- John Legend
John Legend (born John Stephens, 28 December 1978, Springfield, Ohio) is a five-time Grammy Award winning R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. His debut studio album, the platinum-selling "Get Lifted", was released in late 2004, and features collaborations with rap artist and producer Kanye West as well as rapper Snoop Dogg. "Get Lifted" produced two singles: "Used to Love U" (U.S. top 100, … - Steve Albini
Steve Albini (born July 22, 1962, Pasadena, California) is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black and Rapeman and is still a member of Shellac. He is founder, owner, and engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex located in Chicago. - Jet Black
Jet Black (born Brian John Duffy; 26 August, 1938 in Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English drummer and one of the founder members of punk rock / new wave band The Stranglers. He is of Irish ancestry and currently lives in Gloucestershire. - Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (birth name "Glenn Herbert Gold") (September 25, 1932 - October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He gave up concert performances in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career, and performances for television and radio. - John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice (born May 22, 1967 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician, formerly of mk Ultra but now performing with his own band. After mk Ultra broke up in 1999, Vanderslice wasted little time building a solo reputation. - Glyn Johns
Glyn Johns is a recording engineer and record producer. He has worked with such artists as The Eagles, The Beatles, The Steve Miller Band, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Georgie Fame, Family, Eric Clapton, The Clash, Midnight Oil and the Blue Öyster Cult, plus Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, New Model Army, Belly, Helen Watson and many others. After an ill-fated singing career in the 1960s with the band The Presidents, … - 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. - Fredrik Nordström
Fredrik Nordström, born on January 5 1967, is a renowned Swedish record producer and guitar player for the heavy metal band Dream Evil. Fredrik is one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, and he has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Soilwork, and Opeth. Fascinated by technology from a young age, Fredrik opened a small recording studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, … - Norman Petty
Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 - August 15, 1984) was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwest who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock. Born in the small town of Clovis, New Mexico, near the Texas border, Petty began playing piano at a young age. While in high school, he was regularly heard on a fifteen minute show on a local radio station. Petty and his wife Vi founded the Norman Petty Trio, … - Roland Alphonso
Roland Alphonso or Rolando Alphonso aka "The Chief Musician" (January 12 1931, Havana, Cuba - November 20 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA) was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist. Alphonso came to Jamaica at the age of two with his Jamaican mother, and started to learn saxophone at the Stony Hill Industrial School. - Frankie Paul
Frankie Paul (born Paul Blake, 1965, Jamaica) is one of Jamaica's best-loved and popular dancehall reggae artists. Born almost blind, he has been dubbed by some 'The Jamaican Stevie Wonder'. He has recorded for virtually every producer/studio in Jamaica at some time, and has been known to release several albums a year. Notable works include the popular "Sara" and "Worries in the Dance". - Stephen Perkins
Stephen Andrew Perkins (born September 13, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter. A drummer and percussionist, he is most famous as one of the founding members, in 1985, of the former rock band Jane's Addiction. Following the dissolution of Jane's Addiction, Perkins, a native of Los Angeles, continued to play with frontman Perry Farrell in the rock band Porno for Pyros. His own project is called Banyan and in the 1990s he was involved in Lil' Pit with Mike Watt. - Andy White
Andy White (born 1930, Glasgow, Scotland) is a drummer, best known for playing drums on The Beatles first single, "Love Me Do" - White was in fact on the 7" single version released in the United States. He also played drums on the "Love Me Do" B-side, "P.S. I Love You." White was a studio drummer in the 1950s and 1960s in London, recording with artists such as Billy Fury, Marlene Dietrich, Herman's Hermits, Bert Weedon and Tom Jones. - Timothy B. Schmit
Timothy Bruce Schmit (born October 30, 1947, in Oakland, California), is a bass guitarist and singer best known as a member of Poco and the Eagles. Raised in Sacramento, he began playing in the folk music group Tim, Tim & Ron at age 15. That group evolved into a surf band called the Contenders, then changed its name to the New Breed. Changing its name once again to Glad, the group recorded the album "Feelin' Glad" in 1968. - Norman Smith
