- Warrick Sony
Warrick Sony is a South African composer, producer, sonic artist, and sound designer, who has worked for 2 decades on a multitude of films, documentaries, art events, theatre, dance, and project albums. He was born Warwick Swinney in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1958. He is the founder and sole member of the Kalahari Surfers, solo recording projects working from Shifty Studios (Johannesburg) in the mid-1980s. - Jack Tretton
Jack Tretton is the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA), division of Sony Computer Entertainment, which is subsidiary of Sony Corporation. - Phil Harrison
Phil Harrison is the British corporate executive and representative director of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) and Executive Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE). At E3 in 2005 he showcased the first public realtime demonstrations of PlayStation 3 development hardware which included the famous ducks demo. - Howard Stringer
Sir Howard Stringer (born 1942) is a British businessman and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Corporation. Previously he was chief executive of Sony Corporation of America before being promoted to the highest post. Born in Cardiff, Wales, and educated at Oundle School and Merton College, Oxford University where he was awarded a BA in modern history and an MA, Stringer moved to the USA in 1965 to work for CBS. - Ken Kutaragi
(born August 8, 1950) is the former Chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), the video game division of Sony Corporation until his retirement. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation", as well as its other PlayStation products, the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3. Kutaragi was closely watched by financial analysts who trace profiles of the losses and profits of the Sony Corporation. - Jade Raymond
Jade Raymond is a producer of video games and was a host on G4's program "The Electric Playground" along with Tommy Tallarico, Victor Lucas, Julie Stoffer and Geoff Keighley. - Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is a Golden Globe-nominated, Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is probably best known as Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". She has since become known as a film actress, having starred in the family film "Scooby-Doo" (2002) and the sequel "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" (2004), the romantic comedy "Simply Irresistible", … - Gavin Degraw
Gavin DeGraw (born February 4, 1977) is an American pop singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. - Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the 20th century. - Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem (born November 9, 1984) is a multi-ARIA Award winning Australian singer-songwriter, pianist and Logie Award winning actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the popular Australian soap "Neighbours", and this assisted her in establishing an international music career. Her musical output falls under the pop and ballad genres and heavily features the piano, … - Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter. She is best known as Fiona Apple. - Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated American composer. His music is frequently described as "minimalist", though he prefers the term "theater music". He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (apart from precursors such as Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein), … - Kazuo Hirai
Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai ("Hirai Kazuo", born 1964) is the current President and Group Chief Operating Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. He was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry. - Akio Morita
Akio Morita was a co-founder of Sony Corporation. - Carlos Ghosn
Carlos Ghosn is CEO of Renault and Nissan Motors. He is largely credited with turning around Nissan. As an outsider in charge of one of Japan's largest companies, Ghosn has been extremely successful. He was voted Man of the Year 2003 by "Fortune" magazine's Asian edition and is also on the board of Alcoa, Sony, and IBM. Ghosn became CEO of Renault, Nissan's partner and shareholder, in 2005, succeeding Louis Schweitzer, while remaining CEO of Nissan as well. - Terence Blanchard
Terrence Blanchard (b. March 13, 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American Mainstream jazz musician and composer, though he performs in various jazz mediums. He has been one of the top trumpet players in jazz since the 1980s, and has worked with some of the legends of the genre. He rose to prominence through his association with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1982-1986. - Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano. - Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern was one of the finest violin virtuosi of the twentieth century. Born in Kremenetz, Ukraine on July 21, 1920, Isaac Stern was ten months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother before enrolling at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1928. He studied there until 1931, then studied privately with Louis Persinger. - David Zinman
David Zinman (b. 9 July, 1936) is an American conductor and violinist. - Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs (born July 18 1954, in Lawrence County, Kentucky) is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, and, primarily, mandolin. Skaggs' music career began in 1970 when he joined Ralph Stanley's famous bluegrass band, the Clinch Mountain Boys. For a few years, Skaggs was a member of Emmylou Harris's group, Hot Band. He wrote the arrangements for Harris's bluegrass-roots album, "Roses in the Snow". - Patrick Warburton
Patrick J. Warburton (born November 14, 1964) is an American television actor and voice artist. He is known for his television roles of David Puddy on "Seinfeld", the title role on the live-action version of "The Tick", and the evil Jonny Johnson on the final season of "NewsRadio". He is also the voice of Kronk in "The Emperor's New Groove", bodyguard Brock Samson on "The Venture Bros.", wheelchair-bound Joe Swanson on "Family Guy", … - Paul Williams
Paul Williams (born September 3, 1940, in London, England) is an English composer and pianist. - Thomas Hesse
