Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Is an English musician.olliffe has been a member of the German band Tangerine Dream, working with th

Is an English musician.olliffe has been a member of the German band Tangerine Dream, working with them and providing vocals for their 1978 album Cyclone, also notably one of the few Tangerine Dream albums to feature singing. His was also a member of the b

Is a South African singer songwriter . Kekana lost his sight at age five, and attended a school for

Is a South African singer songwriter . Kekana lost his sight at age five, and attended a school for the blind in Pietersburg. During the school years, he nurtured his love for singing, and became a member of amateur groups during the teenage years.In 1979 and 1980, Kekana won what was then known as the SABC Black Music Award for best male vocalist. Kekana's Raising My Family was a big hit in Europe in 1980. In total, Kekana has recorded more than twenty albums.

Founded The Syn in 1966 with Chris Squire, Andrew Jackman, John Painter and Martyn Adelman. In 1968,

Founded The Syn in 1966 with Chris Squire, Andrew Jackman, John Painter and Martyn Adelman. In 1968, Nardelli left The Syn to carve out a business career in the fashion and sports industries before reforming the band in 2003 with Adelman and Peter Banks.

He has also done sessions for pop artists such as Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli,Elisa, Vasco Rossi, C

He has also done sessions for pop artists such as Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli,Elisa, Vasco Rossi, Corrado Rustici, Zucchero, Savage Garden, Bryan Adams, as well as world musicians such as Zakir Hussain. Additionally, he has played with various jazz artists including Mike Mainieri's Steps Ahead, Wadada Leo Smith, Tom Coster, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Liebman, Larry Coryell, Victor Wooten, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Stuart Hamm, Dweezil Zappa, Anthony Jackson, Aydin Esen, George Brooks, Michael Zilber, Steve Marcus, Andy Fusco, Kai Eckhardt, Lee Musiker, Howard Levy, Oteil Burbridge, Jerry Goodman,Tony MacAlpine and Bill Evans. Smith also leads his own jazz group

Is a British pop singer, best known as the lead singer and frontman of the 1980s pop group Visage[1]

Is a British pop singer, best known as the lead singer and frontman of the 1980s pop group Visage[1]. Since the late 1970s, he was also a prominent nightclub host and promoter.

Is an English singer-songwriter.Steve Tilston was born in Liverpool and raised in Leicestershire. Ti

Is an English singer-songwriter.Steve Tilston was born in Liverpool and raised in Leicestershire. Tilston was a graphic designer before taking up music in 1971. In the early eighties he ran a folk club with Bert Jansch in New Kings Road, London. 1982's "I

Was a South African classical pianist.Steven DeGroote was born in Johannesburg, South Africa into a

Was a South African classical pianist.Steven DeGroote was born in Johannesburg, South Africa into a Belgian family in which, for three generations, almost every member had been a professional musician. His grandmother was a recipient of the Prix de Rome in Belgium, and his father the conductor of the Cape Town University Symphony. As a youngster, DeGroote toured South Africa performing trios with his father on violin and brother on cello.

Is an entertainer, known mostly as a singer and songwriter.Fromholz began performing while he was se

Is an entertainer, known mostly as a singer and songwriter.Fromholz began performing while he was serving in the United States Navy during the 1960s. After serving, he teamed with Dan McCrimmon to create the group Frummox and also played with Stephen Stills and Rick Roberts before going solo.

Is a British actor and singer.Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Houghton trained at the Northern S

Is a British actor and singer.Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Houghton trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. His first West End production was Children of Eden. Additional London credits include Cats, Hot Mikado, Martin Guerre

Was an American rock and roll and punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best

Was an American rock and roll and punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands, The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church.

Kilbey began his professional music career at age 17 when he joined a "cabaret band". He then joined

Kilbey began his professional music career at age 17 when he joined a "cabaret band". He then joined Precious Little, a rock band featuring future Church bandmate Peter Koppes on drums. Kilbey followed up with another band, Baby Grand, around 1978 while he lived in Canberra. Soon after, he formed The Church along with Koppes, Nick Ward, and Marty Willson-Piper. After some success in their native Australia in the early 1980s, Kilbey and The Church went on to international fame when Kilbey's song "Under the Milky Way" (from their 1988 album Starfish) became a hit.

A Scottish pianist.He was taught by Richard Beauchamp at St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh before

A Scottish pianist.He was taught by Richard Beauchamp at St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh before going to the Royal Northern College of Music/Manchester University (joint course) in Manchester to study under Renna Kellaway. After graduating, Osborne went on to win first prize in the prestigious Clara Haskil Competition in 1991 and the Naumburg International Competition in New York in May 1997.

Is a Dutch singer-songwriter.Stevie Ann started making music at a very young age. From the first mom

Is a Dutch singer-songwriter.Stevie Ann started making music at a very young age. From the first moment she learned how to play the guitar she started writing songs. In the summer of 2005 her debut album Away from Here was released. The album contains twelve tracks, all written by Ann.The song The Poetry Man, released in December 2005, and gained airplay on a number of major Dutch radio stations. It is her highest charting single to date, peaking at #21 on the Dutch Single Top 100.

