This is an alphabetized list of notable
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
ists who have their own main articles or belong to a notable band.
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Benny Andersson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson (; born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, singer, composer and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals ''Chess'', '' Kristina från Duvemåla'', and '' Mamma M ...
(born 1946) – Swedish songwriter, member of best-selling pop group
ABBA
ABBA ( , , formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's ...
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Lydie Auvray (born 1956) – French/German accordionist, composer
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Slavko Avsenik
Slavko Avsenik (November 26, 1929 – July 2, 2015) was a Slovene composer and musician. Beginning in 1953 with the formation of the Avsenik Brothers Ensemble, Avsenik produced more than 1,000 songs and garnered success both in Slovenia and in ...
(1929–2015) – Slovenian songwriter, the founder of Ansambel bratov Avsenik
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Ramon Ayala (born 1945) – Mexican accordionist, composer
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Nick Ariondo (born 1949) – American accordionist, composer
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Alan Bern (born 1955) – member of the
Klezmer
Klezmer ( yi, קלעזמער or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for l ...
band
Brave Old World
Brave Old World is an American and German klezmer band. It formed in 1989.
Members hail from the US and Germany. ''The Washington Post'' called Brave Old World "the revival's first supergroup. Every player is a virtuoso.”
In 1992, the group ...
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Bratko Bibič Bratko Bibič (born 1957) is a Slovenian accordionist.
Bibič first came to prominence as a rock musician, playing in the ensembles Begnagrad and Nimal in the 1980s; both groups blended Slavic folk music with art rock. Bratko Bibičat Allmusic. ...
(born 1957) – Slovene accordionist
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Renato Borghetti
Renato Borghetti (born July 23, 1963 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian folk musician and composer.
He works in many genres including traditional styles from his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, other styles of Brazilian music like samba, and in ...
(born 1963) – Brazilian musician
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Franko Božac (born 1974) – Croatian classical and concert accordionist
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Smiley Burnette
Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and ...
(1911–1967) – American accordionist
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Gary Blair
Gary Claude Blair (born August 10, 1945) is a retired women's basketball head coach. He coached for 37 years closing with Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball, who he coached from 2003 until his retirement in 2022. In his 37 years as a collegiate ...
(born 1945) - Scottish Accordionist Classical, Folk, Continental
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* Manuela Josefa Cabrera (born 1943) - known as ''
Fefita la Grande
Manuela Josefa Cabrera Taveras (born September 18, 1943), known as Fefita La Grande, is a Dominican accordionist and the most recognized female performer of typical merengue, a more rural variation of merengue, the main musical genre of the Do ...
'', Dominican merengue accordionist
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Carmen Carrozza (1921–2013) – classical and concert accordionist
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Nico Carstens
Nicolaas Cornelius Carstens (10 February 1926 – 1 November 2016) more commonly known as Nico Carstens, was a South African musician, accordionist, and songwriter.
Early life
Born, 10 February 1926, in Cape Town of Afrikaner parents, Carstens g ...
(1926–2016) – South African accordionist and songwriter, composer of the hit song "Zambezi"
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Boozoo Chavis
Wilson Anthony "Boozoo" Chavis (pronounced CHAY-viss) (October 23, 1930 – May 5, 2001) was an American accordion player, singer, songwriter and bandleader. He was one of the pioneers of zydeco, the fusion of Cajun and blues music develop ...
(1930–2001) – American
zydeco
Zydeco ( or , french: Zarico) is a music genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers which blends blues, rhythm and blues, and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the Native American people of Louisiana. Al ...
musician
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Clifton Chenier
Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), was an American Creole musician known as a pioneer of zydeco, a style of music which arose from Creole music, with rhythm and blues, R&B, blues, and Cajun music, Cajun influences. He sang a ...
(1925–1987) – American zydeco musician
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Dick Contino
Richard Joseph "Dick" Contino (January 17, 1930 – April 19, 2017) was an American accordionist and singer.
Early life
Contino was born in Fresno, California. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Contino, and he attended Fresno High School. H ...
(1930–2017) – appeared on ''
The Ed Sullivan Show
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'' a record 48 times
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Gianni Coscia
Gianni Coscia (born January 23, 1931, in Alessandria) is an Italian jazz accordionist. Originally a lawyer, Coscia began focusing full-time on jazz music. Expresses an interest in developing "the remote values of cultural and popular tradition ...
(born 1931) – jazz accordionist
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Charles Thomas Cozens
Charles Cozens (born July 29, 1952) is involved in the music industry in Canada as an arranger for solo artists; a composer writing in multiple genres for diverse organizations including chamber ensembles, musical theatre, and television; a conduc ...
(born 1952) – Canadian classical and classical crossover accordionist
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James Crabb
James Crabb (born 1967) is a Scottish classical accordion player.
