Notable Musicians
This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of music. Included are composers, musicians and singers.
| Name | Lifespan | Genre | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammed Abdel Wahab | 1902-1991 | (Abd El-Wahhab) |  | |
| Salvatore Adamo | 1943- | | ||
| King Sunny Adé | 1946- | (Adegeye) | | |
| Teddy Afro | 1976- | (Germamo) | | |
| Hümeyra Akbay | 1947- | | ||
| Chava Alberstein | 1946- | (Alberstei) | | |
| Willeke Alberti | 1945- | | ||
| Willy Alberti | 1926-1985 | | ||
| Ayla Algan | 1937- | | ||
| Paul Anka | 1941- | | ||
| Etti Ankri | 1963- | | ||
| Ann-Margret | 1941- | (Olsson) | | |
| Jenny Arean | 1942- | (Klarenbeek) | | |
| Imperio Argentina | 1910-2003 | (Nile, del Río) | | |
| Arion | ?-5xx BC | | ||
| David Arnold | 1962- | | ||
| Atif Aslam | 1983- | | ||
| Aster Aweke | 1959- | | ||
| Rojda Aykoç | 1978- | (Şenses) | | |
| Klaus Badelt | 1967- | | ||
| Pearl Bailey | 1918-1990 | | ||
| Lidija Bajuk | 1965- | | ||
| Josephine Baker | 1906-1975 | | ||
| Andria Balanchivadze | 1906-1992 | | ||
| Samantha Barks | 1990- | | ||
| Karl Bartos | 1952- | | ||
| Munir Bashir | 1930-1997 | | ||
| Toni Basil | 1943- | (Basilotta) | | |
| Frans Bauer | 1973- | | ||
| Marius Bear | 1993- | (Hügli) | | |
| Gilbert Bécaud | 1927-2001 | | ||
| Daniel Bedingfield | 1979- | | ||
| Naseem Begum | 1936-1971 | | ||
| Lola Beltrán | 1932-1996 | (Ruiz) | | |
| Amel Bent | 1985- | (Bachir) | | |
| David Bisbal | 1979- | (Ferre) | | |
| Cedric Bixler-Zavala | 1974- | | ||
| Jet Black | 1938-2022 | (Duffy) | | |
| Maja Blagdan | 1968- | | ||
| Ronee Blakley | 1945- | | ||
| Bleona | 1979- | (Qereti) | | |
| Corbin Bleu | 1989- | | ||
| Marco Borsato | 1966- | | ||
| Stef Bos | 1961- | | ||
| Nikša Bratoš | 1959- | | ||
| Fanny Brice | 1891-1951 | (Borach) | | |
| Corry Brokken | 1932-2016 | | ||
| Herman Brood | 1946-2001 | | ||
| Mel B. | 1975- | (Brown) | | |
| Patrick Bruel | 1959- | (Benguigui) | | |
| Betty Buckley | 1947- | | ||
| Jean-Jacques Burnel | 1952- | | ||
| Carter Burwell | 1955- | | ||
| Tajči Cameron | 1970- | (Matejaš) | | |
| Bobby Capó | 1922-1989 | (Rodríguez) | | |
| Irene Cara | 1959-2022 | (Escalera) | | |
| Hoagy Carmichael | 1899-1981 | | ||
| John Carpenter | 1948- | | ||
| Sabrina Carpenter | 1999- | | ||
| Vikki Carr | 1941- | (de Casillas, Martinez, Cardona) | | |
| Rudi Carrell | 1934-2006 | (Kesselaar) | | |
| Michael Cerveris | 1960- | | ||
| Tony Cetinski | 1969- | | ||
| Özgür Çevik | 1981- | | ||
| Kristin Chenoweth | 1968- | | ||
| Maurice Chevalier | 1888-1972 | | ||
| Melanie C. | 1974- | (Chisholm) | | |
| André Claveau | 1911-2003 | | ||
| Rosemary Clooney | 1928-2002 | | ||
| Riff Cohen | 1984- | | ||
| Paula Cole | 1968- | | ||
| Marius Constant | 1925-2004 | | ||
| Hugh Cornwell | 1949- | | ||
| Miranda Cosgrove | 1993- | | ||
| Igor Cukrov | 1984- | | ||
| Noah Cyrus | 2000- | | ||
| Shoshana Damari | 1923-2006 | | ||
| Bobby Darin | 1936-1973 | (Cassotto) | | |
| Sayed Darwish | 1892-1923 | | ||
| Davido | 1992- | (Adeleke) | | |
| Doris Day | 1922-2019 | (Kappelhoff) | | |
| John Debney | 1956- | | ||
| Arsen Dedić | 1938-2015 | | ||
| Ilse DeLange | 1977- | | ||
| Ewa Demarczyk | 1941-2020 | | ||
| Maria de Medeiros | 1965- | | ||
| Esmée Denters | 1988- | | ||
| Eumir Deodato | 1942- | | ||
| Alexandre Desplat | 1961- | | ||
| Marius de Vries | 1961- | | ||
| Charles Dibdin | 1745-1814 | | ||
| Barbara Dickson | 1947- | | ||
| Klaus Dinger | 1946-2008 | | ||
| Howard Donald | 1968- | | ||
| Howie Dorough | 1973- | | ||
| Lila Downs | 1968- | (Sánchez) | | |
| Pumpuang Duangjan | 1961-1992 | | ||
| Candy Dulfer | 1969- | | ||
| Lucille Dumont | 1919-2016 | | ||
| Deanna Durbin | 1921-2013 | | ||
| Feridun Düzağaç | 1968- | | ||
| Sheena Easton | 1959- | | ||
| Dennis Edwards | 1943-2018 | | ||
| Evangelina Elizondo | 1929-2017 | (López-Llera) | | |
| John Ellis | 1952- | | ||
| Warren Ellis | 1965- | | ||
| Zari Elmassian | 1906-1990 | (Vartian) | | |
| Bülent Ersoy | 1952- | | ||
| Dulce María Espinosa | 1985- | (Saviñón) | | |
| Elise Estrada | 1987- | | ||
| Ruth Etting | 1896-1978 | | ||
| Yonca Evcimik | 1963- | | ||
| Don Everly | 1937-2021 | | ||
| Fairuz | 1935- | (Haddad) | | |
| Sylvia Fine | 1913-1991 | (Kaye) | | |
| Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | 1925-2012 | | ||
| Eddie Fisher | 1928-2010 | | ||
| Jordan Fisher | 1994- | | ||
| Roberta Flack | 1937-2025 | | ||
| Wolfgang Flür | 1947- | | ||
| China Forbes | 1970- | | ||
| Don Francks | 1932-2016 | | ||
| Afroditi Frida | 1964- | | ||
| René Froger | 1960- | | ||
| Bronagh Gallagher | 1972- | | ||
| Judy Garland | 1922-1969 | | ||
| Aviv Geffen | 1973- | | ||
| Boy George | 1961- | (O'Dowd) | | |
| Lisa Gerrard | 1961- | | ||
| Tyrese Gibson | 1978- | | ||
| Gigi | 1974- | (Shibabaw) | | |
| Gilberto Gil | 1942- | | ||
| Astrud Gilberto | 1940-2023 | | ||
| Selena Gomez | 1992- | | ||
| Niel Gow | 1727-1807 | | ||
| Francis Goya | 1946- | (Weyer) | | |
| Kat Graham | 1989- | | ||
| Andy Grammer | 1983- | | ||
| Petar Grašo | 1976- | | ||
| David Gray | 1968- | | ||
| Marek Grechuta | 1945-2006 | | ||
| Dave Greenfield | 1949-2020 | | ||
| Rupert Gregson-Williams | 1966- | | ||
| Tito Guízar | 1908-1999 | (Tolentino) | | |
| Lukas Haas | 1976- | | ||
| Abdel Halim Hafez | 1929-1977 | (Shabana) | | |
| Marvin Hamlisch | 1944-2012 | | ||
| Joy Harjo | 1951- | (Foster) | | |
| Phil Harris | 1904-1995 | | ||
| George Harrison | 1943-2001 | | ||
| Stjepan Hauser | 1986- | | ||
| Chesney Hawkes | 1971- | | ||
| Hayedeh | 1942-1990 | (Dadehbala) | | |
| André Hazes | 1951-2004 | | ||
| Imogen Heap | 1977- | | ||
| Nona Hendryx | 1944- | | ||
