Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter B

A Canadian R&B, jazz and gospel singer-songwriter.Newton-Davis grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio a sub

A Canadian R&B, jazz and gospel singer-songwriter.Newton-Davis grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland. He was one of two lead singers in a local soul band called The Illusions. After working as a singer and dancer on Broadway, he moved to T

Is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and musical director, who first gained fame in the

Is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and musical director, who first gained fame in the 1960s while still a teenager with his Pet Sounds influenced album, Would You Believe, originally released on Immediate Records.

Is a Grammy Award-winning British-based popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues

Is a Grammy Award-winning British-based popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the top British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the 1980s. He waited seven years after scoring his first four UK top 20 hits, before accumulating an impressive run of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. number ones.

Guillermo García, joined the Pedro Morales Pino conservatory in his hometown Cartago, Colombia as a

Guillermo García, joined the Pedro Morales Pino conservatory in his hometown Cartago, Colombia as a child. Then he became one of the artists from the Youths Club in Radio Cartago, in which he made his first appearances as a singer. In 1966 he arrived to Bogotá searching for an opportunity.

Is a Grammy Award-nominated American country singer-songwriter and actor, best known for his hit sin

Is a Grammy Award-nominated American country singer-songwriter and actor, best known for his hit single "Achy Breaky Heart". A multi-platinum selling recording artist, he has eight top-ten singles on the Billboard country music charts. From 2001 to 2004,

Was a renowned English-born Australian musician. He earned great success in the 1960s and 1970s as t

Was a renowned English-born Australian musician. He earned great success in the 1960s and 1970s as the lead singer of rock band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs.

World-renowned Hindustani classical sitar player, and a teacher of the Imdadkhani (Etawah) gharana (

World-renowned Hindustani classical sitar player, and a teacher of the Imdadkhani (Etawah) gharana (school),[2]Mukherjee is a learned and eclectic musician – although he was an Imdadkhani sitar student of Enayat Khan, a full list of his teachers also includes sitarist Balaram Pathak, khyal singers Badri Prasad and Jaichand Bhatt of the Patiala and Kirana gharanas, Rampur gharana beenkar Jotish Chandra Chowdhury, sarangi and esraj maestros Halkeram Bhat (Maihar gharana) and Chandrikaprasad Dube (Gaya gharana) and pakhavaj drummer Madhavrao Alkutkar. He also studied with Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, the zamindar of Gouripur in present-day Bangladesh, who taught him the moribund sursringar (bass sarod).[3]

Was an American popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor whose career lasted from 1926 until h

Was an American popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977 One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings, and motio

Is an emerging Chinese artist, curator, scholar, architectural designer, cultural critic and activis

Is an emerging Chinese artist, curator, scholar, architectural designer, cultural critic and activist.[1]Although Bingyi has received little formal training in the visual arts, she began showing her paintings in 2007,[3] and is best known for creating large-scale oil-based landscapes that reference Chinese history and her personal experiences; they have been described by critic Jonathan Goodman as “epic” in scale. [4] She also creates installation art and woodcut prints. She is represented in New York by Max Protetch Gallery. [5]

Was an English actress and musician. Both her father, Robert Hale and brother, Sonnie Hale were acto

Was an English actress and musician. Both her father, Robert Hale and brother, Sonnie Hale were actors. She married West End actor Jack Raine, with whom she had one daughter.Among films and stage productions, she appeared in No, No, Nanette in 1925 at the Palace Theatre, London. Her recording of the song "Spread A Little Happiness" from the 1928 musical Mr. Cinders is possibly her best remembered work, and the rock musician Sting took a cover version of the song to number 16 in the UK Singles Chart 54 years later for the movie Brimstone and Treacle.

She is known for her smooth voice and innovative style of combining elements of jazz, R&B, reggae, a

She is known for her smooth voice and innovative style of combining elements of jazz, R&B, reggae, and latin music in her music.Kitayama graduated from Notre Dame Academy, a girls-only high school in the Kansai region. She then attended Kansai University and graduated with a undergraduate degree in sociology. While she was in university, she was a member of the school's light music club.

Was a Finnish pioneer of Modern Art. He studied at the School of the Fine Arts Association of Finlan

Was a Finnish pioneer of Modern Art. He studied at the School of the Fine Arts Association of Finland and the Central School of Applied Arts in Helsinki.

A Swedish contralto and opera singer.Finnilä was born in Falkenberg, Sweden and studied at the Roya

A Swedish contralto and opera singer.Finnilä was born in Falkenberg, Sweden and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She made her operatic debut in Göteborg in 1963. Though principally singing concert works, her operatic roles include parts in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Handel’s Flavio, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Wagner’s Ring cycle.

Is an Estonian singer. In 2007 she also played the role of Sylvia in the stage play "Two Gentlemen o

Is an Estonian singer. In 2007 she also played the role of Sylvia in the stage play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" (written by William Shakespeare and directed by a well known Estonian director/actor Lembit Peterson) at the Estonian theatre Theatrum.

