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pianistA pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
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popPop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs...
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rock musicRock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music....
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- Tori Amos
Tori Amos is a pianist and singer-songwriter of American citizenship. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
- Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter. She gained popularity through her 1996 album Tidal, especially with the single "Criminal" and its music video. Her music is influenced by everything from early jazz, pop, to alt-rock...
- Aslyn
Aslyn is a pop singer and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. She has released two full-length albums, Lemon Love and The Dandelion Sessions, as well as a 4-disc EP. She is also the sister of three members of the band Georgia.- Early years :...
- Bryce Avary (The Rocket Summer
The Rocket Summer is the rock solo-project of Bryce Avary who is based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Avary plays every instrument on his records as well as produces them.-Overview:...
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- Benny Andersson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...
- Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn , is a Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has been involved in many high profile projects and collaborations throughout his career...
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead vocalist, chief songwriter and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and sings for garage rock band Foxboro Hot Tubs...
(Green DayGreen Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tré Cool for the majority of its existence....
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- Tony Banks
Anthony George "Tony" Banks is an English composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...
- Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and producer. He is a member of the pop group Take That and was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1990s, penning no fewer than 16 hit singles during the decade. Barlow had two No. 1 hits and five other top 40 UK singles as a solo...
- Matthew Bellamy
Matthew James Bellamy is an English musician and composer, who is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist of the rock band Muse.-Biography:...
- Steve Barakatt
Steve Barakatt is a composer/producer/pianist/singer.- Discography :*Double-Joie *Audace/Audacity *Escape *Steve Barakatt Live *Quebec...
- Sara Bareilles
Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. Bareilles' vocal range registers from contralto to mezzo-soprano.-Early life and...
- Mark Birnbaum
Mark Birnbaum is an American pianist and New York City fashion plate, known for his ragtime recordings and his plumed top hat....
- Jim Brickman
Jim Brickman is an American songwriter and pianist. He has been named the most charted male Adult Contemporary artist to date, with six of his albums receiving Gold and Platinum status. He is known for his solo piano compositions, pop-style instrumentals, and vocal collaborations with artists...
- Roy Bittan
Roy Bittan is an American keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974...
- John Bundrick
John Douglas "Rabbit" Bundrick is a prominent American-born rock keyboardist, pianist, and organist, having played on albums by The Who, Eric Burdon, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Roger Waters, Free, and Crawler, among several others...
- Terry Burrus
Terrance Corley Burrus is an American keyboardist and composer.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started touring as a teenager playing with jazz fusion violinist Michał Urbaniak, singer Jean Carne, while still in High school in New York...
- Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years. Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by...
- David Bryan
David Bryan is the keyboard player of the band Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song "In These Arms", one of a handful of Bon Jovi songs credited to him.-Early life:Bryan began to learn piano at age seven...
- Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Cain is an American musician, most known for his keyboards and songwriting roles in the rock band, Journey.-Early life:...
- Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American soft rock/pop singer, songwriter, and pianist. She is best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody, which was released April 30, 2002, and certified platinum in the U.S.Carlton's second album, Harmonium , debuted at number 33...
- Jo Ann Castle
Jo Ann Castle is a noted ragtime pianist. She adopted the stage name "Castle" from a type of accordion, another instrument she played with great proficiency...
- Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles...
- Richard Clayderman
Richard Clayderman is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the original compositions by Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie sound tracks, ethnic music, and easy-listening arrangements of most popular...
- Nat "King" Cole
- Russ Conway
Russ Conway , was a popular music pianist. Conway's piano instrumentals dominated the UK Singles Chart during 1959, including two number one hits.-Career:...
- Allison Crowe
Allison Louise Crowe is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia who now also lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, communities spanning the breadth of Canada. Crowe records on her own record label, Rubenesque Records Ltd...
- Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards...
- Kevin Cronin
Kevin Cronin is the lead vocalist/ rhythm guitarist/ occasional pianist for the American rock band, REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon had two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 written by Cronin, "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling"...
- Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and drummer.-Biography:Cullum was born at Romford Hospital in Essex. He was brought up in Hullavington, Wiltshire. Educated at the independent fee-paying Grittleton House School and the sixth form at Sheldon School...
- Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He brought a soulful sound to country music and pop standards through his Modern Sounds recordings, as well as a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of...
- Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus is an American pop-rock singer and television and film actress. Cyrus is best known for starring as the title character in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Following the success of Hannah Montana, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs...
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- Rick Davies
Rick Davies is an English-American musician, who is a co-founder and a member of the rock band Supertramp....
- Lynsey De Paul
Lynsey de Paul is an English singer-songwriter. Allmusic journalist, Craig Harris states, "one of the first successful female singer-songwriters in England, de Paul has had an illustrious career".-Life and career:De Paul was born to Meta and Herbert Rubin, a property developer...
- Gavin DeGraw
Gavin Shane DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is probably most well-known for his songs "Chariot", "I Don't Want to Be", which is featured as the theme song for the TV drama One Tree Hill, and "In Love with a Girl".-Early life:DeGraw grew up in the Catskills, in South...
- Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his haunting, acoustic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, although he was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
- Raúl di Blasio
Raúl di Blasio , is an Argentine pianist.- Life :Raúl Di Blasio showed a great interest in piano at the age of six...
- Dennis DeYoung
Dennis DeYoung is an American singer, songwriter, musician and producer best known for being a founding member of the rock band Styx, a tenure which lasted from 1970 to 1999.-Early life:...
- Karishmeh Felfeli
Karishmeh Felfeli is a radio broadcaster, pianist, vocalist and presenter of Offbeat, a critically acclaimed classical music radio program for Dublin City FM....
- Johnny Fingers
Johnnie Fingers is a pop pianist, and was a founding member of the new wave band, The Boomtown Rats. He was notable for his stage costume of striped pyjamas as well as his melodic piano style....
- Tom Fletcher
Thomas Michael "Tom" Fletcher is one of the lead vocalists, guitarists and songwriters in the British pop rock/pop punk band McFly, along with fellow band members Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd...
- Dan Fogelberg
Daniel Grayling Fogelberg was an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music.-Early life and family:Dan Fogelberg, the youngest of three sons, was born in Peoria, Illinois, the son of...
- Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds is an American singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the band Ben Folds Five.-Early life and career:...
- Charly García
Charly García is a musician from Argentina with a long career in rock.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in an upper-middle class family...
- Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover , brother of Shira Geffen, and a graduate of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.Geffen was extremely popular among Israeli...
- Dwayne Goettel
Dwayne Rudolph Goettel was a member of the industrial band Skinny Puppy. He played keyboards for an early incarnation of the Canadian gothic/synthpop band Psyche, as well as a band called Water, who opened for Skinny Puppy in 1985...
