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Whoa really? I was taking a wild guess because of the HBO stuff. I’ll post a new one in a minute. That’s awesome.

Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as [REDACTED], is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and dancer.

Pitbull?

Peter Gene Hernandez was born on October 8, 1985,[1] in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot, and was raised in the Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu.

His father is of half Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish descent (from Ukraine and Hungary), and is originally from Brooklyn, New York. His mother emigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii as a child, and was of Filipino, and some Spanish, ancestry. His parents met while performing in a show in which his mother was a hula dancer and his father played percussion.

Bruno Mars!

------- has described her family as being "dirt poor." ------'s father paid the doctor who helped deliver her with a bag of cornmeal.

------ was brought up in the Church of God (), the church her grandfather, Jake Robert Owens, pastored. Her earliest public performances were in the church, beginning at age six. At seven, she started playing a homemade guitar. When she was eight years old, her uncle bought her first real guitar.

In honor of.... wild guess here...

Aretha Franklin!

... she initially was pitched as a bubblegum pop singer. She released a string of singles, but the only one that charted, "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby," did not crack the Billboard Hot 100.

Katy Perry!

She has composed over 3,000 songs...

She is also one of the few to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards.

Diane Warren!

Diane Warrick? Edit: lol

Barbra Streisand?

------ was a co-owner of Sandollar Productions, with Sandy Gallin, her former manager. A film-and-television-production company, it produced the Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature); the television series Babes (1990–91) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003); and the feature films Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride: Part II (1995) Straight Talk (1992) [], and Sabrina (1995), among other shows.

All-inclusive sales of singles, albums, collaboration records, compilation usage, and paid digital downloads during ------'s career have reportedly topped 100 million records around the world.

------ has earned nine Grammy Awards (including her 2011 Lifetime Achievement Grammy) and a total of 46 Grammy Award nominations

Since the mid-1980s, ------ has supported many charitable efforts, particularly in the area of literacy, primarily through her [] Foundation. Her literacy program, [redacted], mails one book per month to each enrolled child from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten. Currently, over 1600 local communities provide the [books] to almost 850,000 children each month across the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia. In 2018, ------ was honored by the Library of Congress on account of the "charity sending out its 100 millionth book.

Ohhhhhh Dolly.
It was the literacy part that got me

Yep. Dolly Parton