- Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, born March 3, 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina, is a guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. According to Doc on his three CD biographical recording "Legacy", he got the nickname "Doc" during a live radio broadcast when the announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname to go by. - James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts. Taylor's career began in the mid-1960s, but he found his audience in the early 1970s, singing sensitive and gentle acoustic songs. He was part of a wave of singer-songwriters of the time that also included Joni Mitchell, Tom Rush, Cat Stevens, Carole King, John Denver, Elton John, Jackson Browne as well as Carly Simon, whom Taylor later married. - Tift Merritt
Tift Merritt (born January 8, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Houston, Texas, Merritt moved to North Carolina at a young age. Merritt began her career playing small clubs in Chapel Hill and Raleigh. In 1999, she released a 7-song EP with the Two Dollar Pistols, led by John Howie, Jr. The EP was very much a country music compilation as it featured two original songs and five covers, including Charley Pride's "I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again". - Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker (born February 14, 1943) is a noted American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Parker's rhythmic and rapid playing style draws on the earlier innovations of be-bopper Charlie Parker (no relation), and Cannonball Adderley, mixed with Brown's own innovations in funk music. - George Clinton
George Clinton (born July 22, 1940) is an American musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and was a solo funk artist as of 1981. He has been hailed as "The Prime Minister of Funk" as the leader of Parliament, as well as "The King of Interplanetary Funksmanship". - Charlie Poole
Charlie Poole (March 22, 1892 - May 21, 1931) was an American banjo player. Poole was born in Spray (now part of Eden), Rockingham County, in the northern part of North Carolina, near the Virginia border. He spent much of his adult life working in textile mills. He learned banjo as a youth and also played baseball. His three-fingered playing technique was the result of a baseball accident. - Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the musical group Ben Folds Five. He is widely acclaimed for his prowess as a pianist, songwriter, performer, and multi-instrumentalist. - Earl Scruggs
Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for creating a banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Scruggs was born in Shelby, North Carolina to Georgia Lula Ruppe and George Elam Scruggs. Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in late 1945 and his syncopated, three-finger picking style quickly became a sensation. - Mitch Easter
Mitch Easter is a musician and producer, best known for his work with R.E.M., though he has worked with many other acts and was the frontman for the band Let's Active. Born November 15, 1954 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Easter was deeply involved in music from an early age. He played in a number of school bands, some of them with his childhood friend Chris Stamey. The two eventually formed The Sneakers, who released a number of singles and an album in the late 1970s. - Ryan Adams
David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised by his mother and grandmother, Adams dropped out of school at age 16 and performed with several local bands before moving to Raleigh and forming the band Whiskeytown. Three albums and five years later Adams went solo, releasing "Heartbreaker" in 2000. A long-term resident of New York City, Adams is best known for his song "New York, … - John Coltrane
John William Coltrane, nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist, Coltrane's recording career did not begin in earnest until 1955. From 1957 onward he recorded and produced dozens of albums, many of them not released until years after his death. - 9th Wonder
9th Wonder (born Patrick Douthit, January 15, 1975 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is a Grammy Award winning hip hop producer from Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He began his career as the main producer for the group Little Brother, and has also worked with the likes of Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, and Destiny's Child. As part of Little Brother he gained widespread recognition and critical acclaim from hip-hoppers worldwide. He has recently left Little Brother - Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000. Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few music stars to use a piano as her primary instrument. - Little Brother
Little Brother is an American hip-hop group from North Carolina that consists of Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh. Producer 9th Wonder was a part of the group since its inception, but left before recording the album "Getback". Their debut album "The Listening" (2003) was highly acclaimed, and was followed by "The Chittlin Circuit 1.5" mixtape in 2005 and the group's second album, "The Minstrel Show", also released in 2005. - Jermaine Dupri
Jermaine Dupri also known simply as JD (born Jermaine Dupri Mauldin on September 23 1972) is an American record producer and rapper. Dupri is notable as the youngest ever inductee to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 16 2006, introduced by Quincy Jones and Russell Simmons. - Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, producer, writer, director and Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of "A Face in the Crowd," before he was better known for his starring roles, playing the title characters in the long-running 1960s sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show", for CBS and in the long-running 1980s and 1990s legal drama, … - Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program "American Idol" in 2003. After placing second, RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album "Measure of a Man" was released in October 2003. - Phonte
Phonte (b. Phonte Coleman) is an American rapper and a member of acclaimed North Carolina duo, Little Brother. His rhymes tend to be no-frills tales of working-class life. In addition to records by Little Brother, Phonte has also released a collaboration album with Dutch producer Nicolay under the group name Foreign Exchange, entitled "Connected", and appeared on numerous records by other artists, most notably from the Justus League collective. - Eric Church
Eric Church (born Kenneth Eric Church, May 3, 1977 in Granite Falls, North Carolina) is a country music singer and songwriter. To date, has charted three singles on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts. - Rapper Big Pooh
