Lara Fabian
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Stephen Fearing
Stephen Fearing (born 1963) is a Canadian roots/ folk singer-songwriter.
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Feist
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Christine Fellows
Christine Fellows (born 1968) is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
History
Born in Windsor, Ontario and raised in France and Kelowna, British Columbia, Fellows lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Guelph and Montreal before ...
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Ferron
Ferron (born Deborah Foisy on 1 June 1952) is a Canadian-born singer-songwriter and poet. In addition to gaining fame as one of Canada's most respected songwriters, Ferron, who is openly lesbian, became one of the earliest and most influential ...
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Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher (born Jeremy Binns; December 15, 1976) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Fisher is based in Ottawa, Ontario, and was previously based on Vancouver Island, B.C., Montreal, Quebec, and in Seattle, Washington, US. Fisher's work is hea ...
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David Francey
David Francey (born 1954) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. He is the recipient of three Juno Awards and three Canadian Folk Music Awards.
Early life
Francey was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. He immigrated to Canada with his family at age 12. ...
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Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado (; ; born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Furtado has sold over 40 million records worldwide making her one of the most successful Canadian artists.
She first gained fame with her trip hop-inspired de ...
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Garou
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Joel Gibb
Joel Gibb (born 28 January 1977) is a Berlin-based Canadian artist and singer-songwriter who leads the "gay church folk" group The Hidden Cameras. He was born in Kincardine, Ontario.
Career
His first involvement with the music scene was as ed ...
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Ariana Gillis
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Christian Kit Goguen
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Matthew Good
Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971) is a Canadian musician. He was the lead singer and songwriter for the Matthew Good Band, one of the most successful alternative rock bands in Canada during the 1990s and early 2000s. Since the ...
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Sebastien Grainger
Sebastien Alexandre Grainger (born 11 April 1979) is a Canadian singer and musician, best known as drummer and singer of the alternative rock duo Death from Above and the singer and guitarist for his band Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains. H ...
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Jenn Grant
Jenn Grant (born August 20, 1980) is a Canadian folk pop singer-songwriter based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Career
''Jenn Grant and Goodbye Twentieth Century''
She performed as a musician for a time in her early teens, but stopped due to a b ...
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Dallas Green
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Jack Grunsky
Jack Grunsky (born July 1, 1945) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Grunsky's musical career has spanned two continents. More than three decades of recording and touring have earned him a wide following from both adult and children's audiences. ...
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Emm Gryner
Emm Gryner (born 8 June 1975 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian-Filipino singer, songwriter, recording artist, and author. She has released 20 albums as a solo performer, and has collaborated with artists including David Bowie and Chris Hadfie ...
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Emily Haines
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Sarah Harmer
Sarah Harmer (born November 12, 1970) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and environmental activist.
Early life
Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sist ...
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Hayden Hayden may refer to:
Places Inhabited places in the United States
*Hayden, Alabama
*Hayden, Arizona
*Hayden's Ferry, former name of Tempe, Arizona
*Hayden, California, former name of Hayden Hill, California
*Hayden, Colorado
* Hayden, Idaho
*Hayd ...
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Rob Heath
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Dan Hill
Daniel Grafton Hill IV (born 3 June 1954) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major international hits with his songs " Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard, as well as a number of other charti ...
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Veda Hille
Veda Hille (born August 11, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboardist and tenor guitar player from Vancouver, British Columbia. She writes songs about love and tragedy, as well as about topical British Columbia subjects.[< ...]
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Terry Jacks
Terrence Ross Jacks (born March 29, 1944) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist, best known for his 1974 hit song " Seasons in the Sun".
Early life
Terry Jacks was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His fa ...
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Colin James
Colin James (born Colin James Munn, August 17, 1964) is a Canadian rock and blues singer and songwriter.
Biography Early years
James was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His grandpa was Serbian. He got his break opening for Stevie Ray V ...
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Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepsen (born November 21, 1985) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After studying musical theatre for most of her school life and while in university, Jepsen garnered mainstream attention after placing third on the fifth season of ...
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Steve Jocz
Steve Jocz (born 23 July 1981) is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the former drummer for the Canadian rock band Sum 41.
Early life
Jocz formed Sum 41 in 1996 alongside Deryck Whibley. Jocz graduated from Exeter High S ...
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Brad Johner
Brad Johner (born February 4, 1966) is a Canadian country music singer.
Biography
Brad Johner grew up in Saskatchewan playing music in his family band. When he was 16, Brad won a National Talent Contest during Country Music Week in Hamilton in ...
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Alexz Johnson
Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian musician, actress, and philanthropist. Her debut album ''Voodoo'' was independently released with her brother Brendan Johnson in 2010, followed by the demo release of ''The Basem ...
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Sass Jordan
Sass Jordan (c. 1962) is a British-born Canadian rock singer from Montreal, Quebec. Her first single, "Tell Somebody," from her debut album of the same name won the Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1989. Since then, she has been ...
L–Z
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Connie Kaldor
Connie Isabelle Kaldor, (born 9 May 1953) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is the recipient of three Juno awards.
Early life and education
Kaldor was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. She graduated from Campbell Collegiate in Regina in 19 ...
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James Keelaghan
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Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk (; born May 18, 1974) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist. Born in Winnipeg, she played music from a young age before signing with Columbia Records in the 1990s. Her debut studio album, '' Under These ...
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k.d. lang
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Plume Latraverse
Plume Latraverse (born ''Michel Latraverse'' 11 May 1946) is a prolific singer, musician, songwriter and author from Quebec. At the end of the 1960s he formed a band named La Sainte Trinité with Pierrot le fou (Pierre Léger) and Pierre Landr ...
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Lisa Lavie
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Avril Lavigne
Avril Ramona Lavigne ( ; born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. At age 16, she signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records. Her debut studio album, '' Let Go'' (2002), is the best-selling album of the 2 ...
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Daniel Lavoie
Daniel Lavoie (; born Joseph-Hubert-Gérald Lavoie on March 17, 1949) is a Canadian singer–songwriter, actor, producer, poet, and radio host, known for his song " Ils s'aiment" and the role of Frollo in musical ''Notre-Dame de Paris''. He rele ...
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Félix Leclerc
Félix Leclerc, (August 2, 1914 – August 8, 1988) was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and '' Québécois'' political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968. Leclerc was posth ...
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Jean Leloup
Jean Leclerc (born May 14, 1961) is a Québécois singer-songwriter and author from Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. He is popularly known as Jean Leloup (which he likes to translate to John the Wolf), a stage name he kept using until 2006, when he ...
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Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1 ...
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Lights
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Corb Lund
Corb Lund is a Canadian country and western singer-songwriter from Taber, Alberta, Canada. He has released eleven albums, three of which are certified gold. Lund tours regularly in Canada, the United States and Australia, and has received several ...
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Tara MacLean
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Catherine MacLellan
Catherine MacLellan is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, based in Prince Edward Island.
Early life
The daughter of Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan, MacLellan was born in Burlington, Ontario but raised in Summerside, Prince Edward Island ...
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Dan Mangan
Daniel Mangan (born April 28, 1983) is a Canadian musician. He has won two Juno awards and has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Australia, having released 5 studio LPs and numerous EPs and singles. He has scored for featur ...
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Richard Manuel
Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in The Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and ...
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Amanda Marshall
Amanda Meta Marshall (born August 29, 1972) is a Canadian pop- rock singer. She has released three studio albums; the first was certified Diamond in Canada, with the latter two certified 3× Platinum and Platinum respectively. She is best known f ...
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Melissa McClelland
Melissa McClelland (born 18 May 1979) is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter who lived in Hamilton, Ontario, in her youth and now bases her career from Toronto, Ontario. McClelland's music is influenced by blues and Americana. A writer ...
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Eileen McGann
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Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters (and sisters) from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010.
Music ...
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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 r ...
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Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is '' Surfacing'', for which she won two Grammy Awards (ou ...
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Holly McNarland
Holly McNarland (born 23 October 1975) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, who was most prominent in the 1990s.Mike Roberts, "Riding the buzz: Wonder gal McNarland not as dark as the songs". ''The Province'', 18 July 1995.
Career
Orig ...
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Shawn Mendes
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes (; born August 8, 1998) is a Canadian pop singer. He gained a following in 2013, when he posted song covers on the video sharing platform Vine. The following year, he caught the attention of artist manager Andrew Gert ...
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Lynn Miles
Lynn may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Lynn (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Lynn (surname)
* The Lynns, a 1990s American country music duo consisting of twin sisters Peggy and Patsy Lynn
* Lynn (v ...
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Amy Millan
Amy Millan (born December 3, 1973) is a Canadian indie rock singer and guitarist. She records and performs with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene as well as having a successful solo career. Her second solo album, '' Masters of the Burial'' ...
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Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell ( Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American musician, producer, and painter. Among the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her st ...
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Ruth Moody
Ruth Moody is an Australian-born soprano singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys.
Biography
Moody grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with her parents, Charles and Marcelline, and three siblings, older broth ...
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Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two ...
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Jess Moskaluke
Jessica Moskaluke (born June 4, 1990) is a Canadian Country music, country singer and songwriter. She released her debut studio album, ''Light Up the Night (Jess Moskaluke album), Light Up the Night'' in April 2014, which includes the platinum-cer ...
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Emilie Mover
Emilie Mover is a Canadian singer-songwriter who writes music in genres such as folk, jazz, and children's music. She has released a number of solo albums in diverse styles, and in 2013 her solo album ''The Stella and Sam Album'' won the Juno Awa ...
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Sierra Noble
Sierra Dawn Sky Noble (born February 20, 1990) is a non-binary Canadian singer-songwriter, and fiddle player. Their first album was instrumental, they played a traditional fiddle and followed up with a vocal album in 2008. They have won numer ...
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Mary Margaret O'Hara
Mary Margaret O'Hara is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress and composer. She is best known for the album ''Miss America'', released in 1988. She released two albums and an EP under her own name, and remains active as a live performer, as a con ...
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Old Man Luedecke
Old Man Luedecke is the recording name of two-time Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player Chris Luedecke of Chester, Nova Scotia. He is most noted as a two-time Juno Award winner for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year ...
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Maren Ord
Maren Whitney Ord (born February 28, 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music.
Early life
Ord was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, the eighth of ten children. She grew up in a musical family; her father was a professor o ...
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Blair Packham
The Jitters were a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1981 by Blair Packham, Danny Levy and Matthew Greenberg. Five years of constant performing established them as one of the premier club bands in the Greater Toronto Area.
They ...
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Chris Patrick
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Carole Pope
Carole Ann Pope (born 6 August 1950) is a British-born Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose provocative blend of hard-edged new wave rock with explicit homoerotic and BDSM-themed lyrics made her one of the first openly lesbian entertainers to ...
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Powfu
Isaiah Faber (born March 31, 1999), known professionally as Powfu, is a Canadian singer and rapper. He is the son of Dave Faber from the band Faber Drive. He amassed popularity following the release of his first charting single, "Death Bed (Coff ...
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Jan Randall
Jan Randall is a Canadian composer, singer songwriter and professional musician. He has had an extensive career composing sound tracks, performing original songs, and improvising music for comedy theatre.
He currently plays regularly with his ba ...
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Jimmy Rankin
James Kevin Rankin (born May 28, 1964) is a Canadian country and folk artist. A member of The Rankin Family, Rankin has also released seven solo albums: ''Song Dog'' (2001), '' Handmade'' (2003), ''Edge of Day'' (2007), ''Forget About the World' ...
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Michel Rivard
Michel Rivard (born September 27, 1951) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Quebec. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His father, , was an actor. Michel began his career at an early age appearing in a Canadian television series (''R ...
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Sam Roberts
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Garnet Rogers
Garnet Rogers (born May 1955) is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario with roots in Nova Scotia. He began his professional career working with his older brother, folk musician Stan Rogers, a ...
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Stan Rogers
Stanley Allison Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.
Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and ...
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Louis Royer
Louis Royer (1793–1868), also Lodewyk Royer, was a Flemish sculptor who worked in the Netherlands where he received many commissions from the royal family and for public statues.
Life Apprenticeship
He was born in Mechelen where he first studie ...
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Indigenous Canadian-American (Piapot Cree Nation) singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. While working in these ar ...
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John K. Samson
John Kristjan Samson (born 1973) is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a singer-songwriter and best known as the frontman of the Canadian indie folk/rock band The Weakerthans. He also played bass in the punk band Propagandhi durin ...
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Drew Seeley
Andrew Michael Edgar Seeley (born April 30, 1982) is a Canadian actor, singer, songwriter and dancer. He has recorded many songs for the Walt Disney Company. He danced as a child in Ontario until he was about preteen age and then moved to Florida ...
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Lorraine Segato
Lorraine P. Segato (born June 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for and a principal songwriter of new wave and pop rock group The Parachute Club, with which she continues to pe ...
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Jay Semko
John Peter "Jay" Semko is a singer/songwriter and bassist with Canadian band, The Northern Pikes. He is also a music composer for numerous film and television productions, most notably the successful Canadian television series '' Due South''. Se ...
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Ron Sexsmith
Ronald Eldon Sexsmith (born January 8, 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has s ...
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Jane Siberry
Jane Siberry ( ; ; born 12 October 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as " Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", " One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels". She performed the theme song to the television series '' Maniac ...
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R. Dean Taylor
Richard Dean Taylor (May 11, 1939 – January 7, 2022) was a Canadian musician, most notable as a singer, songwriter, and record producer for Motown during the 1960s and 1970s. According to Jason Ankeny, Taylor was "one of the most underrat ...
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Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara () are a Canadian indie pop duo formed in 1998 in Calgary, Alberta. The band is led by identical twin sisters Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin (born September 19, 1980). Both musicians are songwriters and multi-instrumenta ...
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Tenille Townes
Tenille Nicole Townes (born Nadkrynechny; January 20, 1994) is a Canadian country music singer from Grande Prairie, Alberta. In 2011, at the age of 17, she was nominated for a Canadian Country Music Award for Female Artist of the Year.
Biograp ...
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Shania Twain
Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain ( , ; née Edwards; born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 100 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in country music history and one of the best-s ...
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Ian Tyson
Ian Dawson Tyson (September 25, 1933 – December 29, 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote several folk songs, including " Four Strong Winds" and " Someday Soon", and performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia.
Ea ...
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Sylvia Tyson
Sylvia may refer to:
People
* Sylvia (given name)
*Sylvia (singer), American country music and country pop singer and songwriter
*Sylvia Robinson, American singer, record producer, and record label executive
*Sylvia Vrethammar, Swedish singer cred ...
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Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She has released seven critically-acclaimed studio albums.
Wainwright is the daughter of musicians Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III ...
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Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded 10 studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical operas and set ...
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Patrick Watson
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The Weeknd
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Known for his sonic versatility and dark lyricism, his music explores escapism, romance, and ...
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David Wiffen
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Hawksley Workman
Hawksley Workman (Born Ryan Corrigan, March 4, 1975) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock. Workman has released eleven full-length albums throughout his career. A mul ...
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Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fu ...
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Brigitte Zarie
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Joel Zifkin
Joel Zifkin (born April 14, 1954) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. His primary instrument is the electric violin and he is best known as a session musician and live performer.
Career
Zifkin has performed and/or recorded with the followi ...
Chile
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Beto Cuevas
Luis Alberto Cuevas Olmedo (born September 12, 1967), better known as Beto Cuevas (), is a Chilean-Canadian singer, song writer, plastic artist, painter, and actor. He is the lead singer for the Chilean band La Ley. In 2008 he launched his solo ...
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Daniel Puente Encina
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Gepe
Daniel Alejandro Riveros Sepúlveda (born September 28, 1981), known as Gepe, is a Chilean singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has released five solo albums in addition to one album as a member of the band Taller Dejao. He has been d ...
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Víctor Jara
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (; 28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973) was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist political activist. He developed Chilean theater by directing a broad array of works, ra ...
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Javiera Mena
Javiera Alejandra Mena Carrasco (born June 3, 1983) is a Chilean indie electropop musician living in Lavapiés, Madrid. She started her musical career in the Chilean indie music scene in 2001, and achieved wider success after the release of h ...
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Ángel Parra
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Javiera Parra
Javiera Cereceda Orrego (born 19 May 1968), better known as Javiera Parra, is a Chilean musician and singer born in Santiago. She is the lead singer of rock band ''Javiera y Los Imposibles''. A third generation member of Chile's Parra family, kno ...
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Violeta Parra
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (; 4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal a ...
Colombia
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Alci Acosta
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Albalucía Ángel
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Lucas Arnau
Lucas Arnau (born May 16, 1979 in Medellín, Antioquia), is a Colombian singer-songwriter.
Arnau's first album, "Un Poco Más" was produced by Jose Gaviria and Andres Munera in Miami, Florida and was released in Latin America in April 2004.
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J Balvin
José Álvaro Osorio Balvín (born 7 May 1985), known professionally as J Balvin, is a Colombian singer and songwriter. He has been referred to as the " Prince of Reggaeton" (from Spanish: "Príncipe del Reggaetón"), and is one of the best-sell ...
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Blessd
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Naty Botero
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Cabas
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Alex Campos
Édgar Alexánder Campos Mora, better known as Alex Campos, is a Colombian evangelical singer-songwriter.
Campos has won three Latin Grammy Awards for Best Christian Album in Spanish. He has recorded duets with Christian artists such as Marc ...
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Jorge Celedón
Jorge Celedón also known as Jorgito Celedón is a Colombian musician and singer of vallenato music. Celedón was one of the backup singers for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America who joined after the death of Rafael Orozco Maestre. In ...
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Andrés Cepeda
Andrés Cepeda Cediel (born July 7, 1973) is a popular Colombian singer-songwriter. He was born in Bogotá, the youngest of five children. He displayed an inclination towards music from an early age, studying piano since the age of 5. He compose ...
