- Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 - October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. - Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker OBE (born John Robert Cocker, 20 May 1944, Sheffield) is an English rock/blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice and his cover versions of popular songs. - Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Diesel is the founder of the production companies OneRace Films, Tigon Studios, and Racetrack Records. Diesel made his stage debut at age seven when he appeared in "Theatre for the New City," which was produced in Greenwich Village and directed by Thomas Hinkerman. He remained involved with the theatre throughout adolescence, going on to attend the city's Hunter College, … - Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford (born Jo Elizabeth Stafford November 12 1917, in Coalinga, California) is an American pop singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Stafford is greatly admired for the purity of her voice and is considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She is also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody, … - Sonny Terry
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911, Greenboro, Georgia - 11 March 1986, Mineloa, New York) was a blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts. - Koko Taylor
Koko Taylor sometimes called 'KoKo Taylor' (born Cora Walton, 28 September 1935, in Shelby County, Tennessee) is an American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She is known primarily for her rough and powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings. Taylor left Memphis for Chicago, Illinois in 1954 with her husband, truck driver Robert "Pops" Taylor and in the late 1950s began singing in Chicago blues clubs. She was spotted by Willie Dixon in 1962, … - Larry Williams
Larry Williams was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing and recording some Rock 'n' Roll standards from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including "Bony Moronie" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (see also: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll). Several of his songs achieved later success as cover versions by The Beatles ("Bad Boy", "Slow Down", … - Gunnar Fant
Carl Gunnar Michael Fant (born October 8 1919) is professor emeritus at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He is a first cousin of George Fant. Gunnar Fant received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1945. He specialized in the acoustics of the human voice, measuring formant values, and continued to work in this area at Ericsson and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - Nathan Stubblefield
Nathan B. Stubblefield (November 22, 1860 - March 28, 1928) was an American inventor and Kentucky melon farmer. It has been claimed that Stubblefield invented the radio before either Nikola Tesla or Guglielmo Marconi, but his devices seem to have worked by audio frequency induction or, later, audio frequency earth conduction (creating disturbances in the near-field region) rather than by radio frequency radiation for radio transmission telecommunications. - Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American stand-up comedian. - Allison Crowe
Allison Louise Crowe (born November 16, 1981) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia who now lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Crowe records on her own record label, Rubenesque Records Ltd. (formed in 2003 and marketed by Festival Distribution). Her first full-length albums, "Secrets" and "Tidings", were released in 2004, when Crowe was 22. - Timothy B. Schmit
Timothy Bruce Schmit (born October 30, 1947, in Oakland, California), is a bass guitarist and singer best known as a member of Poco and the Eagles. Raised in Sacramento, he began playing in the folk music group Tim, Tim & Ron at age 15. That group evolved into a surf band called the Contenders, then changed its name to the New Breed. Changing its name once again to Glad, the group recorded the album "Feelin' Glad" in 1968. - Philip Bailey
Philip Bailey (born May 8 1951, Denver, Colorado) is an American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, best known as one of the longtime members of Earth, Wind & Fire. Together with Verdine White and Ralph Johnson he forms the heart of the current EWF line-up on stage. Before joining Earth, Wind & Fire in 1971, Bailey sung with different ensembles in the Denver and Chicago area. Bailey found fame by sharing the lead vocals on EWF songs with EWF-founder Maurice White. - Ivan Neville
Ivan Neville (born 19 August 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana) is a multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to members of the Neville Brothers. He has released four solo albums and had a Top 40 Billboard hit with "Not Just Another Girl" from his first solo album "If My Ancestors Could See Me Now". - Toni Tennille
