BIOGRAPHY

Read exclusive biographies and discover fascinating stories about your favorite icons, musicians, authors, and historical figures.

Squanto
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Squanto

Squanto, also known as Tisquantum, was a Native American of the Patuxet tribe who acted as an interpreter and guide to the Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth during their first winter in the New World.

Ice Spice
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Ice Spice

Ice Spice is a Grammy-nominated rapper known for the songs “Munch,” “Princess Diana,” and “Karma.”

Andre the Giant
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Andre the Giant

Andre the Giant’s outsized appearance helped him become a superstar wrestler and a movie star in ‘The Princess Bride,’ but the hormonal disorder that caused his gigantism also contributed to his early death.

Crystal Gayle
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Crystal Gayle

Crystal Gayle is a Grammy-winning American country music artist known for such songs as “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” and “Talking in Your Sleep.”

Jackie Wilson
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Jackie Wilson

Jackie Wilson was a dynamic and powerful soul performer during the 1950s and ’60s who successfully crossed over from rhythm and blues to pop music.

Colin Kaepernick
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Colin Kaepernick

NFL player Colin Kaepernick was quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers from 2011 to 2016 and began protesting racial injustice by refusing to stand for the national anthem.

Lorenzo Nichols
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Lorenzo Nichols

Lorenzo Nichols was one of the top drug lords in New York City in the 1980s. He is currently serving time in a New York State corrections facility.

Audie Murphy
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Audie Murphy

The most decorated U.S. soldier of World War II, Audie Murphy returned home a hero and became an actor, starring in his own story, ‘To Hell and Back.’

Mahalia Jackson
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Albert Einstein

20th-century recording artist Mahalia Jackson, known as the Queen of Gospel, is revered as one of the greatest musical figures in U.S. history.