- Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., better known professionally as Snoop Dogg and previously Snoop Doggy Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. His catch phrase is widely known as "fo' shizzle, ma nizzle", meaning, "for sure, my nigga". - Daz Dillinger
Daz Dillinger (born Delmar Arnaud on May 25 1973 in Long Beach, California), is an American hip hop producer and rapper mostly known for his work with Death Row Records at the height of West Coast rap's popularity. - Dj Khaled
DJ Khaled (born in New Orleans, Louisiana as Khaled Khaled,, English trans: "eternal" this name was borne by a 7th century Islamic military leader, Khalid ibn-al-Walid) is a DJ, radio personality, and a member of Terror Squad. He is of Palestinian descent. His debut album, Listennn... The Album, dropped in stores on June 6th, 2006. The album features an all-star cast of artists such as Lil Wayne, Chamillionaire, Young Jeezy, T.I., … - Jim Jones
Joseph Guillermo Jones II (born on July 15, 1976 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States), is a Aruban/Puerto Rican and African American rapper He is best know by his stage name, Jim Jones. Jones is an original member of The Diplomats, also known as Dipset, and also for the hit single We Fly High, and its accompanying catchphrase, "Ballin!". He is Co-CEO of Diplomat Records and is director of A&R for Warner Music Group. - Romeo Romeo
Percy Romeo Miller, Jr. (born August 19, 1989 in New Orleans, Louisiana), better known by his stage name Romeo or formely Lil' Romeo, is an American rapper and actor. He is the son of rapper, producer and entertainment mogul Master P and nephew of C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker. He records southern rap hip-hop music on his father's Guttar Music label. He has so far released three studio albums and two compilation albums. - Master P
Percy Robert Miller (born April 29, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana), better known as Master P is an entrepreneur, businessman, marketer, and rap artist. He is the founder and CEO of No Limit Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate." Fortune" magazine listed Master P as one of the wealthiest men under the age of 40 in North America, with a net worth of $361 million in 1999 - Silkk The Shocker
Silkk the Shocker (born Vyshonn King Miller on June 18, 1975) is a rapper originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and is the brother of Hip Hop Mogul Master P and rapper C-Murder. He is also the uncle of Lil Romeo. Silkk rose to fame in the mid-to-late 1990s, releasing records through Master P's label, No Limit Records. His self-titled debut, The Shocker, was released in 1996. Silkk was featured on Master P's 1998 hit, … - Ian Brown
Ian George Brown (born February 20, 1963) is an English musician and former lead singer of the indie rock/Manchester band The Stone Roses. He is held in high regard by music fans across the UK for his work with the group as well as his work since the band's acrimonious and prolonged break up in 1996, Brown has released four solo albums to critical acclaim across Britain. - Junkie Xl
Junkie XL is musician Tom Holkenborg, born in Lichtenvoorde, The Netherlands on 8 December, 1967. He resides in the United States. After producing and touring with the Dutch group Weekend at Waikiki, he split with them in 1995 and began writing his own tracks as Junkie XL in 1997. He has worked with many electronic music artists, including Sander Kleinenberg, DJ Tiësto and Sasha. - Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an Academy Award and Grammy Award winning English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. He was the oldest and shortest member of the band, and the last to join the now familiar 'Fab Four' line up. - Richard Shindell
Richard Shindell (born 1960, Lakehurst, New Jersey) is an American folk singer. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina with his wife and their children. Shindell's songwriting often involves storytelling from a first-person point of view: from an INS officer and illegal immigrant in "Fishing", to a World War II soldier in "Sparrow's Point", to a Confederate drummerboy in "Arrowhead", to a Spanish grandmother in "Abuelita", to a power broker in "Confession". - Dj Kayslay
