Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana known for his work as a blues musician. He spent his career fighting purism by synthesizing traditional blues and country, […]

Bernie Worrell - American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock […]

Luther Vandross - American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is noted for his sweet and soulful vocals. Pop Winans - American gospel music singer and band manager. Winans was […]

Bobby McClure - American soul singer. Forrest - American singer, based in the Netherlands. Robert Knight - American singer, best known for his 1967 recording of the song "Everlasting Love".

Charles Mingus - American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer, and bandleader.

Bobbi Humphrey - American jazz flautist and singer who plays jazz fusion, funk, and soul-jazz. Ella Fitzgerald - American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", […]

D.C. Larue - American singer, songwriter and producer. His music was successful in clubs and on dance music charts worldwide during the 1970s and early 1980s. Mike Francis - Italian […]

Ann Peebles - American singer and songwriter who gained celebrity for her Memphis soul albums of the 1970s for Hi Records. Two of her most popular songs are "I Can't […]

Too Short - American rapper and record producer. Steve Khan - American jazz guitarist.

Duke Ellington - American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Toots Thielemans - Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known […]

Lesley Gore - American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party", a US number one in 1963. She followed […]

James Brown - American singer, dancer, musician, record producer, and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to […]