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Lizzie Mayland
Lizzie Mayland (born 1999), also L.Mayland, English rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and flutist of The Last Dinner Party; debut solo EP The Slow Fire of Sleep released 9 May 2025.
Lizzo
Lizzo (Melissa Viviane Jefferson, born 1988, Detroit) is an American singer, rapper, and flutist; Grammy winner with "Truth Hurts" and "About Damn Time"; albums Cuz I Love You, Special, and BITCH; known for body positivity advocacy.
Lizzy McAlpine
Lizzy McAlpine (Elizabeth Catherine McAlpine, born 1999) is an American folk-pop singer-songwriter from Philadelphia, known for the viral 2022 hit "ceilings," albums Give Me a Minute, five seconds flat, Older, and Angel, and her 2025 Broadway debut in Floyd Collins.
Lloyd (singer)
Lloyd (Lloyd Harlin Polite Jr., born 1986, New Orleans) is an American R&B singer from Decatur, Georgia, ex-N-Toon, known for 'Southside,' 'You,' 'Get It Shawty,' 'Lay It Down,' and the Platinum single 'Tru.'
Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole (born 1961, Buxton, England) is an English singer-songwriter, frontman of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (Rattlesnakes, 1984) and solo artist from Lloyd Cole (1990) to On Pain (2023), known for literate lyrics and genre shifts.
Lobo (musician)
Lobo is the stage name of Roland Kent LaVoie (born 1943, Tallahassee, Florida), an American soft rock singer-songwriter. Known for "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" (US No. 5, 1971) and "I'd Love You to Want Me" (US No. 2, 1972); distinct from Los Lobos and other artists named Lobo.
Lol Creme
Lol Creme (Laurence Neil Creme, born 1947) is an English guitarist, singer, and keyboardist of 10cc and Godley & Creme, co-inventor of the Gizmotron, and a pioneering music video director.
Lol Tolhurst
Lol Tolhurst (Laurence Andrew Tolhurst), born 1959, co-founded the Cure with schoolfriend Robert Smith, drummed through Pornography (1982), switched to keyboards, left in 1989, later formed Levinhurst and wrote Cured and Goth: A History.
Lola Astanova
Lola Astanova, Uzbek-American classical-crossover pianist, composer, and producer based in New York; trained at Tashkent's Uspensky school, Emmy winner for Rhapsody in Blue, 2012 Carnegie Hall debut, known for visually styled performances.
Lola Beltrán
Lola Beltrán, known as Lola la Grande, was a Mexican ranchera singer and actress from Sinaloa, famed for "Cucurrucucú paloma" and "Paloma negra", who died in 1996.
Lola Young
Lola Young (Lola Emily Mary Young), English singer-songwriter from Croydon, South London; BRIT School alumna signed to Island Records. Known for "Messy" (UK No. 1, 2026 Grammy Best Pop Solo Performance) and albums through 2025's I'm Only Fking Myself; distinct from Baroness Lola Young, the crossbench peer.
Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan (Anthony James Donegan, 1931-2002), the King of Skiffle, was a Glasgow-born British skiffle musician whose 1956 hit Rock Island Line sparked the UK skiffle craze and inspired the Beatles and 1960s British rock.
Lonnie Johnson (musician)
Lonnie Johnson (Alonzo Johnson, c. 1889 New Orleans – 1970 Toronto), pioneering blues and jazz guitarist; OKeh star of 1925–1932, Eddie Lang duets, 1948 hit "Tomorrow Night", later Toronto club owner.
Lonnie Mack
Lonnie Mack (Lonnie McIntosh, 1941-2016), Indiana-born blues-rock guitarist and singer whose 1963 instrumentals Memphis and Wham! made the guitar a rock lead voice; his 1958 Flying V sold for $550,000.
Lorde
Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, born 1996) is a New Zealand art-pop singer-songwriter whose 2013 single "Royals" and album Pure Heroine made her a global star; later albums Melodrama, Solar Power, and Virgin (2025).