DJ Kayslay (born Keith Grayson in August 16, 1966), also known as The Drama King and Slap Your Favorite DJ, is the ringmaster of the new hip hop rivalries, played out on his mixtapes. "The New York Times" called him "Hip Hop's One-Man Ministry of Insults." He has sold 350,000 copies of his two official albums. - Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson (born August 11 1954 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, as David Ian Jackson) is an English musician and singer/songwriter probably best-known for the 1979 hit song "Is She Really Going Out With Him?", which still gets extensive FM radio airplay, and for his 1982 hit, "Steppin' Out". He was a part of the trio of British-based artists that challenged the punk scene and brought a New Wave sound to the United States in the late 1970s, … - Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen, Junior (born January 11 1956 in Houston, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter. He is popular with traditional country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd and alt-country fans. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Bandera, Texas. - Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. She is a soprano with a three-octave vocal range and a distinctively rapid vibrato. Many of her songs are topical and deal with social issues. - C-Murder Miller
C Miller (born Corey Miller on March 9, 1971) is an American rap artist from the infamous Calliope Projects in New Orleans, Louisiana. Prior to April 5 2005, he used the stage name C-Murder. He appears on Ludacris' "Release Therapy" album on a song called "Do Your Time" (also featuring previously incarcerated rappers Pimp C and Beanie Sigel, he is credited as C-Murder). He is also featured on the N.W.O Wolfpac theme. - Cormega
Cory McKay (April 27, 1973), better known as Cormega, is an American rapper noted for his street topics and style representative of Queensbridge. He is also famous for his hip-hop feud with childhood friend and fellow rapper Nas, whom he had settled his differences with - Criss Angel
Criss Angel (born Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos on December 19 1967) is a Greek-American magician, musician, mentalist, hypnotist, escapologist, stunt performer, and actor. He is best known for starring in his own television show, "Criss Angel Mindfreak". - Don Williams
Don Williams (born May 27, 1939 in Floydada, Texas), is a country singer and songwriter. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing 17 number one hits. His straightforward vocals, soft tones, and an imposing build earned him the nickname "The Gentle Giant" of country music. - Judge Jules
Judge Jules is a British dance music DJ. Born on October 26 1966 as Julius O'Riordan, he was educated at University College School and the London School of Economics. He studied law at the LSE, giving rise to his stage name "Judge Jules", though he obtained a lower second class honours in his degree. Jules began his music career as a DJ on the then pirate radio station Kiss FM before he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1997, … - Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller (born June 14, 1959 in New York) is a jazz musician, composer and producer, perhaps best known as a bass guitarist with Miles Davis, Luther Vandross and David Sanborn. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist, and also plays bass clarinet, keyboard, saxophone, and guitar, and is a capable singer. - Sheek Louch
Sean D. Jacobs (born November 9, 1976 in Yonkers, New York), better known as Sheek Louch, is a rapper and member of D-Block, the group formerly known as "The LOX", which includes Jadakiss and Styles. - Howard Jones
Howard Jones (born John Howard Jones, 23 February 1955) is an English singer and songwriter. He is the eldest of four boys (brothers Roy, Martin, and Paul). His birthplace is Southampton, England, and he spent his early years in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, and attended the Royal Grammar School, and then spent a year at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He now lives with his family in Somerset. - William Hung
William Hung (Traditional Chinese: 孔慶翔, Simplified Chinese: 孔庆翔, Cantonese Yale: Hung2 Hing3 Cheung4, Pinyin: Kǒng Qìngxiáng) (born January 13, 1983) is an American college student who gained fame in early 2004 as a result of his off-key audition performance of Ricky Martin's hit song "She Bangs" on the third season of the television series "American Idol". - Cledus T. Judd
Cledus T. Judd (born Barry Poole on December 18, 1964, in Marietta, Georgia) is a country music singer, parody artist and entertainer, best known for parodies of popular country songs. - Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels (born October 28, 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American musician famous for his contributions to country and southern rock music. Daniels is a singer, guitarist, and fiddler, who began writing and performing in the 1950s. In 1964, Daniels co-wrote "It Hurts Me", a song which Elvis Presley recorded. He worked as a Nashville session musician, often for producer Bob Johnston, … - Oleta Adams
Oleta Adams (born 4 May 1962, Seattle, Washington) is an American soul and jazz singer. - Laura Love
