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Pharrell Williams
Musician
Pharrell Williams
Musician
As half of the production duo known as the Neptunes, he has helped everyone from Britney Spears to the Hives land on the charts.
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Gregg Gillis
Mashup artist
The ex-biomedical engineer, also known as Girl Talk, layers unlicensed song samples and "performs" them live, with his laptop center stage.
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Alexandra Patsavas
Owner, Chop Shop Music Supervision
She has a gift for matching the right song to the right scene in some of TV's most popular shows.
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Tim Westergren
Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, Pandora
An award-winning composer, an accomplished musician, and a record producer, Westergren founded the Music Genome Music Project, a technology that uses over 400 attributes to describe songs and a complex mathematical algorithm to organize them and launched it with Pandora in January 2000. Nine years later, it's the world's favorite Internet and mobile radio station, with the best built-in system for music discovery ever.
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DeAndre "Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way
rapper/producer
The 18-year-old Web wunderkind took a crazy song and dance, and propelled it via YouTube and MySpace fame into an Interscope recording contract and platinum record sales. And to prove he was no one-hit wonder, he returned with a chart topping sophomore set. Now he's branched out into a live-action animation series and an endorsement deal with Yums footwear and fashions. Next up: a video game for Xbox 360, and acting.
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