- Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most recognized work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", … - 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. - Brian Eno
Brian Eno (born Brian Peter George Eno on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. As a solo artist, he is probably best known as the father of modern ambient music, though he is also a highly celebrated record producer. With an art school background and inspiration from minimalism, … - David Wright
David Wright (born December 24 1953) in Kent, UK, is the keyboard player and composer who founded the New Age music label AD Music in 1989. He is also co-founder of the New Age electronic rock band Code Indigo and of the New Age music duo Callisto. David Wright has released many instrumental albums as a solo performer, establishing a strong reputation in Europe and the USA. - Ion
In Unix computing, Ion (aka IonWM) is a tiling and tabbing window manager for the X Window System. It is designed such that it is possible to manage windows using only a keyboard, without needing a mouse. It is the successor of PWM and is written by the same author. Since the first release of Ion in the summer 2000, similar alternative window management ideas have begun to show in other new window managers: Larswm, ratpoison, StumpWM, WMI, and TrsWM. - Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (baptized September 1, 1653 - March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque. - Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann (real name Manfred Sepse Lubowitz) was born on 21 October 1940 in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a professional keyboard player, best known as the founder member of Manfred Mann and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Lubowitz studied classical music at the University of the Witwatersrand and worked as a jazz pianist at a number of clubs in Johannesburg. Between 1959 and 1961 he recorded, together with his childhood friend Harry Miller, … - Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973), also known by his stage name Pharrell, is an American Grammy Award-winning producer, singer, rapper, and songwriter. He is also one half of the production duo "The Neptunes" (with Chad Hugo) with whom he produces primarily hip-hop music. He is also the lead singer and drummer in the funk-rock group N*E*R*D with Hugo and Shay Haley. More recently he has also done solo work as a singer and rapper, … - John Cooper
John Cooper is the lead singer and bassist of the Christian rock band Skillet. He was one of the founders of the band when it was started in 1996. His wife, Korey Cooper, joined in 1999 as a piano player, guitarist, and backing vocalist. He is the only member of the band to appear on all seven of their albums. He often talks of how he loves playing on stage, and how he wants to give his all in every performance. - Brian Cox
Dr Brian Cox (B. E. Cox) is an experimental physicist and Royal Society University Research Fellow. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester and also works at CERN. <P> Cox played keyboard for the rock band D:Ream while studying for his honours degree and doctorate. He left the band in 1997. He has also played keyboard for Dare. - Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell (born April 19, 1944) is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic. - Brian Culbertson
Brian Culbertson (born January 12, 1973) is a smooth jazz musician and instrumentalist from Decatur, Illinois, United States. Son of jazz band director and trumpeter Jim Culbertson, Brian's instruments include the keyboard and trombone. Heavily influenced by funk, much of Culbertson's material is funk-based instrumental, but in recent years has called upon vocalists such as Trey Lorenz and Kenny Lattimore to add to his pieces. Culbertson has released eight albums so far. - Danny Federici
Danny Federici (born January 23, 1950) was an American musician, most known as the longtime organ and keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. During in-concert band intros, Springsteen often referred to him as "Phantom." Federici attended high school at Hunterdon Central High School in New Jersey. Federici's organ fills are a key component in the E Street sound, and sometimes take on a more prominent role, such as on the hit "Hungry Heart". - Geoff Downes
Geoffrey Downes (born August 25, 1952 in Stockport, Cheshire, England) is a rock keyboard player/songwriter/producer. He is best known as the keyboardist for the band Asia, the Buggles, and also his stint with Yes in 1980. When he was a keyboardist for The Buggles, he would play multiple keyboards to achieve a 'New Wave' technopop sound. He was once entered for the Guinness Book Of Records for performing with most keyboards (28) on stage in one performance. - Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson (born Steven John Wilson on November 3, 1967 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England) is the lead guitarist/singer/songwriter and the founder of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. Wilson is also a self-taught producer, audio engineer, guitar and keyboard player (among other musical instruments). - William Orbit
William Orbit (born on 15 December, 1956 as William Mark Wainwright in Shoreditch, Hackney) is an English musician and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album "Ray of Light", which received four Grammy Awards. He has also co-produced several unreleased Madonna songs originally recorded for other albums that were never used. In addition, he produced "13" by Blur, and remixed some of the songs on the album. - Mike Keneally
Michael Joseph Keneally (born December 20 1961) is an American guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and composer. All Music Guide describes him thusly: "With his wide-ranging talents and ability to be creative in almost any musical situation, Keneally is the leading progressive rock genius of the post-Zappa era." Born in Long Island, New York, he moved to San Diego, … - Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi (baptized mid-September 1583 - March 1, 1643) was an Italian musician, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. There is no evidence that the Frescobaldi of Ferrara were related to the homonymous Florentine noble house. - Ed Harcourt
Ed Harcourt (born August 14 1977) is an English singer-songwriter from Sussex who as of 2006 has released six albums and has a hugely supportive and enthusiastic worldwide fanbase. Harcourt's primary instrument is the piano, but he also plays numerous less common keyboard instruments as well as the guitar and percussion. When performing live he is most often accompanied by a band typically comprising a drummer, guitarist, violinist and trumpeter, … - Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons (baptised December 25 1583 - June 5 1625) was an English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was a leading composer in the England of his day. Gibbons was born in Oxford. Between 1596 and 1598 he sang in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, where his brother was master of the choristers; he entered the university in 1598 and achieved the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1606. - Edwin McCain
