- Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, … - Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926 in Overland, Missouri) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Chuck Berry is an immensely influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock & roll music. Cub Koda wrote, "Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, … - Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle, born Belinda Jo Carlisle (also known as Belinda Kurczeski); on August 17, 1958 in Hollywood, California, is the lead vocalist and a founding member of the all-female rock & roll band The Go-Go's and also a successful solo artist. - Jay Ferguson
Jay Ferguson is an American rock & roll musician known for his work with Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne, and his 1978 solo hit "Thunder Island." - Noel Redding
Noel David Redding (December 25, 1945 - May 11, 2003) was a rock and roll guitarist best known as the bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. - Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra (born June 7, 1957 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is one of the most internationally recognized Dominican singer/songwriters. His pop style of merengue and bolero and Afro-pop/Latin fusion have garnered him considerable success outside the Dominican Republic. Juan Luis Guerra is sometimes associated with the popular Dominican music called bachata, and while this association is partially true, … - Janis Martin
Janis Martin (born Janis Darlene Martin May 23, 1940 in Sutherlin, Virginia) is an American Rockabilly and Country Music singer. Janis Martin was one of the few female Rock & Roll artists to be making records, proving to the male-dominated Rock & Roll industry that women too could see sell a large amount of records and score Rock & Roll hits. This opened doors for other Rock & Roll singers to come, like Brenda Lee. - Mike Campbell
Michael (Mike) Wayne Campbell (born February 1 1950 in Panama City, Florida in the U.S.) is a guitarist and record producer, best known for his work with Tom Petty. Noted mostly for his longtime work as Tom Petty's lead guitarist, Campbell is also a successful producer and songwriter on his own. One of the quieter legends of rock, he is an excellent guitarist and perfect companion songwriter to Tom Petty's 'meat and potatoes' rock & roll style. - Frankie Ford
Frankie Ford (born August 4 1939) is an American rock & roll and rhythm & blues singer. He is the adopted son of Vincent & Anna Guzzo. He was born in Gretna, Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, where he still currently lives. Ford had a Top 20 hit in 1959 with "Sea Cruise", sung to a previously recorded Huey "Piano" Smith backing track on Ace Records. - Country Joe McDonald
"Country" Joe McDonald (born Joseph McDonald, on January 1, 1942 in Washington, DC) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock & roll group Country Joe and the Fish. He started his career busking on Berkeley, California's famous Telegraph Avenue in the early 1960's. McDonald still lives in Berkeley. Country Joe has recorded 33 albums and has written hundreds of songs over a career spanning 40 years. - Inara George
Inara George is an L.A. based singer/songwriter. Her 2006 solo album 'All Rise' was a KCRW hit. She is also a singer in the band The Bird and the Bee as well as the band Merrick with Bryony Atkins. She is the daughter of Lowell George, the late founder of the rock & roll group Little Feat. - 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. - Webb Wilder
Webb Wilder (born 1954, Hattiesburg, MS) is a musician who famously mixes the sounds of country, surf guitar and rock & roll. He also produced an award-winning collection of short films under the title of "Corn Flicks". Wilder's "Corn Flicks" consisted of three stories: "Private Eye", "Horror Hayride" and "Aunt Hallie". He currently resides in Nashville, TN. - Art Laboe
Art Laboe (born c.1925) is an American pioneering disc jockey, songwriter, record producer, and radio station owner who is generally credited with coining the term "Oldies But Goodies".". Through his "Original Sound Records" company, Laboe put together the first-ever record album to feature hit songs by various artists. Titled "Oldies But Goodies," the album stayed on Billboard magazine's Top 100 LPs chart for over three years. - Don Brewer
Don Brewer (born September 3 1948 in Flint, Michigan) is a drummer for American rock band Grand Funk Railroad. He came from Swartz Creek and graduated from Swartz Creek High School. Grand Funk, as they were later known, had a series of hit singles and platinum albums in the 1970s; the original members included Brewer (drums, vocals), Mark Farner (guitar, vocals), and Mel Schacher (bass). The band added Craig Frost to the lineup in 1974. - Miguel Ríos
Miguel Ríos is a Spanish singer, composer, actor and one of the pioneers of rock and roll in Spain. - Wynona Carr
Wynona Merceris Carr (August 23, 1924 - May 12, 1976) was an African-American gospel, rhythm & blues and rock & roll singer/songwriter, who recorded as "Sister" Wynona Carr when doing gospel material. - Bonnie Pointer
Patricia "Bonnie" Pointer (born on July 11, 1951 in Oakland, California) is an American R&B and disco singer most notable for being the next-to-youngest member of the popular 1970s and 1980s family music group, The Pointer Sisters. She scored several solo hits after leaving the Pointers in 1977 including a disco cover of the Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You" in 1978. - Art Rupe
Art Rupe (born Arthur Goldberg, September 5, 1917, Greensburg, Pennsylvania) started Specialty Records in Los Angeles in 1945. Specialty is noted for the rhythm & blues, blues, gospel and early rock & roll music recorded by the label. The major producers for the label were Rupe, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Johnny Vincent and J. W. Alexander. - Myra Gale Brown
Myra Gale Brown (born July 11, 1944) is the former wife and second cousin twice removed of singer Jerry Lee Lewis. She married Lewis on December 12, 1957, at the age of 13. Jerry didn't consider it odd because marrying cousins was acceptable according to Lewis's upbringing and Jerry's sister had been married at fourteen. Brown's age and blood relationship to Lewis caused an uproar on his first tour of England and was later hyped by anti-Rock & Roll Christian preachers. - Kim Anderson