- Phillip Goodhand-Tait
Phillip Goodhand-Tait is a singer-songwriter, record producer and keyboard player.-Life and career:Goodhand-Tait is his real surname, although at school and into the mid 1960s, he was known as Phil Tait. His mother taught piano and his father was an active Trades Unionist...
- Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the popular Australian soap Neighbours as Nina Tucker, and this assisted her in establishing an international music career. With 8 number 1#...
- Dave Greenslade
Dave Greenslade is a British keyboards player. He has played in his own eponymous band, Greenslade, and others including Colosseum, If and Chris Farlowe's Thunderbirds....
- Horacio Gutierrez
Horacio Gutiérrez is a virtuoso pianist originally from Cuba. He moved with his family to the United States in 1961, at the age of 13, and studied in Los Angeles with Sergey Tarnowsky , Vladimir Horowitz's first teacher in Kiev, and later at the Juilliard School of Music under Adele Marcus , a...
- Gregg Giuffria
Gregg Giuffria was the keyboardist for heavy metal bands, Angel, and House of Lords, and arena rock band, Giuffria.Giuffria was in Angel in the late '70s...
- Emily Haines
Emily Haines is a member of the bands Metric, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton and Broken Social Scene. She is a contralto.She has contributed backing vocals to albums by other Broken Social Scene members, such as Jason Collett and Kevin Drew....
- Daryl Hall
Daryl Hall is an American rock singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as half of the music duo Hall & Oates , who also served as lead vocalist.Guitarist Robert Fripp, who collaborated with Hall in the late 1970s and early '80s, has...
- Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He is probably best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s, as well as his "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s US television program, Miami Vice.Hammer has collaborated with some...
- Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of sixties underground band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano...
(Van Der Graaf GeneratorVan der Graaf Generator, sometimes known by the shorter Van der Graaf, are an English progressive rock band. They were the first act signed to Charisma Records. The band achieved considerable success in Italy during the 1970s...
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- Taylor Hanson
Jordan Taylor Hanson is one of the singers in the band Hanson. He also plays keyboard, percussion , drums, guitar, and piano. He is also the lead singer of supergroup Tinted Windows.-Music career:Taylor sings and plays keyboards and the piano with the band Hanson...
- Ed Harcourt
Ed Harcourt is an English singer-songwriter. Born the third son of a army officer, his family home is the manor house of Wootton, East Sussex...
- Corey Hart
- Ken Hensley
Kenneth William David Hensley is a keyboard player, guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer best known for his work with Uriah Heep during the 1970s....
(Uriah HeepUriah Heep are an English rock band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice, a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
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- Melissa Morrison Higgins
- Roger Hodgson
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson, born 21 March 1950, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England is a British vocalist and musician. He was one of the founding members of the progressive rock group Supertramp. He is recognised for his high-pitched singing voice, which became a trademark for Supertramp, and...
- Jools Holland
Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, songwriter, composer, and television presenter...
- Nicky Hopkins
Nicky Hopkins Nicky Hopkins Nicky Hopkins (born Nicholas Christian Hopkins (February 24, 1944 – September 6, 1994) was an English pianist and organist.He recorded and performed on some of the most important British and American popular music recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely...
- Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter...
- Tuomas Holopainen
Tuomas Holopainen is a Finnish composer, musician, poet and producer. Known best for heavy metal music, he has also studied jazz and classical styles, but he didn't appreciate these styles explaining to be influenced by harmonic film music.Holopainen is best known for being the keyboardist, band...
- Jacob Hoggard
Jacob William Hoggard is a Canadian singer from Abbotsford, British Columbia. He finished in third place on the second season of Canadian Idol. He is currently the lead singer of Hedley.-Early years:...
(HedleyHedley may refer to Places:* Hedley, British Columbia* Hedley on the Hill, Northumberland* Hedley Hill, county Durham* Hedley, TexasHedley may refer to People or Groups:...
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- Billy Joel
Billy Joel is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist in the United States, according to the RIAA....
- Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has sold more than 200 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single, Candle in the Wind 1997, has sold over 37 million copies, becoming the...
- Kevin Jonas
Paul Kevin Jonas II , also known as Kevin Jonas and K2, is an American musician and actor. He is a member of the Jonas Brothers, a pop rock band he created with his younger brothers Joe and Nick...
- Nick Jonas
Nicholas Jerry "Nick" Jonas is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a pop-rock band he formed with his brothers Joe and Kevin...
- Howard Jones
Howard Jones is an English musician. According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, "Jones is an accomplished singer-songwriter who was a regular chart visitor in the mid 1980s with his brand of synthpop. Jones, who was equally popular in the U.S., appeared at Live Aid"...
- Norah Jones
Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and actress of Anglo-American and Indian-Bengali descent. She is the daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Anoushka Shankar...
- Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.- Background :Born in Chicago, Jones grew up in a...
- John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist musician.Best known as the...
- Johnnie Johnson
Johnnie Johnson was a piano player and blues musician. His work with Chuck Berry led to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.-Career:...
- Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist, born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, he wrote forty-four original ragtime pieces, one...
- Bradley Joseph
Bradley Joseph is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth".Active...
- Tim Jupp
- Tony Kaye
Tony Kaye is a British musician.Kaye was the original pianist and organist for the progressive rock group Yes from 1968 to 1971, and rejoined Yes from 1983 to 1995...
- Paula Kelley
Paula Kelley is an American indie pop singer-songwriter and orchestral arranger/composer from Boston, Massachusetts. She began her musical career in the 1990s with the band Drop Nineteens before leaving them in 1994 to start her own career in songwriting...
- R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly Thabit , best known by the stage name R. Kelly, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and record producer. Debuting in 1992 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in 1993 for a successful solo career starting with the album, 12 Play...
- Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York, where Keys made a television appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four. She attended...
- Carole King
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
- Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar.-Albums:...
- Robert Lamm
Robert William Lamm is an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter best known for being a founding member of the rock band Chicago...
(ChicagoChicago is an American pop rock/jazz fusion band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had a steady stream of hits...
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- Dustin Lanker
Dustin Ross Lanker is an American keyboardist, known for his work with the Oregon rock/swing/ska band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and as the frontman for the Baroque pop/power pop trio The Visible Men....
(Cherry Poppin' DaddiesThe Cherry Poppin' Daddies are an American rock band formed in Eugene, Oregon in 1988 by Steve Perry . While the band has gone through numerous personnel changes, only Perry, Dan Schmid and Dana Heitman remain from the original incarnation, with Perry and Heitman being the only two constant...
, The Visible MenThe Visible Men are an American pop/rock band formed in 2002, comprised of Dustin Lanker , Dan Schmid and Jordan Glenn ....
