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Art Alexakis
Art Alexakis (Arthur Paul Alexakis, born 1962) is the American singer, guitarist, and songwriter who founded Everclear in Portland in 1992, wrote its 1990s alt-rock hits, and went solo with Sun Songs in 2019.
Art Angels
Art Angels is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician Grimes (Claire Boucher), released November 6, 2015 on 4AD. Written and recorded solo in her Los Angeles home studio, it features Janelle Monáe and Aristophanes and was named NME's Album of the Year 2015.
Art Blakey
Art Blakey, also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He led The Jazz Messengers for decades, defining the hard bop style.
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Art Ensemble of Chicago: avant-garde jazz collective from the AACM (founded 1965), classic lineup Mitchell, Jarman, Bowie, Favors, Moye, Paris rename 1969, motto Great Black Music Ancient to the Future.
Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel (Arthur Ira Garfunkel, born 1941, Forest Hills, Queens) is the American tenor of Simon & Garfunkel, later a solo artist from 1973 (Angel Clare), actor (Catch-22), Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and father of singer Art Garfunkel Jr.
Art music
Art music, also called classical or serious music, is cultivated music by trained musicians, transmitted through notation, contrasted with folk and popular music, with parallel traditions in India, China, and the Middle East.
Art of Anarchy
Art of Anarchy: American hard rock supergroup formed 2014 by the Votta brothers, Disturbed's John Moyer, and Guns N' Roses guitarist Bumblefoot; three albums with singers Scott Weiland (2015), Scott Stapp (2017), and Jeff Scott Soto (2024).
Art of Noise
Art of Noise (The Art of Noise), English electronic group formed in London in 1983 by Langan, Jeczalik, Dudley, Horn, and Morley; Fairlight CMI sampling pioneers on ZTT, known for Into Battle, Moments in Love, and In Visible Silence.
Art Pepper
Art Pepper (Arthur Edward Pepper Jr., 1925–1982) was an American alto saxophonist of West Coast jazz, second to Charlie Parker in DownBeat's 1952 poll, whose heroin-driven imprisonments interrupted a career resumed with 1975's Living Legend and the autobiography Straight Life.
Art pop
Art pop: a loosely defined pop music style emerging mid-1960s in the UK and US, influenced by pop art and art-school culture, emphasizing imagery and style over personal expression; associated with Warhol, the Velvet Underground, Bowie, and Roxy Music.
Art Popular
Art Popular is a pagode group from São Paulo, Brazil, that rose with the 1990s romantic pagode wave, selling over 1 million copies of Samba Pop Brasil (1998).
Art rock
Art rock: eclectic rock genre emerging in the late 1960s, peaking 1972–74 with Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP; classical-influenced, concept-album-oriented; distinct from progressive and experimental rock; continued by Radiohead and 2000s experimental pop.
Art song
Art song: short classical vocal genre for solo voice, usually with piano, setting pre-existing poetry; German Lied, French mélodie, Russian romance; founded by Schubert, extended through song cycles and national schools.
Art Tatum
Art Tatum (1909-1956), also Arthur Tatum Jr., was an American jazz pianist from Toledo, Ohio, nearly blind, famed for virtuoso stride-based improvisation, the 1943 trio with Tiny Grimes and Slam Stewart, and Norman Granz's 1953 solo sessions.
Art Taylor
Art Taylor, born Arthur S. Taylor Jr., was an American hard bop jazz drummer, Prestige Records' house drummer in the late 1950s and drummer on Giant Steps.
Artbat
ARTBAT is a Ukrainian electronic duo from Kyiv formed in 2014 by Artur Kryvenko and Vitaliy "Batish" Limarenko; their melodic tech-house and progressive house records topped Beatport in 2019, and they run the UPPERGROUND label.
Artem Vedel
Artem Vedel (Артем Ведель, 1767–1808) was a Ukrainian composer, choral conductor, tenor singer, violinist, and teacher in Kyiv, a chief representative of the Cossack baroque style.
Artemas (musician)
Artemas (Artemas Diamandis, born 1999) is a British-Cypriot alt-pop singer-songwriter-producer from Oxfordshire. Known for "i like the way you kiss me" (UK No. 3, BRIT-nominated, 3× Platinum) and mixtapes Yustyna, Lovercore, and getting up to no good.
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) is the Kinks' seventh studio album, released 10 October 1969 on Pye/Reprise. A Ray Davies concept album about carpet-layer Arthur Morgan, based on brother-in-law Arthur Anning, it was originally a cancelled Granada TV play soundtrack.
Arthur Baker
Arthur Baker, born 1955 in Boston, is an American record producer and DJ whose 1982 production of Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" is widely described as the birth of electro.
Arthur Brown (musician)
Arthur Brown (Arthur Wilton Brown) is the English rock singer behind 1968's UK No. 1 "Fire" and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, nicknamed the God of Hellfire, a pioneer of theatrical shock rock.
Arthur Kane
Arthur "Killer" Kane (1949-2004), American bassist and founding member of glam-proto-punk band the New York Dolls; later a Latter-day Saint family history librarian, reunited in 2004, died of leukemia days after the Meltdown shows.
Arthur Lee (musician)
Arthur Lee (Arthur Porter Taylor, 1945-2006) was the Memphis-born, Los Angeles-raised founder and frontman of the psychedelic rock band Love, the first rock act signed to Elektra Records, creator of Forever Changes (1967), later imprisoned for a gun offense and revived with Baby Lemonade.
Arthur Mafokate (musician)
Arthur Mafokate, born Sello Arthur Mafokate, is a South African kwaito singer, producer, and record label owner who founded 999 Music in 1992 and boosted the careers of more than 50 artists, including Mandoza and Lira.
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein), Polish-American pianist (Łódź 1887, Geneva 1982), 75-year career, famed Chopin interpreter, first champion of Spanish piano music, RCA recording legend.
Arthur Russell (musician)
Arthur Russell (1951–1992), also known by aliases Dinosaur L and Loose Joints, was an American cellist, composer, and disco producer from Oskaloosa, Iowa, active in New York's downtown avant-garde scene, best known for the 1986 album World of Echo and extensive posthumous reissues.
Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842–1900), British composer and conductor, leading Victorian musician; with W. S. Gilbert wrote fourteen Savoy comic operas including The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance, plus oratorios, hymn tunes such as Onward Christian Soldiers, and the grand opera Ivanhoe.
Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" is a 1981 pop song by Christopher Cross, written with Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allen for the film Arthur. It hit Billboard #1 and won the 1982 Oscar for Best Original Song.
Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw (Arthur Arshawsky, 1910–2004) was an American swing-era jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and author. His 1938 "Begin the Beguine" made him Benny Goodman's chief rival; he retired from music in 1954.
Artificial Paradise (OneRepublic album)
Artificial Paradise is OneRepublic's sixth studio album, released July 12, 2024 on Mosley Music/Interscope; a roughly 38-minute, 16-song set including "I Ain't Worried" and media tie-in tracks, with Deluxe (18) and Super Deluxe (28) editions.