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Liz McClarnon
Liz McClarnon (Elizabeth McClarnon), Liverpool-born English singer, original and longest-serving member of Atomic Kitten (1998-2008); solo top 5 hit 'Woman in Love' (2006), Celebrity MasterChef winner 2008, later country singer and No Fly Traveller founder.
Liz Mitchell
Liz Mitchell (Elizabeth Rebecca Mitchell, born 1952, Clarendon, Jamaica) is the Jamaican-born British lead vocalist of disco group Boney M., singing Daddy Cool, Rivers of Babylon and Rasputin, an MBE honouree touring as Boney M. feat. Liz Mitchell.
Liz Phair
Liz Phair, born Elizabeth Clark Phair, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who began with self-released Girly Sound cassettes before her acclaimed 1993 debut Exile in Guyville.
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.
Local H
Local H is an American alternative rock duo from Zion, Illinois, formed in 1990, known for Scott Lucas's combined guitar-bass setup, the gold 1996 album As Good as Dead, and the hit "Bound for the Floor."
Loggins and Messina
Loggins and Messina: American soft-rock duo of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, formed accidentally in 1971 from Loggins's solo debut Sittin' In; eight albums, 16 million sold, split 1976, reunited 2005.
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.
London Grammar
London Grammar: British electronic pop trio of Hannah Reid, Dan Rothman, and Dot Major, formed at Nottingham University in 2009. Albums If You Wait (2013, UK No. 2), Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (2017, No. 1), Californian Soil (2021, No. 1), The Greatest Love (2024).
London Musicians' Collective
The London Musicians' Collective (LMC) was a London membership organization, active from 1976 until March 2008, that promoted free improvisation and experimental music through concerts, festivals, and the radio station Resonance FM.
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra (LSO): British symphony orchestra founded 1904 by players leaving Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra, self-governing co-operative, first concert 9 June 1904 under Hans Richter, resident at the Barbican, famed for film scores and LSO Live.
Lonestar
Lonestar, originally called Texassee, is an American country music band formed in 1992 in Nashville by five Texas natives; "Amazed" topped both country and pop charts in 1999.
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.
Looking Glass (band)
Looking Glass was an American pop rock band formed at Rutgers University around 1970, best known for the 1972 number-one hit "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)".
Lord Huron
Lord Huron is a Los Angeles-based American indie rock band founded by Michigan-born Ben Schneider, with Tom Renaud, Mark Barry, and Miguel Briseño. Five albums from Lonesome Dreams (2012) to The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (2025); breakout song The Night We Met went multi-platinum via 13 Reasons Why.
Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz
Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz, a Bronx rap duo (Sean Hamilton, Peter Pankey), formed 1996; their 1997 platinum single "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" hit Billboard's top ten, and their only album, Make It Reign, followed in 1998.
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).
Lords of Acid
Lords of Acid, Belgian electronic dance band formed 1988 in Antwerp by Praga Khan, Jade 4 U, and Olivier Adams; acid house/industrial dance act known for "I Sit on Acid," the gold U.S. album Voodoo-U, and explicit tongue-in-cheek lyrics.
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.