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Stellar Awards

The Stellar Awards are an annual American awards show honoring excellence in gospel music, founded in 1985 by Don Jackson and the longest-running African American gospel music awards program on television.

Stellastarr

Stellastarr was a New York indie rock band formed in 2000 by Pratt Institute classmates Shawn Christensen, Amanda Tannen, and Arthur Kremer with guitarist Michael Jurin. Three albums: stellastarr (2003, RCA, Metascore 78), Harmonies for the Haunted (2005), Civilized (2009); best known for "Jenny" and "My Coco"; on hiatus since 2009.

Steph Jones

Steph Jones (Stephenie Nicole Jones, born 1987) is an American songwriter and vocal producer, co-writer of Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" and "Nonsense", with credits for Selena Gomez, BLACKPINK, and Teddy Swims, signed to Reservoir Media since 2023.

Stephan Eicher

Stephan Eicher is a Swiss singer-songwriter born in 1960 near Bern who rose from the band Grauzone and the 1981 hit 'Eisbär' to a francophone chanson-pop career.

Stephan Jenkins

Stephan Jenkins (born 1964, Oakland, California) is an American singer-songwriter, founder and frontman of Third Eye Blind, known for Semi-Charmed Life and Jumper and his Mega Collider label.

Stephan Remmler

Stephan Remmler is a German singer and composer best known as the frontman of Trio, whose 1982 hit "Da da da" sold in 30 countries.

Stephanie Mills

Stephanie Mills (born 1957) is an American R&B singer and Broadway star, the original Dorothy in The Wiz (1975). Grammy winner for "Never Knew Love Like This Before," with five No. 1 Billboard R&B hits including "Home."

Stephanie Salas

Stephanie Salas (born 1971, Mexico City) is a Mexican singer and actress of the Pinal dynasty, daughter of Sylvia Pasquel; her 1992 album Ave María earned a gold record, and she is the mother of Michelle Salas with Luis Miguel.

Stephen Bishop (singer)

Stephen Bishop (born 1951, San Diego) is an American soft rock singer-songwriter behind "On and On," "Save It for a Rainy Day," "It Might Be You" (Tootsie), and Oscar-nominated "Separate Lives," with 650+ songs and 19 albums.

Stephen Bray

Stephen Pate Bray (born 1956, Detroit) is an American songwriter, drummer, and record producer known for Madonna's 1980s hits, Breakfast Club, and the Tony-nominated, Grammy-winning Color Purple score.

Stephen Carpenter

Stephen Carpenter is the American guitarist and founding member of Deftones, formed in Sacramento in 1988. Known for riff-driven rhythm playing on seven- and eight-string ESP signature guitars, low tunings, and Fishman signature pickups.

Stephen Duffy

Stephen Duffy (born 1960), also Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy, English singer-songwriter from Birmingham; founded Duran Duran in 1978, had the 1985 UK No. 4 hit "Kiss Me," and leads the folk-pop band The Lilac Time.

Stephen Foster

Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864), American songwriter born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania; wrote "Oh! Susanna," "Camptown Races," "Old Folks at Home," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Beautiful Dreamer," and "Hard Times Come Again No More." First American full-time professional songwriter; died poor in New York; legacy tied to blackface minstrelsy.

Stephen Gately

Stephen Gately (1976–2009), Irish singer in Boyzone and solo musical-theatre performer; first boyband member to come out as gay (Sun, June 1999); died of pulmonary oedema in Majorca aged 33.

Stephen Lironi

Stephen Mark Lironi is a Scottish musician, record producer, and restaurateur from Glasgow who was drummer and guitarist of Altered Images and co-produced Hanson's 1997 hit "MMMBop", nominated for Record of the Year.

Stephen Luscombe

Stephen Luscombe (1954–2025), English keyboardist and songwriter, co-founded British synth-pop duo Blancmange with Neil Arthur, co-writing hits like Living on the Ceiling, later led Indian-influenced West India Company.

Stephen Malkmus

Stephen Malkmus (born 1966, Santa Monica) is an American singer-guitarist, frontman and main songwriter of indie rock band Pavement (1989–1999), later of Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Silver Jews, and the Hard Quartet.

Stephen Morris (drummer)

Stephen Morris is the English drummer and founding member of Joy Division and New Order, known for machine-precise drumming, early synth drums, programming Blue Monday, and his 2019 memoir Record Play Pause.

Stephen Pearcy

Stephen Pearcy, born 1956 in Long Beach, California, is the American founder, lead vocalist, and songwriter of glam metal band Ratt, the voice behind "Round and Round" and multi-platinum albums like Out of the Cellar, later fronting Arcade, Vertex, and Vicious Delite and recording solo albums on his Top Fuel Records label.

Stephen Perkins

Stephen Perkins (born 1967, Los Angeles) is an American rock drummer, founding member of Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros, also of Banyan, Infectious Grooves, and The Panic Channel, known for tribal, jazz- and African-influenced drumming.

Stephen Sanchez

Stephen Sanchez (born 2002) is an American retro-pop singer-songwriter from California, based in Nashville, known for "Until I Found You" (2021), the Gold concept album Angel Face (2023), and the 2026 album Love, Love, Love.

Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Schwartz (born 1948, New York City) is the American composer-lyricist of Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, and Wicked, and of songs for Pocahontas, The Prince of Egypt, and Enchanted; winner of three Oscars, four Grammys, and the 2025 Johnny Mercer Award.

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021), American composer and lyricist of West Side Story lyrics and the scores of Company, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods; six Best Score Tonys, a Pulitzer Prize, and an Academy Award.

Stephen Stills

Stephen Stills (born 1945, Dallas, Texas), American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash, CSNY, Manassas, and The Rides; wrote "For What It's Worth" and "Love the One You're With"; twice a 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Stephen Wilson Jr.

Stephen Wilson Jr. is an American country singer-songwriter from Seymour, Indiana, blending country with grunge and indie rock on nylon-string guitar. Former Mars food scientist and Golden Gloves boxer; debut double album søn of dad (2023, Big Loud), songs "Gary" and "Stand By Me", CMA New Artist nominee.

Steppenwolf (band)

Steppenwolf: Canadian American hard rock band formed 1967 in Los Angeles from The Sparrow, led by John Kay. Hits "Born to Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride"; first band to use "heavy metal" in a song; disbanded 1972, reformed, final show 2018.

Steppers

Steppers is a reggae drum pattern with the bass drum on all four beats, credited to Sly Dunbar and the Channel One studio bands of mid-1970s Kingston.

Steppin' Out (Neil Sedaka album)

Steppin' Out is Neil Sedaka's 1976 studio album, his third and final Rocket Records comeback LP, produced with Robert Appere, featuring the title-track single with Elton John backup, peaking at No. 36 on Billboard.

Steps (pop group)

Steps is a British pop group formed in 1997, with three women and two men, known for 14 Top Five UK singles and 22 million records sold.

Stereo (music)

Stereo, also known as Stereo Montreal or Stereo Nightclub, is an afterhours nightclub in Montreal opened in 1998 by DJ Angel Moraes, famed for its sound system.