- Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, … - B. B. King
Riley B. King, better known as B. B. King or "The King of Blues" (born September 16 1925 in Itta Bena, Mississippi), is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, widely considered one of the best and most respected blues musicians of all time. He was also ranked 3<sup>rd</sup> on the Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. - Al Green
Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early and mid 1970s. - Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake, (born January 31 1981), sometimes known as JT, is an American pop-R&B singer and actor. He came to fame as the frontman of pop boy band 'N Sync and has won four Grammy Awards. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, "Justified", which sold over seven million copies worldwide. Timberlake's second solo release, "FutureSex/LoveSounds", was released in 2006 with the #1 U.S. hit singles "SexyBack", "My Love", … - Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 - January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin' Wolf or sometimes, The Howlin' Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. - Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American R&B, Pop and Gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has been called for many years "The Queen Of Soul", but many also call her "Lady Soul," as well as the more affectionate "Sister Ree." She is renowned for her soul recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is generally regarded as one of the greatest vocalists ever, … - Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes (born August 20, 1942, in Covington, Tennessee) is an American soul and funk singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, and actor. Hayes is best known as one of the creative forces behind Stax Records, for which he served as both an in-house songwriter/producer and a recording artist. In addition to his work in popular music, Hayes has also written scores for several motion pictures as well. - Al Kapone
Al Kapone (born Alphonzo Bailey) is a rapper from Memphis, Tennessee who gained notoriety for his song "Whoop That Trick" featured in the 2005 film "Hustle & Flow". Also referring to himself as Ska-Face Al or Al Kapeezy, Kapone is one of the most known underground rappers to ever come out of Memphis, emerging in the late 1980s. His new album will be collaboration with Atlanta producer/mixer Billy Hume (Shop Boyz, … - Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968) is an American singer/songwriter. Lisa Marie is a close friend of her father's ex-girlfriend Linda Thompson. In 2003, after advice from Thompson's record producer and then-husband David Foster, she launched a career as a singer. Her debut album, "To Whom It May Concern," reached #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold. To promote it she presented a concert in the UK, something that her father never did. - Dj Paul
DJ Paul (born Paul Beauregard in 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee) is one of the producers (along with Juicy J) of Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia and collective Hypnotize Minds. He is the brother of group member Lord Infamous. Three 6 Mafia won an Academy Award for Best Song for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp". - Juicy J
Juicy J A.K.A. The Juice Man (born Jordan Micheal Houston on April 5, 1975) is one of the producers of Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia and collective Hypnotize Minds. Both he and DJ Paul rap and produce music for the group. He is the brother of rapper Project Pat. Juicy J and DJ Paul won an Oscar for Best Song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" in Craig Brewer's "Hustle & Flow". Juicy is best known for his humorous solo "Slob On My Knob". - Project Pat
Patrick Earl Houston (born 1972), better known as Project Pat, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee and close affiliate to Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia. His stage name is likely a reference to Memphis' Cypress Gardens Projects. He is the older brother of rapper/producer Juicy J of the Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia, a member of the Hypnotize Minds rap collective and often featured artist on Three 6 Mafia tracks. - Yo Gotti
Yo Gotti (born Mario Mims on May 19 1980) is a rapper from Frayser, Memphis, Tennessee. Formally with Kinfolk Kia Shine on the Rap Hustlaz label, Yo Gotti got recognition with the album "Life", and the hit single "Sell My Dope." He is currently signed to TVT Records, Prophet Entertainment, Cash Money Records and his own record company, Inevitable Entertainment. Yo Gotti is still with TVT and did not leave, as was rumored, for a solo deal with Cash Money Records. - Gangsta Blac
Gangsta Blac is a rapper native of Memphis, Tennessee. He was formerly associated with the group Three 6 Mafia, with his underground album, "Breakin Da Law", & main stream debut album, "Can it Be?", being produced by DJ Paul & Juicy J. He left the group around 1995 and has been releasing a number of solo efforts on different record labels ever since. Gangsta Blac should not be confused with Crunchy Black, who has also left the group. - Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim (3 September 1915 in Memphis, Tennessee - 24 February 1988 in Paris, France) was a blues pianist and singer. - Gangsta Boo
