Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Selected Composers and Performers of Popular Music
See also
Biographies by Category
- Allen, Peter, singer, songwriter
- Bacharach, Burt, composer, arranger, and conductor
- Belafonte, Harry, singer, actor, tv producer
- Berlin, Irving, composer
- Bond, Carrie Jacobs, songwriter
- Boone, Pat, singer, actor
- Cahn, Sammy, lyricist
- Chaplin, Saul, composer, songwriter, arranger, producer
- Church, Charlotte, singer
- Cohan, George Michael, songwriter, producer, performer
- Cole, Nat
King,
, musician and composer - Conti, Bill, composer
- Crosby, Bing, singer, actor
- Davis, Sammy, Jr., singer, actor
- Day, Doris, singer, actor
- Dresser, Paul, songwriter
- Foster, Stephen Collins, songwriter and composer
- Garland, Judy, singer and film actress
- Gershwin, George, composer
- Gruenberg, Louis, composer
- Hamlisch, Marvin, composer
- Hammerstein, Oscar, 2d, lyricist and librettist
- Hart, Lorenz Milton, lyricist
- Ho, Don, Hawaiian entertainer
- Holmes, Rupert, composer, writer
- Jones, Tom, singer
- Kamakawiwo'ole, Israel, musician
- Kern, Jerome, composer of musicals
- Lane, Burton, composer
- Lee, Peggy, singer, songwriter, actor
- Lerner, Alan Jay, lyricist and librettist
- Lloyd Webber, Andrew, theatrical composer
- Loesser, Frank, lyricist and songwriter
- Loewe, Frederick, composer
- Lombardo, Guy, band leader, impressario
- Mancini, Henry, pop composer
- Manilow, Barry, singer, composer
- Martin, Dean, singer, actor
- Mercer, Johnny, lyricist, songwriter
- Midler, Bette, singer, actor
- Mills Brothers, The , singers
- Minnelli, Liza, singer, actor
- Newman, Randy, singer, composer
- Newton, Wayne, singer
- Newton-John, Olivia, singer, actress
- Piaf, Edith, singer
- Porter, Cole, composer and lyricist
- Puente, Tito, musician
- Rodgers, Richard Charles, composer
- Schwartz, Stephen, composer
- Sinatra, Frank, singer and actor
- Sondheim, Stephen, composer and lyricist
- Sousa, John Philip, bandleader, composer
- Streisand, Barbra, singer, actor, filmmaker
- Tesh, John, musician, TV personality
- Tim, Tiny, singer
- Tormé, Mel, singer
- Williams, John, English composer
- Yankovic, 'Weird Al', musician, humorist
- Yanni, musician
.com/biography/music-popular.html
