Musical Artists Starting with J

James Brown

TV Actors & Actresses, Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists

James Joseph Brown, Jr. , commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul", the "King of Funk", "Soul Brother #1" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", was an...

John Lee Hooker

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John Lee Hooker was an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. From a musical family,...

Jonathan Richman

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Jonathan Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded The Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has...

Joseph Haydn

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Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical period, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and...

Joe Pass

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Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua) January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was a jazz guitarist. His extensive use of walking basslines, melodic counterpoint during improvisation, use of a...

Jennifer Lopez

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Jennifer Lynn Lopez , popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin...

Janis Joplin

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Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big...

Juliana Hatfield

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Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967 in Wiscasset, Maine, United States), is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake...

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then...

Jamiroquai

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Jamiroquai are an English acid jazz/funk/soul/disco band. Jamiroquai was initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such...

John Coolidge Adams

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John Coolidge Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Harmonielehre , On the Transmigration...

Jeff Lynne

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Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947 in Shard End, Birmingham) is a two-time Ivor Novello Award recipient and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist...

Joy Division

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Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis (vocals and occasional guitar...

John Deacon

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John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951), also known as Deacon John, is a retired English musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the...

Jean Michel Jarre

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Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is regarded as a pioneer in the electronic, synthpop, ambient and New Age genres, as well...

Joan Crawford

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Joan Crawford was an Academy Award-winning American actress, named the tenth Greatest Female Star of All Time by the American Film Institute....

John Coltrane

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John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer, and the husband of Alice Coltrane. Though he was active before 1955,...

John Travolta

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John Joseph Travolta is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer, best known...

Jars of Clay

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Jars of Clay is a Grammy Award winning Christian rock band from Franklin, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois. Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on vocals...

John Denver

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John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an American Country Music/folk singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic...

Judy Garland

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Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an...

Janet Jackson

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Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of...

Jacques Offenbach

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Jacques Offenbach (born Jacob Offenbach; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. Of...

John Cage

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John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A...

JC Chasez

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Joshua Scott Chasez, better known as JC Chasez, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor, best known as one of the lead vocalists in the pop group 'N Sync. In...

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