Young Stars
Check out these entertainers who started during their youth.
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Michael Jackson\r - Perhaps one of the most recognized names (if not the most recognzied) in entertainment, Michael Joseph Jackson from Gary, Indiana, got his start singing with his brothers in The Jackson 5. Jackson was roughly six years old when he started his professional career with his brothers and would go on to become the most celebrated name in music history.\r(Photo: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)
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Michael Jackson\r - Perhaps one of the most recognized names (if not the most recognzied) in entertainment, Michael Joseph Jackson from Gary, Indiana, got his start singing with his brothers in The Jackson 5. Jackson was roughly six years old when he started his professional career with his brothers and would go on to become the most celebrated name in music history.\r(Photo: Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)
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Ron Howard\r - Before he was an award-winning director and movie actor, Howard starred on The Andy Griffith Show as Opie Taylor, the son of the show's protagonist, Andy Taylor.\r \r(Photo: CBS/Landov)
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Tia and Tamera Mowry - These talented twins got their first mainstream roles together as two twins separated at birth on the hit sitcom Sister, Sister. (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection)
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Bow Wow\r \r \r \r - Before he gained fame as an actor, Shad Gregory Moss was the teenaged rapper Lil Bow Wow. At age six he met Snoop Dogg, who named him Bow Wow and at age 11 he met Jermaine Dupri, who would sign him to his record label So So Def. Bow Wow's debut album, Beware of Dog, would go on to sell over a million units and position him as the face of teenaged rap.\r \r(Photo: Kevin Winter/ImageDirect/Getty Images)
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