- Stewart Copeland
Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police and is an influential drum stylist. During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks. - Melody
Melodía Ruiz Gutiérrez, better known in the Spanish music world as Melody, is a pop singer. Some close relatives used to belong to a music group named "Los Quillos". She released her first album, "Melody" in 2000. Her single "El Baile Del Gorila" ("Gorilla Dance") became a number one hit all over Latin America, even received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Children's Album in 2002. - 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". - Paul Weller
Paul Weller (born John William Weller 25 May 1958, Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. Weller was the leader and creator behind the formation of two successful bands, The Jam and The Style Council. In the UK, he is recognised as something of a national institution, yet because much of his songwriting is rooted in British culture, he has remained essentially a national rather than an international star. - David Cross
David Cross (born April 23 1948) is an electric violinist born in Plymouth, England, best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson during the 1970s (particularly on "Larks' Tongues in Aspic", "Starless and Bible Black" and "Red"). He also plays keyboards and Mellotron. Since the 1990s he has led his own band, often writing with drummer Dan Maurer. Former and current King Crimson members John Wetton, Robert Fripp, … - Jon Anderson
John Roy "Jon" Anderson (born October 25, 1944) is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes. He is also an accomplished solo artist, and has collaborated for over 20 years with the Greek musician Vangelis, creating the duo "Jon & Vangelis". - Max Cavalera
Max Cavalera was the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the metal band Sepultura, before forming Soulfly in the late 1990s. Cavalera was also involved in a short-lived side project Nailbomb. His music explores religious topics, often with a very critical tongue. As his albums have all been dedicated to God, he has often been depicted by the press as a man of religion, especially in America; something that Cavalera himself cannot understand. - Spencer Davis
Spencer David Nelson Davis (born 17 July, 1939 in South Wales, UK) is a musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group. Davis was greatly influenced by his uncle Herman's mandolin playing, and first learned the harmonica at the age of six. He moved to London when he was sixteen and began working in the Civil Service as a clerical officer in the Post Office Savings Bank. Some of his early influences were Big Bill Broonzy, … - Simon Jones
Simon Jones (born 29 May 1972, Lancashire, England) is an accomplished musician, who played bass for the English band, The Verve. Most of the rhythm aspects of the Verve's albums, particularly the renowned track "Bitter Sweet Symphony" were based around the complex songwriting of the band, supported by the solid rhythm tracks created by Jones, often in the studio on a metallic Red Aria Pro II RBS bass, ultimately played live on his Fender Jazz bass guitar. - Les Colocs
Les Colocs were a major musical band of the Quebec music scene of the 1990s. - Bruce Foxton
Bruce Foxton (born 1 September 1955 in Woking, Surrey) is an English rock and roll musician who is best remembered as the bass player in punk/new wave bands The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers. In The Jam, he and drummer Rick Buckler played a subordinate role behind singer, guitarist, and songwriter Paul Weller. Foxton did, however, take lead vocals on a few tracks, most notably the singles "David Watts" (a cover of a Kinks track) and "News of the World", … - Candy Dulfer
Candy Dulfer (born 19 September, 1969, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist. - Patrick Esposito di Napoli
Patrick Esposito Di Napoli was a musician and member of the Quebec musical band Les Colocs, where he played harmonica. He was originally from Perpignan, in the Pyrénées-Orientales département in France. He wrote the song "Séropositif Boogie", which appeared on the band's first album, about living with HIV. He had contracted the virus from a tainted needle. He died on November 13, 1994 of complications from AIDS. - Dan Hicks
Dan Hicks, (born December 9, 1941, in Little Rock, Arkansas), was the son of a career military man. At age five, Hicks moved with his family to California, eventually settling north of San Francisco in Santa Rosa, where he was a drummer in grade school and played the snare drum in his school marching band. At 14, he was performing with area dance bands. While in high school, he had a rotating spot on "Time Out for Teens", a daily 15-minute local radio program, … - Connie Dover