Laura Love is an American musician born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. She describes herself as a "light skinned Black" woman. Laura Love had a difficult childhood, raised by a mother with schizophrenia and in foster homes. Her father, who had little involvement in her life, was the jazz musician Preston Love who played sax with Count Basie, Lucky Millander and Johnny Otis and formed his own band in the 1950s. - Funkmaster Flex
Funkmaster Flex (born August 5, 1968 in The Bronx) is a popular hip hop DJ on New York City's Hot 97 radio station, where his weekly show has a 10% market share. He is known for being the first to release exclusive records in the hip hop world. His show features live mixing and celebrity guests. - Abra Moore
Abra Moore is a folk-styled alternative rock singer-songwriter. She is an icon of the Austin, Texas music scene. Her 1997 album "Strangest Places" spun off the hit "Four Leaf Clover", which earned her a GRAMMY™ nomination, and saw airplay in Midwest U.S. radio markets and VH1 and MTV2 rotation. - Bob James
Bob James (born December 25 1939) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning smooth jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer. During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in turning fusion jazz more mainstream. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom "Taxi", is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date, He is also well-known for the fusion classic "Westchester Lady", from the album "Bob James Three". For their first joint album release, One on One, … - Eric Heatherly
Eric Heatherly (born 21 February, 1970) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. - Carl Cox
Carl Cox is a popular international techno and house DJ. He began as a hardcore and acid house DJ in the mid 1980s, making a name for himself as the "Three Deck Wizard" in 1988, when, during the Second Summer of Love, he began to play on three turntables at once. He has played at such famous clubs as Shelly's, Sterns Nightclub, Heaven, Angels and The Haçienda, as well as huge raves for Fantazia, Dreamscape, Amensia House. - Ray Davies
Raymond Douglas Davies, CBE (born June 21, 1944 in Fortis Green, London) is an influential English rock musician, best known as lead singer-songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most influential, prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television. - Christine McVie
Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect, July 12, 1943, in Greenodd, Lancashire) is an English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the band Fleetwood Mac, though she has also released three solo albums. - Dave Davies
David Russell Gordon Davies (born 3 February 1947, in Fortis Green, London, England) is a singer and the lead guitarist with the English rock band The Kinks, which he founded with Pete Quaife in 1963. His brother Ray, who became the best-known member of the band, joined soon after. The quartet was formed when drummer Mick Avory joined. Davies had a turbulent relationship with Avory, and is a reason behind latter's departure from the band in the mid 1980s, … - Earl Klugh
Earl Klugh (born September 16, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American smooth jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer. Klugh normally finger picks a nylon string classical guitar. At the age of 13, Klugh was captivated by the guitar playing of Chet Atkins when he made an appearance on the Perry Como Show. He has since been a guest on several Atkins albums. Atkins, reciprocating as well, joined Earl on his "Magic In Your Eyes" album. - Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis, born on July 24, 1953 in Oakland, California, is an American jazz trumpet player. Upon his first appearance on the scene, he became known for his ability to closely mirror the sound of trumpet icon Dizzy Gillespie, who was his mentor along with Stan Kenton trumpeter Bill Catalano. However, Faddis had the ability to play controlled melodic lines in an even higher register than Dizzy. - Beth Hart
Beth Hart (born January 24, 1972) is a singer who became famous with the hit "L. A. Song". Beth Hart dropped out of high school to focus on her songwriting. While playing the Los Angeles clubs, she enlisted veteran bassist Tal Herzberg and guitarist Jimmy Khoury. In the early 90s, Beth appeared on Ed McMahon's Star Search several times, where she won multiple times and eventually went on to win the grand prize of 100,000 in the Female Vocalist category for the season. - Michael Franks
Michael Franks (born 1944) is a jazz singer and songwriter from the United States. Born in La Jolla, California, he began singing folk-rock, accompanying himself on guitar in high school. He never studied music in college [Jazzmonthly.com interview], earned an M.A. from UCLA in Comparative Literature and a PhD from the University of Oregon.
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