- Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, near faultless phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. - Chris Tomlin
Christopher Dwayne Tomlin (born May 4 1972) is a Christian worship leader and songwriter from Grand Saline, Texas, United States. He is a staff member at Austin Stone Community Church and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Tomlin also leads worship at many Passion events. Some of his most well known songs are "How Great Is Our God", "Famous One", and "Holy Is The Lord". - Carmen McRae
Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920-November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics, that made her memorable. - Horace Andy
Horace Andy (born Horace Hinds, 19 February 1951, Kingston, Jamaica), is a roots reggae singer, known for hits such as "Government Land", "You Are My Angel", "Skylarking" and a cover version of "Ain't No Sunshine". Andy made his earliest recordings in the late 1960s, at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One. Known for his distinctive falsetto vocal style, he sang on many classic productions for reggae producers, including Phil Pratt, King Tubby and Prince Jammy. - Truth Hurts
Shari Watson (born 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri), known as Truth Hurts, is an American R&B singer. She is noted for her funky and powerful vocal style. - Sonny Terry
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911, Greenboro, Georgia - 11 March 1986, Mineloa, New York) was a blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts. - Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall is a Christian worship leader and songwriter from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is a member of a group of musicians and speakers that collectively form the Passion movement. Hall's band, in which he performs vocals and guitar, consists of Kendall Combes (electric guitar), Brian Bergman (keyboard), Dustin Ragland (drums), and Quint Anderson (bass guitar). - Sunshine Anderson
Sunshine Anderson is an African-America R&B singer. She was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina as a young child. Wallace Sellars, a friend of a producer/Soulife A&R Vice President, Mike City, heard Anderson singing on her way to the cafeteria of North Carolina Central University, her college, and introduced the two. From there, Anderson was managed by Macy Gray during the recording of her first album. - Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November, 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings, and occasionally for other artists. He has been married to his wife Hilary since 1978 and they have 3 children. - Steve Forbert
Steve Forbert (b. 1954, Meridian, Mississippi) is an American popular singer. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard chart in 1980. The song, although "dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard" on the sleeve of the album "Jackrabbit Slim," is not about Supremes singer Ballard who died in 1976. "Forbert admits that Ballard became a timely connection for "Romeo's Tune", written about a girl from Meridian. - Tom Araya
Tom Araya is the vocalist and bassist of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Araya's family moved to the United States in 1966, and at the age of eight he picked up the bass guitar, playing Beatles and Rolling Stones songs with his older brother, who played the guitar. Araya was employed as a respiratory therapist in the early 1980s, using his earnings to finance Slayer's debut album "Show No Mercy". Much of Araya's lyrical content is about serial killers, … - Buster Williams
Charles Anthony Williams (born April 17, 1942 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American jazz bassist. Williams has gained prestige among jazz musicians as a solid supportive player. Since the early 1960s, he has made subtle swing, a precise rhythm and superb technique the landmark of his playing. He started his professional career in Philadelphia with Jimmy Heath, then played and recorded with the Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt quintet (1960-61). - David Matthews
David Matthews (born March 9, 1943) is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works. - Kate Pierson
Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Pierson (born 27 April 1948 in Weehawken, New Jersey) is an American vocalist and one of the lead singers and founding members of The B-52's. She also plays keyboard and guitar for the band. In The B-52's she sings alongside Cindy Wilson and Fred Schneider. She is openly lesbian. - David Grant
David Grant (born 8 August 1956, in Hackney, London) is a British pop singer and celebrity vocal coach. - Jazzie B
Jazzie B (born Beresford Romeo, January 26 1963, in Hornsey, North London) is a DJ and music producer. He is a founding member of the musical group Soul II Soul. He is mainly credited for singing and vocal dialogue. Jazzie B has also produced and remixed work for artistes such as Wookie, James Brown, Cheryl Lynn, Monie Love, The Chimes, Fine Young Cannibals, Family Stand and Alyson Williams. Africa Centre - 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, … - Amy Denio
Amy Denio (b. June 9, 1961) is a Seattle (USA)-based multi-instrumental composer of soundtracks for modern dance, film and theater, as well as a songwriter and music improviser. Often called an unclassifiable "avant-garde" jazz musician, she is also deeply inspired by world music. She is probably best known as a vocalist, accordionist and saxophone-player. - Sean Watkins
Sean Charles Watkins, (born February 18 1977) is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, and is one third of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek. - Ron Dante
Ron Dante (born Carmine Granito, August 22 1945, in Staten Island, New York) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Dante is best known as the lead vocalist for the cartoon group The Archies from 1968 to 1971. Their third single, "Sugar, Sugar", written by producer Jeff Barry with Andy Kim, was the number one selling record of 1969. Prior to his stint with The Archies, in 1965, Dante was a member of the parody group The Detergents, … - Angry Anderson
Angry Anderson AM is an Australian rock singer, television presenter/reporter and actor. He is best known as the vocalist with the hard rock band Rose Tattoo since 1976 but he is also recognised for his acting roles and his charity work. On Australia Day, 1993, he was awarded an Order of Australia for his role as a youth advocate. - Karen Zoid
Karen Zoid (born Karen Louise Greeff) is a female South African rock artist with both vocal and guitar talent. She is also an acclaimed songwriter with 42 of her songs released over her three EMI albums (23 in English, 19 in Afrikaans). She has gone from being a teenage busker on the streets of Johannesburg to an award-winning national figure. Her band is composed of Don Reinecke on lead guitar and co-writer on many of her songs, … - Dave Gregory
Dave Gregory (born September 21, 1952, in Swindon, Wiltshire, England) was the lead guitarist of the new wave / rock / pop band, XTC, from immediately prior to the recording of the "Drums and Wires" LP in 1979 to his eventually leaving the band in 1999. He also contributed keyboards and backing vocals to their work. Since leaving XTC Gregory has been much in demand as a session musician with a number of artists including Peter Gabriel, Aimee Mann, Cud, Marc Almond, … - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born December 23, 1689 in Thionville; died October 28, 1755 in Roissy-en-Brie) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opera ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was purely a composer and one of the first to have no patrons: he made his living simply by writing new works of music. - Fern Kinney
Fern Kinney is an American R&B and disco singer. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Kinney began singing in the late 1960s, and joined the vocal group The Poppies, replacing their former singer Patsy McClune. Kinney remained in the group with Dorothy Moore and Rosemary Taylor for about two years and also released a solo single "Your Love's Not Reliable" during this time, however it was not a success. - Ville Laihiala
Ville Laihiala (born June 13, 1973 in Oulu, Finland) is the current vocalist and guitarist of the Finnish Gothic metal group Poisonblack. He was also the frontman for Sentenced from 1996 until the group ended their career 2005. - Russell Mael
Russell Mael (born Russell Craig Mael, 5 October 1953, in Santa Monica, California), with his older brother Ron, is in the electronic band Sparks. His most notable vocal trait is a far-reaching falsetto, especially evident on songs like "Equator" from their album, "Kimono My House". - Cosimo Matassa
Cosimo Matassa is an Italian-American recording engineer and studio owner responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings. Matassa opened the J&M Recording Studio at the back of his family’s shop on Rampart Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1945, when aged 18. In 1955, he moved to the larger Cosimo Recording Studio. As an engineer and proprietor, he was crucial to the development of the R&B, rock and soul sound of the 1950s and '60s, … - Abdul Karim Khan
Ustad Abdul Karim Khan lived from November 10, 1872 to 1937. He is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in Hindustani music of the 20th century. Abdul Karim Khan was born in Kirana (Uttar Pradesh, North India) in to the Kirana musical family which traced its roots to musician brothers Ghulam Ali and Ghulam Maula. His father, Kale Khan was the grand son of Ghulam Ali. Karim Khan received training under uncle Abdulla Khan and father Kale Khan. - Matthias Pintscher
Matthias Pintscher (b. January 29th, 1971, Marl) is a German composer and conductor. As a youth, he studied the violin and also conducted. Pintscher studied with Hans Werner Henze at Henze's summer school in Montepulciano, Italy. Later, he studied with Manfred Trojahn. Several of his orchestral and vocal works have been performed at such venues as the Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall. - Paris Grey
Paris Grey (born Shanna Jackson, November 5 1965, in Glencove, Illinois) is an American singer, most known for her work with the Detroit based, techno music producer Kevin Saunderson, as Inner City. The group found international crossover success in the late 1980s with a mixture of solid electronic beats, sweeping synthetic strings and Paris' soulful vocals on tracks such as "Good Life", "Big Fun", and "Ain't Nobody Better". - Kevin Mallon
Kevin Mallon was the music director of vocal and instrumental group, Aradia Ensemble in 1996. The ensemble was featured in 2000 New Zealand International Chamber Music Festival and 2003 Tuscany Festival Musica nel Chiostro. In recent years he has also developed an association Opera Anonymous in which he has conducted Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" and Lucas et Cécile by Joseph Quesnel. - Dickie Valentine
Dickie Valentine (born Richard Bryce, 4 November 1929, in Marylebone, North London - died 6 May 1971) was a popular singer in the 1950s. - Beverly Lee
Beverly Lee was a member of the all girl vocal pop group, The Shirelles. She was born on August 3, 1941, in Passaic, New Jersey. Today, she holds the trademark for the Shirelles' name. www.theshirelles.com - Barbara Pennington
Barbara Pennington is an American Hi-NRG and Soul music artist of the 1970s and 80s. Barbara Pennington was born in 1950s Chicago and began her musical career when Hi-NRG and Soul record producer Ian Levine came to the United States in search of new talent for his record label. In terms of vocal exuberance, her voice may be compared to that of 2000s singer Chaka Khan, also a native of Chicago. After a slow start, Pennington eventually scored music hits in the UK, … - Nancy Maultsby
Nancy Maultsby (Burlington, North Carolina) is a renowned mezzo-soprano from United States of America. Nancy Maultsby is in demand by opera companies and orchestras throughout the world. Her unique vocal timbre and insightful musicianship allow her to pursue a repertoire extending from the operas of Monteverdi and Handel to recent works by John Adams. She regularly performs the major heroines of nineteenth-century in French, Italian and German operas, … - François-Bernard Mâche
François-Bernard Mâche is a French composer of contemporary music. He is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received a diploma in Greek archaeology (1957) and a teaching certificate (Agrégation de Lettres classiques, 1958). He has composed electroacoustic, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal and piano works. He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 2002 and occupies the chair of the late Iannis Xenakis. - Corinne Drewery
Corinne Drewery (born 21 September 1959, in Nottingham) is the lead singer of the pop music band, Swing Out Sister. - Juan José Castelli
Juan José Castelli was an Argentine politician who participated in the 1810 May Revolution leading to Argentine independence. Castelli was born in Buenos Aires and attended the Colegio Real de San Carlos and the Colegio Monserrat in the city of Córdoba. He later became a lawyer in the University of Charcas. He was a cousin of Manuel Belgrano who got him a position in the public administration in the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata. - Les Gray
Thomas Leslie ("Les") Gray (born 9 April 1946, Carshalton, Surrey - died 21 February 2004, Largos, Portugal) was an English singer best known for his work with the band Mud. Gray was also known for his distinctive vocal impersonation of Elvis Presley. During his school years, he played trumpet with a jazz band, and then, with a younger brother, went on to form the skiffle unit, The Mourners. Mud formed in 1968, with Gray on vocals, Dave Mount on drums, Rob Davis on guitar, …
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