| Keaton Henson | 1988- | | ||
| Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir | 1989- | | ||
| Fritz Hilpert | 1956- | | ||
| Rupert Hine | 1947-2020 | | ||
| Nurit Hirsh | 1942- | | ||
| Jools Holland | 1958- | | ||
| Telma Hopkins | 1948- | | ||
| James Newton Howard | 1951- | | ||
| Tonči Huljić | 1961- | | ||
| Ralf Hütter | 1946- | | ||
| Idir | 1949-2020 | (Cheriet) | | |
| Julio Iglesias | 1943- | | ||
| Tomislav Ivčić | 1953-1993 | | ||
| Cheyenne Jackson | 1975- | | ||
| Jeremy Jackson | 1980- | | ||
| Tom Jackson | 1948- | | ||
| Ruth Jacott | 1960- | | ||
| Al Jarreau | 1940-2017 | | ||
| Waylon Jennings | 1937-2002 | | ||
| Will Jennings | 1944- | | ||
| Jóhann Jóhannsson | 1969-2018 | | ||
| Grace Jones | 1948- | | ||
| Ibrica Jusić | 1944- | | ||
| Israel Kamakawiwo'ole | 1959-1997 | | ||
| Goran Karan | 1964- | | ||
| Danny Kaye | 1911-1987 | (Kaminsky) | | |
| Salif Keita | 1949- | | ||
| Milko Kelemen | 1924-2018 | | ||
| Amir Khusrau | 1253-1325 | | ||
| Angélique Kidjo | 1960- | | ||
| Ivana Kindl | 1978- | | ||
| Volker David Kirchner | 1942-2020 | | ||
| Dani Klein | 1953- | (Schoovaerts) | | |
| Simone Kleinsma | 1958- | | ||
| Hildegard Knef | 1925-2002 | (Neff) | | |
| Zorica Kondža | 1960- | | ||
| Miliza Korjus | 1909-1980 | | ||
| Lenka Kripac | 1978- | | ||
| Tiff Lacey | 1965- | | ||
| Drew Lachey | 1976- | | ||
| Miranda Lambert | 1983- | | ||
| Katarzyna Łaska | 1979- | | ||
| Vicky Leandros | c. 1950- | (Papathanasiou) | | |
| Tom Lehrer | 1928- | | ||
| Lotte Lenya | 1898-1981 | (Blamauer, Lenja) | | |
| Lepa Brena | 1960- | (Živojinović) | | |
| Indira Levak | 1973- | (Vladić) | | |
| Sivan Levy | 1987- | | ||
| Lizzo | 1988- | (Jefferson) | | |
| Didier Lockwood | 1956-2018 | | ||
| Claudio Lolli | 1950-2018 | | ||
| Trini Lopez | 1937-2020 | | ||
| Miriam "Mama Africa" Makeba | 1932-2008 | | ||
| Michael Malarkey | 1983- | | ||
| Mark Mancina | 1957- | | ||
| Barry Manilow | 1943- | (Pincus) | | |
| Emanuil Manolov | 1860-1902 | | ||
| Thomas Mapfumo | 1945- | | ||
| Boban Marković | 1964- | | ||
| Dean Martin | 1917-1995 | | ||
| Maysa Matarazzo | 1936-1977 | (Figueira, Monjardim) | | |
| Alo Mattiisen | 1961-1996 | | ||
| Charlie McGettigan | 1950- | | ||
| Roger McGuinn | 1942- | | ||
| Les McKeown | 1955-2021 | | ||
| Christine McVie | 1943-2022 | (Perfect) | | |
| Zubin Mehta | 1936- | | ||
| Natalie Merchant | 1963- | | ||
| Michiya Mihashi | 1930-1996 | | ||
| Mina | 1940- | (Mazzini) | | |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | 1980- | | ||
| Hibari Misora | 1937-1989 | | ||
| Maia Mitchell | 1993- | | ||
| Yves Montand | 1921-1991 | | ||
| Romy Monteiro | 1992- | (Truggelaar) | | |
| Kemal Monteno | 1948-2015 | | ||
| Sara Montiel | 1928-2013 | (Abad, Fernández) | | |
| Michael Moorcock | 1939- | | ||
| R. Stevie Moore | 1952- | | ||
| Darío Moreno | 1921-1968 | (Arugete) | | |
| Angela Morley | 1924-2009 | (Stott) | | |
| Van Morrison | 1945- | | ||
| Nana Mouskouri | 1934- | | ||
| Georges Moustaki | 1934-2013 | (Mustacchi) | | |
| Maksim Mrvica | 1975- | | ||
| John Murphy | 1965- | | ||
| Marie Myriam | 1957- | (Lopes, Elmosnino) | | |
| Guusje Nederhorst | 1969-2004 | (Woesthoff) | | |
| Ozzie Nelson | 1906-1975 | | ||
| Randy Newman | 1943- | | ||
| Thomas Newman | 1955- | | ||
| Ljiljana Nikolovska | 1964- | | ||
| Luka Nižetić | 1983- | | ||
| Klaus Nomi | 1944-1983 | (Sperber) | | |
| Đorđe Novković | 1943-2007 | | ||
| Paolo Nutini | 1987- | | ||
| Turlough O'Carolan | 1670-1738 | | ||
| Finneas O'Connell | 1997- | | ||
| Liam O'Flynn | 1945-2018 | | ||
| Damini Ebunoluwa "Burna Boy" Ogulu | 1991- | | ||
| Zuhal Olcay | 1957- | | ||
| Yoko Ono | 1933- | | ||
| Trijntje Oosterhuis | 1973- | | ||
| Jason Orange | 1970- | | ||
| Mark Owen | 1972- | | ||
| Elaine Paige | 1948- | (Bickerstaff) | | |
| Keke Palmer | 1993- | | ||
| Michael Parks | 1940-2017 | | ||
| Jean-Claude Pascal | 1927-1992 | (Villeminot) | | |
| Neil Peart | 1952-2020 | | ||
| Tommy Peoples | 1948-2018 | | ||
| Belle Pérez | 1976- | (Cerezo) | | |
| Phạm Duy | 1921-2013 | | ||
| Barrington Pheloung | 1954-2019 | | ||
| Chynna Phillips | 1968- | | ||
| Billie Piper | 1982- | | ||
| Violante Placido | 1976- | | ||
| Basil Poledouris | 1945-2006 | | ||
| Jintara Poonlarp | 1969- | | ||
| Toše Proeski | 1981-2007 | | ||
| Miljenko Prohaska | 1925-2014 | | ||
| Indira Radić | 1966- | | ||
| Boban Rajović | 1971- | | ||
| Andy Razaf | 1895-1973 | (Razafinkarefo) | | |
| Antonis Remos | 1970- | | ||
| Graeme Revell | 1955- | | ||
| Debbie Reynolds | 1932-2016 | | ||
| Ishay Ribo | 1989- | | ||
| Tim Rice | 1944- | | ||
| Kevin Richardson | 1971- | | ||
| Andrew Ridgeley | 1963- | | ||
| Laza Ristovski | 1956-2007 | | ||
| Roberto Carlos | 1941- | (Braga) | | |
| Paul Roberts | 1959- | | ||
| Klaus Röder | 1948- | | ||
| Jim Rodford | 1941-2018 | | ||
| Maryla Rodowicz | 1945- | | ||
| Robert Rodriguez | 1968- | | ||
| Edsilia Rombley | 1978- | | ||
| Mark Ronson | 1975- | | ||
| Rose Marie | 1923-2017 | (Mazzetta) | | |
| Emmy Rossum | 1986- | | ||
| Michael Rother | 1950- | | ||
| Rick Rubin | 1963- | | ||
| Zdenko Runjić | 1942-2004 | | ||
| Mark Salling | 1982-2018 | | ||
| Teddy Scholten | 1926-2010 | (van Zwieteren) | | |
| Naomi Scott | 1993- | | ||
| Keala Settle | 1975- | | ||
| Mohammad-Reza Shajarian | 1940-2020 | | ||
| Blake Shelton | 1976- | | ||
| Noam Sheriff | 1935-2018 | | ||
| Sherine | 1980- | (Abdel Wahab) | | |
| Shin Bora | 1987- | | ||
| Sieneke | 1992- | (Peeters) | | |
| Carlo Siliotto | 1950- | | ||
| Alan Silvestri | 1950- | | ||
| Tatjana Šimić | 1963- | | ||
| Nina Simone | 1933-2003 | (Waymon) | | |
| Ashlee Simpson | 1984- | | ||