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- Chuck Leavell
Chuck Leavell is an American pianist and keyboardist, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band during the height of their popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently-employed session musician, and later, the keyboardist for Eric Clapton and The Rolling...
- Amy Lee
Amy Lynn Hartzler , better known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence...
(EvanescenceEvanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording two private EPs and a demo CD named Origin, with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on...
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- Thijs Van Leer
Thijs van Leer is a Dutch musician, singer and composer, best known for heading the Dutch progressive rock band, Focus, as primary vocalist, Hammond organ player, and flautist.-Biography:...
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- John Legend
John Stephens , better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American recording artist, musician and actor...
- John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles...
- Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...
- Jon Lord
Jon Lord is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player.Lord is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms. He has most famously been a member of Deep Purple, as well as of Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord,...
(Deep PurpleDeep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorise themselves as any one genre. The band...
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- Christian "Flake" Lorenz
Christian "Flake" Lorenz , sometimes called "Doktor Lorenz") is a German musician, notable as the keyboardist for the Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. He is also known for his role in the band Feeling B.-Early years:...
(RammsteinRammstein is a German rock band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...
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- Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock and Sonny Munroe in Sonny With A Chance. Besides acting, she is also a solo music artist and released her debut album Don't...
- Martin Leung
- Liberace
Wladziu Valentino Liberace , better known by only his last name Liberace , was a famous American entertainer and pianist...
- Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. After being signed to and quickly dropped from Def Jam Records at age 19, she began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side...
- Tony MacAlpine
Tony Jeff MacAlpine is an American guitarist and keyboardist. Having released ten studio albums over a career spanning more than two decades, he is best known as an instrumental solo guitarist; although he has worked with many different bands and musicians in the form of guest appearances and...
- Dmitry Malikov
Dmitry Yurevich Malikov is a Russian composer, singer and recently a record producer. He was also an actor in one movie.-Early life:...
- Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, entertainer, and performer, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana"....
- Ray Manzarek
Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., better known as Ray Manzarek , is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, co-founder, and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, and the Doors of the 21st Century since 2001.-Early life and career:Ray Manzarek is of Polish descent, born...
- Chris Martin
Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin is an English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the band Coldplay. He is the husband of Hollywood actress Gwenyth Paltrow, with whom he has fathered two children.-Early life:Chris Martin was born...
- Robert Martin
- Tommy Mars
Tommy Mars is a keyboard player, best known for his work with Frank Zappa.Born in Connecticut, U.S.A., Mars began piano lessons at age eight, and later his instrument range expanded to various keyboards and synthesizers. Mars graduated in 1972 from the Hartt College of Music in West Hartford,...
- Chico Marx
Leonard "Chico" Marx was the eldest of the Marx Brothers.He was originally nicknamed Chicko for his reputation as a ladies' man, or a "chicken chaser" in the popular slang of the day. A typesetter accidentally dropped the "k" in his name and it became Chico...
- Richard Marx
Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
- Andre Matos
Andre Coelho Matos is the former vocalist, pianist and composer for the heavy metal and power metal bands Viper, Angra and Shaman. Since October 2006 Andre Matos is dedicated to his solo band.-Biography:...
- Brian May
Brian Harold May, CBE, is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You", "Who Wants to Live Forever",...
- Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE , is an English singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record and film producer, painter, and animal rights and peace activist. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings, McCartney is the most successful songwriter in the history of popular music...
- Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay is an English-born American singer-songwriter, actress, and former stand-up comedienne, noted for her critically acclaimed debut album Get Away from Me and for her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera , for which she won a Theatre World Award.Her music has showcased different...
- Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, and pop and R&B musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who can play nine instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussions, trombone, tuba, French horn and trumpet.-Biography:McKnight's musical career began with a...
- Jon Mclaughlin
Jon McLaughlin is a pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist from Anderson, Indiana. His debut album Indiana was released on May 1, 2007, preceded by his first EP Industry, also known as Jon McL, in February 2007...
- Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.She is known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range. As of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and eight...
- Andrew McMahon
Andrew Ross McMahon is a singer/songwriter. He is the vocalist, pianist and primary songwriter for the bands Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin; McMahon also performs solo.-Early life:...
- Christine McVie
Christine McVie is an English rock singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac though she has also released three solo albums...
- Natalie Merchant
Natalie Anne Merchant is a professional musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993. Merchant has a contralto vocal range.-Family:...
- Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury was a British musician, best known as the frontman of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his vocal prowess and flamboyant performances...
- Gavin Mikhail
- Lisa Middelhauve
Lisa Middelhauve is a German singer, who was the lead vocalist and pianist of German symphonic metal band Xandria. The band has recently released their fourth album "Salomé - The Seventh Veil" and the single from the album "Save My Life" in which Lisa sports a darker hair colour than the other...
(XandriaXandria is a band, founded in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1997. The band's music combines elements of symphonic metal with light electronic elements and rock....
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- Ben Mills
Benjamin Collett Mills is a British singer who finished in third place in the third UK series of TV talent show The X Factor in 2006. He signed a five-album record deal with Sony BMG. His album, Picture of You, was released on 12 March 2007, the same date as the debut album from The X Factor...
- Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin is a British born Australian comedian, actor and musician. He is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in three CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television and radio in both Australia and...
- Kerry Minnear
Kerry Minnear is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist who played in the innovative progressive rock band Gentle Giant during the 1970s....
(Gentle GiantGentle Giant was a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band was notable for the particular complexity and sophistication of its musical material and for the diverse musical skills of its members .The band's onetime stated aim was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary...
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- Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto...
- Gilbert Montagné
Gilbert Montagné is a French musician, both a pianist and organist, as well as a singer. Blind from birth, he is best remembered for his international hit "The Fool", which was a number 1 single across Europe in 1971...
- Patrick Moraz
Patrick Philippe Moraz is a progressive rock keyboard player. He is best known as the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Yes, from 1974 to 1976, and the Moody Blues from 1978 to 1991...
(YesYes are an English progressive rock band that was formed in London in 1968. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess. Yes blends symphonic and other 'classical' structures with their own brand of...
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- Jordin Mylar
Jordan Mylar is the lead vocalist on the Winter '06 EP by the Jacksonville, Florida-based cause-driven prog-rock group A New Ascension....
- Mike Shinoda
Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. He is best known as the rapper, songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Linkin Park, and as a solo rapper in his side-project, Fort Minor...
- Fito Páez
Rodolfo "Fito" Páez Ávalos is an Argentine popular rock and roll pianist, lyricist, Spanish language singer and film director.-First years:...
- Amanda Palmer
Amanda MacKinnon Palmer is a performer most noted for being the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the "Brechtian punk cabaret" duo The Dresden Dolls.-Biography:Palmer grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts...
