T-Pain
Rapper turned singer T-Pain has a handful of albums to his name, and has lent his talents to dozens of recordings, including Grammy-winning singles with Kanye West and Jamie Foxx.
But perhaps his biggest contribution to pop culture was popularizing auto-tune by using it on a ton of chart-topping tracks. A multi-faceted artist who also acts and produces, T-Pain recently cut off his trademark dreadlocks, dropped a new album, Stoicville: The Phoenix, and has made several comments about reinventing himself. Time will tell what he has in store.
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