Brooks' breakthrough second album, released in 1977, propelled her into solo stardom in the UK and Europe.

Khan dated a Chicago-area schoolteacher in the mid-1980s in the middle of her solo stardom.

Filling Jaxx's head with promises of solo stardom and innumerable creature comforts (not all of them legal), Domino lures the young performer to California.

In the proud tradition of Diana Ross, David Lee Roth, Michael Jackson, Sting and many others, she would leave her group for solo stardom.

But Steinhardt, by choosing the relative self-abnegation of quartet playing instead of solo stardom, seems to have settled on a different relation to fame.

Lopes eventually pursued solo stardom and recorded her first album Supernova, however it underperformed overseas and was never officially released in the United States.

In 1979 Brown began recording with The New London Chorale and the group's popularity with the Dutch people paved the way for Brown's solo stardom in the Netherlands.

What spurred his rise to solo stardom were rejections from conservatories and unsuccessful auditions for orchestra jobs.

However, events would conspire to prevent Capaldi from consolidating his solo stardom.

His first taste of solo stardom came as a guest artist on label-mate Tinchy Stryder's single, "Spaceship", which was released in June 2011.