Connie Dover is an American singer-songwriter who primarily writes and performs Celtic music. Born in Arkansas, but raised in Kansas City, Missouri, she started her career playing bluegrass music before joining Celtic band Scartaglen in the early 1980s. In the 1990s, she began a solo career and has released four solo albums since 1991's "Somebody", all on the Taylor Park Music label, with noted Scottish musician Phil Cunningham of Silly Wizard serving as producer. - Daniel Adair
Daniel Patrick Adair (born February 19 1975) is a Canadian born, self-taught drummer best known for currently drumming with Canadian rock band Nickelback as the replacement for Ryan Vikedal who was 'fired' from the band in 2005. Adair's other projects include his previous work with American Rock band 3 Doors Down and continuous work with Canadian bands Suspect, instrumental fusion band Martone among others. Daniel often uses the quote "The harder you practice, … - Kenny Ball
Kenny Ball (born Kenneth Daniel Ball, 22 May 1930, Ilford, Essex, England) is a British jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. - Andrew Eldritch
Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, May 15, 1959) is the frontman, singer, songwriter and the only remaining original member of The Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post punk scene, reoriented gothic rock and, in later years, also flirted with pop and hard rock. Eldritch also programs The Sisters of Mercy's drum-machine tracks (known as "Doktor Avalanche") and plays guitars and keyboards in its studio recordings. - David Ellefson
David Ellefson (born November 12, 1964 in Jackson, Minnesota) is a bass guitar player who is currently a member of Avian, Temple of Brutality, F5 and Killing Machine, but is best known as a former member of the thrash metal band Megadeth. - Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley, (born January 17 1967 in Sheffield, England) is a critically acclaimed guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Hawley initially found success as a member of Britpop band The Longpigs in the 1990s. When a drug-filled torpor after an extensive tour of America brought the band to the brink of extinction in 1997, Hawley was asked to play with Pulp by his close friend and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. - Dave Brock
Dave Brock (born David Anthony Brock, 20 August 1941, in Isleworth, Middlesex) is best known as the frontman of the English space rock group, Hawkwind. He is the only member of the band to have been constant through the band's numerous line-up changes. - Chris Curtis
Chris Curtis (August 26, 1941-February 28,2005) was an English drummer and singer with the 1960s pop band, The Searchers. He originated the concept behind Deep Purple and formed the band in its original incarnation of 'Roundabout'. - Ian Broudie
Ian Broudie (born August 4 1958 in Liverpool) is a prolific English musician and producer, best known for his 1990s band the Lightning Seeds. Broudie played in Liverpool's fledgling punk scene in the 1970s (he was a member of the band Big in Japan, which also featured Holly Johnson and Bill Drummond) but made his name in the industry as a producer. He was also a founder member of Peel favourites the Original Mirrors in the early 80s. - Rob Townsend
Rob Townsend (born July 7, 1947) is a British rock drummer who played for the progressive rock band Family from 1967 to 1973. While not as famous as Charlie Watts, Keith Moon, or John Bonham, fans and critics count Townsend as one of Britain's greatest rock and roll drummers. Rob Townsend was born and raised in Leicester, England, where he took an interest in music and started playing drums, heavily influenced by jazz greats such as Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. - Brian Harvey
Brian Lee Harvey (born on 8 August, 1974, in Edmonton, London, England) is the former lead singer of English pop/dance band East 17. - Chris Cross
Chris Cross (born Christopher Allen, 14 July 1952, Tottenham, North London, England) was the bass guitarist in the band Ultravox, until their demise in 1986. For a brief time in the mid 1970s he also went by the name Chris St. John, when Ultravox were then called Tiger Lily. Cross now works as a psychotherapist and counsellor, which he studied at college before joining Ultravox. His brother, Jeff Allen, played the drums for Hello in the 1970s. - Ben Selvin
Ben Selvin (March 5, 1898 - July 15, 1980), son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, started his professional life at age 15 as a fiddle player in New York City night clubs. A "husky" lad, he looked older than he was and as such was permitted into such establishments. A mere six years later, as leader of his own dance band, the "Novelty Orchestra," Selvin released the biggest-selling popular song in the first quarter-century of recorded music. - Johnny Kidd
Frederick Heath best known as Johnny Kidd, was an English singer and songwriter, who was the front man for the rock band, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. He was one of the pre-Beatles British rock and rollers to achieve worldwide fame. Kidd's most famous song was "Shakin' All Over" which was covered by The Who on the classic "Live at Leeds" album. (This song was also a hit single for the similarly-named Canadian band, The Guess Who, … - Clem Cattini
