Music Trivia | 100 facts & trivia about famous singers (part 1)

Music industry is one of the most influencial industries in the world and of course famous singers are considered by many people as idols.

But how many things do we know about some of the most famous singers around the world? Well, we are about learn some really interesting facts about some of the most famous male & female singers!

1. Selena is an only child and was born in Grand Prairie. Texas on July 22, 1992.
2. Selena’s favorite color is green.
3. She had two failed TV pilots.
4. After being discovered by Disney Channel scouts in 2004, Gomez guest-starred in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody then had a recurring role alongside Miley Cyrus on Hannah Montana.
5. After that, she filmed two spin-off pilots that were never picked up before landing the role of Alex Russo on Wizards of Waverly Place. The third time’s a charm!
6. Gomez was raised mainly by her mom, former stage actress Mandy Dawn Teefey. The talented star says she decided she wanted to become an actress after watching Teefey get ready for stage performances.
7. Selena’s full name is Selena Marie Gomez.
8. The former Disney star was named after Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla Perez, who was shot and killed in 1995. Gomez grew up listening to Selena’s music and her father even took her to the late star’s memorial statue in Texas.
9. The budding star also liked Jennifer Lopez’s portrayal of Selena in the 1997 biopic. After watching it at the age of 5, Gomez apparently asked her mom for a rhinestone corset!
10. Gomez launched her first fragrance, Selena, in 2012. She said: “I describe it as yummy. It’s romantic. It’s not over-bearing. Simple! My mom legitimately likes it.” The actress also carefully picked out the tall bottle and its funky top.
11. At 7 years old, Selena Gomez spent her days with Barney, the big purple dinosaur.
12. That’s also where she met Demi Lovato, her then best friend.
13. Some of her nicknames include Sel, Selly, Selenita, and Conchita.
14. Gomez launched Dream Out Loud by Selena Gomez in 2010. She insisted on using eco-friendly materials.
15. Her name “Selena” means Moon in Greek.
16. She has said she was bullied a lot in elementary and middle school. In an interview, she said, “It makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and go the other way.”
17. Selena Gomez is mother to six rescue dogs! Her collection includes Willie, Wallace, Fina, Chip, Chazz, and Baylor. She actually adopted Baylor, an adorable husky mix, while on a trip to Canada with Bieber.
18. Selena Gomez dated Nick Jonas in 2008, not long after he and Miley Cyrus broke up. This created some tension between the gals, if you believe the rumors. Gomez and Jonas lasted about a year before going their separate ways, and reportedly reunited briefly in 2010. Then Justin Bieber came along.
19. Selena Gomez just might have something in common with Snooki. She loves pickles! The starlet said in a past interview that she’d like to invent pickle-flavored chewing gum.
20. After a long-time relationship, they eventually broke up.
21. And her heart got really hurt since not a long time later he married Hailey Baldwin (now Bieber).
22. Rumor has it that she wrote “Lose you to love me” for their relationship.
23. She has mentioned many times, that this relationship was toxic for her.
24. She has a rare, yet bad disease named lupus.
25. She had a kidney transplant.
26. Singer and actress Demi Lovato was born on August 20, 1992, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
27. Lovato’s mother, Dianna Lovato, was a former country music recording artist and Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader.
28. Demi was bullied as a kid at school and as a result, asked her mom to be homeschooled after seventh grade.
29. She received her high school diploma through home-schooling in 2009, a year before her anticipated graduation date.
30. Her full name is Demetria Devonne Lovato.
31. Later, she auditioned for Disney’s Camp Rock and Sonny With A Chance on the same day and got both parts.
32. Demi Lovato was the star of her own Disney Channel television show called Sonny with a Chance. She started this show in 2009, filming 16 episodes for the first season.
33. Demi was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico August 20, 1992, but raised in Dallas Texas.
34. Demi’s half-sister, Madison De La Garza, is famous too; she’s best known for being on Desperate Housewives as the daughter of Eva Longoria’s character Gabi.
35. She also has a younger sister, Dallas Lovato.
36. She is 5′ 3½” (1.61 m) tall.
37. She is part of Mexican, Irish, Italian, and English.
38. She knows how to play the piano and guitar.
39. In 2008, Lovato covered the Academy Award-nominated song, “That’s How You Know” from Enchanted on the DisneyMania 6 album.
40. Demi’s mom, Dianna Hart De La Gaza, is a former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and country music singer.
41. Lovato didn’t have things handed to her. It took Lovato two tryouts at Disney before she was cast inAs the Bell Rings, according to the Wall Street Journal.
42. Her role model is Kelly Clarkson.
43. She’s got “Stay Strong” tattooed on her wrist which helps her stay positive.
