American R&B and soul singer-songwriter and actress

Syleena Johnson

Syleena Johnson is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter and actress. She is best known for her guest appearance on Kanye West's 2004 single "All Falls Down", which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. She signed with Jive Records to release three albums: Chapter 1: Love, Pain & Forgiveness (2001), Chapter 2: The Voice (2002), and Chapter 3: The Flesh (2005), each of which received critical acclaim and modest commercial reception. She returned to work with West for his tenth album, Donda (2021), where she performed on the spoken-word song "Donda Chant".

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1976

September 2

Died

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1970s

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The world in 1976

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april 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
april 11 The Apple I is created.
april 13 The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
april 13 Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

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Adolph Rupp 1901–1977 American basketball player and coach (born 1901) Andreas Embirikos 1901–1975 Greek poet and photographer (born 1901) Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Bill Shankly 1913–1981 Scottish footballer and manager (died 1981) Billy Preston 1946–2006 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946) Cleveland Amory 1917–1998 American author and activist (born 1917) Frederick Soddy 1877–1956 English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956) Israel Gelfand 1913– Russian-American mathematician and biologist (died 2009) John Zorn 1953– American saxophonist, composer, and producer

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Alan Carr 1976– English comedian, actor, and screenwriter Alan Faneca 1976– American football player Anna Friel 1976– English actress Antoine Walker 1976– American basketball player Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira 1976– Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer Brett Kimmorley 1976– Australian rugby league player and sportscaster Chauncey Billups 1976– American basketball player Dan Cloutier 1976– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Daniel Whiston 1976– English figure skater

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