Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Is a South African installation artist active in the field of earth art.A native of Simonstown, Cape

Is a South African installation artist active in the field of earth art.A native of Simonstown, Cape Province, Papageorge earned her bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of South Africa in Pretoria in 1979; she earned a higher diploma in graphics from Pretoria Technikon in 1981. She turned to art after the death from cancer of her two-year-old daughter. Much of Papageorge's work explores geological rifts, tying them metaphorically to personal and political upheaval. Her more recent pieces have explored the Gondwanaland schism. In 2003 she completed her work, "Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire, Namibia/Brazil," which featured flowing red material on the sandy beaches of Africa and Brazil. This work was filmed on September 11, 2001 and presents a powerful contrast to the events in the United States at the time.

Was an American artist. She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic insp

Was an American artist. She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic inspiration, and particularly New Mexico, where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes

Was an American artist.She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic inspi

Was an American artist.She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic inspiration, and particularly New Mexico, where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.

Is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. He was born in Leigh.At sixteen y

Is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. He was born in Leigh.At sixteen years of age, he entered into a management agreement with Larry Parnes, who gave artists new names such as Marty Wilde and Billy Fury. Fame was already play

A Polish singer who rose to fame in 1999 at the age of eleven when she won the Natalia Kukulska edit

A Polish singer who rose to fame in 1999 at the age of eleven when she won the Natalia Kukulska edition of Szansa na sukces with her performance of the song Dlon.[1]

Was a Greek painter and one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich

Was a Greek painter and one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.

His father, Wassilis, came from Polydorion in Asia Minor. His mother Eleni was a passionate music lo

His father, Wassilis, came from Polydorion in Asia Minor. His mother Eleni was a passionate music lover. Georgios received his first violin lesson at the age of ten, in Edessa, in the north of Greece. He completed his secondary education at the age of sixteen and registered at the University of Athens to study classical philology

Is an English singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! and also as a sou

Is an English singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! and also as a soul-influenced pop musician. He has sold over 85 million records worldwide, encompassing 12 British #1 singles, 7 British #1 albums, 10 US #1 singles, and 2

Russian painter.As a child he showed an early passion for drawing, and by his tenth year he was enro

Russian painter.As a child he showed an early passion for drawing, and by his tenth year he was enrolled the Fine Art School. During all of his youth, the teenager was al always deeply influenced by the atmosphere at his great-grand-parents’ house, steeped with authentic russian traditions conserved during the soviet regime. Young Shishkin travelled to the many old cities in his region. With his easel, he visited monasteries and paid close attention to the icons and frescoes. In the Vladimir Cathedral, an ex-capital of Russia, he was struck by the works of Andrei Rublev, considered the first Russian painter. He was a graduate of the National Fine Arts and Architecture School (Academy) in his home town, in 1975, then a trainee at the Stroganoff Institute of Industrial and Fine Arts in Moscow. Georgy Shishkin was a professor of drawing and painting for about 10 years at this Institute where he started as a trainee.

Is a Dutch artist who works with sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work i

Is a Dutch artist who works with sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work is generally seen as conceptual art and arte povera. Together with Marinus Boezem, Wim T. Schippers and Jan Dibbets, heis seen as one of the main representatives of these movements in the Netherlands. Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and the Tate Gallery in London have work of Van Elk in their collection. Reflections on the arthistory are an important part of his work.

Is a Welsh singer songwriter and actor. He has worked mainly in the Welsh language. He was born in P

Is a Welsh singer songwriter and actor. He has worked mainly in the Welsh language. He was born in Pontrhydyfen, in the Afan Valley, Wales. He attended Pontrhydyfen Primary school and then moved across to Ysgol Gymraeg Pontrhydyfen when it opened. In 1960

Is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and

Is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. His most famous work was for rock group Pink Floyd, particularly on the The Wall album (1979) and movie (1982), and his wo

Was an English jazz pianist.Moore spent the years 1922-1939 working freelance in London, playing mov

Was an English jazz pianist.Moore spent the years 1922-1939 working freelance in London, playing movie palaces and nightclubs. Among the clubs in which he worked are Sherry’s (1925–26), the Empress Rooms (1927), Chez Rex Evans (1933–34), the Bag o’ Nails

Is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator. Born the son of a U.S. Army pilot he spent muc

Is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator. Born the son of a U.S. Army pilot he spent much of his early years on the move, living in many countries such as Japan and Germany. Brought up as a military dependent he was known by his last name only