Crabb was born in Dundee. He was given his first accordion at age 4 by his accordion-playing father. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with class ...
(born 1967) – Scottish classical accordion player.
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Phil Cunningham (born 1974) – Scottish folk accordionist
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Andy Cutting
Andy Cutting (born 18 March 1969) is an English folk musician and composer. He plays melodeon and is best known for writing and performing traditional English folk and his own original compositions which combine English and French traditions w ...
(born 1969) – English folk accordionist
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Jackie Daly
Jackie Daly (born 22 June 1945, Kanturk, North Cork, Ireland) is an Irish button accordion and concertina player. He has been a member of a number of prominent Irish traditional-music bands, including De Dannan, Patrick Street, Arcady, and But ...
(born 1945) – Irish traditional musician
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Robert Davine
Robert Davine (born Aubrey Robert Davine; April 5, 1924 – November 25, 2001) was an internationally recognized concert accordionist and Professor of Accordion and Music Theory at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music. As the chairma ...
(1924-2001) - Professor of Accordion & Music Theory - University of Denver:
Lamont School of Music Lamont School of Music is the school of arts of the University of Denver, based in city of Denver, United States. In 1941, the school merged with the University of Denver.
History
Despite its separation from Denver University's main campus for m ...
Robert Davine Obituary on accordions.com
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* Pietro Deiro
Pietro Deiro (1888 – 1954) was one of the most influential accordionists of the first half of the 20th century.
Born on August 28, 1888 in Salto Canavese, Italy, the younger brother of Guido Deiro, Pietro Deiro emigrated to the United St ...
(1888–1954) – pioneer of the accordion
* Vladimir Denissenkov (born 1956) – Russian Bayan
* Dennis DeYoung
Dennis DeYoung (born February 18, 1947) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He was a founding member of the rock band Styx, and served as its primary lead vocalist and keyboardist from 1972 until 1999. DeYoung was th ...
(born 1947) – American member of Styx
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, played on "Boat on the River
"Boat on the River" is a 1979 song by Styx, from their album ''Cornerstone''. It was released as a single in 1980 in various countries, but not in the band's native United States, where " Borrowed Time" was released instead.
It was popular in ...
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* Orlando DiGirolamo (1924–1998), American
* Wolfgang Dimetrik (born 1974), Austrian
* Henry Doktorski
Henry Doktorski III (born January 30, 1956) is an American accordionist, organist and author. He has performed on accordion with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, violinists Gil Shaham and Itzhak Perlman during concerts and recording sessions with ...
(born 1956) – American classical and concert accordionist
* Dominguinhos
José Domingos de Morais (12 February 1941 – 23 July 2013), better known as Dominguinhos, was a Brazilian composer, accordionist and singer. His principal musical influences were the music of Luiz Gonzaga, Forró and in general the music of the ...
(1941–2013) – Brazilian music
* Wilf Doyle (1925–2012) – traditional musician from Newfoundland
* Alejo Durán
Gilberto Alejandro Durán Diaz, known to all as Alejo Durán or "El Negro Grande" (the great black Man) (February 9, 1919 – November 15, 1989) was a Colombian vallenato music traditional composer, singer and accordionist.
Duran was born in ...
(1919–1989) – Colombian Vallenato
Vallenato () or "Szlager" in Wayuu language (from the German "Schlager"), is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing th ...
accordionist, singer, composer
* Finbarr Dwyer
Finbarr Dwyer (often misspelled as "Finbar Dwyer") (20 September 1946 – 8 February 2014) was a traditional Irish accordion player from the famed Dwyer musical family. He was born in Castletownbere, Co. Cork on 20 September 1946, began playing ...
(1946–2014) – Irish traditional musician
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* Mogens Ellegaard Mogens Ellegaard (4 March 1935 – 28 March 1995) was an accordion player from Denmark. He is regarded as the "father of the classical music, classical accordion."
Early life
Ellegaard was the son of a cabinet maker and began studying the in ...
(1935–1995) – father of the avant-garde accordion movement
* Jack Emblow
Jack Alexander Emblow (born 27 June 1930) is a British jazz accordionist who is best known for his musical work accompanying the Cliff Adams Singers on BBC Radio.
Biography
Emblow was born on 27 June 1930 in Lincoln, England. His father sang a ...
(born 1930) – with Cliff Adams Singers
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* Keith Emerson
Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. He became ...
(1944–2016)
* John Evan
John Evan (born John Spencer Evans; born 28 March 1948, in Derby, Derbyshire.) is a British musician and composer. He is best known for having played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. Evans' father was headmaster at a De ...
