Appreciation Event at Oracle OpenWorld

His flair for melodies made him a star, but it was his fusion of three decades in pop music that made him a legend.

With Top 10 hits in the '70s, '80s, and '90s and six Grammy Awards, Billy Joel is an artist for the ages. He has sold in excess of 150 million albums worldwide, and was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.

Famed for her mystical chanteuse image, singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks has enjoyed worldwide success since the early '70s. Major hit singles like "Dreams" and "Rhiannon" made her a focal point of Fleetwood Mac, while Top 20 hits like "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Leather and Lace," and "Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)" made her a solo star on a global scale in 1981.

After founding Fleetwood Mac in 1967, drummer Mick Fleetwood was credited for inviting Stevie Nicks to join the band in 1974, and his influence was essential to Fleetwood Mac's lasting international success.

Four-time Grammy award winner Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz began playing drums when he was five years old, and he's been adding to his musical repertoire ever since.

An instrumentalist, producer, and arranger whose style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads, Kravitz often sings lead and backing vocals as well as playing all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion when recording.

Influenced by the R&B, jazz, classical, opera, gospel, and blues music of his childhood home; the soul music of Motown; and early experiences performing classical music with the California Boys Choir; Kravitz recorded his first demo shortly after graduating from high school. Now ranked among VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, Kravitz has sold an estimated 20 million albums worldwide and won several prestigious awards for his musicianship.

Dave Wakeling and The English Beat entered the music scene in 1979, a time of social, political, and musical change. Over the next several years they achieved fame with their unique, highly danceable sound. becoming one of the most popular and inffluental bands of the British Ska movement. After their third album, "Special Beat Service," they disbanded in 1983. After a few years fronting for his new band, General Public, Dave went on to produce the soundtrack for "She's Having a Baby" and pursue a full-time job with Greenpeace, where he produced the Greenpeace album "Alternative NRG" recorded using power produced by a 160-foot solar array to capture performances by artists including REM, U2, Annie Lennox, and Sonic Youth.

Dave re-formed The English Beat in 1998, and has been touring ever since, bringing his message of love, unity, and his ska-full, rock-steady beat to his fans across the States, Canada, the UK, and beyond. Don't miss Dave Wakeling and The English Beat at the Oracle OpenWorld Appreciation party, where you'll be blown away by the ever-changing King of Ska!

Flying high with albums including "Girls About Town," "Especially for You," and "Green Thoughts" in the eighties, power pop band The Smithereens hit the charts big-time in 1990 with the smash hit "A Girl Like You," and brought its sixties- East-coast roots rock sound to a worldwide audience. You're probably also familiar with them from the soundtracks from "I Was A Teenage Zombie," "Encino Man," and Boys Don't Cry." This is your chance to hear them live—don't miss lead signer-songwriter Pat DiNizio with Jim Babjak, Mike Mesaros, and Dennis Dekin as they hit the stage at Oracle OpenWorld, and find out why they are still one of today's great concert bands.

The four-time Grammy-nominated singer, composer, and performer began her career at the age of six in the Beninese port village of Cotonou. The political turmoil in her country led her to relocate to Paris, the capital of world music, and then ultimately to New York. Today, Angelique Kidjo is devoted to leveraging her career for global humanitarian causes as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, and to creating music inspired by the traditions and culture of her native Benin in West Africa, drawing on influences from the United States, Brazil and the Carribean. Her unique blend of vocals, instrumentals, and percussion, will move and provoke you at the same time.