1. Jackie Chan

    Chan Kong-Sang, also known as Sing Lung or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and his innovative stunts.

  2. Delia Derbyshire

    Delia Derbyshire (5 May 1937 - 3 July 2001) was a British musician and composer who was a pioneer of electronic music. She is probably best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer's theme music to the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

  3. Thomas Newman

    Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Academy Award-nominated film score composer. He is a member of a film-scoring dynasty in Hollywood that includes his father Alfred Newman, his uncle Lionel Newman, his brother David Newman, and his cousins Joey Newman and Randy Newman (who is best known as a singer and songwriter).

  4. John Debney

    John Debney (born Burbank, California, 18 August 1956) is an award-winning prolific American film composer who received an Oscar nomination for his score for Mel Gibson`s "The Passion of the Christ".

  5. Ramin Djawadi

    Ramin Djawadi (born in Duisburg, Germany, 1974) is a German composer of orchestral music for film and television. His father was an immigrant from Iran. Djawadi has been numerously credited as a composer for additional music, orchestrator and as an assistant composer to Hans Zimmer. His work as a music composer for films include "Blade: Trinity" (with RZA), "Ask the Dust" and "Open Season".

  6. Neal Hefti

    Neal Hefti (born October 29, 1922 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger. He's considered one of the greatest in the field. He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts for Nat Towles.

  7. Larry Carlton

    Larry Carlton (born 2 March, 1948) is an American jazz guitarist, dividing his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with more popular bands. Over his career Carlton has won three Grammys for his performances and compositions, including the theme music for the hit television series, Hill Street Blues (1981). Carlton started learning to play guitar when he was six years old. Taking an interest in jazz whilst at high school, …

  8. Ray Anthony

    Ray Anthony (born Raymond Antonioni, January 20 1922, in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania) is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor. As a child Anthony moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he began studying the trumpet with his father. He played in Glenn Miller's band from 1940-1941 before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war he formed his own group. The Ray Anthony Orchestra became very popular in the early 1950s, …

  9. Debbie Wiseman

    Debbie Wiseman is a composer for film and television. She studied piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her many credits for television include the theme music for "Jackanory", "Children's Hospital", "The Upper Hand", "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries", "Doomwatch" (1999), "Tom’s Midnight Garden", "My Uncle Silias", "Warriors" and "Shrinks".

  10. Simon May

    Simon May is a British musician and composer, best known for composing some of British television's best known theme tunes, including "EastEnders" and "Howards' Way".

  11. Dick James

    Dick James (born Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick, 12 December 1920, in East End, London - died 1 February 1986) was the singer of the "Robin Hood" and "The Buccaneers" theme songs, from British television in the 1950s, and was a friend and associate of renowned record producer George Martin.

  12. David Naughton

    David Naughton (born 13 February 1951, in West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American actor and singer, best known for starring in the 1981 horror film "An American Werewolf in London" as David Kessler. Naughton first became widely known as a result of his singing and dancing appearances in Dr Pepper TV commercials. He starred in the sitcom "Makin' It" and hit the Billboard Top Ten in 1979 with the show's theme song, …

  13. Noel Harrison

    Noel Harrison (born London, England 29 January 1934) is an English actor and singer. He is best known for:- *A recurring role as Mark Slate in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and, in that role, as the co-star of Stefanie Powers (April Dancer) in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. *For singing "The Windmills of Your Mind", the theme tune from the film "The Thomas Crown Affair", which won the Academy Award for best song in 1968, and was also a Top Ten hit in the UK Singles Chart.

  14. B. J. Leiderman

    Bernard Jay "B.J." Leiderman (born February 14, 1956, Norfolk, Virginia) is an American composer and songwriter. His best-known works are probably his theme music compositions for public radio programs, including National Public Radio's Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, and American Public Media's Marketplace.

  15. Rod Argent

    Rod Argent (born Rodney Terence Argent, 14 June 1945, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England) was a founding member of the 1960s English pop group The Zombies and the 1970s band Argent. While at St Albans School, he met Paul Atkinson and Hugh Grundy. The three of them joined up with Colin Blunstone and Chris White to form The Zombies. In addition to playing piano and keyboards in the group, …

  16. Eric Spear

    Eric Spear was an English composer of film music. Spear is best known for composing the original theme tune for the UK's longest running soap opera, "Coronation Street" for which he was paid £6. The highly recognisable theme tune has only been slightly modified since the show began in 1960. He participated to the film "Streets of Shadow" in which was featured the German World War I spy Elsbeth Schragmüller.Mr.

