The King and Queen of America was co-written by the singer and activist of which heritage?
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The King and Queen of America "The King and Queen of America" is a song recorded by pop music duo Eurythmics. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart with Jimmy Iovine. The track appears on their album "We Too Are One" and was released as the album's third UK single in January 1990.
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Annie Lennox Ann "Annie" Lennox, (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A. Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. With a total of eight Brit Awards, including Best British Female Artist six times, Lennox has won more than any other female artist. She has also been named the "Brits Champion of Champions".
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Chastity Brown Chastity Brown (born June 1, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and musician based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Critics have dubbed her "a banjo-playing soul-singer" and "a rocking, rolling encyclopedia of roots music."
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Robert Claiborne Robert Watson Claiborne, Jr. (1919–1990) was an American folk singer, labor organizer and writer.
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Bernice King Bernice Albertine King (born March 28, 1963) is an American minister best known as the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was five years old when her father was assassinated. In her adolescence, King chose to work towards becoming a minister after having a breakdown from watching a documentary about her father. King was 17 when she was invited to speak at the United Nations. Twenty years after her father was assassinated, she preached her trial sermon. Inspired by her parents' activism, she was arrested multiple times during her early adulthood.
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Jacqueline Steiner Jacqueline Steiner (born c. 1924) is an American folk singer, songwriter and social activist. Steiner is known for having written the lyrics to the song "M.T.A.", about a man stuck on the Boston subway because he could not pay the exit fare. "M.T.A." was co-written with Bess Lomax Hawes as part of a Boston political campaign in 1949 and later altered slightly by the popular folk group the Kingston Trio, becoming one of their hits in 1959.
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Peter Yarrow Peter Yarrow (born May 31, 1938) is an American singer and songwriter who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's greatest hits, "Puff, the Magic Dragon". He is also a political activist and has supported causes that range from opposition to the Vietnam War to the creation of Operation Respect, an organization that promotes tolerance and civility in schools.
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Aunt Molly Jackson Aunt Molly Jackson (1880 – September 1, 1960) was an influential American folk singer and a union activist. Her full name was Mary Magdalene Garland Stewart Jackson Stamos.
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Yolanda King Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was an American activist and first-born child of civil rights leaders Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was known also for her artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking. Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public and influential activism.
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Chaz Bono Chaz Salvatore Bono (born Chastity Sun Bono, March 4, 1969) is an American advocate, writer, musician and actor. He is the child of American entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher.
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Ofie Kodjoe Ofie Kodjoe is an American Ghanaian singer, actress, radio presenter and motivational speaker.
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Sylvia Mendez Sylvia Mendez (born 1936) is an American civil rights activist of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage.
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Jewel Brown Jewel Brown (born August 30, 1937) is an American jazz and blues singer. She is primarily known for her work in the 1950s and 1960s. Before a retirement period she was part of Louis Armstrong's ensemble. She is currently part of the Heritage Hall Jazz Band.
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Támar Ashley Támar Davis, known professionally as Támar, is an American singer who came to prominence through her association with Prince. She sang the co-lead vocals on his Grammy-nominated song "Beautiful, Loved and Blessed" from his 2006 album, "3121" and on backup vocals throughout the album. Támar started her musical career in the group Girl's Tyme, appearing with them on "Star Search", but left before the group was renamed Destiny's Child. In 2016, she auditioned for season 10 of the American talent competition "The Voice".
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Cissy Houston Emily "Cissy" Houston (née Drinkard; born September 30, 1933) is an American soul and gospel singer. After a successful career singing backup for such artists as Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, Houston embarked on a solo career, winning two Grammy Awards for her work. Houston is the mother of singer Whitney Houston, grandmother of Whitney's daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, aunt of singers Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, and a cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price.
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Joey Stylez Joseph Dale Marlin LaPlante (born May 14, 1981), better known for his stage name Joey Stylez, is a First Nations Canadian singer-songwriter, rapper, hip-hop artist, First Nations activist, fashion designer.
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Johnny Rebel (singer) Clifford Joseph "Pee Wee " Trahan (September 25, 1938 – September 3, 2016), best known as Johnny Rebel and Pee Wee Trahan, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Though he wrote and performed mainstream country and Cajun music under a variety of names, Trahan is notorious for a series of explicitly racist singles in the 1960s using the Johnny Rebel name and recorded for J. D. "Jay" Miller's Reb Rebel label in the 1960s, which feature expressive lyrics.
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Mimi Fariña Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña (April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was a singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a white mother and a Mexican-American physicist, Albert Baez. She was the younger sister of the singer and activist Joan Baez.
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Gwen Guthrie Gwendolyn "Gwen" Guthrie (July 9, 1950 – February 3, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter and pianist, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Peter Tosh, and Madonna, among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King, Angela Bofill and Roberta Flack.
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Bruce Cockburn Bruce Douglas Cockburn {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, environmental issues, politics, and spirituality.
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Bryan Adams Bryan Guy Adams, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 5 November 1959) singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist.
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Anne Stanback Anne Stanback (born 15 December 1958) is an American activist for LGBT rights and marriage equality.