Clem Cattini (born Clemente Anselmo Cattini, 28 August 1937, in Stoke Newington, North London, England) was the drummer for the 1960s English band, The Tornados as well as being used as a session musician. Cattini is one of the most prolific drummers in UK recording history, appearing on hundreds of recordings by artists as diverse as Engelbert Humperdinck and Lou Reed, including featuring on a record 46 different UK number one singles. - Larry Knechtel
Larry Knechtel (born Lawrence William Knechtel, 4 August 1940, Bell, California) is a session musician best-known for his work with Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys ("Pet Sounds", "Smile") and as part of the 1970s band, Bread. Knechtel's musical education began with piano lessons. In 1957 he joined the Los Angeles based rock and roll band Kip Tyler and the Flips, followed in 1959 by four years with Duane Eddy's touring group, The Rebels. - Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson (born November 1,1926) is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker's improvisational approach. His first recordings were with bop emissaries Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk in 1952, … - Jeffrey Hammond
Jeffrey Hammond (born July 30, 1946, in Blackpool, sometimes credited as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond) was a bass player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull. One of several band members from Blackpool, England, he met band leader Ian Anderson in school when he was 17 years old, eventually joining a band with Anderson and future Jethro Tull members John Evan and Barriemore Barlow. - Paolo Fresu
Paolo Fresu (born in Berchidda, Sardinia, on February 10 1961) is a trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player, as well as an arranger of music, and music composer. Fresu graduated from the Conservatory of Cagliari in trumpet studies in 1984 and attended the University of Musical and performing arts in Bologna. He teaches at the Siena Jazz National Seminars, as well as jazz university courses in Terni, and is the director of Nuoro Jazz Seminars in Nuoro, Italy. - Joe Leeway
Joe Leeway (born 14 November 1949, in Islington, London, England) was the multi-instrumentalist, bass guitar specialist, and stylings guru, for the 1980s band, the Thompson Twins. Leeway joined the Thompson Twins in 1980 after being one of their roadies for a number of years. He was born with an Irish mother and Nigerian father, but was fostered to an English family in Dartford, Kent, from the age of two. At college he took English and Drama, then he began teaching English, … - Charlie Waller
Charlie Waller (January 19, 1935 - August 18, 2004) was the lead singer and guitarist for the legendary bluegrass band the Country Gentlemen. Waller was involved with the Country Gentlemen for 47 years. As a member of the Country Gentlemen, Waller was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1996. The Country Gentlemen achieved fame across the United States and internationally. While more than 100 musicians have been Country Gentlemen, … - Coleen Nolan
Coleen Nolan (born 12 March 1965, in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English television presenter and former singer. She was the youngest member of the band, The Nolans in which she sang alongside her sisters. She has presented such shows as "This Morning", alongside Twiggy. She has also been a panellist on "The Wright Stuff", as well as a regular on "Loose Women" and has taken part in the reality TV programmes, … - 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. - Chi Cheng
Chi Cheng, (born Chi Ling Dai Cheng July 15, 1970) is an American musician, the bassist in the rock band Deftones. Cheng holds a BA in English Literature from UC Davis and is the only member of the band with such an accomplishment. He is the author of a collection of poetry entitled The Bamboo Parachute released in 2000 as a spoken word album. He is also a practicing Buddhist, and maintains an interest in Taoism and Shamanism. - John 'Rhino' Edwards
John Edwards (born 9 May 1953, in Chiswick, London) is an English bass guitarist, best known as the bass player in the English rock group, Status Quo. As a child he learnt classical violin and won a scholarship to the London College of Music at the age of eleven. Edwards' bass playing first appeared on a hit record in the UK in 1977, when "Magic Fly" by the French group, Space reached the Top Ten of the UK singles chart. - Alan Doyle
Alan Thomas Doyle is one of the lead singers of Canadian Celtic band Great Big Sea. Born Alan Thomas Doyle, to Thomas and Regina Doyle in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada, on 17 May 1969, Doyle grew up surrounded by music. His mother, who was a piano teacher, taught him his way around the ivories at a young age, along with his brother Bernie, and his sisters, Michelle and Kim. Doyle is also a fanatic of hockey, playing goalie every chance he gets.
|
| |