- Chris Funk
Chris Funk is a member of the Portland, Oregon, indie rock band, The Decemberists. He is originally from Valparaiso, Indiana. He plays guitar, pedal steel, piano, violin, the theremin and many other instruments. Funk joined the band after attendance at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His alter-ego on The Decemberists website is Crutchy McGee. After the trailer with all their equipment and merchandise was stolen in 2005, … - Jim Pepper
Jim Pepper (b. Salem, Oregon, June 18 1941; d. Portland, Oregon, February 10 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer of Native American ancestry. Beginning in the late 1960s, Pepper became a pioneer of fusion jazz, his band The Free Spirits (active between 1965 and 1968, with guitarist Larry Coryell) being credited as the first to combine elements of jazz and rock. - Mason Williams
Mason Williams (b. August 24, 1938 in Abilene, Texas) is a multiple Grammy award winning American guitarist and composer, best known for his popular guitar instrumental "Classical Gas", as well as a multiple Emmy award winning comedy writer, best known for his writing on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and Saturday Night Live. He is also an eclectic poet and lyricist, with several published books to his credit. - James Mercer
James Russell Mercer (born December 26 1970 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American guitarist and rock musician. He attended high school in both England and Germany. He is currently the lead singer/songwriter for The Shins, an indie rock group that formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1997. In 2002, the band relocated to Portland, Oregon, the given location stated on the band's official MySpace page. Before the Shins, Mercer fronted the group Flake, … - Curtis Salgado
Curtis Salgado is a Portland, Oregon-based Blues, R&B, and Soul singer-songwriter-musician. He was born on February 41954 in Everett, Washington. He plays harmonica and fronts his own band as lead vocalist. Salgado was the inspiration behind John Belushi's creation of the Blues Brothers characters in the late 1970s. They met and became friends while Belushi was in Eugene, Oregon filming the movie Animal House. - M. Ward
Matt Ward, known by his stage name M. Ward, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who, until Summer 2006 was part of the music scene of Portland, Oregon. He has since relocated to New Hampshire. Ward was previously a member of the band Rodriguez with Kyle Field of Little Wings. Their album "Swing Like a Metronome" was released in 2000 and produced by Jason Lytle of Grandaddy. - Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an Academy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, … - Chris Walla
Chris Walla (sometimes credited as Christopher Walla) is the guitarist and producer for the band Death Cab for Cutie. He is also a former DJ of KCWU, 88.1 The Burg. Chris currently resides in Portland, Oregon. - Tracy Grammer
Tracy Grammer is an American folk singer best known for her work as half of the folk duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. She recorded three albums with Dave Carter, at first doing instrumental work and providing at first backing vocals, and then, by their last album together, doing lead vocals on half of the tracks. Born in Homestead, Florida, Grammer was raised in Southern California and began her musical studies early. - Paul Delay
Paul Joseph deLay (b. January 31 1952, Portland, Oregon - d. March 7 2007, Portland, Oregon), was an American blues vocalist and harmonicist. DeLay's musical career started in the early 1970s with a band called "Brown Sugar", which played numerous West Coast gigs. In 1976, he and guitarist Jim Mesi formed the Paul deLay Blues Band, which performed well into the 1980s. The band also recorded several albums during that time. - Dave Carter
Dave Carter (August 13, 1952-July 19, 2002) was an American folk singer and songwriter who self-described his style as "post-modern mythic American folk music." He was one half of the duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. The duo were being heralded as the new "voice of modern folk music" in the months before Carter's unexpected death in July 2002. - Colin Meloy
Colin Patrick Henry Meloy is the lead singer and songwriter for the Portland, Oregon, indie band The Decemberists. As of 2005, Meloy has written a 100-page book on The Replacements' fourth album, "Let It Be", released as part of the "33⅓" series. Meloy was born in Helena, Montana. His sister is Maile Meloy, an author often published in the New Yorker. He attended the University of Montana, where he majored in creative writing. - Britt Daniel
Britt Daniel is the co-founder, lead singer and guitarist of the Austin, Texas rock band Spoon. - Jenny Conlee
Jenny Conlee is the longtime accordionist, pianist, organist, keyboardist, and occasional backup vocalist for the indie-pop quintet The Decemberists, roles she has filled on each of the band's releases. Aside from her work with the Decemberists, Conlee made a guest appearance on music by Hush Records artist Reclinerland, and played piano for the 1990s Portland, Oregon, band Calobo. During a concert on April 15, 2007, in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, … - Obo Addy
