Musical Artists Starting with M

Metallica

Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists

Metallica is an American heavy metal band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper, Metallica's...

Mack Sennett

Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists

Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian -born Academy Award-winning director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was...

Minor Threat

Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite the band's short lifespan, it had a strong influence on the hardcore punk...

Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and film producer. After spending much of her childhood in...

Mötley Crüe

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Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx (who was, at the time, in a...

Mariah Carey

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Mariah Carey is an American recording artist and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first...

Meat Puppets

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The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris...

Mike Oldfield

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Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield (born 15 May 1953, Reading, Berkshire) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or...

Mississippi John Hurt

Musical Artists

Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966) was an influential country blues singer and guitarist. He sang in a loud whisper, to a melodious finger-picked guitar...

Miles Davis

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Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was...

Men at Work

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Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock band which achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a #1 album and single...

Megadeth

Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band led by founder, front man, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. Formed in 1983 by Mustaine and bass player David Ellefson following Mustaine's...

Mickey Hart

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Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman; September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead...

Motörhead

Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses

Motörhead are a British rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. The band was part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal...

Mick Fleetwood

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Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British-born musician best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His...

Micky Dolenz

Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists, TV Actors & Actresses

George Michael Dolenz, Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, television director and theatre director; he is best known for his role as the drummer/vocalist in the 1960s...

Mary Martin

Actors & Actresses, Musical Artists, TV Actors & Actresses

Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound...

Madness

Musical Albums, Musical Artists

Madness are a British pop/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. In 2009, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although...

Martha Argerich

Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses

Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine pianist. Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three (the provenance of the...

Marillion

Musical Artists

Marillion are a British rock group. Formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1979, their recorded studio output comprises fifteen albums and is generally regarded as comprising two...

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Musical Artists, Authors

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (also spelled Musorgsky, Moussorgsky Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский) (March 21 [O.S. March 9], 1839 – March 28 [O.S. March 16], 1881), one of the Russian...

Maria Callas

Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses, Authors

Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and perhaps the most renowned opera singer of the 1950s. She combined an impressive bel canto...

Massive Attack

Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses

Massive Attack are a music production and vocal duo from Bristol, United Kingdom. Working alongside co-producers, they assemble a collective of various favoured session musicians and guest...

Marian Anderson

Musical Artists

Marian Anderson was an American contralto, perhaps best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C....

Manu Chao

Musical Artists

Manu Chao (born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao on June 21, 1961 in Paris, France) is a French Latin folk singer of Basque and Galician origin. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Arabic...

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