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ChocQuibTown
ChocQuibTown (sometimes written as Choc Quib Town) is a Colombian hip-hop group that fuses various musical genres. Although the band formed in Cali, the members are originally from the Colombian department of Chocó. The group consists of Carl ...
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Silvestre Dangond
Silvestre Francisco Dangond Corrales (born May 12, 1980 in Urumita) is a Colombian singer. He attributes his talents to his father, the singer William José "El Palomo" Dangond Baquero, who during the mid-1970s recorded 10 singles with Andrés ...
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Margarita Rosa de Francisco
Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero also known as Margarita Rosa and La Mencha (born August 8, 1965) is a Colombian telenovela movie actress, singer, and TV presenter.
Biography
1980s
Margarita Rosa de Francisco was born in Cali, Valle Del Ca ...
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Diomedes Díaz
Diomedes Díaz Maestre (26 May 1957 – 22 December 2013) was a Colombian vallenato singer, songwriter, and composer. His nickname, ''"El Cacique de la Junta"'' ("The Chieftain of La Junta"), was given to him by another vallenato singer, Rafael ...
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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 ...
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Andrea Echeverri
Andrea Echeverri Arias (born September 13, 1965) is a Colombian rock/pop singer and guitarist. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from University of Los Andes and was a ceramist before becoming a musician. She is the lead singer in Aterciopelados ...
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Juan Carlos Echeverry
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Estéfano
Fabio Alonso Salgado, better known as Estéfano (born 19 August 1966 in Manizales, Colombia) is a Colombian musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. Along with Donato Poveda formed the duo Donato y Estefano, releasing three studio albums ...
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Fonseca
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Darío Gómez
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Marta Gómez
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Leonor Gonzalez Mina
Leonor Gonzalez Mina (born June 16, 1934 in Jamundí, Valle del Cauca) is a prominent Afro-Colombian musician and actress, known as "''la Negra Grande de Colombia''" ("The Great Black Woman of Colombia"). She is known for her work in several ...
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Ivonne Guzmán
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Illona
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Juanes
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Totó la Momposina
Sonia Bazanta Vides (born 1 August 1940), better known as Totó la Momposina, is a Colombian singer of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous descent. She reached international attention with the release of her 1993 album ''La Candela Viva'' on Peter G ...
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Carolina la O
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Fanny Lú
Fanny Lucía Martínez Buenaventura (born 8 February 1973), better known professionally as Fanny Lu, is a Colombian singer, songwriter and actress from Santiago de Cali, Colombia. She studied at the University of the Andes and received a degr ...
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Maía
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Maluma
Juan Luis Londoño Arias (born 28 January 1994), known professionally as Maluma, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and actor.
Born and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age, recording songs since age sixteen. ...
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Marbelle
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Marce
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Andrés Mercado
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Ericson Alexander Molano
Ericson Alexander Molano (born November 20, 1979) is a Spanish Christian singer, known for his song "Dios Manda Lluvia". He has a Production company, Jehova-Nisi Producciones; where he is President and General Director. He is currently touring.
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Jorge Oñate
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Elkin Ramírez
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Valentina Rendón
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Reykon
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Jery Sandoval
Jery Luz Sandoval Sanabria (born 18 December 1986) is a Colombian actress, singer, songwriter and model.
Early life
Jery Sandoval was born in Barranquilla, Colombia and from a very early age lived at Carmen de Bolivar. There she studied at a Ca ...
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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll ( , ; born 2 February 1977), professionally known by the mononym Shakira, is a Colombian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Barranquilla, she has been referred to as the "Honorific nicknames in popular ...
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Soraya
Soraya ( fa, ثریا) is a feminine Persian name. It is derived from the Arabic name for the Pleiades star cluster, ''Thurayya'' ( ar, ثريّة). The name is also popular in Europe due to its association with Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, ...
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Ali Stone
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Andrés Useche
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Jorge Villamizar
Jorge Alberto Villamizar Iregui (born 14 October 1970) is a Colombian musician, singer and composer, leader of the band Bacilos, and one of the most representative Latin American singers. Villamizar came to prominence as the lead member of the ...
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Iván Villazón
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Carlos Vives
Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo (born 7 August 1961) is a Colombian singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for his interpretation of traditional music styles of Colombia such as vallenato, cumbia, champeta, bambuco and porro as well as genres ...
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Charlie Zaa
Carlos Alberto Sánchez (born in Girardot, Colombia, 1974),"Charlie Zaa", ''Contemporary Musicians'' (2005). Gale. Retrieved from Galenet Biography Resource Center on Oct. 10, 2008. better known in the entertainment world as Charlie Zaa, is a Co ...
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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 ...
Croatia
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Arsen Dedić
Arsenije "Arsen" Dedić ( sr-Cyrl, Арсеније "Арсен" Дедић, ; 28 July 1938 – 17 August 2015) was a Croatian singer-songwriter. He wrote and performed chansons, as well as film music. He was also an award-winning poet, and was o ...
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Oliver Dragojević
Oliver Dragojević (; 7 December 1947 – 29 July 2018) was a Croatian singer and composer, who was considered one of the most enduring musical stars and cultural icons in Croatia with a discography that spanned nearly five decades. His style ble ...
Cuba
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Albita
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Giselle Bellas
Giselle Bellas (often referred to mononymously by her stage name ''Giselle''), is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter. Born in Miami, Florida, and based out of New York City, she is most known for her work on season 5 of Louis C.K.'s FX series ' ...
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Camila Cabello
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao (; ; born March 3, 1997) is a Cuban-born American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony, which became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. While in ...
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Osmani García
Osmani "La Voz" García González Kats (born May 22, 1981 in Guanabacoa) is a Cuban reggaeton ( cubatón) rapper and singer.
Biography
García participated in the National Festival of Cuba and at 19, he received several awards in various cate ...
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Pablo Milanés
Pablo Milanés Arias (24 February 1943 – 22 November 2022) was a Cuban guitar player and singer. He was one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola. His music, originating in the Trova, Son and ...
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Silvio Rodríguez
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 29 November 1946) is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.
He is widely considered Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. Known for his in ...
Czech Republic
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Jaroslav Hutka
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Tomáš Klus
Tomáš Klus (born 15 May 1986) is a Czech musician and songwriter from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.
Life and career
Klus was born in the industrial town of Třinec, where he spent most of his childhood. His parents were ...
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Karel Kryl
Karel Kryl (12 April 1944 – 3 March 1994) was an iconic Czechoslovak (Moravian born and Czech speaking) poet, singer-songwriter and author of many hit protest songs in which he identified and attacked the hypocrisy, stupidity and inhumanity of ...
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Vladimír Merta
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Jaromír Nohavica
Jaromír Nohavica or Jarek Nohavica (born 7 June 1953, in Ostrava) is a Czech recording artist, songwriter, lyricist and poet.
Early life
He was born in Ostrava and has played guitar since he was 13. He began studies at the Technical Univers ...
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Karel Plíhal
Karel Plíhal (born August 23, 1958 in Přerov) is a Czechs, Czech folk and jazz musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.
He graduated from the Industrial College of Engineering and then worked as a designer and boilerman in the Olomouc ...
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Vlastimil Třešňák
Vlastimil Třešňák (born 26 April 1950 in Prague) is a Czech singer-songwriter and writer. In 1970s, he was member of association Šafrán. He signed Charta 77 and after he was banned for public activities throughout Czechoslovakia. In 1982, ...
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Xindl X
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Markéta Irglová
Markéta Irglová () (born 28 February 1988) is a Czech-Icelandic singer-songwriter, musician and actress, who starred in the film ''Once'', which earned her a number of major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Fall ...
Denmark
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Steffen Brandt
Steffen Brandt (born 14 June 1953 in Åbyhøj) is a Danish singer-songwriter and composer. Since 1981 he has been lead singer of rock group TV-2, as he also wrote both text and music to all the group's songs.
In 2003 he received the Modersmål ...
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Tina Dico
Tina Dico (born Tina Dickow Danielsen on 14 October 1977) is a Danish singer-songwriter. She founded her own record label and releases her music independently, enjoying large success with her albums in her home country as well as critical acclai ...
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Michael Falch
Michael Ehlert Falch (born 16 September 1956 in Køge, Denmark) is a Danish singer, guitarist, author and actor.
In rock band Malurt
Michael Falch started his career as a lead singer and musician in the Danish rock band Malurt established in ...
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Claus Hempler
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Christian Hjelm
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Søren Huss
Søren Huss (born 6 September 1975) is a Danish singer, songwriter and musician. Prior to a solo career, he is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Saybia, which was formed in Nyborg in January 1993. After a hiatus of 7 year ...
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C. V. Jørgensen
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Juncker
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Marie Key
Marie Key Kristiansen better known as Marie Key is a Danish pop singer and songwriter. Marie released a successful debut single "Se nu herhen" ('Look over here') taken from her debut album ''I byen igen'' ('In the town again'). With her second ...
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Poul Krebs
Poul Krebs (born 28 May 1956 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish pop/rock singer, songwriter and musician. He has released 23 albums and compilations, several topping the Danish Albums Chart.
Krebs grew up in Aarhus and was in his youth a talented h ...
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Nanna Lüders Jensen
Nanna Lüders Jensen (born 23 July 1963) is a Danish songwriter and singer known by the stage name Nanna. She has released several albums as a solo artist since her debut in 1982.
In addition to her work as a solo artist, Nanna has featured on ...
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Mads Langer
Mads Lillelund Langer (née Langer Clausen; born 14 January 1984) is a Danish singer-songwriter, who became internationally known for his cover of " You're Not Alone" by the British band Olive. He is a multi platinum and multi award winning art ...
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Kim Larsen
Kim Mellius Flyvholm Larsen (23 October 1945 – 30 September 2018) was a Danish rock and pop musician. He was a major selling Scandinavian act with over 5 million albums sold.
Career
Kim Larsen was born in Copenhagen. Inspired by The Bea ...
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Lars Lilholt
Lars Lilholt (born in Herlev, Denmark on 14 March 1953) is a Danish singer, violinist, guitarist and composer.
Career Kræn Bysted's
In the early 1970s, he was part of Kræn Bysted's, a Danish acoustic folk, electric folk and rock group made ...
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Anne Linnet
Anne Linnet (born 30 July 1953 in Århus, Denmark) is a Danish singer, musician composer، and writer. She has released a number of solo albums and has also been a member of several bands, such as Shit & Chanel, Anne Linnet Band, and Marquis d ...
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Johnny Madsen
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Anne Dorte Michelsen
Anne Dorte Michelsen (born 17 July 1958, Århus) is a Danish people, Danish singer and composer. In Denmark she first became known as a member of the groups Tøsedrengene and Venter på Far. Outside Denmark her second solo record ("Næste Dans") ...
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Rasmus Nøhr
Rasmus Bensby Nøhr (born 7 March 1972 in Copenhagen) is a Danish musician, composer, and guitarist. Nøhr has released six studio albums since his debut in 2004 and is known for having created the ''Danmark Dejligst'' festival.
Career
Nøhr ...
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Allan Olsen
Allan Olsen (born 18 March 1956 in Grønholt, Vendsyssel) is a Danish folkrock musician and singer-songwriter. His famous live performances combine his songs with satirical and dryly-tempered anecdotes. The music is delivered either acoustically ...
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Naja Rosa
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Soluna Samay
Soluna Samay Kettel (born 27 August 1990, Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan-Danish singer of Swiss and German origin based in Denmark. Samay represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2 ...
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Sebastian
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Rasmus Seebach
Rasmus Seebach (; born 28 March 1980) is a Danish singer-songwriter and record producer who had his solo-debut with the Danish-language single "Engel" ( en, "Angel") in April 2009.
Seebach has written and produced songs for Danish and internat ...
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Tommy Seebach
Tommy Seebach (14 September 1949 – 31 March 2003), born Tommy Seebach Mortensen in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer. He is best known as front man of Sir Henry and his Butlers and for nu ...
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Niels Skousen
Niels Skousen (born 28 January 1944 in Cologne, Germany) is a Danish composer, guitarist, actor , and poet. Niels Skousen is married to Linda Wendel (since 2003).
He started his musical career in 1964. After having heard the Bob Dylan alb ...
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Peter Sommer
Peter Sommer Christensen (born 28 August 1974 in Skanderborg) is a Danish singer and songwriter. His lyrics are often characterized by interesting puns and word plays. Besides his solo career, he was in the duo Superjeg with Carsten Valentin L ...
Dominican Republic
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Anaís
Anaís Martínez (born June 22, 1984) is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated Dominican-American singer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She rose to fame after winning the Puerto-Rican singing competition show ''Objetivo Fama'' in 2005.
Ea ...
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Charytín
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Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra Seijas (born June 7, 1957) is a Dominican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. He has sold 30 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists. Throughout his career, he has wo ...
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Sandra Zaiter
Sandra Zaiter (November 21, 1943 – September 25, 2022) was a Dominican-born Puerto Rican actress, children's television show host, singer, composer and athlete.
Early life and career
Zaiter was born in the Dominican Republic to Maronite Chri ...
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Santaye
Santa Reyes known professionally as Santaye, is a Dominican singer-songwriter based in Miami. She began her music career in 2010. Several of Santaye's singles have charted on US Billboard Tropical Songs. She was twice nominated for the Lo Nues ...
Egypt
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Moustafa Amar
Moustafa Amar ( ar, مصطفى قمر; born 22 September 1966) is an Egyptian musician and actor.
Career
Amar's first song was "Wala Yabou Khad Gameel", released on a collective album. In 1990, he released his first solo album, Wassaf. In 1 ...
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Angham
Angham Mohamed Ali Suleiman ( ar, أنغام محمد علي ; born 19 January 1972), known by the mononym Angham ( ar, أنغام), is an Egyptian singer, recording artist, and actress. Her debut was in 1987 under the guidance of her father, ...
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Amr Diab
Amr Diab ( ar, عمرو دياب, link=no, ; born on 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer, composer and actor. He has established himself as a globally acclaimed recording artist and author. He is a Guinness World Record holder, the best sel ...
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Mohammad Fouad
Mohamed Fouad Abd El Hamid Hassan ( ar, محمد فؤاد عبد الحميد حسن; born December 20, 1961) is an Egyptian singer, actor and songwriter. He filmed his first television series "Agla Min Hayaty" in 2010, and hosted the television ...
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Mohamed Hamaki
Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed El Hamaki ( ar, محمد إبراهيم محمد الحماقي ; born 4 November 1975) is an Egyptian singer. In 2010, he won the "Best Arabia Act" award from MTV Europe Music Awards and the Music Award in 2006, for ''" ...
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Tamer Hosny Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).
Persons Given name
* Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
* Tamer ...
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Amal Maher
Amal Maher ( ar, آمال ماهر; born 19 February 1985) is an Egyptian singer. She is heavily influenced by Umm Kulthum. She began singing as a child and was discovered by the general public at the age of fifteen by taking up the songs of Umm ...
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Hani Shaker
Hany Shaker ( ar, هانى شاكر, ; born December 21, 1952) is an Egyptian singer, actor and composer. His first public appearance was when he sang with Abd El Halim Hafez Choral Group in "Sora", then he played in the movie Sayed Darwish as ...
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Sherine
Sherine Sayed Mohamed Abdel-Wahab ( ar, شيرين سيد محمد عبد الوهاب; born October 8, 1980), known professionally by the mononym Sherine ( ar, شيرين), is an Egyptian singer, actress, TV host and personality, and a former ...
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Carmen Suleiman
Carmen Essam Soliman ( ar, كارمن عصام سليمان ; born on 7 October 1994), better known by her stage name Carmen Suleiman ( ar, كارمن سليمان ), is an Egyptian singer. Soliman won the first season of Arab Idol song conte ...
El Salvador
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Álvaro Torres
Álvaro Torres (born April 9, 1954) is a Salvadoran singer-songwriter.
Biography
Álvaro Torres was born on April 9, 1954 in Usulután, El Salvador. Torres moved to Guatemala and started a solo career recording his first album, "''Algo espec ...
Faroe Islands
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Eivør
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Guðrið Hansdóttir
Guðrið Hansdóttir (born 6 October 1980) is a Faroese singer, songwriter, composer, and musician. She has released six full studio albums and has released an EP called "Taking Ship" on 24 January 2014 in the United States, in February in Europe ...
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Teitur Lassen
Teitur Lassen (, 4 January 1977) is a Faroese musician, composer, singer-songwriter and producer. He is a winner of multiple Danish Music Awards and has toured globally since his debut release, ''Poetry & Aeroplanes'', in 2003.
Teitur was bor ...
Finland
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Ismo Alanko
Ismo Kullervo Alanko (; born November 12, 1960) is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands, most famously Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, as well as a successful solo artist.
Alanko is known f ...
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Chisu
Christel Martina Roosberg (née Sundberg; born 3 January 1982), known by her stage name Chisu (), is a Finnish pop artist, songwriter, and producer. She wrote her first single, " Mun koti ei oo täällä", to the soundtrack of the 2007 film '' So ...
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J. Karjalainen
Jukka Tapio "J." Karjalainen (born 1 April 1957) is a Finnish singer-songwriter. His first album came out in 1981 and he has been called the " Bruce Springsteen of Finland." He states that his music is a mix of "Blues, Rock´n´roll, Folk, Count ...
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Anssi Kela
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Mikko Kuustonen
Ari-Mikko Kuustonen (born 4 March 1960 in Leppävirta, Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, No ...
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Juice Leskinen
Juhani Juice Leskinen (officially Pauli Matti Juhani "Juice" Leskinen; 19 February 1950 – 24 November 2006), better known as Juice Leskinen ( as if the word ''juice'' were Finnish) was one of the most important and successful Finnish singer- ...
