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| x Peter Gabriel |
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SNL - 18.17 | SNL - 18.17 |
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flutist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. More...
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| x Joe Cocker |
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SNL - 8.12 | SNL - 8.12 |
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (born 20 May 1944) is an English rock/blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing and his cover versions of popular songs,...
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| Eric Idle/Joe Cocker and Stuff | Eric Idle/Joe Cocker and Stuff | ||||
| x The Time |
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SNL - 16.3 | SNL - 16.3 |
The Time is a funk and dance-pop ensemble formed in 1981. They are close Prince associates and arguably the most successful.
The band was assembled under a clause in Prince's contract with Warner Bros. that allowed him to recruit and produce other...
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| x Bubba Sparxxx |
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SNL - 27.7 | SNL - 27.7 |
Warren Anderson Mathis (born March 6, 1977), known by his stage name Bubba Sparxxx, is an American Southern rapper. His biggest hit is "Ms. New Booty" featuring The Ying Yang Twins which peaked at #7 in the United States. In addition to the...
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| x Color Me Badd | SNL - 17.2 | SNL - 17.2 |
Color Me Badd was an R&B; vocal group that was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. The original members of the group were Bryan Abrams (born November 16, 1969); Mark Calderon (born September 27, 1970); Sam Watters (born July 23, 1970) and Kevin...
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| x Public Enemy |
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SNL - 17.1 | SNL - 17.1 |
Public Enemy, also known as PE, is a hip hop group from Long Island, New York, known for its politically charged lyrics and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community....
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| x Sam & Dave | Kirk Douglas/Sam and Dave | Kirk Douglas/Sam and Dave |
Sam & Dave were an American soul and rhythm and blues (R&B;) duo who performed together from 1961 through 1981. The tenor (higher) voice was Samuel David Moore (born Samuel David Hicks on October 12, 1935 in Winchester, Georgia), and the baritone...
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| x Devo |
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Fred Willard/Devo | Fred Willard/Devo |
Devo (pronounced /ˈdiːvoʊ/ DEE-voh, originally /diːˈvoʊ/ dee-VOH) is an American New Wave band formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. While they are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the band has...
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| x Ry Cooder |
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Dick Cavett/Ry Cooder | Dick Cavett/Ry Cooder |
Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American guitarist, singer and composer.
He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in blues-rock, roots music from his native North America, and, more recently...
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| x Stone Temple Pilots |
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SNL - 19.7 | SNL - 19.7 |
Stone Temple Pilots, often abbreviated to STP, is an American rock band consisting of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Robert (bass guitar, vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Kretz (drums, percussion). The band found immediate success...
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| x Harry Connick, Jr. |
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SNL - 15.10 | SNL - 15.10 |
Harry Connick, Jr. (born Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr.; September 11, 1967) is an American singer, actor, composer, and pianist. Connick has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. He is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the...
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| x Sean Paul |
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SNL - 28.19 | SNL - 28.19 |
Sean Paul Joseph (born March 7, 1979) better known by his stage names Sean P and Sean Paul, is an American rapper and one half (with J-Bo) of the group YoungBloodZ. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Sean Paul has performed, without J-Bo, on various singles...
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| x Gipsy Kings |
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SNL - 14.14 | SNL - 14.14 |
Gipsy Kings is a music group from Arles and Montpellier, France. Although group members were born in France, their parents were gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. They are known for bringing Rumba...
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| x Cheap Trick |
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Karen Black/Cheap Trick, Stanley Clarke Trio | Karen Black/Cheap Trick, Stanley Clarke Trio |
Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1974. The band consists of members Robin Zander (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Rick Nielsen (lead guitar, backing vocals), Tom Petersson (electric bass, backing vocals), and Bun...
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| x Bette Midler |
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Buck Henry/Bette Midler | Buck Henry/Bette Midler |
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedienne, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. During her more than forty year career, she has been nominated for two Academy Awards; and won four...
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| x Huey Lewis & the News |
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SNL - 9.9 | SNL - 9.9 |
Huey Lewis and the News are an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 Top Ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary...
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| x Tin Machine |
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SNL - 17.7 | SNL - 17.7 |
Tin Machine was a hard rock band formed in 1988, famous for being fronted by singer David Bowie.
The group recorded two studio albums before dissolving in 1992, when Bowie returned to his solo career. The group was generally ignored, often receiving...
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| x Rod Stewart |
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SNL - 20.20 | SNL - 20.20 |
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart...
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| (no host)/Rod Stewart, Tina Turner | (no host)/Rod Stewart, Tina Turner | ||||
| x Little Feat |
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SNL - 14.9 | SNL - 14.9 |
Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles.
Although the band has undergone several changes in its lineup, the music remains an...
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| x Keith Jarrett |
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Michael Sarrazin/Keith Jarrett | Michael Sarrazin/Keith Jarrett |
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist, composer, and jazz icon.
His career started with Art Blakey, soon moving on to play with Charles Lloyd then Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a...
