Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971 to his mother Alice Faye Williams. She was a black panther at the time and called herself “Afeni Shakur.” Tupac was born in a New York City jail to his mother who was there on 156 counts of bombing charges. Even though she was in jail at the time of Tupac’s birth, Afeni was a paralegal and wanted Tupac to understand the value of a good education. .

Tupac never knew who his father was and as time went on this bothered him.

By the age of fifteen Tupac found himself in Baltimore where he found his new love of rap music. He started writing lyrics and felt more confident about who he was. He started out calling himself MC New York and had a reputation as a tough guy. At age twenty, Tupac had been arrested eight times and served eight months in prison for convictions of sexual abuse.

With the troubles surrounding himself and his family he decided to join the Grammy nominated rap group Digital Underground as a dancer/rapper. After he went on tour with them for one year he released his first solo album in 1991 with “2pacalypse Now.” The album had two very successful tracks which can be found on his greatest hits album with “Trapped” and “Brenda’s Got A Baby.” With the success of his debut album he wanted to show the world that he was not just a rapper and starred in the 1992 film “Juice.”

All of his success came to halt in 1994 when he was arrested for sexual assault charges in New York and later that month was also shot outside of a music studio in New York. After he recovered from his injuries Tupac released “Me Against The World” which was another very successful album.

Continuing on with his success of his 1995 album “Me Against The World,” Tupac released his first album with Death Row Records. The album “All Eyez On Me” debuted at number 1 on Billboard’s album chart. The album went on to sell nine million records and is considered one of the best hip hop albums of all time.

September 7, 1996 Tupac was shot in a drive by shooting after a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas, Nevada. Six days later he was pronounced dead and soon after many questions arose about weather or not he was actually shot.

Two months after his passing, Tupac released another album titled “The Don Killuminati,” under the alias “Makaveli.”

Although he is no longer alive Tupac’s fame is still rising to this day. Since his death he has released numerous albums along with the January 1997 film Gridlock’d.

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Bob Ross was a versatile painter and television anchor from America who was born in the year of 1942 on 29th October. Bob’s place of birth was Daytona Beach in Florida. Before he became famous as a painter, he had a long career in American air force for about 20 years.

His posting was mostly in Alaska and he used to take care of the medical services there. After retiring from the air force services he earned huge fame in all over the world for his paintings and television shows.

Bob Ross had an impressive look, which like his paintings appealed a lot to the audience of television. With his afro hairstyle and his composed, gentle voice added up to his worldwide popularity.

He used to host a television show related to art and the name of the show was The Joy of Painting and it is often considered to be the most popular one among the Americans.

In this show he used to teach the viewers how to paint and the techniques and presentation was impressive enough to make the audience stick to the television screen. There were quite a number of kids who used to take their art lesion from Bob Ross through this particular television show.

Some of the paintings that gained huge fame and still remembered by the audience are “pretty little mountains”, “happy little trees” and “happy little clouds”.

He was a strong believer of the fact that each and every person has an artist hidden inside him who can come out if the person is inspired and taught in a correct way. His shows were dubbed in German and they were broadcasted for the popularity among the audience.

He was quite successful as a painter. In fact he started painting when he was posted in Alaska. He discovered a unique technique of painting, which was acclaimed by the art critics of the United States.

This technique is known as the wet-on-wet technique and it involved special method of applying the wet paint on an existing layer of paint that is absolutely different from the conventional methods. He used to paint the darkest clouds and liveliest trees on paper using the simple 1or 2-inch brushes.

But the most interesting fact about bob Ross is that he never received a professional training of making paintings.

At the same time Bob Ross has got some critical comments from the art critics as well as fellow artists. According to them his paintings run short of detailing which is an indispensable part of a good painting. They also say that the paintings of Bob Ross contained a style, which seems artificial.

In fact he also faced embarrassing situations created by the traditional artists who protested against his modern technique of painting. This great persona passed away in the year of 1995 suffering from lymphoma.

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