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Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson (born 1947, Dunfermline, Scotland) is the flautist, vocalist, and songwriter who has led Jethro Tull since 1967; known for one-legged flute playing, 60 million-plus sales, 1989 Grammy, MBE.
Ian Astbury
Ian Astbury (born 1962, Heswall, Cheshire, England) is the English lead vocalist and co-founder of The Cult, via Southern Death Cult and Death Cult; also fronted Doors of the 21st Century, organized Gathering of the Tribes, and paused touring with Billy Duffy in October 2025.
Ian Brown
Ian George Brown (born 1963), nicknamed King Monkey, English singer; frontman of the Stone Roses 1986–1996 and solo artist from 1998 with Unfinished Monkey Business, later reuniting with the Roses in 2011.
Ian Cordova
Ian Cordova is a Mexican corridos singer and songwriter from Jiquilpan, Michoacán, born in 2000, whose 2025 single "Linda Mujer" charted on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs.
Ian Curtis
Ian Curtis, also known as Ian Kevin Curtis, was the lead vocalist and principal lyricist for the band Joy Division. He was born in 1956 and died in 1980.
Ian Dury
Ian Dury (Ian Robins Dury, 1942–2000), English singer-songwriter of Kilburn & the High Roads and Ian Dury and the Blockheads; hits "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" and "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3"; polio survivor, UNICEF ambassador.
Ian Gillan
Ian Gillan (born 1945, Hounslow, Middlesex) is an English hard rock singer, lead vocalist of Deep Purple (1969–73, 1984–89, 1992–present), frontman of the Gillan band, singer on Black Sabbath's Born Again, and the title voice of the original Jesus Christ Superstar recording.
Ian Hill
Ian Hill, born 1952 in West Bromwich, is the founding bassist of Judas Priest, playing on all 19 studio albums from Rocka Rolla (1974) to Invincible Shield (2024). He retired on October 9, 2026 due to arthritis, replaced by Davey Rimmer.
Ian Hunter (singer)
Ian Hunter, born in 1939 in Shrewsbury, England, is a singer, songwriter, and author. He led the glam rock band Mott the Hoople from 1969 to 1974.
Ian MacDonald
Ian MacDonald, pen name of Ian MacCormick (1948–2003), British music critic, NME assistant editor 1972–75, and author of Revolution in the Head (1994), the song-by-song critical history of the Beatles' 241 tracks; also wrote The New Shostakovich.
Ian MacKaye
Ian MacKaye (born 1962), Washington D.C. punk musician and co-founder of Dischord Records; frontman of Minor Threat, whose song "Straight Edge" named the sober punk subculture, and of Fugazi, the post-hardcore band known for $5 all-ages shows and refusal of major labels.
Ian McCulloch (singer)
Ian Stephen McCulloch (born 1959, Liverpool) is the English singer-songwriter and frontman of post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen, co-founder with Will Sergeant; also Crucial Three, Electrafixion, and solo albums Candleland and Mysterio.
Ian McDonald (musician)
Ian McDonald (1946-2022), English multi-instrumentalist, co-founder of King Crimson and Foreigner; co-wrote In the Court of the Crimson King, played on Foreigner's first three albums, Rock Hall 2024.
Ian McLagan
Ian 'Mac' McLagan (1945-2014), English rock keyboardist of the Small Faces and Faces, later a session player for the Rolling Stones, Dylan, and Springsteen; Austin-based Bump Band leader, Ivor Novello winner, 2012 Rock Hall inductee.
Ian Munsick
Ian Munsick is an American country singer-songwriter from Sheridan, Wyoming, known for Western-themed country. Albums: Coyote Cry (2021), White Buffalo (2023), Eagle Feather (2025), The Mountain Goat (2026); over one billion streams.
Ian Paice
Ian Paice (born 1948) is the English drummer who has been Deep Purple's only drummer since 1968, known for the Fireball single-kick speed, big band swing feel, and stints with Whitesnake and Gary Moore.
Ian Stanley
Ian Stanley (born 1957, Buckinghamshire) is the English keyboardist, songwriter, and producer, a founding member of Tears for Fears and co-writer of "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"; distinct from the American actor of the same name.
Ian Stewart (musician)
Ian 'Stu' Stewart (1938–1985), Scottish boogie-woogie pianist, co-founded the Rolling Stones, was dropped from the lineup in 1963 by manager Andrew Loog Oldham, and served as road manager and studio pianist until his death.
Ian Stuart Donaldson
Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957-1993), known as Ian Stuart, was an English neo-Nazi musician, front-man of Skrewdriver (Blackpool punk band turned white power RAC band), founder with Nicky Crane of Blood & Honour, and widely credited founding father of white power music; died in a Derbyshire car crash in 1993.
Ian Van Dahl
Ian Van Dahl is a Belgian vocal trance group formed in 2000, best known for the single "Castles in the Sky", which reached number 3 in the UK in 2001.
Ian Watkins (Lostprophets singer)
Ian Watkins (born 1977, Pontypridd) was the Welsh lead singer and co-founder of rock band Lostprophets, jailed in 2013 for 35 years for child sex offences, and killed in a 2025 prison stabbing at HMP Wakefield.
Iann Dior
Iann Dior (Michael Ian Olmo, born 1999, Arecibo, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-American emo-rap and pop-punk singer; his feature on 24kGoldn's Mood topped the Billboard Hot 100, and his albums include Industry Plant, I'm Gone, and On to Better Things.
Iannis Xenakis (Ιάννης Ξενάκης)
Iannis Xenakis (Ιάννης Ξενάκης), 1922–2001, Greek-French composer, architect, and engineer; pioneer of stochastic music, Philips Pavilion designer, author of Formalized Music, 1997 Kyoto Prize laureate.
Ibanez
Ibanez (Ibanez Salvador) is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki of Nagoya, founded 1908, named after Spanish luthier Salvador Ibanez, known for RG/JEM models, the 1977 lawsuit era, and seven/eight-string pioneering.
Ibeyi
Ibeyi is a French-Cuban music duo formed in Paris in 2013 by twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, fusing Yoruba chants and Cuban percussion with electronic production.
Ibiza club season
The Ibiza club season is the summer circuit of club parties and DJ residencies on Ibiza, Spain, running from late April to mid-October at clubs including Amnesia, Pacha, and Ushuaïa.
Ibo
Ibo, born Ibrahim Bekirović in Skopje in 1961, was a German party-schlager singer whose 1985 summer hit "Ibiza" made him a star; he died in 2000.
Ibrahim Alhakmi
Ibrahim Al Hakami (ابراهيم الحكمي) is a Saudi khaleeji and Arabic folk-pop singer who won the pan-Arab talent show Super Star in 2006, the first Saudi to do so.
Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer (1927-2005) was a Cuban son and bolero singer from San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, rediscovered at age 70 for the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club album (1997) after years shining shoes in Havana, later winning a Grammy for Buenos Hermanos.
Ibrahim Maalouf
Ibrahim Maalouf is a French trumpeter of Lebanese origin, born in Beirut in 1980, who plays a quarter-tone trumpet invented by his father Nassim Maalouf.