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| x Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | SNL - 16.8 | SNL - 14.4 |
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians is a rock band that originated in Texas in the mid-1980s. The band is best known for their 1988 hit "What I Am" from the album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars. Their music contains elements of rock and folk. Following...
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| SNL - 14.4 | SNL - 16.8 | ||||
| x Boz Scaggs |
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Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs | Norman Lear/Boz Scaggs |
Boz Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees. Scaggs continued to release and record in the 1980s and...
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| x The Spinners |
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Bill Murray/The Spinners, Yale Whiffenpoofs | Bill Murray/The Spinners, Yale Whiffenpoofs |
The Spinners are a Detroit, Michigan-based soul vocal group (active under that name since 1961), and most popular during the 1970s. The group still tours as of 2009. The band is also listed occasionally as The Motown Spinners, or (after they left...
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| x Korn |
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Eva Longoria/Korn | Eva Longoria/Korn |
Korn (often typeset as KoRn, sometimes with a reversed R) is an American metal band from Bakersfield, California, which formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200. To date, Korn has...
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| x Feist |
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SNL - 33.4 | SNL - 33.4 |
Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She performs as a solo artist under the name Feist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. At the 2008 Juno Awards in Calgary, she was the top winner with...
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| x Scissor Sisters |
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SNL - 30.7 | SNL - 30.7 |
The Scissor Sisters are a Grammy Award-nominated American band that formed in 2001. Their style draws from disco, glam rock, pop and the club scene of New York City.
The group take their name from a sexual position between women. While experiencing...
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| x Silverchair |
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SNL - 21.8 | SNL - 21.8 |
Silverchair (previously styled as silverchair) is an Australian alternative rock band. The band formed as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1992, with their current lineup of vocalist and guitarist Daniel Johns, bass guitarist...
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| x The Charlie Daniels Band |
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Robert Culp/Charlie Daniels Band | Robert Culp/Charlie Daniels Band | ||
| x Tevin Campbell |
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SNL - 15.12 | SNL - 15.12 |
Tevin Jermod Campbell (born November 12, 1976) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter. Campbell scored a string of R&B; chart hits as a teenager in the early to mid-1990s. Like Usher and Bobby Brown, Campbell transitioned from child singer to adult R...
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| x Panic! at the Disco |
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Christopher Walken/Panic at the Disco | Christopher Walken/Panic at the Disco |
Panic! at the Disco (known as Panic at the Disco between 2008 and 2009) is a Grammy-nominated rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2004. The band comprises vocalist and guitarist Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith. In July 2009, guitarist...
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| x Ryan Adams |
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SNL - 27.5 | SNL - 27.5 |
David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is a Grammy Award-nominated American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially a member of the group Whiskeytown, after three albums Adams went solo, releasing...
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| x Queens of the Stone Age |
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SNL - 30.19 | SNL - 30.19 |
Queens of the Stone Age is an American Grammy Award-nominated rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. Originally formed under the name Gamma Ray by guitarist Josh Homme, following the breakup of his previous band,...
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| x Talking Heads |
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Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads | Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads |
Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Auxiliary musicians also frequently made appearances in concert and on the...
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| x INXS |
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SNL - 16.12 | SNL - 16.12 |
INXS (pronounced "in excess") are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk...
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| x Kylie Minogue |
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SNL - 27.15 | SNL - 27.15 |
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours...
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| x Joan Osborne | SNL - 21.10 | SNL - 21.10 |
Joan Elizabeth Osborne (born July 8, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her song "One of Us", and for her work with members of The Grateful Dead.
Originally from the Louisville, Kentucky suburb of Anchorage, Osborne moved...
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| x Seal |
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SNL - 20.3 | SNL - 20.3 |
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963 in Paddington, London, United Kingdom) is a British soul singer and songwriter, of Nigerian-Brazilian ethnicity. His name Olusegun means "God is victorious". Known professionally by...
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| x Luciano Pavarotti |
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SNL - 24.9 | SNL - 24.9 |
Luciano Pavarotti Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. He was one...
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| x Dolly Parton |
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SNL - 14.17 | SNL - 14.17 |
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she...
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| x Joe Jackson |
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SNL - 11.14 | SNL - 11.14 |
Joe Jackson (born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) is an English musician and singer–songwriter, now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001. He is best known for the 1979 hit...
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| x Eugene Record |
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Michael Palin/Eugene Record | Michael Palin/Eugene Record |
Eugene Record (December 23, 1940 – July 22, 2005) was lead vocalist of Chicago based The Chi-Lites during the 1960s and 1970s. He also released three solo albums (entitled The Eugene Record, Trying to Get to You, and Welcome to My Fantasy) via the...
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| x Desi Arnaz |
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Desi Arnaz/Desi Arnaz, Jr. | Desi Arnaz/Desi Arnaz, Jr. |
Desi Arnaz (2 March 1917 – 2 December 1986) was a Cuban-American musician, actor and television producer. He gained international renown for leading a Latino music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. But arguably, he is best known for his role as Ricky...