- Charlie Peacock
Charlie Peacock is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer, session musician, author, and advocate for social justice. He is often noted as a unique musical and lyrical voice, intelligent, innovative, and difficult to categorize...
- Roger Penney
Roger Penney is an innovative singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He pioneered a style of American psychedelic folk music in the late 60s, early 70s and is known for his inventive performances and recordings as Bermuda Triangle Band as well as Roger and Wendy and EUPHORIA.-Early life:Born...
- Billy Powell
William Norris "Billy" Powell was an American musician. He was the longtime keyboardist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, from 1970 until his death in 2009.-Biography:...
(Lynyrd SkynyrdLynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band, formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before three members and one road crew member died in an airplane crash in 1977, including lead vocalist and primary...
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- Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California...
- Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He performs under the mononym Prince but has also been known by various other names, most notably the unpronounceable symbol which he used as his stage name between 1993 and 2000...
- Vadim Pruzhanov
Vadim Igorevich Pruzhanov is the keyboardist of UK power metal band, DragonForce.- Biography :...
- Daniel Powter
Daniel Richard Powter is a Canadian recording artist. He grew up in Vernon, in the Okanagan-Shuswap region of British Columbia. He is best known for his #1 smash hit "Bad Day".- Career :...
- Dizzy Reed
Dizzy Reed is a contemporary rock musician. He is best known for his tenure as the keyboardist for the rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he has played, toured and recorded since 1990...
- Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist and founder of the industrial rock musical project known as Nine Inch Nails; he was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. As of 2007, Reznor split his ties with...
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Aldemaro Romero
Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.-Biography:...
- Axl Rose
W. Axl Rose is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band Guns N' Roses....
- Ryan Ross
George Ryan Ross III is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter most known for his work as the lead guitarist, lyricist and backup vocalist for the band Panic! at the Disco, before his departure from the band in 2009...
(Panic At The Disco)
- Jordan Rudess
Jordan Rudess is a progressive rock keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.-Biography:...
(also a jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
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- Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.-Early career:Rundgren was born in Upper Darby, PA. He began his career in Woody's Truck Stop, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based group based on the model of Paul Butterfield Blues Band. However, he left the band to...
- Ruslana
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko is a World Music Award winning and MTV Europe Music Award nominated artist, and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004....
- Brenda Russell
Brenda Russell is an African American singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, jazz and adult contemporary...
- Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist....
- Francis Rimbert
Francis Rimbert is a French musician and composer.- Biography :Francis Rimbert started playing classical piano when he was 5 years old. At the conservatory, he studied harmony, counterpoint, the fugue and orchestral leading...
- Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s...
- Lucie Silvas
Lucie Silvas is an English singer-songwriter.- Early life :Lucie was born to a Liberal Jewish family in Kingston-Upon-Thames, London...
- Peter Skellern
Peter Skellern is an English singer-songwriter and pianist.-Career:Skellern attended Derby Grammar School and studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He later joined pop groups called 'Harlem' and ' March Hare'...
- Isaac Slade
Isaac Slade is the lead singer and pianist of alternative rock and piano rock band The Fray. Slade grew up in the Denver area with his family, which included both parents and two brothers, Caleb and Micah...
(The FrayFray or The Fray may refer to:*affray, as in into the fray*unravel, as in a fraying rope*Fray, a Spanish prefix, a shortening of fraile, meaning friar*The Fray , an American rock band...
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- Richard Sohl
Richard Sohl was an American pianist, best known for his work with the Patti Smith Group. He also played live with Iggy Pop, Nina Hagen and Elliott Murphy. He died on June 5, 1990 of a heart attack, while vacationing on Fire Island, New York....
(Patti Smith GroupPatricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer–songwriter, poet and visual artist who was a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock...
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- Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to...
- Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village.-Early life:...
- Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...
- Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam , best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....
- Ian Stewart
Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was a Scottish keyboardist and cofounder of The Rolling Stones. He was dismissed from the line-up in May 1963 but he remained as road manager and piano player.- Role in the Rolling Stones :...
- Scott Storch
Scott Storch is a Canadian record producer. He has found success in many genres of music, particularly hip hop, pop, and R&B. He has his own record label, Storch Music Company and his own music production company called Tuff Jew Productions LLC.Storch has produced for a variety of artists...
- Mike Shinoda
Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. He is best known as the rapper, songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Linkin Park, and as a solo rapper in his side-project, Fort Minor...
- Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-Armenian-American singer–songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, poet, and political activist...
- Richard Tandy
Richard Tandy is best known as the keyboard player in the rock band, Electric Light Orchestra . His palette of keyboards was an important ingredient in the group's sound, notably on the albums A New World Record, Out of the Blue, Discovery, and Time...
- Vienna Teng
Vienna Teng is a Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter based in New York City. Teng has released four studio albums: Waking Hour , Warm Strangers , Dreaming Through The Noise and her latest album, Inland Territory, which was released in the United States on April 7, 2009.Teng's musical...
- Matthew Thiessen
- Yann Tiersen
Guillaume Yann Tiersen is a French musician and composer known internationally for composing the score to the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie Amélie...
- Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. The son of a local police officer, he was the solo soprano singer in a school production of Tom Sawyer...
- Steven Tyler
Steven Victor Tallarico , better known as Steven Tyler, is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer and primary songwriter of Boston-based rock band Aerosmith....
- Benmont Tench
Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
- Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several EPs, and numerous tracks included on compilations and film soundtracks...
- Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
- Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman is an English keyboard player, composer, and songwriter known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use of electronic keyboards and in the use of a rock band in combination with orchestra and...
- Don Walker
Don Walker may refer to:*Don Walker , Australian musician*Don Walker , American orchestrator*Don Walker...
- Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the rock group The Beach Boys...
- George Winston
George Winston is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up mainly in Eastern Montana as well as Mississippi and Florida. He attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida and lives in Santa Cruz, California. When growing up his interest in music was listening to instrumentals in...
- Edgar Winter
Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band The Edgar Winter Group...
- Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English singer-songwriter who performs and writes rock, blues-rock, and jazz. He sings with a tenor voice and is a multi-instrumentalist who plays Hammond organ, guitar, bass, and other string instruments. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of...
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popPop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs...
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- Tori Amos
Tori Amos is a pianist and singer-songwriter of American citizenship. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
- Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter. She gained popularity through her 1996 album Tidal, especially with the single "Criminal" and its music video. Her music is influenced by everything from early jazz, pop, to alt-rock...
- Aslyn
Aslyn is a pop singer and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. She has released two full-length albums, Lemon Love and The Dandelion Sessions, as well as a 4-disc EP. She is also the sister of three members of the band Georgia.- Early years :...
- Bryce Avary (The Rocket Summer
The Rocket Summer is the rock solo-project of Bryce Avary who is based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Avary plays every instrument on his records as well as produces them.-Overview:...