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Jarkko Martikainen
Jarkko Martikainen (born 24 October 1970 in Greifswald, GDR) is a Finnish singer, songwriter and member of the rock band YUP. In addition to his musical career, Martikainen has worked as a columnist, a record producer and a documentary filmmaker. ...
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Jonna Tervomaa
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Maija Vilkkumaa
Maija Johanna Vilkkumaa (born 9 November 1973) is a Finnish pop rock singer-songwriter. Beginning her musical hobbies playing piano at an age before school, Vilkkumaa studied in high school where she and her friends set up the band Ta ...
France
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Dominique A
Dominique Ané (born 6 October 1968), better known as "Dominique A", is a French songwriter and singer.
Early life
Born on 6 October 1968 in Provins, France, Dominique Ané is the only child of a teacher and a homemaker. He was passionate abou ...
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Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour ( , ; born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, hy, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան, ; 22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was a French-Armenian singer, lyricist, actor and diplomat. Aznavour was known for his dist ...
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Barbara
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Georges Brassens
Georges Charles Brassens (; 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and a ...
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Francis Cabrel
Francis Christian Cabrel (; born 23 November 1953) is a French singer-songwriter, composer and guitarist. Considered one of the most influential French musical artists of all time, he has released a number of albums falling mostly within the real ...
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Camille
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Louis Chedid
Louis Chedid (born 1 January 1948, in Ismaïlia) is a French singer-songwriter of Lebanese and Egyptian origin.
Biography
Louis Chedid is the son of the writer Andrée Chedid and the father of Matthieu Chedid (better known as -M-).
As a child ...
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Yves Duteil
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Mylène Farmer
Mylène Jeanne Gautier (; born 12 September 1961), known professionally as Mylène Farmer (), is a Canadian-born French singer, songwriter, occasional actress, writer, and entrepreneur. Having sold more than 30 million records in France, she is ...
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Jean Ferrat
Jean Ferrat (born Jean Tenenbaum; 26 December 1930 – 13 March 2010) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He specialized in singing poetry, particularly that of Louis Aragon. He had a left-wing sympathy that found its way into a few songs.
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Léo Ferré
Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death. He released so ...
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Nino Ferrer
Nino Agostino Arturo Maria Ferrari (), known as Nino Ferrer (15 August 1934 – 13 August 1998), was an Italian-born French singer-songwriter and author.
Biography and career
Nino Ferrer was born on 15 August 1934 in Genoa, Italy, but lived the ...
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Thomas Fersen
Thomas Fersen (born 4 January 1963 in Paris) is a French singer-songwriter.
During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres. He released his first album in 1993; it gave him immediate name recognition ...
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Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (; born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, actor, author and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provoc ...
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Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman (; born 11 October 1951) is a French singer-songwriter and music record producer. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017 he has been the highest grossing living French ...
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Jacques Higelin
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (; 18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s.
Early life
Higelin was born on 18 October 1940. His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian de ...
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Alexis HK
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Juliette
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Bernard Lavilliers
Bernard Oulion (; born 7 October 1946 in Saint-Étienne), known professionally as Bernard Lavilliers (), is a French singer-songwriter and actor.
Discography Albums
Studio albums
* ''Premiers pas...'' (1968)
* ''Les poètes'' (1972)
* ''Le St ...
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Robert Lelièvre
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Nolwenn Leroy
Nolwenn Le Magueresse (; born 28 September 1982), known by her stage name Nolwenn Leroy (), is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actress.
Originally classically trained (violin and opera singing), she rose to fame after winning the second ...
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Albert Marcœur
Albert Marcœur (born 12 December 1947) is a French composer, singer and songwriter.Les inrockuptibles – Issues 483–491 – Page 60 2005 ALBERT MARCŒUR ( Label Frères, www.marcoeur.com ) "Abolissant la distance entre sons virtuels et instr ...
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Nina Morato
Stéphanie Morato (born 2 March 1966), known professionally as Nina Morato, is a French singer and songwriter. Morato is best known for France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, representing France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 with the ...
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Georges Moustaki
Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi; 3 May 1934 – 23 May 2013) was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Jewish Italo-Greek origin. He wrote about 300 songs for some of the most popular singers in France, including Édith Piaf, Dalida, ...
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Claude Nougaro
Claude Nougaro (, oc, Claudi Nogaròu; 9 September 1929 – 4 March 2004) was a French songwriter and singer.
Life and career
Claude Nougaro was born in Toulouse to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro, and a piano teacher, Liette ...
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Pierre Perret
Pierre Perret (born 9 July 1934 in Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne) is a French singer and composer. Pierre Perret resides in the city of Nangis.
Biography
He spent a long part of his childhood in the café which his parents owned, where he le ...
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Michel Polnareff
Michel Polnareff (born 3 July 1944, Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, France) is a French singer-songwriter, who was popular in France from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s with his penultimate original album, ''Kāma-Sūtra''. He is still criticall ...
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Renaud
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (), known as Renaud (), born 11 May 1952, is a French singer, songwriter and actor. His characteristically 'broken' voice makes for a very distinctive vocal style. Several of his songs are popular classics in F ...
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Véronique Sanson
Véronique Marie Line Sanson (; born 24 April 1949) is a three-time Victoires de la Musique award-winning French singer-songwriter and record producer with an avid following in her native country.
Ten years after Barbara, Véronique Sanson beca ...
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Mano Solo
Mano Solo (24 April 1963 – 10 January 2010), born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne on 24 April 1963 to the illustrator Cabu and Isabelle Monin, co-founder of the ecology-related magazine, ''La Gueule ouver ...
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Alain Souchon
Alain Souchon (; born Alain Édouard Kienast ; 27 May 1944) is a French singer-songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films.
Profile
Alain Souchon was born in Casablanca, Morocco. His family on his mother ...
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Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine () is a French pop-rock singer and songwriter. He was born on 21 July 1948 in the town of Dole in the Jura département.
Mostly shunned by television and radio, he has built over the years – through word of mouth ...
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Boris Vian
Boris Vian (; 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer who is primarily remembered for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sull ...
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Laurent Voulzy
Lucien Voulzy (, born 18 December 1948), better known as Laurent Voulzy (), is a French singer-songwriter, composer and musician.
Life and career
Voulzy was born in Paris, France. He originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus ...
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Indila
Adila Sedraïa (born 26 June 1984), known as Indila, is a French singer and songwriter. She collaborated with many musicians on vocals and songwriting prior to releasing her first single, " Dernière danse" ("Last Dance"), in November 2013, whic ...
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Willy William
Willy Fauade William (born 14 April 1981) is a French DJ, record producer and singer, famous for his club remixes and vocal collaborations with a number of dance music artists. He is most famous for his French hit " Ego" and his Latin hit " Mi Gen ...
Georgia
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Katie Melua
Germany
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Ayọ
Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin (born 14 September 1980), known professionally as Ayọ, is a German singer, songwriter and actress. She uses the Yoruba translation Ayọ or Ayo. of her first name ''Joy''.
Her debut album '' Joyful'', released in 2006, ...
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Wolf Biermann
Karl Wolf Biermann (; born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song " Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976.
Early life
Biermann was ...
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Clemens Bittlinger
Clemens Bittlinger (born 8 August 1959) is a German Protestant minister, author of books as well as a song writer of religious-themed songs (German: Neues Geistliches Lied, NGL) and children's songs in German.
Life
Clemens Bittlinger was born ...
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Clueso
Thomas Hübner (born 9 April 1980), better known by his stage name Clueso (), is a German singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer. His first album, ''Text und Ton'', was released in 2001. Since then, he has released seven more albums, of which ...
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Funny van Dannen
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Franz Josef Degenhardt
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Kurt Demmler
Kurt Demmler (12 September 1943 Posen – 3 February 2009 Berlin) was a German songwriter, who in the earlier part of his life was a dissident East German songwriter. Accused of alleged sexual abuse of underage girls during castings for a fem ...
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Dota
''Dota'' is a series of strategy video games by Valve. The series began in 2003 with the release of ''Defense of the Ancients'' (''DotA''), a fan-developed multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) mod for the video game '' Warcraft III: Reign o ...
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Siegfried Fietz
Siegfried Fietz (; born 25 May 1946) is a German singer-songwriter, composer, music producer and sculptor. He is known for songs of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, particularly his setting of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's poem " Von guten Mächten".
C ...
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Rob Georg
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Herbert Grönemeyer
Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer (born 12 April 1956) is a German singer, musician, producer, composer and actor, popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Grönemeyer starred as war correspondent Lieutenant Werner in Wolfgang Pet ...
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Klaus Hoffmann
Klaus Hoffmann (born 26 March 1951, Berlin) is a German singer, songwriter and actor.
Career
Klaus Hoffmann started his career as a singer-songwriter during the late 1960s in the alternative Berlin club culture. After travelling to Afghanis ...
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Hanns Dieter Hüsch
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Gisbert zu Knyphausen
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Udo Lindenberg
Udo Lindenberg (born 17 May 1946) is a German singer, drummer, and composer.
Career
Lindenberg started his musical career as a drummer. In 1969, he founded his first band Free Orbit, and also appeared as a studio and guest musician (with Micha ...
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Peter Maffay
Peter Alexander Makkay (born 30 August 1949), known as Peter Maffay (), is a Romanian-born German musician, singer, and composer.
Early life
Born in Braşov (german: link=no, Kronstadt), Romania, the son of a German (Transylvanian Saxon), h ...
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Reinhard Mey
Reinhard Friedrich Michael Mey (born 21 December 1942) is a German "Liedermacher" (literally "songmaker", a German-style singer-songwriter). In France he is known as ''Frédérik Mey''.
By 2009, Mey had released 27 German albums, and generally ...
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Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Marius Müller-Westernhagen (born 6 December 1948) is a German musician and actor. He has been a feature in German rock music since the mid-1970s. Müller-Westernhagen is known for his energetic public concerts, and his fans know his anthem-like ...
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Astrid North
Astrid North (Astrid Karina North Radmann; 24 August 1973, West Berlin – 25 June 2019, Berlin) was a German soul singer and songwriter. She was the singer of the German band , with whom she released five Albums. As guest singer of the band s ...
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Markus Rill
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Martin Gotthard Schneider
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Olli Schulz
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Manfred Siebald
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Hannes Wader
Hannes Wader (born Hans Eckard Wader on 23 June 1942) is a German singer-songwriter (" Liedermacher"). He has been an important figure in German leftist circles since the 1970s, with his songs covering such themes as socialist and communist resis ...
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Konstantin Wecker
Konstantin Alexander Wecker (born 1 June 1947, Munich) is a German singer-songwriter; he also works as a composer, author, and actor.
Life and work
Classically educated at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, Wecker got one of his first jobs as a songwriter a ...
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Johanna Zeul
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Joana Zimmer
Joana Zimmer (born ; Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany) is a German pop music singer, often compared to Celine Dion or Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career th ...
Greece
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Haris Alexiou
Haris Alexiou ( el, Χάρις Αλεξίου, ; born 27 December 1950 in Thebes, Greece as Hariklia Roupaka, el, Χαρίκλεια Ρουπάκα, ) is a Greek singer. She is considered one of the most popular singers in Greece and has been co ...
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Andriana Babali
Andriana Babali (Greek: Ανδριάνα Μπάμπαλη) is a Greek singer and songwriter.
Biography
Born and raised in Athens Greece, Andriana studied economics and music. She began singing as a vocalist/percussionist with rock singer-songwr ...
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George Dalaras
George Dalaras ( Γιώργος Νταλάρας, 29 September 1949) is a Greek musician and singer. He is one of the most prominent figures of Greek musical culture. In October 2006, he was selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Ag ...
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Michalis Hatzigiannis
Michalis Hatzigiannis (Greek: Μιχάλης Χατζηγιάννης; born 5 November 1978) is a Greek-Cypriot singer, musician, and record producer. From 2000 to 2010, he received over 30 sales certifications in Greece, making him one of the ...
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Lavrentis Machairitsas
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Vasilis Papakonstantinou
Vasilis Papakonstantinou (Βασίλης Παπακωνσταντίνου) (born 21 June 1950) is a Greek singer known mostly for his work in Greek rock. Most of his songs have gained considerable popularity, mainly in Greece and Cyprus.
Early ...
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Demis Roussos
Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos ( ; el, Αρτέμιος "Ντέμης" Βεντούρης-Ρούσσος, ; 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was a Greek singer, songwriter and musician. As a band member he is best remembered for his work in ...
Guatemala
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Ricardo Arjona
Edgar Ricardo Arjona Algadeoro (born 19 January 1964), known as Ricardo Arjona (), is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter. Arjona is one of the most successful and best-selling Latin American artists of all time, with more than 80 million records so ...
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Gaby Moreno
Gaby Moreno is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter, producer, film composer and guitarist. Singing in both English and Spanish, Moreno's music covers many genres including Latin, Alternative, Blues, Folk and Americana.
Biography
Moreno was born i ...
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Shery
Shery (born August 18, 1985) is a Guatemalan Latin pop singer and songwriter. She has recorded songs in Spanish and Italian, and shared stage with such international superstars as Chayanne, Cristian Castro, Manuel Mijares, Miguel Bosé, Enrique ...
Iceland
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Ólöf Arnalds
Ólöf Arnalds (born 4 January 1980) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and indie musician who has been active within the Icelandic music scene since the early 2000s. She was a touring member of múm for five years from 2003 before launching ...
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Ásgeir Trausti
Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson (; born 1 July 1992) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician. In his Icelandic releases, he was credited as Ásgeir Trausti. In 2013, he started using the mononym Ásgeir as his recording name. He performs with ...
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct three-octave vocal range and eccentric persona, she has de ...
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Jónsi
Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson (; born 23 April 1975) is an Icelandic musician; he is the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is known for his use of a cello bow on guitar and his "angelic" falset ...
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Lay Low
Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir (born 10 September 1982), better known by her stage name, Lay Low, is an Icelandic musician and singer.
Biography
Lovísa was born to a Sri Lankan father and an Icelandic mother. She moved to Iceland at a ...
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Megas
Magnús Þór Jónsson (born 7 April 1945), better known by the stage name Megas, is a vocalist, songwriter, and writer who is well known in his native Iceland.
Interest in music
Being an admirer of Elvis Presley, Megas welcomed the arrival of r ...
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Emilíana Torrini
Emilíana Torrini (born 16 May 1977) is an Icelandic singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 2009 single " Jungle Drum", her 1999 album '' Love in the Time of Science'', and her performance of " Gollum's Song" for the 2002 film '' The L ...
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Svavar Knútur
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Jófríður Ákadóttir
Jófríður Ákadóttir (born 4 August 1994) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist known as JFDR and is a founding member of the musical groups Samaris (band), Samaris and Pascal Pinon (band), Pascal Pinon. She ha ...
India
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AP Dhillon
Amritpal Singh Dhillon (born 10 January 1993), known professionally as AP Dhillon, is an Indo-Canadian singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer associated with Punjabi music. Five of his singles have peaked on the Official Charts Company ...
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Gurinder Gill
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Kaka (Punjabi singer)
Ravinder Singh professionally known as Kaka, is an Indian singer, song-writer,composer and music director associated with Punjabi Music. He is best known for his songs "Libaas", "Temporary Pyar", "Teeji Seat", "Mere Warga", "Keh Len De" and man ...
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Amrit Maan
Amrit Maan is an Indian singer, songwriter and actor associated with Punjabi film and music. He rose to fame after the release of his debut, ''Desi Da Drum'' in 2015. He is also known for his debut film Channa Mereya.
Early life
Maan was born ...
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Talat Aziz
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Badshah
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Jugpreet Singh Bajwa
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S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020), also referred to as SPB or SP Balu or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer. He is wi ...
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Rekha Bhardwaj
Rekha Bhardwaj (born 24 January 1964) is an Indian singer and live performer. She has received two Filmfare and one National Awards. In addition to Hindi, she has also sung in Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi and Malayalam languages.
Personal l ...
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Vishal Bhardwaj
Vishal Bhardwaj (born 4 August 1965) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer. He is known for his work in Hindi cinema, and is the recipient of seven National Film Awards and a Filmfare Award.
Bha ...
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Dilpreet Bhatia
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Asha Bhonsle
Asha Bhosle (; Mangeshkar; born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur
and occasional actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian Cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in the ...
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Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Born in Delhi, she began performing in local gatherings at the age of 5 and made her career debut at the age of 13, with the film '' Shastra'' (1996). During the ...
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Alisha Chinai
Alisha Chinai (born 18 March 1965) is an Indian pop singer known for her Indi-pop albums as well as playback singing in Hindi cinema. She began her singing career with the album ''Jadoo'' in 1985, and by the 1990s she had become known as the 'Q ...
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Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani (born 28 June 1973) is an Indian singer, songwriter and music composer. He is one half of the duo Vishal–Shekhar, Front Man and vocalist of one of India's leading rock bands called Pentagram.
As a singer he has sung various ...
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Manna Dey
Prabodh Chandra Dey (May 1, 1919 − October 24, 2013), known by his stage name Manna Dey, was an internationally acclaimed and celebrated Indian playback singer, music director, and a musician. As a classical vocalist, he belonged to the Bhe ...
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Zubeen Garg
Zubeen Garg (born Zubeen Borthakur; 18 November 1972) is an Indian singer, music director, composer, lyricist, music producer, actor, film director, film producer, script writer and philanthropist. He primarily works for and sings in the Assa ...
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Gur Sidhu
Gursimran Singh Sidhu (born 11 July 1997) is an Indian singer, record producer and song-writer associated with Punjabi Music and Punjabi cinema. He is best known for his songs "8 Parche","Bamb Aagya","Vaddi Galbaat","Gabhru","Dekhi Jau","Ashke A ...
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Jassa Dhillon
Jassa Dhillon is an Indian singer and songwriter who is associated with the Punjabi music industry. His song "Talja" has featured on the UK Asian Music Chart and also the Global YouTube weekly chart.
