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Singer-songwriter
A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes and sings their own material including lyrics and melodies. They often provide the sole accompaniment to an entire composition or song, typically using a guitar or piano. A number of other well-known musicians may write some of their own songs,...
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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)
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice. One of Guthrie's works is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1947 (age 62 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 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)
Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American musician, best known for composing music for television and movies, and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995. He is a frequent...
Date of birth:
- May 29, 1953 (age 56 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)
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)
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
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, 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...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1954 (age 55 years)
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at #2 in the US country album chart while climbing to #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Brooks's...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1962 (age 47 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)
Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons was a member of the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers. He was later a solo artist who...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1946
Date of death:
- Sep 19, 1973 (age 26 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)
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)
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez was born in July 24, 1969 in the Bronx, NYC. Currently married to Hispanic singer Marc Anthony, she is the mother of two. Jennifer Lopez, also known as “J Lo” is a singer, actress, dancer, song writer, record producer,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1969 (age 40 years)
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; 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)
Kylie Minogue
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...
Date of birth:
- May 28, 1968 (age 41 years)
Kim Milford
Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer. best known for his acting in musicals such as The Rocky Horror Show and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Milford...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1951
Date of death:
- Jun 16, 1988 (age 37 years)
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969) 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)
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer–songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother...
Date of birth:
- Dec 30, 1946 (age 63 years)
Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs (pronounced /ˈoʊks/) (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was a U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1940
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 1976 (age 35 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 liberal political activist.
She has...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1962 (age 47 years)
Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. Lehrer is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1928 (age 81 years)
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works....
Date of birth:
- Jul 14, 1912
Date of death:
- Oct 3, 1967 (age 55 years)
Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being a member of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released five...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1949 (age 60 years)
Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.
Rundgren was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania He began his career in Woody's Truck Stop, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based group based on the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1948 (age 61 years)
Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is a multi-BRIT Award-winning English singer, songwriter and musician. His career started in 1990, at the age of 16, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. Robbie left the group in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1974 (age 35 years)
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. He escaped...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1937
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 2002 (age 64 years)
Bob Marley
Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created by Bob Marley in 1974, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers. The brothers Carlton (drums) and Aston "Family Man" Barrett (bass) – who had joined The Wailers four...
Date of birth:
- Feb 6, 1945
Date of death:
- May 11, 1981 (age 36 years)
John Deacon
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951), also known as Deacon John, is a retired British musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the band, he was the last to join and also the youngest, being only...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1951 (age 58 years)
Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and currently resides in Toronto.
Furtado...
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1978 (age 31 years)
Sophie B. Hawkins
Sophie Ballantine Hawkins (born November 1, 1967, in Manhattan, New York City, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and painter. Her biggest hits are "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover," "Right Beside You," and "As I Lay Me Down."
Hawkins's...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1, 1967 (age 42 years)
Ian Dury
Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music. He is best known as founder, frontman...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1942
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 2000 (age 57 years)
Billy Joel
Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel; May 9, 1949) 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 and the...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1949 (age 60 years)
Lisa Lopes
Lisa Nicole Lopes (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002), better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, teen idol, and member of the R&B; girl group TLC.
Lopes contributed her own self-written raps to many of TLC's...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1971
Date of death:
- Apr 25, 2002 (age 30 years)
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, known for his success beginning in 1965 as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1941 (age 68 years)
R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), 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...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1967 (age 43 years)
Barry White
Barry White (September 12, 1944(1944-09-12) – July 4, 2003) was an American record producer and singer-songwriter.
A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his rich bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1944
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 2003 (age 58 years)
Slavko Avsenik
Slavko Avsenik (born November 26, 1929 in Begunje near Bled, Slovenia) is a Slovenian composer and musician. His career accomplishments place him at the worldwide pinnacle of success among ethnic popular musicians. Over forty years, the Avsenik...
Date of birth:
- Nov 26, 1929 (age 80 years)
John Denver
John Denver (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997) was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about 200 were composed by him. He was named Poet Laureate of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1943
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1997 (age 53 years)
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She gained popularity through her 1996 debut album Tidal, especially with the Grammy Award-winning single "Criminal" and its music video. Her music is influenced...
Date of birth:
- Sep 13, 1977 (age 32 years)
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, pianist, cellist and actress. Born in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York, she attended...
Date of birth:
- Jan 25, 1980 (age 29 years)
Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1966 (age 43 years)
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American songwriter, singer and guitarist. He had recorded and toured with the E Street Band. Springsteen was widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1949 (age 60 years)
Tom Petty
For the New York based band, see The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are a heartland rock band, most of whose members are from the United States. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench, all of whom had...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1950 (age 59 years)
Judith Durham
Judith Durham, OAM (born as Judith Mavis Cock, on 3 July 1943) is an Australian jazz singer and musician who became the lead vocalist for the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1963. She left the group in mid-1968 to pursue her solo...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1943 (age 66 years)
JC Chasez
Joshua Scott "JC" Chasez (born August 8, 1976 in Washington, DC) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor, best known as one of the lead vocalists in the former pop group 'N Sync. In 2004, Chasez released a solo album,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1976 (age 33 years)
Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop musician and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He got his big break when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1981 (age 28 years)
Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel.
Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, the son of Rose, a housewife, and Jacob "Jack"...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1941 (age 68 years)
Desiree Heslop
Desiree Heslop (born 27 November 1961) is a British singer, who uses the stage name Princess. In the late 1970s she worked with the group Osibisa.
Her first solo album Princess (1986) was composed and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. It spawned...
Date of birth:
- Nov 27, 1961 (age 48 years)
Yusuf Islam
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), 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.
His albums...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1948 (age 61 years)
Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg (French pronunciation: [sɛʁʒ ɡɛ̃zbuʁ]; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. His...
Date of birth:
- Apr 2, 1928
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1991 (age 62 years)
Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his autumnal acoustic songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, although he was also proficient at piano, clarinet and...
Date of birth:
- Jun 19, 1948
Date of death:
- Nov 25, 1974 (age 26 years)
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., CC, O.Ont (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. As a singer-songwriter, he came to prominence in the 1960s, and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1938 (age 71 years)
Sting
Sting (born as Gordon Matthew Sumner), CBE (born 2 October 1951) is a musician, activist, actor and philanthropist.
Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock music band The Police. As a...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1951 (age 58 years)
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born September 21, 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1934 (age 75 years)
Beth Orton
Elizabeth Caroline Orton, commonly known as Beth Orton, (born 14 December 1970), is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter. Known for her "folktronica" sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica, she was initially recognised for her...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1970 (age 39 years)
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Etheridge was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for three semesters in 1979 and 1980 and was friends with fellow...
Date of birth:
- May 29, 1961 (age 48 years)