Gangsta Boo (born Lola Mitchell on August 7, 1979), also known as Lady Boo, was a member of the Memphis, Tennessee-based rap group Three 6 Mafia's Hypnotize Mindz, self-proclaimed Queen of the South, the Undisputed Underground Queen (U.G.Q), and is the Co-Queen of Memphis, Tennessee alongside fellow former Three 6 Mafia associate, La' Chat. She was the sole female member of the group, … - Bill Black
William Patton "Bill" Black, Jr. was an American musician. He is noted for being Elvis Presley's bassist. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, and one of nine children, Bill Black played bass ('slapped/rockabilly' upright double) with guitarist Scotty Moore while Elvis Presley played rhythm guitar and sang "That's All Right (Mama)" in a Sun Studios session in Memphis that is considered a seminal event in the history of Rock and Roll. - Jerry Lawler
Jerry O'Neil Lawler (born November 29, 1949) is an American professional wrestler and wrestling commentator, known throughout the wrestling world as "The King". He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working and wrestling on its "RAW" brand as the color commentator. He also wrestles and occasionally commentates for the Memphis Wrestling promotion. - Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, film director, and regular film narrator. He became known during the 1990s, after having appeared in a series of successful Hollywood films. - Lord Infamous
Lord Infamous is a member of the Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia. He also goes by the aliases Scarecrow and Keyser Söze. Lord Infamous has been a member since its inception in the early-mid 1990s and has played a critical role in the underground success of the multi platinum-selling group. Best known for his often horrific, diabolical, violent lyrics, and ability to rap in many different styles, … - Kia Shine
Kinfolk Kia Shine is a rapper and record producer (born Nakia Shine Coleman on October 17, 1980) in Memphis, Tennessee. His hit singles are "Respect My Fresh", "Stunna Shades", "Wow", "Krispy", "See You Looking" and "Respect My Grind" featuring Jim Jones. He has worked with artists like La' Chat, Mike Jones, Yo Gotti, Nelly, Jim Jones, Blak Jak, Project Pat, Wifey, and more. His aliases are Nakia Shine, Kinfolk, Kia Shine, and Kinfolk Jones. - Koopsta Knicca
Robert Cooper, aka Koopsta Knicca or Koop, was a member of the Memphis, Tennessee rap group Three 6 Mafia. He is characterised by his fast rap, which made him one of Three Six's most recognized and lauded MCs. Koopsta Knicca, and several other members (Crunchy Black, K-Rock, T-Rock, Gangsta Boo, MC Mack, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, Playa Fly, and La' Chat), left the group, citing monetary disputes. - Lil Wyte
Lil Wyte (born Patrick Lanshaw)(c. 1982), is a rapper, and is also a member of the Memphis, Tennessee rap collective Hypnotize Camp Posse. Lanshaw began his career with the all-white underground rap group Shelby Forest Clique. His first album, "Doubt Me Now", produced by DJ Paul & Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia, sold over 130,000 copies independently. - Chris Bell
Chris Bell (January 12, 1951 - December 27, 1978) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Memphis, Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star, which recorded albums during the early 1970s. Chris Bell left the group after their first album, "#1 Record", but contributed some music and lyrics to their second LP, 1974's "Radio City". - Crunchy Black
Crunchy Black (born Darnell Carlton) is a rapper and dancer from Memphis, Tennessee, and was once a core member of the Oscar winning hip hop group Three 6 Mafia. Crunchy is a pop culture icon known for his dancing "G-Walking". "A new label is started and it's my label, and my artist don't have to go without gettin' paid cause if you work you shall eat thats for real." According to an article in "Ozone Magazine", … - La' Chat
La' Chat, (born Chastity Daniels), is an underground female rapper who was the second female member to be associated with Three 6 Mafia, and the Co-Queen Of Memphis, Tennessee alongside the self-proclaimed "Queen of the South", Gangsta Boo. First gaining wide recognition for her 2001 appearance on Project Pat's "Chickenhead" song, she, along with Gangsta Boo, lent a female's perspective to Three 6 Mafia's often misogynistic raps. - Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer and songwriter. Although she is most often classified as a country artist, her music also draws on other genres including folk, pop, rock and roll and blues. She is one of the daughters of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin, born shortly before the release of her father's first single. She is also the stepdaughter of June Carter and the stepsister of country singer Carlene Carter . - James Carr
James Carr (June 13, 1942 - January 7th, 2001) Born to a Baptist preacher's family in Coahoma, Mississippi, Carr began singing in church and was performing in gospel groups and making tables on an assembly line in Memphis, Tennessee when he began recording in the mid-'60s for Goldwax Records, a small Memphis based label. Carr first made the R&B charts in 1966 with "You've Got My Mind Messed Up", followed by his most famous song "The Dark End of the Street", … - Chrome
