Laufey

Laufey (1999 -     )

Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician;

classically trained as a cellist, her recording success

is based in jazz-inspired pop.

Mary Berg

Mary Berg (1989 -     )

Canadian television host, author and cook;

first woman to win MasterChef Canada (2016);

current host of daytime lifestyle talk show

on Canadian TV, The Good Stuff with Mary Berg.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Meshell Ndegeocello (1968 -     )

American singer-songwriter, poet, and bassist;

critically acclaimed throughout her musical career,

she has won three Grammy Awards;

her chosen surname means "free like a bird" in Swahili.

Alice Walker

Alice Walker (1944 -    )

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist;

she is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,

awarded in 1982 for her novel The Color Purple;

a noted activist in a wide variety of causes, she is occasionally criticized

for controversial or unpopular views.

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Hazel Scott

Hazel Scott (1920 - 1981)

Trinidadian-American jazz and classical pianist and singer;

a child prodigy, she was trained at Julliard and

enjoyed an active and successful jazz career

throughout the 1930s and 1940s;

in 1950, she became the first black American to host her own TV show;

an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation,

she was blacklisted during 1950s McCarthyism and

lived as an ex-pat in France for 10 years;

although she continued to perform occasionally in Europe

and in the United States, her career never recovered

and her talent fell into obscurity;

now being rediscovered via PBS's 2025 American Masters

documentary entitled The Disappearance of Miss Scott.

Dame Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren (1945 -     )

English actor of stage and screen;

her illustrious career has seen her star to great acclaim

in innumerable movies, television series, and plays;

the only performer to have achieved both the

American Triple Crown of Acting (an Academy Award,

an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award) and

the British Triple Crown of Acting (a British Academy Film Award,

British Academy Television Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award).