- 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, … - Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a Grammy Award-winning guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. Best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, New Age, and country and western elements into his recordings. Guitar Player magazine calls Johnson "One of the most respected guitar virtuosos on the planet". Johnson composes and plays not just instrumental songs, but also sings and plays piano. - George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. Following the band's demise, Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys super group where he was known as both Nelson Wilbury and Spike Wilbury. - Billy Sheehan
Billy Sheehan (born March 19, 1953 in Buffalo, New York,) is an American Bassist known for his work with Talas, Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, and Niacin. Sheehan has won "Guitar Player" magazine's "Best Rock Bass Player" readers' poll five times for his "lead bass" playing style. "Guitar Player" has likened his soloing on the four-string instrument to Eddie Van Halen's on the six-string guitar. - Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson III on December 23, 1964) is the lead singer and one of three guitar players for the rock band Pearl Jam. He is notable for his deep and influential baritone vocal style, and along with his instantly-recognizable and often-imitated voice he remains a cultural icon of his era, the grunge rock scene he was a part of, and alternative rock as a whole. - Brett Garsed
Brett Garsed is an Australian guitar player. He plays with, among others, John Farnham and T. J. Helmerich and is a former member of the band Nelson. Garsed was featured on Derek Sherinian's debut solo release "Planet X (1999) and Planet X "Quantum" (2007) - James Murphy
James Franklin Murphy (July 30th, 1967, Portsmouth, Virginia USA) is an American guitarist. He is well-known for his work in Testament and his solo contributions to various bands as well as works released under his own name and by a band he founded named Disincarnate. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2001, but has recovered. Currently he is working on a tribute album to Chuck Schuldiner who died from a brain tumour. - Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (born 21 May 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American guitarist, composer and singer. Ribot has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, John Zorn, Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, The Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Cibo Matto, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, David Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, and Susana Baca. His work is featured on Waits's "Rain Dogs", "Franks Wild Years", "Mule Variations" and "Real Gone". - Mike Varney
Mike Varney is a American hard rock record producer, publisher and impresario. Varney founded record label Shrapnel Records, and discovered a number of guitarists. Some of his most famous artist were e.g. Yngwie Malmsteen, Richie Kotzen, Paul Gilbert, Tony MacAlpine, Greg Howe, Marty Friedman, Michael Lee Firkins, Vinnie Moore and Jason Becker. Varney also produced a number of acts, including metal act W.A.S.P., Vicious Rumors, … - Rik Emmett
Richard Gordon (Rik) Emmett (born July 10 1953 in Toronto, Ontario) is a vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of the Canadian rock band Triumph. Emmett left Triumph in 1988 to pursue a solo career. His first solo album, "Absolutely", was released in 1990 and became a massive hit across Canada thanks to the smash hits "When A Heart Breaks" and "Saved By Love". - Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton (born named William Alexander Chilton, on December 28, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop-music bands the Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial sales success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for the Box Tops was not repeated in later years with Big Star and in his indie music solo career on small labels like Last Call Records, New Rose, Razor and Tie, Bar/None, … - Ted Greene
Theodore ("Ted") Greene (September 26, 1946 - July 23, 2005) was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, music columnist, and music educator active in Encino, California. - Badi Assad
Badi Assad is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist in the jazz and worldbeat genres. She was born Mariangela Assad Simao in 1966 in São João da Boa Vista in the state of São Paulo, but grew up in Rio de Janeiro until she was twelve. Her father, Jorge Assad, of Lebanese descent, plays bandolim, and her two older brothers are guitarists Sérgio Assad and Odair Assad of Duo Assad. - Tommy Tedesco