(born 1948) – of Jethro Tull
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* Joe Falcon
Joseph Falcón (September 28, 1900 – November 19, 1965) was an accordion player from southwest Louisiana, best known for producing the first recording of a Cajun song, " Allons à Lafayette," in 1928. He and his wife Cléoma Breaux left f ...
(1900–1965) – Cajun accordion player who recorded with his wife Cléoma Breaux, mainly in French
* Jeff Fatt (born 1953) - member of The Wiggles
The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney in 1991. The group are currently composed of Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce and Tsehay Hawkins, as well as supporting members Evie Ferris, John Pearce, Ca ...
* James Fearnley
James Fearnley (born 9 October 1954, Worsley) is an English musician. He played accordion in the Celtic punk band The Pogues.
Life and career
As a child he was a choir treble before his voice changed at the age of sixteen. He took piano less ...
(born 1954) – member of The Pogues
The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in Kings Cross, London in 1982, as "Pogue Mahone" – the anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse". T ...
* Myron Floren
Myron Floren (November 5, 1919 – July 23, 2005) was an American musician best known as the accordionist on ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' between 1950 and 1980. Floren came to prominence primarily from his regular appearances on the weekly televi ...
(1919–2005)
* Connie Francis
Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero (born December 12, 1937),
known professionally as Connie Francis, is an American pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Called the “First Lady of Rock & Roll” ...
(born 1937)
* Dominic Frontiere
Dominic Carmen Frontiere (June 17, 1931 – December 21, 2017) was an American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He composed the theme and much of the music for the first season of the television series '' The Outer Limits'', as wel ...
(1931–2017)
* Pietro Frosini
Pietro Frosini (9 August 1885 – 2 September 1951) was one of the first famous "stars of the accordion." He was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1885 and began to play the chromatic button accordion at the age of six. In 1905 he emigrated to San Fran ...
(1885–1951)
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* Benny Gallagher
Bernard Joseph "Benny" Gallagher (born 10 June 1945, in Largs, Ayrshire) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, most famous as half of the popular duo Gallagher and Lyle.
Career
The son of Irish parents, Gallagher atten ...
(born 1945) – Scottish singer-songwriter; member of Gallagher and Lyle
Gallagher and Lyle were a Scottish people, Scottish musical duo, comprising singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle. Their style consisted mainly in pop, soft rock, soft and folk rock oriented songs.
Their first recognition came in ...
, McGuinness Flint
McGuinness Flint was a rock band formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness (musician), Tom McGuinness, a bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, former drummer with John Mayall; plus vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and mul ...
and Ronnie Lane
Ronald Frederick Lane (1 April 1946 – 4 June 1997) was an English musician and songwriter who is best known as the bass guitarist and founding member of Small Faces (1965–69) and subsequently Faces (1969–73).
Lane formed Small Faces in ...
's Slim Chance
* Anthony Galla-Rini (1904–2006) – American accordionist, arranger, composer, conductor, author and teacher
* Richard Galliano
Richard Galliano (born 12 December 1950, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French accordionist of Italian heritage. Allmusic biography/ref>
Biography
He was drawn to music at an early age, starting with the accordion at 4, influenced by his father ...
(born 1950) – French jazz accordionist
*Krency Garcia
Krency Garcia, better known as El Prodigio, is a famous merengue típico accordionist from Cabrera, María Trinidad Sánchez, Cabrera, Dominican Republic. He is known throughout the genre for his rapid instrumental solos, his origination of fusio ...
– Dominican merengue tipico
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*Venezuelan merengue music
*An adjective referring to the Real Madrid football club
*An adjective referring to Club Universitari ...
accordionist, better known as El Prodigio
* Régis Gizavo (1959–2017) – accordionist from Madagascar
* Luiz Gonzaga
Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento (standard orthography 'Luís'; ; Exu, December 13, 1912 – Recife, August 2, 1989) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet and one of the most influential figures of Brazilian popular music in the twen ...
(1912–1989) – the King of Baião
* Martin Green (born 1980) – English composer and accordionist, member of the folk trio Lau
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People
* Lau (surname)
* Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien
* Lau clan, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab
* LAU (musician): Laura Fares
Places
* Lebane ...
* Josh Groban
Joshua Winslow Groban (born February 27, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. His first four solo albums have been certified multi-platinum, and he was charted in 2007 as the number-one best selling artist in the United States, wi ...
(born 1981) – learned the accordion to play the role of Pierre Bezukhov
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in the musical ''Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
''Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812'' (or simply ''The Great Comet'') is a sung-through musical adaptation of a 70-page segment from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel ''War and Peace'' written by composer/lyricist Dave Malloy and directed by Rache ...