Were wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who

Were wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who, with their generous hospitality and flair for parties, created a vibrant social circle, particularly in the 1920s, that included a great number of artists and writers of the Lost Generation. Gerald had a brief but significant career as a painter.Gerald only painted from 1921 until 1929; he is known for his hard-edged still life paintings in a Precisionist, Cubist style. During the 1920s Gerald Murphy, along with other American modernist painters in Europe, notably Charles Demuth and Stuart Davis created paintings prefiguring the pop art movement that contained pop culture imagery such as mundane objects culled from American commercial products and advertising design.[

Was a painter of the American west.In 1940, Delano painted Navajo Shepherdess, placed in Monument Va

Was a painter of the American west.In 1940, Delano painted Navajo Shepherdess, placed in Monument Valley. In it he placed a saguaro cactus, although it was well outside the naturally occurring area for this plant. It is believed to be the first illustrative use of the plant to symbolize the American West, which has become almost ubiquitous.

Was an important Canadian sculptor and painter. Born in Toronto, Canada, Gladstone was typified as b

Was an important Canadian sculptor and painter. Born in Toronto, Canada, Gladstone was typified as bold, precocious, and prodigious from an early age, and as a child he was as committed to music as he was to painting, teaching himself to play the clarinet and forming a jazz band. He subsequently committed himself to the plastic arts, especially sculpture, for which he had a marked affinity and ability. He was soon earmarked a prodigy by curators and critics.

Is a music journalist turned music producer, and is regarded as one of the major record industry pla

Is a music journalist turned music producer, and is regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950's through the 1980's. He coined the term "Rhythm & Blues", and was integral in signing and/or producing many of the biggest acts of the last 50 years, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield, and Bob Dylan. Wexler was inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

Was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of

Was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups.

Was an English pianist best known for his career as one of the most in-demand accompanists of his da

Was an English pianist best known for his career as one of the most in-demand accompanists of his day, accompanying many of the world's most famous musicians. Moore was born in Watford but received most of his musical education in Toronto, Canada, to which country his family emigrated when he was a child, and where he was an organist at St Thomas' Church, Huron Street, in Toronto.He accompanied notable instrumentalists such as Pablo Casals and the child prodigy Josef Hassid, but is perhaps best remembered for his work with singers, with notable partnerships including Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Victoria de los Ángeles, Elisabeth Schumann, Maggie Teyte and Kathleen Ferrier. He had a particular affinity for the art song (lieder) repertoire; the BBC has recommended a number of his recordings in its building a library selection

A Filipino singer and actor. He is the grand champion of the second season of Pinoy Pop Superstar an

A Filipino singer and actor. He is the grand champion of the second season of Pinoy Pop Superstar and is, to date, the youngest ever winner of the said contest. He is known as "The Boy Balladeer.Gerald Santos joined an amateur singing competition in his hometown to pay for his mother's slipped disk operation. He won the competition and won the prize money he needed. Currently, he has sung in SOP World Stars and other shows on GMA Network. He will cohost Popstar Kids on QTV. He has also appeared in concerts byRufa Mae Quinto and K Brosas. Santos's debut album was released on November 5, 2006 under GMA Records, entitled A Day on the Rainbow.

Is a jazz pianist and composer born in Utrecht, Netherlands and raised in Southern California. He is

Is a jazz pianist and composer born in Utrecht, Netherlands and raised in Southern California. He is the son of bassist/bandleader John Clayton and the nephew of multi-instrumentalist wind player Jeff Clayton.

Was raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is an American R&B singer who had several hits in the early 198

Was raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is an American R&B singer who had several hits in the early 1980s, including a #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "Can't Fake the Feeling" spent seven weeks at the top in 1980.

After studying for a degree in fine art, she became a painter and film maker. In the late 1990s she

After studying for a degree in fine art, she became a painter and film maker. In the late 1990s she won a Northern Arts Travel Award, and moved to New Orleans in the United States and then on to Languedoc in France for a year, where she was represented by Stanislaw Demidjuk. On her return, she worked in London's growing film industry, making special effects for any number of commercials and movies. During the mid nineties she made numerous short films and music videos for Gallon Drunk and Scapegoat. In 1999 she made the first experimental super-8 to Imax film about the East End of London,

Is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitar player.This was thought to be a call to fight the dictato

Is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitar player.This was thought to be a call to fight the dictatorship in charge. The song lost to Sabia by Chico Buarque and Tom Jobim. Also in 1968, still with the Al-5, Vandre had to go into exile. The first artist ever to sing Caminhando after censorhip's lift was Simone [1] in 1979, reaching enormous success from both public and critics.