Thomas Hesse is President of Sony BMG Music Entertainment's Global Digital Business and US Sales. He reports directly to Tim Bowen, Chief Operating Officer for Sony BMG Music Entertainment. He is based in New York City. Hesse was appointed to the position of President in charge of Global Digital Business upon the completion of the SONY BMG merger in 2004. Since the beginning of 2007 he was also put in charge of SONY BMG's physical sales activities in the US, … - Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born May 18, 1949 in Perivale, London) is an English keyboard player best known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use of electronic keyboards and in the use of a rock band in combination with orchestra and choir. He is now a popular member of the Planet Rock (radio station) family and is regularly on air. - Miles Flint
Mr. Flint joined Silver Lake in 2008 and is a Senior Advisor. Previously, he was President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. During his time with Sony Ericsson, sales doubled, profits tripled and Sony Ericsson migrated from its position as a niche provider of mobile phones to a supplier of a full portfolio of products in the global market. Mr. Flint also had presided over the successful launch of the Walkmana and Cyber-Shot brand of phones. - Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford (born Jo Elizabeth Stafford November 12 1917, in Coalinga, California) is an American pop singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Stafford is greatly admired for the purity of her voice and is considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She is also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody, … - Clare Teal
Clare Teal (born May 14, 1973) is an English jazz singer who has become famous not only for her singing, but also for having signed the biggest ever recording-deal by a British jazz singer. - Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961 in Seattle, Washington) is widely considered to be the most prominent fiddler of his generation, and a prolific composer of instrumental music.. As a teenager he won national championships on the guitar, mandolin as well as the fiddle. His mentors were Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson and Jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli. He has recorded solo albums for Rounder, Warner Bros. Records, Sony, and his own CD line OMAC Records. - Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax (born June 8, 1949) is a Jewish-American pianist. Born in Lviv, Ukraine (then a constituent republic of the Soviet Union) to parents Joachim and Hellen Ax, both Nazi concentration camp survivors. Emanuel began to study piano at the age of six and Joachim was his first piano teacher. When he has eight the family moved to Warsaw and then two years later, to Winnipeg, Canada where he continued to study music, … - Trip Hawkins
William M. 'Trip' Hawkins III (born 1953) is a Silicon Valley American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company and Digital Chocolate. Hawkins was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts (EA), a video game publisher. Electronic Arts had a successful run for many years under Hawkins' leadership. It is now the world's largest video game publisher. - Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones on July 2, 1930) is a highly-regarded American jazz pianist. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and attended George Westinghouse High School. He began using the name 'Ahmad Jamal' after his conversion to Islam in the early 1950s. Jamal was one of Miles Davis's favorite pianists and was a key influence on the trumpeter's "First Great Quintet" (featuring John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, … - Jon B.
Jon B. (born Jonathan David Buck November 11, 1974 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is a Grammy nominated American R&B singer and songwriter. He is also referred to as Boogotti. Raised in Rhode Island, Buck was born to a musical family, where his father David, is a professor of music, mother Linda, a concert pianist and his siblings Deborah, is a violinist and his brother Kevin, a cellist. He first started singing at the age of four, … - Mia Doi Todd
Mia Doi Todd (born June 30 1975) is a musician from Los Angeles, California, USA. - Hiroshi Yamauchi
(born November 7, 1927) is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo Co., Ltd. beginning in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card making company in Japan to the multi-billion dollar video game company that it is today. Yamauchi was succeeded at Nintendo by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, … - Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947 as Albert Lawrence Einstein) is an Academy Award nominated American actor, writer, comedian and director. - Patrick Fiori
Patrick Fiori is a French singer. Fiori was born to an Armenian father (Jacques Chouchayan) and a Corsican mother (Marie Antoinette Fiori) in Marseille, France. When he was only 12 years old, he was offered his first role in the musical "La légende des santonniers". At the age of 16, he recorded his first single, entitled "Stéphanie". In 1993, Patrick came fourth place in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Mama Corsica". - Franco de Vita
Franco De Vita is a singer-songwriter popular in Latin music. One of three children born in Latin America to Italian immigrants, De Vita’s family returned to Italy when he was 3. The family moved back to Venezuela when De Vita was 13, and he later studied piano at the university level. In 1982, De Vita formed the group Icaro, which released one self-titled album in his homeland. Two years later, he released his first disc as a solo artist, … - Ashley Wood
Ashley Wood (born 1971) is an Australian comic book artist and illustrator who is well known for his atmospheric cover art, concept design and his work as an art director. Wood generally works in mixed media, often combining oil painting with digital artmaking. His style contains elements of Expressionism. - David Silverman
David Silverman (born on 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series "The Simpsons", where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all of the original Simpsons "Tracey Ullman shorts". Started his education at the University of Maryland, College Park for two years, focusing on art. - Michel Sardou
Michel Sardou (born January 26, 1947) is a French singer. He was born in Paris, the son of Fernand Sardou and Jackie Rollin (Jackie Sardou). Contrary to what has been written at the beginning of his career, he is not the grandson of the dramatist Victorien Sardou. However, he is the father of the French novelist Romain Sardou. He is known not only for his love songs ("La Maladie d'Amour"), but also for songs dealing with various social and political issues, …
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