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- Benny Andersson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...
- Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn , is a Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has been involved in many high profile projects and collaborations throughout his career...
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead vocalist, chief songwriter and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and sings for garage rock band Foxboro Hot Tubs...
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- Tony Banks
Anthony George "Tony" Banks is an English composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...
- Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and producer. He is a member of the pop group Take That and was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1990s, penning no fewer than 16 hit singles during the decade. Barlow had two No. 1 hits and five other top 40 UK singles as a solo...
- Matthew Bellamy
Matthew James Bellamy is an English musician and composer, who is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist of the rock band Muse.-Biography:...
- Steve Barakatt
Steve Barakatt is a composer/producer/pianist/singer.- Discography :*Double-Joie *Audace/Audacity *Escape *Steve Barakatt Live *Quebec...
- Sara Bareilles
Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. Bareilles' vocal range registers from contralto to mezzo-soprano.-Early life and...
- Mark Birnbaum
Mark Birnbaum is an American pianist and New York City fashion plate, known for his ragtime recordings and his plumed top hat....
- Jim Brickman
Jim Brickman is an American songwriter and pianist. He has been named the most charted male Adult Contemporary artist to date, with six of his albums receiving Gold and Platinum status. He is known for his solo piano compositions, pop-style instrumentals, and vocal collaborations with artists...
- Roy Bittan
Roy Bittan is an American keyboardist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974...
- John Bundrick
John Douglas "Rabbit" Bundrick is a prominent American-born rock keyboardist, pianist, and organist, having played on albums by The Who, Eric Burdon, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Roger Waters, Free, and Crawler, among several others...
- Terry Burrus
Terrance Corley Burrus is an American keyboardist and composer.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started touring as a teenager playing with jazz fusion violinist Michał Urbaniak, singer Jean Carne, while still in High school in New York...
- Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years. Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by...
- David Bryan
David Bryan is the keyboard player of the band Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song "In These Arms", one of a handful of Bon Jovi songs credited to him.-Early life:Bryan began to learn piano at age seven...
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- Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Cain is an American musician, most known for his keyboards and songwriting roles in the rock band, Journey.-Early life:...
- Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American soft rock/pop singer, songwriter, and pianist. She is best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody, which was released April 30, 2002, and certified platinum in the U.S.Carlton's second album, Harmonium , debuted at number 33...
- Jo Ann Castle
Jo Ann Castle is a noted ragtime pianist. She adopted the stage name "Castle" from a type of accordion, another instrument she played with great proficiency...
- Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles...
- Richard Clayderman
Richard Clayderman is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the original compositions by Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie sound tracks, ethnic music, and easy-listening arrangements of most popular...
- Nat "King" Cole
- Russ Conway
Russ Conway , was a popular music pianist. Conway's piano instrumentals dominated the UK Singles Chart during 1959, including two number one hits.-Career:...
- Allison Crowe
Allison Louise Crowe is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia who now also lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, communities spanning the breadth of Canada. Crowe records on her own record label, Rubenesque Records Ltd...
- Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards...
- Kevin Cronin
Kevin Cronin is the lead vocalist/ rhythm guitarist/ occasional pianist for the American rock band, REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon had two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 written by Cronin, "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling"...
- Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and drummer.-Biography:Cullum was born at Romford Hospital in Essex. He was brought up in Hullavington, Wiltshire. Educated at the independent fee-paying Grittleton House School and the sixth form at Sheldon School...
- Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He brought a soulful sound to country music and pop standards through his Modern Sounds recordings, as well as a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of...
- Miley Cyrus
Miley Ray Cyrus is an American pop-rock singer and television and film actress. Cyrus is best known for starring as the title character in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Following the success of Hannah Montana, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs...
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- Rick Davies
Rick Davies is an English-American musician, who is a co-founder and a member of the rock band Supertramp....
- Lynsey De Paul
Lynsey de Paul is an English singer-songwriter. Allmusic journalist, Craig Harris states, "one of the first successful female singer-songwriters in England, de Paul has had an illustrious career".-Life and career:De Paul was born to Meta and Herbert Rubin, a property developer...
- Gavin DeGraw
Gavin Shane DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is probably most well-known for his songs "Chariot", "I Don't Want to Be", which is featured as the theme song for the TV drama One Tree Hill, and "In Love with a Girl".-Early life:DeGraw grew up in the Catskills, in South...
- Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his haunting, acoustic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, although he was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
- Raúl di Blasio
Raúl di Blasio , is an Argentine pianist.- Life :Raúl Di Blasio showed a great interest in piano at the age of six...
- Dennis DeYoung
Dennis DeYoung is an American singer, songwriter, musician and producer best known for being a founding member of the rock band Styx, a tenure which lasted from 1970 to 1999.-Early life:...
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- Karishmeh Felfeli
Karishmeh Felfeli is a radio broadcaster, pianist, vocalist and presenter of Offbeat, a critically acclaimed classical music radio program for Dublin City FM....
- Johnny Fingers
Johnnie Fingers is a pop pianist, and was a founding member of the new wave band, The Boomtown Rats. He was notable for his stage costume of striped pyjamas as well as his melodic piano style....
- Tom Fletcher
Thomas Michael "Tom" Fletcher is one of the lead vocalists, guitarists and songwriters in the British pop rock/pop punk band McFly, along with fellow band members Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd...
- Dan Fogelberg
Daniel Grayling Fogelberg was an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music.-Early life and family:Dan Fogelberg, the youngest of three sons, was born in Peoria, Illinois, the son of...
- Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds is an American singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the band Ben Folds Five.-Early life and career:...
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- Charly García
Charly García is a musician from Argentina with a long career in rock.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in an upper-middle class family...
- Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover , brother of Shira Geffen, and a graduate of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.Geffen was extremely popular among Israeli...
- Dwayne Goettel
Dwayne Rudolph Goettel was a member of the industrial band Skinny Puppy. He played keyboards for an early incarnation of the Canadian gothic/synthpop band Psyche, as well as a band called Water, who opened for Skinny Puppy in 1985...
- Phillip Goodhand-Tait
Phillip Goodhand-Tait is a singer-songwriter, record producer and keyboard player.-Life and career:Goodhand-Tait is his real surname, although at school and into the mid 1960s, he was known as Phil Tait. His mother taught piano and his father was an active Trades Unionist...
- Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the popular Australian soap Neighbours as Nina Tucker, and this assisted her in establishing an international music career. With 8 number 1#...
- Dave Greenslade
Dave Greenslade is a British keyboards player. He has played in his own eponymous band, Greenslade, and others including Colosseum, If and Chris Farlowe's Thunderbirds....
