Heather Hunter
The porn star, rapper, writer and artist Heather Hunter was born on October 1st 1969 The Bronx New York As Heather Keisha Hunter.
Heather Hunter meet adult film star Hyapatia Lee at the historic New York nightclub the Latin Quarter, where Hunter was a dancer and Lee talked to Heather Hunter about going into the adult film industry. She did and in 1988 her first film Heather Hunter on fire was released. Heather Hunter says that she filmed the movie on her 18th birthday.
From there Heather Hunter did a few films with vidway but soon she moved to L.A where Heather Hunter signed with Vivid Entertainment. Heather Hunter was Vivid's first Black actress to sign with the company. with Vivid Heather Hunter's career took off and she became one of the most well know porno actress of the 90's.
The interesting thing about Heather Hunter is that she is one of the few adult film start that was able to make a name for themselves outside of porn.
In 1993 Heather Hunter entered the music industry when she released the House music song "I want it all Night long" for Island Records.
Some time after the release of that single Heather Hunter left Island Records and signed with Tommy Boy, but noting came of that. Heather Hunter says that the label didn't know what to do with her, they didn't know if they should push Heather Hunter as and R&B artist or pop star.
In 1998 Heather Hunter became the host of the The Peep Show, a pay-per-view music video/talk show that was originally hosted by Luke Campbell, that ran candid interviews and unedited videos. Heather Hunter hosted the program for 2 years.
During the time web cartoon crazy Heather Hunter had her own Internet toon Bulletproof Diva. The cartoon shorts where collect and released on DVD in 2003 by Urban Box Office.
In 2005 Heather Hunter returned to music when she not only released a rap album under the name Double H called the unexpected, Heather Hunter started her own label Blo Records with her manager Dave Copeland. The video for Heather Hunter's song So Serious was in heavy rotation on BET uncut.
In 2006 Heather Hunter opened her own Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York's DUMBO section called Artcore-NYC, which sales paintings done by Heather Hunter. But Heather Hunter's interested in art started long before the gallery, in high school she majored in design and illustration at the High school of Fashion Industries and as a teen was a graffiti artist bombing the city under the tag Ms. 45
In 2007 Heather Hunter co-wrote the novel Insatiable: The Rise of a Porn Star with Michelle Valentine, that is loosely based on her.
Yaya DaCosta
Model/Actress Yaya DaCosta was born in Harlem, New York on November 15th 1982.
Yaya DaCosta first step on the national stage when she was one of the contestants on the 3rd season of America's Next Top Model and was the runner up to Eva Pigford.
After ANTM Yaya DaCosta signed with the Ford Modeling Agency as well as London and Models 1. a few of the companies Yaya DaCosta included Wal-Mart, Vibe magazine, Marc Bouwe, Venus Clothing, Radioshack, Isaac Mizrahi, Seven Magazine, Essence magazine and many others.
In 2005 Yaya Dacosta started acting. Yaya Dacosta's first acting role was in an episode of Eve.
Some of TV shows and films Yaya Dacosta acted in include Tron Legacy, Ugly Betty, Honeydripper, Take the Lead, The Kids are All Right, All My Children, The Shanghai Hotel, Racing for Time.
Jasika Nicole
Jasika Nicole was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Jasika's full birth name is Jasika Nicole Pruitt.
Jasika Nicole study dance, theater and voice at Catawba College in North Carolina.
Jasika Nicole started acting in 2005 when she landed small roles in not only Law and Order: Criminal Intent the tv show but also the video game based on the show.
From there other films and tv work Jasika Nicole appeared in include Take the Lead, The Return of Jezebel James, The Mastersons of Manhattan, She's out of my League and Fringe.
Besides acting Jasika Nicole is also an artist and puts up comics she has made on her website
currently Jasika Nicole is dating Claire Savage
Jully Black
singer-songwriter Jully Black was born in Jane and Finch section of Toronto Canada on November 8th 1977 with the birth name of Jully Ann Inderia Gordon.
Jully Black started her career in 95. Jully Black guess starred for songs as such artist as Kardinal Offishall and Choclair in the early days of her career she also wrote songs for such artist as Missy Elliot, Sean Paul, Destiny's Child and Nas.
In 98 Jully Black released her first single Rally'n which became a top 40 hit in Canada. From 2000 to 2002 Jully Black released singles that would be a part of her first album I travelled which was released in 2003.
In 2005 Jully Black released her second album This is Me, which even though didn't sell a lot copies was (at least going by reports) an album that was heavily bootlegged online (some estimate that it was down loaded 2.8 million times)
2007 was when Jully Black released the album Revival, which had Jully's first top 10 single Seven day fool. In 2009 Jully Black released the album Black Book.
Besides her music career Jully Black is also a TV host. Jully host CTV's etalk and was part of the cast of Canadian Idol where she short of a mentor/couch to the contestants on the show.
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