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    Top Artists of 2011 - Way Before The Fame

    2011 was a great year for music, with new and old favorites leading the charge to the top of the Billboard charts. From fresh-faced ingénues to comeback kids to dance floor superstars, the hits just kept coming. Take a look back and see if you can name these award-winning and top-charting musicians before they were famous that our friends at Snakkle.com dug up. Seems they all had star power long before they ruled the airwaves in 2011.

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    1. Justin Bieber Today: This Canadian singer/songwriter was discovered after posting his own videos on You Tube. It didn’t take long for him to become a worldwide sensation, making young girls swoon and
    2. Nicki Minaj Today: Minaj (born Onika Tanya Maraj) was once just a simple high school girl in Queens NYC like so many others, long before she was named Billboard’s Rising Star of 2011 and was number 7
    3. Katy Perry Today: Hard to believe that Katy Perry (Katheryn Hudson), born to conservative Christian pastors, and who sang and listened exclusively to gospel music until her teens, would turn out to be
    4. Rihanna Today: At number 2 on Billboard’s final list in 2011, this Barbados-born superstar showed that she can hold her own with the likes of the biggest voices out there, belting out Mariah Carey’s H
    5. Adele Today: Even without her signature retro look, there’s no missing the sultry vocals on a young Adele, just 18 when she performed at “Book Slam” – London’s best night of words and music. In 2011,
    6. View the rest of the gallery at Snakkle.com. Lil Wayne photo by Jason G. Bahr/Getty Images; Eminem photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage; Lady Gaga photo by James Devaney/WireImage.

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    1 - 6 of 6
    PrevNext
    1. Justin Bieber Today: This Canadian singer/songwriter was discovered after posting his own videos on You Tube. It didn’t take long for him to become a worldwide sensation, making young girls swoon and
    2. Nicki Minaj Today: Minaj (born Onika Tanya Maraj) was once just a simple high school girl in Queens NYC like so many others, long before she was named Billboard’s Rising Star of 2011 and was number 7
    3. Katy Perry Today: Hard to believe that Katy Perry (Katheryn Hudson), born to conservative Christian pastors, and who sang and listened exclusively to gospel music until her teens, would turn out to be
    4. Rihanna Today: At number 2 on Billboard’s final list in 2011, this Barbados-born superstar showed that she can hold her own with the likes of the biggest voices out there, belting out Mariah Carey’s H
    5. Adele Today: Even without her signature retro look, there’s no missing the sultry vocals on a young Adele, just 18 when she performed at “Book Slam” – London’s best night of words and music. In 2011,
    6. View the rest of the gallery at Snakkle.com. Lil Wayne photo by Jason G. Bahr/Getty Images; Eminem photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage; Lady Gaga photo by James Devaney/WireImage.
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