Obo Addy (b. 1936) is an Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as "worldbeat" to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s. He currently teaches music at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. - Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson (1965-) is an American bassist. He was born in Grants Pass, Oregon and first became known while playing in Eugene, Oregon's Snakepit from 1984-1989. He replaced Lou Barlow in Dinosaur Jr in 1991 and played with the band primarily in live performance, although he also contributed his talents to many of Dinosaur Jr's releases between 1991 and 1997. - Martin Crandall
Martin Crandall is the keyboardist of The Shins, who also plays bass guitar during some live performances, allowing fellow band member Dave Hernandez to play electric guitar. This has happened as The Shins move away from the keyboard-drenched reverb of their debut album Oh, Inverted World towards the cleaner guitar driven sounds of their album Chutes Too Narrow. Crandall is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, but spent some of his high school years in Las Vegas, … - Pete Krebs
Pete Krebs is an independent musician from Portland, Oregon, best known as a member of the punk-pop band Hazel, and for a split record with Elliott Smith. Having already served successful tours in the Northwest punk bands Thrillhammer, Hazel (two albums on Sub Pop records) and the rambunctious bluegrass band Golden Delicious, Pete Krebs has established himself as a prolific contemporary singer-songwriter. Much like his friend and collaborator Elliott Smith, … - Jesse Sandoval
Jesse Sandoval is the drummer of U.S. indie rock group The Shins. Sandoval initially formed Flake with singer-songwriter James Mercer, guitarist Neal Langford and bassist Marty Crandall in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1992. Sandoval and Mercer then went on to form The Shins as a side project, intending to play as a duo, but were eventually joined again by Marty Crandall on keyboard and Dave Hernandez on bass, which is the current line-up. - Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna (b. 12 November 1968) is an American musician, activist, and zine writer. She is the former lead singer of Bikini Kill (the 1990s) and feminist electro-punk band Le Tigre. In 1998, Hanna released a solo album under the name Julie Ruin. Hanna has contributed a great deal to the revival of feminism and is considered one of the leading icons of the '90s riot grrrl movement. She has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, … - Darol Anger
Darol Anger is an American violinist, born in 1953. - Bill Hudson
William (Bill) Louis Hudson (born 17 October 1947 in Portland, Oregon, USA) is an American musician most famous for being in the band The Hudson Brothers. Hudson married Goldie Hawn in 1976 and had two children, Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson. After their divorce in 1980, the children were raised by Hawn and her live-in boyfriend, Kurt Russell. He then married Cindy Williams in 1982, and had two more children, Emily Hudson and Zachary Hudson. - Corin Tucker
Corin Tucker (born November 9 1972) is a singer and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. - Juliet Wyers
Juliet Wyers is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. She has recorded two albums, "Clear" (2003) and "sunlit (summer:live)" (2005). "Clear" ranked 22nd in CD Baby's 2003 Top 100 Sellers contest, out of 35,000 artists. "Clear" was also #27 Most Played Album on the FolkDJ charts, and the first track, “Life, Love Me,” was #24 Most Played Song (November 2003). In 2003 she was a finalist in six national songwriting competitions, … - Dave Allen
Dave Allen (born December 1955) was the bassist for the post-punk band, Gang of Four. In 1981, he left Gang of Four to found Shriekback. He later founded World Domination Recordings and two of its bands, The Elastic Purejoy and Low Pop Suicide (with Rick Boston). He appeared on several LPs and EPs with each of these bands, … - Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus (born May 30, 1966, Santa Monica, California) is an indie-rock musician and a former member of the band Pavement. - Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Brownstein (born September 27 1974), is an American musician and actress. She is best known for being a guitarist and vocalist in the currently on hiatus Portland, Oregon-based band Sleater-Kinney. Brownstein grew up in Redmond, Washington. After attending Western Washington University for a short time, she transferred to Evergreen State College and graduated with a degree in Sociolinguistics in 1997. - China Forbes
China Forbes is an American singer and songwriter, and the lead singer of Pink Martini. Born April 29, 1970 and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she comes from a multiracial background. Her father is Cameron D. Forbes and her mother is Peggy Woodford Forbes. She also has a sister, Maya C. Forbes. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy ('88), then studied visual arts at Harvard University ('92), where she met fellow student Thomas M Lauderdale, … - Dave Hernandez
