WPaulo Alvarado is a Guatemalan cellist, composer and producer born in Guatemala. He studied architecture at Universidad Rafael Landívar but dropped out in 1983 to become a full-time member of the groundbreaking Guatemalan rock band Alux Nahual. Besides his role in that band, continuing to date, he is notable for exploring the use of the cello in a variety of contexts and is active in classical music. In 1992 he founded Cuarteto Contemporaneo de Guatemala, a string quartet specializing in a repertoire by Guatemalan composers, either written specifically for a string quartet or adapted for it. He has also been involved in the performance and production of Guatemalan music from the colonial period.
WJames Murray Barbour (1897–1970) is an American acoustician, musicologist, and composer best known for his work Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey. As the opening of the work describes, it is based upon his unpublished dissertation from 1932, his interest having been sparked by musicologist Curt Sachs having shown him Marin Mersenne's Harmonie Universelle. Murray Barbour taught at Ithaca College, New York, 1932–1939, and Michigan State College, 1939–1964. Murray Barbour adapted the Strähle construction for use in approximating equal temperaments.
WOskar Baum was a Czech music educator and writer in German language. Baum was the son of a Jewish cloth goods merchant in Plzeň. He suffered with vision problems from the time of his birth. At eight, he lost the sight in one eye and at the age of eleven, during a scuffle, he lost his sight completely. Since he could no longer participate in the school, the class teacher sent him to Vienna to the Israelite Institute for the Blind, a high school. There he trained as a music consultant and learned the organ and piano. In 1902, he put aside his teaching degree and returned to Prague. Baum earned his living as an organist and cantor in a synagogue; later he became a piano teacher.
WPaul Bekker was one of the most articulate and influential German music critics of the 20th century.
WMarius Tru Berenis is a Lithuanian radio and television personality, musician and actor. He is the founder and a former member of the Lithuanian pop-rock group Žas.
WSuthita Chanachaisuwan, nicknamed Image, is a Thai singer. She became known from her participation in the third season of the singing competition The Voice Thailand in 2014, where she finished as first runner-up.
WTimbwama Chisenga better known as Tim Thugga or now just Tim is a Zambian gospel rapper and songwriter. He rose to prominence as a member of the boy group Zone Fam formed in 2009 after they were all signed to Slam Dunk Records. While in Zone Fam, Tim began to establish himself as a solo artist until April 1, 2015, when he officially announced his plans to be a gospel artist on his social media. His first single as a solo Christian hip hop artist, "Heartbeat", was released in 2017 off his debut album TIM, set to be released in 2021.
WWillie Clarke is an American musician and songwriter known for songs including "Clean Up Woman", "Rockin' Chair" and "Willing and Able".
WEan Elliot Clevenger is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as the former singer and songwriter for A-F Record's political hardcore-punk band Pipedown. Prior to the formation of Pipedown, Clevenger was a vocalist and bassist for the Sublime Records band Silage. He has participated in several North American, European, and Van's Warped Tours with many of his bands including: Pipedown, Silage, Dance For Destruction, NMBRSTTN, and Cruex Lies. He has provided guest vocals on Anti-Flag's albums For Blood and Empire and A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime. He is known for the strongly voiced left-leaning political lyrics and imagery within his music.
WGasparo Duiffopruggar was an instrument maker. His originally German family name was also spelled Tieffenbrucker, Tiefenbrugger, Tiefenbrucker, Teufenbrugger, Tuiffenbrugger, Deuffenbrugger, Dieffopruchar, Dieffoprughar, Duyfautbrocard, Duiffopruggar, Duiffoprugcar, Dubrocard, Dieffoprukhar, Diafopruchar, Thiphobrucar, Fraburgadi, his first name also Kaspar, Caspar or Gaspard. Duiffopruggar is believed to have been born near Füssen in Bavaria, Germany, and had moved to Lyon, France, where he did most of his work, by 1553. He was one of the first to produce the violin in its modern form.
WAnnie Ebrel is a traditional Breton singer of traditional Kan ha diskan and Gwerz (ballads).
WCarl Eitz was a German acoustician and music educator.
WAmelia Muller Fay was an American concert pianist, manager of the New York Women's Philharmonic Society, and chronicler best known for her memoirs of the European classical music scene. A pupil of Theodor Kullak, Fay traveled to Europe to study with Franz Liszt. Her letters home from Germany, including descriptions of her training and the concerts she attended, were published in 1880 as Music Study in Germany. These memoirs include a comprehensive biographical sketch of Liszt.
WGerundino Miguel Fernández García (1931–2006) was a Spanish luthier, considered one of the world's greatest makers of flamenco guitars.
WFarley Flex is a Media Consultant, music promoter, artist manager, and motivational speaker. He is best known for being a judge on the reality television series Canadian Idol.
WBenjamin Flight (1767?–1847), was an organ-builder.
WVasile Gliga is a Romanian entrepreneur and the owner and founder of the Gliga Group, a company manufacturing string instruments. He was elected to the Parliament of Romania in 2008.
WJuan Manuel González Mascías better known as Miki González, is a Spanish-Peruvian musician, composer, and producer born in Madrid, Spain. He is recognized as a musical icon of the twentieth century in Peru, and his songs are frequently ranked among the best songs in Peruvian popular music.
WOscar Holter is a Swedish record producer and songwriter, based in the United States. He was also a former member of the Electronic Body Music band Necro Facility. He is best known for producing songs with the likes of Katy Perry, The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, MARINA, Tove Lo, Charli XCX, DNCE, Hailee Steinfeld, Carly Rae Jepsen, Cher Lloyd, Christina Aguilera, Adam Lambert, and Troye Sivan.
WElena Ionescu is a Romanian singer who was the lead singer of pop band Mandinga from 2006 until 2016, replacing Elena Gheorghe after she left the group to work on her solo career. Ionescu left the group in 2016 to pursue a solo career as well. Mandinga won the Romanian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, where Ionescu performed the hit song "Zaleilah". Ionescu was the second lead singer of Mandinga to represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest, as Elena Gheorghe represented Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
WNikolay Dmitriyevich Kashkin was a Russian music critic as well as a professor of piano and music theory at the Moscow Conservatory for 33 years.
WHåkan Lidbo is a Swedish music producer, primarily active in electronica, but also other genres. He has published over 350 records on a variety of record labels, is the editor of the radio show Power and operates Volt Festival in Uppsala. He is also behind the music project Pay TV that participated in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest twice.
WLeo Low was Jewish choral conductor, composer, arranger, teacher and lecturer. He was one of the first to collect, arrange, and popularize Yiddish and Hebrew folk and art songs, popularizing songs such as A Dudele by Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev.
WJoseph Bulley born in Accra, professionally known as Magnom is a Ghanaian record producer and recording artist, who produces music ranging from Hiphop, dancehall, and Afrobeats. He gained the attention of Ghanaians after he produced the song "illuminati" with Ghanaian BET award winner Sarkodie.
WMelladaze are an English-Irish girl group formed in 2020 on the BBC One talent competition Little Mix The Search. The group consists of Aislí Moran, Ellie Allen, Lauren Bowry, Liv Aidam and Megan Whelan.
WThomas Morell was an English librettist, classical scholar, and printer.
WFuad Almuqtadir is a Bangladeshi-American music producer, composer, musician and singer-songwriter. Fuad's style of music incorporates fusion, folk, rock, pop and electronic dance music.
WMyrkgrav is a Norwegian blackened folk metal band with a single member, Lars Jensen. Jensen founded the band in 2003 and released a demo in 2004 entitled "Fra fjellheimen kaller...". His first album, Trollskau, skrømt og kølabrenning, was released on 27 October 2006. The lyrics are about local history, legends and folklore from Ringerike, Lommedalen and Hole, from around the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. The songs are sung in a local Norwegian dialect.
WTivadar Nachéz was a Hungarian violinist and composer for violin who had an international career, but made his home in London during his career.
WGeorge Nazos was a Greek music teacher and director of the Athens Conservatoire. He was from a well-known family from Tinos Island. He was recognized for his musical talent at a young age. In 1881 he went to Munich, Germany to study piano and advanced theory, returning to Greece in 1886.
WMarcelo Jaime Nisinman is an Argentinian bandoneon player, composer and arranger living in Basel, Switzerland.
WMike Ogletree is a Scottish drummer and guitarist of Afro-European descent. A founding member of the Scottish rock band Café Jacques, he is best known for his work in the new wave bands Fiction Factory and Simple Minds. He now lives and works in the United States, as well as performing occasional shows there.
WOmer Pardillo Cid is a Grammy, Latin Grammy and Emmy-winning producer and talent manager. He began his career in 1992 in the Media Relations department at RMM Records in New York City. At RMM, he handled publicity for celebrities, such as Celia Cruz, Marc Anthony and Tito Puente.