  17. Mikuni Shimokawa

    (born 19 March 1980 in Shizunai, Hokkaido, Japan) is a J-pop singer and songwriter. She is best known for her songs used for anime theme music, particularly the opening and ending themes of the Full Metal Panic! series. In addition to her vocal talents, Shimokawa can also play the piano. She is a former member of the girl group Checkicco.

  18. Mike Vickers

    Michael Vickers (born 18 April, 1940 - not 1941, as is often stated - in Southampton, England), was a guitarist and saxophonist with the 1960s band, Manfred Mann. He originally played flute and saxophone but with the increasing popularity of guitars in bands it was decided that Manfred Mann should have a guitarist in its line-up. Vickers volunteered for this role but he was always happiest playing the saxophone. After quitting the band at the end of 1965, …

  19. Karl Haas

    Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 - February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio show host whose distinctively sonorous voice and humanistic approach to making his joy of music contagious made him well-received by many. He was the host of "Adventures in Good Music", which was syndicated to commercial and public radio stations around the world. He also published a book, "Inside Music".

  20. Kyosuke Himuro

    nihongo|Kyosuke Himuro|氷室京介|"Himuro Kyōsuke"|extra= born on October 7, 1960 in Takasaki, Gunma" is a Japanese singer. He was a member of the Japanese legendary rock group "Boøwy" from 1981 to 1988. Tomoyasu Hotei is the same band's member. Now, he lives in Los Angeles, California. He purchased a palatial residence in Beverly Hills in 2004 which Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player, sold because of transference to another team.

  21. Roddy Frame

    Roddy Frame (born January 29 1964, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is the founder of the 1980s indie band, Aztec Camera. Between 1981 and 1982 Frame was co-productive in fronting Postcard Records, where he began to befriend and record a string of low budget singles such as 'We could send letters' and 'A Mattress of Wire. The latter single drew attention from radio 1 DJ John Peel.

  22. Gian Piero Reverberi

    Gian Piero Reverberi is an Italian composer and musician. He worked in a wide range of media from TV themes, spaghetti Western soundtracks to pop and rock records, but is best know as the composer and founder of Rondò Veneziano. As a producer, Reverberi worked for New Trolls and Le Orme progressive rock bands, being also listed as one of the official members of the latter for a short stint.

  23. Clare Torry

    Clare Torry is a British singer, best known for her soulfully evocative wordless vocals on Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky" on the 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Torry has also performed as a session singer and live backing vocalist with Kevin Ayers, Olivia Newton-John, The Alan Parsons Project (for which she also sang lead vocal on one track), Procol Harum mainman Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, Cerrone, Culture Club (on their hit "The War Song"), …

  24. George Webley

    George Webley, also known as "Big George", May 29, 1957, is a British musician, composer, bandleader, and broadcaster. Big George Webley was born in Clapham, London on 29th May 1957. His Aunt, Vera, was the fan club secretary for Frankie Laine, who attended Webley's baptism at Macaulay, in the Church of England, on June 1st as his Godfather. His first introduction to the wonders of music was when Donald Swann attended his primary school.

  25. Warren Wiebe

    Warren Wiebe was an American vocalist who was known for demo, studio, and live performances with several prominent musicians, such as Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Paul Anka, and Sheena Easton. He was one of several lead vocalists who contributed to the 1991 charity record "Voices That Care". He is also famous for performing the song "Human Touch", a ballad which was used as one of the ending theme songs for the 1996 anime "After War Gundam X".

  26. Clarence "frogman" Henry

    Clarence "Frogman" Henry (born March 19 1937, Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American rhythm and blues singer. Fats Domino and Professor Longhair were young Henry's main influences while growing up. When Henry played in talent shows, he dressed like Longhair and wore a wig with braids on both sides. His trademark croak, utilized to the maximum on his 1956 debut hit "Ain't Got No Home," earned Henry his nickname and jump-started a career that endures to this day.