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TIL Destiny’s Child and Solange recorded the theme song to the popular Disney Channel show The Proud Family.

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e0R86 TIL that when Bette Midler started her career in the early 1970s, she was the singer in a gay bathhouse in New York often accompanied by Barry Manilow on piano. Manilow produced her first album and that patrons of the bath house were her first hardcore fans.
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