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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 Harrison discography
George Harrison discography: solo albums by the Beatles guitarist, 1968 to 2002, from Wonderwall Music and the triple All Things Must Pass to posthumous Brainwashed, plus Dark Horse label, Traveling Wilburys, live albums, and reissues.
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 Kollias (Greek drummer)
George Kollias (Γιώργος Κόλλιας) is a Greek drummer, born in 1977 in Corinth, best known as the drummer of the American technical death metal band Nile since 2004.
George Lamond
George Lamond, born George LaMond Garcia in 1967, is an American freestyle and salsa singer from the Bronx, best known for the 1990 hit "Bad of the Heart."
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923–2011), British arts administrator and cousin of Elizabeth II; ran Edinburgh Festival, ENO, founded Opera North, president of Leeds United.
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 McCrae
George McCrae, American soul and disco singer born 1944 in West Palm Beach, Florida, known for the 1974 TK Records hit "Rock Your Baby," a US and UK number one written by Casey and Finch.
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 Michael discography
George Michael discography: solo studio albums Faith to Patience, Wham! catalogue, UK and US chart history, duets, compilations, and posthumous releases including Last Christmas's 2023-2024 Christmas Number 1s.
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.
George Strait
George Strait, born 1952 in Poteet, Texas, is an American country singer known as the King of Country who holds 60 No. 1 singles and 33 platinum albums.
George Thorogood
George Thorogood, born 1950 in Wilmington, Delaware, is an American blues-rock guitarist and leader of George Thorogood and the Destroyers, known for "Bad to the Bone," the 1981 50/50 tour, and about 15 million albums sold.
George Wassouf (جورج وسوف)
George Wassouf (جورج وسوف) is a Syrian singer known as the "Sultan of Tarab." He has released over thirty albums and sold an estimated sixty million records worldwide.
George Watsky
George Watsky (George Virden Watsky, born 1986) is a San Francisco rapper, slam poet, and author; Brave New Voices 2006 champion, viral 'Watsky Raps Fast' video, six albums, NYT-bestselling essayist.
George Winston
George Winston (1949-2023), American pianist and composer of rural folk piano; creator of Autumn (1980) and December (1982) on Windham Hill, a new-age star with 15 million albums sold and a 1994 Grammy for Forest.
George Yanagi
George Yanagi (柳ジョージ) was a Japanese blues and rock singer and guitarist from Yokohama, leader of the Rainy Wood band and known as the Japanese Clapton, who died in 2011.
George Young (rock musician)
George Redburn Young (1946-2017), Glasgow-born Australian musician: Easybeats rhythm guitarist and co-writer of 'Friday on My Mind'; with Harry Vanda produced AC/DC's early albums and wrote 'Love Is In The Air'. Distinct from the saxophonist George Young.