Early life and education
Dhillon was born 7 ...
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Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer and television personality. One of the highest-paid and most well-established playback singers of Indian cinema, she has received four National Film Awards, four Kerala State Film Awards ...
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Gippy Grewal
Rupinder Singh "Gippy" Grewal (born 2 January 1983), is an Indian actor, singer, film director and producer whose works span over Punjabi and Hindi film industry.
His single "Phulkari" was very successful in the Punjabi music industry. He made ...
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Hariharan
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Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja (born R. Gnanathesikan, 3 June 1943) is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, instrumentalist, lyricist and singer, popular for his works in Indian Cinema, prominently in Tamil films. Reputed to be one o ...
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Mahalaxmi Iyer
Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi, Assamese and Tamil songs. She has sung in many other Indian languages as well, including Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati and Kannada.
Career Playback singing
Ma ...
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Neha Kakkar
Neha Kakkar Singh (; née Kakkar; born 6 June 1988), is an Indian playback singer. She is the younger sister of playback singer Sonu Kakkar. She began performing at a very early age at religious events. In 2005, she participated in the second s ...
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Suman Kalyanpur
Suman Kalyanpur (born as Suman Hemmadi;January 28th 1937) is an Indian playback singer, one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India.
Her voice was often mistaken to be that of Lata Mangeshkar. Suman Kalyanpur's career st ...
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Hard Kaur
Taran Kaur Dhillon (born 29 July 1979), known by her stage name Hard Kaur, is an Indian rapper and hip hop singer; as well as playback singer and actress in Bollywood.
Early life
Hard Kaur was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India on 29th July ...
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Harshdeep Kaur
Harshdeep Kaur (born 16 December 1986) is an Indian playback singer known for her Bollywood Hindi, Punjabi,English and Sufi songs. She is popularly known as "Sufi Ki Sultana" because of her soulful Sufi renditions. After winning titles in two ...
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Kishor Kumar
Kishore Kumar (born as Abhas Kumar Ganguly (); 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was an Indian playback singer and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of Indian music.
He w ...
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Babbu Maan
Tejinder Singh "Babbu" Maan (born 29 March 1975) is an Indian singer-songwriter, music director, actor and film producer. Most of his artistic work focuses on Punjabi music and films. He is recognised as being among the biggest artists in Punj ...
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Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films.
Personal life and early career
Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tam ...
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Armaan Malik
Armaan Malik (born 22 July 1995) is an Indian singer, songwriter, record producer, voice-over, performer, dancer and actor. He is known for his singing in multiple languages, including Hindi, Telugu, English, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, G ...
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Anushka Manchanda
Anushka Manchanda aka Kiss Nuka (born 11 February 1984) is a singer, music producer, composer, creative entrepreneur, actor, activist, and former VJ of Indian origin. She came to prominence as a member of the Indipop girl group Viva!. Manchand ...
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Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar () (born as Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 06 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely considered to have been the greatest and most influential singers in India. Her con ...
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Talat Mehmood
Talat Mahmood (24 February 1924 – 9 May 1998) was an Indian playback singer who is considered one of the popular male Indian film song and ghazal singers. Although he tried his luck as a film actor, he did not succeed a great deal in acti ...
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Salim Merchant
Salim, Saleem or Selim may refer to:
People
*Salim (name), or Saleem or Salem or Selim, a name of Arabic origin
*Salim (poet) (1800–1866)
* Saleem (playwright) (fl. 1996)
* Selim I, Selim II and Selim III, Ottoman Sultans
* Selim people, an e ...
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Palak Muchhal
Palak Muchhal (born 30 March 1992) is an Indian singer and lyricist from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. She and her younger brother Palash Muchhal perform stage shows across India and abroad to raise funds for the poor children who need financial as ...
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Mukesh Mukesh is an epithet for the Hindu god Shiva, and literally means "conqueror of the Muka demon". It also means god of 3 worlds, heaven, hell & earth, which in turn represents Hindu god Shiva. It is commonly used as a male given name in India. Peopl ...
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Udit Narayan Udit is an Indian masculine given name that may refer to:
* Udit Narayan, Bollywood playback singer
*Udit Narayan (politician) (born 1960), Fijian politician of Indian descent
*Udit Narayan Singh (1770–1835), Indian monarch
*Udit Patel (born 198 ...
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Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian singer, music director and actor. He has been described in the media as one of the most popular and successful playback singers of Hindi Cinema and Kannada Cinema. He has been honoured by the Governme ...
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Damodar Raao
Damodar Raao (born 21 August 1977) is an Indian composer, singer, record producer, and live performer. His music genre is about acoustic folk with some traces of Indian classical music.
Career
In 2000, Raao got his first break as a singer in t ...
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Mohammad Rafi
Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer and musician. He is considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Rafi was notable for his versatility and ...
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A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer and songwriter, popular for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in int ...
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Tochi Raina
Tochi Raina (born 2 September 1971) is an Indian singer, composer and philosopher, best known as a playback singer in Hindi films. His most notable works include the songs ''Kabira'' for the movie "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani", "Iktara" from "Wake U ...
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Guru Randhawa
Gursharanjot Singh Randhawa (born 30 August 1991) is an Indian singer, songwriter and music composer associated with Punjabi, Bhangra, Indi-pop and Bollywood music. He is known for songs like "Lahore", " Ishare Tere", " Slowly Slowly", and " ...
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Anirudh Ravichander
Anirudh Ravichander (born 16 October 1990), also known mononymously as Anirudh, is an Indian film scorer music composer music producer singer and instrumentalist who primarily works in Tamil films. He is the son of actor Ravi Raghavendra. He ...
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Himesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, songwriter, film & music producer and actor in Hindi cinema. He started his career as music director in the film '' Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya'' in 1998 and made ...
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Anupam Roy
Anupam Roy (born 29 March 1982) is an Indian singer, singer-songwriter, music director, composer, songwriter, guitarist, playback singer from Kolkata, West Bengal. He made his debut with ''Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao'' & ''Benche Thakar Gaan'', ...
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Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), better known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer. He is known as the King of Melody in Bollywood. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood Hindi songs. Apart from Hindi, he has al ...
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Shaan
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Arijit Singh
Arijit Singh (born 25 April 1987) is an Indian singer and music composer. He sings predominantly in Bengali and Hindi, but has also performed in various other Indian languages. He is the recipient of a National Award and six Filmfare Award ...
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Honey Singh
Hirdesh Singh (born 15 March 1983), known professionally as Yo Yo Honey Singh or simply Honey Singh, is an Indian music producer, rapper, singer, songwriter and an actor. He started out in 2003 as a session and recording artist, and became a b ...
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Jagjit Singh
Jagjit Singh (born Jagmohan Singh Dhiman; 8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011) was an Indian composer, singer and musician. He composed and sang in numerous languages and is credited for the revival and popularity of ghazal, an Indian cl ...
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Sukhwinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh (born 18 July 1971) is an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer who primarily sings Bollywood songs. He is famous internationally for singing " Jai Ho" from the film '' Slumdog Millionaire'' which won an Academy Awa ...
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Kavita Subramaniam
Sharada Krishnamurthy, popularly known as Kavita Krishnamurthy or Kavita Subramaniam, is an Indian playback and classical singer. She has recorded 50,000 songs in 45 various Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Rajasthani, Bhoj ...
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Pankaj Udhas
Pankaj Udhas (born 17 May 1951) is an Indian ghazal and playback singer. He started his career with a release of a ghazal album titled ''Aahat'' in 1980 and subsequently recorded many hits like ''Mukarar'' in 1981, ''Tarrannum'' in 1982, ''Mehf ...
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Usha Uthup
Usha Uthup Iyer (born 7 November 1947) is an Indian pop, filmi, jazz, and playback singer who sang songs in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. "Darling", which she recorded with Rekha Bhardwaj for the film ''7 Khoon Maaf'', won the Filmfare ...
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Suresh Wadkar
Suresh Ishwar Wadkar (born 7 August 1955) is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films. He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films, Odia albums and bhajans and in Konkani films.
He was awarded the Sangeet Natak ...
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Alka Yagnik
Alka, AlkA or ALKA may refer to: People
* Alka Ajith (born c. 1997), Indian multilingual playback singer
* Alka Amin (active from 2011), Indian television actress
* Alka Balram Kshatriya, Indian politician, Member of the Parliament of India repr ...
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K. J. Yesudas
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Sidhu Moose Wala
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu (11 June 1993 – 29 May 2022), better known by his stage name Sidhu Moose Wala, was an Indian rapper, singer and actor. He rose to the mainstream with his track "So High". In 2018, he released his debut album ''PBX 1'' ...
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Jass Manak
Indonesia
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Ebiet G Ade
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Maudy Ayunda
Ayunda Faza Maudya (born 19 December 1994), known as Maudy Ayunda, is an Indonesian pop singer and actress.
Personal life and education
Ayunda was born to parents Didit Jasmedi R. Irawan and Mauren Jasmedi (born 1968). She has a younger sister ...
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Iwan Fals
Virgiawan Listanto or better known as Iwan Fals (born September 3, 1961) is an Indonesian singer, songwriter and guitarist of Javanese descent. In 2002, ''Time'' named him as a Great Asian Hero.
Early life
Iwan was born Virgiawan Listanto in J ...
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Fariz RM
Fariz Rustam Munaf or better known as Fariz RM (born in Jakarta, Indonesia on 5 January 1959) is an Indonesian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of mixed ethnic Betawi people, Betawi, Dutch people, Dutch and Minangkabau people, Minangk ...
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Melly Goeslaw
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Gombloh
Soedjarwoto Soemarsono (July 14, 1948January 9, 1988), better known by his stage name Gombloh, was an Indonesian singer and songwriter. He received the Nugraha Bhakti Musik Indonesia award from the Association of Singer Artists, Songwriters a ...
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Rhoma Irama
Raden Haji Oma Irama, better known as Rhoma Irama (born December 11, 1946), is an Indonesian dangdut singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sundanese descent.
Starting from the late 1960s, he began his musical career as Rhoma Irama as a part o ...
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Harry Roesli
Djauhar Zaharsjah Fachruddin Roesli (10 September 1951 – 11 December 2004), better known as Harry Roesli, was an Indonesian singer-songwriter.
Biography
Roesli was born with the full name Djauhar Zaharsjah Fachruddin Roesli in Bandung, We ...
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Sandhy Sondoro
Sandhy Soendhoro, better known by his stage name Sandhy Sondoro, sometimes stylized as Sandhy SonDoro, (born 12 December 1973) is an Indonesian singer-songwriter. He is best known for winning the 2009 International Contest of Young Pop Singer ''N ...
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Yockie Suryoprayogo
Jockie Soerjoprajogo (; Perfected Spelling: Yockie Suryoprayogo; 14 September 1954 – 5 February 2018) was an Indonesian musician and songwriter. Jockie began his musical career while a junior high school student in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. ...
Iran
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Shadmehr Aghili
Shadmehr aghili ( fa, شادمهر عقیلی; born 27 January 1973) is an Iranian pop singer, musician, composer, music arranger, producer and song-writer, and formerly an actor. He revitalized music culture post-revolution in Iran, Aghili was b ...
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Faramarz Aslani
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Mohammad Esfahani
Mohammad Mahdi Vaezi Esfahani ( fa, محمدمهدی واعظی اصفهانی ; born 5 July 1966), better known as Mohammad Esfahani, is an Iranian Persian pop music, Persian pop and Traditional music, traditional singer.
He graduated from Ir ...
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Shahyar Ghanbari
Shahyar Ghanbari ( fa, شهیار قنبری also spelled wrongly as Shahryar Ghanbari , born 28 July 1950 in Tehran) is an Iranian poet, writer, lyricist, songwriter, and singer of Persian pop music. He is also a film director & radio-TV produc ...
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Hichkas
Soroush Lashkari ( fa, سروش لشکری; born 9 May 1985), known professionally as Hichkas ( fa, هیچکس), is an Iranian rapper, singer, and songwriter. Credited with popularizing Persian hip hop to the Iranian people and other Persian-sp ...
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Shahram Nazeri
Shahram Nazeri ( ku, شارام نازری, translit=Şaram Nazirî, ; born 18 February 1950) is a contemporary Iranian tenor of Kurdish origin from Kermanshah, Iran, who sings Sufi music, classical and traditional Kurdish and Persian music. H ...
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Mohammad Reza Shajarian
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian ( fa, محمدرضا شجريان; , 23 September 1940 – 8 October 2020) was an Iranian singer and master (''Ostad'') of Persian traditional music. He was also known for his skills in Persian calligraphy and humanitaria ...
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Siavash Ghomayshi
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Reza Yazdani
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Mohsen Yeganeh
Mohsen Yeganeh ( fa, محسن یگانه; born May 13, 1985) is an Iranian singer and musician. He performed at many concerts including one at the Fajr International Music Festival.
Early life
Mohsen Yeganeh was born in Gonbad-e Kavus to Pers ...
Ireland
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Luka Bloom
Luka Bloom (born Kevin Barry Moore; 23 May 1955) is an Irish folk singer-songwriter. He is the younger brother of folk singer Christy Moore.
Early life
Kevin Barry Moore was born on 23 May 1955 in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. His par ...
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Bono
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Born and raised in Dublin, he attended ...
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Paul Brady
Paul Joseph Brady (born 19 May 1947) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician from Strabane, Northern Ireland. His work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age.
Initially popular for playing ...
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Paddy Casey
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Mic Christopher
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Andrea Corr
Andrea Jane Corr MBE (born 17 May 1974) is an Irish singer, songwriter, musician and actress. Corr debuted in 1990 as the lead singer of the Celtic folk rock and pop rock group The Corrs along with her three elder siblings Caroline, Sharon ...
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Sharon Corr
Sharon Helga Corr MBE (born 24 March 1970) is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and television personality. She is best known as a member of the pop-rock band The Corrs, which she co-founded in 1990 with her elder brother Jim and younger si ...
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Damien Dempsey
Damien Dempsey (born 9 June 1975) is an Irish singer and songwriter who mixes traditional Irish folk contemporary lyrics that deliver social and political commentaries on Irish society. Damien sings in his native, working class accent in the Eng ...
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Janet Devlin
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EDEN
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Mick Flannery
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His debut album ''Evening Train'' resulted from his time spent studying music and management at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa in Cork. It featured tracks which had previously ...
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Dave Flynn
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Mark Geary
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Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Margaret Hannigan (born 12 February 1981) is an Irish musician, singer, composer, and voice actress. She began her musical career as a member of Damien Rice's band. Since beginning her solo career in 2007 she has released three albums: '' S ...
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Glen Hansard
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Frank Harte
Frank Harte (14 May 1933 – 27 June 2005) was a traditional Irish singer, song collector, architect and lecturer. He was born in Chapelizod, County Dublin, and raised in Dublin. His father, Peter Harte, who had moved from a farming backgrou ...
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Gemma Hayes
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Margaret Healy
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Christie Hennessy
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David Hopkins
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Niall Horan
Niall James Horan ( ; born 13 September 1993) is an Irish singer-songwriter. He rose to prominence as a member of the boy band One Direction, formed in 2010 on the singing competition '' The X Factor''. The group released five albums and went ...
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Hozier
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Andy Irvine
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Katie Kim
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Vyvienne Long
Vyvienne Long is a musician from Co. Dublin, Ireland. A classically trained cellist from the College of Music, Dublin and the Escola de Musica in Barcelona, she also sings and plays piano and writes music for her quintet which comprises 2 ...
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Phil Lynott
Philip Parris Lynott (, ; 20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish singer, bassist, and songwriter. His most commercially successful group was Thin Lizzy, of which he was a founding member, the principal songwriter, lead vocalist and b ...
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Shane MacGowan
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic punk band the Pogues. He was also a member of the Nipple Erectors and Shane MacGo ...
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James Vincent McMorrow
James Vincent McMorrow is an Irish singer and songwriter.
Career
McMorrow's debut album, ''Early in the Morning'', was released in Ireland in February 2010, and in the United States and Europe in 2011, to widespread acclaim. He made his UK te ...
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Christy Moore
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. In addition to his significant success as an individual, he is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, ...
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Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards.
As a teenager in t ...
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Johnny Moynihan
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Mundy
Edmond Enright (born 19 May 1975), known professionally as Mundy, is an Irish singer-songwriter and founder of the independent record label Camcor Records.
Biography
He released his debut album ''Jelly Legs'' in 1996 on the Epic Records label ...
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Maura O'Connell
Maura O'Connell (born 16 September 1958) is an Irish singer and actress. She is known for her contemporary interpretations of Irish folk songs, strongly influenced by American country music.
Background
O'Connell was born in Ennis, the main to ...
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Sinéad O'Connor
Shuhada Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966; ) is an Irish singer-songwriter. Her debut album, '' The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her second album, ''I Do Not Want Wha ...
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Ted O'Neill
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Declan O'Rourke
Declan O'Rourke (born April 26, 1976) is a singer-songwriter from Dublin, Ireland.
Career
Early career to 2010
At the age of 13, when living in Australia with his family, O'Rourke was given his first guitar by a priest in Kyabram who recog ...
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Fionn Regan
Fionn Regan (born 1981) is an Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Bray, Regan came to prominence with the release of his debut studio album, '' The End of History'' in 2006. He had been releasing extended plays for six ...
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Damien Rice
Damien George Rice (born 7 December 1973) is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He began his career as a member of the 1990s rock group Juniper, who were signed to Polygram Records in 1997. The band enjoyed moderate success ...
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Ann Scott
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Chris Singleton
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Andy White
Israel
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Chava Alberstein
Chava Alberstein ( he, חוה אלברשטיין, born 8 December 1946 in Poland) is an Israeli musician, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger.
Biography
Born Ewa Alberstein in Szczecin, Poland, her name was Hebraized to Chava when she ...