| Frank Sinatra | 1915-1998 | | ||
| Miroslav Škoro | 1962- | | ||
| Aistė Smilgevičiūtė | 1977- | | ||
| Jan Smit | 1985- | | ||
| Mark E. Smith | 1957-2018 | | ||
| Patti Smith | 1946- | | ||
| Phil Spector | 1939-2021 | | ||
| Kazik Staszewski | 1963- | | ||
| Margita Stefanović | 1959-2002 | | ||
| Connie Stevens | 1938- | (Ingoglia) | | |
| Gale Storm | 1922-2009 | (Cottle) | | |
| Crispian St. Peters | 1939-2010 | (Smith) | | |
| Luka Šulić | 1987- | | ||
| Yma Sumac | 1922-2008 | (Chávarri, del Castillo) | | |
| Cree Summer | 1969- | (Francks) | | |
| Andrea Šušnjara | 1987- | | ||
| Radojka Šverko | 1948- | | ||
| Ninet Tayeb | 1983- | | ||
| Mieke Telkamp | 1934-2016 | (Telgenkamp) | | |
| Ellen ten Damme | 1967- | | ||
| Ray Thomas | 1941-2018 | | ||
| Ashley Tisdale | 1985- | | ||
| Noa Tishby | 1975- | | ||
| Willi Tokarev | 1934-2019 | | ||
| Trịnh Công Sơn | 1939-2001 | | ||
| Neda Ukraden | 1950- | | ||
| Umm Kulthum | 1898-1975 | (as-Sayed, el-Beltagi) | | |
| Urbanus | 1949- | (Servranckx) | | |
| Ritchie Valens | 1941-1959 | (Valenzuela) | | |
| Raimond Valgre | 1913-1949 | (Tiisel) | | |
| Văn Cao | 1923-1995 | (Nguyễn) | | |
| Mamie Van Doren | 1931- | (Olander) | | |
| Herman van Veen | 1945- | | ||
| Roel van Velzen | 1978- | | ||
| Alexey Vorobyov | 1988- | | ||
| Alka Vuica | 1961- | | ||
| Loudon Wainwright III | 1946- | | ||
| Jason Weaver | 1979- | | ||
| Chuck E. Weiss | 1945-2021 | | ||
| Wes | 1964-2021 | (Madiko) | | |
| Toyah Willcox | 1958- | | ||
| Pharrell Williams | 1973- | | ||
| Vanessa L. Williams | 1963- | | ||
| Bobby Womack | 1944-2014 | | ||
| Suthep Wongkamhaeng | 1934-2020 | | ||
| Henry Clay Work | 1832-1884 | | ||
| Rini Wulandari | 1990- | | ||
| Rita Yahan-Farouz | 1962- | | ||
| Yanni | 1954- | (Chryssomallis) | | |
| Dražen Žerić | 1964- | | ||
| Aaron Zigman | 1963- | | ||
| Fela Kuti | 1938-1997 | Afrobeat | | |
| Brenda Fassie | 1964-2004 | Afropop, kwaito | | |
| Brian Eno | 1948- | ambient | | |
| Tarsame Singh Saini | 1967-2022 | Asian fusion | | |
| Laurie Anderson | 1947- | avant-garde, pop | | |
| Maite Perroni | 1983- | bachata, pop | (Beorlegui) | |
| James Last | 1929-2015 | big band, jazz | | |
| Tony Martin | 1913-2012 | big band, pop | (Morris) | |
| Norman "Fatboy Slim" Cook | 1963- | big beat | | |
| Alison Krauss | 1971- | bluegrass | | |
| Bobby Bland | 1930-2013 | blues | (Brooks) | |
| Bo Diddley | 1928-2008 | blues | (Bates) | |
| Buddy Guy | 1936- | blues | | |
| Lucille Hegamin | 1894-1970 | blues | (Nelson) | |
| John Lee Hooker | 1917-2001 | blues | | |
| Elmore James | 1918-1963 | blues | (Brooks) | |
| Etta James | 1938-2012 | blues | (Hawkins) | |
| Robert Johnson | 1911-1938 | blues | | |
| B.B. King | 1925-2015 | blues | | |
| Katie Melua | 1984- | blues | | |
| Bonnie Raitt | 1949- | blues | | |
| Jimmy Reed | 1925-1976 | blues | | |
| "Big" Joe Turner | 1911-1985 | blues | | |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan | 1954-1990 | blues | | |
| Muddy Waters | 1913-1983 | blues | (Morganfield) | |
| Eva Cassidy | 1963-1996 | blues, folk, jazz | | |
| Foy Vance | 1974- | blues, folk, rock | | |
| Bessie Smith | 1894-1937 | blues, jazz | | |
| Yvonne De Carlo | 1922-2007 | blues, jazz, pop | (Middleton) | |
| Elkie Brooks | 1945- | blues, jazz, rock | (Bookbinder) | |
| Otis Rush | 1934-2018 | blues, R&B | | |
| Bernie Marsden | 1951-2023 | blues, rock | | |
| Gary Moore | 1952-2011 | blues, rock | | |
| Jeff Healey | 1966-2008 | blues, rock, jazz | | |
| Eydie Gormé | 1928-2013 | bolero, Latin, pop | (Gormezano) | |
| Salomé | 1939- | bolero, pop | (Marco, Poquet) | |
| João Gilberto | 1931-2019 | bossa nova | (Prado, Pereira, de Oliveira) | |
| Antônio Carlos Jobim | 1927-1994 | bossa nova | | |
| Sérgio Mendes | 1941- | bossa nova | | |
| Claudine Longet | 1942- | bossa nova, pop | | |
| Toon Hermans | 1916-2000 | cabaret | | |
| Wim Sonneveld | 1917-1974 | cabaret | | |
| Harry Belafonte | 1927-2023 | calypso | (Bellanfanti) | |
| Eimear Quinn | 1972- | Celtic | (Ní Chuinn) | |
| Dana | 1951- | Celtic, folk, pop | (Brown, Scallon) | |
| Roma Ryan | 1950- | Celtic, new age | (Shane) | |
| Enya | 1961- | Celtic, new-age, pop | (Brennan, Ní Bhraonáin) | |
| Andrea Corr | 1974- | Celtic, pop, rock | | |
| Caroline Corr | 1973- | Celtic, pop, rock | | |
| Jim Corr | 1964- | Celtic, pop, rock | | |
| Sharon Corr | 1970- | Celtic, pop, rock | | |
| Isabelle Aubret | 1938- | chanson | (Coquerelle) | |
| Charles Aznavour | 1924-2018 | chanson | (Aznavourian) | |
| Jacqueline Boyer | 1941- | chanson | (Ducos) | |
| Jacques Brel | 1929-1978 | chanson | | |
| Julien Clerc | 1947- | chanson | (Leclerc) | |
| Joe Dassin | 1938-1980 | chanson | | |
| Gérard Lenormand | 1945- | chanson | | |
| Mireille Mathieu | 1946- | chanson | | |
| Ramses Shaffy | 1933-2009 | chanson | | |
| Juliette Gréco | 1927-2020 | chanson, cabaret | | |
| Édith Piaf | 1915-1963 | chanson, cabaret | | |
| Georges Brassens | 1921-1981 | chanson, folk | | |
| Reinhard Mey | 1942- | chanson, folk | (May, Yondraschek) | |
| Frida Boccara | 1940-1996 | chanson, folk, jazz | | |
| Boudewijn de Groot | 1944- | chanson, folk, pop | | |
| Lenny Kuhr | 1950- | chanson, folk, pop | | |
| Maurane | 1960-2018 | chanson, jazz, blues | (Luypaerts) | |
| Alain Barrière | 1935-2019 | chanson, pop | (Bellec) | |
| Corinne Hermès | 1961- | chanson, pop | (Bondeaux) | |
| Sandra Kim | 1972- | chanson, pop | (Caldarone) | |
| Liesbeth List | 1941-2020 | chanson, pop | (Driessen) | |
| Will Tura | 1940- | chanson, pop | (Blanckaert) | |
| Raffi | 1948- | children's music | (Cavoukian) | |
| Maria von Trapp | 1905-1987 | choir | | |
| Altamiro Carrilho | 1924-2012 | choro | (Aquino) | |
