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David Essex

David Essex (David Albert Cook, born 1947) is an English singer and actor behind "Rock On", "Gonna Make You a Star", and "Hold Me Close", the films That'll Be the Day and Stardust, and the original London Evita.

David Fleming (composer)

David Fleming is an Emmy-winning American film and TV composer, co-composer of HBO's The Last of Us with Gustavo Santaolalla and co-composer of Superman (2025) with John Murphy; two-time Emmy winner (Jim Henson Idea Man 2024, Widow's Bay 2026) and former Hans Zimmer collaborator.

David Foster

David Foster (born 1949, Victoria, BC) is a Canadian producer, songwriter, and composer, a 16-time Grammy winner behind Chicago 17, The Bodyguard, and Celine Dion hits, founder of the David Foster Foundation, and composer of BOOP! The Musical.

David Frost (producer)

David Frost, American classical recording producer and engineer, 25 Grammy Awards including seven Producer of the Year Classical; Met Opera Live in HD producer; distinct from broadcaster Sir David Frost.

David Gates

David Gates (born December 11, 1940, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is the American singer-songwriter who fronted soft rock band Bread, writing hits like "If" and "Make It with You," and later scored solo with "The Goodbye Girl."

David Geffen

David Geffen (born 1943, Brooklyn) is an American entertainment billionaire, founder of Asylum, Geffen, and DGC Records and co-founder of DreamWorks, known for his $150M LACMA gift, David Geffen Hall, and Yale School of Drama renaming.

David Gilmour

David Gilmour (born 1946), English guitarist, singer, and songwriter who joined Pink Floyd in 1968, led the band from 1985, and released five solo albums including On an Island and Luck and Strange.

David Glen Eisley

David Glen Eisley is an American rock singer, lead vocalist of Giuffria (1984–1986) and Dirty White Boy, later replaced in House of Lords by James Christian, and co-writer of SpongeBob's "Sweet Victory."

David Grant (singer)

David Grant (David Beresford Grant, born 1956, Hackney, London), English soul singer and vocal coach; co-founder of Brit-funk band Linx, solo star of "Watching You, Watching Me" (no. 10, 1983) and 1985 Jaki Graham duets; Fame Academy judge, BAFTA and MOBO winner, MBE 2019.

David Gray (British musician)

David Gray, also known as David Peter Gray, is a British singer-songwriter whose fourth album White Ladder became one of the bestselling British albums, selling over seven million copies.

David Grisman

David "Dawg" Grisman (born 1945) is an American mandolinist who invented "Dawg music," a blend of bluegrass, jazz and swing, led the David Grisman Quintet, played in Old & in the Way with Jerry Garcia, and founded the Acoustic Disc label; inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2023.

David Guetta

David Guetta (Pierre David Guetta, born 1967, Paris) is a French DJ and producer, a pioneer of French house, whose 2009 crossover with 'When Love Takes Over' and 'I Gotta Feeling' made EDM mainstream; two Grammy wins and five-time DJ Mag No. 1.

David Guetta discography

David Guetta discography: catalog of the French DJ and producer (born 1967), from Just a Little More Love (2002) and Nothing But the Beat (2011) to I'm Good (Blue); 7 UK number-one singles, two Grammys, Jack Back alias.

David Hallyday

David Hallyday, born David Smet in 1966, is a French singer-songwriter, son of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, known for "High" (1988) and for composing his father's album Sang pour sang.

David Helfgott

David Helfgott (born 1947, Melbourne) is an Australian pianist whose breakdown and comeback inspired the 1996 Oscar-winning film Shine; known for Rachmaninov's Third Concerto and his chart-topping recording of it.

David Hodo

David Hodo, born Richard Davis Hodo, is an American singer best known as the original Construction Worker of the disco group Village People, from 1977 to 2013.

David Holmes (musician)

David Holmes (born 1969, Belfast) is a Northern Irish DJ, producer, and film composer known for Let's Get Killed, the Ocean's Eleven scores, Unloved, Killing Eve, and the 2023 album Blind on a Galloping Horse.

David Hood

David Hood (born 1943, Sheffield, Alabama) is an American session bassist and trombonist, co-founder of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and bassist of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (the Swampers), known for "I'll Take You There," "Kodachrome," and Bob Seger albums.

David Hungate

David Hungate (born 1948) is an American session bassist, founding bassist of Toto, and player of the "Lowdown" bass line on Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees; he played on Toto's first four albums including Toto IV, then built a Nashville session career and rejoined Toto in 2014.

David Johansen

David Johansen (1950-2025), American singer and actor, frontman of glam/proto-punk band the New York Dolls, later the lounge persona Buster Poindexter with the hit "Hot Hot Hot"; died of cancer at 75.

David Knopfler

David Knopfler, British singer-guitarist, co-founded Dire Straits in 1977, played rhythm guitar on its first two albums, left in 1980, and has released solo albums from Release (1983) to Skating on the Lake (2022).

David Kushner (singer-songwriter)

David Kushner (David Alan Kushner II, born 2000, Chicago) is an American alt/indie singer-songwriter known for TikTok hits "Miserable Man", "Mr. Forgettable", and "Daylight"; EP Footprints I Found (2022), album The Dichotomy (2024), album Devotion (2026).

David Lang (composer)

David Lang (born 1957, Los Angeles) is an American composer, co-founder of Bang on a Can, and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for the little match girl passion; also Oscar-nominated for Simple Song #3 from Youth and a Yale professor.

David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth, "Diamond Dave," born 1954, is the original frontman of Van Halen (1978–1985, reunions 1996 and 2007) and a solo artist behind Crazy from the Heat and Eat 'Em and Smile.

David Lindley (musician)

David Lindley (1944-2023), American multi-instrumentalist and session guitarist from San Marino, California; Jackson Browne's sideman on Running On Empty, founder of Kaleidoscope and El Rayo-X, died March 3, 2023.

David Live

David Live: David Bowie's first officially released live album, a 1974 RCA double LP recorded 8–12 July at Philadelphia's Tower Theatre on the Diamond Dogs Tour, peaking at UK No. 2, documenting his shift from glam to Philadelphia soul.

David Lovering

David Lovering (born 1961, Burlington, Massachusetts) is the drummer of the alternative rock band the Pixies (1986–1993, reunited 2004) and a professional magician performing as the Scientific Phenomenalist with the Unholy Three at the Magic Castle.

David Marks

David Marks (born 1948) is an American guitarist, an original rhythm guitarist of the Beach Boys who played on their first four albums, left in a royalty dispute, and rejoined for the 1997 and 2012 reunions.

David McCormack

David McCormack (born 1969, Brisbane) is an Australian musician, frontman of 1990s indie rock band Custard, voice of Bandit Heeler in Bluey, and screen composer with the Polaroids and TRS80 projects.

David Morales

David Morales (born 1961, Brooklyn) is an American house DJ, producer, and Def Mix co-founder with Frankie Knuckles and Judy Weinstein; Grammy-winning Remixer of the Year (1999) with 500-plus remixes for Mariah Carey, U2, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston.