Whose Star Shines Brighter? Mentors and Their Protegees

May 16th, 2012 - By madamenoire

Source: StyleBlazer.com

While it can be hard to imagine now, a lot of the musicians currently ripping down stages and burning up the Billboard charts, at one point, needed a helping hand getting into the recording industry. Everybody needs to start somewhere and luckily for these artists they were introduced and mentored by just the right person to set off their careers.

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Didn’t read the article but from the pic of Miss Ross and MJ I will say that…Diana was never really MJ’s mentor, Berry Gordy and Motown just used her name and all of the star power it held back then to present or “sell” the Jackson 5 to America.

I also personally believe that later on in life, MJ idolized and tried to emulate Diana in a lot of ways, but I would never use the words “mentor” or “protegee” when referring to the two of them.

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