An American pop singer. He grew up and still lives outside of Dayton, Ohio. Brock began singing when

An American pop singer. He grew up and still lives outside of Dayton, Ohio. Brock began singing when he was two years old. At eight, he wrote his first song: "Little Waves".In 2002, he signed a record deal with WIRE Records, the Orlando-base company owned by Johnny Wright. His first hit single was a cover of Color Me Badd's "All for Love." His self-titled debut album includes the music video "All For Love". The total number of tracks is eight.Brock was the guest vocalist on Triple Image (also on WIRE Records) single "Boy Next Door."In 2003, he toured with Aaron Carter in "Aaron's Jukebox World Tour" and later toured in Radio Disney tours such as Jingle Jam Tour, Jump5's 2004 Spring Thing Tour, etc.Stevie's recent recording projects include: "Radio Disney Jams, Volume 6" featuring "All For Love," "DisneyMania 2" featuring "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", and "Radio Disney Jingle Jams" (2004) featuring "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." He also teamed up with former Dream Street members Greg Raposo and Matt Ballinger to record "Three Is A Magic Number" for the soundtrack to Disney's animated feature Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers.

A Canadian actress and singer. Vallance was born in Montreal, Quebec.Vallance graduated from The Ame

A Canadian actress and singer. Vallance was born in Montreal, Quebec.Vallance graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. At age 20, while fronting her own band in Los Angeles, a CBS executive heard her and offered her a recurring ro

Shagrath is one of the founding members of Dimmu Borgir, along with Silenoz and Tjodalv. Shagrath's

Shagrath is one of the founding members of Dimmu Borgir, along with Silenoz and Tjodalv. Shagrath's change from playing guitar to vocals is a part of what changed the band's sound. His contributions extend into the use of keyboards, bass guitar, and drums; as can be heard on For All Tid.Shagrath also played guitar and drums in Fimbulwinter until the band split up in 1994. Fimbulwinter released one album, Servants of Sorcery, through Hot Records in 1994. Shagrath also played keyboards in another Norwegian black metal band called Ragnarok. Another unknown band was Starkness, a solo project of Shagrath. He is also the rhythm guitarist of the heavy metal band Chrome Division.

In 1991 Jones entered the Queens based rap group Onyx along with cousin Fredro Starr, Sonsee, and Bi

In 1991 Jones entered the Queens based rap group Onyx along with cousin Fredro Starr, Sonsee, and Big DS. In 1993 the group released their debut album entitled Bacdafucup. It proved to be a commercial success and eventually went multi-platinum, largely due to the well known single "Slam".Since then he has released four other albums with Onyx, as well as two solo albums. He released his debut solo album in 2001 which was titled Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones, a concept album that followed the (fictionalized) life of Kirk Jones in a story line fashion as he is released from prison and then ultimately his death. The album was a critical success being noted as very creative with substantial content, though it didn't gain much commercial recognition despite featuring well known artists such as Eminem,

Is a Norwegian singer, composer and tekstforfatter.Stig van Eijk is known for his Grand Prix career.

Is a Norwegian singer, composer and tekstforfatter.Stig van Eijk is known for his Grand Prix career. In 1999 he won the Norwegian final of Melodi Grand Prix with the song "Living My Life Without You," which he wrote. In the European final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel, he came in 14th, after gaining 35 points.

A Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is sometimes credited as Stomu Yamash'ta. His

A Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is sometimes credited as Stomu Yamash'ta. His father is the acclaimed artist Kiyoshi Yamashita.He studied music at Kyoto University, Juilliard School of Music, and Berklee College of Music, and has also lectured music. He was a member of the supergroup Go along with Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze, and Michael Shrieve. He has composed for the British Royal Ballet, and wrote the soundtrack to the David Bowie film The Man Who Fell to Earth and for Ken Russell's The Devils. His Space Theme was used by the BBC on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He has performed and collobrated with numerous artists from around the world, and excerpts of a Stomu Yamashta performance appear in the last episode of Tony Palmer's All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music.

It would not be until eight years after forming that Story of the Year saw its first piece of commer

It would not be until eight years after forming that Story of the Year saw its first piece of commercial success in its major label debut, Page Avenue, containing the popular singles "Until the Day I Die" and "Anthem of Our Dying Day". A second album, In the Wake of Determination, followed in 2005, but did not achieve the success of its predecessor. The band has returned with their third album The Black Swan, their first on Epitaph Records, which was released on April 22, 2008.

Was a Greek laika and elafro-laika singer who featured predominantly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.D

Was a Greek laika and elafro-laika singer who featured predominantly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.Dionysiou left Thessaloniki for Athens to further his singing career. He appeared in Nikaia night club "Asteras" with well-established singer Kaity Grey and

Was a Canadian musician. Stu Davis was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993

Was a Canadian musician. Stu Davis was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.Davis was popular across Canada as the star of numerous Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) network radio and television series of the 1950s and 60s,

Was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his Jazz influenced, proto pop art pa

Was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his Jazz influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful.His parents both worked in the arts. His father was the art editor of the Philadelphia Press while his mother was a sculptor. Davis studied painting, and art under Robert Henri, the leader of the early modern art group the Eight; he was one of the youngest painters to exhibit in the controversial Armory Show of 1913.Exposed at this exhibition to the work of such artists as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, Davis became a committed "modern" artist and a major exponent of cubism and modernism in America.

Goddard, an only child, was born in Marylebone, London. One of the themes he used in his later work

Goddard, an only child, was born in Marylebone, London. One of the themes he used in his later work - suppressed minorities - was part of his inheritance; he is of Romnichal stock. His grandfather, Walter Albany Smith, was a full-blooded Romany & a heavy drinker (an alcoholic). Home was two rooms in de Walden buildings

Is a drummer, songwriter and vocalist.Also known as Stuart Tosh, MacIntosh recorded and toured with

Is a drummer, songwriter and vocalist.Also known as Stuart Tosh, MacIntosh recorded and toured with a succession of well-known and respected bands during the 1970s and 1980s, including Pilot, Alan Parsons Project, 10cc and Camel.