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* Michael Guerra (born 1981) – member of The Mavericks
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* Alfredo Gutiérrez (born 1940) – Colombian Vallenato
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musician
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* Frode Haltli
Frode Haltli (born 15 May 1975 in Levanger), is a Norwegian accordion player.
Biography
Haltli started to play the accordion at the age of seven and over the following few years he won several national competitions and scholarships and was awa ...
(born 1975) – Norwegian accordionist
* Daniel Handler
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(born 1970), aka Lemony Snicket
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* Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian entertainer whose career has encompassed work as a musician, singer-songwriter, composer, comedian, actor, painter and television personality. He often used unusual instruments in his performan ...
(born 1930)
* Kevin Hearn
Kevin Neil Hearn (born July 3, 1969) is a Canadian musician who is a member of Barenaked Ladies, and his own group, Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle. He primarily plays keyboards and guitars. He is also a member of Rheostatics.
Early life
Hearn was ...
(born 1969) – zydeco musician of Barenaked Ladies
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* Tatico Henríquez (1943–1976) – Dominican Merengue típico
Merengue típico (also known as merengue cibaeño or colloquially as perico ripiao) is a musical genre of the Dominican Republic, and the oldest style of merengue. Merengue típico is the term preferred by most musicians as it is more respectfu ...
accordionist
* Matt Hensley – of Flogging Molly
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* Harry Hibbs (1942–1989) – Canadian musician
* David Hidalgo
David Kent Hidalgo (born October 6, 1954, in Los Angeles.) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. Hidalgo frequently plays musical instruments such as accordion, violin, 6-string banjo, cello, requin ...
(born 1954) – member of Los Lobos
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* Lars Hollmer (1948–2008) – Swedish accordionist
* Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. His music draws from folk rock, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Southern rock, country rock, jam band, rock, heartland rock, and blues rock musical traditions ...
(born 1954)
* Nihad Hrustanbegovic Nihad Hrustanbegović (born 7 June 1973) is a Bosnian-Dutch composer, accordionist and pianist from Amsterdam. He is considered to be one of the most prominent and successful solo concert accordion artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Netherlands ...
(born 1973)
* Garth Hudson
Eric "Garth" Hudson (born August 2, 1937) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist best known as the keyboardist and occasional saxophonist for rock group the Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. He was a ...
(born 1937) – member of The Band
* Rob Hyman
Robert Andrew Hyman (born April 24, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard and accordion player, producer, arranger and recording studio owner, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters.
Early life
Hyman st ...
(born 1950) – member of The Hooters
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The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid-1980 ...
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* Gary Innes
Gary Innes (born 13 December 1980) is a Scottish musician, shinty player, composer and a broadcaster from Spean Bridge, Lochaber, Scotland.
He was a founder member of Scottish folk-rock band Mànran.
Music
Innes has had a professional c ...
(born 1980)
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* Bengan Janson
Bengt Åke "Bengan" Jansson (born 23 February 1963, in Stockholm) is a Swedish accordionist. He plays Swedish folk music, Swedish ballads, pop, rock, and jazz, and has performed with artists such as Kalle Moraeus, Anne Sofie von Otter, Björn ...
(born 1963) – Swedish jazz- and folk music player
* Ryan Jarman
Ryan James Jarman is a British musician who is the guitarist and vocalist with English lo-fi indie rock band the Cribs.
The Cribs
Jarman formed the Cribs in the early 2000s with his twin brother Gary and younger brother Ross. The band is know ...
(born 1980) – member of The Cribs
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* Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre (; born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, accompanie ...
(born 1948)
* Flaco Jiménez
Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter and accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. He is known for playing Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music. Jiménez has been a solo performer and session musician, as ...
(born 1939)
* Santiago Jiménez Jr.
Santiago Jiménez Jr. (aka Santiago Henriquez Jiménez) (born April 8, 1944) is an American folk musician who received a National Heritage Fellowship in 2000 for lifetime achievement in traditional Tejano music, Tex-Mex/folk music, and a National ...
(born 1944)
* Beau Jocque
Beau Jocque (born Andrus Espre; November 1, 1953 – September 10, 1999) was a Louisiana French Creole zydeco musician and songwriter active in the 1990s.
Beau Jocque is known for his gruff vocals, his fusion of many musical styles into zyde ...
(1953–1999) – zydeco musician
* Billy Joel
William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man (song), Piano Man" after his album and signature song of the same name, he has led a commercially successful career as a solo ...
(born 1949)
* Pete Jolly
Pete Jolly (born Peter A. Ceragioli Jr., June 5, 1932 – November 6, 2004) was a two-time Grammy-nominated American West Coast jazz pianist and accordionist. He is known for his performance of television themes and movie soundtracks.
Biogr ...