WAlice Pashkus (1911–1972) was born on February 21, 1911, in Germany. According to Jon Verbalis, she had piano tuition from Elie Robert Schmitz. She studied medicine but after meeting Theodore Pashkus, she dedicated herself to instrumental pedagogy. Her most influential work was carried out in collaboration with her husband Theodore. For many years the couple were very much in demand as specialists in musicians' physical as well as psychological problems. Among their most famous clients were Ossy Renardy, Yehudi Menuhin, Ivry Gitlis, Michèle Auclair, Franco Gulli and Enzo Porta. Alice Pashkus also gave instruction to the pianists Yorgos Manessis and Jon Verbalis.
WFrédéric Pelassy is a French classical violinist.
WValery Kuzmich Polyansky is a Russian orchestral and choral conductor. He is a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of Russia (1996), artistic director, chief conductor and founder of the State Symphony Capella of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995), Knight of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 4th degree (2007).
WAlexander Prince was an early 20th-century vaudeville musician and recording artist who played the McCann-system Duet concertina. Born Alexander Sutherland in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was first given a concertina at age 8 by his music shop-owner father, who wanted to give him something to do after a broken leg rendered him immobile. Of this event, Prince said, "I am, or was, alas an infant prodigy. It was an accident, primarily. I was 8 years old, and I broke my leg. I had to lie in bed, and that was the start." He started to perform while still a youth, and by 1889 London's The Era newspaper mentioned him in a review of the club Alhambra Palace: "Alexander Prince plays the concertina with great effect, and is rewarded with much applause." After performing at the Glasgow Exhibition at age 20, Prince went on to perform internationally, including a 1904 tour in South Africa.
WLina Ramann was a German writer and teacher known for her books on the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt. Between 1874 and Liszt's death in 1886, she interviewed him and had access to all of his manuscripts and publications in his library. She wrote his authorized biography and the first in-depth critical analysis of his works, all of which were published in three volumes as Franz Liszt als Künstler und Mensch between 1880 and 1894.
WNana Yaw Nkrumah born in Accra, professionally known as Dr Ray Beat is a Ghanaian record producer and sound engineer, who produces music ranging from Afrobeat, Hip hop, Hiplife, Azonto, Dancehall and Afropop. He also produced for Guru, Kwaw Kese, Kofi Kinaata and more.
WCorky Robbins, the stage name of Margaret Johnson Bosworth, was an American singer and songwriter. "Whispering Winds" and "Conquest" were two of her most successful compositions. The later song was also recorded by The White Stripes.
WGiuseppe Rocca was an Italian violin maker of the 19th century.
WJosef Rufer (1893–1985) was an Austrian-born musicologist. He is regarded as a significant figure mainly on account of his association with and writings on Arnold Schoenberg.
WRoland Shaw was an English composer, musical arranger, and orchestra leader.
WÖrvar Þóreyjarson Smárason is a founding member of Icelandic experimental band múm, and has been a part-time member of other Icelandic bands such as Benni Hemm Hemm, Singapore Sling, Slowblow, Andhéri, Skakkamanage, FM Belfast and Represensitive Man.
WRandy Sparks is an American musician, singer-songwriter and founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority.
WNissan Spivak was a Jewish cantor and composer.
WJuan Vicente Torrealba was a Venezuelan harpist and composer of popular music. In 1947 he founded the group Los Torrealberos with his brother Arturo and his son Santana, playing with passion and rich nuances the traditional music of the plains, which is distinguished by feeding on the experiences of the peasants, the cattle-raising tasks, the singing of the birds, the melody of the rivers and the trot of the horses.
WThe United States Air Forces Central Command Band also known as the AFCENT Band or Blue Steel is an Air Force military band. It is based at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar. Being a contemporary musical group, its repertoire ranges from genres like pop to country music and rock-n-roll. It is composed of active duty airmen as well as reservist and Air National Guardsmen. It is the only deployed musical unit of the USAF. It provides music for official functions, and community relations. These include embassy ceremonies and public engagement with the people of the country in which it is visiting. Its primary area of responsibility consists of the countries in the Middle East and Central Asia. It has performed in countries such as Djibouti, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Kyrgyzstan.
WVan Yeghiazaryan is an Armenian musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and the songwriter of alternative rock/folk rock band Nemra from Yerevan, Armenia.