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Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant: British progressive rock band (1970-1980) formed by Derek, Phil, and Ray Shulman after Simon Dupree and the Big Sound; known for counterpoint, multipart vocals, and 11 studio albums including Octopus and Free Hand.
Geoff Downes
Geoff Downes, English keyboardist from Stockport, is a Buggles founder (Video Killed the Radio Star, first MTV video), Yes keyboardist (1980, again from 2011), and the only constant member of Asia.
Geoff Rickly
Geoff Rickly (Geoffrey Rickly), American singer, songwriter, author, and producer; frontman of Thursday, No Devotion, and United Nations; produced My Chemical Romance's debut; wrote the 2023 novel Someone Who Isn't Me.
Geoff Tate
Geoff Tate is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the founding vocalist of Queensrÿche, and later released the Operation: Mindcrime trilogy and Operation: Mindcrime III in 2026.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (1970/1971–2017), also known as Dr G Yunupingu, was a blind Yolngu (Gumatj) Australian singer-songwriter from Elcho Island; ex-Yothu Yindi and Saltwater Band member whose 2008 debut became Australia's best-selling Aboriginal album.
Geordie (band)
Geordie were a Newcastle upon Tyne glam and hard rock band formed in 1972, known for UK hits "All Because Of You" (No. 6, 1973) and as Brian Johnson's band before he joined AC/DC in 1980.
Geordie Greep
Geordie Greep (born 1999), also known as MC Spritz, is an English musician, former frontman of experimental rock band black midi (Schlagenheim, Hellfire) and solo artist behind The New Sound (2024). In October 2026 he denied sexual assault allegations made in Vancouver and cancelled US tour dates.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), German Baroque composer of the mixed taste, Kantor of the Johanneum and music director of Hamburg's five main churches from 1721; over 3,600 works, first German music periodical, self-publisher, friend of Bach and Handel.
Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti, born György Stern, was a Hungarian-born conductor who served as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's music director from 1969 to 1991 and won 31 Grammy awards.
Georg von Trapp
Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (1880-1947), Austro-Hungarian submarine commander who sank the cruiser Léon Gambetta in 1915, patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers, refused the Nazis, and settled in Stowe, Vermont.
George Benson
George Benson (born 1943, Pittsburgh) is an American jazz guitarist and singer, NEA Jazz Master with ten Grammys; his 1976 album Breezin' was the first jazz album to go platinum, and 'This Masquerade' won Record of the Year.
George Clinton (funk musician)
George Clinton (born 1941, Kannapolis, North Carolina) is the funk bandleader behind Parliament and Funkadelic (P-Funk), creator of hits like "Atomic Dog," Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1997), and one of hip-hop's most sampled artists.
George Daniel
George Daniel (George Bedford Daniel, born 1990, Brussels) is the English drummer, co-writer, and producer of The 1975, producer of Charli XCX's Crash and Brat, founder of the dh2 electronic label, and solo dance artist behind Screen Cleaner.
George Duke
George Duke (1946-2013), American jazz-fusion keyboardist, composer, and producer; played with Jean-Luc Ponty, Frank Zappa, Cannonball Adderley; funk breakthrough Reach for It (1978); produced R&B stars; died of leukemia in Los Angeles.
George Enescu
George Enescu, also spelled Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, and teacher, regarded as the most important Romanian musician, known for the Romanian Rhapsodies.
George Ezra
George Ezra (George Ezra Barnett, born 1993) is an English singer-songwriter from Hertford known for his bass-baritone voice; albums Wanted on Voyage, Staying at Tamara's, and Gold Rush Kid, and the hit singles Budapest and Shotgun.
George Fenton
George Fenton (George Richard Ian Howe, 1949–2026), British composer of Gandhi, Groundhog Day, The Blue Planet and Planet Earth scores; five Oscar nominations, BAFTAs, Emmys, Ivor Novello Awards, CBE 2023.
George Fisher (musician)
George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is an American death metal vocalist from Baltimore, best known as the frontman of Cannibal Corpse since the mid-1990s, having replaced Chris Barnes.
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (1898–1937), American composer born Jacob Gershovitz in Brooklyn, wrote Broadway musicals with lyricist brother Ira, Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and the opera Porgy and Bess; died at 38 after brain tumor surgery.
George Harliono
George Harliono (born 2001) is a British-Indonesian concert pianist, Silver Medalist at the 2023 XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, a child soloist from age nine, and a Royal College of Music graduate.
George Harrison
George Harrison (1943–2001), the Beatles' lead guitarist and the 'quiet Beatle', first Beatle to top charts solo with All Things Must Pass and My Sweet Lord, Concert for Bangladesh organizer, Dark Horse founder.
George Hurley
George Hurley (born 1958) is the American drummer of San Pedro punk bands Minutemen and fIREHOSE, known for Double Nickels on the Dime, self-taught polyrhythmic jazz-punk drumming, and later work with The Unknown Instructors.
George Jones
George Jones (1931–2013), American country singer from Saratoga, Texas, nicknamed the Possum; over 160 charting singles, first #1 "White Lightning" (1959), signature song "He Stopped Loving Her Today" (1980), Country Music Hall of Fame 1992.
George Lynch (musician)
George Lynch (born 1954, Spokane, Washington), American hard rock guitarist of Dokken and Lynch Mob, also The End Machine, KXM, Mr. Scary Guitars builder, ESP signature artist, 1989 Grammy nominee.
George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin (1926–2016) was an English record producer, arranger, and composer who signed the Beatles to Parlophone in 1962, earning the title "fifth Beatle".
George Michael
George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, 1963–2016), English singer-songwriter of Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley and solo star; Faith (1987) sold 25 million copies and won the Album of the Year Grammy.
George Richey
George Richey, American country songwriter, producer, pianist, and label executive; wrote "The Grand Tour" and "'Til I Can Make It On My Own," headed Capitol Nashville, and was Tammy Wynette's fifth husband and manager.
George Russell (composer)
George Russell (1923-2009), American jazz composer, arranger, and theorist from Cincinnati; wrote Cubano Be, Cubano Bop for Dizzy Gillespie and authored the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953), the first major music theory from jazz, influencing Miles Davis's Kind of Blue.
George Shearing
George Shearing (1919–2011), blind British-born jazz pianist and composer, creator of the 'Shearing sound' quintet and locked-hands block-chord style, composer of 'Lullaby of Birdland' and 'September in the Rain' hit maker.
George Shelley (singer)
George Shelley (born 1993, Clevedon, England) is a British singer-songwriter and presenter, a member of Union J from The X Factor 2012, later a solo artist and frontman of the band Lightlines.