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Musician
A musician is a person who performs or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), aka Aphex Twin, is a British electronic musician described by The Guardian newspaper as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music." He founded the record label Rephlex...
Date of birth:
- Aug 18, 1971 (age 38 years)
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, and for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1940 (age 69 years)
Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco (pronounced /ˈɑːniː/) (born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is a prolific artist, having released over twenty albums, and is widely celebrated as a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1970 (age 39 years)
Alan Moore
Alan Oswald Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He wrote the novel Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off...
Date of birth:
- Nov 18, 1953 (age 56 years)
Alex Lifeson
Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known for his work as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 27, 1953 (age 56 years)
Björn Ulvaeus
Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (Swedish pronunciation: [bjœːɳ ɵlˈveːɵs], born 25 April 1945) is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1945 (age 64 years)
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), commonly known as simply Eno (pronounced /ˈiːnoʊ/), is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as one...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1948 (age 61 years)
Blind Blake
"Blind" Blake (born Arthur Blake, circa 1893, Jacksonville, Florida; died: circa 1933) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. He is often called "The King Of Ragtime Guitar".
Blind Blake recorded about 80 tracks for Paramount Records between...
Date of birth:
- 1893
Date of death:
- 1933 (age 40 years)
Bill Haley
Bill Haley (pronounced /ˈheɪliː/) (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets...
Date of birth:
- Jul 6, 1925
Date of death:
- Feb 9, 1981 (age 55 years)
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell (May 5, 1898 (sometimes reported as 1901 or 1903) – August 19, 1959) was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a twelve-string finger picking Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1901
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1959 (age 58 years)
Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Blind" Lemon Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – at some point in Mid-December, 1929) was a blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled "Father of the Texas Blues".
Jefferson's...
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1893
Date of death:
- Dec 12, 1929 (age 36 years)
Bill Oddie
William "Bill" Edgar Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941) is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who first became famous as one of The Goodies.
A birdwatcher since his childhood in Birmingham, Oddie has now established a...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1941 (age 68 years)
Brownie McGhee
Walter Brown ("Brownie") McGhee (November 30, 1915 - February 16, 1996) was a blues singer and guitarist best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.
Brownie McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1915
Date of death:
- Feb 16, 1996 (age 80 years)
Bill Mumy
Charles William "Bill" Mumy, Jr. (pronounced /ˈmuːmi/; born February 1, 1954), is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community. He is known primarily for his roles in movies...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1954 (age 55 years)
Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960 in Roosevelt, New York), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1960 (age 49 years)
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus, Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader and pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism.
Mingus is considered one of the most important composers and performers of jazz...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1922
Date of death:
- Jan 5, 1979 (age 56 years)
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who created, along with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1924
Date of death:
- Jun 30, 2001 (age 77 years)
Dave Grohl
David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C.-area bands, including the hardcore punk...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1969 (age 40 years)
Dolly Parton
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...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1946 (age 63 years)
Desi Arnaz
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...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1917
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1986 (age 69 years)
Don McLean
Donald McLean, Jr. (born October 2, 1945, New Rochelle, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. He is most famous for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the renowned songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".
The McLean clan traces its roots to...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1945 (age 64 years)
Django Reinhardt
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (French pronunciation: [dʒɑ̃ŋɡo ʀeˈnɑʀt]; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist.
One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists. With...
Date of birth:
- Jan 23, 1910
Date of death:
- May 16, 1953 (age 43 years)
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), alternately spelled Aron, was an American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. In addition, he is often referred to as the King of Rock and Roll or...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1935
Date of death:
- Aug 16, 1977 (age 42 years)
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer. Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream, and as a solo performer, being...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1945 (age 64 years)
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter of Irish heritage. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk rock...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1954 (age 55 years)
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1940
Date of death:
- Dec 4, 1993 (age 52 years)
Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor (born Gloria Fowles on September 7, 1949 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American singer, best-known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 #1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 #4, 1974), "Let Me Know (I Have A Right)" ...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1949 (age 60 years)
George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1943
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 2001 (age 58 years)
George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B;, and scat singer. This one time child prodigy topped the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1943 (age 66 years)
Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee OC (born Gary Lee Weinrib; July 29, 1953) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined Rush in September 1968 at the request of his childhood friend Alex...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1953 (age 56 years)
Gilles Apap
Gilles Apap (born May 21, 1963) is a french violinist who plays Romani (gypsy) music, swing, Irish music, and bluegrass music, as well as the masterpieces of classical music.
