It was only once she made some ear-splittingly off-key recordings that her fame began to spread into wider, and less easily manipulated, corners of society.
But Jackson was also a capable and sometimes inspired performer: his recordings for the Fame label in the late sixties and early seventies have now been collected on "Don't Count Me Out," which assembles two dozen of his performances.
In 2013. it was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame, for recordings judged to have "qualitative or historical significance".
Beyond his own hip-hop and R&B recordings, Leslie rose to fame producing for artists like Snoop Dogg, Cassie and Usher.
The ceremony also recognised the efforts of independent record label, XL Recordings, which helped steer Adele to worldwide fame.
Their early sound has been captured, too, in Rock 'N' Roll Saviors The Early Years, a compilation of recordings from the band's pre-fame era.
Autry, the singing cowboy, was a true showbiz phenomenon, the only American performer to have five different stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one each for films, recordings, television, radio and live performance.
The Juilliard Quartet quickly sprang to fame around 1950, with its recordings of quartets by Béla Bartók, Arnold Schoenberg, and other hard-edged modernists, but the core of its repertory was the century-and-a-quarter of chamber music from Haydn to Brahms; that's the music that most of the recordings in the new set are devoted to, and they're a revelation.
Lady Gaga's "Glitter and Grease," an unreleased track that Rob Fusari produced during recordings for Gaga's breakout album The Fame, has leaked online.
But as Sinatra's fame grew through his successful recordings and such films as 1945's "Anchors Aweigh" with Gene Kelly, his temper seemed to get shorter.
Throughout the winter and into the spring of 1963, the Beatles continued their rise to fame in England by producing spirited recordings of original tunes and also by playing classic American rock and roll on a variety of British Broadcasting Corporation radio programs.
