Jimmy Sturr

Jimmy Sturr

male
Jimmy Sturr is a polka musician and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. His recordings have won 16 out of 22 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka...
Frankie Yankovic

Frankie Yankovic

male, deceased (1998)
Frankie Yankovic was a polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King", he was the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style. Of Slovenian...
Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II

male, deceased (1899)
Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer known especially for his waltzes, such as The Blue Danube. Son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and...
Eddie Blazonczyk

Eddie Blazonczyk

male
Eddie Blazonczyk is a polka musician and leader of the band The Versatones. Their album "Another Polka Celebration" won the 1986 Grammy in the...
Willi Boskovsky

Willi Boskovsky

male, deceased (1991)
Willi Boskovsky (Vienna on June 16, 1909- Visp, Switzerland on April 21, 1991) was an Austrian violinist and conductor. Willi Boskovsky joined the...
Carl Finch

Carl Finch

male, 58 years old
Carl Finch (born November 29, 1951, in Texarkana, Texas) is a guitarist, keyboardist, accordionist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer who...
Ernesto Nazareth

Ernesto Nazareth

male, deceased (1934)
Ernesto Júlio Nazareth was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative tango and Choro compositions. Ernesto Nazareth was o...
Hans Christian Lumbye

Hans Christian Lumbye

male, deceased (1874)
Hans Christian Lumbye was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops (amongst other things). As a child, he studied music in Randers...
Chango Spasiuk

Chango Spasiuk

male, 41 years old
Horacio "Chango" Spasiuk is an Argentine chamamé musician and accordion player. Of Ukrainian grandparents, "El Chango" had a strong Polka music i...
Jim Pekol

Jim Pekol

male
Born James Brian Pekol on May 4, 1961, Jim Pekol is an accordionist from Wausau, Wisconsin known as "The Northwoods Polka King." Jim, who is of...