Thomas J. Tedesco (July 3 1930 - November 10 1997) was an American master session musician and renowned jazz fusion and bebop guitarist. Born in Niagara Falls, New York, Tedesco made his way to the U.S. West Coast where he became one of the most-sought-after studio guitarists between the 1960s and 1980s. Although Tedesco was primarily a guitar player, he was also qualified on the mandolin, ukulele, … - Linda Lewis
Linda Lewis (born Linda Ann Lewis, 27 September 1950, West Ham, London) is an English vocalist, a songwriter and guitar player, renowned for her vocals. - Dave Hole
Dave Hole (born March 30, 1948 in Heswall, Cheshire, England) is an Australian slide guitarist well known for his exciting style of playing rock & roll and blues music. Moving to Perth, Western Australia aged four years, he became interested in blues music after hearing a school friend's Muddy Waters album when he was around six years of age. - Lee Aaron
Lee Aaron (born as Karen Lynn Greening on July 21 1962 in Belleville, Ontario) is a Canadian rock and jazz singer known as "The Queen of Metal in Canada". She had several hits with titles such as "Metal Queen", "Whatcha Do to my Body", and "Sex with Love". Aaron is now entirely devoted to jazz singing. - Jon Crosby
Jon Crosby (born July 25, 1976), in Long Beach, CA. is an American musician, founder of the musical outfit VAST. Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in the Humboldt and Sonoma counties of Northern California, raised by a single mother from an upper class family. She owned a record store in Fortuna, CA. At the age of 13, he was profiled in Guitar Player magazine and Shrapnel Magazine as a rising young star. - Mario Parga
Guitarist Mario Parga, born in Lytham, Lancashire, England on 7 August 1969, came into the spotlight during the late 1980's when he began appearing in numerous guitar and rock magazines such as Guitar Player, Metal Hammer, Kerrang, Metal Forces and played a live guitar solo on MTV's 'Metal Hammer' show. During the early 1990's Parga toured, played and recorded with numerous artists, most notably Cozy Powell and Graham Bonnet. - Lou Pearlman
Lou Pearlman (born June 19 1954, Flushing, Queens, New York, USA. He was an only child born to Reenie and Hy Pearlman that ran a dry cleaning business. He last resided in Orlando, Florida) and was best known as a manager for boy bands like the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and US5. However, in the long run he may be better remembered as the con man that operated a Ponzi scheme. - Sami Yaffa
Sami Yaffa is a bass guitarist, most famous for his time in Hanoi Rocks during the 1980s, he is currently the bassist for the New York Dolls and guitar player for Mad Juana. - Otto Waalkes
Otto Waalkes (born July 22, 1948 in Emden, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. They featured on the cover of his first album release. - Pete Prown
Pete Prown (b. 1963) is noted American guitarist and music journalist. He leads the progressive rock act, Guitar Garden, and also writes extensively about guitar music and its history. From 1993 to 1998, Prown was the Editor-in-Chief of the international magazine, "Guitar Shop", and currently is a Contributing editor to "Vintage Guitar" magazine. He is also the author of several rock-music reference and guitar-instructional books and CDs, such as: Rich Maloof, … - Rex Carroll
Rex Carroll is a Christian metal guitarist and was well known for his work in the band Whitecross. Rex Carroll has also been a part of other famous bands like Fierce Heart, King James and The Rex Carroll Band. He not only appeared as the lead guitarist but also served as songwriter and producer for six U.S. and world tours. His band, Whitecross, won two Dove Awards for "Hard Music Album of the Year" in 1990 and 1992. - David Clark
David Clark (born circa 1959) is an American guitar player, folklorist and newspaper columnist. He was born in Macon, Georgia, and now resides in Cochran, Georgia. - Allan Kozinn
Allan Kozinn is a music critic for "The New York Times". He received bachelor's degrees in music and journalism from Syracuse University in 1976. He began freelancing as a critic and music feature writer for the "Times" in 1977, and joined the paper's staff in 1991. Before joining the "Times", he was a contributing editor to "High Fidelity" and "Keynote" magazines, and a frequent contributor to "Guitar Player", "Keyboard", … - David Fenech
David Fenech is a French composer, guitarist and singer born on july 19 1969 in Saint-Cloud (France). - Tom Bradshaw