(1932–2004) – American jazz pianist and accordionist
* Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English multi-instrumentalist and singer best known as the founder, rhythm/lead guitarist, and original leader of the Rolling Stones. Initially a guitarist, he went on to prov ...
(1942–1969) – member of The Rolling Stones
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* Steve Jordan (1939–2010)
* Tyler Joseph
Tyler Robert Joseph (born December 1, 1988) is an American singer, rapper, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the frontman for the musical duo Twenty One Pilots, alongside bandmate Josh Dun. He has been nominated for ...
(born 1988) – lead singer of Twenty One Pilots
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* Kepa Junkera
Kepa Junkera Urraza (born 1965 in Bilbao, Euskadi, Spain) is a Basque musician and composer. A master of the trikitixa, the diatonic accordion, he has recorded more than 10 albums. Allmusic/ref> Junkera won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Al ...
(born 1965) – Basque
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* Basque language, their language
Places
* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
* Basque Country (autonomous co ...
musician and composer
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* Boris Karlov
Boris Karlov ( bg, Борис Карлов; August 11, 1924 – December 14, 1964) was a Bulgarian accordionist. He was born in Sofia into a Romani (Gypsy) family. His father Karlo Aliev conducted an orchestra that was often heard on radio Sofia ...
(1924–1964) – Bulgaria
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n accordion
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ist, born in Sofia
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into a Romani
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** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
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family.
* James Keane (born 1948) – Irish traditional musician
* John Kirkpatrick (born 1947)
* Guy Klucevsek
Guy Klucevsek (born February 26, 1947) is an American-born accordionist and composer. Klucevsek is one of relatively few accordion players active in new music, jazz and free improvisation.
Klucevsek was born in New York City, and raised outside ...
(born 1947) – American musician and composer
* Yasuhiro Kobayashi
coba, , is a Japanese musician, accordionist, composer and arranger, born in Matsushiro, Nagano and brought up in Niigata, Niigata. His music has sold over 1,000,000 CDs.Gabby La La
Gabby La La (born Gabriel Lang on May 23, 1979) is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (including sitar, ukulele, accordion, theremin and toy piano), signed to Prawn Song Records. Her music is self described as "fun, unique, crazy (and) kooky". ...
(born 1979)
* Lead Belly
Huddie William Ledbetter (; January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949), better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk music, folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, Virtuoso, virtuosity on the twelve-string guita ...
(1889–1949) – American folk and blues musician
* Don Lee (1930–2015) – musician who had the 1957 hit " ECHO, Echo echo"
* Yuri Lemeshev
Yuri Lemeshev (born 1954 or 1955) is an American accordion player and former member of gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello.[Gogol Bordello
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* John Linnell
John Sidney Linnell ( ; born June 12, 1959) is an American musician, known primarily as one half of the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants with John Flansburgh, which was formed in 1982. In addition to singing and songwri ...
(born 1959) – member of They Might Be Giants
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* Nils Lofgren
Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984, a membe ...
(born 1951)
* Radoslav Lorković
Radoslav Lorković (born September 3, 1958) is a Croatian born and classically trained folk and blues musician, known in particular for his flair on the piano and accordion. He has six solo studio recordings, three live albums and has recorded a ...
(born 1958) – Croatian pianist and accordionist
* Todd Lumley (born 1968)
* Ramon Ayala (born 1945)
M
* Charles Magnante
Charles Magnante (December 7, 1905 – December 30, 1986) was an American piano-accordionist, arranger, composer, author and educator. His artistry helped raise the image of the accordion from an instrument considered suitable only for folk ...
(1905–1986) – pioneer of the accordion
* Frank Marocco
Frank L. Marocco (January 2, 1931 – March 3, 2012) was an American piano-accordionist, arranger and composer. He was recognized as one of the most recorded accordionists in the world.
Background
Born in Joliet, Illinois Frank Marocco grew up ...
(1931–2012) – jazz accordionist
* Mat Mathews
Mat Mathews, born Mathieu Hubert Wijnandts Schwarts (June 18, 1924 – February 12, 2009), was a Dutch jazz accordionist.
Early life
Mathews was born in The Hague and learned to play accordion while the Netherlands was still under the Nazi r ...
(1924–2009) – Dutch jazz
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accordionist
* Bear McCreary
Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is an American musician and composer of film, television, and video game scores based in Los Angeles, California. His work includes the scores of the television series ''Battlestar Galactica'' (2004), ''Age ...
(born 1979) – American film composer
* Loreena McKennitt
Loreena Isobel Irene McKennitt, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences. McKennitt is known for her ...
(born 1957) – Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist
* Johnny Meijer
Johnny Meijer (born 'Jan Cornelis Meijer' 1 October 1912 in Amsterdam; died 8 January 1992 in Amsterdam) was an accordionist who played classical, folk, and swing.