Kim Anderson (born January 12, 1981 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the vocalist for the Kansas City-based Rock band, Flee the Seen. From the band's inception in 2003 until early 2007, Kim also played bass while singing, including playing the instrument on their debut album released in 2006. Flee The Seen recruited Lucas Dills to take over bass so that Kim could focus more on singing. - Bonnie Lou
Bonnie Lou (born Mary Jo Kath October 27, 1924 in Talawanda, Indiana) is an American Rock & Roll and Country Music singer. During the mid 1950s, Rock & Roll was the hottest selling music on the market. Few woimen however ventured into this territory, like Bonnie Lou. Bonnie Lou was one of the first female Rock & Roll stars who proved to the public that female singers could indeed sing Rock & Roll. Like most Rock & Roll singers during the 1950s, … - Larry Darnell
Larry Darnell (b. Leo Edward Donald, December 21, 1928, Columbus, Ohio - d. July 3, 1983, Columbus) was a successful American singer who was instrumental in the formation of the New Orleans style of R&B in the late 1940s and early 1950s. As a teenager he left home to work as a dancer with a burlesque road show, the Brownskin Models, but soon settled in New Orleans, where he worked as a singer in the Dew Drop Inn. - Ronn Moss
Ronn Montague Moss (born March 4, 1952 in Los Angeles) is an American Actor, singer and songwriter and is most well-known for portraying Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate on the CBS soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" since 1987. - Deacon John Moore
Deacon John Moore (born 23 June, 1941) is a blues, rhythm & blues and rock & roll musician, singer, and bandleader. Deacon John was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, growing up in the city's 8th Ward. He plays guitar and is the brother of famed Creole scholar Sybil Kein. He was active on the New Orleans R&B scene since his teens, and became a well regarded session man on many hit recordings of the late 1950s and the 1960s, including by Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, … - Tim Noah
Tim Noah is an Emmy Award-winning children's entertainer who lives in Seattle, Washington. He is well known in the Seattle area for catering to children while also appealing to adults. Noah performs at regional concerts as well as teaching children with music and dance. As of 2007, Noah owns and runs the "Thumbnail Theater" in Snohomish, Washington, … - Kid Thomas Valentine
Thomas Valentine, commonly known as Kid Thomas (3 February, 1896 - 18 June, 1987) was a jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Kid Thomas was born in Reserve, Louisiana and came to New Orleans in his youth. He gained a reputation as a hot trumpet man in the early 1920s. Starting in 1926 he led his own band, for decades based in the New Orleans suburb of Algiers, Louisiana. The band was long popular with local dancers. - Karlo Neil
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- Tad Jones
Tad Jones (19 September, 1952 - 1 January, 2007) was a music historian and researcher best known for discovering Louis Armstrong's correct birthdate, August 4, 1901. Thaddeus Bunol Jones was a native and resident of New Orleans, Louisiana and a graduate of Loyola University of New Orleans. He developed an interest in the music and history of New Orleans at a young age, and was doing important oral history interviews with musicians while still in his teens. - Captain Kirk Douglas
"Captain" Kirk Douglas is an American guitarist who plays with the hip hop band The Roots. He joined the band in 2003. Douglas also has a rock & roll band in the works. - Jon Knox
Jon Knox (born ???) was the drummer of Christian rock band White Heart from 1991 to 1996. He's also the drummer of the band Adam Again which disbanded after lead singer Gene Eugene died on March 20 2000. Raised in the land of sunshine, Californian Jon Knox started drumming at the age of four. Jon's talent impressed his father enough for him to go out and buy Jon his first drum kit. His earliest influences came from listening to the sounds of early Motown, … - Bobby Chacon
Bobby Chacon (born November 28, 1951) is a former Mexican-American boxer and two time world champion. A native of California (where he campaigned most of his career), Chacon became a world champion in 1975, knocking out defending world Featherweight champion Alfredo Marcano in nine at Los Angeles. During his first period as a world champion, Chacon got to meet, and like, what many refer to as "the sweet life". He became an alcoholic and he loved partying. - Christopher D. Thomas
Christopher D. Thomas (born November 6, 1980, in Buffalo, NY), is the drummer and percussionist for American rock & roll band The Elms. Thomas is known for his animated yet precise and innovative drumming style, and is considered one of the best new rock drummers of the last several years for his showmanship and playing. He currently endorses Ludwig Drums, Sabian Cymbals, and Vater Percussion. Thomas currently resides in Louisville, KY, with his wife. - Lucas Dills
Lucas Dills (born January 28, 1989) is the bassist for the Kansas City-based Rock band, Flee the Seen. - Rock Roll
This page is for all the Music that is up and coming and for the bands that have proven their worth in the music world. Bands that have touched, changed, or moved you over time. Whether it be only one song from them, or an album, or the life work of the bands that will grace this page. Music has been around since the dawn of time and has only gotten better as the years have gone on. - John C. J. Taylor
John C. J. Taylor is a musician, graphics designer, and cartoonist from Australia. He first played music in high school, his band "Soap" (with Tony Martin-Jones on guitar and Warren Bell on drums) being awarded headline position in the Chatswood High School - Willoughby Shire Centenary Celebration Concert. Later bands included Llama (1970-71), Hot Rocket (1972 - 73) and Uncle Bob's Band (1973 - 1976). - Rock Roll
I am a person who loves to play guitar, keeping people alive and kicking. :) My dream is to follow John Lennon's footsteps in changing the minds of the people and show them what life is all about. - Rock Roll
Its Uncle Ted telling those certain people - KISS MY ASS. - Rock Roll
I am not looking to meet anybody, besides possibly some new friends on here. Please don't send messages about your show that is 1000 miles away, I most likely will not be able to make it. I am an attorney who recently moved to Cleveland to work for a law firm. I can tell you more about me if i decide to.
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