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Meir Ariel
Meir Ariel ( he, מאיר אריאל; March 2, 1942 – July 18, 1999) was an Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist.
He was known as a "man of words" for his poetic use of the Hebrew language in his lyrics. His influences included Hebrew poe ...
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Shlomo Artzi
Shlomo Artzi ( he, שלמה ארצי) is an Israeli folk rock musician, composer, music producer, radio broadcaster columnist and singer-songwriter.
He was born on November 26, 1949, in Moshav Alonei Abba. In the course of his career, he has so ...
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Izhar Ashdot
Izhar Ashdot ( he, יזהר אשדות; born 23 November 1958) is an Israeli singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He is a co-founding member of the Israeli rock band T-Slam.
Early life
When he was eleven, Ashdot started to play t ...
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Ehud Banai
Ehud Banai ( he, אֵהוּד בַּנַּאי; born March 31, 1953) is an Israeli singer and songwriter.
Biography
Ehud Banai was born in Jerusalem. His father was the actor Yaakov Banai, one of the Banai siblings. The family moved to Givatayim ...
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David Broza
David Simon Berwick Broza ( he, דויד ברוזה; born September 4, 1955) is an Israeli singer-songwriter. His music mixes modern pop with Spanish music.
Biography
David Broza was born in Haifa, Israel. His father was an Israeli–British bus ...
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Matti Caspi
Matti Caspi ( he, מתי כספי) is an Israeli composer, musician, singer, arranger, and lyricist. Born in 1949, he is regarded as one of Israel's top popular musicians.
His music's style is informed by classical music, Brazilian and Latin mu ...
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Ilan Chester
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Arik Einstein
Arieh Lieb "Arik" Einstein ( he, אָרִיק אַייְנְשְׁטֵייְן, ; 3 January 1939 – 26 November 2013) was an Israeli singer, actor, comedian and screenwriter. He was a pioneer of Israeli rock music and was named "the voice of Is ...
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Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen ( he, אביב גפן, born 10 May 1973) is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter and the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover, brother of actress Shira Geffen, and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and C ...
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Shlomo Gronich
Shlomo Gronich (born January 20, 1949; he, שלמה גרוניך) is an Israeli composer, singer, songwriter, arranger, and choir conductor.
Biography
Shlomo Gronich grew up in a musical family in Hadera. He holds a B.A. in Music Education fro ...
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Shalom Hanoch
Shalom Hanoch ( he, שלום חנוך) (born September 1, 1946) is an Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer.
He is considered to be the father of Israeli rock and modern Israeli music in general, both of which have been profoundly influen ...
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Achinoam Nini
Achinoam Nini ( he, אחינועם ניני, Aẖinóʿam Nini; born ), also known professionally as Noa (), is an Israeli singer-songwriter, percussionist, poet, composer, and human rights activist working internationally. She is accompanied by ...
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Idan Raichel
Idan Raichel ( he, עידן רייכל, ; b. 12 September 1977) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and musician known for his "Idan Raichel Project" (Hebrew: ), distinctive for its fusion of electronics, traditional Hebrew texts, and diverse mu ...
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Naomi Shemer
Naomi Shemer ( he, נעמי שמר; July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was a leading Israeli musician and songwriter, hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry." Her song " Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), written in 1967, ...
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Ariel Zilber
Ariel Zilber ( he, אריאל זילבר; born September 23, 1943) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and composer.
Biography
Ariel Zilber was born in Tel Aviv. His mother, Bracha Zefira, was a popular singer of Yemenite Jewish origin and his fat ...
Italy
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Alice
Alice may refer to:
* Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname
Literature
* Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll
* ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ...
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Biagio Antonacci
Biagio Antonacci (; born 9 November 1963) is an Italian singer-songwriter from Milan.
Biography
Early life
Biagio Antonacci was born in Milan and was raised in one of its suburbs (Rozzano). Despite learning how to play the drums at a young ag ...
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Claudio Baglioni
Claudio Baglioni (; born 16 May 1951) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. His career has been going on for over 50 years. Some songs from the 70s are part of Italian culture such as ''E tu come stai?''. In the 80s he released the ...
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Franco Battiato
Francesco "Franco" Battiato (; 23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esotericism, esoteric, philosophy, philosophica ...
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Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an influential Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting.
Battisti released 18 studio albums ...
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Edoardo Bennato
Edoardo Bennato (born 23 July 1946, Naples, Campania, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is the brother of the singer-songwriter Eugenio Bennato.
He is considered one of the greatest Italian rockers, a genre that he has often combined ...
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Samuele Bersani
Samuele Bersani (born 1 October 1970, in Rimini, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He received the "Mia Martini" Critics Award at the Sanremo Music Festival in 2000 and in 2012, with the songs "Replay" and "Un pallone", respectively.
His b ...
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Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli (; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor and multi-instrumentalist. He was born visually impaired, with congenital glaucoma, and at the age of 12, Bocelli became completely blind, following a brain hemorrhage resulting fro ...
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Angelo Branduardi
Angelo Branduardi (born 12 February 1950) is an Italian folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece.
Biography
Branduardi wa ...
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Marianna Cataldi
Marianna Cataldi (born April 7, 1976) an Italian singer-songwriter and composer.
Life and career
1976–1993: Early life
Marianna Cataldi was born and raised in Taranto, Italy.
She started performing live on stage when she was only 4, s ...
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Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "''il Molleggiato''" (the springy one) because of his dancing.
Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and ...
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Chiara Civello
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Riccardo Cocciante
Riccardo Cocciante (; born 20 February 1946), also known in French-speaking countries and the U.S. as Richard Cocciante (), is an Italian singer, composer, theatre man and musician. He acquired French citizenship.
Personal life
Cocciante was ...
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Carmen Consoli
Carmen Consoli (; born 4 September 1974 in Catania) is an Italian singer-songwriter. She has released 11 studio albums, one greatest hits, one soundtrack album, two live albums, four video album and 33 singles, selling 2 million copies in I ...
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Cesare Cremonini
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Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.
Dalla was the composer of " Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, and ...
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Pino Daniele
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Fabrizio De André
Fabrizio Cristiano De André (; 18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter, the most prominent ''cantautore'' of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political pr ...
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Francesco De Gregori
Francesco De Gregori OMRI (born 4 April 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. In Italy, he is popularly known as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.
He is of ...
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Dolcenera
Emanuela Trane (born 16 May 1977), stage name "Dolcenera" , is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress.
She rose to fame in 2003, after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival, but she achieved commercial success in Italy ...
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Elisa
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Sergio Endrigo
Sergio Endrigo (; 15 June 1933 – 7 September 2005) was an Italian singer-songwriter.
Born in Pola, Istria in Italy (now Pula, Croatia), he has been often compared—for style and nature—to authors of the so-called "Genoa school" like Gino P ...
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Gabriella Ferri
Gabriella Ferri (18 September 1942 – 3 April 2004) was an Italian singer born in Rome.
Ferri's career began in a Milan nightclub in 1963. By 1965, she had broken into the Rome singing scene by singing popular Roman songs, thereby becoming ...
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Tiziano Ferro
Tiziano Ferro (; born 21 February 1980) is an Italian singer, songwriter, producer and author. He broke through in 2001 with his international hit single " Perdono" and has remained commercially successful since then, in several countries. Ferro ...
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Zucchero Fornaciari
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Ivano Fossati
Ivano Alberto Fossati (born 21 September 1951) is an Italian pop singer from Genoa. He was a member of the progressive rock group Delirium and has worked with Fabrizio De André, Riccardo Tesi, Anna Oxa, Mia Martini, Ornella Vanoni, Shirley Bass ...
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Giorgio Gaber
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Francesco Guccini
Francesco Guccini (, born 14 June 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important '' cantautori'' of his time. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live a ...
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Jovanotti
Lorenzo Cherubini (; born 27 September 1966), better known as Jovanotti (), is an Italian singer-songwriter, rapper and disc jockey.
The name Jovanotti derives from ''giovanotti'', the plural form of the Italian word ''giovanotto'' ("young man") ...
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Luciano Ligabue
Luciano Riccardo Ligabue (born 13 March 1960), commonly known as Ligabue or Liga, is an Italian singer-songwriter, film director and writer.
Biography
Ligabue was born in Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna in northern ...
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Nada
Nada may refer to:
Culture
* Nāda, a concept in ancient Indian metaphysics
Places
*Nada, Hainan, China
*Nada, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
* Nada, Nepal, village in Achham District, Seti Zone
*Nada, Texas, United S ...
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Gianna Nannini
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Mia Martini
Mia Martini (; born Domenica Rita Adriana Bertè ; 20 September 1947 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician.James Christopher MongerMia Martini allmusic.com[Domenico Modugno
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Gianni Morandi
Gianni Morandi (; born 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer.
Early life
Gian Luigi Morandi was born in a little village called Monghidoro on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. His father Renato was active within the ...
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Gino Paoli
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Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini (; born 16 May 1974) is an Italian singer. She rose to fame in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with her debut single " La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an interna ...
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Rita Pavone
Rita Pavone (; born August 23, 1945) is an Italian-Swiss ballad and rock singer and actress, who enjoyed success through the 1960s.
Singing career
She was born in Turin, Italy. In 1962 she participated in, and won, the first Festival degli Sco ...
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Eros Ramazzotti
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Stefano Righi
Stefano Righi (born 9 September 1960), known professionally as Johnson Righeira, is an Italian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the Italo disco duo Righeira. Af ...
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Vasco Rossi
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Luigi Tenco
Luigi Tenco (21 March 1938 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian singer-songwriter.
Biography
Tenco was born in Cassine (province of Alessandria) in 1938, the son of Teresa Zoccola and Giuseppe Tenco. He never knew his father, who died in uncle ...
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Roberto Vecchioni
Roberto Vecchioni (born 25 June 1943) is an Italian singer-songwriter, singer-lyricist, lyricist, teacher and writer.
Biography
Vecchioni was born in Carate Brianza, Province of Monza and Brianza, to a Neapolitan family . In 1968 he graduated i ...
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Antonello Venditti
Antonio "Antonello" Venditti (born 8 March 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.
Biography
Antonello Venditti was born in Rome, the son of Vincenzino Italo Venditti f ...
Jamaica
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Alaine
Alaine is a Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor.
1998–2004
In 1988, Alaine appeared in movie ''Clara's Heart'' alongside Whoopi Goldberg. Through the late 1990s and early 2000s, Alaine lived in the United States and did ...
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Buju Banton
Mark Anthony Myrie (born 15 July 1973),Larkin, Colin (1998) "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae", Virgin Books, professionally known by his stage name Buju Banton, is a Jamaican reggae dancehall musician. He is considered to be one of the most s ...
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Pato Banton
Pato Banton (born Patrick Murray; 5 October 1961) is a reggae singer and toaster from Birmingham, England. He received the nickname "Pato Banton" from his stepfather; his first name derives from the sound of a Jamaican owl calling "patoo, patoo ...
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Burning Spear
Winston Rodney OD (born 1 March 1945), better known by the stage name Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician. Burning Spear is a Rastafarian and one of the most influential and long-standing roots ...
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Jimmy Cliff
James Chambers OM (born 30 July 1944), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor. He is the only living reggae musician to hold the Order of Merit, t ...
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Beres Hammond
Beres Hammond OJ (born Hugh Beresford Hammond; 28 August 1955, in Annotto Bay, Saint Mary, Jamaica)Moskowitz, David V. (2006) ''Caribbean Popular Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall'', Greenwood Press, , p. ...
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Toots Hibbert
Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, (8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020), better known as Toots Hibbert, was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he perfor ...
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Barrington Levy
Barrington Ainsworth Levy (born 30 April 1964) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.
Career
Levy was born in Clarendon, Jamaica. He formed a band called the Mighty Multitude, with his cousin, Everton Dacres; the pair released "My Bl ...
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Bob Marley
Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981; baptised in 1980 as Berhane Selassie) was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements ...
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Damian Marley
Damian Robert Nesta "Jr. Gong" Marley (born 21 July 1978) is a Jamaican DJ, singer, lyricist and rapper. He is the recipient of four Grammy Awards.
Early life, education and family
Damian Marley is the youngest son of reggae musician Bob Marle ...
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Rita Marley
Rita may refer to:
People
* Rita (given name)
* Rita (Indian singer) (born 1984)
* Rita (Israeli singer) (born 1962)
* Rita (Japanese singer)
* Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938), wrote under the pseudonym Rita
Places
* Djarrit, also known as Rita, ...
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Skip Marley
Skip Marley Minto (born 4 June 1996) is a Jamaican singer. He is the son of Cedella Marley and David Minto, and grandson of Bob Marley. He has received two Grammy Award nominations and an MTV Video Music Award nomination.
Life and career
Mar ...
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Stephen Marley
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Ziggy Marley
David Nesta "Ziggy" Marley (born 17 October 1968) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician, actor and philanthropist. He is the son of reggae icon Bob Marley and Rita Marley. He led the family band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers until 20 ...
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Sizzla
Miguel Orlando Collins (born 17 April 1976), known by his stage name Sizzla Kalonji or Sizzla, is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is one of the most commercially and critically successful contemporary reggae artists and is noted for his high num ...
Lebanon
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Joseph Attieh
Joseph Attieh ( ar, جوزيف عطية, born May 14, 1987) is a Lebanese singer who won the third season of Star Academy Lebanon in 2005. He is known for his song "Lebnan rah Yerjaa".
Career
Joseph became the first Lebanese artist to win th ...
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David M. Bailey
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Lydia Canaan
Lydia Canaan ( ar, ليديا كنعان) is a Lebanese singer-songwriter and humanitarian activist.
Credited as the first internationally successful Lebanese recording artist,Sinclair, David. "Global Music Pulse", ''Billboard'', New York, De ...
