Have you ever seen “The Oprah Winfrey Show” before? Or even hear “Oprah Radio” or read Oprah magazine? Do you ever wonder who this successful person is? I bet you are already know who this person is just by listening to her voice.
This successful lady is an American television host, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. Though there are conflicting reports as to how her name became "Oprah", Winfrey was originally named "Orpah" after the Biblical character in the Book of Ruth. According to an interview with the Academy of Achievement, Winfrey claimed that her family and friends' inability to pronounce “Orpah” caused them to put the “P” before the “R” in every place else other than the birth certificate.
Know as “Oprah Winfrey”, Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in January 29, 1954 and has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and was once the world’s only black billionaire. She is known as the most influential woman in the world. This powerful lady was born into poverty and have been experienced a miserable time during her childhood, including being raped at the age of nine and becoming pregnant at 14. However, her son has died immature. Then she lives with her father and got her first job at a local grocery store.
At age 17, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant and landed a job in radio while still study in high school and started involved in the local evening news at the age 19. With all her hard work and courage, she finally launched her own production company and became internationally organization. She even reinvented her talk show in the mid 1990s that focus on literature, self improvement and spirituality. One of the key features of Oprah Winfrey's television persona is that her own private life has been an essential element of her talk-show format of public therapy. Her poor black background and her past and current problems with child abuse, men, and weight have made Oprah an exposed public personality on television and have allowed her loyal audience to feel that they "know" her quite well. This televisual familiarity is part of the power of Oprah Winfrey.
The Oprah Winfrey Show started the wildly influential "Oprah's Book Club" in 1996 where Oprah endorses what she considers to be books of value. Books that received the Oprah endorsement often suddenly went to number 1. Apart from being a successful Talk show host she is also a producer, successful actress, Founder of the successful "O, the Oprah Magazine", co founder of "Oxygen Media", and a generous Philanthropist. Oprah Winfrey continues to follow her dreams through her many business and media interests. Oprah has come from being a poor, black, farm girl from Mississippi to a national celebrity. To her resume she can add reporter, actress, writer, producer, activist and TV talk show host... but it doesn't stop there. Oprah, it seems, is unstoppable.
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