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Lena Horne
Lena Horne (Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, 1917–2010), American singer, actress, and civil rights activist; MGM star of Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky, signature song "Stormy Weather," Tony-winning Lady and Her Music, NAACP and March on Washington activist.
Lena Katina
Lena Katina (Elena Sergeevna Katina, born 1984, Moscow) is a Russian singer and songwriter, former member of pop duo t.A.T.u. with Yulia Volkova, later a solo artist with albums This Is Who I Am, Esta Soy Yo, and Mono, reunited with t.A.T.u. in 2025.
Lena Meyer-Landrut
Lena Meyer-Landrut (Lena) is a German pop singer from Hannover who won Eurovision 2010 in Oslo with "Satellite" (246 points), Germany's first win since 1982, placed 10th in 2011, and released six albums through Loyal to myself (2024).
Lena Zavaroni
Lena Zavaroni (Lena Hilda Zavaroni; 1963–1999) was a Scottish singer and television host who won Opportunity Knocks five weeks running in 1973 with "Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me)".
Lene Lovich
Lene Lovich (Lili-Marlene Premilovich), British-American new wave singer born 1949 in Detroit, known for "Lucky Number" (UK No. 3), her yodeling soprano, Stiff Records albums, and 2025 live return.
Lene Nystrøm
Lene Grawford Nystrøm (born 1973, Tønsberg) is a Norwegian pop singer and actress, lead vocalist of Danish-Norwegian band Aqua of "Barbie Girl" fame, with nearly 30 million records sold, a 2003 solo album Play With Me, and acting roles including Varg Veum films.
Lenka
Lenka (Lenka Eden Kripac, born 1978) is an Australian singer-songwriter and former actress, ex-Decoder Ring vocalist, best known for 2008's "The Show" and albums through Epic and Skipalong Records.
Lennie Peters
Lennie Peters, stage name of Leonard George Sargent (1931/1933/1939-1992), blind English singer-pianist; with Dianne Lee formed Peters and Lee, whose 1973 hit "Welcome Home" and album We Can Make It topped UK charts simultaneously.
Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano (1919-1978), blind Chicago-born jazz pianist and teacher, recorded the first free jazz performances ("Intuition," "Digression," 1949) with Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh and pioneered overdubbing in jazz.
Lennon & Maisy
Lennon & Maisy, Canadian sister duo Lennon and Maisy Stella of Oshawa, Ontario, daughters of the Stellas; viral 2012 cup-percussion cover of Robyn's Call Your Girlfriend, then Maddie and Daphne Conrad on ABC's Nashville (2012-2018).
Lennon Stella
Lennon Stella (born 1999) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter and actress from Oshawa, Ontario, formerly of the duo Lennon & Maisy and the TV show Nashville; albums Three. Two. One. (2020) and Sleeping Lion (2026).
Lenny Breau
Lenny Breau (Leonard Harold Breau, 1941-1984), Canadian jazz guitarist born in Auburn, Maine, famed for fingerstyle chord-melody playing, harp harmonics, and seven-string guitars; RCA albums with Chet Atkins; killed unsolved in Los Angeles.
Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke, American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist from Minnesota, virtuoso of 6- and 12-string steel-string guitar; broke through with 1969's 6- and 12-String Guitar on John Fahey's Takoma Records; later duo albums with Phish's Mike Gordon.
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer (Gerard Hugh Sayer, born 1948, Shoreham-by-Sea) is an English-born, Australian-citizen singer-songwriter whose 1970s Pierrot-clown persona and hits You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, When I Need You, and More Than I Can Say made him a transatlantic chart star.
Léon (Swedish singer)
LÉON (Lotta Lindgren, born 1994) is a Swedish pop singer from Stockholm, distinct from Leon Bridges and the Luc Besson film, who broke through with 2015's SoundCloud single "Tired of Talking" and released the albums Léon (2019), Apart (2020), and Circles (2022).
Leon Bridges
Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges, born 1989), Fort Worth soul singer whose 2015 debut Coming Home revived 1960s R&B; later albums Good Thing, Gold-Diggers Sound, Leon, and Happiness Anytime; one Grammy win.
Leon James (composer)
Leon James (born 1991, Chennai) is an Indian film composer and singer working in Tamil and Telugu cinema. Debuting with Kanchana 2 (2015) and known for Ko 2, Oh My Kadavule, and Dragon (2025), he is the son of A. R. Rahman's former manager Noel James.
León Larregui
León Larregui (León Rubén Larregui Marín), Mexican singer-songwriter born 1973, frontman and guitarist of neo-psychedelic rock band Zoé and solo artist with Solstis (2012), Voluma (2016), Prismarama (2023), and Manifiesto de un Tremendo Delirio (2026).
Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian, 1949, Nicosia, Cyprus; died 2019) was an elusive singer-guitarist who revived pre-World War II ragtime, jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley songs in a gravelly baritone behind a fedora-and-sunglasses vaudeville persona, breaking through after Bob Dylan's 1974 praise and later voicing Leon the Snowman in Elf.
Leon Russell
Leon Russell (Claude Russell Bridges, 1942-2016), American singer-songwriter, pianist, and Wrecking Crew session musician from Tulsa, Oklahoma; led Mad Dogs & Englishmen, wrote "A Song for You," and joined Elton John on The Union before Rock Hall induction in 2011.
Leon Thomas III
Leon Thomas III (born 1993) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, producer, and former actor known as André on Victorious, for producing SZA's "Snooze" and Drake tracks, and for the Grammy-winning album MUTT.
Leon Wilkeson
Leon Wilkeson (Leon Russell Wilkeson, 1952-2001) was the bass guitarist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972, survived the 1977 plane crash, rejoined the 1987 reunion, and died of natural causes aged 49; nicknamed the Mad Hatter.
Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis (born 1985) is a British singer who won The X Factor UK in 2006; her debut album Spirit (2007) and single Bleeding Love, No. 1 in 35 countries, made her the first British female solo artist in over 20 years to top the US Billboard 200.
Leona Naess
Leona Naess (born 1974, London) is a British alternative pop singer-songwriter, daughter of Arne Naess and stepdaughter of Diana Ross, known for Comatised (2000) and the 2022 comeback album Brood X.
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American conductor, composer, and educator; New York Philharmonic Music Director 1958–69, composer of West Side Story, Candide, and Mass, first to record the complete Mahler symphony cycle.
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (1934-2016), Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter from Montreal; debut Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967); wrote Hallelujah on Various Positions (1984); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2008.
Léonin
Léonin (Magister Leoninus, c. 1135–1201), Parisian canon, poet, and composer of the Notre-Dame school, credited by Anonymous IV with the Magnus liber organi, the earliest named body of measured two-voice polyphony.
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price, born Mary Violet Leontyne Price in 1927, is an American soprano from Laurel, Mississippi, and the first African American opera singer to gain international acclaim.
Leopold Mozart
Leopold Mozart (Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, 1719–1787), Augsburg-born Salzburg court violinist, deputy Kapellmeister, composer, and author of the 1756 Violinschule; father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus and Nannerl Mozart.
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977), English-born American conductor, led the Philadelphia Orchestra 1912–1941, created the Philadelphia Sound, pioneered stereo recording with Bell Labs, and conducted Disney's Fantasia.