- Kid Rock
Robert James Ritchie (born January 17 1971), best known as Kid Rock, is an American rapper, singer and rock musician most notable for his albums "Devil Without a Cause" and "Cocky" and his hit singles "Bawitdaba" and "Picture." His backup band is known as Twisted Brown Trucker. Together, they fuse rap, hard rock, southern rock, country and blues. - Bob Seger
Robert Clark Seger (born May 6, 1945) is a rock and roll musician from Michigan. After years of local Detroit-area success starting in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved his greatest national success starting in the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band. A roots rocker whose songs deal with blue-collar themes, Seger has recorded many rock and roll hits, including "Night Moves", "We've Got Tonight", "Like a Rock", … - Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Wonder has recorded more than thirty Top 10 hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. - Ted Nugent
Theodore "Ted" Nugent (born December 13 1948, Detroit, Michigan) (aka The Nuge, Uncle Ted, Terrible Ted, Sweaty Teddy, Deadly Tedly, Great Gonzos, Theodocious Atrocious,Tedinator and The Motor City Madman) is a hard rock guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes, … - Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. With a stage show that featured guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood and boa constrictors, Cooper drew equally from heavy metal, horror movies and vaudeville to create a theatrical brand of rock music that would come to be known as Shock rock. - Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, jazz, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. - Jack White
Jack White (occasionally Jack III White or Jack White III), born John Anthony Gillis on July 9, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan is an American musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer. He started as a part-time musician working with various underground bands in Detroit, while working by day as an upholsterer. He is best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo The White Stripes. - Meg White
Megan Martha White (born December 10, 1974 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan) is best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. - Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg, Jr. (born April 21, 1947), better known by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited commercial success, Iggy Pop is considered one of the most important innovators of punk rock and related styles. He is sometimes referred to by the nicknames "the Godfather of Punk" and "the Rock Iguana", … - Amp Fiddler
Joseph "Amp" Fiddler is a keyboard player, singer, songwriter and producer from Detroit, Michigan in the USA. His musical styles include funk, soul, dance and electronica music. He is probably best known for his contributions to the band Enchantment, and as part of George Clinton’s Parliament and Funkadelic groups during the 1970s and 80s. His first solo album "Waltz of a Ghetto Fly" was released in March 2004. - Uncle Kracker
Uncle Kracker (born Matthew Shafer, 6 June 1974, in Mount Clemens, Michigan) is an American rock and country musician. He started out his career at a young age as a fledgling rapper. He met Kid Rock in 1987, and Rock asked Kracker to become his DJ. Kracker did not know how to work the turntables, but he soon learned how to, and he became a long-term friend and colleague of Rock. - Mark Farner
Mark Farner (born September 29, 1948 in Flint, Michigan) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad, previously, in Mojo and the Nightwalkers and later as a Contemporary Christian Musician. Farner began his career in music playing in bands like Terry Knight and The Pack (1965-1966), in Mojo and the nightwalkers, The Bossmen (1966), The Pack (aka The Fabulous Pack) (1967-1968), … - Mick Collins
Mick Collins (b. December 18, 1965) is a Detroit, Michigan musician with a long and continuing musical history. Collins first played in a band called the U-Boats in 1981 and then in the Floor Tasters in 1984 and '85. In 1986, the 20-year old Collins helped form the seminal garage rock and blues band, The Gories. The band featured Collins on guitar, Dan Kroha (later of the Demolition Doll Rods) on guitar, and Peg O'Neil on the drums. - Don Was
Don Was (born Don Fagenson on September 13, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American musician, bassist and record producer. Fagenson graduated from Oak Park High School in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but dropped out after the first year. A journeyman musician, he grew up listening to the Detroit blues sound and the jazz music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. - Brendan Benson
Brendan Benson is a Michigan born musician and songwriter. He sings and plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and drums. He has released three solo albums and is a member of the band The Raconteurs. Benson's major musical influences include The Cars, David Bowie, The Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Costello, The Kinks, Robyn Hitchcock, Paul McCartney, and Todd Rundgren. - Josh Gracin
Joshua Mario "Josh" Gracin (born on October 18, 1980) is a country music singer and a member of the United States Marine Corps who arose to fame as the fourth-place finalist on the second season of "American Idol". After his departure, his debut album went gold in 2004. - Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Kiedis (born November 1, 1962) is the lead singer and a co-founder of the Grammy award winning American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He is also responsible for writing most of the band's vocal melodies and lyrics. Though his style was originally a rap/rock fusion, over time Kiedis developed his singing voice. - Milt Jackson
Milton (Milt) Jackson (January 1, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan - October 9, 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist and one of the most important figures in the hard bop style. A very expressive player, Jackson differentiated himself from other vibraphonists in his attention to variations on harmonics and rhythm. He was particularly fond of the 12-bar blues at slow tempos. - Levi Stubbs
Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles) (born June 6, 1936) is most famous as the lead singer of the Motown group, The Four Tops, from 1954 until 2000 when he fell ill due to bouts with diabetes and cancer. - Don Brewer
Don Brewer (born September 3 1948 in Flint, Michigan) is a drummer for American rock band Grand Funk Railroad. He came from Swartz Creek and graduated from Swartz Creek High School. Grand Funk, as they were later known, had a series of hit singles and platinum albums in the 1970s; the original members included Brewer (drums, vocals), Mark Farner (guitar, vocals), and Mel Schacher (bass). The band added Craig Frost to the lineup in 1974. - Bob Baldori