| Claudio Abbado | 1933-2014 | classical | | |
| Isaac Albéniz | 1860-1909 | classical | | |
| Jacques Arcadelt | c. 1507-1568 | classical | | |
| Martha Argerich | 1941- | classical | | |
| Craig Armstrong | 1959- | classical | | |
| Thomas Arne | 1710-1778 | classical | | |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714-1788 | classical | | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685-1750 | classical | | |
| Johann Christian Bach | 1735-1782 | classical | | |
| Mily Balakirev | 1837-1910 | classical | | |
| Samuel Barber | 1910-1981 | classical | | |
| Daniel Barenboim | 1942- | classical | | |
| Béla Bartók | 1881-1945 | classical | | |
| Amy Beach | 1867-1944 | classical | | |
| Alban Berg | 1885-1935 | classical | | |
| Hector Berlioz | 1803-1869 | classical | | |
| Yara Bernette | 1920-2002 | classical | (Epstein) | |
| Franz Berwald | 1796-1868 | classical | | |
| Michel Blavet | 1700-1768 | classical | | |
| Luigi Boccherini | 1743-1805 | classical | | |
| Alexander Borodin | 1833-1887 | classical | | |
| Nadia Boulanger | 1887-1979 | classical | | |
| Pierre Boulez | 1925-2016 | classical | | |
| Johannes Brahms | 1833-1897 | classical | | |
| Vadim Brodski | 1950- | classical | (Brodsky) | |
| Adolph Brodsky | 1851-1929 | classical | (Brodskij, Brodskiy) | |
| Anton Bruckner | 1824-1896 | classical | | |
| Adolf Busch | 1891-1952 | classical | | |
| Dieterich Buxtehude | 1637-1707 | classical | | |
| Pablo Casals | 1876-1973 | classical | (Defilló) | |
| Marc-Antoine Charpentier | 1643-1704 | classical | | |
| Luigi Cherubini | 1760-1842 | classical | | |
| Frédéric Chopin | 1810-1849 | classical | | |
| Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | 1875-1911 | classical | | |
| Jeremiah Clarke | c. 1674-1707 | classical | | |
| Aaron Copland | 1900-1990 | classical | | |
| Arcangelo Corelli | 1653-1713 | classical | | |
| François Couperin | 1668-1733 | classical | | |
| César Cui | 1835-1918 | classical | | |
| Carl Czerny | 1791-1857 | classical | | |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | c. 1525-1594 | classical | | |
| Louis-Claude Daquin | 1694-1772 | classical | | |
| Jacquet de Berchem | c. 1505-15xx | classical | (Berchem) | |
| Claude Debussy | 1862-1918 | classical | | |
| Orlande de Lassus | c. 1532-1594 | classical | (di Lasso) | |
| Frederick Delius | 1862-1934 | classical | | |
| Guillaume de Machaut | c. 1300-1377 | classical | | |
| Pablo de Sarasate | 1844-1908 | classical | | |
| Claudin de Sermisy | c. 1490-1562 | classical | | |
| Josquin des Prez | c. 1450-1521 | classical | (Desprez) | |
| Tomás Luis de Victoria | 1548-1611 | classical | | |
| Paul Dukas | 1865-1935 | classical | | |
| Antonín Dvořák | 1841-1904 | classical | | |
| Edward Elgar | 1857-1934 | classical | | |
| Gabriel Fauré | 1845-1924 | classical | | |
| César Franck | 1822-1890 | classical | | |
| Giovanni Gabrieli | c. 1554-1612 | classical | | |
| Philip Glass | 1937- | classical | | |
| Mikhail Glinka | 1804-1857 | classical | | |
| Henryk Górecki | 1933-2010 | classical | | |
| Jakov Gotovac | 1895-1982 | classical | | |
| Glenn Gould | 1932-1982 | classical | | |
| Percy Grainger | 1882-1961 | classical | | |
| Edvard Grieg | 1843-1907 | classical | | |
| Guido of Arezzo | c. 991-c. 1035 | classical | | |
| Üzeyir Hacıbəyov | 1885-1948 | classical | (Hajibeyov) | |
| Georg Friedrich Händel | 1685-1759 | classical | | |
| Dismas Hataš | 1724-1777 | classical | | |
| Joseph Haydn | 1732-1809 | classical | | |
| Hildegard of Bingen | 1098-1179 | classical | | |
| Paul Hindemith | 1895-1963 | classical | | |
| Gustav Holst | 1874-1934 | classical | | |
| Vladimir Horowitz | 1903-1989 | classical | | |
| Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov | 1859-1935 | classical | | |
| Liana Isakadze | 1946- | classical | | |
| Jacquet of Mantua | 1483-1559 | classical | (Colebault) | |
| Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet | 1665-1729 | classical | | |
| Clément Janequin | c. 1485-1558 | classical | | |
| Katherine Jenkins | 1980- | classical | | |
| Adolf Jensen | 1837-1879 | classical | | |
| Johann Strauss I | 1804-1849 | classical | | |
| Sergey Khachatryan | 1985- | classical | | |
| Aram Khachaturian | 1903-1978 | classical | | |
| Franz Lehár | 1870-1948 | classical | | |
| György Ligeti | 1923-2006 | classical | | |
| Adolf Fredrik Lindblad | 1801-1878 | classical | | |
| Franz Liszt | 1811-1886 | classical | | |
| Ferdo Livadić | 1799-1879 | classical | (Wiesner) | |
| Luzzasco Luzzaschi | c. 1545-1607 | classical | | |
| Edward MacDowell | 1860-1908 | classical | | |
| Gustav Mahler | 1860-1911 | classical | | |
| Jules Massenet | 1842-1912 | classical | | |
| Fanny Mendelssohn | 1805-1847 | classical | | |
| Felix Mendelssohn | 1809-1847 | classical | | |
| Yehudi Menuhin | 1916-1999 | classical | | |
| Olivier Messiaen | 1908-1992 | classical | | |
| Edvard Mirzoyan | 1921-2012 | classical | | |
| Leopold Mozart | 1719-1787 | classical | | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756-1791 | classical | | |
| Modest Mussorgsky | 1839-1881 | classical | | |
| Michał Kleofas Ogiński | 1765-1833 | classical | | |
| Carl Orff | 1895-1982 | classical | | |
| Johann Pachelbel | 1653-1706 | classical | | |
| Niccolò Paganini | 1782-1840 | classical | | |
| Hubert Parry | 1848-1918 | classical | | |
| Arvo Pärt | 1935- | classical | | |
| Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933-2020 | classical | | |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | 1710-1736 | classical | | |
| Itzhak Perlman | 1945- | classical | | |
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1891-1953 | classical | | |
