- Donny Osmond
Donald Clark 'Donny' Osmond (born December 9 1957) is an American Welsh entertainer. He is a singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. He has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver and author. He is known for being half of the brother-sister singing act "Donny & Marie" and a member of the "Osmond Brothers" singing group. - Marie Osmond
Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is an American actress, singer, and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's band, she gained success as a country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s. Her best known song is the 1973 country pop ballad "Paper Roses". Starting in 1976, Marie Osmond hosted a show with her brother called "Donny & Marie", which they both became best-known for. - Jimmy Osmond
James 'Jimmy' Arthur Osmond (born April 16, 1963 in Canoga Park, California) is a singer, actor, and businessman. - Wayne Osmond
Wayne Osmond (b. August 28, 1951) is the second oldest of the original Osmond Brothers singers. He began performing in 1962. He is an aviation enthusiast and is married with five children. He has been a brain tumor survivor since 1994. - Jenny Oaks Baker
Jenny Oaks Baker is an accomplished professional violinist. She was a first violinist in the National Symphony Orchestra for seven years. She now is focusing on her artist career. - Alan Osmond
Alan Ralph Osmond (born June 22, 1949) was a member of the 1970s music group The Osmonds and the head of the Osmond Family. Osmond dated the Carpenters' lead singer, Karen Carpenter. He married Suzanne Pinegar on July 16, 1974; they have eight sons who perform as The Osmonds - Second Generation. Alan's son Michael has five children Suzannah Renee, Sarah Anne, Sasha Louise, Sean Michael, and Sophie Osmond. - Janice Kapp Perry
Janice Kapp Perry is a well-known LDS songwriter whose contributions have resulted in roughly 50 albums and songs in the LDS hymnal and the "Children's Songbook". She was born in Ogden, Utah, and lives in Provo with her husband Douglas. She has five children and over a dozen grandchildren. - Jon Peter Lewis
Jon Peter Lewis (born November 7, 1979 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American singer and songwriter, and was one of the finalists on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series "American Idol". He would frequently be referred to by the judges and Ryan Seacrest as simply JPL. - Jericho Road
Jericho Road is a Latter-day Saint boy band that sings religious music. The band's members are Abe Mills (from St. Louis, Missouri), Dave Kimball (Sandy, Utah), Justin Smith (Parma, Idaho), and Bret Bryce (Knoxville, Tennessee). - Shawn Southwick
Shawn Southwick was born Shawn Engemann in June 1959 in Studio City, California. She was a backup vocalist, model and former host of the television show "Hollywood Insider". Shawn is married to Larry King, her third husband and King's sixth wife. She is the mother of three sons (two with King). Southwick is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She married King on September 5, 1997. - Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American R&B/soul singer and actress. She is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels, with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, the most famous incarnation of which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and her cousins Edward Patten and William Guest. - Craig Jessop
Craig Jessop is music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. A student of Robert Shaw, Jessop was born in Millville, Utah and raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to which the choir is affiliated. Jessop received a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Stanford University after receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from Utah State University and Brigham Young University, respectively. - Kenneth Cope
Kenneth Cope (b. June 12, 1961, Salt Lake City, Utah) is a composer and performer of religious music geared towards Latter-day Saints. His first album, "Heaven - Don't Miss It For The World", was released in February 1988. His eleventh album, "Face to Face - Kenneth Cope Collection", was released in March 2005. - Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider (born August 26, 1974) is a freelance journalist, film critic, and musician from Lake Elsinore, California. Best known in his fan community for his "Snide Remarks" humor column and his prolific and often satirical movie reviews, Snider has occasionally received national attention, most notably after one of his "Snide Remarks" columns satirizing movie junkets resulted in Paramount Pictures banning him from all Paramount film press screenings. - Arthur Kane
Arthur Kane (February 3, 1949 - July 13, 2004) was a musician and librarian best known as the bassist for the pioneering glam punk band the New York Dolls. He stated in the 2004 documentary film "New York Doll" that his nickname, Arthur "Killer" Kane, was inspired by the old "Buck Rogers" comic strip's villainous character Killer Kane. - Ryan Avery
Ryan Avery (born 1986) is an American singer, comedian and performance artist, photobooth artist and Mormon missionary from Phoenix, Arizona. He has emerged as a prominent representative of the downtown Phoenix art, music, comedy, and improv scenes, taking his acts into California for performances with the Radioactive Chicken Heads and Quintron and Miss Pussycat, as well as local performances with the The Aquabats, Peelander Z, Good Riddance, Wild Man Fischer, … - Alan Sparhawk
Alan Sparhawk is the guitarist and vocalist for American band Low. He is a native of Duluth, Minnesota. He is married to fellow bandmember Mimi Parker, and is a member of the Mormon faith. His side projects include the blues-roots band "The Black Eyed Snakes" and more recently "the Retribution Gospel Choir". He also released a track on a various artists compilation Songs for the End of the World as Hollis M. Sparhawk & Her Father. - Merrill Jenson
Merrill Jenson is an American composer of music. - Liriel Domiciano
Liriel Domiciano is a Brazilian pop star and classical singer. She was born in São Paulo. Along with Rinaldo Viana, she won the "Raul Gil Amateur Show", the equivalent of the United States' American Idol. Their first CD, Romance, became the second-highest classical bestseller in Brazilian history. Two CDs released later also became bestsellers. - Brandon Flowers
Brandon Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is the vocalist and keyboardist in the American synth rock band The Killers. - Jon Schmidt
Jon Schmidt (born 1966) is an American New Age Classical pianist located in Salt Lake City. Born to German immigrants who trained him in the masters, such as Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin. He began songwriting at age 11. To date, he has released seven albums and seven piano books containing transcriptions of original arrangements. His work is often described as a combination of the magical stylings of Classical and New Age music with pop elements of hook and melody. - Christian Jacobs