Edwin McCain (born January 20, 1970 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an alternative singer-songwriter. While his albums are released under his name, he does have a permanent band, referred to as the Edwin McCain Band. Members of the band include Larry Chaney, lead guitar; Pete Riley, rhythm guitar and background vocals; Craig Shields, saxophone and keyboards; Manny Yanes, bass guitar; and Tromell Blassingame, drums. Long time touring friends with Hootie and the Blowfish, … - Brendan Benson
Brendan Benson is a Michigan born musician and songwriter. He sings and plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and drums. He has released three solo albums and is a member of the band The Raconteurs. Benson's major musical influences include The Cars, David Bowie, The Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Costello, The Kinks, Robyn Hitchcock, Paul McCartney, and Todd Rundgren. - John Bull
John Bull (1562 or 1563-March 15, 1628) was an English composer, musician, and organ builder. He was a renowned keyboard performer and most of his compositions were written for this medium. - Mike Miller
Mike Miller is a American keyboard player who played with The Family Jewels and "Scrotum Jones" before going solo. Miller began his musical career as keyboardist in legendary NJ bizarro-pop expansionist act, The Family Jewels. After the demise of the Jewels in 2002, Miller began stockpiling songs. He began recording his debut ep, "Bemusing Musings" in June of 2004 at Brian J. Anthony studios in Catasauqua, PA, which featured his debut single, "Missing Him, … - Augustus Pablo
Horace Swaby (June 21, 1954 - May 18, 1999), better known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He was perhaps the first person to use the melodica as a viable musical instrument. He was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica and learned to play the organ in Kingston College School. It was at that point an unnamed girl lent him the melodica. - David Paich
David Paich (born David Frank Paich on June 25 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a session musician from the 1980s, keyboard player, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles based rock/pop band Toto. David is the son of the late jazz composer Marty Paich. David Paich is one of the most prolific songwriters of the 1980s. He wrote "Rosanna", "99", "Hold the Line", and most of Toto's hits over the years, … - Del Shannon
Del Shannon (born Charles Weedon Westover in Coopersville, Michigan) was an American rock and roller who launched into fame with the No. 1 hit "Runaway" (1961). The song introduced the musitron, an early form of the synthesizer played by "Runaway" co-writer and keyboardist Max Crook. - John Miles
John Miles (born John Ashford Miles, 23 April 1949 in Jarrow, Tyne & Wear, England) is an English vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player, best known for his 1976 Top 3 UK hit single, "Music". - David Bryan
David Bryan (born David Bryan Rashbaum, 7 February 1962, in Edison, New Jersey) is the keyboard player of the rock band, [[Bon Jovi] - Matthew Good
Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002. Other band members included drummer Ian Browne, guitarist/keyboardist Dave Genn, and original bassist Geoff Lloyd, later replaced by Rich Priske. - Ken Hensley
Kenneth William David ('Ken') Hensley (born on 24 August, 1945, in Plumstead, South East London, England) is a keyboard (especially Hammond organ) player, guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer best known for his work with Uriah Heep during the 1970s. He wrote, or co-wrote, the majority of the Uriah Heep's songs during this period, including such hits as "Look at Yourself", "Lady in Black" (on both of which he also sang lead vocals), "Easy Livin'", … - Christine McVie
Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect, July 12, 1943, in Greenodd, Lancashire) is an English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the band Fleetwood Mac, though she has also released three solo albums. - Peter Tägtgren
Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician. He is the founder, main composer, lead singer, and guitarist of the blackened death metal band Hypocrisy. Although Hypocrisy is his main band, he has also worked on many other Swedish metal projects. These include Pain (industrial metal), for which he performs all instruments and vocals and composes all songs, Lock Up (grindcore/death metal), in which he was the vocalist, The Abyss (black metal), where he performed drums, … - Peter Svensson
Anders Peter Svensson is a guitarist with the indie rock band, The Cardigans. His role in the group is as a guitarist and composer, but he also plays keyboard, vibraphone, and bass guitar, plus he provides some backing vocals. His earlier musical experience included a few different hard rock bands in his early teens. After that, it comprised of playing with a couple of bands with Magnus Sveningsson, a few years before The Cardigans formed. - 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). - Jeremiah Clarke
Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674 - December 1 1707) was an English baroque composer. Thought to have been born in London in 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became organist at the Chapel Royal. "A violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own" caused him to commit suicide by shooting himself. He was succeeded in his post by William Croft. - Glenn Tipton
Glenn Raymond Tipton (born October 25, 1947 in Blackheath, England) is one of the lead guitarists (and occasional keyboard player) for the English heavy metal band Judas Priest. Prior to Judas Priest, he was in the Flying Hat Band. Tipton is known for his complex, sometimes classically influenced solos and his double lead guitar trades with fellow Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing. Although Glenn did not pick up the guitar until he was 21, … - Amp Fiddler
Joseph "Amp" Fiddler is a keyboard player, singer, songwriter and producer from Detroit, Michigan in the USA. His musical styles include funk, soul, dance and electronica music. He is probably best known for his contributions to the band Enchantment, and as part of George Clinton’s Parliament and Funkadelic groups during the 1970s and 80s. His first solo album "Waltz of a Ghetto Fly" was released in March 2004. - Moby
Moby (born Richard Melville Hall, September 11, 1965), is an American songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Harlem, New York, and raised in Darien, Connecticut. After eight UK Top 40 singles in the 1990s with techno music, his biggest success was his more mainstream album "Play", released in 1999, which sold 10 million copies worldwide. He continues to record and release music today. His parents nicknamed him Moby soon after birth, … - Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas, born in Long Beach, California, on November 24, 1970, is a successful Grammy Award and two-time Latin Grammy Award winning Mexican singer and songwriter of Spanish-language rock and pop music. Venegas, who grew up in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, began studying music at the age of eight and went on to join several bands, including Tijuana No!, before starting a career on her own. In addition to singing and writing her own songs, …
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