Alan Jay Lerner was an American Broadway lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical...
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning English comedic actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as...
Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, producer, and director of musicals...
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...
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and screen, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the...
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born March 29, 1943; Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου IPA: [evˈaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsiu]), is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive...
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. As part of Miles Davis's...
Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan...
Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway musicals. He also...
Frederick Loewe (June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and...
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is a British composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American songwriter, singer and guitarist. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand...
David Byrne (born May 14, 1952) is a British musician and artist best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active...
Melissa Lou Etheridge is an Academy Award-winning and two-time Grammy Award-winning American rock singer-songwriter and musician. In 1982, Etheridge moved from...
Joseph Henry "T-Bone" Burnett is an American songwriter, musician and producer. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to his solo...
Trent Reznor is an American musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He operates under the studio name Nine Inch Nails, and was previously associated...
Michel Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenian descent. Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television...
Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent...
Philip David Charles Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of English progressive...
John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history,...
Hans Florian Zimmer is a German composer and producer. He is best known for his Academy Award, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning film scores. His work is notable for...
Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941...
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American Academy Award winning soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer, and actor. Hayes was one of...
Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among...
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a...