Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken

male, 30 years old
American Idol, People Magazine Celebrity 100, American Idol Runner-Up, kimmel, From Raleigh, NOrth CArolina, NY Times…Learning to Sing Hearing the Music in Your Life, Americanpopularmusic, American Idol participant, American
Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the...
Alec Wilder

Alec Wilder

male, deceased (1980)
classical music, Mills Brother, prep school, Americanpopularmusic, University-preparatory school, Algonquin Hotel…American, eastman school of music
Alec Wilder (born Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder in Rochester, New York, February 16, 1907; d. Gainesville, Florida, December 24, 1980) was an...
Eden Ahbez

Eden Ahbez

male, deceased (1995)
ahbe, George McGrew, Alexander Aberle, Nat "King" Cole, bucolic, christ…Outsider music, Americanpopularmusic, Jewish American
eden ahbez (April 15, 1908 - March 4, 1995), born Alexander Aberle in Brooklyn, New York and adopted by a Kansas family and raised under the name...

Old Corn Meal

male
musician, Signor Cormeali, St. Charles Theatre, Blackface minstrelsy, Americanpopularmusic, minstrelsy…American, African American
Old Corn Meal, or Signor Cormeali, was an African American street vendor in New Orleans, Louisiana who became famous in the late 1830s for singing...

John "picayune" Butler

male
musician, African American, singer, Busker, French, Blackface minstrel performer…American, Americanpopularmusic
John "Picayune" Butler was a black French singer and banjo player who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. By the 1820s, he had begun touring the...