* IJK (singer songwriter), IJK
Lithuania
* Vytautas Kernagis
Malaysia
* Sudirman Arshad
* Zee Avi
* Vince Chong
* M. Nasir
* P. Ramlee
* Shanon Shah
* Pete Teo
* Yuna (singer), Yuna
* Azmyl Yunor
* Meor Aziddin Yusof
* Alyah
Malta
* Walter Micallef
Mexico
* Roberto Cantoral
* Óscar Chávez
* Lolita de la Colina
* Fernando Delgadillo
* Emmanuel (singer), Emmanuel
* Rubén Fuentes
* Ana Gabriel
* Juan Gabriel
* María Grever
* Saúl Hernández
* José Alfredo Jiménez
* Agustín Lara
* Armando Manzanero
* Carla Morrison
* Sofía Reyes
* Cuco Sánchez
* Joan Sebastian
* Marco Antonio Solís
* Aleks Syntek
* Lynda Thomas
* Consuelo Velázquez
* Julieta Venegas
Moldova
* Pavel Stratan
Netherlands
* Stevie Ann
* Frank Boeijen
* Anneke van Giersbergen
* Marike Jager
* Laura Jansen
* Loona (singer), Loona
* Lucky Fonz III
* Nielson (singer), Nielson
* Ntjam Rosie
* Ede Staal
* Jack Jersey
* Guus Meeuwis
* Anouk Teeuwe
* Herman van Veen
* Robert Westerholt
New Zealand
*Aaradhna
*Megan Alatini
*Daniel Bedingfield
*Carly Binding
*Jackie Clarke
*Ashley Cooper (singer), Ashely Cooper
*Joe Cotton
*Annie Crummer
*Martin Curtis
*Lynette Diaz
*Dave Dobbyn
*Liam Finn
*Neil Finn
*Tim Finn
*Brooke Fraser
*Che Fu
*Rob Guest
*Luke Hurley
*Greg Johnson (musician), Greg Johnson
*Phil Judd
*David Kilgour (musician), David Kilgour
*Nathan King (singer-songwriter), Nathan King
*Ladyhawke (musician), Ladyhawke
*Shona Laing
*Lorde
*Ben Lummis
*Jamie McDell
*Fiona McDonald
*Anika Moa
*Howard Morrison
*Tex Morton
*John Rowles
*Bic Runga
*Boh Runga
*Hollie Smith
*Frankie Stevens
*Tiki Taane
*Marcus Turner
*Keith Urban
*Rosita Vai
*Hayley Westenra
*Annie Whittle
Nigeria
* Jahdiel
* Malcolm Guite
* Muma Gee
* Nneka (singer), Nneka
* Onyeka Onwenu
* Omawumi
* Tiwa Savage
Norway
* Aurora (singer), Aurora Aksnes
* Julie Bergan
* Kari Bremnes
* Ane Brun
* Thomas Dybdahl
* Torgunn Flaten
* Magne Furuholmen
* Christine Guldbrandsen
* Morten Harket
* Monica Heldal
* Thom Hell
* William Hut
* Alexandra Joner
* Sissel Kyrkjebø
* Marit Larsen
* Sondre Lerche
* Espen Lind
* Magnet (musician), Magnet (born Even Johansen)
* Marcus & Martinus (American Singers)
* Lene Marlin
* Maria Mena
* Moddi
* Silje Nergaard
* Lillebjørn Nilsen
* Siri Nilsen
* Janove Ottesen
* Robert Post (musician), Robert Post
* Marion Ravn
* Kari Rueslåtten
* Astrid S
* Iselin Solheim
* Susanne Sundfør
* Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
* Vegard Ylvisåker
* Bertine Zetlitz
Panama
* Joey Montana
Peru
* Chabuca Granda
* Gian Marco
* Pedro Suarez Vertiz
Philippines
* Nilo Alcala
* Ogie Alcasid
* Jose Mari Chan
* Sharon Cuneta
* Rodel Naval
* Robin Nievera
* Nityalila
* Rico J. Puno
* Max Surban
* Rey Valera
* Yoyoy Villame
Poland
* Edyta Bartosiewicz
*Edyta Górniak
* Katy Carr
* Jacek Kaczmarski
*Kasia Moś
Portugal
* Zeca Afonso
* Leonor Andrade
* Tiago Bettencourt
* David Carreira
* Mickael Carreira
* Fernando Daniel
* Carolina Deslandes
* Sérgio Godinho
* David Fonseca
* Rita Guerra
* Mariza
* Ana Moura
* Adriano Correia de Oliveira
* Jorge Palma
* Diogo Piçarra
* Mia Rose
* José Carlos Ary dos Santos
* Paulo Sousa (singer), Paulo Sousa
* JP Simões
* Raquel Tavares
* Fernando Tordo
* Vitorino
* António Zambujo
Puerto Rico
* Zayra Alvarez
* Tito Auger
* Puchi Balseiro
* Obie Bermúdez
* Americo Boschetti
* Lou Briel
* Roy Brown (Puerto Rican musician), Roy Brown
* Antonio Cabán Vale
* Nano Cabrera
* Bobby Capó
* Vicente Carattini
* Santos Colón
* Elvis Crespo
* Tony Croatto
* Bobby Cruz
* Tite Curet Alonso
* Johnathan Dwayne
* Rafi Escudero
* Noel Estrada
* Farruko
* José Feliciano
* Luis Fonsi
* Kany García
* Gustavo Laureano
* Héctor Lavoe
* Ricky Martin
* Yolandita Monge
* Glenn Monroig
* Ednita Nazario
* Noelia
* José Nogueras
* Don Omar
* Ángel Peña (musician), Angel "Cuco" Peña
* Ignacio Peña
* Carlos Ponce
* Sylvia Rexach
* Julito Rodríguez
* Dräco Rosa
* Zoraida Santiago
* Myrta Silva
* Olga Tañón
* Tommy Torres
* Juan Vélez
* Wilkins Vélez
* Yaire
* Daddy Yankee
* Zeny & Zory
Romania
* Akcent
* Andreea Banica
* Alexandra Stan
* Antonia Iacobescu
* Inna
* 3 Sud Est
* DJ Project
* Deepcentral
* Delia Matache
* Morandi (band), Morandi
* Marius Moga
* Edward Maya
* Lora (singer), Lora
Russia
* Veronika Dolina
* Yanka Dyagileva
* Alexander Gorodnitsky
* Lena Katina
* Eduard Khil
* Andrei Makarevich
* Sergey Nikitin (musician), Sergey Nikitin
* Bulat Okudzhava
* Viktor Tsoi
* Yuri Vizbor
* Vladimir Vysotsky
Slovakia
* Celeste Buckingham
* Marika Gombitová
* Vašo Patejdl
* Dara Rolins
* Dežo Ursiny
South Africa
* Koos du Plessis
* Jennifer Ferguson
* Anton Goosen
* Sonja Herholdt
* Lira (singer)
* Steve Kekana
* Jim Neversink
* Karen Zoid
Spain
* Manuel Alejandro
* Pablo Alborán
* Luis Eduardo Aute
* María del Mar Bonet
* Miguel Bosé
* Nino Bravo
* Diego El Cigala
* Els Setze Jutges
* Manolo Garcia
* Paco Ibañez
* Enrique Iglesias
* Julio Iglesias
* Lluís Llach
* Victor Manuel
* Roger Mas
* Antonio Orozco
* Tomeu Penya
* José Luis Perales
* Porta (rapper), Porta
* Raimon
* Joaquín Sabina
* Joan Manuel Serrat
* Camilo Sesto
* Jaume Sisa
* Álex Ubago
Sri Lanka
* Desmond Kelly
* Nimal Mendis
* Clarence Wijewardena
Sweden
* PewDiePie
* Joel Berghult
* Basshunter
* Tommy Blom
* Mikael Åkerfeldt
* Fred Åkerström
* Ulla Andersson
* Tomas Andersson Wij
* AronChupa
* Kristofer Åström
* Thomas Di Leva
* Nicolai Dunger
* Marie Fredriksson
* Per Gessle
* José González (singer), José González
* Nanne Grönvall
* Håkan Hellström
* Tommy Karevik
* Christian Kjellvander
* Laleh Pourkarim, Laleh
* Jens Lekman
* Göran Lagerberg
* Danne Larsson
* Zara Larsson
* Lykke Li
* Lisa Miskovsky
* Linn Berggren
* Stina Nordenstam
* Povel Ramel
* Robyn
* Ilya Salmanzadeh
* Stefan Sundström
* Evert Taube
* Isa Tengblad
* Anna Ternheim
* Joakim Thåström
* Cornelis Vreeswijk
* Lars Winnerbäck
* Sophie Zelmani
Switzerland
* Bastian Baker
* David Buzzi
* Simone Drexel
* Mélanie René
United Kingdom
A–L
*Adele
*Lily Allen
*Ian Anderson
*Harvey Andrews
*Gabrielle Aplin
*Lauren Aquilina
*Joan Armatrading
*Rick Astley
*Kevin Ayers
*Gary Barlow
*Syd Barrett
*Rich Batsford
*James Bay (singer), James Bay
*Peter Bellamy
*Belouis Some
*Matt Bigland
*James Blunt
*David Bowie
*Robbie Boyd
*Billy Bragg
*Sarah Brightman
*Andy Brown (singer), Andy Brown
*Melanie Brown
*Kate Bush
*Euros Childs
*Melanie C
*Eric Clapton
*Dodie Clark
*Gary Clark (musician), Gary Clark
*Lloyd Cole
*JP Cooper
*Jessica Cornish
*Elvis Costello
*Barns Courtney
*Beverley Craven
*Charlotte Gordon Cumming
*Stanley J. Damerell
*Paul Stuart Davies
*Ray Davies
*Alex Day
*Sandy Denny
*Chris de Burgh
*Lynsey de Paul
*Marina Diamandis
*Dido (singer), Dido
*Siobhán Donaghy
*Donovan
*Josh Doyle
*Nick Drake
*Duffy (singer), Duffy
*Ian Dury
*Perrie Edwards
*Emmy the Great
*Ella Eyre
*George Ezra
*Marianne Faithfull
*Newton Faulkner
*Lena Fiagbe
*Kat Flint
*Ryan Fletcher
*Andi Fraggs
*Barry Gibb
*Maurice Gibb
*David Gilmour
*David Gray (musician), David Gray
*Alistair Griffin
*Malcolm Guite
*Noel Gallagher
*Mick Greenwood
*Ed Harcourt
*Nick Harper
*Roy Harper (singer), Roy Harper
*George Harrison
*PJ Harvey
*Justin Hayward
*Imogen Heap
*Paul Heaton
*Ella Henderson
*Ant Henson
*Boo Hewerdine
*Robyn Hitchcock
*Trevor Horn
*Ben Howard
*HRVY
*Jamelia
*Bert Jansch
*Sadie Jemmett
*Elton John
*Tom Jones (singer), Tom Jones
*Wizz Jones
*Martyn Joseph
*Nik Kershaw
*Wilson T. King
*Beverley Knight
*Steve Knightley
*Charlie Landsborough
*John Lennon
*Adam Leonard (singer-songwriter), Adam Leonard
*Al Lewis (singer-songwriter), Al Lewis
*Leona Lewis
*Cher Lloyd
*John Lodge (musician), John Lodge
*Jez Lowe
*Nick Lowe
M–Z
*Ewan MacColl
*Kirsty MacColl
*Amy Macdonald
*Emily Maguire (singer), Emily Maguire
*Zayn Malik
*Laura Marling
*Johnny Marr
*Michael Marra
*Steve Marriott
*John Martyn (singer), John Martyn
*Brian May
*Conor Maynard
*Paul McCartney
*Shelagh McDonald
*Charlie McDonnell
*Rory McLeod (singer-songwriter), Rory McLeod
*Tom McRae
*Ralph McTell
*Mika (singer), Mika
*Gary Moore
*James Morrison (singer), James Morrison
*Morrissey
*Alexi Murdoch
*Graham Nash
*Nina Nesbitt
*Anthony Newley
*John Newman (singer), John Newman
*Sheila Nicholls
*Heather Nova
*Ivor Novello
*Gilbert O'Sullivan
*Tom Odell
*Beth Orton
*Ozzy Osbourne
*Mark Owen
*Nerina Pallot
*Alex Parks
*Passenger (singer), Passenger
*Liam Payne
*Mike Pinder
*Leigh-Anne Pinnock
*Karen Poole
*Shelly Poole
*Mal Pope
*Paul Poulton
*Brian Protheroe
*Camille Purcell
*Gerry Rafferty
*Ricky Ross (musician), Ricky Ross
*Kate Rusby
*Emeli Sandé
*Polly Scattergood
*Jay Sean
*Ed Sheeran
*Labi Siffre
*Lucie Silvas
*Robert Smith (musician), Robert Smith
*Sam Smith (singer), Sam Smith
*David Sneddon
*Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
*Al Stewart
*Joe Strummer
*Harry Styles
*Dave Swarbrick
*Roger Taylor (Queen drummer), Roger Taylor
*Jade Thirlwall
*Sandi Thom
*Ray Thomas
*Raye (singer), Raye
*Richard Thompson (musician), Richard Thompson
*Teddy Thompson
*Tanita Tikaram
*Steve Tilston
*Louis Tomlinson
*KT Tunstall
*Frank Turner
*Bonnie Tyler
*Bailey Tzuke
*Judie Tzuke
*Karl Wallinger
*Clifford T. Ward
*Shayne Ward
*Roger Waters
*Helen Watson (singer-songwriter), Helen Watson
*Robbie Williams
*Robin Williamson
*Amy Winehouse
*Robert Wyatt
*Pete Wylie
*Sami Yusuf
United States
A–B
*David Ackles
*Ryan Adams
*Trace Adkins
*Julien Aklei
*Steve Albini
*Jason Aldean
*Deborah Allen
*Terry Allen (country singer), Terry Allen
*GG Allin
*Mose Allison
*Gregg Allman
*Peter Alsop
*Tori Amos
*Anastacia
*Eric Anders
*Eric Andersen
*Keith Anderson
*Laurie Anderson
*Theresa Andersson
*Jill Andrews
*Brooke Annibale
*Fiona Apple
*Joseph Arthur
*Ashanti (singer), Ashanti
*Ashe (singer), Ashe
*Rodney Atkins
*Patti Austin
*Gene Autry
*Hoyt Axton
*Aubrey Ayala
*Dan Avidan
*Steve Azar
*Erykah Badu
*Joan Baez
*
David M. Bailey
*Julien Baker
*Devendra Banhart
*Sara Bareilles
*Geoff Bartley
*Steve Baxter (musician), Steve Baxter
*David Bazan
*Beck
*Drake Bell
*Rita Bell
*Vince Bell
*
Giselle Bellas
Giselle Bellas (often referred to mononymously by her stage name ''Giselle''), is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter. Born in Miami, Florida, and based out of New York City, she is most known for her work on season 5 of Louis C.K.'s FX series ' ...
*Alec Benjamin
*Samm Bennett
*Dierks Bentley
*Matraca Berg
*Dan Bern
*Beyoncé
*Jim Bianco
*Eric Bibb
*Diane Birch
*Andrew Bird
*Tony Bird (singer-songwriter), Tony Bird
*Alyse Black
*Clint Black
*Black Francis, Frank Black
*Janet Blair (singer-songwriter), Janet Blair
*Norman Blake (American musician), Norman Blake
*David Blue (musician), David Blue
*Hugh Blumenfeld
*Suzy Bogguss
*Gordon Bok
*Michael Bowers
*Crystal Bowersox
*Ralston Bowles
*Soulja Boy
*Michelle Branch
*Jesse Brand
*Chuck Brodsky
*David Bromberg
*Holly Brook
*Jonatha Brooke
*Garth Brooks
*Chris Brown
*Greg Brown (folk musician), Greg Brown
*Jackson Browne
*Peabo Bryson
*Jeff Buckley
*Tim Buckley
*T-Bone Burnett
*Jonathan Byrd (musician), Jonathan Byrd
C–D
*Colbie Caillat
*J.J. Cale
*Andrew Calhoun
*Terry Callier
*Glen Campbell
*Kate Campbell
*Laura Cantrell
*Mariah Carey
*Brandi Carlile
*Hayes Carll
*Vanessa Carlton
*Craig Carothers
*Mary Chapin Carpenter
*Adam Carroll (American musician), Adam Carroll
*Dee Carstensen
*Dave Carter
*June Carter
*Neko Case
*Peter Case
*Johnny Cash
*Rosanne Cash
*Harry Chapin
*Beth Nielsen Chapman
*Tracy Chapman
*Vic Chesnutt
*Frank Christian (singer-songwriter), Frank Christian
*Lou Christie
*Eric Church
*Ciara
*St. Vincent (musician), Annie Clark
*Gene Clark
*Kelly Clarkson
*Guy Clark
*Slaid Cleaves
*Anita Cochran
*Marc Cohn
*Paula Cole
*Judy Collins
*Lui Collins
*Shawn Colvin
*Harry Connick Jr.
*Connie Converse
*David Cook (singer), David Cook
*Sam Cooke
*Alice Cooper
*Chris Cornell
*Matt Costa
*Elizabeth Cotten
*Ingrid Croce
*Jim Croce
*Dash Crofts
*David Crosby
*Christopher Cross
*Mike Cross (musician), Mike Cross
*Sheryl Crow
*Rodney Crowell
*Bobbie Cryner
*Catie Curtis
*Chelsea Cutler
*Billy Ray Cyrus
*Miley Cyrus
*Noah Cyrus
*Vernon Dalhart
*Sean Danielsen
*Glenn Danzig
*Gail Davies
*Kimya Dawson
*Grey DeLisle
*Kris Delmhorst
*Lana Del Rey
*Rebekah Del Rio
*Iris DeMent
*Jason Derulo
*John Denver
*Neil Diamond
*Ani DiFranco
*Maria D'Luz
*Mike Doughty
*Gregory Douglass
*Connie Dover
*The-Dream
*Marshall Drew
*DW (Dave) Drouillard
*Bob Dylan
*Jakob Dylan
E–G
*Kate Earl
*Stacey Earle
*Justin Townes Earle
*Steve Earle
*Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
*Jonathan Edwards (musician), Jonathan Edwards
*Billie Eilish
*Mark Erelli
*Alejandro Escovedo
*Carmen Espinoza-Rodriquez
*Melissa Etheridge
*Richard Fariña
*Melissa Ferrick
*Roberta Flack
*Dan Fogelberg
*John Fogerty
*Ben Folds
*Keith Follesé
*Steve Forbert
*Jon Foreman
*Ruthie Foster
*Jeffrey Foucault
*Michael Fracasso
*Black Francis
*Jackson C. Frank
*Bob Franke
*Carole Fredericks
*Glenn Frey
*Dean Friedman
*Lefty Frizzell
*Lady Gaga
*Ken Gaines
*Noel Gallagher
*Annie Gallup
*Timothy Garon
*Mary Gauthier
*Marvin Gaye
*Teddy Geiger
*Natalie Gelman
*Daughn Gibson
*Vance Gilbert
*Vince Gill
*Dominique Gizelle
*Lotti Golden
*Gabrielle Goodman
*Steve Goodman
*Lesley Gore
*John Gorka
*Nick Granato
*Jackie Greene
*Patty Griffin
*Nanci Griffith
*Jenn Grinels
*Arlo Guthrie
*Sarah Lee Guthrie
*Woody Guthrie
*Gwendolyn (artist), Gwendolyn
H–J
*Merle Haggard
*Tom T. Hall
*Halsey (singer), Halsey
*Kristy Hanson
*Tim Hardin
*Jack Hardy (singer–songwriter), Jack Hardy
*Ben Harper
*Ciara Harris
*Emmylou Harris
*Jesse Harris
*Debbie Harry
*Beth Hart
*John Hartford
*Juliana Hatfield
*Richie Havens
*Ted Hawkins
*Hunter Hayes
*Jimi Hendrix
*Arin Hanson
*Terri Hendrix
*Don Henley
*Caroline Herring
*Ari Hest
*James Hetfield
*John Hiatt
*Sara Hickman
*Lauryn Hill
*Chris Hillman
*Anne Hills
*Keri Hilson
*Tyler Hilton
*Tish Hinojosa
*Will Hoge
*Malcolm Holcombe
*J. Holiday
*Cisco Houston
*Bob Howard (singer), Bob Howard
*Grayson Hugh
*Tim Hughes
*Sierra Hull
*Meg Hutchinson
*Walter Hyatt
*Janis Ian
*India.Arie
*James Ingram
*David Ippolito
*Allison Iraheta
*Iron & Wine
*Chris Isaak
*Gregory Alan Isakov
*Bon Iver
*Carl Jackson
*Janet Jackson
*Jermaine Jackson
*Michael Jackson
*Avi Jacob
*Nicky Jam
*Brendan James
*Sarah Jarosz
*Jaymay
*Nikki Jean
*Stephan Jenkins
*Mason Jennings
*Waylon Jennings
*Molly Jenson
*Justin Jesso
*Jewel (singer), Jewel
*Eilen Jewell
*Kari Jobe
*Billy Joel
*Jack Johnson (musician), Jack Johnson
*Jamey Johnson
*Freedy Johnston
*Joshua Scott Jones
*Norah Jones
*Sharon Jones (singer), Sharon Jones
*Montell Jordan
*Simon Joyner
*Gary Jules
*Tyler Joseph
K–L
*Si Kahn
*Kieran Kane
*Lucy Kaplansky
*Kashif (musician), Kashif
*Mat Kearney
*Robert Earl Keen
*Marianne Keith
*Toby Keith
*Kelis
*Malcolm David Kelley
*Ruston Kelly
*R. Kelly
*Tori Kelly
*Alicia Keys
*Monica Kim
*Carole King
*Charles E. King
*Claude King
*Elle King
*Sonya Kitchell
*Black Francis, Charles Michael Kittridge
*Hayley Kiyoko
*"Spider" John Koerner
*Matthew Koma
*Nikhil Korula
*Mark Kozelek
*Alison Krauss
*Kris Kristofferson
*Lenny Kravitz
*Ben Kweller
*Jimmy LaFave
*Miranda Lambert
*Ray LaMontagne
*Justin Lanning (musician), Justin Lanning
*Patty Larkin
*Jim Lauderdale
*Lauv
*Christine Lavin
*Scott Law
*Lead Belly
*Amos Lee
*Amy Lee
*Tom Lehrer
*Bethany Joy Lenz
*David Levin (singer), David Levin
*Blake Lewis
*Bob Lind
*Lisa Loeb
*Kenny Loggins
*Demi Lovato
*Laura Love
*Karen Lovely
*Lyle Lovett
*Lera Lynn
*Lazer Lloyd
M–N
*Rod MacDonald
*Dougie MacLean
*Bill Madden (musician), Bill Madden
*Martie Maguire
*Taj Mahal (musician), Taj Mahal
*Sananda Maitreya
*David Mallett
*Michelle Malone
*Melissa Manchester
*Barry Mann
*AmberRose Marie
*Teena Marie
*Bruno Mars
*Bob Martin (folk musician), Bob Martin
*Melanie Martinez (singer), Melanie Martinez
*Richard Marx
*Dana Mase
*Michael Masser
*Kathy Mattea
*Nanette Maxine
*Heather Maxwell
*John Mayer
*Curtis Mayfield
*Parker McCollum
*Jennette McCurdy
*Country Joe McDonald
*Reba McEntire
*Tim McGraw
*Roger McGuinn
*Nellie McKay
*Bonnie McKee
*Lori McKenna
*Erin McKeown
*Rod McKuen
*Don McLean
*James McMurtry
*Melanie Safka, Melanie
*Bridgit Mendler
*Idina Menzel
*Michael J. Merenda, Jr.