| Henry Purcell | 1659-1695 | classical | | |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873-1943 | classical | | |
| Maurice Ravel | 1875-1937 | classical | | |
| Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean | 1960- | classical | | |
| André Rieu | 1949- | classical | | |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1844-1908 | classical | (Korsakow) | |
| Ludovico Roncalli | 1654-1713 | classical | | |
| Gioachino Rossini | 1792-1868 | classical | | |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | 1927-2007 | classical | | |
| Anton Rubinstein | 1829-1894 | classical | | |
| Arthur Rubinstein | 1887-1982 | classical | | |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | 1835-1921 | classical | | |
| Antonio Salieri | 1750-1825 | classical | | |
| Erik Satie | 1866-1925 | classical | | |
| Domenico Scarlatti | 1685-1757 | classical | | |
| Johann Adolf Scheibe | 1708-1776 | classical | | |
| Arnold Schoenberg | 1874-1951 | classical | (Schönberg) | |
| Franz Schubert | 1797-1828 | classical | | |
| Clara Schumann | 1819-1896 | classical | | |
| Robert Schumann | 1810-1856 | classical | | |
| Heinrich Schütz | 1585-1672 | classical | | |
| Münir Nurettin Selçuk | 1900-1981 | classical | | |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906-1975 | classical | | |
| Jean Sibelius | 1865-1957 | classical | | |
| Aleksandr Skriabin | 1871-1915 | classical | (Scriabin) | |
| Wibi Soerjadi | 1970- | classical | | |
| Max Steiner | 1888-1971 | classical | | |
| William Grant Still | 1895-1978 | classical | | |
| Johann Strauss II | 1825-1899 | classical | | |
| Richard Strauss | 1864-1949 | classical | | |
| Igor Stravinsky | 1882-1971 | classical | | |
| Władysław Szpilman | 1911-2000 | classical | | |
| Giuseppe Tartini | 1692-1770 | classical | | |
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1840-1893 | classical | | |
| Georg Philipp Telemann | 1681-1767 | classical | | |
| Mikis Theodorakis | 1925-2021 | classical | | |
| Virgil Thomson | 1896-1989 | classical | | |
| Sulkhan Tsintsadze | 1925-1991 | classical | | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770-1827 | classical | (Beethoven) | |
| Vanessa-Mae | 1978- | classical | (Vanakorn, Nicholson) | |
| Antonio Vivaldi | 1678-1741 | classical | | |
| Adolf von Henselt | 1814-1889 | classical | (Henselt) | |
| Peter Warlock | 1894-1930 | classical | (Heseltine) | |
| Anton Webern | 1883-1945 | classical | | |
| Kurt Weill | 1900-1950 | classical | | |
| Adolf Wiklund | 1879-1950 | classical | | |
| Jan Dismas Zelenka | 1679-1745 | classical | | |
| John Cage | 1912-1992 | classical, avant-garde | | |
| Carmine Coppola | 1910-1991 | classical, film score | | |
| Patrick Doyle | 1953- | classical, film score | | |
| Ludovico Einaudi | 1955- | classical, film score | | |
| Joe Hisaishi | 1950- | classical, film score | (Fujisawa) | |
| John Williams | 1932- | classical, film score | | |
| Iva Bittová | 1958- | classical, folk, rock | | |
| George Gershwin | 1898-1937 | classical, jazz | (Gershwine) | |
| Adolphe Adam | 1803-1856 | classical, opera | | |
| Tomaso Albinoni | 1671-1751 | classical, opera | | |
| Benjamin Britten | 1913-1976 | classical, opera | | |
| Francesco Cavalli | 1602-1676 | classical, opera | | |
| Léo Delibes | 1836-1891 | classical, opera | | |
| Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1714-1787 | classical, opera | | |
| François-Joseph Gossec | 1734-1829 | classical, opera | | |
| Johann Adolph Hasse | 1699-1783 | classical, opera | | |
| Hervé | 1825-1892 | classical, opera | (Ronger) | |
| Leoš Janáček | 1854-1928 | classical, opera | | |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully | 1632-1687 | classical, opera | (Lulli) | |
| Claudio Monteverdi | 1567-1643 | classical, opera | | |
| Jean-Philippe Rameau | 1683-1764 | classical, opera | | |
| Alessandro Scarlatti | 1660-1725 | classical, opera | | |
| Bedřich Smetana | 1824-1884 | classical, opera | | |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | 1928-2007 | classical, opera | | |
| Arthur Sullivan | 1842-1900 | classical, opera | | |
| Arturo Toscanini | 1867-1957 | classical, opera | | |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872-1958 | classical, opera | | |
| Herbert von Karajan | 1908-1989 | classical, opera | (Karajan) | |
| Carl Maria von Weber | 1786-1826 | classical, opera | | |
| Richard Wagner | 1813-1883 | classical, opera | | |
| Charlotte Church | 1986- | classical, pop | (Reed) | |
| Helmut Lotti | 1969- | classical, pop, rock | (Lotigiers) | |
| Jason Aldean | 1977- | country | (Williams) | |
| Garth Brooks | 1962- | country | | |
| Glen Campbell | 1936-2017 | country | | |
| Deana Carter | 1966- | country | | |
| Johnny Cash | 1932-2003 | country | | |
| Patsy Cline | 1932-1963 | country | (Hensley) | |
| Billy Ray Cyrus | 1961- | country | | |
| Steve Earle | 1955- | country | | |
| Vince Gill | 1957- | country | | |
| Merle Haggard | 1937-2016 | country | | |
| George Jones | 1931-2013 | country | | |
| Naomi Judd | 1946-2022 | country | | |
| Toby Keith | 1961-2024 | country | (Covel) | |
| Jana Kramer | 1983- | country | | |
| Kris Kristofferson | 1936-2024 | country | | |
| Lyle Lovett | 1957- | country | | |
| Loretta Lynn | 1932-2022 | country | | |
| Martina McBride | 1966- | country | (Schiff) | |
| Mindy McCready | 1975-2013 | country | | |
| Reba McEntire | 1955- | country | | |
| Tim McGraw | 1967- | country | | |
| Bill Monroe | 1911-1996 | country | | |
| Willie Nelson | 1933- | country | | |
| K. T. Oslin | 1942-2020 | country | | |
| Randy Owen | 1949- | country | | |
| Dolly Parton | 1946- | country | | |
| Charlie Rich | 1932-1995 | country | | |