Christian Richards Jacobs (born January 11, 1972 in Rexburg, Idaho), known by the stage name The MC Bat Commander or MCBC for short, has been the lead singer of The Aquabats since the band formed in 1994. As a child, he played the role of Joey Stivic (son of Mike and Gloria Stivic from "All in the Family") in the short-lived sitcom "Gloria". - James Valentine
James Burgon Valentine (born October 5, 1978 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American musician. He is best known as the guitarist for the pop rock group Maroon 5. Valentine played in Lincoln bands Kid Quarkstar and Happy Dog. In 2000, Happy Dog changed its name to Square and moved to Los Angeles from Anaheim, CA. where he taught private guitar lessons out of his home. - Lex de Azevedo
Lex de Azevedo is an American Mormon composer known primarily for his film scores. He was born in California, the son of Alyce King of The King Sisters by her first marriage. He composed the score for "Where the Red Fern Grows", which appeared in 1974. His most ambitious film project was "The Swan Princess", which was directed by Richard Rich. - Carmen Rasmusen
Carmen Rasmusen is a Canadian-American country singer and songwriter who ranked sixth on the second season of "American Idol" in 2003. Carmen also pays piano and guitar. Despite being eliminated, Carmen released by herself an EP, called "Carmen" featuring her first single, "Photograph". Three years later, Carmen signed a record deal with an independent country record label, Lofton Creek Records. - Lisa Hopkins
Lisa Hopkins is an American classical singer and actress born in 1978 in Simi Valley, California and raised all over the United States, from Manhattan to North Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Canada, and Utah. Hopkins is best known for her portrayal of Mimi in the 2002-03 production of "La Bohème" on Broadway, for which she received a Tony Award. - Yuki Saito
is a singer-songwriter, actor, essayist, and poet born on September 10, 1966 in Minami-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Her married name is, though she continues to work under her maiden name. She attended Kanagawa Prefectural Shimizugaoka High School (now Yokohama Seiryo Sogo High School). Her father owns a long-standing and respected obi shop, and her brother is the actor Ryūji Saitō. - Mick Ronson
Mick Ronson (May 26, 1946 - April 29, 1993) born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire was an English guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. He is most well known for his work with David Bowie from 1970 to 1973, Bowie's glam rock period, including being part of Ziggy Stardust's Spiders From Mars band. He also had a solo career, the most notable exponent of which was his "Slaughter On 10th Avenue" album, … - Mack Wilberg
Mack Wilberg (born 1955) was appointed Associate Music Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Music Director of the Temple Square Chorale for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in May 1999. He is a former Professor of Music at Brigham Young University and is active as a composer, arranger, guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and abroad. - Maren Ord
Maren Whitney Ord (born February 28, 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music. - William Clayton
William Clayton (1814 - 1879) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and acted as a clerk and scribe to the Mormon religious leader Joseph Smith, Jr. Clayton, originally born in England, is recognized as an American pioneer journalist, scribe, inventor, lyricist and musician. Clayton was born in Penwortham, England, the son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. He was the eldest of fourteen children. He married Ruth Moon on October 9, 1836. - Michael McLean
Michael McLean is an American composer, singer, author, and filmmaker based in Heber, Utah. As a composer, McLean has produced more than 20 albums of original music, selling over one million copies since his 1983 debut. Focused mainly on a Latter-day Saint audience, McLean has also produced albums with a broader appeal, such as "The Forgotten Carols". - Jerold Ottley
Jerold Ottley is a retired music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He directed the choir from 1974 to 1999. Prior to this, he was on the music faculty at the University of Utah and served as the assistant chair of the music department. Since his retirement he has been involved in volunteer work. - Randy Bachman
Randolph Charles Bachman, OM, D.Mus (hon.) (born September 27, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) was lead guitarist and songwriter of the 1970s rock bands, The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of the band Brave Belt with Chad Allan and has recorded numerous solo albums. - La Monte Young
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14 1935) is an American composer and musician. Young is commonly seen as the first minimalist composer and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, despite having little in common formally with Glass or Reich. Young is also probably the least heard and least well known of the major minimalist composers. - William Wines Phelps
William Wines Phelps ("also" W.W. Phelps, and William W. Phelps was an important early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was an assistant president of the church in Missouri, scribe to Joseph Smith, member of the Literary Firm, church printer, editor, and song-writer. - Felicia Wolfe
Felicia Sorensen is a singer who has worked with the Taliesin Orchestra, as well as with Donny Osmond, Lee Greenwood, Sam Cardon and Northern Voices. She has also appeared on the Especially for Youth recording series. - Kirby Heyborne
Kirby Heyborne (born October 8 1976 in Evanston, Wyoming) is an American actor who got his start in LDS films. He graduated from Alta High School in 1994 where he was student body president. Heyborne graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Economics. He has also released several CDs on which he sings and plays guitar. Heyborne first became widely popular in Mormon culture after starring in the film "The R.M." (2003). - Kurt Bestor
Kurt Bestor is an American composer, arranger, and performer. He was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and raised in Orem, Utah. His grandfather played trumpet in Tommy Dorsey's band and his great uncle played trombone in Jack Benny's band. Kurt Bestor has released over a dozen CDs including several Christmas CDs. His Christmas concerts have become an annual Utah tradition since 1988. Bestor, in conjunction with Utah composer Sam Cardon, released a CD, Innovators, in 1995, … - Michael Ballam
Michael Ballam is the general director of the Utah Festival Opera and a professor of music at Utah State University. He was the youngest person to receive a doctor of music degree with distinction from Indiana University at age 24. Ballam is frequently invited to lecture on the interaction between music and the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he has been a life-long member. He has also worked as an actor for the church.
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