Toni Tennille (born Cathryn Antoinette Tennille, 8 May 1940, Montgomery, Alabama) is one-half of the 1970s Grammy Award winning duo, Captain & Tennille. She attended Sidney Lanier High School and Auburn University in Alabama, where in the latter, sang with the big band music group, the Auburn Knights. She became famous when she and her husband, the "Captain", Daryl Frank Dragon, both accomplished musicians and songwriters, … - Todd Terry
Todd Terry (born 12 November 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American DJ and music producer and remixer, one of the producers who helped to define New York's house music during the 1980s. - Dave Greenfield
Dave Greenfield (born David Paul Greenfield, 29 March 1949, Brighton, England) is the keyboard player with English rock band, The Stranglers. He is noted for his trademark style of playing rapid arpeggios, and his style has sometimes been compared to Ray Manzarek of The Doors. He also frequently contributes harmony backing vocals to the band's songs, and sang the lead vocals on several of their tracks, … - Andy White
Andy White (born 1930, Glasgow, Scotland) is a drummer, best known for playing drums on The Beatles first single, "Love Me Do" - White was in fact on the 7" single version released in the United States. He also played drums on the "Love Me Do" B-side, "P.S. I Love You." White was a studio drummer in the 1950s and 1960s in London, recording with artists such as Billy Fury, Marlene Dietrich, Herman's Hermits, Bert Weedon and Tom Jones. - Colin Blunstone
Colin Edward Michael Blunstone (born June 24 1945 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire) is an English pop singer/songwriter, best known as a member of pop group, The Zombies. He attended St Albans County Grammar School and played basketball. - Rick Davies
Rick Davies is a British musician, who is the founder and a member of the rock band Supertramp. He played keyboards, harmonica and melodica on the band’s many hit records. Although not recognized for a very distinctive voice (Davies' voice is more of a raspy baritone, as opposed to Roger Hodgson's "Jon Anderson/Barry Gibb-like" vocals), he has composed many of Supertramp's songs like the U.S. Top 20 hit "Goodbye Stranger", "Bloody Well Right", … - David Grant
David Grant (born 8 August 1956, in Hackney, London) is a British pop singer and celebrity vocal coach. - Klaus Meine
Klaus Meine (born May 25, 1948, Wedemark, Hanover, Germany) is the lead vocalist for German rock band Scorpions. Meine writes most of, but not all the lyrics to Scorpions' songs. He also shares the authorship of some lyrics with Herman Rarebell (former drummer of the Scorpions) on some songs like the major hit "Rock You Like a Hurricane", among others. He also composed some songs alone like "Wind of Change" and "When The Smoke Is Going Down". - Bonnie Bramlett
Bonnie Bramlett (born Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell, 11 August 1944, Alton, Illinios), is an American singer known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist. - Shawn Stockman
Shawn Patrick Stockman (born September 26 1972, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African-American R&B singer, best known as a member of the vocal group Boyz II Men. Stockman recorded a solo album as a side project during the late 1990s, but the LP was never released. He has written the songs "Forever", "Hot Thing", and "Let It Go"; the latter of which was played during the Disney movie "Seventeen Again". Shawn has the most silky smooth voice of Boyz II Men, … - Billy Williams
Billy Williams was a singer, who had a hugely successful cover recording of Fats Waller's "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" in 1957. His trademark hook for his songs was to shout "Oh, Yeah" at the end of lyrics. He was the lead singer of The Charioteers between 1930 and 1950, when he formed his own Billy Williams Quartet with Eugene Dixon, Claude Riddick and John Ball. - Kiki Dee
Kiki Dee (born Pauline Matthews on 6 March 1947, in Little Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a highly successful singer/songwriter, with a career that has lasted over 40 years. Her most famous song was a duet with Elton John, entitled "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", which was released in 1976 and went to Number 1. (She later performed another duet with Elton John for his "Duets" album, … - Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed is an English actor, who came to fame as PC 'Fancy' Smith in the BBC TV police drama series "Z Cars". He is a highly charismatic man with a booming voice, great beard and robust build ideal for the bushy bearded, often humorous men in Shakespearean and medieval dramas. The son of a miner, Blessed was born in the ex-mining town of Mexborough and grew up in the nearby town of Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. - Doris Pearson