| LeAnn Rimes | 1982- | country | | |
| Jimmie Rodgers | 1897-1933 | country | | |
| Kenny Rogers | 1938-2020 | country | | |
| Sturgill Simpson | 1978- | country | | |
| Billie Jo Spears | 1938-2011 | country | (Moore) | |
| Lucille Starr | 1938-2020 | country | (Savoie) | |
| Carrie Underwood | 1983- | country | | |
| Keith Urban | 1967- | country | | |
| Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman | 1936-2007 | country | | |
| Hank Williams | 1923-1953 | country | | |
| Lee Ann Womack | 1966- | country | | |
| Tom Wopat | 1951- | country | | |
| Tammy Wynette | 1942-1998 | country | (Pugh) | |
| Trisha Yearwood | 1964- | country | | |
| Hoyt Axton | 1938-1999 | country, folk | | |
| Melanie | 1947-2024 | country, folk, pop | (Safka, Schekeryk) | |
| Rainey Qualley | 1989- | country, folk, pop | | |
| Gene Autry | 1907-1998 | country, pop | | |
| Faith Hill | 1967- | country, pop | (Perry) | |
| Sam Hunt | 1984- | country, pop | | |
| K. D. Lang | 1961- | country, pop | | |
| Vicki Lawrence | 1949- | country, pop | (Axelrad, Schultz) | |
| Maren Morris | 1990- | country, pop | | |
| Anne Murray | 1945- | country, pop | | |
| B. J. Thomas | 1942-2021 | country, pop | | |
| Shania Twain | 1965- | country, pop | (Edwards) | |
| Jennifer Warnes | 1947- | country, pop | | |
| Joe Dolan | 1939-2007 | country, pop, rock | | |
| Terry Jacks | 1944- | country, pop, rock | | |
| Nancy Sinatra | 1940- | country, pop, rock | | |
| Elisabeth Andreassen | 1958- | country, pop, rock, schlager | (Andreasson) | |
| Waylon | 1980- | country, pop, rock, soul | (Bijkerk) | |
| Teddy Swims | 1992- | country, pop, soul | (Dimsdale) | |
| Emmylou Harris | 1947- | country, rock | | |
| J. D. Souther | 1945- | country, rock | | |
| Billy Swan | 1942- | country, rock | | |
| Lorrie Collins | 1942-2018 | country, rockabilly | | |
| Yola | 1983- | country, soul, R&B | (Carter, Quartey) | |
| Sonia "Sonique" Clarke | 1965- | dance | | |
| Isham Jones | 1894-1956 | dance band | | |
| Ray Slijngaard | 1971- | dance, hip hop, house | | |
| Anita Doth | 1971- | dance, house | (Dels) | |
| René Dif | 1967- | dance, pop | | |
| Olivia Holt | 1997- | dance, pop | | |
| Claus Norreen | 1970- | dance, pop | | |
| Lene Nystrøm | 1973- | dance, pop | (Grawford) | |
| Søren Rasted | 1969- | dance, pop | | |
| Holly Valance | 1983- | dance, pop | (Vukadinović) | |
| Ricky Martin | 1971- | dance, pop, reggaeton, salsa | (Morales) | |
| Nia Peeples | 1961- | dance, R&B | | |
| Amanda Palmer | 1976- | dark cabaret, folk, rock | | |
| Gloria Gaynor | 1943- | disco | | |
| Charlotte Perrelli | 1974- | disco, pop, schlager | (Nilsson) | |
| Van McCoy | 1940-1979 | disco, R&B, pop | | |
| Bonnie Pointer | 1950-2020 | disco, R&B, soul | | |
| Anita Ward | 1956- | disco, R&B, soul | | |
| Carl Douglas | 1942- | disco, reggae | | |
| Marcia Barrett | 1948- | disco, reggae, R&B | | |
| Bobby Farrell | 1949-2010 | disco, reggae, R&B | | |
| Liz Mitchell | 1952- | disco, reggae, soul | | |
| George McCrae | 1944- | disco, soul | | |
| Amii Stewart | 1956- | disco, soul | | |
| Jonas "Basshunter" Altberg | 1984- | electronic | | |
| Tim "Avicii" Bergling | 1989-2018 | electronic | (Lidén) | |
| Christopher "Marshmello" Comstock | 1992- | electronic | | |
| Tina Cousins | 1971- | electronic | | |
| DJ Paul Elstak | 1966- | electronic | | |
| Keith Flint | 1969-2019 | electronic | | |
| Alejandra "Arca" Ghersi | 1989- | electronic | | |
| Alison Goldfrapp | 1966- | electronic | | |
| William "DJ Snake" Grigahcine | 1986- | electronic | | |
| David Guetta | 1967- | electronic | | |
| Richard Melville "Moby" Hall | 1965- | electronic | | |
| Calvin Harris | 1984- | electronic | (Wiles) | |
| Inna | 1986- | electronic | (Apostoleanu) | |
| Richard D. "Aphex Twin" James | 1971- | electronic | | |
| Jean-Michel Jarre | 1948- | electronic | | |
| Sonny "Skrillex" Moore | 1988- | electronic | | |
| Giorgio Moroder | 1940- | electronic | | |
| Thomas "Diplo" Pentz | 1978- | electronic | | |
| Florian Schneider | 1947-2020 | electronic | (Esleben) | |
| Sophie | 1986-2021 | electronic | (Xeon) | |
| André "ATB" Tanneberger | 1973- | electronic | | |
| Tchami | 1985- | electronic | (Léonard) | |
| Armin van Buuren | 1976- | electronic | | |
| Vangelis | 1943-2022 | electronic | (Papathanassiou) | |
| Tijs "Tiësto" Verwest | 1969- | electronic | | |
| Alan Walker | 1997- | electronic | | |
| Joel "Deadmau5" Zimmerman | 1981- | electronic | | |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto | 1952-2023 | electronic, film score | | |
| Kateryna Pavlenko | 1988- | electronic, folk | | |
| Leor "DJ Lethal" Dimant | 1972- | electronic, hip hop, metal, rock | (Dimants) | |
| Yoko Shimomura | 1967- | electronic, instrumental | | |
| Sébastien Tellier | 1975- | electronica, pop | | |
| Nynke Laverman | 1980- | fado | | |
| Mariza | 1973- | fado | (Nunes) | |
| Ana Moura | 1979- | fado | (Pereira) | |
| Amália Rodrigues | 1920-1999 | fado | (Rebordão) | |
| Celeste Rodrigues | 1923-2018 | fado | (Rebordão) | |
| S. P. Balasubrahmanyam | 1946-2020 | film score | | |
| John Barry | 1933-2011 | film score | | |
| Christophe Beck | 1972- | film score | | |
| Elmer Bernstein | 1922-2004 | film score | | |
| R. D. Burman | 1939-1994 | film score | | |
| Ramin Djawadi | 1974- | film score | | |
| Danny Elfman | 1953- | film score | | |
| Michael Giacchino | 1967- | film score | | |
| Jerry Goldsmith | 1929-2004 | film score | | |
| Harry Gregson-Williams | 1961- | film score | | |
| Nicholas Hooper | c. 1952- | film score | | |
| James Horner | 1953-2015 | film score | | |
| Mark Isham | 1951- | film score | | |
| Henry Jackman | 1974- | film score | | |
