The farm girl turned songstress has gone on to a hugely lucrative recording, touring and product endorsement career.

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Back at the start, the petite pop songstress began playing the piano when she was just five years old.

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The Belgian songstress had been one of the favourites to win the overall contest, but fell at the first hurdle.

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The idea behind the site has the long salt-n-pepper haired songstress interpreting verses on a video posted daily to the site.

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Twain made her debut in December at the Colosseum, home to fellow Canadian songstress Celine Dion, shortly after parading down the Las Vegas Strip on horseback.

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After beating out Britney Spears with 5.74 million Twitter followers (and counting), Lady Gaga can add Twitter Queen to a resume that already includes chart-topping songstress.

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One of the most visible belonged to the late songstress Kate Smith ("When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain"), whose 1930s and '40s radio show helped--along with the 1932 Winter Olympics--put Lake Placid on the map.

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Macy Gray and Vanessa Carlton became household names after their respective ballads, "I Try" (No. 22 on the list), and "A Thousand Miles" (No. 24 on the list), but neither songstress has come out with a comparable hit since.

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