Bob Baldori (born 1943), also known as "Boogie Bob", is an American rock, blues, and boogie musician and attorney. Baldori founded the rock band The Woolies in 1964; the group had a national hit in 1966 with Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love". He has also pursued a solo career, performing in venues all over the country, and recording a 1994 solo album. He has worked with and performed with Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Luther Allison, Del Shannon, … - Kim Kashkashian
Kim Kashkashian (born August 31, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American violist of Armenian heritage. She gained international fame by winning the 2nd place prize at the 1980 Lionel Tertis Competition and the 1980 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She has been featured on over 30 albums and performs pieces from both classical and contemporary composers. Her albums have won awards, notably the 1999 Edison Prize and the Cannes Prize for Chamber Music in 2000. - Glenn Frey
Glenn Lewis Frey (born November 6, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as one of the founding members of rock band Eagles. - Slim Gaillard
Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1916 - February 26, 1991) was a African-American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play. Along with Gaillard's date of birth, his family lineage and place of birth are disputed. One account is that he was born in Santa Clara, Cuba of a Greek father and an Afro-Cuban mother ; another is that he was born in Pensacola, Florida to a German father and an African-American mother. - Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K. (born Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier on May 9, 1979 in Stanford, California) is a rock musician from the United States. - Scott Kinsey
Scott Kinsey is a keyboardist best-known for his work with the jazz fusion group Tribal Tech. He has also performed or recorded with numerous other artists including Gary Willis, James Moody, Bill Evans, Robben Ford and the fusion group Uncle Moe's Space Ranch with guitarist T. J. Helmerich. He is a 1991 graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and has also recorded numerous soundtracks for major motion pictures including "Ocean's Eleven" and "Ocean's Twelve". - Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer (Born on April 30, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American guitarist. He co-founded the Detroit rock group MC5 (Motor City 5). The band played at Detroit's famous Grande Ballroom often and was managed by John Sinclair, a radical left-wing writer and co-founder of the White Panther Party, until 1970 when Jon Landau took over creative management of the group. After MC5's demise, Kramer spent several years committing crimes and battling drug addictions. - Craig Frost
Craig Frost (born April 20 1948, Flint, Michigan) is the keyboardist for Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band. However, he is best known as keyboardist for 1970s hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad. Frost expanded Grand Funk's "power trio" musical style, by adding another dimension to their music. Grand Funk scored its biggest hits after Frost joined the band in 1973, … - Marcel Chagnon
Marcel (born Marcel Chagnon on February 9 1975) is an American country music singer-songwriter. - Sam Grendel
Samuel Victor Grendel (born October 22, 1977 in New Baltimore, Michigan) is the bass guitarist for Blowfex. Prior to this, he played in Shovel from 2000 until 2003. - Adam Lee Miller
Adam Lee Miller is one half of the band ADULT. and an owner of Ersatz Audio with his wife Nicola Kuperus. He was formerly in Le Car, which disbanded in 1997. He lives in Detroit. - Aaliyah Dana Haughton
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), best known as Aaliyah, was an American singer, dancer, model and actress. Introduced to audiences by R&B singer R. Kelly, Aaliyah became famous during the mid-1990s with several hit records from the songwriting/production team of Missy Elliott & Timbaland and their associate Steve "Static" Garrett. Aaliyah soon joined Timbaland's R&B and hip hop collective, the Superfriends Clique. - Jim Sonefeld
Jim "Soni" Sonefeld (born 20 October 1964, in Lansing, Michigan) is an American musician. He is a graduate of Naperville Central High School and one of the founding members of Hootie & the Blowfish. While attending the University of South Carolina, "Soni" was a member of the Gamecock Soccer Team. Sonefeld plays drums, percussion and piano for the band, and has also contributed to their songs. - Mark Tremonti
Mark Thomas Tremonti (born) is the lead guitarist for the band Alter Bridge and former guitarist for the band Creed. Tremonti writes music, some lyrics and contributes backing vocals. - Del Shannon
Del Shannon (born Charles Weedon Westover in Coopersville, Michigan) was an American rock and roller who launched into fame with the No. 1 hit "Runaway" (1961). The song introduced the musitron, an early form of the synthesizer played by "Runaway" co-writer and keyboardist Max Crook. - Liz Larin
Liz Larin (born Mary Elizabeth Larin) is a Detroit-based singer-songwriter and rock musician who has risen become one of the most celebrated artists of the Detroit music scene. In 2003, when readers of "Jam Rag Magazine" voted her #1 out of 80 Detroit acts, Jam Rag featured her on the cover as "Detroit's Goddess of Rock", a title which in now used by the venues where she plays. - Matt Noveskey
William Matthew "Matt" Noveskey (born June 16 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, and bassist, best known for his work with the bands Blue October and (a+)machines. - David Geddes
David Cole Idema (born July 1, 1950 in Michigan), better known by his stage name David Geddes, is a soft rock singer who had a U.S. Top 5 hit with "Run Joey Run" in 1975. The followup, "The Last Game Of The Season (A Blind Man In The Bleachers)," was also a hit peaking at #18. Under his real name, Geddes was the drummer/vocalist for the cult band The Fredric (also known as Rock Garden) and released several records in the early 1970s. - Brad vander Ark
Brad Vander Ark (February 27, 1969) was the bass player of the band The Verve Pipe from 1992-2001. Born in Holland, Michigan, Vander Ark began playing bass at age 14. In 1990, he and his brother Brian Vander Ark formed the band Johnny With an Eye. In 1992, Johnny With an Eye disbanded, and Brian and Brad formed The Verve Pipe, along with Drummer Donny Brown and guitarist Brian Stout. In 2000, Brad moved to New York City, and began performing with Craig Wedren, … - Jason Stollsteimer
Jason Stollsteimer, is lead vocalist and guitarist of the Indie rock band The Von Bondies, of Michigan. Stollsteimer also is the main songwriter and producer of the Von bondies. He is also in the Ann Arbor-based band "The Done Wrongs" with Mariah Cherem and The Von Bondies' drummer Don Blum.
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