Born February 14, 1935 in Skiatook, Oklahoma, Tom Bradshaw was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 2006 for significant contributions to the instrument and community. Bradshaw produced seminal steel guitar albums, including Curly Chalker's "Counterpoint" and "Nevada Breaks", Bobby Black's "California Freedom" and "Honky Cat", and Bobby Garrett's "Thumbs Up". He also produced a 20-volume set of resurrected steel guitar classics, … - Helena Meireles
Helena Meireles (1924-2005) was a Brazilian guitar player and composer. Born in Mato Grosso do Sul she was one of the most important composers of the folk musical style of this region. Considered to be the Brazilian version of Robert Johnson, she was elected, in 1994 by Guitar Player magazine as one of the top 100 guitar players in the world. - Rockette Morton
Rockette Morton (aka Mark Boston) (born 1949 in Salem, Illinois) is a musician. He played bass for Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band in the 1960s and 1970s. He has performed with numerous other bands as well. In 1963, after moving to Lancaster, California, he joined up with future member of the Magic Band, Bill Harkleroad (aka Zoot Horn Rollo) in a band named "B.C. & The Cavemen". - Mark Boston
Mark Boston (aka Rockette Morton) (born 1949 in Salem, Illinois) is a musician. He played bass for Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band in the 1960s and 1970s. He has performed with numerous other bands as well. In 1963, after moving to Lancaster, California, he joined up with future member of the Magic Band, Bill Harkleroad (aka Zoot Horn Rollo) in a band named "B.C. & The Cavemen". - Brendon McNichol
Brendon McNichol is a lap-steel/guitar player, who has played with bands including Queens of the Stone Age, Masters of Reality and Rattlebone. In 1990 Brendon lived in Hollywood, California, and he began playing music with his roommate bassplayer Roger Deering. Roger had previously been in the punk band The Drills, and had moved from Miami, Florida to Los Angeles, California, with drummer Kerry Furlong that also had been in The Drills, to start a new band. - Jamie Lenman
Jamie (Jim) Lenman, born 9th November 1982 in Greenwich, is the lead singer and guitar player in the British alternative rock trio Reuben. He is a founding member of the band along with bassist Jon Pearce and is also the main songwriter for the band. Jamie has been in and out of bands since his early teenage years, a few of them alongside Jon Pearce. Jamie and Jon eventually formed the band Angel with drummer Jason Wilcock. - Quoc-Bao
Quoc-Bao (born Bui Quoc Bao) is a Vietnamese songwriter and record producer. He became one of the most prominent songwriters in Vietnam in the late 1990s and is noteworthy as producer who helps launch new artists. His lyrically poetical and melodically beautiful songs set him apart from other Vietnamese songwriters. - Tom Braatz Real Estate
Waukesha County Real estate, Waukesha County Real estate agents, Waukesha County Lake homes. Proud Parent of Spencer, Musician, Realtor, traveler, likes to be on water, or flying. Had an extensive science background prior to getting into Real Estate. Admires people that step up to the plate and accept responsibility, and not passing the buck on to someone else. Enjoys Goal oriented people that live out their dreams in life, and live each day as if it were their last. - Les Commo
Les Commo is a country singer and guitar player from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Les Commo began his music career in the 70's with rock bands such as Manchester and Tom Thumb and the Four Fingers. In the 80's Commo enjoyed success in country music with Ida Red, playing alongside Asleep at the Wheel steel player Eddie Rivers. Les Commo is the only 3-time winner of the Hodag Country Festival "Best Band" contest, taking first place twice with Ida Red in 1989 and 1995, … - Douglas Lucas
Douglas Lucas (born Douglas Glenn Lucas, Jr. on May 12, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, and musician from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Four months before he was to graduate high school he told his principal that he was going to drop out if he had to cut his hair. After high school, he was preparing to start studying for a degree in philosophy but quickly changed his mind when he signed a deal with Sony/ATV publishing. - Sivarasa Rasiah
Sivarasa Rasiah is a prominent Malaysian lawyer and human rights activist. He is co-founder of Suara Rakyat Malaysia or Suaram (a human rights NGO) and vice-president of Parti KeADILan Rakyat. ... Though today he may be one of the top lawyers in Kuala Lumpur, Siva's first degree was actually in genetics. - Giorgio Belvedere
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