For a time he was known as a jazz accordionist and his 75th birthday was celebra ...
(1912–1992) – Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
jazz
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accordionist
* Dionisio Mejia (1911–1978) – Dominican merengue tipico
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*Merengue music
*Merengue (dance)
*Merengue típico, a musical genre of the Dominican Republic
*Venezuelan merengue music
*An adjective referring to the Real Madrid football club
*An adjective referring to Club Universitari ...
accordionist, better known as Guandulito
* Colacho Mendoza Nicolas Elias Mendoza Daza, also known as Colacho Mendoza (April 15, 1936 – September 27, 2003) was a Colombian Vallenato accordion player and was crowned king of accordion players on many occasions in the Vallenato Legend Festival. He was born i ...
(1936–2003) – Colombian Vallenato
Vallenato () or "Szlager" in Wayuu language (from the German "Schlager"), is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing th ...
accordionist
Mestrinho
(born 1988) Brazilian accordionist / singer
* Lisandro Meza
Lisandro Meza (El Piñal, Los Palmitos, Sucre, 26 September 1939) is a Colombian singer and accordionist. Since he started playing the accordion in 1959, Lisandro has been described as the “King of Cumbia,” “El Macho de America” (ENG: The ...
(born 1937) – Colombian musician
* Andrew Micallef (born 1969) – Maltese chromatic button accordionist
* Alessandra Mignacca (born c.1977/78) – Italian accordion player, teacher
* Brian Mitchell – member of Fatboy Kanootch, Levon Helm Band
* Aniceto Molina
Aniceto Molina Aguirre (17 April 1939 – 30 March 2015) was a Colombian cumbia singer-songwriter and accordionist who began playing the instrument at the age of 12. His career lasted for more than four decades. He was popular in Latin American ...
(1939–2015) – Colombian musician
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* Maria Ney (1890–1959/61) – German cabaret performer
*Franz Nicolay
Franz Nicolay (born 1977) is an American musician and writer. He is best known for playing the accordion and piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and keyboards in The Hold Steady from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2016 onwards. He is also ...
(born 1977) – member of The World/Inferno Friendship Society
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* Krist Novoselic
Krist Anthony Novoselic (; ; born May 16, 1965) is an American musician and activist. He was the bassist and co-founder of the rock band Nirvana.
Novoselic and Kurt Cobain formed the band Nirvana in 1987 along with drummer Aaron Burckhard, wh ...
(born 1965) – bassist in Nirvana
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O
* Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.
She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...
(1932–2016) – avant garde
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performer
* Walter Ostanek
Ladislav John "Walter" Ostanek, CM (born 20 April 1935) is a Canadian musician. He is known as "Canada's Polka King." He has received twenty-one nominations for Grammy Awards and won three.
Early life
Born in Duparquet, Quebec in 1935, his f ...
(born 1935)
P
* Nejc Pačnik
Nejc Pačnik (born October 28, 1990) is a Slovenian diatonic button accordion
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(born 1990) – Slovenia
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n accordionist, twice accordion world-champion and accordion teacher
* Esa Pakarinen
Feeliks Esaias "Esa" Pakarinen (9 February 1911 – 28 April 1989) was a Finnish actor, singer, accordionist and comedian, best known for the role of Pekka Puupää in the '' Pekka and Pätkä'' films from 1953–1960. He was also a skilled, self ...
(1911–1989) – Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
accordionist and actor
* Willard A. "Bill" Palmer (1917–1996) – inventor of the quint system which was later patented by Titano
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as used in their line of "converter" (or "quint") bass accordions
* Zeena Parkins
Zeena Parkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp". Parkins performs on standard harp ...
(born 1956) – American accordionist
* Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer who has composed various film and television soundtracks. He is best known for his 1967 album ''Song Cycle (album), Song Cycle'' and for his ...
(born 1943) – composer, arranger, and accordionist
* Don Peachey (born 1933) – American musician and recording artist
* Cory Pesaturo (born 1986) – eclectic accordionist
* Joseph Petric
Joseph Francis Petric (born October 8, 1952) is a Canadian concert accordionist, historian, author, and pedagogue.
Formation
Formal training
Petric began private studies at the Royal Conservatory with Joe Macerollo in 1968. In 1971 he was ...
(born 1952) – Canadian concert accordionist
* Celso Piña (1953–2019) – cumbia musician
* Kimmo Pohjonen
Kimmo Pohjonen (born August 16, 1964) is a Finnish accordionist who is known for his avant-garde and experimental work with his custom-made electrified and modified instrument. He has released nine albums of his work and has toured Europe extens ...