Doris May Pearson (born 8 June 1966, Romford, England) is an English singer and ex member of the pop group, Five Star. Doris Pearson, the eldest of the three Pearson sisters, was mainly known as choreographer of the group, teaching the other members of Five Star the dance routines to their hits. She, like the other members, sang backing vocals and wrote songs for Five Star albums. Her voice was not as strong as Deniece's, but equally as distinctive. - F. Matthias Alexander
Frederick Matthias Alexander (January 20, 1869 - October 10, 1955) was an Australian actor who developed the educational process that is today called the Alexander Technique-a form of education that is applied to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thinking. - Johnny Adams
Johnny Adams (Laten John Adams, 5 January 1932 - 14 September 1998) was an American blues singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was known as "The Tan Canary" for the amazing range of his singing voice and his gospel influenced style. He began his career singing gospel, but crossed over to secular music in 1959, … - David Parton
David (Des) Parton is a singer-songwriter from Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, England. He achieved songwriting success writing songs for Sweet Sensation in the mid 1970s, namely "Sad Sweet Dreamer" which was a No.1 single in the UK, and "Purely by Coincidence" which also charted. He arranged and co-produced both tracks with Tony Hatch. Parton also sang a cover version of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" which he again co-produced with Tony Hatch. - Junior Murvin
Junior Murvin (born Murvin Junior Smith, circa 1949, Port Antonio, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae artist. He is best known for the classic single "Police and Thieves", produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1976. Murvin's soaring voice and the infectious rhythm made "Police and Thieves" into an international hit during the summer of that year. The song was so influential, that it was recorded by the punk rock pioneers The Clash, on their debut album the following year. - Matthew Wilder
Matthew Wilder (born Matthew Weiner, January 24 1953, in New York City) is an American musician best known for his 1983 Top 5 hit, "Break My Stride". Wilder was one-half of the Greenwich Village folk group Matthew & Peter in the 1970s. In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles and sang for television commercials, and as a backing singer for Rickie Lee Jones and Bette Midler. Wilder's debut album, "I Don't Speak the Language" (1983), reached number 49 on the Billboard chart, … - Tony Hadley
Tony Hadley (born Anthony Patrick Hadley, 2 June 1960, Islington, London) is an English pop singer who fronted the 1980s New Romantic band Spandau Ballet. The group disbanded in 1989, after their final studio album, "Heart Like a Sky", failed to live up to the critical and commercial success of their earlier albums, such as "True". As a matter of fact Heart Like A Sky was not even released in the United States. - Barbara Acklin
Barbara Acklin was a soul singer of the 1960s and 1970s. One of the greatest soprano voices in R&B, her biggest hit was "Love Makes a Woman" in 1968 which reached top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. - Paul Thomson
Paul Robert Nester Thomson (born 15 September 1976, in Glasgow, Scotland) is the drummer for British band, Franz Ferdinand. Thomson has always been interested in music, able to play various instruments such as guitar, keyboard and bass guitar. During the early 1990s he was drummer of The Yummy Fur and was at one point part of The Purple Bajengas and Pro Forma. It was in The Yummy Fur that Thomson would meet Alex Kapranos Huntley. - Linda Lewis
Linda Lewis (born Linda Ann Lewis, 27 September 1950, West Ham, London) is an English vocalist, a songwriter and guitar player, renowned for her vocals. - Russell Mael
Russell Mael (born Russell Craig Mael, 5 October 1953, in Santa Monica, California), with his older brother Ron, is in the electronic band Sparks. His most notable vocal trait is a far-reaching falsetto, especially evident on songs like "Equator" from their album, "Kimono My House". - Gillian Gilbert
Gillian Gilbert (born Gillian Lesley Gilbert, 27 January 1961 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) is a British keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist, best known as a member of the Manchester band New Order and a founding member of The Other Two. She is married to bandmate Stephen Morris, New Order's drummer. Gilbert and Morris have recorded as The Other Two. - Cornell Campbell
Cornell Campbell (born 23 November 1945, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer, best known for his falsetto voice, and his recordings at Studio One in the late 1960s and his work with Bunny Lee in the 1970s.
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