- Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress and dancer. Brightman debuted as a dancer in troupes such as Hot Gossip and later released a string of disco singles. She achieved greater fame as a musical theatre performer and partner of theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, originating several roles, including Christine Daaé in "The Phantom of the Opera". Her 1984 marriage to Lloyd Webber attracted active tabloid coverage.
- Ray Charles
Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson, a pioneering American pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of "60 Minutes" called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem - a classic, …
- Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. Mitchell grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Mitchell's singing, over several decades, began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City.
- Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer. He is arguably best known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion, although his contributions to straight-ahead jazz have been tremendous. He participated in the birth of the electric fusion movement as a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, and in the 1970s formed Return to Forever.
- Donna Summer
Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, on December 31, 1948) is a legendary American singer, songwriter, and artist, best known for a string of dance hits in the 1970s that earned her the title "Queen of Disco" and as one of the few disco-based artists to have longevity on the charts into the late-1980s. Though she's notable for her disco hits, Summer's repertoire has expanded to include R&B, soul, funk, rock, pop and gospel.
- Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan is a five-time Grammy Award-winning Cuban American singer and songwriter. Estefan began her career as lead vocalist for the Hispanic dance music band, Miami Sound Machine, in 1975. They crossed over to mainstream popular success with English-speaking audiences with the international hit singles, “Dr. Beat” (1984) and “Conga” (1986).
- Hayley Westenra
Hayley Dee Westenra (born 10 April 1987 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand soprano of Irish heritage. Her first album, "Pure", reached #1 on the UK classical charts and has sold over two million copies worldwide. Miss Westenra has received awards for her contribution to the music of New Zealand and elsewhere in the world. Westenra is the fastest-selling debut classical artist to date. In addition to her success at selling albums, …
- Kat Deluna
Kat DeLuna (born Kathleen Emperatriz de Luna on November 17, 1988) is a crossover artist. Signed to Epic Records, she sings songs in both English and Spanish.
- Paul Williams
Paul Williams was an American blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist and composer. In his "Honkers and Shouters", Arnold Shaw credits Williams as one of the first to employ the honking tenor sax solo that became the hallmark of rhythm and blues and rock and roll in the 50s and early 60s. After performing with Clarence Dorsey and King Porter he formed his own band in 1947. He was best known for his 1949 hit, "The Hucklebuck", …
- Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972), commonly known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. Having sold seventy million albums worldwide, Eminem is one of the best-selling musicians of the early 2000s, and one of the best-selling rappers of all time. Eminem was discovered by pioneer gangsta rapper and producer Dr. Dre, …
- Emma Shapplin
Emma Shapplin is a French soprano coloratura who primarily performs contemporary classical crossover.
- Howard Porter
Howard Porter is a comic book artist from southern Connecticut. He graduated from Paier College of Art in Connecticut where he majored in illustration. One of his teachers there was Frank McLaughlin. McLaughlin also worked as a comic book inker and he began to give Porter work assisting him in his inking jobs which led Porter to assist other inkers and eventually find work for himself in the industry.
- Ron Lim
Ronald "Ron" Lim is a comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on their various "cosmic" titles, most particularly the "Silver Surfer (vol. 3)" series, which he pencilled for almost six years (1988- 1994). He also pencilled most of the "Infinity" trilogy of large scale crossover miniseries which Marvel published in the early 1990s - "Infinity Gauntlet" (1991), …
- Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap (born Ronnie Lee Milsap January 16, 1943 in Robbinsville, North Carolina) is an American Country/Pop Singer and Musician. He was one of Country Music's most popular singers in the 1970s and 1980s. He became Country Music's first blind superstar. He was one of the many crossover Country singers in Country Music at this time, which was also called Countrypolitan or Country Pop. His biggest crossover hits include "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me", …
- Lynn Anderson
Lynn Rene Anderson (born September 26, 1947) is a Grammy Award-winning, American country music singer. She was a consistent hit maker during the 1970s, but is perhaps best known for her 1970 crossover hit, "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden", which topped the country and pop charts around the world. Her sophisticated image and Countrypolitan sound helped her to become one of the first female country artists to achieve mass crossover appeal.