44. She started singing at a young age. The first time was at a kindergarten talent show where she sang “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion.
45. The bullying she suffered as a young teen, she has admitted that she developed emotional problems and an eating disorder. This happened midway through touring with The Jonas Brothers, causing her to pull out and see help in 2010.
46. Demi has a tattoo on her right side which says “You Make Me Beautiful”.
47. She was the 2000-2001 Mini Miss Texas.
48. The first concert she ever went to see was by Carlos Santana.
49. In 2011, she said she has bipolar disorder.
50. Demi began acting at age 7 and met her long-time friend Selena Gomez on the set of Barney & Friends.
51. In 2012, she won a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Pop Artist.
52. She is allergic to cats, some dogs, and pine trees.
53. Her favorite colors are black and red.
54. She can quote every line from the movies Mean Girls and Girl, Interrupted.
55. She loves heavy metal music.
56. In 2012, she became the new ambassador for Secret’s “Mean Stinks” campaign, encouraging girls to “gang up for good” to end bullying in schools.
57. She was best friends with Nick Jonas for many years.
58. But she wasn’t invited to his wedding, which probably hurt her feelings.
59. According, to rumors Nick didn’t want Demi’s drama with her rehabilitation to backlash his wedding.
60. She and Selena Gomez were best friends but for a long time aren’t, which is why she was surprised when she congratulated her for her emotional Grammys 2020 performance.
61. She also sang the National Anthem in the 2020 Superbowl, which is a big deal. And she did it more than once
62. She was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania.
63. The exact time she was born is 5.17 a.m.
64. Taylor was born with the name “Taylor Alison Swift”.
65. She was named after James Taylor.
66. Taylor Swift is so successful that she has won 11 American Music Awards, 7 Grammy Awards, and 6 Country Music Association Awards.
67. In the 2019 AMAs, she was awarded as the “artist of the decade”.
68. A few months later she had her own documentary on Netflix named “Miss Americana”.
69. But before “Miss Americana” there was huge drama with her former agents, as they didn’t allow her to perform and use her older hits neither in the documentary nor on the stage of the AMAs where she had to perform.
70. She is terrified of snakes and spiders.
71. Her favorite food is cheesecake.
72. Her first hobby was English horse riding and she competed in horse shows.
73. Taylor is the first country singer to win an MTV Video Music Award. Her video “You Belong with Me” won the Best Female Video award in 2009.
74. At the age of 11, she won a local talent competition by singing a rendition of LeAnn Rimes’s “Big Deal”.
75. She spent her childhood on an 11 acre Christmas tree farm.
76. It is normal that er favorite holiday is Christmas.
77. Her hair color is blond, her eyes are blue in color and her measurements are 34-25-35 inches or 75-62-77 cm.
78. The first song that she ever wrote was “Lucky You”
79. Taylor is the youngest songwriter to be hired by Sony/ATV Music publishing house.
80. The six things that are always in her refrigerator are eggs, thinly sliced ham and chicken, orange juice, diet coke, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, and binge food like cookie dough or a tube of cinnamon rolls.
81. She has won a national poetry contest with her poem titled “Monster in My Closet”.
82. Her favorite seasons are winter and summer.
83. She has appeared in the film Valentine’s Day (2010) and also in one episode of CSI in 2000.
84. Taylor is obsessed with Disney movies and everything about Disney.
85. Taylor is the youngest artist in history to win a Grammy Award for Album of the year in 2010. She was only 20 years old at that time.
86. Her favorite color is Tiffany Blue.
87. She had a cameo in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).
88. Her favorite book is The Hunger Games and To Kill a Mockingbird
89. She loves mystery books. Her favorites are “Murder on the Orient Express” and “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie.
90. She contributed two songs to the movie The Hunger Games (2012). The songs are “Safe & Sound” and “Eyes Open”.
91. Taylor is afraid of death. She is afraid of not having happy endings.
92. Her brother Austin Swift is a freelance photographer, and he also helped photograph her Fearless Tour.
93. Her lead single “Love Story” released in 2008 became the 2nd best selling country single of all time.
94. Taylor became the youngest sole writer and singer of a no.1 country song through her single “Our Song”.Her album “Fearless” is the most awarded album in the history of country music. The album is certified six-times platinum.
95. Taylor is the top-selling digital artist in history.
96. Taylor admits that she is an extremely clumsy person and jokes that her parents always make fun of her because she spills everything.
97. She wrote 9 of the 16 songs in her fourth studio album “Red”. The other 7 songs in the album she co-wrote it with Max Martin, Ed Sheeran, Gary Lightbody, Dan Wilson, and Liz Rose.
98. One of her dreams is to be on the Ellen show.
99. She says Shania Twain is her greatest influence
100. But she is also “devoted” to Britney Spears.