- Pete Yorn
Peter (Pete) Yorn (b. July 27, 1974) is a successful American singer-songwriter and guitarist who first gained international recognition when his music, including the song "Strange Condition", appeared in the 2000 film "Me, Myself & Irene". Yorn also wrote the film's score. - Drag On
Melvin Jason Smalls (born February 8,1979), better known as Drag-on, is an American rapper from The Bronx, New York City. He is a former member of the group Ruff Ryders. - George Clinton
George Clinton (born July 22, 1940) is an American musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and was a solo funk artist as of 1981. He has been hailed as "The Prime Minister of Funk" as the leader of Parliament, as well as "The King of Interplanetary Funksmanship". - Ray Toro
Raymond Manuel Toro-Ortiz, born on July 15, 1977 in Kearny, New Jersey, is the lead guitarist and one of two backup vocalists for My Chemical Romance. He plays Gibson Les Paul guitars with Seymour Duncan pickups through Marshall amplifiers. When he was younger he enjoyed the music of Queen and Metallica and he cites Brian May and Randy Rhoads as large influences on his playing. - Ted Leo
Theodore Francis "Ted" Leo (born September 11, 1970, in South Bend, Indiana) is an American punk rock singer, songwriter and guitarist. Leo has played with many bands, including Citizens Arrest, Chisel, the Sin-Eaters, and his current outfit, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. Ted Leo graduated from Seton Hall Prep, West Orange, New Jersey in 1988 and the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 1993 with a degree in English. - Janis Ian
Janis Ian (born April 7, 1951) is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumental musician, columnist, and science fiction author. She had a successful singing career in the 1960s and 1970s, recording into the 21st century. - Max Weinberg
Max Weinberg (born April 13, 1951) is an acclaimed American drummer and television personality. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. - Scott Storch
Scott Spencer Storch is a Canadian entertainment mogul, hip hop, pop, R&B and Reggeaton record producer of Jewish descent. He has his own record label, Storch Music Company and Tuff Jew Productions and he has produced for a variety of artists including Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé, to name a few. He plans to release a debut album called Piano Man. - Southside Johnny
Southside Johnny (real name John Lyon, born December 4, 1948 in Neptune, New Jersey) is an American singer, harmonica player, and songwriter, who usually fronts his band The Asbury Jukes. Lyon grew up in Ocean Grove, New Jersey and graduated from Neptune High School. - Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger, known primarily for his unusually cool baritone saxophone sound and style; his writing and arranging for Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others; and, his own pianoless quartet of the early 1950s. - Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub on July 17, 1952) is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most known for her 1975 hit "Poetry Man". - John Pizzarelli
John Pizzarelli, Jr. (born April 6, 1960) is an Italian-American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader born in Paterson, New Jersey. He is married to torch singer Jessica Molaskey who he has recorded with on each of her albums, and is also the son of fellow jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. Pizzarelli has had a lengthy career as a recording artist, performing for a variety of labels that include Telarc Records, RCA Records and Chesky Records, among others. - Mira Sorvino
Mira Katherine Sorvino (born September 28, 1967 in Tenafly, New Jersey) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. - Dionne Warwick
Marie Dionne Warrick (born December 12, 1940), known professionally as Dionne Warwick, is an African American singer best known for her work with Hal David and Burt Bacharach as songwriters and producers. - Lil' Scrappy
Lil' Scrappy (born Darryl Kevin Richardson II on January 19, 1984 in North Trenton, New Jersey) is a rapper. - Geoff Rickly
Geoff W. Rickly (born March 8, 1979) is most well-known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of Thursday, an unsigned American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey that has released four full-length albums. Rickly co-owns Astro Magnetics, an imprint of Eyeball Records and has worked closely with bands such as The Blackout Pact. Rickly is also a producer for many hardcore and emo-styled bands, … - Gary Wright
Gary Wright (born 26 April 1943, Cresskill, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American musician, most famous for his song, "Dream Weaver". - Jon Brion
Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. - Joe Lynn Turner
Joseph Linquito or Joe Lynn Turner (JLT) born August 2, 1951 in Hackensack, New Jersey, was the singer for Fandango and two hard rock groups: Rainbow (1980-1984; break-up) and Deep Purple (1989-1992). He was also a songwriter and has also worked with famous guitarists Yngwie J. Malmsteen and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple. He was the singer forYngwie J. Malmsteen on his greatly successful album "Odyssey" (1988). - Lesley Gore
Lesley Gore (born May 2, 1946 in New York City as Lesley Sue Goldstein) is an American singer and songwriter of the so-called "girl group era". She is perhaps best-known for her 1963 Pop hit, "It's My Party," which she recorded at the age of 16. Following this hit, she became one of the most recognized Teen Pop singers of the 1960s. - Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning American theater, television, and film actress. She was born Beatrice Neuwirth to Jewish American parents Lee, a mathematician, and Sydney Anne, an artist, in Princeton, New Jersey. She began to study dance at the age of five, and chose it as her field of concentration when she attended Juilliard in New York City in 1976 and 1977. - Larry Young
Larry Young (also known as Khalid Yasin (Abdul Aziz) (born October 7, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey-died March 30, 1978 in New York City) was an American jazz organist and occasional pianist. Young pioneered a modal approach to the Hammond B-3 (in contrast to Jimmy Smith's soul-jazz style). However, he did play soul-jazz also, among various other mediums. Young played with various R&B bands in the 1950s before gaining jazz experience with Jimmy Forrest, … - Christina Milian
Christina Milian (born Christine Flores on September 26, 1981) is an American actress and Grammy Award-nominated R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and former MTV host. She has released three studio albums and one compilation album. She has also had four solo top five singles (and also a top ten featuring credit single) in the UK as well as hits in the rest of Europe and North America. - John Mack
John Mack was a renowned American oboist. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Mack attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying oboe with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with Marcel Tabuteau, the longtime principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His first professional experience was with the Sadler Wells Ballet's American tour in 1951-1952. Afterwards he was appointed principal oboist of the New Orleans Symphony, … - Paul Baloche
As a Dove-Award winning songwriter, Paul has written hundreds of songs that have been featured on a variety of albums. He has written many popular songs including "Open the Eyes of my Heart", "Above All", "Praise Adonai", "Offering", and "My Reward", which was the top charting song on Inspirational Radio in 2004. - Slide Hampton
"Slide Hampton" is a jazz trombonist and arranger. He was born Locksley Wellington Hampton on April 21, 1932 in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, but largely spent his youth in Indianapolis. He has played with Lionel Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, and Woody Herman, and was musical director for singer Lloyd Price and is a two-time grammy winner. He leads a nine-trombone band called "World of Trombones". - Laura Prepon
Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Pinciotti on the Fox television series "That '70s Show" and Hannah Daniels on the ABC television series "October Road". Prepon was born and raised in Watchung, New Jersey, the youngest of four children in a family of Jewish and Irish Catholic descent. She is 5 feet 10 inches tall. Her acting experience was limited prior to her audition for "That '70's Show". - Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman (born October 22, 1959) is a composer, lyricist, arranger and performer for films, television and theatre. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", … - Frank Sinatra Jr.