- Preston A. Whitmore II
Preston A. Whitmore II is an American screenwriter, producer, editor, and director from Detroit, Michigan. He has been in film since the early 1990s. His movies usually are about prison. His film "Crossover" is as of the 5th of February considered the worst ever by the users of IMDB.
- Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell (b. Barbara Ann Mandrell December 25, 1948) is an American Country Music Singer. She is best known for Country-Pop crossover hits of the 1970s and '80s. She was given the nickname "The Princess of Steel", for her ability at the steel guitar. Barbara Mandrell was one of Country Music's most successful artists during the 1970s and '80s. Like many of her contemporaries at the time, she sang crossover Country material, …
- Dale Keown
Dale Keown is a Canadian comic book artist from Grande Prairie, Alberta. He started working in comics in 1986 drawing several series for Aircel Comics, including "Samurai", "Elflord", "DragonRing" (later "DragonForce"), and "Warlock 5". In 1989, Keown moved to Marvel Comics, where he first worked on "Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja", before replacing Jeff Purves on "The Incredible Hulk".
- Patti Page
Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927 in Claremore, Oklahoma) is one of the best-known female singers in traditional pop music. She is the best-selling female artist of the 1950s and was among the first to cross over from country music to pop. Her recording career spans from 1947 to 1981. Page continues to perform live and was billed as "The Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page".
- Don Gibson
Donald Eugene Gibson was an American songwriter and country musician. Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina, into a poor working-class family, and he dropped out of school in the second grade. His first band was called "Sons of the Soil", with whom he made his first recording in 1948. In 1957, he journeyed to Nashville to record "Oh Lonesome Me" for RCA. The song became a big hit both on the country and pop charts.
- Jacques Loussier
Jacques Loussier (born 26 October 1934 in Angers, northwestern France) is a noted pianist and composer. He is well known for his jazz interpretations of many of Johann Sebastian Bach's works, such as the "Goldberg variations".
- Eumir Deodato
Eumir Deodato (born on 22 June, 1943 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist, producer and arranger primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock/pop, R&B/funk, Brazilian/Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music. Mainly, his records can be categorized as pop jazz or crossover jazz. His successes as an original artist (keyboards) occurred mainly in the 1970s.
- Django Bates
Django Bates (born October 2, 1960 in Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom) is a composer, virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn.
- Johnny Horton
Johnny Horton was an American country music singer who was most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs". With them, he had several major crossover hits, most notably in 1959 with "The Battle of New Orleans" which won the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and in 2001 was named number 333 of the Songs of the Century.
- Michelle Shocked
Michelle Shocked (born Karen Michelle Johnston, 24 February 1962, in Dallas, Texas) is a U.S. singer-songwriter whose music and performances are influenced by her Texas roots, her political activism, and a self-assured style that her first major label producer likened to troubadours such as Joni Mitchell, Spider John Koerner, and Dave Van Ronk.
- Skeeter Davis
Skeeter Davis was an American Country Music Singer, who was best known for crossover Pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters in the early 1950s. In the late 50s and early 60s, she became a solo star. Her best known hit was the song "The End of the World" in 1963. One of the first women to achieve major stardom in the country music field as a solo vocalist, …
- Joel Shepherd
Joel Shepherd, born 1974, Adelaide, South Australia is an Australian science fiction author. He moved to Perth, Western Australia with his family when he was seven, where he later studied film and television arts at Curtin University. He now lives in Adelaide. He is the son of Kate Shepherd, owner/operator of Austral Ed, a small Australian educational book supplier to Asia. He helps his mother in this business and has travelled widely as a result.
- Charlie Watts
Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts (born 2 June 1941) is the drummer of The Rolling Stones. He is also a jazz bandleader and commercial artist. Sometimes referred to as "The Wembley Whammer" when introduced by Mick Jagger during a concert.
- Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards (born in 1946, in Minnesota, USA) is an artist, musician, folk singer, songwriter and performer, perhaps best known for his crossover folk singles "Sunshine" and "Shanty". With fellow student musician, Malcolm McKinney, he formed the eclectic rock band St James Doorknob. Later, Edwards and McKinney met guitarist and blues harp player, Joe Dolce, and formed a band that was to become the most popular blues-rock band in Southern Ohio, …
- Mac Davis
Mac Davis has established himself as an all around entertainer: songwriter, singer, film and stage actor, TV and radio personality, performer. He has enjoyed success in almost every facet of show business, from the late sixties to the present. Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, Mac moved to Atlanta, Georgia after he graduated from high school, and attended Emory University and Georgia State College.
- Eddie Rabbitt
Eddie Rabbitt (born November 27, 1941 - May 7, 1998) was a country music singer. He enjoyed much pop success in his career, helping develop the crossover-influenced sound in country music during the 1970s and 80s. During his career, he scored 26 number-ones.
- Cecilia
Cecilia (born 9 May 1967) is a Norwegian New Age/Classical crossover singer.
- Jessi Colter
Jessi Colter (born May 25, 1943) is perhaps best known as the wife of fellow musical "Outlaw" Waylon Jennings. However, in the 1970s, she was one of Country Music's best-selling artists in her own right, acclaimed for her million-selling 1975 Country Pop crossover hit "I'm Not Lisa" and several best-selling albums. She became known as the "first lady" of the Outlaw country movement.
- Sammi Smith
Sammi Smith (August 5, 1943 - February 12, 2005) was a country music singer and songwriter. Born Jewel Fay Smith, she is best known for her 1971 country/pop crossover hit, "Help Me Make It Through the Night", which was written by Kris Kristofferson. She became one of the few women in the "outlaw country" movement during the 1970s.
- Donna Fargo
Donna Fargo, (born Yvonne Vaughan on November 10, 1945 in Mount Airy, North Carolina), is a Country Music singer and songwriter. She is best known by pop fans for her 1972 Country/Pop crossover hits "The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA" and "Funny Face," but country music lovers realize that she's accomplished much more than that in music. Fargo has had six #1 songs on the country charts. She has placed nine songs in the country top five, 15 in the top ten, …
- Lil' Jj
Lil' JJ (born James Charles Lewis on October 31, 1990) is an American stand-up comedian. Lil' JJ won BET's comedy talent search "Comin' To The Stage". Since being discovered at his middle school in Little Rock, Arkansas, he has performed at comedy clubs across the country and made an appearance on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show". He became a cast member on Nickelodeon's All That in its 10th and final season.
- Dan Lilker
Dan Lilker (born October 18, 1964) is a bass player from the USA. He is well-known for having played in thrash metal bands Nuclear Assault and Anthrax, as well as the crossover band Stormtroopers of Death, death-grind band Brutal Truth and old-school extreme metal Crucifist. Lilker has also played with a score of other, less well-known bands. He is known for his fast, guitar-like riffing through heavy layers of distortion.
- Mc Lars
Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6 1982) is an American rapper, known by his stage name MC Lars. He is the self-proclaimed originator of "post-punk laptop rap". He has collaborated with many different artists, including Non-Phixion's Ill Bill and nerdcore rapper mc chris, and was one of the first underground rappers to sample and reference emo bands. Lars has toured with many different bands, including Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Gym Class Heroes, …
- Nagesh Kukunoor
Nagesh Kukunoor is a Bollywood filmmaker and actor. He is often described as a "maverick" as his movies do not follow the usual style of Indian films. He is known for making "crossover" movies and employing Hinglish.
- Tania Davis
Tania Davis is the violist of the British/Australian classical crossover string quartet bond. She holds a first-class Bachelor of Music honors degree from the Sydney Conservatorium and has just gained the postgraduate diploma in performance with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her experience includes playing with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony and the London Symphony Orchestra.