Rapper Big Pooh (born Thomas Jones) is an American rapper, who, along with fellow rap artist Phonte, is a member of the acclaimed North Carolina hip hop group Little Brother. In addition to numerous records and EP's by Little Brother, Pooh released a solo album in 2005 entitled "Sleepers" to positive critical review. Furthermore, he has been guest featured on numerous tracks by other artists, … - Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician. Her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles, such as jazz, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and even pop music. Her vocal style is characterized by passion, breathiness, and tremolo. Simone recorded over 40 live and studio albums, … - Wednesday 13
Joseph Poole, better known as Wednesday 13 (born August 12, 1976) is a rock musician, from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is most famous for his role as the frontman of the Murderdolls. He has also played in several other bands, including the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13, the Wednesday 13 band, Maniac Spider Trash, and an outlaw country project; Bourbon Crow. - 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, … - Chris Daughtry
Christopher Adam "Chris" Daughtry (born December 26 1979) is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist of Daughtry, a band he formed in 2006. He is also known as the fourth-place finalist on the highly publicized fifth season of "American Idol", rejected from the competition on May 10 2006. After his fallout from "Idol", his band's self-titled debut album sold more than 1 million copies after just 5 weeks of release. - Don Dixon
Don Dixon is a record producer, songwriter, musician, bassist, and very occasional actor. He is originally from South Carolina. - Kellie Pickler
Kellie Dawn Pickler (born June 28, 1986) is an American country music singer and songwriter who finished sixth on the fifth season of the Fox television series "American Idol". Despite being eliminated, Pickler signed a recording contract with the record company BNA Records, a country label owned by RCA Records and Sony BMG Music Entertainment in conjunction with "Idol" series creator Simon Fuller's 19 Recordings Limited. - Jimmy Wayne
Jimmy Wayne is an American country music singer-songwriter. Wayne signed a contract with DreamWorks Records in Nashville in 2001. Jimmy’s debut album was released on June 24th 2003 on Dreamworks. The song produced two Top 5 hits and a Top 20 on Billboard's country charts, as well as a Christmas single ("Paper Angels") which reached Top 20. After DreamWorks folded, Jimmy signed to Big Machine Records. - Leigh Fox
Leigh Fox (born in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American television and film actress. She is best known as the founding member, lead songwriter/singer/bassist of The Pinkslips, a quirky all-female three piece that emerged in 2003 out of the Chapel Hill Music Scene. Their debut album New Crush was produced by platinum selling artists Ken Mosher of The Squirrel Nut Zippers and Robert Sledge of Ben Folds Five. - Warren Haynes
Warren Haynes (born April 6, 1960) is an American rock and blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter and long time member of The Allman Brothers Band. Haynes also founded and runs Evil Teen Records. - Sunshine Anderson
Sunshine Anderson is an African-America R&B singer. She was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina as a young child. Wallace Sellars, a friend of a producer/Soulife A&R Vice President, Mike City, heard Anderson singing on her way to the cafeteria of North Carolina Central University, her college, and introduced the two. From there, Anderson was managed by Macy Gray during the recording of her first album. - Tim Alexander
Tim "Herb" Alexander (born April 10, 1965 in Cherry Point, North Carolina) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Primus. Tim played on the Primus recordings "Suck on This", "Frizzle Fry", "Sailing the Seas of Cheese", "Miscellaneous Debris", "Pork Soda", and "Tales from the Punchbowl", before leaving the band in 1996, only to rejoin in 2003 for the EP "Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People". - Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30 1984), or simply Fantasia, is a Grammy nominated, award-winning, American pop, R&B, soul singer and Broadway actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series "American Idol" in 2004. Her first album, "Free Yourself", was a commercial success, earning her three Grammy nominations and selling over 2.1 million copies. - Anthony Hamilton
Anthony Hamilton (born January 28, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American R&B, soul, and neo soul singer, songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame with his Platinum-selling second studio album "Comin' from Where I'm From" (2003), which featured the singles "Comin' from Where I'm From" and "Charlene". Hamilton first discovered his talent while singing in his church choir at age ten. In 1993, he left Charlotte and headed to New York City, … - David L. Cook
David L. Cook (born November 11, 1968) is a Christian country music singer and comedian. - Dexter Romweber
Dexter Romweber was born in 1966. In the eighties he formed with drummer Chris "Crow" Smith the seminal band Flat Duo Jets. - Shirley Caesar
Shirley Caesar (b. October 13, 1938) is an twelve time African-American Grammy winning gospel singer and Christian pastor. Caesar was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. She faced many obstacles in her youth, including racism, segregation, the death of her father when she was only eight years old, and the responsibility of caring for a semi-invalid mother. Caesar began singing as a young girl in church. Although she was struggling in school, she remained determined, … - Mark McGuinn
Mark McGuinn (born in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American country singer-songwriter. - Fred Durst
William Frederick Durst (born August 20, 1970 in Jacksonville, Florida) is the lead singer of Limp Bizkit. - Byron Hill
Byron Hill (born December 12, 1953) is an American songwriter. He grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and in 1978 left his home state to begin his professional career in Nashville, Tennessee. His songs have been recorded by many known Country and Pop artists including George Strait, Ray Charles, Anne Murray, Kenny Rogers, Juice Newton, Alabama, Randy Travis, Keith Whitley, Johnny Lee, George Jones, Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Joe Nichols, Gary Allan, Tracy Byrd, … - Rockie Lynne
Rockie Lynne is an American country music artist from Statesville, North Carolina. He was signed to Universal South Records in late 2005 and has charted three singles on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart.
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