*Tift Merritt
*Pia Mia
*Julia Michaels
*Ingrid Michaelson
*Bea Miller
*Julie Miller
*Lin-Manuel Miranda
*Jim Messina (musician), Jim Messina
*Anaïs Mitchell
*Keb' Mo'
*Moby
*Janelle Monáe
*Ben Moody
*Mandy Moore
*Allison Moorer
*Gurf Morlix
*Bill Morrissey
*Jason Mraz
*Shawn Mullins
*Peter Mulvey
*Jimmy Murphy (musician), Jimmy Murphy
*Michael Martin Murphey
*Kacey Musgraves
*Anna Nalick
*Graham Nash
*Leigh Nash
*Nina Nastasia
*Matt Nathanson
*Holly Near
*Fred Neil
*Willie Nelson
* Ricky Nelson
*Jennifer Nettles
*Mickey Newbury
*Carrie Newcomer
*Randy Newman
*Joanna Newsom
*Stevie Nicks
*Britt Nicole
*Willie Nile
*Harry Nilsson
*Keri Noble
*Noname (rapper), Noname
*The Notorious B.I.G.
*Bradley Nowell
*Laura Nyro
O–R
*Conor Oberst
*Olivia O'Brien
*Tim O'Brien (musician), Tim O'Brien
*Phil Ochs
*Finneas O'Connell
*Aoife O'Donovan
*Will Oldham
*Tony Oller
*David Olney
*Johnny Otis
*Faith Page
*Jim Page (singer), Jim Page
*Brad Paisley
*Dolly Parton
*Ellis Paul
*Tom Paxton
*Johnny Paycheck
*Herb Pedersen
*Sarah Pedinotti
*Yolanda Pérez
*Katy Perry
*Pierce Pettis
*Madeleine Peyroux
*Liz Phair
*Kelly Joe Phelps
*Grant-Lee Phillips
*Sam Phillips (musician), Sam Phillips
*Shawn Phillips
*Utah Phillips
*Rod Picott
*Pitbull (entertainer), Pitbull
*Gene Pitney
*Doc Pomus
*Cassadee Pope
*Catherine Porter
*Willy Porter
*Mike Posner
*Grace Potter
*Elvis Presley
*Tristan Prettyman
*Dory Previn
*Toni Price
*Prince (musician), Prince
*John Prine
*Chuck Prophet
*Charlie Puth
*Top Quality
*Joshua Radin
*Bonnie Raitt
*Tony Ramey
*Willis Alan Ramsey
*Carmino Ravosa
*Otis Redding
*Ann Reed
*Lou Reed
*Bebe Rexha
*Trent Reznor
*Kim Richey
*Jonathan Richman
*Amy Rigby
*
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty ( ; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna auditioned for American record producer Evan Rogers who invited her to th ...
*Josh Ritter
*JT Roach
*Carson Robison
*Zack de la Rocha
*Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), Jimmie Rodgers
*Olivia Rodrigo
*Henry Rollins
*Dräco Rosa
*Raina Rose
*Emmy Rossum
*Josh Rouse
*David Rovics
*Peter Rowan
*Darius Rucker
*Todd Rundgren
*Tom Rush
*Tom Russell
S–T
*Rachael Sage
*Doug Sahm
*Richie Sambora
*Martha Scanlan
*Marc Scibilia
*Darrell Scott
*Dan Seals
*Jim Seals
*John Sebastian
*Pebe Sebert
*Neil Sedaka
*Pete Seeger
*Martin Sexton
*Tupac Shakur
*Maia Sharp
*Billy Joe Shaver
*Jules Shear
*Duncan Sheik
*Blake Shelton
*Vonda Shepard
*Richard Shindell
*Michelle Shocked
*Paul Siebel
*Paul Simon
*Nina Simone
*Matt Simons
*Sisqó
*Ricky Skaggs
*Patrick Sky
*Megan Slankard
*P. F. Sloan
*Sasha Alex Sloan
*Darden Smith
*Elliott Smith
*Michael Peter Smith, Michael Smith
*Patti Smith
*Willow Smith
*Chris Smither
*Todd Snider
*Phoebe Snow
*Jill Sobule
*Ben Sollee
*Trey Songz
*Jo-El Sonnier
*
Soraya
Soraya ( fa, ثریا) is a feminine Persian name. It is derived from the Arabic name for the Pleiades star cluster, ''Thurayya'' ( ar, ثريّة). The name is also popular in Europe due to its association with Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, ...
*Regina Spektor
*Aaron Sprinkle
*Bill Staines
*Chris Stapleton
*David Steinhart
*Colin Stetson
*Sufjan Stevens
*John Stewart (folk musician), John Stewart
*Wynn Stewart
*Stephen Stills
*Maria Straub
*Marty Stuart
*Patrick Stump
*Alison Sudol
*Gene Summers
*Taylor Swift
*Raven-Symoné
*SZA (singer), SZA
*Corey Taylor
*Eric Taylor (American musician), Eric Taylor
*James Taylor
*Livingston Taylor
*Louise Taylor (singer), Louise Taylor
*Ryan Tedder
*Jack Tempchin
*Chloe Temtchine
*Vienna Teng
*Chris Thile
*Robin Thicke
*Bryson Tiller
*Justin Timberlake
*Rob Thomas (musician), Rob Thomas
*Chris Tomlin
*Meghan Trainor
*Alex Turner
*
Shania Twain
Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain ( , ; née Edwards; born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 100 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in country music history and one of the best-s ...
*Steven Tyler
U–Z
*Usher (musician), Usher
*Grace VanderWaal
*Guy Van Duser
*Dave Van Ronk
*Townes Van Zandt
*Phil Vassar
*Vassy (singer), Vassy
*Stoll Vaughan
*Suzanne Vega
*Laura Veirs
*Justin Vernon
*John Vesely
*Jack Vidgen
*Rhonda Vincent
*Eric Von Schmidt
*Rocky Votolato
*Loudon Wainwright III
*Sloan Wainwright
*Tom Waits
*Butch Walker
*Jerry Jeff Walker
*Summer Walker
*M. Ward
*Linda Waterfall
*Doc Watson
*Lil Wayne
*Gillian Welch
*Kevin Welch
*Susan Werner
*Matt Wertz
*Tierra Whack
*Cheryl Wheeler
*Erica Wheeler (singer-songwriter), Erica Wheeler
*Brooke White
*Jack White
*Josh White
*Maurice White
*Chris Whitley
*David Wilcox (American musician), David Wilcox
*Brooks Williams
*Dar Williams
*Don Williams
*Geoffrey Williams
*Hank Williams
*Hank Williams Jr.
*Keller Williams
*Lucinda Williams
*Pharrell Williams
*Victoria Williams
*Cris Williamson
*Gretchen Wilson
*Jesse Winchester
*Cody Wise
*Bill Withers
*Denison Witmer
*Jim Wolf (musician), Jim Wolf
*Kate Wolf
*Bobby Womack
*Bill Wurtz
*Juliet Wyers
*Rachael Yamagata
*Dwight Yoakam
*Jesse Colin Young
*
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fu ...
*Steve Young (musician), Steve Young
*Frank Zappa
*Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn
*Steven Zelin
*Warren Zevon
*Jeremy Zucker
*Natalia Zukerman
Venezuela
*Mirla Castellanos
*
Ilan Chester
*Guillermo Dávila
*Ricardo Montaner
*José Luis Rodríguez (singer), Jose Luis Rodriguez
*Aldemaro Romero
*Franco De Vita
Others who both write songs and sing
Following are performers who are not singer-songwriters in the traditional sense, but who both write and perform songs in other genres. This includes artists known more prominently as members of bands and not primarily as soloists.
Australia
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Tina Arena
Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena (born 1 November 1967) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest-selling artists and has sold over 10 million records worldwid ...
*
Sia
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler ( ; born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Adelaide, she started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she rel ...
*Iggy Azalea
*John Butler (musician), John Butler
*Kasey Chambers
*Michael Hutchence
*Daniel Johns
*
Jessica Mauboy
*Anne McCue
*Kylie Minogue
*Bon Scott
*
Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian (born 26 October 1981) is an Australian singer and songwriter who was the winner of the first ''Australian Idol'' in 2003, judge on Australia's ''The X Factor'' from 2010 to 2012 and again from 2015 to 2016, and coach ...
*Cody Simpson
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Rob Swire
Robert Swire-Thompson (born 5 November 1982) is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ, best known as the founder and vocalist of the drum and bass
and electronic rock band Pendulum, as well as DJ and co-founder of ...
*Angus and Julia Stone
Bosnia And Herzegovina
*Dino Merlin
Canada
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Bryan Adams
Bryan Guy Adams (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and photographer. He has been cited as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and is estimated to have sold between 75 million and mor ...
*Melissa Auf der Maur
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Justin Bieber
Justin Drew Bieber ( ; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer. Bieber is recognized for his genre-melding musicianship and has played an influential role in modern-day popular music. He was discovered by American record executive Scooter ...
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Matthew Good
Matthew Frederick Robert Good (born June 29, 1971) is a Canadian musician. He was the lead singer and songwriter for the Matthew Good Band, one of the most successful alternative rock bands in Canada during the 1990s and early 2000s. Since the ...
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Alexz Johnson
Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian musician, actress, and philanthropist. Her debut album ''Voodoo'' was independently released with her brother Brendan Johnson in 2010, followed by the demo release of ''The Basem ...
*Daniel Lanois
*James LaBrie
*Geddy Lee
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Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1 ...
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Shawn Mendes
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes (; born August 8, 1998) is a Canadian pop singer. He gained a following in 2013, when he posted song covers on the video sharing platform Vine. The following year, he caught the attention of artist manager Andrew Gert ...
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Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two ...
*Alannah Myles
*Carl Newman
*Aldo Nova
*Robbie Robertson
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Indigenous Canadian-American (Piapot Cree Nation) singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. While working in these ar ...
*Skye Sweetnam
*David Usher
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Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fu ...
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Alessia Cara
Alessia Caracciolo (born July 11, 1996), known professionally as Alessia Cara (), is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Born in Mississauga, Ontario, to Italian Canadian parents, she began posting covers of songs on YouTube at age 13. After uploadi ...
Chile
*Tom Araya
Croatia
*Darko Rundek
*Zlatan Stipišić Gibonni
*Branimir Štulić
China
*Zhang Yixing
Denmark
* Alberte
* Sys Bjerre
* Maggie Björklund
* Burhan G
* Erika de Casier
* Tim Christensen
* Coco O.
* Anna David (singer), Anna David
* Dicte (musician), Dicte
* Aura Dione
* Fallulah
* Lukas Forchhammer
* Emmelie de Forest
* Troels Gustavsen
* Hugo Helmig
* Thomas Helmig
* Caroline Henderson (singer), Caroline Henderson
* Hjalmar
* Thomas Holm
* Lars H.U.G.
* Karen Jønsson
* King Diamond
* Jeppe Laursen
* Sebastian Lind
* Kwamie Liv
* Simon Kvamm
* Medina
* Joey Moe
* Myrkur
* MØ
* Oh Land
* Agnes Obel
* Jascha Richter
* Pernille Rosendahl
* Natasja Saad
* Søren Sko
* Kira Skov
* Mike Tramp
* Sune Rose Wagner
* Rasmus Walter
* Tue West
* Karl William
* Xander
Finland
* Jouni Hynynen
* Jyrki 69
* Andy McCoy
* Timo Rautiainen (musician), Timo Rautiainen
* Gösta Sundqvist
* Timo Tolkki
* Ville Valo
* Toni Wirtanen
* Lauri Ylonen
France
* Bernard Bonvoisin
* Étienne Daho
* Zazie
Germany
*Udo Dirkschneider
*Max Koffler
*Klaus Meine
Hong Kong
*George Lam
Iceland
*Bjork
India
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Babbu Maan
Tejinder Singh "Babbu" Maan (born 29 March 1975) is an Indian singer-songwriter, music director, actor and film producer. Most of his artistic work focuses on Punjabi music and films. He is recognised as being among the biggest artists in Punj ...
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A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer and songwriter, popular for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in int ...
Ireland
*
Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono (), is an Irish singer-songwriter, activist, and philanthropist. He is the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band U2.
Born and raised in Dublin, he attended ...
*Enya
*Órla Fallon
*Lynn Hilary
*
Niall Horan
Niall James Horan ( ; born 13 September 1993) is an Irish singer-songwriter. He rose to prominence as a member of the boy band One Direction, formed in 2010 on the singing competition '' The X Factor''. The group released five albums and went ...
Italy
*
Stefano Righi
Stefano Righi (born 9 September 1960), known professionally as Johnson Righeira, is an Italian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the Italo disco duo Righeira. Af ...
