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Cleo Sol

Cleo Sol, stage name of Cleopatra Zvezdana Nikolic (born 1990, Ladbroke Grove, London), is a British neo soul and alternative R&B singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of SAULT, and wife of producer Inflo, with albums Rose in the Dark, Mother, Heaven, Gold, and Gentlewoman.

Cleopatra (group)

Cleopatra were a British girl group of sisters Cleo, Zainam, and Yonah Higgins from Moss Side, Manchester, whose 1998 debut "Cleopatra's Theme" hit UK number 3 and whose album Comin' Atcha! went Silver before the US-only Steppin' Out (2000) ended the band.

Cleto Escobedo III

Cleto Escobedo III (1966-2025), American saxophonist and bandleader of Cleto and the Cletones on Jimmy Kimmel Live! from 2003; childhood friend of Kimmel, formerly toured with Paula Abdul and Marc Anthony.

Cliff Burton

Cliff Burton (1962–1986), American bassist for Metallica from 1982 until his death in a 1986 Swedish tour bus crash; lead-style fingerstyle bass, "Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)", co-wrote six of eight Ride the Lightning tracks.

Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards, known as Ukulele Ike (1895–1971), was an American vaudeville singer, ukulele player, and actor, a pioneer of recorded scat singing, and the voice of Jiminy Cricket singing "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Disney's Pinocchio (1940).

Cliff Martinez

Cliff Martinez (born 1954, Bronx, New York) is an American film composer and former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer. Known for synth-heavy scores for Soderbergh (Traffic, Solaris, Contagion) and Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon), plus Far Cry 4.

Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard (Harry Rodger Webb, born 1940, Lucknow) is the British pop singer whose 1958 single Move It opened the UK rock 'n' roll era; third-top-selling UK singles artist behind the Beatles and Elvis, knighted 1996.

Cliff Williams

Cliff Williams (Clifford Williams), born 1949 in Romford, England, is the bassist of AC/DC since 1977, replacing Mark Evans. Known for simple downstroke-picked flatwound-string basslines on a Music Man StingRay, backing vocals, Powerage debut, 2016 retirement and Power Up return.

Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown (Brownie), American jazz trumpeter and hard bop pioneer (1930-1956), co-leader of the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, composer of Joy Spring, Daahoud, and Sandu, killed in a 1956 car crash at 25.

Clifford T. Ward

Clifford T. Ward (Clifford Thomas Ward, 1944 or 1946 to 2001), English Worcestershire singer-songwriter; 1973 UK hit "Gaye" (No. 8), albums Singer Songwriter and Home Thoughts, refused to tour, later multiple sclerosis.

Climax Blues Band

Climax Blues Band, originally Climax Chicago Blues Band, is a British blues-rock band from Stafford known for the hits "Couldn't Get It Right" and "I Love You."

Clint Black

Clint Black (Clint Patrick Black, born 1962) is an American country singer-songwriter from Katy, Texas, of the Class of '89; his 1989 debut Killin' Time produced five No. 1 singles, triple-platinum sales, and a decades-long career.

Clint Mansell

Clint Mansell (born 1963, Coventry) is an English film composer and former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman, known for Darren Aronofsky scores (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan) and the track Lux Aeterna.

Clipse

Clipse are an American hip-hop duo from Virginia Beach, formed by brothers Gene "Malice" and Terrence "Pusha T" Thornton, known for dense drug-trade storytelling over the Neptunes' production.

Clive Burr

Clive Burr (1957-2013) was an English drummer, Iron Maiden's drummer 1979-1982 on Iron Maiden, Killers, and The Number of the Beast; replaced by Nicko McBrain, later a Clive-Aid beneficiary with MS.

Clive Wearing

Clive Wearing: British musicologist and BBC Radio 3 conductor who developed profound anterograde and retrograde amnesia after herpes simplex encephalitis in March 1985, with a 7 to 30 second memory span, yet retains musical procedural memory and still plays piano.

Clock DVA

Clock DVA: English experimental band formed 1978 in Sheffield by Adi Newton and Judd Turner; industrial, post-punk, EBM act behind White Souls in Black Suits (1980), Thirst (1981), and Buried Dreams (1989), still active with Noesis (2023).

Clodagh Rodgers

Clodagh Rodgers (1947–2025), Northern Irish pop singer from Warrenpoint, County Down, hit the UK charts with "Come Back and Shake Me" and represented the UK at Eurovision 1971 with "Jack in the Box", finishing fourth in Dublin.

CMAT (musician)

CMAT (Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, born 1996) is an Irish country-pop singer-songwriter from Dunboyne, County Meath. Three Irish No. 1 albums: If My Wife New I'd Be Dead (2022), Crazymad, For Me (2023), Euro-Country (2025); Choice Music Prize and Ivor Novello winner.

CNCO

CNCO (pun on "cinco") was a Miami-based Latin American boy band formed December 2015 on Univision's La Banda by Simon Cowell and Ricky Martin; members Vélez, Camacho, De Jesús, Colón, Pimentel; hits "Reggaetón Lento," "Hey DJ"; disbanded November 2023.

Cobra Starship

Cobra Starship: American dance-pop/emo-pop band formed 2005 in New York by Gabe Saporta (ex-Midtown), also known for Snakes on a Plane theme. Best known for Hot Mess (No. 4 Billboard 200), Good Girls Go Bad, disbanded 2015, touring again since 2021.

Coco & Clair Clair

Coco & Clair Clair are an Atlanta lo-fi pop-rap duo of Taylor Nave and Claire Toothill, formed 2017; their 2017 single "Pretty" went viral on TikTok in 2022, and they released the albums Sexy (2022) and Girl (2024).

Coco Jones

Coco Jones, also known for her role as Hilary Banks in Bel-Air, is an American R&B singer and actress; a Grammy winner for "ICU" (2024) with debut album Why Not More? (2025).

Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins: Scottish dream pop trio (Fraser, Guthrie, Heggie/Raymonde) formed 1979 in Grangemouth, on 4AD from 1982; eight albums to 1996, disbanded 1997.

Cody Jinks

Cody Jinks, born Meredith Cody Jinks in 1980, is an American outlaw country singer-songwriter from Fort Worth, Texas, whose 2016 album I'm Not the Devil hit number four on the country charts.

Cody Johnson

Cody Johnson (born 1987, Sebastopol, Texas), also known as CoJo, is an American country singer-songwriter and former bull rider. Known for 'Til You Can't (2022 Grammy), Leather (CMA Album of the Year), and 2026 ACM Entertainer of the Year.

Cody Simpson

Cody Simpson is an Australian singer and swimmer who found fame as a teenager on YouTube before joining Australia's swim team and winning Commonwealth Games medals in 2022.

Cœur de pirate

Cœur de pirate, stage name of Béatrice Martin (born 1989, Outremont, Quebec), is a Canadian francophone singer-songwriter and pianist; debut album 2008, hit "Comme des enfants", albums Blonde, Roses, Cavale, Child of Light soundtrack, owner of Bravo musique.

Coil (band)

Coil was an English experimental band formed in London in 1982 by John Balance and Peter Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle, active until Balance's 2004 death; known for Scatology, Horse Rotorvator, Love's Secret Domain, and Threshold House.

Coko

Coko (Cheryl Gamble, later Clemons) is the American lead singer of 1990s R&B trio SWV; her solo albums include Hot Coko (1999) and the Grammy-nominated gospel album Grateful (2006).