- Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially in the 1970s. John has sold more than 250 million albums plus hundreds of millions of singles, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. - Billy Joel
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949, in the Bronx, New York, USA) is an American singer, pianist, songwriter, and composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973. According to the RIAA, he is the sixth best selling artist in the United States. Joel had Top 10 hits in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, is a six-time Grammy Award winner and has sold in excess of 150 million albums worldwide. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (Class of 1992), … - 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. - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - Nicky Hopkins
Nicholas Christian 'Nicky' Hopkins (February 24, 1944 at the Park Royal Hospital, Harlesden, North London – September 6, 1994 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA) was an English musician who featured on scores of the most important British and American popular music recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, playing piano and organ. He is regarded as one of the most important session musicians in rock history, playing on countless hit recordings by leading British and American acts. - Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, … - 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. - Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter. She is best known as Fiona Apple. - Alan Pasqua
Alan Pasqua (born June 28, 1952 in New Jersey) is a jazz pianist and composer who co-composed the CBS Evening News Theme. He also does pop and rock music. He studied at Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music. - Gavin Degraw
Gavin DeGraw (born February 4, 1977) is an American pop singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. - Burton Cummings
Burton Cummings (aka The Cumman), OM, D.Mus (Hon.) (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician--- and songwriter. A gifted showman, he was the lead singer for the Canadian rock band The Guess Who, and during his 10 years in The Guess Who from 1965 to 1975, he sang and wrote or co-wrote many well known songs, including "American Woman," "No Time," "Share the Land," "Hand Me Down World," "Undun," "Laughing", and "These Eyes." - Andrew McMahon
Andrew McMahon (born September 3 1982) is a Maverick recording singer/songwriter under the pseudonym Jack's Mannequin. He is also the vocalist, pianist and main songwriter for the Geffen/Drive-Thru Records band Something Corporate. - Bob Gentry
Bob Gentry is a native of Detroit, Michigan who began playing music at a young age. Self-taught in piano and guitar, he amassed a repertoire of over 50 songs by age seventeen. In his teen years, Gentry found some success with the all-original rock band "Moisture". Touring the Detroit club scene, "Moisture" attracted a dedicated following and was nominated for "Best Rock Band" at the Motor City Music Awards. - Page McConnell
Page Samuel McConnell (born May 17, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a pianist/organist/keyboardist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. - Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk (born May 18, 1973) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music. - Mary Pascoe
Mary Pascoe is a singer/songwriter and actress born October 17, 1982 in Battle Creek, Michigan. In 2006, Pascoe released her indie album "Who Brings a Cat to the Disco?" on her own record label. She plays guitar and piano, and writes all her own music. She opened for Jill Sobule in 2001 while attending Wellesley College where she earned her Bachelor's Degree at the age of 20. She also filmed a principal role in the Julia Roberts film Mona Lisa Smile while in college in 2002. - Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer (born April 30, 1976) is a performer most noted for being the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the "Brechtian punk cabaret" duo The Dresden Dolls. - Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor founded the '90s rock group Nine Inch Nails ; with Chris Vrenna at the drums, Reznor did all of the writing, performing and producing himself. Other musicians were brought in only on tour or if a desperate need arose. Born May 17, 1965, in Mercer, Pennsylvania, Trent Reznor began his musical career at five years old studying piano, later teaching himself tuba and saxophone. His parents divorced in 1970, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents. - Tim Rice-Oxley
Timothy "Tim" James Rice-Oxley is the co-founder, pianist and composer of English piano rock and alternative rock band Keane. He plays piano, keyboards, bass, and provides backing vocals for the band. - Don Preston
Donald Ward Preston also known as Dom DeWilde or Biff Debrie born September 21, 1932 in Flint, Michigan. Preston is an American rock and roll musician. - Keith Godchaux
Keith Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead. Keith was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California. He met and married Donna Jean Godchaux in 1970. The couple introduced themselves at a Jerry Garcia concert in October 1971. At the time Keith had been appearing with Dave Mason (formerly of Traffic). He was also known to Betty Cantor-Jackson, a Grateful Dead sound engineer. - 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. - Otis Blackwell
Otis Blackwell was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist whose work significantly influenced rock'n'roll. His compositions include Little Willie John's "Fever", Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless", Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender" (with Winfield Scott), and Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man". - Chris Anthony John Martin
Christopher Anthony John Martin (born March 2, 1977) is the lead singer, occasional lead guitarist and pianist of the popular rock band Coldplay. He has a baritenor voice, is known for his frequent use of falsetto and is the husband of actress Gwyneth Paltrow. - Dennis Deyoung