* Zucchero
Japan
*Aimer
*Mao Abe
*Aiko (singer), Aiko
*Angela Aki
*Yuko Ando (singer), Yūko Andō
*Chara (singer), Chara
*Cocco
*CooRie
*Joe Inoue
*Kurumi Enomoto
*Masaharu Fukuyama
*Gackt
*Ayumi Hamasaki
*Motohiro Hata
*Megumi Hinata
*Ken Hirai
*Mayumi Horikawa
*Hyde (musician), Hyde
*Leo Ieiri
*Mari Iijima
*Koshi Inaba
*Yōsui Inoue
*Shigeru Izumiya
*Ai Kawashima
*Hiroshi Kitadani
*Kokia (singer), Kokia
*Kotringo
*Koda Kumi
*Mai Kuraki
*Keisuke Kuwata
*Masato Hayakawa
*Olivia Lufkin
*Noriyuki Makihara
*Yumi Matsutoya
*Miwa (singer), Miwa
*Yui Mizuno
*Showtaro Morikubo
*Miyuki Nakajima
*Yuto Nakajima
*Uri Nakayama
*Haru Nemuri
*Sakurako Ohara
*Tamio Okuda
*Chihiro Onitsuka
*Ai Otsuka
*Yuki Saito (actress), Yuki Saito
*Maaya Sakamoto
*Jun Shibata
*Ringo Sheena, Ringo Shiina
*Akiko Shikata
*SoulJa (rapper), SoulJa
*Shikao Suga
*Yuya Takaki
*Yukihide Takekawa
*Mariya Takeuchi
*Hikaru Utada
*Hitomi Yaida
*Etsuko Yakushimaru
*Maria Yamamoto
*Tatsuro Yamashita
*Takuro Yoshida
*Yui (singer), Yui
Malaysia
*Yuna (singer), Yuna
New Zealand
*Liam Finn
*Neil Finn
*Tim Finn
*Lorde
*Jamie McDell
*Bic Runga
*Hollie Smith
*Stan Walker
*Hayley Westenra
Nigeria
*Muma Gee
*Niyola
*Waje
Pakistan
*Ali Baba Khan
*Bilal Saeed
*Salman Ahmad
*Ali Azmat
*Zeek Afridi
*Humaira Arshad
*Nadia Ali (singer), Nadia Ali
*Atif Aslam
*Iqbal Bano
*Sara Haider
*Komal Rizvi
*Haroon (singer), Haroon
*Mehdi Hassan
*Ahmed Jahanzeb
*Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
*Ali Zafar
Philippines
*Dong Abay
*Freddie Aguilar
*Ogie Alcasid
*Cynthia Alexander
*Barbie Almalbis
*Joey Ayala
*Christian Bautista
*Rico Blanco
*Ely Buendia
*Jose Mari Chan
*Charice (Jake Zyrus)
*Yeng Constantino
*Billy Joe Crawford
*Sharon Cuneta
*Jay Durias
*Eraserheads
*Pops Fernandez
*Sarah Geronimo
*Janno Gibbs
*Rachelle Ann Go
*Kyla (Filipino singer), Kyla
*Bamboo Mañalac
*Maine Mendoza
*Chito Miranda
*Morissette (singer), Morissette
*Kitchie Nadal
*Martin Nievera
*Nina Girado, Nina
*Kylie Padilla
*Gary Valenciano
*Princess Velasco
*Regine Velasquez
*Yael Yuzon
Romania
* Alexandra Stan
Serbia
*Momčilo Bajagić
*Đorđe Balašević
*Zvonko Bogdan
*Dejan Cukić
*Nikola Čuturilo
*Vlada Divljan
*Bebi Dol
*Bora Đorđević
*Van Gogh (band), Zvonimir Đukić Đule
*Garavi Sokak, Bane Krstić
*Kiki Lesendrić
*Srđan Marjanović
*Slađana Milošević
*Milan Mladenović
*S Vremena Na Vreme, Ljuba Ninković
*Madame Piano
*Ana Popović
*Toma Zdravković
*Predrag Živković Tozovac
Singapore
* Tanya Chua
* JJ Lin
* Stefanie Sun
South Africa
* Cristina Boshoff
* Don Clarke
* Johnny Clegg
* Anton Goosen
* David Kramer (singer), David Kramer
* Shekhinah (singer)
* Tellaman
* Karen Zoid
South Korea
* Ailee
* Bang Yong-guk, Bang Yongguk
* BoA
* Cho Yong-pil
* Im Chang-jung
* Jung Jin-young (singer), Jun Jinyoung
* Jung Yong-hwa, Jung Yonghwa
* Kang Seung-yoon, Kang Seungyoon
* Bang Chan
* Kangta
* Kim C
* Kim Dong-ryool
* Moon Hee-jun
* Kim Jong-seo (musician), Kim Jong-seo
* Kim Kwang-Seok
* Kim Jaejoong
* Kim Junsu
* Kim Sa-rang (singer), Kim Sa-rang
* Lee Jonghyun
* Lee Juck
* MC Sniper
* The One (singer), The One
* Park Hyo-shin
* Rain (entertainer), Rain
* Seo Taiji
* Shin Hae Chul
* Shin Seung Hun
* Tablo
* Wheesung
* Yeeun, Park Yeeun
* Yoon Jong-shin
* Yoo Hee-Yeol
*RM (rapper)
*Kim Seok-jin, Jin
*Suga (rapper), Suga
*J-Hope
*Jimin (singer, born 1995), Jimin
*V (singer), V
*Jungkook
*G-Dragon
*T.O.P
*Young K
*Jae Park
*JB (South Korean Singer)
*B.I (rapper)
*Bobby (rapper)
*Zico (rapper)
*Jeon So-yeon
*Hui (singer)
*Bumzu
*Kang Seung-yoon
*Mino (rapper)
*Park Kyung
*LE (rapper)
*Chaeyoung
*Elkie Chong
*Lee Tae-yong
*Mark Lee (singer)
*Na Jaemin
*Onew
*Kim Jong-hyun (singer)
*Key (entertainer)
*Choi Min-ho
*Lee Tae-min
*Joohoney
*Wonho (singer)
*Solar (singer)
*Moonbyul
*Wheein
*Hwasa
*Chungha
*Park Jin-young
*Jessi (musician)
*PSY
*IU (singer)
*Eric Nam
*Chanyeol
*Suho
*Baekhyun
*Chen (singer)
*Sehun (singer)
*Taecyeon
*Jun.K
*Wooyoung
*Nichkhun
*Lee Jun-ho (singer)
*Chansung
*Amber Liu (singer)
*Dami Im
*Hyuna
*Henry Lau, Henry Lau (singer)
Sweden
*Agnetha Fältskog
*Icona Pop, Caroline Hjelt
*Icona Pop, Aino Jawo
*Tove Lo
Taiwan
* Chang Yu-sheng
* Chang Chen-yue
* Lala Hsu
* Eve Ai
* Enno Cheng
* Cheer Chen
* David Tao
* Evan Yo
* A-Lin
* Jay Chou
* Kenji Wu
* Deserts Chang
* Chih Siou
* Ella Chen
* Hebe Tien
* Selina Jen
* Leehom Wang
* Jolin Tsai
* Crowd Lu
* Tank (Taiwanese singer), Tank
* Will Pan
* Wu Tsing-fong
* MC HotDog
* Yoga Lin
* Vivian Hsu
* Sun Sheng Xi
* Lo Ta-yu
* Phil Chang
* Ashin
* OSN (rapper), OSN
* Gary Chaw
* ØZI
* Nick Chou
* Eric Chou
Turkey
* Sezen Aksu
* Mazhar Alanson
* Kenan Doğulu
* Orhan Gencebay
* İlhan İrem
* Kayahan
* Barış Manço
* Bülent Ortaçgil
* Nazan Öncel
* Münir Nurettin Selçuk
* Tarkan (singer), Tarkan
* Yıldız Tilbe
Ukraine
* Natalie Gioia
United Kingdom
A–L
* Sade (singer), Sade Adu
* Damon Albarn
* Marc Almond
* Ian Anderson (musician), Ian Anderson
* Jon Anderson
* Badly Drawn Boy, Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough)
* Gary Barlow
* Syd Barrett
* Julian Barry
* Blaze Bayley
* Natasha Bedingfield
* Nick Beggs
* Adrian Belew
* Amelle Berrabah
* James Blunt
* Betty Boo
* David Bowie
* Sarah Brightman
* Keisha Buchanan
* Mutya Buena
* Jake Bugg
* Kate Bush
* Biff Byford
* Katy Carr
* Eric Clapton
* Phil Collins
* Tulisa Contostavlos
* Elvis Costello
* David Coverdale
* Charli XCX
* Charlotte Gordon Cumming
* Dappy
* Ray Davies
* Cathy Dennis
* Marina Lambrini Diamandis
* Paul Di'Anno
* Bruce Dickinson
* Pete Doherty
* Donovan
* Stephen Duffy
* Joe Elliott
* Marianne Faithfull
* Peter Gabriel
* Liam Gallagher
* Noel Gallagher
* Barry Gibb
* Maurice Gibb
* Robin Gibb
* Ian Gillan
* David Gilmour
* Gary Glitter
* Ellie Goulding
* David Gray (musician), David Gray
* Gregory Gray
* Matt Hales
* Rob Halford
* Pete Ham
* Peter Hammill
* Calvin Harris
* George Harrison
* Justin Hawkins
* Justin Hayward
* Imogen Heap
* Mick Hucknall
* Ian Hunter (singer), Ian Hunter
* Jessie J
* Joe Jackson (musician), Joe Jackson
* Mick Jagger
* Jem (singer), Jem
* Elton John
* Brian Johnson (musician), Brian Johnson
* Matt Johnson (singer), Matt Johnson
* Mick Jones (The Clash), Mick Jones
* Nik Kershaw
* Jim King (saxophonist), Jim King
* David Knopfler
* Mark Knopfler
* Greg Lake
* Simon Le Bon
* Lemmy Kilmister, Lemmy
* John Lennon
* Leona Lewis
* Gary Lightbody
* Limahl
* Dua Lipa
* Cher Lloyd
* Nick Lowe
* Jeff Lynne
M–Z
* Paddy McAloon
* Paul McCartney
* Christine McVie
* Shirley Manson
* Zayn Malik
* Steve Marriott
* Brian May
* Freddie Mercury
* George Michael
* Morrissey
* Kate Nash
* Simon Neil
* John Newman (singer), John Newman
* Jim Noir
* Richard O'Brien
* Rita Ora
* John Otway
* Bill Owen (actor), Bill Owen
* Mark Owen
* Ozzy Osbourne
* John Payne (singer), John Payne
* Liam Payne
* Robert Plant
* Steve Plunkett, Plunkett
* Heidi Range
* Keith Relf
* Tim Rice
* Keith Richards
* Gavin Rossdale
* Graham Russell
* Emeli Sandé
* Sam Smith (singer), Sam Smith
* Ringo Starr
* Al Stewart
* Rod Stewart
* Sting (musician), Sting
* Joss Stone
* Joe Strummer
* Harry Styles
* Jeremy Taylor (singer), Jeremy Taylor
* Roger Taylor (Queen drummer), Roger Taylor
* David Tibet
* Louis Tomlinson
* Alex Turner (musician), Alex Turner
* Tom Vek
* Roger Waters
* Florence + the Machine, Florence Welch
* Paul Weller (singer), Paul Weller
* John Wetton
* Kim Wilde
* Roy Wood
* Richard Wright (musician), Richard Wright
* Thom Yorke
* Will Young
United States
A–E
*50 Cent
*Ryan Adams
*Christina Aguilera
*Priscilla Ahn
*Ray Alder
*Nadia Ali (singer), Nadia Ali
*Gregg Allman
*Dave Alvin
*Trey Anastasio
*Ken Andrews
*Michael Andrews (musician), Michael Andrews
*John Arch
*David Archuleta
*Billie Joe Armstrong
*Louis Armstrong
*Dan Auerbach
*Gene Autry
*Francesca Battistelli
*Beck
*Walter Becker
*Joey Belladonna
*Chuck Berry
*Dickey Betts
*Beyoncé
*Larry Blackmon
*Karl Blau
*Michael Bolton
*Jon Bon Jovi
*Olivia Bonilla
*Ralston Bowles
*Brandon Boyd
*Garth Brooks
*Jackson Browne
*Peabo Bryson
*Lindsey Buckingham
*Benjamin Burnley
*Glen Burtnik
*John Bush (musician), John Bush
*Paul Butterfield
*Sarah Buxton
*David Byrne (musician), David Byrne
*Ryan Cabrera
*Jerry Cantrell
*Mariah Carey
*Eric Carmen
*Chris Carrabba
*Peter Cetera
*Bill Champlin
*Tracy Chapman
*Cher
*Gary Cherone
*Peter Cincotti
*Guy Clark
*Kelly Clarkson
*Roger Clyne
*Kurt Cobain
*Fred Cole (musician), Fred Cole
*Lisa Coleman (musician), Lisa Coleman
*Billy Corgan
*Chris Cornell
*Jonathan Coulton
*Dash Crofts
*Robert Cray
*Peter Criss
*Kevin Cronin
*David Crosby
*Sheryl Crow
*Rivers Cuomo
*John Curulewski
*Miley Cyrus
*Terence Trent D'Arby
*Jonathan Davis
*Howie Day
*Tom DeLonge
*John Denver
*Dennis DeYoung
*Neil Diamond
*Bo Diddley
*Ronnie James Dio
*Dion DiMucci
*Willie Dixon
*Don Dokken
*David Draiman
*Haylie Duff
*Hilary Duff
*Sean Duffy
*Fred Durst
*Bob Dylan
*Jakob Dylan
*Danny Elfman
*Eminem
*Ace Enders
*Gloria Estefan
F–K
*Donald Fagen
*Don Felder
*Fergie (singer), Fergie
*William Fitzsimmons (musician), William Fitzsimmons
*John Flansburgh
*Brandon Flowers
*John Fogerty
*Dan Fogleberg
*Ben Folds
*Ace Frehley
*Glenn Frey
*John Frusciante
*Vic Fuentes
*Becky G
*Lady Gaga
*David Gates (singer), David Gates
*Gloria Gaynor
*Barry Gibb
*Maurice Gibb
*Robin Gibb
*Benjamin Gibbard
*Billy Gibbons
*Eliza Gilkyson
*Selena Gomez
*Ariana Grande
*Hank Green
*Jeremy Gregory
*Christina Grimmie
*Dave Grohl
*Buddy Guy
*Sammy Hagar
*Daryl Hall
*Jessica Harp
*Ben Harper
*Mary Harris (musician), Mary Harris
*Deborah Harry
*Sophie B. Hawkins
*Angel Haze
*Mark Heard
*Levon Helm
*Logan Henderson
*Jimi Hendrix
*Don Henley
*James Hetfield
*Buddy Holly
*Mark Hoppus
*Robert Hunter (lyricist), Robert Hunter
*James Ingram
*Alan Jackson
*Janet Jackson
*Michael Jackson
*Jay-Z
*Stephan Jenkins
*Robert Johnson (musician), Robert Johnson
*JoJo (singer), JoJo
*Joe Jonas
*Kevin Jonas
*Nick Jonas
*Rickie Lee Jones
*Janis Joplin
*Tyler Joseph
*Maynard James Keenan
*R. Kelly
*Gene Kelton, Mean Gene Kelton
*Eddie Kendricks
*Kenna
*Doug Kershaw
*Kesha
*Alicia Keys
*Thurane Aung Khin
*Anthony Kiedis
*Bobby Kimball
*B.B. King
L–N
* Adam Lambert
* Ray LaMontagne
* Mark Lanegan
* Cyndi Lauper
* Bernie Leadon
* Bethany Joy Lenz
* Jared Leto
* Adam Levine
* Aaron Lewis (musician), Aaron Lewis
* Philip Lindholm
* John Linnell
* Lisa Loeb
* Kenny Loggins
* Lindsay Lohan
* Mazz, Joe Lopez
* Demi Lovato
* Courtney Love
* Lyle Lovett
* Ross Lynch
* Loretta Lynn
* Benji Madden
* Joel Madden
* Madonna
* Kaitlyn Maher
* Jeff Mangum
* Barry Manilow
* Aimee Mann
* Marilyn Manson
*
Marce
* Anthony Marinelli
* Cat Power, Chan Marshall
* Richard Marx
* James Maslow
* Dave Matthews
* John Mayer (musician), John Mayer
* Edwin McCain
* Jesse McCartney
* Michael McDonald (singer), Michael McDonald
* Jon McLaughlin (musician), Jon McLaughlin
* Katharine McPhee
* Travis Meeks
* Randy Meisner
* John Mellencamp
* Wendy Melvoin
* Natalie Merchant
* Stephin Merritt
* AJ Michalka
* Aly Michalka
* Rhett Miller
* Roger Miller
* Steve Miller (musician), Steve Miller
* Nicki Minaj
* Freddy Moore
* Jim Morrison
* Chuck Mosley
* Elliott Murphy
* Dave Mustaine
* Frank J. Myers
* Faheem Najm
* Nelly
* Dan Nelson
* Michael Nesmith
* Mike Ness
* Randy Newman
* Ne-Yo
* Stevie Nicks
* Keri Noble
* The Notorious B.I.G.
* Justin Nozuka
* Ted Nugent
O–Z
*John Oates
*Ric Ocasek
*Roy Orbison
*Joan Osborne
*Buck Owens
*David Paich
*Mike Patton
*Carlos Pena, Jr.
*CeCe Peniston
*Christina Perri
*Katy Perry
*Linda Perry
*Steve Perry (Oregon musician), Steve Perry
*Tom Petty
*Glen Phillips (singer), Glen Phillips
*Pink (singer), Pink
*Dave Pirner
*Rachel Platten
*Jimmy Pop
*John Popper
*Poppy (entertainer), Poppy
*Grace Potter
*Prince (musician), Prince
*John Prine
*Chuck Prophet
*Eddie Rabbitt
*Rakim
*Twiggy Ramirez
*Redfoo
*Haley Reinhart
*Bebe Rexha
*Trent Reznor
*Lionel Richie
*Johnny Rivers
*Smokey Robinson
*Zack de la Rocha
*Sixto Rodriguez
*Kenny Rogers
*Ed Roland
*Axl Rose
*David Lee Roth
*Todd Rundgren
*Leon Russell
*John Rzeznik
*Kendall Schmidt
*Timothy B. Schmit
*Big Sean
*
Drew Seeley
Andrew Michael Edgar Seeley (born April 30, 1982) is a Canadian actor, singer, songwriter and dancer. He has recorded many songs for the Walt Disney Company. He danced as a child in Ontario until he was about preteen age and then moved to Florida ...
*Bob Seger
*Selena
*Norfolk & Western (band), Adam Selzer
*Tommy Shaw
*Weinland (band), Adam Shearer
*Duncan Sheik
*Shwayze
*Gene Simmons
*Paul Simon
*Ashlee Simpson
*Helen Slater
*Kathy Sledge
*Michael W. Smith
*Dee Snider
*J.D. Souther
*Britney Spears
*Bruce Springsteen
*Layne Staley
*James Lee Stanley
*Paul Stanley
*Scott Stapp
*Jeffree Star
*Gwen Stefani
*Stephen Stills
*Barbra Streisand
*Bruce Sudano
*Rebecca Sugar
*Donna Summer
*Gene Summers
*Matthew Sweet
*Michael Sweet
*Taylor Swift
*James Taylor
*Courtney Taylor-Taylor
*Rob Thomas (musician), Rob Thomas
*Justin Timberlake
*Ashley Tisdale
*Mark Tornillo
*Meghan Trainor
*Roger Troutman
*Joe Lynn Turner
*Jeff Tweedy
*Conway Twitty
*Steven Tyler
*Carrie Underwood
*Dave Van Ronk
*Eddie Vedder
*Kate Voegele
*Tom Waits
*Joe Walsh
*Crystal Waters
*Kanye West
*Paul Westerberg
*Brooke White
*Jack White
*Maurice White
*will.i.am
*Hayley Williams
*Joseph Williams (musician), Joseph Williams
*Paul Williams (songwriter), Paul Williams
*Ann Wilson
*Brian Wilson
*Nancy Wilson (rock musician), Nancy Wilson
*Kip Winger
*Stevie Wonder
*"Weird Al" Yankovic
*Doug Yoel
*James Young (American musician), James Young
*Steven Van Zandt
*Donnie Van Zant
*Johnny Van Zant
*Ronnie Van Zant
*Frank Zappa
*Zendaya
*Rob Zombie
Uruguay
*Pablo Sciuto
Venezuela
*
Ilan Chester
*Guillermo Dávila
*Aldemaro Romero
*Franco De Vita
Vietnam
*Sơn Tùng M-TP
*
Wales
* Michael Jones (Welsh-French musician), Michael Jones
* Matthew Tuck
See also
* Lists of musicians
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Lists of singers, *Singer-songwriters
Singer-songwriters, *List of singer-songwriters