(born 1964) – experimental Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
accordionist
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* Matti Rantanen (born 1952) – classical accordionist
* Juancho Rois
Juan Humberto Rois Zúñiga (December 25, 1958 – November 21, 1994, popularly known as Juancho Rois and nicknamed ''El Conejo'' (the rabbit) was a Colombian vallenato musician, accordionist, and composer.Vallenato
Vallenato () or "Szlager" in Wayuu language (from the German "Schlager"), is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing th ...
musician
* Israel Romero
Israel Romero Ospino or popularly known as "El Pollo Isra" (Born in Villanueva, La Guajira, Villanueva, Department of La Guajira, La Guajira in 1954) is a Colombian vallenato musician, composer and accordionist. Romero was along Rafael Orozco Mae ...
(born 1954) – Colombian Vallenato
Vallenato () or "Szlager" in Wayuu language (from the German "Schlager"), is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing th ...
musician
* Saul Rose
Saul Rose (born 1973) is an English folk melodeon player and singer.
Biography
Born in Harrow, he first picked up the melodeon after breaking his leg at the age of eleven and was taught his first tunes by his father.
After entering the BBC ...
(born 1973) – English melodeon player
* Roberto Ruscitti (born 1941) – Venezuelan accordionist
S
* Johnny Sansone
John "Johnny" Sansone (born September 27, 1957), also known as Jumpin' Johnny Sansone, is an American electric blues singer, songwriter, harmonicist, accordionist, guitarist and piano player. He was nominated for seven music awards in 2012, incl ...
(born 1957)
* William Schimmel
William Schimmel (born 1946) is one of the principal architects in the resurgence of the accordion, and the philosophy of "Musical Reality" (composition with pre-existing music). He holds Bachelor of Music, Master of Science and Doctor of Musical ...
(born 1946) – accordionist, composer and philosopher
* John Serry Sr.
John Serry Sr. (born John Serrapica; January 29, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator. He performed on the CBS Radio and Television networks and contributed to Voic ...
(1898–1970) – classical and concert accordionist, free-bass accordionist
* Alexander Sevastian (1976–2018) – Russian-Canadian classical, concert, and classical crossover accordionist
* Jimmy Shand
Sir James Shand (28 January 1908 – 23 December 2000) was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. His signature tune was "The Bluebell Polka".
Life and career
James Shand was born in East Wemyss in ...
(1908–2000) – Scottish accordionist, made famous by his unique Scottish Country Dance Band and popularity for dances.
* Sharon Shannon
Sharon Shannon (born 8 June 1968) is an Irish musician, best known for her work with the button accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 debut album, ''Sharon Shannon,'' was the best-selling ...
(born 1968) – Irish accordionist
* Sivuca
Severino Dias de Oliveira (May 26, 1930 – December 14, 2006), known professionally as Sivuca, was a Brazilian accordionist, guitarist and singer. In addition to his home state of Paraíba, Brazil, and cities Recife and Rio de Janeiro, he worke ...
(1930–2006) – Brazilian musician
* Chango Spasiuk
Horacio ''"Chango"'' Spasiuk (born September 23, 1968 in Apóstoles, Misiones) is an Argentine chamamé musician and accordion player.
Of Ukrainian grandparents, ''El Chango'' had a strong Polka music influence from his early days; Eastern Europea ...
(born 1968) – Argentine folk musician of Ukrainian descent
* John Spiers
John Spiers (born 1975) is an English melodeon, concertina and bandoneon player. He is widely recognised as one of the leading English melodeon players of his generation.
Career
left, Performing with Jackie Oates at Purbeck Valley Folk Fe ...
(born 1975) – English melodeon player
* Will Starr
Will Starr (27 April 1922 – 6 March 1976) was a Scottish solo accordionist.
Early life
Will Starr was born William Starrs, the oldest son of a family of eight, in the mining village of Croy in Central Scotland.
At the age of two, Will atte ...
(1922–1976) – Scottish accordionist, technically a genius and a true master of the button key accordion, famous for his expertise at playing every genre of music. Described as the true "Master of the Button Key Accordion"
T
* Natalia Tena
Natalia Gastiain Tena (born 1 November 1984) is a British actress and musician. She is known for playing Nymphadora Tonks in the ''Harry Potter'' film series (2007-2011), and the wildling Osha in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011-2 ...
(born 1984)
* Matt Thiessen
Matthew Arnold Thiessen (born August 12, 1980) is a Canadian-American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer known for being co-founder, lead singer, guitarist, pianist, and primary songwriter for the Christian rock band Relient K. Wit ...
(born 1980) – member of Relient K
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* Yann Tiersen
Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French Breton musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and c ...
(born 1970) – French composer and multi-instrumentalist
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Also known as doubling, the practice allows greater ensemble flexibility and more efficient employment of musicians, where ...
