Web Guide: Encyclopedia

Redirected from Rock and roll performers List of performers of rock and roll music

Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday Les Paul Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Memphis Minnie Robert Johnson Stick McGhee & His Buddies The Treniers Sarah Vaughan See also: List of jazz musicians, List of blues musicians, List of ragtime musicians, List of boogie woogie musicians, List of swing/big band musicians, List of folk musicians, List of country musicians, List of popular music performers, List of gospel musicians Early North American rock and roll (1951-1963) The Beach Boys, surf rock, early psychedelia Bill Haley & His Comets, key contributors to the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll Bo Diddley, transformed Mississippi blues[?] into his own thing. Bob. B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans Bobby Darin Bobby Day[?] Brenda Lee Bruce & Terry Buddy Holly Carl Perkins The Chantays Chet Atkins Chuck Berry, singer, songwriter, guitarist Connie Francis The Crystals, girl band David Allan & the Arrows Dick Dale, pioneer of surf rock, and an actual surfer. Dion & the Belmonts Dionne Warwick Dorsey Burnette Johnny Burnette The Drifters Eddie Cochran, rockabilly guitar hero, more influential in Great Britain than US. Elvis Presley, the King The Everly Brothers Fabian Fats Domino, New Orleans piano player, singer with more than 20 number one hits in the 50s Gene Pitney Gene Vincent Gladys Knight & the Pips Hank Ballard Hank Williams, honky tonk country Ike Turner, wrote "Rocket 88", led the band, produced the record Jack Scott[?] Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats, credited with "Rocket 88" in 1951) Jackie Wilson Jan & Dean James Brown, soul music Jerry Lee Lewis, pianist, singer Johnny Burnette Little Richard, pianist, singer Lloyd Price Martha & the Vandellas Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos Paul Anka Pat Boone Ricky Nelson, an early teen idol, pioneer of promoting music via TV The Righteous Brothers, blue-eyed soul[?] The Ronettes Ronnie Hawkins[?] Ronny & the Daytonas Roy Orbison, The Voice The Shirelles, girl band The Supremes, girl band The Surfaris The Temptations, R&B Tommy James & the Shondells See also: List of doo wop musicians, List of R&B musicians, List of girl groups, List of country musicians, List of popular music performers, List of surf rock musicians, List of soul musicians The "British Invasion" (1963-1967) The Animals The Beatles Dave Berry The Dave Clark Five Gerry & the Pacemakers Herman's Hermits The Kinks Marianne Faithfull The Moody Blues Peter & Gordon The Rolling Stones The Small Faces Van Morrison The Who The Yardbirds See also: List of British blues musicians, List of popular music performers Psychedelia, Progressive Rock and Early Hard Rock (1968-1974) 13th Floor Elevators, psychedelia Aerosmith, early heavy metal The Allman Brothers Band, early country rock, jam band Aretha Franklin Badfinger The Band, folk and rock and roll fusion Big Brother & the Holding Company Black Sabbath, early heavy metal Blue Cheer, early heavy metal Blue Oyster Cult, early heavy metal Bob Dylan, folk music Buffalo Springfield The Byrds, country rock Canned Heat Captain Beefheart Chic Cream Creedence Clearwater Revival, country rock Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young) The Cult David Bowie, glam rock Deep Purple The Delfonics Don McLean Donna Summers The Doors, hard psychedelia, forerunner of heavy metal Dusty Springfield The Eagles, country rock The Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Prunes The Fabulous Thunderbirds The Faces The Flying Burrito Brothers, country rock Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention Funkadelic, funk Genesis, progressive rock Gram Parsons, country rock The Grateful Dead, psychedelia Harry Nilsson Hot Tuna Humble Pie Iron Butterfly, psychedelia, early heavy metal James Brown, soul music, early funk Janis Joplin Japan Jefferson Airplane, psychedelia The Jesus and Mary Chain Jethro Tull Jim Croce Jimi Hendrix, psychedelia Joan Baez Johnny Cash, country music Joni Mitchell, folk music Kansas King Crimson, early heavy metal, progressive rock Kris Kristofferson Labelle Led Zeppelin, heavy metal Love The Meters Moby Grape The Monkees Moving Sidewalks Nick Drake Nirvana The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Pink Floyd, progressive rock, pioneer of the concept album Roxy Music Simon & Garfunkel, folk music Sly & the Family Stone Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Steppenwolf Stevie Ray Vaughan The Stooges, early punk music T. Rex, glam rock Traffic The Velvet Underground Bob Marley & the Wailers, reggae