The Mashed Up Article

Oprah Winfrey
Jonathan "Jony" Ive
Lady Gaga

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son The man who, after Jobs, is most responsible for Apple's amazing ability to dazzle and delight with its famous products, chose instead to talk about process -- what he called "the craft of design." died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee,He spoke passionately about his small team and how they work together. He spoke about having a deep understanding of how a product is made: its materials, its tooling, its purpose. Mostly, he focused on the need to care deeply about the work. Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Billboard named her both the Artist of the Year in 2010 and the top selling artist of 2010;ranking her as the 73rd Artist of the 2000s decade. No doubt, that's in part because Ive is a reluctant celebrity, and also because of the secrecy that Jobs imposes on all things Apple. Inspired by glam rock artists like David Bowie, Elton John and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, He talked about focusing on only what is important and limiting the number of projects.and Amy Winehouse, Gaga is well-recognized for her outré sense of style in fashion, in performance and in her music videos. Her contributions to the music industry have garnered her numerous achievements including five Grammy Awards, among twelve nominations; two Guinness World Records;and the estimated sale of fifteen million albums and fifty-one million singles worldwide. Apple talks to the outside world on its own terms -- typically at new product launches, such as the well-hyped press event on Sept. 12.

Gaga has been included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as Forbes' list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world. Forbes also placed her at number seven on their annual list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated. Achieving similar worldwide success, By the mid 1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture and promoting controversial self-help aids, she is often praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others.The Fame Monster (2009), its follow-up, produced a further two global chart-topping singles "Bad Romance" and "Telephone" and allowed her to embark on a second global headlining concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, just months after having finished her first, The Fame Ball Tour.

Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album From 2006 to 2008, her support of Barack Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race.The Fame (2008), which was a commercial success and achieved international popularity with the singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". None of this was very glamorous, especially for a famous designer. There was nothing newsy, few concrete details of anything. The album reached number one on the record charts of six countries, accomplished positions within the top-ten worldwide, and topped the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart while simultaneously peaking at number two on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. In fact, Ive wouldn't talk for this story. Neither would others, fearing Apple's ire, including the Royal Society of the Arts in England, which helped give Ive his start 20 years ago. Her second studio album, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream. Born This Way, is scheduled for release on May 23, 2011 after the arrival of its eponymous lead single "Born This Way", which achieved the number-one spot in countries worldwide and was the fastest-selling single in iTunes history, selling one million copies in five days.


References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey
http://www.oprah.com/index.html
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_39/b4002414.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/
http://www.ladygaga.com/news/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga