- Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Wonder has recorded more than thirty Top 10 hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. - Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an Academy Award and Grammy Award winning English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. He was the oldest and shortest member of the band, and the last to join the now familiar 'Fab Four' line up. - Tommy Lee
Tommy Lee, is a Greek American rock musician. He is best known as the drummer for glam metal band Mötley Crüe and ex-husband of actresses Pamela Anderson and Heather Locklear. - Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30 1951 in Chiswick, London) is an English singer, songwriter, drummer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist. He is also an accomplished actor, having starred in numerous films. Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. - Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30 1917 Brooklyn, New York - April 2 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, speed and ability to improvise. - John Bonham
John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham was an English drummer and member of the English rock band Led Zeppelin. He was renowned for his power, speed and "feel" for the groove. John Bonham is widely accepted as one of the greatest, influential, and respected drummers in history. He continues to have influence on many musicians of many styles to this day. - Neil Peart
Neil Ellwood Peart OC, (born September 12, 1952 in Hagersville, Ontario) is a Canadian musician and author. He is best known as the drummer and lyricist for the rock band Rush. Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Canada (now part of St. Catharines) working the occasional odd job. However, his true ambition was to become a professional musician. At the age of thirteen, Peart received a pair of drumsticks, a rubber practice pad, … - Dave Grohl
David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician and songwriter. Grohl formed the Foo Fighters in 1995. Previously, he was the drummer of Nirvana from 1990 until the band dissolved in 1994 after frontman Kurt Cobain's death. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, DC area bands, most notably the punk rock band Scream. - Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. was an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and performer who gained international fame as an artist on the Motown label in the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning his career at Motown in 1961, Gaye quickly became Motown's top solo male artist and scored numerous hits during the 1960s, among them "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", … - Keith Moon
Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 - September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. As a drummer, Moon became known for his chaotic but revolutionary style of drumming and gained notoriety for his destructive lifestyle. He is regarded as "One of the greatest rock and roll drummers of all time." - Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964) is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for the rock bands Soundgarden (1984-1997) and later Audioslave (2001-2007). He was also the founder and frontman for Temple of the Dog, the one-off tribute band dedicated to Andrew Wood, Cornell's former roommate. He began his musical career as a drummer, … - Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (born January 10, 1924) is a bebop/hard bop percussionist, drummer, and composer. He has worked with many of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sonny Rollins. He is widely considered to be one of the most important drummers in the history of jazz. - Thom Yorke
Thomas Edward Yorke, born October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England, is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Radiohead. He has also recorded as a solo artist; he released his debut album, "The Eraser", in July 2006. Yorke mainly plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" Radiohead sessions). - Travis Barker
Travis Landon Barker (born November 14, 1975) is an American drummer, who achieved most of his fame by drumming for the band, Blink-182. He currently is the drummer for +44 and has also played for side projects Box Car Racer, Transplants and Expensive Taste. In 1996, Barker joined his first touring band, playing drums for The Aquabats as The Baron Von Tito. He recorded one album with them, The Fury of the Aquabats!, in 1997. - Art Blakey
Arthur (Art) Blakey (October 11 1919-October 16 1990), also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was (and remains) profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. - Mike Portnoy
Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American drummer primarily known for his work with the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Known for his advanced drum skills, Portnoy has won 22 awards from the Modern Drummer magazine. He has co-produced the last five Dream Theater albums with John Petrucci, starting from "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory". - Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich (born December 26 1963) is the drummer and co-founder of Metallica. He was born in Gentofte, Denmark to an upper middle-class family. A tennis prodigy in his youth, Ulrich moved to Los Angeles, California at age seventeen to pursue his training, but instead of playing tennis, he ended up as a drummer. After publishing an advertisement in a local Los Angeles newspaper called "The Recycler", he met James Hetfield and created Metallica. - Stewart Copeland
Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police and is an influential drum stylist. During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks. - Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones (9 September 1927-18 May 2004) was one of the most influential jazz drummers of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and then played in a Detroit houseband led by Billy Mitchell. He moved to New York in 1955 and worked as a sideman for Charles Mingus-Teddy Charles, Bud Powell and Miles Davis. - Chad Smith
Chad Smith (born October 25, 1961 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA), is the drummer of the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He joined the Chili Peppers in late 1988 after former drummer, Jack Irons quit because of the distress and chaos over former guitarist Hillel Slovak's death from a drug overdose. In 1993, he released "Red Hot Rhythm Method", an educational video for aspiring drummers. - Paul Weller
Paul Weller (born John William Weller 25 May 1958, Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. Weller was the leader and creator behind the formation of two successful bands, The Jam and The Style Council. In the UK, he is recognised as something of a national institution, yet because much of his songwriting is rooted in British culture, he has remained essentially a national rather than an international star. - Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham, born May 16 1944 in Panama, is one of the world's best and most influential drummers known for his jazz fusion in the 1970s, with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, where he pioneered a powerful style of drumming with jazz, rock and funk influences. He has played and recorded with musicians including Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Larry Coryell, and Horace Silver; and is famous for his fast, explosive, and powerful playing. - Steve Smith
Steve Smith (born on August 21 1954 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American drummer. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He toured with jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty as well as Montrose before joining the rock band Journey in 1979. He occupied the drum chair during Journey's most commercially successful period (1979-mid 1985). He parted ways with the band in 1985 but returned for their 1996 comeback album Trial by Fire. - Steve Gadd
Steve Gadd (born April 9, 1945 in Rochester, New York) is a very well known session drummer, mainly known for work with Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Joe Cocker, Stuff, Bob James, Chick Corea, Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Eddie Gomez, The Manhattan Transfer, Michal Urbaniak, Steps Ahead, Al Di Meola, Manhattan Jazz Quintet, and many others. Gadd is arguably the most recorded drummer in history, featured on over 600 albums. - Dave Weckl
Dave Weckl (born January 8, 1960) is a highly acclaimed jazz fusion drummer. Weckl attended Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, MO and graduated in 1978. He majored in jazz studies at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Starting out on the New York fusion scene in the early 1980s, Weckl soon found himself working with artists such as Paul Simon, Madonna, George Benson, Michel Camilo and Anthony Jackson. - Matt McGinley
Matt McGinley (February 24, 1983 in Geneva, NY) is the co-founder and drummer of Gym Class Heroes. He and Travis McCoy met up in school in Phys. Ed. - hence the name Gym Class Heroes - and quickly became friends. The two later decided to form a band, and after former members Milo Bonacci and Ryan Geise joined the band, Gym Class Heroes was officially formed. With the band, he has played drums on every Gym Class Heroes release to date, including the albums: Hed Candy, … - Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 - October 16, 1973) was a famous and influential American jazz and big band drummer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style. - The Rev
The Rev (born James Owen Sullivan) on February 10 1981(age 26), short for The Reverend Tholomew Plague is the drummer of Avenged Sevenfold, a heavy metal band. - Jack Dejohnette
Jack DeJohnette (b. 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. DeJohnette was born in Chicago, Illinois. Besides the drums, he studied the piano, which he plays on several recordings. He first became known as a member of Charles Lloyd's band, a group that Keith Jarrett also was a part of at that time. He played with Bill Evans in 1968 on the acclaimed Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and from 1969 to 1972, … - Bill Bruford
William Scott Bruford (born May 17, 1949 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England), better known as Bill Bruford, is an influential British drummer who is recognised for his forceful, highly precise, polyrhythmic style. He was the original drummer for the highly successful progressive rock group Yes, and has been a prominent figure in the art rock movement since the early 1970s. He has been in many other bands and collaborated on numerous projects, … - Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941, in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne) was the lead singer of The Animals, and War before becoming a solo artist. - Joey Jordison
Nathan Jonas "Joey" Jordison is an American drummer, bass guitarist and guitarist. He is best known for his role as the drummer for the band Slipknot during the 1990s and 2000s. He is also well known as the guitarist for Murderdolls, a glam metal/horror punk band which he founded in the 2000s, that is currently on hiatus due to the Murderdolls' members' main projects. Since the spring of 2006, he has been the live drummer for the industrial metal band Ministry. - Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, Carl filipiak, Steely Dan, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, and many others. Despite a complete lack of formal training, Chambers has become well-known among drummers for his impressive technique and speed. - Steven Adler
Steven "Popcorn" Adler (born January 22, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American rock drummer. He is most famous for his tenure as a member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he performed and recorded from 1985 to 1990. - Peter Erskine
Peter Erskine (born June 5, 1954) is an American jazz drummer. He was born in Somers Point, New Jersey, USA. He began playing the drums at the age of four. He graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, then studied percussion at Indiana University. His professional career started in 1972 when he joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra. After three years with Kenton he joined Maynard Ferguson for two years. - Janet Weiss
Janet Weiss (born September 24, 1965) was the drummer of now defunct Sleater-Kinney and is currently a member of Quasi and the drummer for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. Janet was born in Hollywood, California. She attended San Francisco State University and graduated with a degree in photography. While in college, she started playing drums with an all-girl trio, The Furies. At the age of 22 she went on tour with The Furies as a drummer, … - Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born June 24, 1947) is a British musician best known for his role as the drummer with the rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His name, combined with that of John McVie was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac. Besides his work as a drummer, he also helped form the different incarnations of his band Fleetwood Mac. In 1974, he met and invited Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to join Fleetwood Mac. - Meg White
Megan Martha White (born December 10, 1974 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan) is best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. - Ginger Baker
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born August 19, 1939, Lewisham, South London) is an English drummer who gained fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organization (GBO) and Cream from 1966 until 1968. He later joined Cream bandmate Eric Clapton along with Ric Grech and Steve Winwood in the 1969 group Blind Faith. In the early 1970s, Baker toured and recorded with a fusion rock group, Ginger Baker's Air Force. Baker's drumming attracted attention for its flamboyance, showmanship, … - Dave Holland
David (Dave) Holland (born on April 5, 1948 in Wolverhampton, Northamptonshire) is an English rock drummer, best remembered from his stint with Judas Priest. He is currently in prison for attempted child rape.
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