Dennis DeYoung (born February 18, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard player and producer best known for being a founding member of the rock band Styx, a tenure which lasted from 1962 to 1999. - Rocky Frisco
Rocky Frisco is the pianist with the J. J. Cale Band. Rocky and JJ both attended Tulsa Central High School in the 1950s, with Rocky graduating in 1955 and Cale in 1956. They played together in Gene Crose's band starting in 1957. In the Fall of 1958, Rocky moved to Pennsylvania to form a band for Clyde Stacy. When Stacy retired in 1959, Rocky became lead singer for the band, The Four Flames, recording a Columbia Harmony album in New York entitled, … - Craig Doerge
Craig Doerge (b. 1947, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American keyboard player, songwriter and session musician. He began playing in a college band at Hartford, Connecticut, and then moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s to work as a studio player and songwriter with A&M Records, and with Jim Keltner and others playing on cartoon soundtracks. After appearing on the GTOs album "Permanent Damage", he teamed up with Judy Henske and Jerry Yester in the band Rosebud, … - Isaac Slade
Isaac Slade (born May 26, 1981 in Denver, Colorado) is the lead singer and pianist of alternative rock and piano rock band The Fray. Slade and band member, Joe King attended Faith Christian Academy together and formed The Fray in 2002 after bumping into each other at a local Guitar Center. Slade started singing when he was 8 years old, and started playing piano when he was 11 years old after temporarily losing his voice. - John Lowe
John Duff Lowe was born in 1942. Lowe was a pianist from the middle-late '50s. Lowe is remembered for his performance along with the Quarrymen, (including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Colin Hanton in drums) "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger". It was recorded in 1958 at Percy Phillips' home studio in Liverpool. - John Charles Lowe
John Charles Lowe (born April 1942, in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire) was a in the same class as Len Garry. John "Duff" Lowe was invited to play piano with The Quarrymen by Paul McCartney in 1958. He wasn't in the band for long but he was there when the Quarrymen (the others being John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Colin Hanton) went to a studio in Liverpool to record a couple of songs for a vanity disc. - Rob Hyman
Robert Andrew "Rob" Hyman (born April 24, 1950 in Meriden, Connecticut, USA) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, accordion player, producer, arranger and recording studio owner, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters. - Conrad Keely
Conrad Keely is the lead singer for the rock band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Multi-talented and dynamic, he is also an accomplished artist and writer. He plays wurlitzer and fiddle for Austin, Texas country-folk band Brothers and Sisters. Born in England of Irish and Thai descent, Conrad grew up in Thailand, the U.S. state of Hawaii and Bedworth, England. He then moved with his family to Olympia, Washington, where he attended Evergreen State College, … - Duane Hitchings
- Johnny Grande
John A. Grande, better known as Johnny Grande, was a member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he played piano and accordion with Bill Haley and the Saddlemen, later known as Bill Haley & His Comets, from 1949 to 1962-63. One of his jobs was to keep track of musical arrangements for the group as he was one of the few members who could read sheet music. - Rick van der Linden
Rick van der Linden (Badhoevedorp, August 5 1946 - Groningen, January 22 2006) was a Dutch composer and keyboard player. Van der Linden became famous as a member of Ekseption, but played in several other bands, as well as solo. His compositions were often inspired by classical music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. He grew up in Haarlem, and started with learning to play piano when he was 13 years old. He performed with several symphony orchestras. - Jacqueline Govaert
Jacqueline Govaert (born 20 April, 1982) is a Dutch singer and pianist who currently plays with the band Krezip and has also been a guest singer for Ayreon. She is the main song writer of the band and is known for being very expressive while on stage. Govaert belongs with the first graduating people from the Dutch Rockacademy in Tilburg. At a very young age she started with music. When she was twelve she started to write songs on her piano. - Jonathan Kramm
Jonathan Russel Kramm (born November 10, 1974) is an American Composer, Producer, Singer, Multi-Instrumentalist and Rockstar Journalist. He is a co-founder of and performer in the Industrial / Electronica band Phase Theory. He is also the Music Editor of ExpressLane, the in-flight magazine of ExpressJet Airlines. - Howard Wyeth
Howard Pyle Wyeth, also known as Howie Wyeth, was an American drummer and pianist. Wyeth is remembered for work with the saxophonist James Moody, the rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, the electric guitarist Link Wray, the rhythm and blues singer Don Covay, and the folk singer Christine Lavin. Most well known as a drummer for Bob Dylan, he was a member of the Wyeth family of American artists. - Bryce Bell
Bryce Bell (born in Minnesota) is a Christian musician. Bell got into music from an early age. He began taking piano lessons when he was in the second grade. Throughout his school years he was very involved in music. He was also involved in his church musical group. When he was 12 years old, Bell became one of the church pianists which helped him develop his skills greatly. Later he began teaching private lessons, while still studying with Steve Quesnel. - Ben Mills
Benjamin Collett Mills (born 1 March 1980 in Chatham, Kent, England) is a British singer who shot to fame on the third series of "The X Factor", where he finished in third place. He is currently recording his debut album and has signed a five-album record deal with Sony BMG. His album, "Picture of You", was released on 12 March 2007, the same date as the debut album from "The X Factor" runner up Raymond Quinn.
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