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (born January 10, 1944) is an American singer and conductor. He is the son of famed musician Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato. Frank Jr. has always existed in the shadow of his far more famous father. His supporters feel that if he had been born with another name he could have achieved quite a following of his own, while his detractors have claimed that he has made his entire career off his name. - David Sancious
David Sancious (born November 30, 1953 in Asbury Park, New Jersey) is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, The E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums. Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and guitarist. He left the E Street Band in 1974 to form his own band, Tone, and released several albums. He subsequently became a popular session and touring musician, … - Rodney Jerkins
Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins is an African-American Grammy Award-winning songwriter, record producer, and musician. Working largely with his brother Fred Jerkins III & writer LaShawn Daniels, Jerkins has been an extremely in-demand producer for over a decade, being requested by such legends as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston & Lionel Richie. - Karen O
Karen Lee Orzołek, better known as Karen O, is the lead vocalist for the New York art punk band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Karen's mother is Korean and father is Polish. Karen grew up in New Jersey, and attended Oberlin College, but transferred to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Karen O has been noted for her sense of fashion, wearing over-the-top outfits made by her friend, fashion designer Christian Joy. - Brody
Brody (born 1976 in Oakland, New Jersey) is an American radio personality and music director in Raleigh, North Carolina for WDCG-FM 105.1, the only Top 40 radio channel in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area. He hosts his own nighttime radio show called The Brody Nighttime Radio Show (catch phrase "Brody on the radio") every weeknight at 7:00 p.m. EST; after Randy and before Anna, … - William Tucker
William Tucker (1961 - May 14, 1999) was a guitarist whose credits included work with Ministry, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Pigface, Chemlab, and Chris Connelly. He grew up in New Jersey where he formed Regressive Aid with Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain of the Rollins Band. He also taught guitar lessons to locals, one of whom was Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondio of the popular alternative band Ween. On May 14, 1999, 38-year-old Tucker was found dead in his apartment, … - Laurie Berkner
Laurie Berkner is a musician best known for her work as a children's musical artist. Berkner plays guitar and sings in the "Laurie Berkner Band", along with pianist Susie Lampert and bassist Brian Mueller, who is also Berkner's husband. (In 2006, Mueller left the band "to keep the couple’s personal and professional lives separate", and was replaced by Adam Bernstein.) - Debby Boone
Debby Boone (born Deborah Ann Boone, on September 22, 1956) is an American singer and theater actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit "You Light Up My Life", which spent 10 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and won her a Grammy award the following year for "Best New Artist". In the 80s, her career shifted in different directions, initially starting in Country music, and then switching over into Christian music, … - Robert Deleo
Robert Emile DeLeo (born February 2, 1966 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American bass player and musician who has played for Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show, and currently for the band Army of Anyone. He is the younger brother of Dean DeLeo, who plays guitar. His bass playing is primarily inspired by James Jamerson, and in an interview with "Bass Player" magazine he even called his entire style "a Jamerson rip--that's all it really is." - Camryn Manheim
Camryn Manheim is an Emmy Award-winning American movie and television actress born on March 8, 1961 in Caldwell, New Jersey. Her interest in acting was spurred on after she participated in a Renaissance fair during high school. She graduated from the University of California with a BFA degree, and then later went on to earn a Master's degree in Fine Arts from New York University. Before she pursued her acting career, she worked as a sign language interpreter for hospitals. - Gillette
Sandra Gillette (born 1974), who goes by her last name, is a former R&B-Dance artist from the 1990s. She was born in New Jersey and grew up in Chicago and Houston, singing and rapping her way through the 1990s. Sandra Gillette graduated from Romeoville High School Her most famous recordings are: "On the Attack" released in 1994 and "Shake Your Money Maker" released in 1996. She's best known for her dance jam "Short Dick Man" and Mr. - Juice Newton
Juice Newton was born Judy Kay Cohen 18 February 1952 in Lakehurst, New Jersey and grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is an American pop music and country singer. She mixed folk, rock, blues and pop into a signature sound that led to a successful recording career. To date, Newton has sold more than 13 million albums and notched 20 Top-40 hit singles across the U.S. country, pop and adult contemporary charts.
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