gathered some great pictures of celebrities when they were young and from their earliest childhood. Have you noticed that we’ve implemented facebook connect to celebritiestan.com. Now you can leave comments on “Celebrities Then and Now” and publish them to your facebook account so your friends can see what you’re watching and you can share your oppinions with them. OK, enough with the bragging… hehCan you guess todays celebrity X?? I’ll give you some hints.. It’s a she…. lol, like you can’t see that for yourself. Ok, she was born on September 4, 1981. Her father is a successful record manager(Mathew) and her mother is a costume designer and hair stylist(Tina). She was born and raised in Houston, Texas where she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. She achieved fame and success singing in a R&B girl-group from which she later on left and started her solo career. Her first solo hit was “Work It Out” which she wrote for the sountrack of “Austin Powers Goldmember”. Any ideas now?? Well if that wasn’t enough, enter the post and reveal her identity..

Beyonce Knowles

Hahahah, did you see this coming?? Sure, you did.. I think I gave you more then enough info on her. Yes, you guessed it!! It’s Beyonce!! Her full name is Beyoncé Giselle Knowles but she is reffered to as only Beyonce. Beyonce Knowles started her singing career in a R&B girl group “Destiny’s Child” which produced a lot of great hits such as “No, No, No”, “Jumpin’ Jumpin’” and “Say My Name”. Her latest album is “I Am… Sasha Fierce”, her third studio album, from which the song “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” got her nine nominations and ond video of the year award on “2009 MTV Video Music Awards”.

Celebrity X No. 15

I hope that you like our new category called Celebrity Timeline where we present you a life of a celebrity in four pictures. If you are interested, follow this link to the first issue of mentioned category. As soon as possible, when we turn to dedicated server, we will introduce you new exciting categories, as well as standalone galleries of various celebrities for those who keep to that old one “picture is worth a thousand words”.

Today we prepared one of the most popular male singers from one of the Spanish speaking countries. I am not even going to tell you from which country this celebrity is from, because it would be too easy to guess who is today’s Celebrity X. When I say that this singer is from Spanish speaking area, I am sure that you instantly narrowed the choice to few persons. Once young kid, as you can see him on the picture, became famous as a member of one Latin boy band, and later started his solo career in 1991. In over three decades of his singing career, until these days, he has sold more than 55 million albums worldwide. Today he is considered to be a major star in the world of Latin Pop and is considered to have opened the doors for some of his fellow Latin American singers. I don`t want to make it too easy to guess who is our Celebrity X, so now is the time to answer that question, and then to check out if you were right here. And be sure to check the answer by double-clicking on the “+/- Show Answer” link inside the post.


I hope that you didn`t have the answer after the first hint cause it just wouldn’t be fun ! For those who are still wondering about who are we talking about, his name is Enrique Martin Morales. That is his real name, but he is much more known by his stage name. No, he is not Enrique Iglesias, as you could presume according to his name. His stage name is Ricky Martin, and he is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award winning, most famous Puerto Rican pop singer.He was born on December 24, 1971, in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico and grew up in a Catholic home. According to his Catholic upbringing, he was an altar boy and went to Catholic school until he joined Latin boy band Menudo. After several years as a major star in Spanish speaking countries, Ricky Martin prepared his first English in 1999. It`s first and most prominent single was “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” which reached number one in many countries, and earned him a status of worldwide celebrity. You will soon be able to read more about Ricky`s breakthrough in his Celebrities Then and now article where all rare facts about his childhood and less known theater and soap opera acting, as well as Spanish singing era will be revealed. Until then, you can browse for other famous singers in Celebrities Then And Now category, or try our “Next random celebrity” button right down, and see which celebrity is going to pop out next.

Celebrity X No. 13

Like in the previous Celebrity X issue, today we are presenting you another popular American singer. To be more precise, this celebrity became famous pop and R&B singer and songwriter. She was born in Staten Island, New York, although when her parents divorced, mother took her and her younger sister to their grandmother’s home in Rochester, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside of Pittsburgh. For that reason she has spent the majority of her childhood in Pennsylvania. Celebrity from the picture aspired to be a singer from her very young age. At that time, she was known locally as “the little girl with the big voice”, singing in local talent shows and competitions. According to some sources, her brilliant talent provoked fear in all of her competitors. Whenever competitors heard that they would be up against her in any given competition week, they would immediately withdraw. She was so good that soon her peers became jealous of her and would frequently subject her to ridicule. Jealousy even escalated with acts of vandalism around her house including the slashing of the tires on the family car and similar acts. Eventually, the family relocated to Wexford, another suburb in the Pittsburgh area. At least, this time they tried to keep her talent in secrecy to avoid further inconveniences.

She first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel’s television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994. I hope that until now you have a clue about the possible name of this celebrity, so it is time to find out who are we talking about this time. Be sure to double-click the “+/- Show Answer” link below this text to reveal the answer!!

After her performances at MMC, at the age of fourteen, she recorded her first song, called “All I Wanna Do”, duet with Japanese singer Keizo Nakanishi, which became a huge hit. Soon later, she signed to RCA Records after recording “Reflection”, a song on the soundtrack of the popular 1998 animated film “Mulan”. At that point she became popular across the globe, when she released her debut album, which name is also an answer to this Celebrity X issue. The album, which was a commercial success spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 is called “Christina Aguilera”, and our young celebrity from the picture is Christina María Aguilera.

Come back soon and read more great facts about her amazing life and see her rare childhood pictures at CelebritiesTAN.com. And in the meantime, check out the story about Britney Spears, her fellow from The Mickey Mouse Club. At that time Britney was her best friend, but later their relationship became complicated, varying from good friends to eternal rivals. You can also try to guess other famous celebrities from our older issues of Celebrity X category. Good luck!!