* Aslan Tlebzu (born 1981) – Adyghe folk musician
* Lee Tomboulian (born 1960)
* Arthur Tracy
Arthur Tracy (25 June 1899 – 5 October 1997) was an American vocalist and actor, billed as The Street Singer. His performances in theatre, films and radio, along with his recordings, brought him international fame in the 1930s. Late evening r ...
(1899–1997) – American accordionist and ballad singer
* (born 1963)
U
* Brendon Urie
Brendon Boyd Urie (born April 12, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist of Panic! at the Disco, of which he is the only remaining member.
In ...
(born 1987) – member of Panic! at the Disco
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V
* Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir
Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (born 5 January 1982), also known as Kría Brekkan, is an Icelandic vocalist and classically trained multi-instrumentalist. She is best known as a former frontwoman of múm, and later on for collaborating with former ...
(born 1982)
* Art Van Damme (1920–2010)
* Tim Van Eyken
Tim van Eyken (born 7 March 1978) is an English guitarist and melodeon player of Belgian descent.
Career
Van Eyken first started playing penny whistle after seeing James Galway on television. He graduated to playing for his mother, then a memb ...
(born 1978)
* Mika Väyrynen (born 1967)
* Eddie Vedder
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(born 1964) – member of Pearl Jam
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* Aníbal Velásquez (born 1936) – Colombian Vallenato
Vallenato () or "Szlager" in Wayuu language (from the German "Schlager"), is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing th ...
musician
* Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas Percevault (; born November 24, 1970) is an American-born Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer who sings pop-rock-indie in Spanish. She went on to join several bands including Mexican ska band Tijuana No!. Ven ...
(born 1970)
* Travis Vengroff
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(born 1987) – member of Random Encounter
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* Emir Vildić (born 1984) – Bosnian accordionist and accordion teacher
* Gus Viseur
Gustave Joseph Viseur (17 May 1915 – 25 August 1974) was a Belgian/French accordionist.
Early life
Viseur was born in Lessines, Belgium, on 17 May 1915. His father was a bargeman, so the family moved around a lot until 1920, when they settled i ...
(1915–1974) – French accordionist
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* Jason Webley
Jason Webley is an American musician known for his sincere fusion of folk, experimental, and alternative music. Webley plays the guitar and accordion, sometimes providing percussion by stomping or shaking a plastic vodka bottle filled with coins. ...
(born 1974) – American musician
* Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted the ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known as "champagne music" to his radio, tele ...
(1903–1992)
* Martin White – British
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Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
cover artist
* Minnie White
Minnie White was a Storyville brothel proprietor in the early part of the twentieth century. She operated out of a large mansion at 221 North Basin Street, in New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans ( , ,[Wix Wickens
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(born 1956)
* Bill Wilkie
William Wilkie MBE (6 January 1922 – 1 May 2017) was a Scottish musician and businessman. He was regarded as a leader of Scottish accordion music and, in 1949, established the All-Scotland Accordion & Fiddle Festival (now the Perth Accordio ...
(1922–2017)
* Dave Willey (born 1963)
* Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Denis Apps; 30 June 1983) is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf uses a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano, and viola. He is known for combining electronic samp ...
(born 1983)
* Richard Wright (1943–2008) – member of Pink Floyd
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Y
* Frankie Yankovic
Frank John Yankovic (July 28, 1915 – October 14, 1998) was an American accordion player and polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King", Yankovic was considered the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during his long career. He ...
(1915–1998) – polka musician
* "Weird Al" Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic ( ; born October 23, 1959) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer, actor and author. He is best known for creating comedy songs that make light of pop culture and often parody specifi ...
(born 1959) – song parodist, comedian
Z
* Jimmy Zambrano (born 1966) – Colombian Vallenato
Vallenato () or "Szlager" in Wayuu language (from the German "Schlager"), is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing th ...
accordionist
* Joe Zawinul
Josef Erich Zawinul ( '; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to bec ...
(1932–2007)
* Vladislav Zolotaryov
Vladislav Andreyevich Zolotaryov (russian: Владислав Андреевич Золотарёв, De-Kastri, September 13, 1942 – Moscow, May 13, 1975) was a Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republ ...
(1942–1975)
* Emiliano Zuleta
Emiliano Zuleta Baquero was a Colombian vallenato composer, accordion player and singer, popularly known as ''El viejo Mile'' (The Old Mile). Zuleta was born on January 11, 1912, in La Jagua del Pilar, a small town of la Guajira; He died on Octobe ...
(1912–2005) – Colombian Vallenato
Vallenato () or "Szlager" in Wayuu language (from the German "Schlager"), is a popular folk music genre from Colombia. It primarily comes from its Caribbean region. ''Vallenato'' literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing th ...
accordionist, composer
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