Willie Nelson Yes, progressive rock See also: List of surf rock musicians, List of psychedelic musicians, List of R&B musicians, List of hard rock musicians, List of country rock musicians, List of progressive rock musicians, List of popular music performers, List of soul musicians Return to Basics: punk, metal, disco and dance music and other trends (1975-1988) 3rd Bass AC/DC Aerosmith, heavy metal Afrika Bambaata, early rap Alice Cooper The Bee Gees, disco Billy Joel, pop music Blondie Bob Marley, reggae Bon Jovi Bryan Adams Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band Budgie Buju Banton Camper Van Beethoven The Clash, punk music Coolio Culture Club, late glam music[?] The Damned Danzig, heavy metal David Allen Coe David Bowie, glam, early electronic music Dead Kennedys, punk music Dead Milkmen[?], punk/pop Depeche Mode, New Wave Donna Summer, disco Duran Duran, New Wave Elvis Costello Elton John Eric Clapton The Cure, Goth music The Fall Funkadelic, funk Guns 'n Roses Hank Williams, Jr. Hüsker Dü, alternative rock The Indigo Girls The Jam, punk rock Jimmy Buffett Kool & the Gang, disco Kiss, heavy metal Kraftwerk Labelle, disco, glam Meat Loaf Metallica, heavy metal Midnight Oil Minor Threat The Misfits The Modern Lovers Mötley Crüe New York Dolls Ozzy Osbourne Parliament, funk Patti Smith Peter Tosh, reggae The Plasmatics Poison The Police Queen The Ramones, punk music Red Hot Chili Peppers, funk, heavy metal, punk music REM Rick Springfield Rush The Sex Pistols, punk music The Slits The Scorpions Sonic Youth Talking Heads Television Thin Lizzie, heavy metal Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Tom Waits U2 UFO Uriah Heep Van Halen Van der Graaf Generator The Violent Femmes Wham! Wishbone Ash Whitesnake, heavy metal X, punk music See also List of forerunners of punk music, List of musicians in the first wave of punk music, List of musicians in the second wave of punk music, List of heavy metal musicians, List of progressive rock musicians, List of alternative rock musicians, List of folk musicians, List of funk musicians, List of popular music performers, List of soul musicians Current (1988-present) 10,000 Maniacs Alan Jackson Alice In Chains Anthrax Backstreet Boys Bad Brains Bad Religion The Beastie Boys, rap Beck Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals Björk Black Star Blink 182 The Bloodhound Gang Blues Traveler Blur The Breeders Britney Spears Canibus Celine Dion Christina Aguilera Clint Black Coolio The D4 D'Angelo, soul music Daft Punk Dave Matthews Band The Datsuns De La Soul, rap DMX Dr. Dre, rap Echo & the Bunnymen Everon The Faint Faith Hill Fatboy Slim Foo Fighters Fountains Of Wayne The Fugees, rap Garth Brooks The Geto Boys Goldfinger, punk Green Day Guru Hole Ice Cube, rap Ice T, rap Ja Rule Jay-Z, rap Joan Osborne Kid Rock, rap-rock[?] Korn Lauryn Hill, rap, R&B, soul music Lil Bow Wow Lil Kym Lil Wayne Limp Bizkit, rap-rock[?] Living Colour Lords of Acid M.C. Hammer Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch Mariah Carey Mase Master P The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, ska Moby The Mooney Suzuki Morissey Mos Def, rap MxPx, punk Nas, rap The New Kids on the Block Nine Inch Nails Nirvana (grunge music) NOFX NWA, rap Oasis The Offspring Outkast, rap P. Diddy Paul Oakenfold Pearl Jam, grunge music Pennywise Phish Pixies, alternative rock PJ Harvey Placebo Portishead Primus The Prodigy Public Enemy, rap Radiohead Rancid, punk music Red Hot Chili Peppers, funk, heavy metal Rusted Root RZA Sarah MacLachlan Scarface Sepultura Shania Twain Sinead O'Connor Sleater-Kinney The Smiths Snoop Doggy Dogg, rap The Spice Girls Soundgarden, grunge music Stereolab The Stone Roses Stone Temple Pilots The Strokes Sublime Superchunk System of a Down Suzanne Vega The Offspring Tool Tori Amos A Tribe Called Quest, rap Tupak Shakur, rap Underworld The Vandals The Verve Weezer The White Stripes Will Smith The Wu-Tang Clan, rap See also: List of heavy metal musicians, List of rappers, List of country musicians, List of Britpop musicians, List of jam bands, List of alternative rock musicians, List of electronic musicians[?], List of popular music performers, List of musicians in the second wave of punk music Table of contents     Latino Rock   Alejandra Guzman Big Pun Cypress Hill Enrique Guzman Fey Fiel A La Vega Gloria Estefan La Ley Los Chicos Magneto Mana Mecano Melody Menudo Miguel Bose Paulina Rubio Pilar Montenegro Ricky Martin Santana Selena Sepultura Shakira South Park Mexican Yuri See also: List of Latino rock musicians[?], List of popular music performers Elsewhere Search engine Web directory

CONTENTS: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z