Ronald Lee Ermey is a retired U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and Golden Globe Award-nominated actor. Ermey has often played the roles of authority figures, such as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine and Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. He has hosted two... read full bio

Ravimohan started his career with ICICI Ltd where he worked in project appraisal, systems designing, credit administration and merchant banking. He was the youngest team member in the project finance department at ICICI. He also worked with Over-the-Counter Exchange of India (OTCEI). He spent 16 years with Crisil, now the India arm of global ratings major Standard & Poor's (S&P).... read full bio

R.C. Owens is a former professional American football wide receiver from 1957 through 1964. Owens graduated from high school in Santa Monica, California and attended the College of Idaho (where his teammate was Elgin Baylor) and played amateur basketball with the Seattle-based Buchan Bakers the year after their national championship. Owens then joined the NFL; he had his best years... read full bio

Rabbi Harold Kushner is a captivating speaker with uplifting messages about life and work that inspire us to get more involved in the world and in our own lives. Sympathetic, anecdotal and commonsensical, Rabbi Harold Kushner work rejuvenates the human spirit, comforts the soul and guides us toward lives and choices that mean something. In his talks and through his... read full bio

Rachelle Ferrell began singing at the age of six, which contributed to the "development of her startling six-and-change octave range." Her range also includes the ability to reach the whistle register, in which she references her whistle note in "It only took a minute" as "Minnie Riperton-like wailing". She received classical training on violin at an early age and by... read full bio

Rae Dawn Chong is known for appearing in the films Quest for Fire (1981), The Color Purple (1985), Choose Me (1984), Beat Street (1984), Commando (1985), Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984), and Far Out Man (1990), in the latter two appearing with her father. She won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading... read full bio

Ralph Macchio first appeared on American television commercials for products such as Bubble Yum and Dr Pepper. His on-screen debut was in the 1980 film Up the Academy and his first major role was playing Jeremy Welsh in the television series Eight Is Enough. In 1983, he appeared as Johnny Cade in The Outsiders alongside many young actors who had... read full bio

Ramsey Lewis's career took off in 1965, with the release of THE IN CROWD, and the subsequent radio hits The In Crowd, Hang On Sloopy, and Wade In The Water. Since then, Ramsey Lewis has been awarded three Grammies and has hosted several radio programs, including his current show on WNUA, and the syndicated Legends of Jazz which is broadcast... read full bio

Randy Bachman is best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s-70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of the band Brave Belt with Chad Allan and a band called Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums.... read full bio

Randy Crawford's initial notoriety came from her fiery vocal on Street Life," a 1979 song matching her with the Crusaders that was included on the soundtrack for Burt Reynolds' film Sharky's Machine. Crawford was lead vocalist in a group that included bassist Bootsy Collins before touring as George Benson's opening act in 1972. She has one of the most readily... read full bio

Randy Houser was born in Jackson, Miss., and raised in Lake, Miss., a small town between Jackson and Meridian. His parents divorced when he was 7, and Houser spent the summers with his father, a professional singer and musician. The rest of the year, he lived with his mother in public housing until his mother remarried, which was followed by... read full bio

A production show recreating the legendary performances of Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra (circa 1960s), utilizing the finest in celebrity impersonators. When you think of Vegas, a few iconic images come to mind. There's the showgirl, in all her finery and rhinestones; or the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada"� sign; or Bugsy Siegel and Howard Hughes,... read full bio

Price's membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame is deserved recognition for a man who has used remarkable resources of talent, will and taste for the betterment of the genre. Well before his recordings evolved from the barroom to the showroom, the versatile Price was making music that borrowed from jazz, blues, pop and rock. His innovative honky-tonk beat,... read full bio

Rebecca Wells, actress, playwright, and author of two New York Times bestsellers, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Her writing, resides in the heart of Louisiana. While many fans assume her work is autobiographical, Rebecca Wells maintains that her stories are just that -- stories. I grew up in the fertile world of story-telling, filled with... read full bio

For fifteen years Reckless Kelly has been doing things their way, bucking the mainstream system and playing by their own rules, straddling the fence between country and rock as if they built it themselves. Throughout the years their old school approach to recording has always adhered to one main objective: make each record better than the last. Their latest effort,... read full bio

RECYCLED PERCUSSION create their unique style of music with just about anything they can get their hands on -- everyday household objects like ladders, buckets, trash cans and even metal grinders! This high-energy group brought every ounce of rock and roll to the America's Got Talent" stage and now want to prove to the world that it doesn't matter where... read full bio

Reggie Watts is a Brooklyn-based comedian and musician. His shows are mostly improvised and consist of stream of consciousness stand-up in various shifting personae, mixed with loop pedal-based a cappella compositions. He performs regularly on television, radio, and in live theater. His comic skills come into play in improvisational performance, as well as performance of written music. Watts also appears... read full bio

Regina Belle burst onto the scene with the jazzy single So Many Tears." She later climbed the charts with hits like "Baby Come To Me" and "Make It Like It Was," Most notable, however, was her four-time Grammy Award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World," the theme song to the Walt Disney's animated feature,... read full bio

Reik is a Mexican band from Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Formed by Jes"s Alberto Navarro Rosas (Lead Vocals), Julio Ramyrez Eguya (Guitar, Backing Vocals), and Gilberto Maryn Espinoza "Bibi" (Backing Guitar, Backing Vocals). Jes"s Navarro and Julio Ramirez started their then-nascent musical project, tentatively called "Reik". Their videos have been broadcasted on famous music television channels, such as MTV... read full bio

Rhett Miller is the lead singer of the alternative country band Old 97's and a successful solo musician. In addition to his nine studio albums with the 97's, most recently The Grand Theatre Volume One and The Grand Theatre Vol. 2 in 2011, he has released four solo albums: 1989's Mythologies, 2002's The Instigator, 2006's The Believer, and 2009's Rhett... read full bio