Chrome is a rapper from North Memphis, Tennessee's Frayser area, the same neighborhood of fellow H.C.P member, Frayser Boy. Chrome released his first album in October of 2005, called "Straight To The Pros". The singles off of that album were "So Fresh" and "I Learned". Chrome has two other CDs that are out, before he was with H.C.P. The first group he was in was called [the] Lootchasers. That was made of Kingpin Skinny Pimp, Chrome, … - Sunnyland Slim
Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew, was a blues pianist born on a farm near Vance, Mississippi. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1925, where he performed with many of the popular blues musicians of the day. In 1942 he followed the great migration of southern workers to the industrial north in Chicago. At that time the electric blues was taking shape there, and through the years Sunnyland Slim played with such musicians as Muddy Waters, Robert Jr. Lockwood, and Little Walter. - Eddie Bond
Eddie Bond (born July 1, 1933 in Memphis, Tennessee) was a pioneer singer and guitar player of American Rockabilly music. In the mid 1950s, Eddie Bond recorded for Sun Records and toured with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Warren Smith and others. He is most infamous for having made fun of the then 18-year-old Elvis Presley, after seeing him perform live, at a Memphis club, … - Playa Fly
Playa Fly (born Ibn Young on September 2, 1977) is a rapper from Memphis, Tennessee's South Parkway. Fly was, at one time, an associate of the Three 6 Mafia (then known as Lil' Fly), but he stopped collaborating in 1995 due to monetary disputes and philosophical differences after recording one album under the group's guidance. - Kingpin Skinny Pimp
Kingpin Skinny Pimp (born Derrick Dewayne Hill) is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. - Jack Clement
Jack Henderson Clement (born April 5, 1931 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer, songwriter, and a record and film producer. Raised and educated in Memphis, Jack Clement was performing at an early age. In 1953 he made his first record for the Sheraton label in Boston, Massachusetts but did not immediately pursue a full time career in music, instead choosing to study at Memphis State University from 1953 to 1955. - Red West
Red West (born 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter. Born Robert "Bobby" Gene West, he was a close high school friend of rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. An excellent athlete and former U.S. Marine, West played football for his high school and junior college teams and was a boxer in the Golden Gloves championships. In 1955, Red West was the driver for Presley and band members Scotty Moore, Bill Black, … - Indo G
Indo G (born c.1973) is a rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. First hitting the Memphis rap scene with fellow Memphian, Lil' Blunt, in the mid 1990s, they released two albums on Luke Records, "Up In Smoke" (1995) and "The Antidote" (1995). Soon after, Indo G became affiliated with Three 6 Mafia and released "Angel Dust" in 1998. However, the relationship between Three 6 and Indo deteriorated they no longer work together. - Lorenzen Wright
Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright (born November 4 1975 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American NBA basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks. After being selected seventh overall by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 1996 NBA Draft out of the University of Memphis, the 6'11" (213 cm), 240 lbs (102 kg) power forward was considered an underachiever in three seasons with the team that drafted him and was shipped to the Atlanta Hawks in 1999. - Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones (born November 12 1944) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for fronting the band, Booker T. and the MGs. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Jones was a child prodigy, playing the oboe, saxophone, trombone, and piano at school and serving as organist at his church. - Jimmy Hart
"The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart (also known as "The Colonel") (born January 1, 1944) is a professional wrestling manager, executive, composer and musician. He has worked in the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA), Memphis Wrestling, the WWF, USWA, WCW, XWF, WrestleXpress and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He has managed many notable professional wrestlers, including Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Ric Flair and The Honky Tonk Man. - Rosco Gordon
Rosco Gordon was an African American blues singer and songwriter. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he was one of the "Beale Streeters", a moniker given to a group of musicians who helped develop the style known as Memphis Blues. Gordon created a style of piano playing known as "The Rosco Rhythm" and made a number of his early recordings for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. This rhythm places the accent on the off beats, …
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