American R&B singer–songwriter and actress

Maxine Jones

Maxine Jones is an American singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman, best known as a founding member of the R&B-pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. She sang lead vocals on the group's signature singles "My Lovin' " and "Don't Let Go (Love)", both of which garnered international success and sold over a million copies. Throughout her career, Jones has sold over 20 million records with En Vogue. Her work has earned her several awards and nominations, including two American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, four MTV Video Music Awards, and four Soul Train Music Awards.

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1962

January 16

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1960s

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378 General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
550 Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.

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The world in 1962

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april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

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Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Brian Azzarello 1962– American author Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Denis O'Hare 1962– American actor and singer Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor

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