Loreen
Loreen (Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, born 1983) is a Swedish dance-pop singer of Moroccan Berber descent who won Eurovision twice, with "Euphoria" (2012, 372 points) and "Tattoo" (2023), the first woman to do so.
Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt (born 1957, Morden, Manitoba) is a Canadian singer, composer, and harpist of "eclectic Celtic" world music, founder of the label Quinlan Road, with over 16 million albums sold and albums The Visit, The Mask and Mirror, and The Book of Secrets.
Loren Allred
Loren Allred (born 1989, Pittsburgh) is an American singer, the uncredited singing voice of Jenny Lind's "Never Enough" in The Greatest Showman, a 2022 Britain's Got Talent Golden Buzzer finalist, and an independent recording artist.
Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Milton Hart (1895–1943), American Broadway lyricist, longtime partner of composer Richard Rodgers; wrote "Blue Moon," "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady Is a Tramp"; died of pneumonia days after A Connecticut Yankee revival.
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn (Loretta Webb, 1932-2022), American country singer-songwriter from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky; 16 No. 1 singles, first woman CMA Entertainer of the Year (1972), "Coal Miner's Daughter," "The Pill."
Lori Black
Lori Black, aka Lorax, born 1954 in Santa Monica, is an American bassist, daughter of Shirley Temple, who played in Clown Alley and the Melvins (Ozma, Bullhead), later a photographer.
Lori Mattix
Lori Mattix (Lori Maddox, Lori Lightning), born 1958, American former child model and 'baby groupie' of the 1970s Sunset Strip scene, known for accounts of relationships with David Bowie and Jimmy Page, later a West Hollywood boutique buyer.
Lorraine Crosby
Lorraine Crosby (born 1960, Newcastle upon Tyne), also known as Mrs. Loud, is an English singer who performed the uncredited female vocals on Meat Loaf's 1993 hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"; later solo album Mrs Loud and Bonnie Tyler charity duet.
Lorraine McIntosh
Lorraine McIntosh (born 1964) is a Scottish singer and actress, vocalist in Glasgow pop-rock band Deacon Blue since 1985, wife of Ricky Ross, actress in My Name Is Joe and River City, and charity ambassador.
Lorrie Morgan
Lorrie Morgan (Loretta Lynn Morgan, born 1959) is an American country singer, Grand Ole Opry member, daughter of George Morgan and widow of Keith Whitley, with number-one hits "Five Minutes" and "What Part of No."
Lotte Lenya
Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer), Austrian-born American singer-actress (1898-1981), creator of Jenny in Brecht-Weill's The Threepenny Opera, Weill's wife and chief interpreter, later Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love, Tony winner 1956, founder of the Kurt Weill Foundation.
Lou Adler
Lou Adler (born 1933) is an American record producer and label founder behind Dunhill and Ode Records, Monterey Pop 1967, Carole King's Tapestry, and Rocky Horror; not the hiring consultant of the same name.
Lou Bega
Lou Bega (David Lubega, born 1975, Munich) is a German singer of Sicilian and Ugandan descent whose 1999 hit "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)", sampling Pérez Prado's 1949 instrumental, topped charts worldwide and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Lou Christie
Lou Christie (Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco, 1943–2025), American pop singer-songwriter from Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, known for his falsetto and hits "Lightnin' Strikes" (US No. 1, 1966), "Two Faces Have I", "Rhapsody in the Rain", and "I'm Gonna Make You Mine"; co-wrote hits with Twyla Herbert.
Lou Koller
Lou Koller, co-founder and vocalist of New York hardcore band Sick of It All (formed 1986 in Queens with brother Pete, Armand Majidi, Rich Cipriano), fronted the band for four decades, sang on eleven studio albums including Scratch the Surface, battled esophageal cancer from 2024, and died July 24, 2026, reported at age 59.