Musical Artists Starting with A

Aphex Twin

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Richard David James , aka Aphex Twin, is an electronic musician. He founded the record label Rephlex Records in 1991 with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge. Richard David James...

ABBA

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ABBA was a pop music group formed in Sweden in November 1970. The band consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson (the "B-boys") and Agnetha Fältskog (Anna...

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco is a Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is a prolific artist, having released over...

Aaliyah

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Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (pronounced /əˈliːə/), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born...

Antonio Diabelli

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Anton (or Antonio) Diabelli (5 September 1781 – 8 April 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the...

Alban Berg

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Alban Maria Johanne Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced...

Articolo 31

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Articolo 31 is a popular band from Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms. They are one of the most popular Italian rock/hip hop groups. Members are...

Amy Grant

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Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her Contemporary Christian music and pop music, and a New York Times Bestselling author, TV personality,...

Alex Lifeson

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Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known for his work as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968...

Arlo Guthrie

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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...

Anthrax

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Anthrax is a New York City-based heavy metal band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for...

Akiko Yano

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Akiko Yano (矢野顕子, Yano Akiko, born February 13, 1955) is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer. She was born as Akiko Suzuki (Suzuki Akiko) in Tokyo and raised in Aomori, Aomori, and...

Alice in Chains

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Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987 by guitarist Jerry Cantrell and vocalist Layne Staley. Although widely associated with grunge music, the band's...

Aaron Copland

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Aaron Copland was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition,...

Asia

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Asia is a rock group formed in 1981. The band was labelled a supergroup and included former members of veteran progressive rock bands Yes, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Uriah Heep...

Anita O'Day

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Anita O'Day (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer. Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said "When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the...

Alicia Keys

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Alicia J. Augello-Cook , professionally known as Alicia Keys, is an American R&B, soul, and neo soul singer-songwriter, pianist, cellist, and actress. Keys has sold over thirty million...

Alanis Morissette

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Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-born singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won 12 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, and has sold over 55 million albums...

Ann Danielewski

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Anne "Annie" Decatur Danielewski (born March 23, 1968), professionally known as Poe, is an American singer and songwriter. She first hit the modern rock charts in the mid-1990s. Poe is the...

Artur Schnabel

Musical Artists, Authors

Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding...

Art Garfunkel

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Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer, poet and actor, best known as half of the Grammy Award winning folk duo Simon & Garfunkel. Garfunkel was born in Forest...

Andrés Segovia

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Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquess of Salobreña was a Spanish classical guitarist born in Linares, Jaén, Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the most important...

Antonín Dvořák

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Antonín Leopold Dvořák , ; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904 was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who...

Arrigo Boito

Musical Artists, Authors

Arrigo Boito (24 February 1842 – 10 June 1918), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his...

Alabama

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Alabama is a Grammy Award-winning country music band that originated in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. They were the most commercially successful country act in the 1980s and remain one...

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