Norman Smith (born 22 February1923) is a musician and record producer. He was the engineer on all of the recordings by the Beatles up until 1965 when EMI promoted him from engineer to producer. The last Beatles album he recorded was "Rubber Soul". A native of the North London area of Edmonton, Smith was working with the Beatles on 17 June1965 when he was offered 15,000 pounds by the band's music publishing company, Dick James Music, … - Johnny Nash
Johnny Nash (born John Lester Nash Jr, 19 August 1940, Houston, Texas) is an African-American pop singer-songwriter, best known for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now". Nash began as a pop singer in the 1950s. He also enjoyed success as an actor early in his career appearing in the screen version of playwright Louis S. Peterson's "Take a Giant Step". Nash won a Silver Sail Award for his performance from the Locarno International Film Festival. - Keith Olsen
Keith Olsen, born in a small town in South Dakota then moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota at the age of 12, received a very midwestern cultural education grounded in common sense and defined by reality. As he became more and more interested in music, both classical and the pop music of the time, he was lucky enough to earn some valuable experience in a couple of the only recording studios in the Minneapolis area. - 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. - Blowfly
Blowfly is the stage name and alternate persona of Clarence Reid (b. February 14, 1945 in Cochran, Georgia) who was a songwriter for many hit R&B acts in the 1960s and 1970s. As Blowfly, he has recorded numerous albums, mostly of sex-based parodies of other songs as well as original raps themed around sex. His stage name originated from his grandmother, who overheard him as a child singing "Do the Twist" as "Suck My Dick", … - Eddie Condon
Albert Edwin Condon, better known as Eddie Condon, (16 November, 1905-4 August, 1973) was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the so-called "Chicago school" of early dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion. Condon was born in Goodland, Indiana. After some time playing ukulele, he switched to banjo and was a professional musician by 1921. He was based in Chicago for most of the 1920s, … - Elliot Easton
Elliot Easton (born Elliot Steinberg, 18 December 1953, in Brooklyn, New York) played lead guitar and sang background vocals for The Cars. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music. Easton released one solo album in 1985, "Change No Change", featuring songs co-written with Jules Shear. A later band project, Band Of Angels, was formed with singer Danny Malone, and recorded one album, "Band Of Angels", which was not released, … - David Lloyd
David George Lloyd (April 6, 1912-March 27, 1969) was a Welsh soloist. Lloyd, a tenor, was noted for being one of the first Welsh singers to seek a broader audience beyond Wales, in the concert halls and recording studios of England, Europe and North America. During his lifetime, Lloyd was renowned in opera, oratorio, and in recital, in particular for his performances of Verdi and Mozart. - Al Wilson
Al Wilson is an African-American soul singer best known for the hits "Show and Tell" and "The Snake". Other well known songs sung by Wilson include "Touch and Go", "La La (Peace Song)" and "I've Got a Feeling (We'll Be Seeing Each Other Again)." He was signed to Johnny Rivers' Soul City record label — Rivers produced his first album, of which "The Snake" was the best known song. "Show And Tell" was originally released by Johnny Mathis, whose version sold poorly. - George Canyon
George Canyon (born Fred George Lays Jr. on August 22, 1968 to Fred Lays Sr. and Cheryl Lays) is a country music singer from Canada. He grew up in Pictou County, Nova Scotia and currently lives in Okotoks, Alberta. He grew up in FoxBrook, NS and later lived in Hopewell, NS (where he still owns land) before he moved west. - Willie Weeks
Willie Weeks (born in Salemburg, North Carolina in 1947) is an American bassist. Willie Weeks, whose earliest influences were the country, pop and R&B music he heard on the radio, began playing bass in the early 1960s. He has worked in the studio and toured with artists as varied as Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart, Carly Simon, David Bowie, Gregg Allman, Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers, Kevin Chalfant, … - Eric Stewart
Eric Stewart (born Eric Michael Stewart, 20 January 1945, in Droylsden, near Manchester, Lancashire) is an English musician and songwriter, most known for his tenure with The Mindbenders in the 1960s, and Hotlegs and 10cc in the 1970s. He recorded two studio albums in the early 1980s, "Girls" and "Frooty Rooties", which featured 10cc members and collaborators Graham Gouldman, Paul Burgess, Duncan Mackay, Rick Fenn and Stuart Tosh. - Billy Murray
Billy Murray (25 May, 1877 - 17 August, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century. While he received star billings on Vaudeville, he was best known for his prolific work in the recording studio, making records for almost every record label of the era. He was probably the best selling recording artist of the first quarter of the 20th century. He was born as William Thomas Murray in Philadelphia, … - Tony Hadley