Celebrity X No. 12

You have probably noticed that in the last few days interval between publishing of new posts is greater than usual. The reason is that we are trying our best to migrate the website to more secure dedicated server, which is really time consuming. In next week or two everything should be done, so please be patient a little bit more. When we finish, site should be more interactive and useful for every visitor. I hope that you liked the article about Jennifer Aniston´s life and gallery with her rare childhood pictures. When we turn to Wordpress, we are planning to upload larger number of interesting celebrity pictures in separated galleries, because we are not going to be limited with space any more. I am glad that CelebritiesTAN.com is slowly becoming central place for all of you interested in famous celebrities when they were young, and their way to fame. We are going to continue improving this site to be the most comprehensive and accurate base containing mentioned information and pictures of celebrities on the Internet. I would just like to hear a little bit more feedback from you. Don´t be a shamed and feel free to comment articles or tell us everything what is on your mind.

We have another famous celebrity featured in today Celebrity X issue. It shouldn´t be hard to guess who is the person from the picture. I could say one single fact which would instantly reveal who she is, but I am not going to make it so easy. Lets just say that she is a singer, that she comes from Michigan, and that today she is in her golden middle ages. Through the years, you have heard her numerous hits for thousands of times, so it´s the time to remember her name now. Be sure to double-click on the “+/- Show Answer” link right below this text to reveal the answer. You have be inside the post

If I mentioned that she is the most famous and succesfull pop icon of all time, or that her nickname is “Queen of pop”, I presume that you would instantly think about Madonna Louise Ciccone. Even the Guinness Book of World Records confirms that statement with listing her as the world’s most successful female recording artist of all time and the top-earning female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of unbelievable amount of US$490 million, having sold over 200 million records worldwide. There is so much things to say about Madonna, from her childhood days in Rochester Hills, Michigan, through her beginnings to most interesting moments of her excellent career. Maybe you learned until now that all these themes are usually covered in our Celebrities Then And Now category, so check back soon to read her issue, and until then shorten the waiting with our selection of other famous celebrities from same category. Enjoy!

Celebrity X No. 8

I am constantly trying to improve CelebritiesTAN to become your favorite site where you`ll return each day and find out exciting facts about your favorite celebrities. As you can see for yourself, lot of changes happened in last few weeks, like completely new look and feel of the site. I also added new features like Celebrity X quiz, in the menu on the right side, and new interesting categories are coming soon. I hope that you also share my curiosity about their childhood and their way to success. Given that I prefer some celebrities more than others, I would like to hear about your interests so I can write more about them.

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Today I prepared Celebrity X issue which is really interesting, and I can bet that you`ll never find out who it is from just looking at the picture. The kid on the picture looks so hilarious that you could think that it’s some famous country star`s son, or something like that. But when you look at the answer, you`ll surprise how famous this celebrity is today. I’ll give you some clues: He was born on January 31, 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee. He became one of the most famous pop singers today, and he sold his first two solo albums in over 18 million copies worldwide. He came to fame as a lead singer in one of the most popular 90`s boy band. Few years ago he was the first victim of Ashton Kutcher’s Punk’d show, where he was duped into thinking his home was repossessed for back taxes. It was so funny that I watched Punk`d regularly since that scene which became one of most known scenes and a real classic of this great show.

His breakthrough in show business was when he started singing in ‘N Sync boy band and he latercontinued with impressive solo career. Maybe you guessed that we are talking about Justin Timberlake, talented all-in-one miracle: pop singer, songwriter, actor and dancer. But did you know that his first attempts at a singing career were country music songs on Star Search as “Justin Randall”? You`ll find out more about this and lot of other facts in his Celebrities Then And Now category really soon.
And I almost forgot: if you still didn`t see it, you can watch his Punk`d scene here!

This is really awesome overview of her childhood and young age through high school and NYC Professional Performing Arts School.

Here you can also see some pictures which are already posted in our Celebrity Then And Now category. Beside interesting pictures and all kind of facts about her you can also watch few Youtube galleries in our recent Britney Spears post. I would like to thank author, because it is pretty rare to see so detailed and exhaustive gallery of Britney Spears pictures on one place. I think that you will especially like how galleries are edited and commented. Enjoy!
Britney Spears growing up, Part 1 (6 months old – 8 years old)

Britney Spears growing up, Part 2 (8 years old – 11 years old)

Britney Spears growing up, Part 3 (11 years old – 15 years old)

Britney Spears growing up, Part 4 (15 years old – 17 years old)

Britney Spears growing up, Part 5 (17 years old – 19 years old)

Britney Spears growing up, Part 6 (19 years old – 21 years old)

It seems that the latest stop on Britney Spears‘ Circus tour featured a little bit too much smoke, and probably not enough mirrors. Britney has issued an apology to all ticket holders of last night’s Vancouver show after smoky conditions on stage led to a 30 minute delay of the concert. Delay occurred just after three songs when Spears walked off the stage without any explanation, leaving the angry crowd to sit and wait in the dark arena.

An announcer finally explained that building was awfully smoky, so conditions became uncomfortable and unsafe for the performers, including Ms. Spears. Official persons also claimed that smoke was believed to be from cigarettes, not marijuana, like it was initially said.

“We want to apologize to all the fans who attended our Vancouver show tonight for the brief pause in Britney’s set,” reads a statement on Spears’ blog. “Crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue.”

It seems that new problems are always waiting for Britney. Next Celebrity Then And Now post is going to be online really soon, with rare handpicked pictures and facts from its childhood. Come back and see who is going to be next, and in the meantime you can watch juicy pictures and read interesting things about Britney´s life before success here, or choose some another featured celebrity. You can also try out our new feature called Celebrity X and guess who it is, according to image from that celebrities early childhood and few basic facts.