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Jason Everman
Jason Everman (born 1967, Ouzinkie, Alaska) is an American musician and U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, known as second guitarist of Nirvana and bassist of Soundgarden, and later a Ranger and Green Beret.
Jason Evigan
Jason Gregory Evigan, American Grammy-winning songwriter and producer behind "Girls Like You", "Physical", and Rüfüs Du Sol's "Alive"; former frontman of Dillusion and After Midnight Project; co-founder of Elephant Heart and Chumba Music.
Jason Hook
Jason Hook (Thomas Jason Grinstead, born 1970, Toronto) is a Canadian guitarist, lead player of Five Finger Death Punch 2009-2020 after stints with Alice Cooper, BulletBoys, and Vince Neil, now fronting Flat Black.
Jason McCaslin
Jason "Cone" McCaslin (born 1980) is a Canadian bassist, producer, and radio host, longtime bassist of punk band Sum 41, founder of The Operation M.D., and host of Cone's Cave.
Jason Molina
Jason Molina (1973-2013), also known as Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., was an American singer-songwriter from Lorain, Ohio, whose alt-country and indie rock catalog, including The Magnolia Electric Co. (2003), was released mainly on Secretly Canadian; he died of alcoholism-related organ failure at 39.
Jason Newsted
Jason Newsted (born 1963, Battle Creek, Michigan) is an American metal bassist, Flotsam & Jetsam founder and Metallica's bassist 1986-2001, later of Echobrain, Voivod, Newsted, and the Chophouse Band.
Jason Orange
Jason Thomas Orange is an English singer and actor, founding member of Take That from 1990 until 2014. He was recruited as a dancer and sang lead on several tracks.
Jason Richardson (musician)
Jason Richardson (ジェイソン・リチャードソン, born 1991) is an American technical metal guitarist from Born of Osiris and Chelsea Grin, All That Remains guitarist 2018–2025, and solo artist behind I (2016) and II (2022).
Jason Scheff
Jason Scheff (born 1962, San Diego) is an American singer, songwriter, and bassist, son of Jerry Scheff, who fronted Chicago from 1985 to 2016 after replacing Peter Cetera, singing "Will You Still Love Me?" and later leading Generation Radio.
Jason Stollsteimer
Jason Stollsteimer (born 1978, Southfield, Michigan) is an American rock singer-guitarist, frontman of Detroit garage rock band the Von Bondies ("C'mon C'mon") and later the Hounds Below, known for his 2003 bar fight with Jack White.
Jay Buchanan
Jay Buchanan (born 1975, San Bernardino, California) is an American singer-songwriter, frontman of blues-rock band Rival Sons, and solo artist whose debut album Weapons of Beauty was released February 6, 2026.
Jay Ferguson (American musician)
Jay Ferguson (John Arden Ferguson, born 1947) is an American rock singer and keyboardist from Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne, solo hitmaker behind "Thunder Island," and later a film and TV composer.
Jay Kay
Jay Kay, stage name of Jason Luís Cheetham (born 1969, Stretford), English singer who founded and fronts Jamiroquai; 26 million albums sold, hits "Virtual Insanity" and "Cosmic Girl", ninth album due 2027 on BMG.
Jay McGuiness
Jay McGuiness (James McGuiness, born 1990) is an English singer, dancer, actor and author, a member of The Wanted, Strictly Come Dancing 2015 winner, West End performer, and author of Blood Flowers (2024).
Jay Osmond
Jay Osmond (born 1955, Ogden, Utah) is the drummer of The Osmonds, also called Jay Wesley Osmond, lead vocalist on Crazy Horses, producer of Donny & Marie, author of Stages, and creator of The Osmonds: A New Musical.
Jay Weinberg
Jay Weinberg (born 1990, New Jersey), American drummer, son of Max Weinberg; Slipknot drummer 2013-2023 on three albums, E Street Band stand-in, now with Suicidal Tendencies and solo projects.
JD Samson
JD Samson (Jocelyn Samson, born 1978, Cleveland) is an American musician, DJ, and performance artist, a member of Le Tigre and leader of queer dance collective MEN, later a film composer and NYU Clive Davis Institute professor.
Jean-Jacques Burnel
Jean-Jacques Burnel, also JJ Burnel, born 1952 in London, is the Franco-English bassist, co-lead vocalist, and last founding member of The Stranglers, known for distorted melodic basslines on Peaches and No More Heroes and solo album Euroman Cometh.
Jeff Ament
Jeff Ament (born 1963) is an American bassist, songwriter, and visual artist, co-founder and bassist of Pearl Jam since 1990. Previously in Deranged Diction, Green River, Mother Love Bone, and Temple of the Dog; also a photographer and Montana skate park philanthropist.
Jeff Baxter
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, born 1948 in Washington, D.C., American guitarist, founding member of Steely Dan and member of the Doobie Brothers, first-call session player, Roland guitar-technology designer, and self-taught U.S. defense consultant.
Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck (Geoffrey Arnold Beck, 1944-2023), English rock guitarist, Yardbirds member 1965-66 replacing Eric Clapton, founder of the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart, eight-time Grammy winner, twice Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, died of bacterial meningitis.
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter (born 1966), known for four-octave tenor voice, 1994 album Grace, Hallelujah cover, drowned in Memphis 1997; posthumous Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk and It's Never Over documentary.
Jeff Fatt
Jeff Fatt (born 1953, Casino, NSW) is an Australian keyboardist, original Purple Wiggle and founding member of the Wiggles, formerly of the Cockroaches and Roadmasters; known for "Wake Up, Jeff!", voiced Henry the Octopus, received the AM in 2010, retired in 2012 after heart surgery while retaining a shareholding.
Jeff Hanneman
Jeff Hanneman (Jeffrey John Hanneman, 1964-2013) was an American guitarist, founding member and principal songwriter of thrash metal band Slayer, author of Angel of Death and Raining Blood, who died of alcohol-related cirrhosis after a 2011 spider-bite infection.
Jeff Loomis
Jeff Loomis (born 1971, Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American metal guitarist, lead guitarist of Nevermore and Arch Enemy (2014-2023), with instrumental solo albums Zero Order Phase and Plains of Oblivion; he now leads the 2026 Nevermore reunion.
Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne: Birmingham-born English singer, songwriter, and producer; co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra (1970), member of the Traveling Wilburys, producer of Cloud Nine, Full Moon Fever, and the Beatles' Anthology tracks.
Jeff Mangum
Jeff Mangum is the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter behind Neutral Milk Hotel and a founder of the Elephant 6 collective; his 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea became a cult classic before he withdrew from music.
Jeff Pilson
Jeff Pilson is an American rock bassist, vocalist, and producer, Dokken's 1980s bass player and Foreigner's bassist since 2004, also of Dio, War & Peace, T&N, The End Machine, and Black Swan.
Jeff Porcaro
Jeff Porcaro (1954–1992), American drummer, founding member of Toto and leading Los Angeles session musician; created the Rosanna half-time shuffle, played on Thriller, won a Grammy for Rosanna's arrangement; died August 5, 1992.
Jeff Rosenstock
Jeff Rosenstock (Jeffrey Ernest Rosenstock, born 1982, Long Island) is an American punk/ska musician from The Arrogant Sons of Bitches and Bomb the Music Industry!, founder of Quote Unquote Records, and solo artist behind We Cool?, Worry., POST-, NO DREAM, and HELLMODE.