Acker Bilk.
-The first female artist to win the International Artist Award at American Music Awards ceremony.-The first female artist to have #1 album in US,UK,Europe and World Album charts in the same week with her first solo effort Dangerously In Love.-The first female artist to win 6 Grammy Awards at one night.-The first female artist to have the #1 song (Check on It) and the #1 movie (The Pink Panther) in the same week in the USA.-The first African-American female artist to win ASCAP Songwriters and Entertainer of the Year Awards.That's all I can remember,she has a few more achievements as a first female artist.
Paulette Salo is an American artist.
Larry Cunningham - Lovely Leitrim
It was Sting.
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Spandau Ballet
1962 Please Please Me. Love me do only reached #17 on the British charts.
Chris Clark
Its actually Will.I.am
Love me do only reached #17 on the British charts. The first #1 was Please Please Me.
Isaac Hayes
Freddie Mercury (Farokh Bulsara) of the band Queen had considerable success in the British charts from the 1970's on. He was a Zanzibari Parsi. Some years earlier Engelbert Humberdinck had several UK #1's - but he was from a white Raj family, and I would guess you don't mean that.