- Horacio Gutierrez
Horacio Gutiérrez is a virtuoso pianist originally from Cuba. He moved with his family to the United States in 1961, at the age of 13, and studied in Los Angeles with Sergey Tarnowsky , Vladimir Horowitz's first teacher in Kiev, and later at the Juilliard School of Music under Adele Marcus , a...
- Gregg Giuffria
Gregg Giuffria was the keyboardist for heavy metal bands, Angel, and House of Lords, and arena rock band, Giuffria.Giuffria was in Angel in the late '70s...
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- Emily Haines
Emily Haines is a member of the bands Metric, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton and Broken Social Scene. She is a contralto.She has contributed backing vocals to albums by other Broken Social Scene members, such as Jason Collett and Kevin Drew....
- Daryl Hall
Daryl Hall is an American rock singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as half of the music duo Hall & Oates , who also served as lead vocalist.Guitarist Robert Fripp, who collaborated with Hall in the late 1970s and early '80s, has...
- Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He is probably best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s, as well as his "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s US television program, Miami Vice.Hammer has collaborated with some...
- Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of sixties underground band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano...
(Van Der Graaf GeneratorVan der Graaf Generator, sometimes known by the shorter Van der Graaf, are an English progressive rock band. They were the first act signed to Charisma Records. The band achieved considerable success in Italy during the 1970s...
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- Taylor Hanson
Jordan Taylor Hanson is one of the singers in the band Hanson. He also plays keyboard, percussion , drums, guitar, and piano. He is also the lead singer of supergroup Tinted Windows.-Music career:Taylor sings and plays keyboards and the piano with the band Hanson...
- Ed Harcourt
Ed Harcourt is an English singer-songwriter. Born the third son of a army officer, his family home is the manor house of Wootton, East Sussex...
- Corey Hart
- Ken Hensley
Kenneth William David Hensley is a keyboard player, guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer best known for his work with Uriah Heep during the 1970s....
(Uriah HeepUriah Heep are an English rock band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice, a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
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- Melissa Morrison Higgins
- Roger Hodgson
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson, born 21 March 1950, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England is a British vocalist and musician. He was one of the founding members of the progressive rock group Supertramp. He is recognised for his high-pitched singing voice, which became a trademark for Supertramp, and...
- Jools Holland
Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, songwriter, composer, and television presenter...
- Nicky Hopkins
Nicky Hopkins Nicky Hopkins Nicky Hopkins (born Nicholas Christian Hopkins (February 24, 1944 – September 6, 1994) was an English pianist and organist.He recorded and performed on some of the most important British and American popular music recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely...
- Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter...
- Tuomas Holopainen
Tuomas Holopainen is a Finnish composer, musician, poet and producer. Known best for heavy metal music, he has also studied jazz and classical styles, but he didn't appreciate these styles explaining to be influenced by harmonic film music.Holopainen is best known for being the keyboardist, band...
- Jacob Hoggard
Jacob William Hoggard is a Canadian singer from Abbotsford, British Columbia. He finished in third place on the second season of Canadian Idol. He is currently the lead singer of Hedley.-Early years:...
(HedleyHedley may refer to Places:* Hedley, British Columbia* Hedley on the Hill, Northumberland* Hedley Hill, county Durham* Hedley, TexasHedley may refer to People or Groups:...
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- Billy Joel
Billy Joel is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist in the United States, according to the RIAA....
- Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has sold more than 200 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single, Candle in the Wind 1997, has sold over 37 million copies, becoming the...
- Kevin Jonas
Paul Kevin Jonas II , also known as Kevin Jonas and K2, is an American musician and actor. He is a member of the Jonas Brothers, a pop rock band he created with his younger brothers Joe and Nick...
- Nick Jonas
Nicholas Jerry "Nick" Jonas is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a pop-rock band he formed with his brothers Joe and Kevin...
- Howard Jones
Howard Jones is an English musician. According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, "Jones is an accomplished singer-songwriter who was a regular chart visitor in the mid 1980s with his brand of synthpop. Jones, who was equally popular in the U.S., appeared at Live Aid"...
- Norah Jones
Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and actress of Anglo-American and Indian-Bengali descent. She is the daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Anoushka Shankar...
- Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.- Background :Born in Chicago, Jones grew up in a...
- John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist musician.Best known as the...
- Johnnie Johnson
Johnnie Johnson was a piano player and blues musician. His work with Chuck Berry led to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.-Career:...
- Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist, born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, he wrote forty-four original ragtime pieces, one...
- Bradley Joseph
Bradley Joseph is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth".Active...
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- Tony Kaye
Tony Kaye is a British musician.Kaye was the original pianist and organist for the progressive rock group Yes from 1968 to 1971, and rejoined Yes from 1983 to 1995...
- Paula Kelley
Paula Kelley is an American indie pop singer-songwriter and orchestral arranger/composer from Boston, Massachusetts. She began her musical career in the 1990s with the band Drop Nineteens before leaving them in 1994 to start her own career in songwriting...
- R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly Thabit , best known by the stage name R. Kelly, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and record producer. Debuting in 1992 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in 1993 for a successful solo career starting with the album, 12 Play...
- Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York, where Keys made a television appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four. She attended...
- Carole King
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. While she has been a successful songwriter for decades, her singing career and fame peaked during the first half of the 1970s....
- Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar.-Albums:...
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- Robert Lamm
Robert William Lamm is an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter best known for being a founding member of the rock band Chicago...
(ChicagoChicago is an American pop rock/jazz fusion band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had a steady stream of hits...
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- Dustin Lanker
Dustin Ross Lanker is an American keyboardist, known for his work with the Oregon rock/swing/ska band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and as the frontman for the Baroque pop/power pop trio The Visible Men....
(Cherry Poppin' DaddiesThe Cherry Poppin' Daddies are an American rock band formed in Eugene, Oregon in 1988 by Steve Perry . While the band has gone through numerous personnel changes, only Perry, Dan Schmid and Dana Heitman remain from the original incarnation, with Perry and Heitman being the only two constant...
, The Visible MenThe Visible Men are an American pop/rock band formed in 2002, comprised of Dustin Lanker , Dan Schmid and Jordan Glenn ....
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- Chuck Leavell
Chuck Leavell is an American pianist and keyboardist, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band during the height of their popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently-employed session musician, and later, the keyboardist for Eric Clapton and The Rolling...
- Amy Lee
Amy Lynn Hartzler , better known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence...
(EvanescenceEvanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording two private EPs and a demo CD named Origin, with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on...
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- Thijs Van Leer
Thijs van Leer is a Dutch musician, singer and composer, best known for heading the Dutch progressive rock band, Focus, as primary vocalist, Hammond organ player, and flautist.-Biography:...
(FocusFocus or FOCUS may refer to:In science, mathematics or computing:*Focus , a point toward which light rays are made to converge*Focus , an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter...