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| x The Meters |
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Sissy Spacek/Richard Baskin | Sissy Spacek/Richard Baskin |
The Meters were an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977 and also played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists such as Lee Dorsey and...
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| x Foo Fighters |
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SNL - 28.13 | SNL - 28.13 |
Foo Fighters is an American rock band formed in 1995. Singer and guitarist Dave Grohl formed the group as a one-man project after the dissolution of his previous band, Nirvana, in 1994. Prior to the release of Foo Fighters in 1995, Grohl drafted...
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| Jason Lee/Foo Fighters | SNL - 21.7 | ||||
| Jon Bon Jovi/Foo Fighters | SNL - 25.4 | ||||
| SNL - 21.7 | Jon Bon Jovi/Foo Fighters | ||||
| SNL - 25.4 | Jason Lee/Foo Fighters | ||||
| x Jet |
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SNL - 29.8 | SNL - 29.8 |
Jet (commonly typeset as JET) is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia composed of Cameron Muncey, Mark Wilson, and brothers Nic and Chris Cester. The group has sold 4 million records worldwide; with their debut album Get Born, released in 2003,...
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| x Wintley Phipps |
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SNL - 10.3 | SNL - 10.3 |
Wintley Augustus Phipps (born January 7, 1955) was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Phipps is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, world-renowned vocal artist, and innovative initiator of special projects such as the [US Dream Academy]. He also...
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| x 'N Sync |
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SNL - 25.14 | SNL - 25.14 |
'N Sync (sometimes stylized as *NSYNC) was an American Boy Band. Since 1997, 'N Sync has sold over 56 million records worldwide.
Formed in Orlando, Florida in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich, NSYNC consisted of Justin Timberlake,...
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| x Spin Doctors |
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SNL - 18.3 | SNL - 18.3 |
Spin Doctors are an American jam band/alternative rock group formed in New York City, best known for their early 1990s hits, "Two Princes" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", which charted at #7 & #17 respectively on the American pop chart.
The...
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| x Taj Mahal |
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Madeline Kahn/Taj Mahal | Madeline Kahn/Taj Mahal |
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who goes by the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician with two Grammy Awards to date who folds various forms of world music into his offerings. A self-taught singer...
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| x Linda Ronstadt |
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SNL - 13.8 | SNL - 13.8 |
Linda Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music vocalist and entertainer. Her many vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career. As a result, she has earned...
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| Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt, Phoebe Snow | SNL - 15.8 | ||||
| SNL - 15.8 | Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt, Phoebe Snow | ||||
| David Carradine/Linda Ronstadt with Rex Smith, George Rose | David Carradine/Linda Ronstadt with Rex Smith, George Rose | ||||
| x Spanic Boys | SNL - 15.19 | SNL - 15.19 | |||
| x Bryan Adams |
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SNL - 10.13 | SNL - 10.13 |
Bryan Adams, OC, OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams on November 5, 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter and photographer. Adams was first nominated at the 28th Grammy Awards for Reckless and "It's Only Love" and won the Grammy and in 1992 won the award...
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| x Bonnie Raitt |
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SNL - 15.11 | SNL - 17.4 |
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and...
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| Robert Klein/Bonnie Raitt | SNL - 20.2 | ||||
| SNL - 20.2 | SNL - 15.11 | ||||
| SNL - 17.4 | Robert Klein/Bonnie Raitt | ||||
| x Beck |
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SNL - 30.17 | SNL - 22.10 |
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements...
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| SNL - 28.12 | SNL - 25.7 | ||||
| SNL - 24.10 | SNL - 30.17 | ||||
| Hugh Laurie/Beck | SNL - 28.12 | ||||
| SNL - 25.7 | SNL - 24.10 | ||||
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| x Richard Dreyfuss |
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Richard Dreyfuss/Jimmy Buffett | Richard Dreyfuss/Jimmy Buffett |
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in the films Jaws, The Goodbye Girl, Close...
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| x John Prine |
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Karen Black/John Prine | Karen Black/John Prine |
John Prine (born October 10, 1946, in Maywood, Illinois) is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.
Prine is the son of William Prine and Verna Hamm. Prine...
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| x Dwight Yoakam |
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SNL - 19.17 | SNL - 19.17 |
Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is a Grammy winning American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty-one albums and...
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| x The Shins |
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Jake Gyllenhaal/The Shins | Jake Gyllenhaal/The Shins |
The Shins are an American indie rock band comprising singer, songwriter, and guitarist James Russell Mercer, guitarist/bassist Dave Hernandez, Eric Johnson of the Fruit Bats, drummer Joe Plummer and bassist Ron Lewis. Their sound draws on several...
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| x Faith Hill |
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SNL - 28.2 | SNL - 28.2 |
Faith Hill (born Audrey Faith Perry on September 21, 1967) is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill's voice (described as both soulful and raspy) and careful...
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| x Grateful Dead |
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Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss/The Grateful Dead | Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead |
The Grateful Dead were an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, jazz, psychedelia, and space rock...
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| Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead | Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss/The Grateful Dead | ||||