Dave Hernandez who plays bass guitar in the American indie band The Shins, and also plays electric guitar during live performances. Hernandez had originally performed in other projects with Shins frontman James Mercer with Scared of Chaka and Broadcast Oblivion before joining The Shins and replacing former Flake bassist Neal Langford. Hernandez now resides along with the rest of the band in Portland, Oregon. - John Moen
John Moen is a member of the Portland rock band The Decemberists. He sings, plays the drums, the melodica, occasionally the keyboard, and dances around with a floor tom. Prior to joining The Decemberists, John played with over 20 bands. The Jicks, Cavemanish Boys, the Dharma Bums, the Minus 5 (sometimes), and the Maroons are some of the best known bands he has been in. He was born in Brainerd, Minnesota and raised in Salem, Oregon. - Larry Norman
Larry David Norman (born April 8, 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter considered the forefather of Contemporary Christian Music. He is well known for his hard rock anthems alongside his delicate and haunting folk rock ballads. Norman is well respected for his creative songwriting. One critic lionized him in 1970 as the "Rebel Poet, Jukebox Balladeer" (Ed Plowman, Hollywood Free Paper). - Eric Matthews
Eric Matthews (born 1969 in Compton, California) is an American composer, musician, recording artist, and record producer. Eric came to the world's attention as one half of the band Cardinal. Cardinal was formed with Australian singer-songwriter Richard Davies in 1992 while the two both lived in Boston, Massachusetts. Cardinal introduced Eric as a multi-instrumentalist and arranger while Richard contributed most of the songwriting. - Thomas M. Lauderdale
Thomas M. Lauderdale was born in 1970 and adopted into a family that included two black siblings and an Iranian brother. He is of "uncertain" Asian heritage. The family lived first on a rural Indiana plant nursery, where his father was a gardener. When Thomas was twelve, his father came out of the closet. The family relocated to Portland, Oregon. His parents divorced, but remained on friendly terms, his father later performing the ceremony when his former wife remarried. - James Paul
James Paul (born 1940 in Forest Grove, Oregon, USA) is an American conductor. He studied voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Following his studies he was awarded the Serge Koussevitsky Memorial Conducting Prize presented by Erich Leinsdorf at the 1967 Tanglewood Music Festival. Mr. Paul then served as conducting fellow with the St. Louis Symphony and conductor of the Bach Society of St. Louis. - Sam Coomes
Sam Coomes is an American musician, and currently half of the Portland-area indie band Quasi, along with drummer and ex-wife Janet Weiss. Coomes was also a member of the mid 1980s folk revival band The Donner Party and replaced Brandt Peterson as the bassist for the 1990s Portland grunge band, Heatmiser. - Peter Loew
Peter Holmstrom is a guitar player from Portland, Oregon. He is a founding member of The Dandy Warhols. He is a graduate of the Oregon Episcopal School in Portland. Peter married Samantha Frost in 2003. - Thomas Mapfumo
Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo is a Zimbabwean musician known as "The Lion of Zimbabwe" and "Mukanya" for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music. He invented and popularised Chimurenga music. - Eric Hedford
Eric Hedford is a drummer who was a founding member of The Dandy Warhols. He performed on 1995's Dandy's Rule OK?, 1996's The Black Album and 1997's ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down. Under the moniker Aquaman Hedford is credited for "additional production" on ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down's Everyday Should Be A Holiday. Also as Aquaman, Hedford did several remixes of the song Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth, which were only available on a promotional 12 inch record. - Janet Weiss
Janet Weiss (born September 24, 1965) was the drummer of now defunct Sleater-Kinney and is currently a member of Quasi and the drummer for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. Janet was born in Hollywood, California. She attended San Francisco State University and graduated with a degree in photography. While in college, she started playing drums with an all-girl trio, The Furies. At the age of 22 she went on tour with The Furies as a drummer, … - Scott McCaughey
Scott McCaughey {surname pronounced "Mc-COY") is the leader of the Seattle-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5. Since 1994, he has been a sort of "fifth member" of R.E.M., working with the band both on stage and in the studio. He plays guitar, bass, and other assorted instruments. He is also bassist for "The Venus 3" with Robyn Hitchcock, Bill Rieflin and Peter Buck. He recently, as of 2006, has joined many other musicians flocking to the shores of Portland, …
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