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Will Toledo
Will Toledo is the stage name of the American singer-songwriter behind indie rock band Car Seat Headrest, from Leesburg, Virginia. Known for Bandcamp lo-fi albums, Teens of Denial, the Twin Fantasy re-recordings, 1 Trait Danger, and the 2025 rock opera The Scholars.
Will Young
Will Young, English singer and actor, won the first Pop Idol in 2002; debut Evergreen/Anything Is Possible was the noughties' best-selling single; four UK No 1 singles and albums, Olivier-nominated actor.
Willa Ford
Willa Ford (Amanda Lee Williford), American pop singer, actress, and interior designer; 2001 hit "I Wanna Be Bad" and album Willa Was Here; later WFord Interiors and Flip It Like Disick; comeback album amanda, 2026.
Willi Carlisle
Willi Carlisle is an American queer folk singer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist based in the Arkansas Ozarks, known for Peculiar, Missouri (2022), Critterland (2024), Winged Victory (2025), and the Tyler Childers-produced double album The Universal Bubba (2026).
William Alwyn
William Alwyn (born William Alwyn Smith, 1905–1985), English composer and flautist, Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music; wrote five symphonies, about 200 film scores including Odd Man Out and The Fallen Idol, and archive at Cambridge.
William Beckmann
William Beckmann (born 1995) is a Mexican-American country singer-songwriter from Del Rio, Texas, blending classic country, Americana, and Latin music; known for "Bourbon Whiskey" and the 2025 Warner Nashville album Whiskey Lies & Alibis.
William Byrd
William Byrd (c. 1540–1623), also Birde, English Renaissance composer and Chapel Royal organist; Catholic recusant under Elizabeth I, holder of the 1575 Tallis printing patent, composer of three masses, the 109-motet Gradualia, and virginal music.
William DuVall
William DuVall, born 1967 in Washington, D.C., is an American singer-guitarist who joined Alice in Chains in 2006, after playing in Neon Christ and co-founding Comes with the Fall.
William Goldsmith
William Goldsmith (born 1972) is a Seattle drummer, founding member of Sunny Day Real Estate and original Foo Fighters drummer, who left in 1997 after Grohl re-recorded The Colour and the Shape drums, later playing in The Fire Theft and Assertion.
William Grant Still
William Grant Still (1895-1978), the 'Dean of African-American Composers', an American composer of over 150 concert works; his Afro-American Symphony (1931) was the first by a Black composer performed by a major American orchestra.
William Lee Golden
William Lee Golden (born 1939, Brewton, Alabama) is the baritone singer of the Oak Ridge Boys, joined 1965, left 1987, rejoined 1995; also a painter, photographer, and author of Behind the Beard.
William Singe
William Singe (Liam Anthony Singe, born 1992), Australian R&B-pop singer and producer; ex-The Collective on X Factor Australia 2012, viral YouTube covers of 'Hotline Bling' and '679', RCA deal, Jonas Blue's 'Mama'.
William Tell (musician)
William Tell (William John Tell, born 1980) is an American musician and entertainment lawyer; former rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of Something Corporate (2001–2004), solo album You Can Hold Me Down (2007), later USC Gould JD 2014 and husband of Lauren Conrad.
William Warfield
William Caesar Warfield (1920–2002), American concert bass-baritone from West Helena, Arkansas, raised in Rochester; famous as Joe in MGM's 1951 Show Boat singing "Ol' Man River," as Porgy opposite Leontyne Price, and for a 1984 spoken-word Grammy.
Willie Jones (country singer)
Willie Jones is a country singer from Shreveport, Louisiana, known for blending pop and hip-hop. He notably collaborated with Beyoncé on the 2024 song "Just for Fun."
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson, born in Abbott, Texas, in 1933, is an American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor who pioneered outlaw country and co-founded Farm Aid and the Highwaymen.
Willie Watson (musician)
Willie Watson (born 1979, Watkins Glen, New York), also Willie Watson of Old Crow Medicine Show, is an American folk singer, guitarist, and clawhammer banjo player who co-founded Old Crow Medicine Show, left in 2011, and released Folk Singer Vol. 1 (2014), Vol. 2 (2017), and the original-song album Willie Watson (2024).
Willow Avalon
Willow Avalon, stage name of Willow Martin (born 1998, Carlton, Georgia), is an American country singer-songwriter, daughter of Jim White, signed to Atlantic/Assemble Sound, known for Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (2025) and Pink Pocket Pistol (2026).
Willow Smith
Willow Smith, full name Willow Camille Reign Smith, is an American singer and daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, known for "Whip My Hair."
Willy DeVille
Willy DeVille (William Borsey, 1950 or 1953 to 2009) was an American singer-songwriter who fronted Mink DeVille at CBGB, later blending R&B, blues, Cajun, and Latin styles; known for "Spanish Stroll," "Storybook Love," and "Hey Joe."
Willy Moon
Willy Moon, stage name of William George Sinclair (born 1989), New Zealand-born London-based musician blending 1950s rock and roll with hip-hop; known for "Yeah Yeah" in Apple's 2012 iPod ad and album Here's Willy Moon.
Willy Rodriguez
Willy Rodriguez (Willy Rodriguez Quiñones), Puerto Rican drummer from Ponce based in New York; Latin Grammy winner on Mon Laferte's Norma (2018), Mars Volta drummer (2022, 2025), leader debut Seeing Sounds (2024), Sunnyside album In The Unknown (2026).
Wilson Phillips
Wilson Phillips is an American vocal trio of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson, and Chynna Phillips, daughters of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and the Mamas & the Papas' John and Michelle Phillips.
Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett (1941–2006), "The Wicked Pickett," American soul and R&B singer from Prattville, Alabama; Atlantic Records star of "In the Midnight Hour," "Mustang Sally," "Land of 1,000 Dances"; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1991.
Win Butler
Win Butler (Edwin Farnham Butler III, born 1980, Truckee, California) is the American co-founder and frontman of Montreal's Arcade Fire, Grammy-winning for The Suburbs, married to Régine Chassagne until their announced 2025 separation.
Winans family
The Winans family is a Detroit gospel dynasty founded by David "Pop" and Delores Winans, parents of the quartet The Winans, the duo BeBe & CeCe Winans, and the third-generation group Winans Phase 2.
Wing (singer)
Wing (Wing Han Tsang, 曾詠韓) is a retired Hong Kong-born New Zealand singer of ABBA, Elvis, and musical-theater covers, a 2005 South Park guest star, active roughly 2005 to 2015, distinct from the band Winger and the band Virginia Wing.
Winger (band)
Winger: American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1987, briefly Sahara, led by Kip Winger with Reb Beach and Rod Morgenstein; two platinum albums, 1994 breakup, 2001 reunion, album Seven (2023).
Wings (Malaysian band)
Wings: Malaysian heavy metal and hard rock band formed 1985 in Kuala Lumpur, fronted by vocalist Awie, known for Belenggu Irama and hits like Taman Rashidah Utama and Sejati.
Winnaretta Singer
Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac (1865–1943), American Singer sewing-machine heiress, Paris salonnière and mécène who commissioned Satie, Stravinsky, Weill and others and founded the Fondation Singer-Polignac in 1928.