Tony Hadley (born Anthony Patrick Hadley, 2 June 1960, Islington, London) is an English pop singer who fronted the 1980s New Romantic band Spandau Ballet. The group disbanded in 1989, after their final studio album, "Heart Like a Sky", failed to live up to the critical and commercial success of their earlier albums, such as "True". As a matter of fact Heart Like A Sky was not even released in the United States. - Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly (born Mark Colbert Kelly, 9 April 1961, in Dublin) is the keyboardist of the progressive rock band, Marillion. He joined the band in 1981, replacing previous keyboardist Brian Jelliman, and is still a member as of 2007. He previously played in the progressive/psychedelic band Chemical Alice who released their EP "Curioser and Curioser" in 1981. Kelly has appeared on every Marillion studio album. - Ian Matthews
Ian Matthews is the drummer for Kasabian; he joined the band in April 2005. He met Kasabian in a recording studio in his home town of Bristol. - Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones (born July 22, 1973 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England) is a musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is perhaps best known for his part in the hugely popular Australian pop duo Savage Garden, whose international hit singles included the songs "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", "Truly Madly Deeply", and "I Knew I Loved You". - Buzz Cason
Buzz Cason (born James E. Cason, 27 November 1939, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) is an American rock singer, songwriter and producer. He was among the founding members of The Casuals, Nashville's first rock and roll band. Together with Richard Williams and Hugh Jarrett of The Jordanaires he recorded as The Statues for Liberty. In 1960, Cason started a solo career under the pseudonym Garry Miles, and had a #16 hit in 1960 with "Look For A Star". - Cisco Houston
Gilbert Vandine 'Cisco' Houston was an American folk singer who is closely associated with Woody Guthrie due to their extensive history of recording together. Houston was a regular recording artist for Moses Asch's Folkways recording studio. He also performed with such folk/blues musicians as Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, and the Almanac Singers. - Little Roy
Little Roy (born Earl Lowe, circa 1950, Witfield Town, Kingston Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae artist. Little Roy launched his career in the rocksteady age, recording a few singles for Coxsone Dodd and Prince Buster, none of which made much headway. As reggae itself unfolded, Roy switched to Lloyd Daley's recording studio. He then had a number one hit in 1969 with "Bongo Nyah", which became the best selling single in Jamaica until that point, … - Coro
Coro is a Latin freesyle singer and actor of Dominican heritage, who first had roles in numerous episodes of the star's hit television series, "Miami Vice". While appearing on "Vice", Coro struggled to put together a group to get his singing career off the ground. His first efforts never took off, but in 1987, Coro met freestyle sensation Stevie B, who was enjoying the success of his first hit record and getting ready to tour. - Freddy Cannon
Freddy Cannon (born Frederick Anthony Picariello, December 4 1940, in the North Boston suburb of Lynn, Massachusetts) is an American rock and roll singer. He learned to play guitar as a boy and in high school formed a band. Singing vocals, he emulated the hard-driving style of singing star Little Richard. Picariello eventually signed with Swan Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a recording studio in which master music promoter Dick Clark had an interest, … - Francis Dunnery
He was front man for the UK rock band IT BITES who had moderate chart success in the 80's with the top 10 hit single, Calling all the heroes. After recording 3 albums with IT BITES the band split and Francis moved to Los Angeles. His first solo album, Welcome to the Wild Country received critical acclaim but was completely ignored by Virgin records. In 1992 He stopped drinking alcohol and signed to Atlantic Records in New York City. - Danny O'Keefe
Danny O'Keefe is a U.S. based singer/songwriter whose musical career has spanned four decades from his early days playing in the Minnesota coffee houses to his present station in the Seattle area. He is still very active both in the recording studio and on stage. - Karl Wallinger
Karl Wallinger (born October 19 1957 in Prestatyn, Wales), is a Welsh musician. Wallinger was immersed from a young age in the music of The Beatles, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and Love. Echoes of these childhood heroes permeate the record he was to release thirty three years later. He was educated at Charterhouse, a public school in Surrey. Wallinger's musical career began in the 1970s with a couple of unsuccessful bands and a brief job in music publishing, … - Shawn Stockman
Shawn Patrick Stockman (born September 26 1972, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African-American R&B singer, best known as a member of the vocal group Boyz II Men. Stockman recorded a solo album as a side project during the late 1990s, but the LP was never released. He has written the songs "Forever", "Hot Thing", and "Let It Go"; the latter of which was played during the Disney movie "Seventeen Again". Shawn has the most silky smooth voice of Boyz II Men, …
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