Adele

You probably know Adele as the powerful, Grammy Award-winning soul singer of hits like "Rolling in the Deep" and "Set Fire to the Rain." But did you know that she was almost expelled from the BRIT School for Performing Arts? Or that she wrote her first single, "Hometown Glory," in just ten minutes? Readers will make connections between events in Adele's rise to fame and consider what stardom is like from a star's point of view.