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Singers introductions:
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and poet ...
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, education philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam ...
Shahnour Vaghenag Aznavourian (better known by his stage name Charles Aznavour; born 22 May 1924) is a French and Armenian singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. ...
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (born 25 December 1971), known as Dido, is an English singer-songwriter ...
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor ...
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century ...
Francis Cabrel (born 23 November 1953 in Agen, France) is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist ...
Georges Brassens (22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet ...
Jacques Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in Belgium and France initially, and later throughout the world ...
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter from Port Arthur, Texas ...
Jean Ferrat was born in Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine. He was the youngest of four children from a modest family ...
Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948 in Lyon) is a French composer, performer and music producer ...
Jean-Jacques Goldman (born 11 October 1951) is a French singer-songwriter ...
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 as Joan Chandos Báez) is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice ...
Joseph Ira "Joe" Dassin (November 5, 1938 – August 20, 1980) was an American-born Jewish-French singer-songwriter ...
Julien Clerc, born as Paul Alain Leclerc on 4 October 1947 in Paris. He began to learn the piano at six, and by 13, started to play by ear everything he heard on the radio ...
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist ...
Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and entrepreneur ...
Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac (Lot-et-Garonne) on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s ...
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan, known as Renaud (born in Paris on 11 May 1952), is a popular French singer, songwriter and actor ...
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, born and raised in North London ...
Serge Gainsbourg (Lucien Ginsburg) (born April 2nd, 1928 in Paris - died March 2nd, 1991 in Paris) is a french painter, writer, songwriter, pianist, director, actor and filmmaker ...
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins),known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy ...
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist ...
Véronique Sanson (full name, Véronique Marie Line Sanson, born 24 April 1949, in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, France) is a French singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ...
Bands introductions:
ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972, comprising Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad ...
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician ...
Boney M. is a vocal group created by German record producer Frank Farian ...
Dire Straits were a British rock band, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), his younger brother David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion) ...
Eurythmics were a British music duo consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart ...
First Aid Kit is a Swedish folk duo. Klara Söderberg sings and plays guitar ...
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved international success with their progressive and psychedelic music ...
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals) ...
Scorpions are a German rock band formed in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who is the band's only constant member (although Klaus Meine has been lead singer for all their studio albums) ...
Simon & Garfunkel were an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 ...
Supertramp are a British rock band formed in 1969 under the name ”Daddy” before renaming themselves in early 1970 ...
Téléphone was a French rock band formed in 1976 by Jean-Louis Aubert (singer/guitarist), Louis Bertignac (guitarist/singer), Corine Marienneau (bass/singer) and Richard Kolinka (drums) ...
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The group's best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr ...
The Bee Gees were a musical group founded in 1958. The group's line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb ...
The Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter ...
The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989. The band consists of vocalist Dolores O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler ...
The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting (lead vocals, bass), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums) ...
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones on guitar and harmonica, Ian Stewart on piano, Mick Jagger on lead vocals, harmonica and maracas, Keith Richards on guitar and vocals, Bill Wyman on bass and Charlie Watts on drums ...
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion) ...
UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England ...
ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in June 1969 in Houston, Texas. The band consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Billy Gibbons, bassist and co-lead vocalist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard ...
Composers introductions:
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, record producer, and actor ...
Ennio Morricone (November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works ...
Georges Delerue (12 March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who composed for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards ...
John Barry Prendergast (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music ...
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist ...
Michel Jean Legrand (born 24 February 1932) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist ...
Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic ...
Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American film and television score composer ...
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born 29 March 1943), professionally known as Vangelis, is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music ...
Vladimir Cosma is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, born 13 April 1940 in Bucharest, Romania, into a family of musicians ...