A pop singer who comes from the small town of Húsavík in Iceland. For most of her life she has liv

A pop singer who comes from the small town of Húsavík in Iceland. For most of her life she has lived in the northern part of Iceland.In November 1999 Haukdal replaced the then lead vocalist of the pop group Írafár. They released their first single "Hvar er ég?" ("Where am I?") in the summer of 2000, followed by two more singles in 2001. The band signed a recording contract with Iceland’s biggest record company, Skífan in 2002, releasing their first album "Allt sem ég sé" ("All I see") in early November. It is Iceland’s fastest selling pop album of the last 25 years, reaching platinum - which is not common in Iceland.

A Swedish operatic (mezzo-soprano).Svendén, who was born in Porjus and raised in Vuollerim, studied

A Swedish operatic (mezzo-soprano).Svendén, who was born in Porjus and raised in Vuollerim, studied at the Opera in Stockholm. She has made an international career in the first place as a Wagner singer, especially at the Bayreuth Festival.Birgitta Svendén has been a hovsångerska since 1995. She is also a full member of the Academy of Music and an honorary doctor at the Lulea University of Technology.

A Norwegian singer and musical theatre artist from Helgeroa in Larvik, Vestfold county. She was born

A Norwegian singer and musical theatre artist from Helgeroa in Larvik, Vestfold county. She was born in 1975. Birgitte has performed in popular musicals like Grease, Fame and The Little Shop of Horrors. She has also done the show My First, My Last, My Everything.She became famous both in Norway and abroad in 2003, following her performance in that year's Melodi Grand Prix, which is used to select the Norwegian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. Her entry was the uptempo disco song Good Evening, Europe!, which is the phrase used every year when the ESC hosts address millions of viewers across Europe. As the title, almost all the lyrics were a reference to the Song Contest, usually direct quotes from past Eurovision entries, or else from other songs sung by former Eurovision participants. The song was written by Arve Furset, who also composed the winning song by Jostein Hasselgård.

A Danish singer who began her career in the late 1960s. Kjær had made previous bids to represent De

A Danish singer who began her career in the late 1960s. Kjær had made previous bids to represent Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980, 1986 and 1987, before being chosen in 1989 with the cabaret-style song "Vi maler byen rød" (We paint the town

A popular Danish singer. She grew up in a musical family in Copenhagen's Vesterbro area.Already as a

A popular Danish singer. She grew up in a musical family in Copenhagen's Vesterbro area.Already as a teenager she won a talent competition at the National Scala Theatre in Copenhagen, sang as soloist with Bruno Henriksen's Orchestra at Tivoli and made her

A multifaceted artist and revolutionary singer of Assam. A doyen of the Arts, he is popularly known

A multifaceted artist and revolutionary singer of Assam. A doyen of the Arts, he is popularly known as Kola Guru ( Assamese: ??? ????).Born in Dhaka, a part of Undivided India, now in Bangladesh, he played an active role in as a freedom fighter in the struggle for Indian independence.The level of influence exerted by the Kola Guru can be observed through the fact that most cultural music competitions of Assam feature a segment called Rabha Sangeet related to his compositions, lyrics and verse.[1]

Is a Palestinian painter and cartoonist. Her work usually depicted high criticism of Israel. Her pai

Is a Palestinian painter and cartoonist. Her work usually depicted high criticism of Israel. Her paintings and cartoons often reflected the opinion and hardship of Palestinian refugees. She currently resides in Houston, Texas.

Was an Indian dancer who performed and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career. The Polish

Was an Indian dancer who performed and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career. The Polish critic Tadeus Zelinski called him "the Nijinsky of India".He had a Burmese mother and a Rajput father who was a barrister. They lived in a mansion called Torquay Castle.He was invited to the United States by La Meri, an American dancer who specialized in non-Western forms of dance to tour with her. He made his solo debut in New York City in 1938.

Is an Iranian (Persian) artist. She is a pioneer in the field of Iranian public art projects.Fayyazi

Is an Iranian (Persian) artist. She is a pioneer in the field of Iranian public art projects.Fayyazi has 15 years work experience in the fields of ceramics and sculpture. She lived in England for a period of 7 years and returned to Iran in 1980. She currently lives, works and teaches at a private studio in Tehran.

An Algerian singer, dancer, actress born in 1952 in Belcourt, Algiers.Meanwhile, Biyouna continues a

An Algerian singer, dancer, actress born in 1952 in Belcourt, Algiers.Meanwhile, Biyouna continues a singing career and released in 2001 an album of songs Raid Zone, directed by the composer John Bagnolett. After the success of the album Raid Zone and her

Is an artist based in Berlin. Dahlem was born in Munich. He makes sculptures based on space and astr

Is an artist based in Berlin. Dahlem was born in Munich. He makes sculptures based on space and astrophysics out of ordinary household materials.[1]