Born in Bougie, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won the first...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1963 (age 46 years)
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American singer-songwriter, raconteur, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. After joining the short-lived Washington D.C. band State of Alert in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1961 (age 48 years)
Ice T
Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is a Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award-winning American rapper, actor and author. He is credited with helping in pioneering gangsta rap, in the late 1980s. As an actor, he...
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1958 (age 51 years)
James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006), originally James Joseph Brown, Jr., also known as "The Godfather of Soul", was an American entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1933
Date of death:
- Dec 25, 2006 (age 73 years)
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to...
Date of birth:
- Aug 22, 1917
Date of death:
- Jun 21, 2001 (age 83 years)
Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills (born 18 June 1963 in Detroit, Michigan U.S.) is an influential American techno DJ and producer.
In the 1980s, Mills was an influential radio DJ on WJLB under the pseudonym "The Wizard." Mills' sets were a highlight of the nightly show...
Date of birth:
- Jun 18, 1963 (age 46 years)
Jonathan Richman
Jonathan Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded The Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, generally acoustic...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1951 (age 58 years)
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) 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. In the mid-1960s...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1943 (age 66 years)
Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947 in Shard End, Birmingham) is a two-time Ivor Novello Award recipient and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 30, 1947 (age 62 years)
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (pronounced /koʊbeɪn/, /kʌbeɪn/; February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Nirvana.
With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit"...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1967
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1994 (age 27 years)
Kirk Hammett
Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist and a songwriter in the band Metallica and has been a member of the band since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003 Kirk Hammett was ranked 11th...
Date of birth:
- Nov 18, 1962 (age 47 years)
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, and Tremors.
Bacon has...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1958 (age 51 years)
Keith Moon
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for exuberant drumming, and notoriety for his destructive lifestyle, earning him the nickname, "Moon the Loon." Moon joined The...
Date of birth:
- Aug 23, 1946
Date of death:
- Sep 7, 1978 (age 32 years)
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1452
Date of death:
- May 2, 1519 (age 67 years)
Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a...
Date of birth:
- Aug 4, 1901
Date of death:
- Jul 6, 1971 (age 69 years)
Léon Theremin
Léon Theremin (born Lev Sergeyevich Termen, Russian: Лев Сергеевич Термен) (August 27, 1896 – November 3, 1993) was a Russian inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, the first electronic musical instrument. He is also the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1896
Date of death:
- Nov 3, 1993 (age 97 years)
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1939 (age 70 years)
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1970 (age 39 years)
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield (born 15 May 1953, Reading, Berkshire) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1953 (age 56 years)
Mississippi John Hurt
Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966) was an influential country blues singer and guitarist. He sang in a loud whisper, to a melodious finger-picked guitar accompaniment.
Born John Smith Hurt in Teoc, Carroll...
Date of birth:
- Mar 8, 1892
Date of death:
- Nov 2, 1966 (age 74 years)
Miles Davis
Miles Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1926
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1991 (age 65 years)
Mance Lipscomb
Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) was an influential blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (Mance...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1895
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1976 (age 80 years)
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman; September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1943 (age 66 years)
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodríguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1968 (age 41 years)
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a guitarist, composer and a record producer best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson. His work, spanning four...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1946 (age 63 years)
Ron Carter
Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937, Ferndale, Michigan) is an American jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history,...
Date of birth:
- May 4, 1937 (age 72 years)
Robert Johnson
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician, among the most famous of Delta blues musicians. His landmark recordings from 1936–1937 display a remarkable combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1911
Date of death:
- Aug 16, 1938 (age 27 years)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952) is an Academy Award-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He played keyboards in the influential...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1952 (age 57 years)
Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1936
Date of death:
- Dec 6, 1988 (age 52 years)
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) 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. Crow is also a left-wing political activist.
She has...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1962 (age 47 years)