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- John Legend
John Stephens , better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American recording artist, musician and actor...
- John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles...
- Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...
- Jon Lord
Jon Lord is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player.Lord is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms. He has most famously been a member of Deep Purple, as well as of Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord,...
(Deep PurpleDeep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorise themselves as any one genre. The band...
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- Christian "Flake" Lorenz
Christian "Flake" Lorenz , sometimes called "Doktor Lorenz") is a German musician, notable as the keyboardist for the Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. He is also known for his role in the band Feeling B.-Early years:...
(RammsteinRammstein is a German rock band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...
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- Demi Lovato
Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock and Sonny Munroe in Sonny With A Chance. Besides acting, she is also a solo music artist and released her debut album Don't...
- Martin Leung
- Liberace
Wladziu Valentino Liberace , better known by only his last name Liberace , was a famous American entertainer and pianist...
- Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. After being signed to and quickly dropped from Def Jam Records at age 19, she began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side...
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- Tony MacAlpine
Tony Jeff MacAlpine is an American guitarist and keyboardist. Having released ten studio albums over a career spanning more than two decades, he is best known as an instrumental solo guitarist; although he has worked with many different bands and musicians in the form of guest appearances and...
- Dmitry Malikov
Dmitry Yurevich Malikov is a Russian composer, singer and recently a record producer. He was also an actor in one movie.-Early life:...
- Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, entertainer, and performer, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana"....
- Ray Manzarek
Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr., better known as Ray Manzarek , is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, co-founder, and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, and the Doors of the 21st Century since 2001.-Early life and career:Ray Manzarek is of Polish descent, born...
- Chris Martin
Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin is an English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the band Coldplay. He is the husband of Hollywood actress Gwenyth Paltrow, with whom he has fathered two children.-Early life:Chris Martin was born...
- Robert Martin
- Tommy Mars
Tommy Mars is a keyboard player, best known for his work with Frank Zappa.Born in Connecticut, U.S.A., Mars began piano lessons at age eight, and later his instrument range expanded to various keyboards and synthesizers. Mars graduated in 1972 from the Hartt College of Music in West Hartford,...
- Chico Marx
Leonard "Chico" Marx was the eldest of the Marx Brothers.He was originally nicknamed Chicko for his reputation as a ladies' man, or a "chicken chaser" in the popular slang of the day. A typesetter accidentally dropped the "k" in his name and it became Chico...
- Richard Marx
Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
- Andre Matos
Andre Coelho Matos is the former vocalist, pianist and composer for the heavy metal and power metal bands Viper, Angra and Shaman. Since October 2006 Andre Matos is dedicated to his solo band.-Biography:...
- Brian May
Brian Harold May, CBE, is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You", "Who Wants to Live Forever",...
- Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE , is an English singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record and film producer, painter, and animal rights and peace activist. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings, McCartney is the most successful songwriter in the history of popular music...
- Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay is an English-born American singer-songwriter, actress, and former stand-up comedienne, noted for her critically acclaimed debut album Get Away from Me and for her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera , for which she won a Theatre World Award.Her music has showcased different...
- Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, and pop and R&B musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who can play nine instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussions, trombone, tuba, French horn and trumpet.-Biography:McKnight's musical career began with a...
- Jon Mclaughlin
Jon McLaughlin is a pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist from Anderson, Indiana. His debut album Indiana was released on May 1, 2007, preceded by his first EP Industry, also known as Jon McL, in February 2007...
- Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.She is known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range. As of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and eight...
- Andrew McMahon
Andrew Ross McMahon is a singer/songwriter. He is the vocalist, pianist and primary songwriter for the bands Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin; McMahon also performs solo.-Early life:...
- Christine McVie
Christine McVie is an English rock singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac though she has also released three solo albums...
- Natalie Merchant
Natalie Anne Merchant is a professional musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993. Merchant has a contralto vocal range.-Family:...
- Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury was a British musician, best known as the frontman of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his vocal prowess and flamboyant performances...
- Gavin Mikhail
- Lisa Middelhauve
Lisa Middelhauve is a German singer, who was the lead vocalist and pianist of German symphonic metal band Xandria. The band has recently released their fourth album "Salomé - The Seventh Veil" and the single from the album "Save My Life" in which Lisa sports a darker hair colour than the other...
(XandriaXandria is a band, founded in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1997. The band's music combines elements of symphonic metal with light electronic elements and rock....
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- Ben Mills
Benjamin Collett Mills is a British singer who finished in third place in the third UK series of TV talent show The X Factor in 2006. He signed a five-album record deal with Sony BMG. His album, Picture of You, was released on 12 March 2007, the same date as the debut album from The X Factor...
- Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin is a British born Australian comedian, actor and musician. He is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in three CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television and radio in both Australia and...
- Kerry Minnear
Kerry Minnear is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist who played in the innovative progressive rock band Gentle Giant during the 1970s....
(Gentle GiantGentle Giant was a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band was notable for the particular complexity and sophistication of its musical material and for the diverse musical skills of its members .The band's onetime stated aim was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary...
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- Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto...
- Gilbert Montagné
Gilbert Montagné is a French musician, both a pianist and organist, as well as a singer. Blind from birth, he is best remembered for his international hit "The Fool", which was a number 1 single across Europe in 1971...
- Patrick Moraz
Patrick Philippe Moraz is a progressive rock keyboard player. He is best known as the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Yes, from 1974 to 1976, and the Moody Blues from 1978 to 1991...
(YesYes are an English progressive rock band that was formed in London in 1968. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess. Yes blends symphonic and other 'classical' structures with their own brand of...
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- Jordin Mylar
Jordan Mylar is the lead vocalist on the Winter '06 EP by the Jacksonville, Florida-based cause-driven prog-rock group A New Ascension....
- Mike Shinoda
Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. He is best known as the rapper, songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Linkin Park, and as a solo rapper in his side-project, Fort Minor...
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- Fito Páez
Rodolfo "Fito" Páez Ávalos is an Argentine popular rock and roll pianist, lyricist, Spanish language singer and film director.-First years:...
- Amanda Palmer
Amanda MacKinnon Palmer is a performer most noted for being the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the "Brechtian punk cabaret" duo The Dresden Dolls.-Biography:Palmer grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts...
- Charlie Peacock
Charlie Peacock is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer, session musician, author, and advocate for social justice. He is often noted as a unique musical and lyrical voice, intelligent, innovative, and difficult to categorize...
- Roger Penney
Roger Penney is an innovative singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He pioneered a style of American psychedelic folk music in the late 60s, early 70s and is known for his inventive performances and recordings as Bermuda Triangle Band as well as Roger and Wendy and EUPHORIA.-Early life:Born...