| Maurice Jarre | 1924-2009 | film score | | |
| Henry Mancini | 1924-1994 | film score | | |
| Lata Mangeshkar | 1929-2022 | film score | | |
| Bear McCreary | 1979- | film score | | |
| Alan Menken | 1949- | film score | | |
| Ennio Morricone | 1928-2020 | film score | | |
| O. P. Nayyar | 1926-2007 | film score | | |
| Michael Nyman | 1944- | film score | | |
| John Powell | 1963- | film score | | |
| Mohammed Rafi | 1924-1980 | film score | | |
| A. R. Rahman | 1967- | film score | | |
| Marc Streitenfeld | 1974- | film score | | |
| Stephen Warbeck | 1953- | film score | | |
| Hans Zimmer | 1957- | film score | | |
| Nino Rota | 1911-1979 | film score, classical | (Rinaldi) | |
| Howard Shore | 1946- | film score, classical | | |
| Camarón de la Isla | 1950-1992 | flamenco | (Monje, Cruz) | |
| Paco de Lucía | 1947-2014 | flamenco | (Sánchez, Gómez) | |
| Lola Flores | 1923-1995 | flamenco | (Ruiz) | |
| José Afonso | 1929-1987 | folk | | |
| Freddie Aguilar | 1953- | folk | (Pascual) | |
| Haris Alexiou | 1950- | folk | | |
| Joan Baez | 1941- | folk | | |
| Theodore Bikel | 1924-2015 | folk | | |
| Yavuz Bingöl | 1964- | folk | | |
| Ciarán Bourke | 1935-1988 | folk | | |
| Tracy Chapman | 1964- | folk | | |
| Leonard Cohen | 1934-2016 | folk | | |
| Donovan | 1946- | folk | (Leitch) | |
| Maria Doyle Kennedy | 1964- | folk | | |
| Bob Dylan | 1941- | folk | (Zimmerman) | |
| Jackson C. Frank | 1943-1999 | folk | | |
| Art Garfunkel | 1941- | folk | | |
| Eliza Gilkyson | 1950- | folk | | |
| Rosi Golan | 1981- | folk | | |
| Arlo Guthrie | 1947- | folk | | |
| Woody Guthrie | 1912-1967 | folk | | |
| Markéta Irglová | 1988- | folk | | |
| Victor Jara | 1932-1973 | folk | | |
| Olivera Katarina | 1940- | folk | (Petrović) | |
| Ahmet Kaya | 1957-2000 | folk | | |
| Dolores Keane | 1953- | folk | | |
| Karel Kryl | 1944-1994 | folk | | |
| Aca Lukas | 1968- | folk | (Vuksanović) | |
| Dónal Lunny | 1947- | folk | | |
| Mykola Lysenko | 1842-1912 | folk | | |
| Laura Marling | 1990- | folk | | |
| Joni Mitchell | 1943- | folk | | |
| Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh | 1959- | folk | | |
| Stojanka Novaković | 1972- | folk | | |
| Phil Ochs | 1940-1976 | folk | | |
| Beth Orton | 1970- | folk | | |
| Buffy Sainte-Marie | 1941- | folk | | |
| Pete Seeger | 1919-2014 | folk | | |
| Paul Simon | 1941- | folk | | |
| Mercedes Sosa | 1935-2009 | folk | | |
| İbrahim Tatlıses | 1952- | folk | | |
| Vladimir Vysotsky | 1938-1980 | folk | | |
| Ali Farka Touré | 1939-2006 | folk, blues | | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 1975- | folk, electronic, rock | | |
| Moya Brennan | 1952- | folk, new-age | (Ní Bhraonáin) | |
| Miri Aloni | 1949- | folk, pop | | |
| Jeremy Clyde | 1941- | folk, pop | | |
| Sabahudin Kurt | 1935-2018 | folk, pop | | |
| Maggie Rogers | 1994- | folk, pop | | |
| Regina Spektor | 1980- | folk, pop | | |
| Bobbejaan Schoepen | 1925-2010 | folk, pop, cabaret | | |
| Phoebe Bridgers | 1994- | folk, pop, rock | | |
| John Denver | 1943-1997 | folk, pop, rock | (Deutschendorf) | |
| Jewel | 1974- | folk, pop, rock | (Kilcher) | |
| Angelo Kelly | 1981- | folk, pop, rock | | |
| Demis Roussos | 1946-2015 | folk, pop, rock, schlager | (Ventouris) | |
| Roger Whittaker | 1936-2023 | folk, pop, schlager | | |
| Paul Harrington | 1960- | folk, pop, soul | | |
| Johnny Flynn | 1983- | folk, rock | | |
| Janis Ian | 1951- | folk, rock | (Fink) | |
| Don McLean | 1945- | folk, rock | | |
| Carly Simon | 1945- | folk, rock | | |
| George Clinton | 1941- | funk | | |
| William "Bootsy" Collins | 1951- | funk | | |
| Sly Stone | 1943- | funk | (Stewart) | |
| Edwin Starr | 1942-2003 | funk, R&B, soul | (Hatcher) | |
| Prince | 1958-2016 | funk, rock | (Nelson) | |
| Edwin Hawkins | 1943-2018 | gospel | | |
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe | 1915-1973 | gospel | (Atkins, Nubin) | |
| CeCe Winans | 1964- | gospel | | |
| Shawn "Clown" Crahan | 1969- | heavy metal | | |
| Chris Fehn | 1973- | heavy metal | | |
| Paul "The Pig" Gray | 1972-2010 | heavy metal | | |
| Craig "133" Jones | 1972- | heavy metal | | |
| Joey Jordison | 1975-2021 | heavy metal | | |
| Jim Root | 1971- | heavy metal | | |
| Corey Taylor | 1973- | heavy metal | | |
| Mick Thomson | 1973- | heavy metal | | |
| Glenn Tipton | 1947- | heavy metal | | |
| Sid Wilson | 1977- | heavy metal | | |
| Sampsa "Kita" Astala | 1974- | heavy metal, rock | | |
| John Corabi | 1959- | heavy metal, rock | | |
| Samer "OX" el Nahhal | 1975- | heavy metal, rock | (Elnahhal) | |
| Bruce Kulick | 1953- | heavy metal, rock | | |
| Vince Neil | 1961- | heavy metal, rock | (Wharton) | |
| Leena Maria "Awa" Peisa | 1979- | heavy metal, rock | | |
| Mike Portnoy | 1967- | heavy metal, rock | | |
| Tomi "Mr Lordi" Putaansuu | 1974- | heavy metal, rock | | |
| Jussi "Amen" Sydänmaa | 1972- | heavy metal, rock | | |
| Riz Ahmed | 1982- | hip hop | | |
| Ermias "Nipsey Hussle" Asghedom | 1985-2019 | hip hop | | |
| Jeffrey "Ja Rule" Atkins | 1976- | hip hop | | |
| Awkwafina | 1988- | hip hop | (Lum) | |
| Iggy Azalea | 1990- | hip hop | (Kelly) | |
| Azealia Banks | 1991- | hip hop | | |
| Yasiin "Mos Def" Bey | 1973- | hip hop | (Smith) | |
| "Bushwick" Bill | 1966-2019 | hip hop | (Shaw) | |
| Ali B. | 1981- | hip hop | (Bouali) | |
| Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges | 1977- | hip hop | | |
| Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Jr. | 1971- | hip hop | | |
| Chris Brown | 1989- | hip hop | | |
| Orlando Brown | 1987- | hip hop | | |
| Cardi B | 1992- | hip hop | (Almánzar) | |
| Nayvadius "Future" Cash | 1983- | hip hop | (Wilburn) | |
