How many bands that hit the big time have a homage to their hometown built into their very name? Chicago? Boston? The Manhattan Transfer? Skid Row? Gloria Estefan's Miami Sound Machine, too. The Grammy Award-winning artist is credited with introducing Latin-style beats to pudgy white kids; without her, America would never know the pleasure of watching American Idol contestants struggle through Rhythm is Gonna Get You.
EDGE: Baltimore. It would have been closer had any of Estefan's biggest songs hit the charts while Phelps was out of diapers.