WEvin Agassi, also written as Evin Aghassi, is an Assyrian-American singer who has released over 20 albums during his career. His music career spans for 50 years, but it peaked in the 1980s and 1990s.
WIskender Alptekin, also known as Matay Rabo, was an Aramaic politician, musician and the President of the European Syriac Union (ESU).
WGabriel Asaad was an Assyrian composer and musician. Among the classical songs of Gabriel Asaad there are Ho Donho Shemsho, Motho Rhimto and Moth Beth-Nahrin. Gabriel Asaad was the pioneer of Assyrian music and composed the first Assyrian song in the Turoyo language in modern time, Othuroye Ho Mtoth Elfan l-Metba‘.
WAzadoota is an Assyrian Australian worldbeat band formed in 1996 in Sydney, Australia that fuses traditional Assyrian pop and folk with Latin music. Its founder, Robin Zirwanda, the band's percussionist and lead singer, writes and sings the songs in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. The name of the band Azadoota means 'freedom' in the Assyrian language.
WEdward Yousif, mostly known by his stage name as King Biba, was an Assyrian singer and entertainer renowned for his vibrant voice and theatrical stage presence. His career spanned 30 years, starting from the early 1960s – making him one of the first prominent Assyrian singers to produce records and sing onstage, alongside Evin Agassi – up until the late 1980s. He innovated a new style of Assyrian music, which was a blend of keyboard instruments, guitars and drums.
WWilliam D. S. Daniel, was an Assyrian author, poet and musician. He was born March 17, 1903 in Urmia, Iran and died in San Jose, California in 1988.
WSargon Gabriel is an Assyrian musician born in Habbaniyah, Iraq, whose music style usually involves traditional Assyrian folk music with the instruments, zurna and dawoola. The singer currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Some of his notable writers of his songs include Adwar Mousa.
WLinda George is an Assyrian-American singer known for her sentimental ballads and dance songs. The vast majority of her songs are sung in her native Assyrian language, though a few are in English and Arabic.
WJuliana Jendo is an Assyrian singer and actress who, unlike many other Assyrian Neo-Aramaic-speaking artists, has occasionally recorded songs in Turoyo, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic and as well as in Arabic. She has mostly recorded folk dance music.
WElias Karam is an Assyrian singer from Syria, born in the city of Al-Hasakah in the Northeastern governorate of Al-Hasakah.
WAdwar Mousa, also known as Edwar Mousa and Edward Mousa, is an Assyrian singer-songwriter and poet who mainly writes folk dance music. Mousa is famed for writing a dozen notable songs in the late 1980s and early 1990s for prolific and popular Assyrian singers such as Sargon Gabriel, Ashur Bet Sargis, Janan Sawa, Linda George and Juliana Jendo, among others. Originally from Syria, Mousa currently resides in Jönköping, Sweden.
WAbeer Nehme is a Lebanese singer and a musicologist. She performs traditional Tarab music, Lebanese traditional music, Rahbani music, and sacred music from the Syriac-Maronite, Syriac-Orthodox, and Byzantine traditions.
WAshur Bet Sargis is an Assyrian singer, composer, guitarist and activist. He became famous in the Assyrian communities worldwide for his nationalistic songs in the 1970s. His career peaked, and became prominent, in the 1990s with five albums released within that decade. His songs usually tend to be sentimental ballads and anthems, although he has made many folk dance music as well. To the contrast of his Assyrian peers in music, Sargis's music is slow and mellow. He is also known for incorporating Greek instruments such as the tambouras into his music.
WJanan Sawa is an Assyrian musician who is noted for making Assyrian folk dance. A Chaldean Catholic by faith, Janan started singing in 1972, at the age of 17. Janan has performed throughout the world, and has visited his hometown of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan on many occasions.
WShamiram Urshan, also known as Shamiram Ourshan and occasionally Shamiram Oshana, was an Assyrian singer and entertainer from Iran, who gained popularity in the 1980s.