| Chance the Rapper | 1993- | hip hop | (Bennett) | |
| Neneh Cherry | 1964- | hip hop | (Karlsson) | |
| Chuck D | 1960- | hip hop | (Ridenhour) | |
| J. Cole | 1985- | hip hop | | |
| Sean Combs | 1969- | hip hop | | |
| Jamell "YNW Melly" Demons | 1999- | hip hop | | |
| Daveed Diggs | 1982- | hip hop | | |
| Tramar "Flo Rida" Dillard | 1979- | hip hop | | |
| Amala "Doja Cat" Dlamini | 1995- | hip hop | | |
| Drake | 1986- | hip hop | (Graham) | |
| Dr. Dre | 1965- | hip hop | (Young) | |
| Daniel "MF Doom" Dumile | 1971-2020 | hip hop | | |
| Sfera Ebbasta | 1992- | hip hop | (Boschetti) | |
| Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott | 1971- | hip hop | | |
| Fedez | 1989- | hip hop | (Lucia) | |
| Fergie | 1975- | hip hop | (Duhamel, Ferguson) | |
| Ghali | 1993- | hip hop | (Amdouni) | |
| Donald Glover | 1983- | hip hop | | |
| Benjamin "Macklemore" Haggerty | 1983- | hip hop | | |
| Taco Hemingway | 1990- | hip hop | (Szcześniak) | |
| Adam Hicks | 1992- | hip hop | | |
| Jarad "Juice Wrld" Higgins | 1998-2019 | hip hop | | |
| Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz | 1966- | hip hop | | |
| Bera Ivanishvili | 1994- | hip hop | | |
| Artis "Coolio" Ivey | 1963-2022 | hip hop | | |
| Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson | 1975- | hip hop | | |
| O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson | 1969- | hip hop | | |
| "Jam Master" Jay | 1965-2002 | hip hop | (Mizell) | |
| Jay-Z | 1969- | hip hop | (Carter) | |
| Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones | 1968-2004 | hip hop | | |
| DJ Khaled | 1975- | hip hop | | |
| Lil' Kim | 1974- | hip hop | (Jones) | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 1987- | hip hop | (Duckworth) | |
| Queen Latifah | 1970- | hip hop | (Owens) | |
| Swae Lee | 1995- | hip hop | (Brown) | |
| Paulo Londra | 1998- | hip hop | | |
| Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes | 1971-2002 | hip hop | | |
| Lonnie "Common" Lynn | 1972- | hip hop | | |
| Tracy "Ice-T" Marrow | 1958- | hip hop | | |
| Marshall "Eminem" Mathers | 1972- | hip hop | | |
| Rakim "ASAP Rocky" Mayers | 1988- | hip hop | | |
| Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels | 1964- | hip hop | | |
| Mike D | 1965- | hip hop | (Diamond) | |
| Mac Miller | 1992-2018 | hip hop | (Fisherman, McCormick) | |
| Percy "Master P" Miller | 1967- | hip hop | | |
| Nicki Minaj | 1982- | hip hop | (Maraj) | |
| Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley | 1972- | hip hop | | |
| Shad "Bow Wow" Moss | 1987- | hip hop | | |
| Dwight "Heavy D" Myers | 1967-2011 | hip hop | | |
| Nas | 1973- | hip hop | (Jones) | |
| Lil Nas X | 1999- | hip hop | (Hill) | |
| Nelly | 1974- | hip hop | (Haynes) | |
| Jahseh "XXXTentacion" Onfroy | 1998-2018 | hip hop | | |
| Megan "Thee Stallion" Pete | 1995- | hip hop | | |
| Johnathan "Blueface" Porter | 1997- | hip hop | | |
| Pras | 1972- | hip hop | (Michel) | |
| Rema | 2000- | hip hop | (Ikubor) | |
| "Slick" Rick | 1965- | hip hop | (Walters) | |
| Marlon Roudette | 1983- | hip hop | (Mcvey) | |
| Travis Scott | 1991- | hip hop | (Webster) | |
| Big Sean | 1988- | hip hop | (Anderson) | |
| Jun "Nujabes" Seba | 1974-2010 | hip hop | | |
| Tupac "2Pac" Shakur | 1971-1996 | hip hop | (Crooks) | |
| Earl "DMX" Simmons | 1970-2021 | hip hop | | |
| Joseph "Run" Simmons | 1964- | hip hop | | |
| Jaden Smith | 1998- | hip hop | | |
| James "LL Cool J" Smith | 1968- | hip hop | | |
| Trevor "Busta Rhymes" Smith | 1972- | hip hop | | |
| Will Smith | 1968- | hip hop | | |
| Micheal "Tyga" Stevenson | 1989- | hip hop | | |
| Jayceon "The Game" Taylor | 1979- | hip hop | | |
| Cameron "Wiz Khalifa" Thomaz | 1987- | hip hop | (Khalifa) | |
| Obie Trice | 1977- | hip hop | | |
| Paul "Stromae" van Haver | 1985- | hip hop | | |
| Robert "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle | 1967- | hip hop | | |
| Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace | 1972-1997 | hip hop | (Smalls) | |
| DeAndre "Soulja Boy" Way | 1990- | hip hop | | |
| Lil Wayne | 1982- | hip hop | (Carter) | |
| Kanye West | 1977- | hip hop | | |
| Will.i.am | 1975- | hip hop | (Adams) | |
| Bryan "Birdman" Williams | 1969- | hip hop | (Brooks) | |
| Robert "Meek Mill" Williams | 1987- | hip hop | | |
| Eric "Eazy-E" Wright | 1964-1995 | hip hop | | |
| Adam "MCA" Yauch | 1964-2012 | hip hop | | |
| Maya "M.I.A." Arulpragasam | 1975- | hip hop, electronic | | |
| Austin "Post Malone" Post | 1995- | hip hop, pop | | |
| Janelle Monáe | 1985- | hip hop, pop, R&B, soul | (Robinson) | |
| Jacob Anderson | 1990- | hip hop, R&B | (Ritchie) | |
| CeeLo Green | 1975- | hip hop, R&B | (Callaway, Burton) | |
| Wyclef Jean | 1969- | hip hop, R&B, soul | | |
| Keith Sweat | 1961- | hip hop, R&B, soul | | |
| Sean Paul | 1973- | hip hop, reggae | (Henriques) | |
| Anuel AA | 1992- | hip hop, reggaeton | (Gazmey, Santiago) | |
| Tego Calderón | 1972- | hip hop, reggaeton | (Rosario) | |
| Ozuna | 1992- | hip hop, reggaeton | (Rosado) | |
| Martin Garrix | 1996- | house | (Garritsen) | |
| Kyrre "Kygo" Gørvell-Dahll | 1991- | house | | |
| Robin Schulz | 1987- | house | | |
| Anton "Zedd" Zaslavski | 1989- | house | (Zaslavskiy) | |
| Ron Carroll | 1968- | house, electronic | | |
| Hariprasad Chaurasia | 1938- | Indian classical | | |
| Zakir Hussain | 1951- | Indian classical | | |
| Bhimsen Joshi | 1922-2011 | Indian classical | | |
| Bismillah Khan | 1916-2006 | Indian classical | | |
| Ram Narayan | 1927- | Indian classical | | |
| Ravi Shankar | 1920-2012 | Indian classical | (Shaunkor, Chowdhury) | |
| Shivkumar Sharma | 1938-2022 | Indian classical | | |
| M. S. Subbulakshmi | 1916-2004 | Indian classical | |