- Billy Powell
William Norris "Billy" Powell was an American musician. He was the longtime keyboardist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, from 1970 until his death in 2009.-Biography:...
(Lynyrd SkynyrdLynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band, formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before three members and one road crew member died in an airplane crash in 1977, including lead vocalist and primary...
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- Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California...
- Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He performs under the mononym Prince but has also been known by various other names, most notably the unpronounceable symbol which he used as his stage name between 1993 and 2000...
- Vadim Pruzhanov
Vadim Igorevich Pruzhanov is the keyboardist of UK power metal band, DragonForce.- Biography :...
- Daniel Powter
Daniel Richard Powter is a Canadian recording artist. He grew up in Vernon, in the Okanagan-Shuswap region of British Columbia. He is best known for his #1 smash hit "Bad Day".- Career :...
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- Dizzy Reed
Dizzy Reed is a contemporary rock musician. He is best known for his tenure as the keyboardist for the rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he has played, toured and recorded since 1990...
- Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist and founder of the industrial rock musical project known as Nine Inch Nails; he was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. As of 2007, Reznor split his ties with...
- Shahrdad Rohani
- Aldemaro Romero
Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.-Biography:...
- Axl Rose
W. Axl Rose is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band Guns N' Roses....
- Ryan Ross
George Ryan Ross III is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter most known for his work as the lead guitarist, lyricist and backup vocalist for the band Panic! at the Disco, before his departure from the band in 2009...
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- Jordan Rudess
Jordan Rudess is a progressive rock keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater.-Biography:...
(also a jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
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- Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.-Early career:Rundgren was born in Upper Darby, PA. He began his career in Woody's Truck Stop, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based group based on the model of Paul Butterfield Blues Band. However, he left the band to...
- Ruslana
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko is a World Music Award winning and MTV Europe Music Award nominated artist, and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004....
- Brenda Russell
Brenda Russell is an African American singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, jazz and adult contemporary...
- Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist....
- Francis Rimbert
Francis Rimbert is a French musician and composer.- Biography :Francis Rimbert started playing classical piano when he was 5 years old. At the conservatory, he studied harmony, counterpoint, the fugue and orchestral leading...
- Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s...
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- Lucie Silvas
Lucie Silvas is an English singer-songwriter.- Early life :Lucie was born to a Liberal Jewish family in Kingston-Upon-Thames, London...
- Peter Skellern
Peter Skellern is an English singer-songwriter and pianist.-Career:Skellern attended Derby Grammar School and studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He later joined pop groups called 'Harlem' and ' March Hare'...
- Isaac Slade
Isaac Slade is the lead singer and pianist of alternative rock and piano rock band The Fray. Slade grew up in the Denver area with his family, which included both parents and two brothers, Caleb and Micah...
(The FrayFray or The Fray may refer to:*affray, as in into the fray*unravel, as in a fraying rope*Fray, a Spanish prefix, a shortening of fraile, meaning friar*The Fray , an American rock band...
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- Richard Sohl
Richard Sohl was an American pianist, best known for his work with the Patti Smith Group. He also played live with Iggy Pop, Nina Hagen and Elliott Murphy. He died on June 5, 1990 of a heart attack, while vacationing on Fire Island, New York....
(Patti Smith GroupPatricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer–songwriter, poet and visual artist who was a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock...
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- Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to...
- Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village.-Early life:...
- Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...
- Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam , best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....
- Ian Stewart
Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was a Scottish keyboardist and cofounder of The Rolling Stones. He was dismissed from the line-up in May 1963 but he remained as road manager and piano player.- Role in the Rolling Stones :...
- Scott Storch
Scott Storch is a Canadian record producer. He has found success in many genres of music, particularly hip hop, pop, and R&B. He has his own record label, Storch Music Company and his own music production company called Tuff Jew Productions LLC.Storch has produced for a variety of artists...
- Mike Shinoda
Michael Kenji "Mike" Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. He is best known as the rapper, songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Linkin Park, and as a solo rapper in his side-project, Fort Minor...
- Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-Armenian-American singer–songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, poet, and political activist...
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- Richard Tandy
Richard Tandy is best known as the keyboard player in the rock band, Electric Light Orchestra . His palette of keyboards was an important ingredient in the group's sound, notably on the albums A New World Record, Out of the Blue, Discovery, and Time...
- Vienna Teng
Vienna Teng is a Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter based in New York City. Teng has released four studio albums: Waking Hour , Warm Strangers , Dreaming Through The Noise and her latest album, Inland Territory, which was released in the United States on April 7, 2009.Teng's musical...
- Matthew Thiessen
- Yann Tiersen
Guillaume Yann Tiersen is a French musician and composer known internationally for composing the score to the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie Amélie...
- Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. The son of a local police officer, he was the solo soprano singer in a school production of Tom Sawyer...
- Steven Tyler
Steven Victor Tallarico , better known as Steven Tyler, is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer and primary songwriter of Boston-based rock band Aerosmith....
- Benmont Tench
Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
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- Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several EPs, and numerous tracks included on compilations and film soundtracks...
- Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
- Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman is an English keyboard player, composer, and songwriter known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use of electronic keyboards and in the use of a rock band in combination with orchestra and...
- Don Walker
Don Walker may refer to:*Don Walker , Australian musician*Don Walker , American orchestrator*Don Walker...
- Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the rock group The Beach Boys...
- George Winston
George Winston is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up mainly in Eastern Montana as well as Mississippi and Florida. He attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida and lives in Santa Cruz, California. When growing up his interest in music was listening to instrumentals in...
- Edgar Winter
Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band The Edgar Winter Group...
- Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English singer-songwriter who performs and writes rock, blues-rock, and jazz. He sings with a tenor voice and is a multi-instrumentalist who plays Hammond organ, guitar, bass, and other string instruments. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of...
- Andrew W. K.
- Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Patrick utilises a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano and viola...
- Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for the label. He has recorded more than thirty U.S...
- Rick Wright
- Zakk Wylde
Zakk Wylde is an American musician, who is best known for his roles as a guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and founder of heavy metal band Black Label Society. He was the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory, who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding...
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- Yanni
Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. After receiving a B.A...
- Akiko Yano
is a Japanese pop and jazz musician. She was born as Akiko Suzuki in Tokyo and raised in Aomori, Aomori. She married and soon after divorced Makoto Yano, a producer of her first recording...
- Yuki Kajiura
, born August 6, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese composer and music producer. She has provided the music for several popular anime series, such as Madlax, Noir, .hack//SIGN, Aquarian Age, My-HiME, Pandora Hearts, My-Otome, Tsubasa Chronicle, and one of the Kimagure Orange Road movies...
- Yoshiki Hayashi
- Thom Yorke
Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock group Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar...
- Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician and film director. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1995 and also as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997....