Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Started his career in the music industry in 2003 as the manager of the successful SAMA-nominated Sou

Started his career in the music industry in 2003 as the manager of the successful SAMA-nominated South African rock group, Soul Proxy[1].Towards the end of 2004, Neves was also briefly involved in the management of South African pop-rock trio Fevertree, but soon left the group to further his studies in the United Kingdom.He currently resides in London, England where he is completing a degree in marketing at Cass Business School.

Sanchez is in a side project called The Prize Fighter Inferno. Their first album, My Brother's Blood

Sanchez is in a side project called The Prize Fighter Inferno. Their first album, My Brother's Blood Machine, was released October 31, 2006. Claudio claims "When we were called Shab?tie, the initial idea for Coheed and Cambria was to be an acoustic/electronic side project. So I guess The Prize Fighter Inferno is kind of the original idea for Coheed and Cambria,".[2] Sanchez also appears on his bandmate Travis' side project dubbed Fire Deuce (backing vocals) which released Children of the Deuce EP" in 2005 and "Deep Down & Dirty EP" in 2007.

Is the lead singer and guitarist of Chilean rock band Lucybell.He studied sound engineering at the U

Is the lead singer and guitarist of Chilean rock band Lucybell.He studied sound engineering at the University of Chile and then went on to form the popular group Lucybell. The line-up shifted over the years, making him the only original member and main composer of the band.

Is the lead singer and guitarist of the German heavy metal band Bonfire. He is the only member and t

Is the lead singer and guitarist of the German heavy metal band Bonfire. He is the only member and the only singer of Bonfire to have appeared on all of the band's albums. Leßmann is also one of the only remaining original members of the band, the other being lead guitarist Hans Ziller. Before joining Bonfire in 1978 he was in the bands Ginger and Sunset.

Is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program

Is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released in October 2003. He released four more albums on the RCA label: Merry Christmas with Love, A Thousand Different Ways, and the Christmas EP, All is Well. [1][2] His fourth studio album (the first album of original material since 2003's Measure of a Man), On My Way Here was released on May 6, 2008.

Is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program

Is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. Based on album sales surpassed only by Idol winners Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, Aiken has become the most successful male and the most successful runner-up in that show's history.[1][2] In the years following his American Idol appearance Aiken has launched eight tours, authored a New York Times best-selling book Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life with Allison Glock, and was the executive producer for a 2004 televised Christmas special, A Clay Aiken Christmas. He has been a frequent talk show guest, particularly on The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live, appeared as a guest star on Scrubs,

Is a singer and former lead vocalist of sixties British soul group soul group The Foundations.After

Is a singer and former lead vocalist of sixties British soul group soul group The Foundations.After having found success with The Foundations, two hit singles, releasing two albums some problems started within the group. Clem felt that after their hit a couple of The Foundations members were taking things a little too easy thinking that they didn't need to work so hard now that they'd scored a hit.

Was a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He re

Was a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War.

An English actress, journalist and violinist.[1]Burton-Hill attended St Paul's Girls' School and Wes

An English actress, journalist and violinist.[1]Burton-Hill attended St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School, and went on to read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, gaining a double first. She was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship in politics and government at Harvard University in 2006.Since university, Burton-Hill has combined a career spanning acting, writing, music and political consultancy. Having worked as an actress since 1997 in numerous film and television productions including Hustle, Midsomer Murders, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, Supernova, Dream Team, Burton-Hill played the regular role of Sophie Montgomery in Party Animals, BBC 2's drama set in the Palace of Westminster. She also has a guest lead in The Palace for ITV, out in January 2008.

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A German count, Bishop of M

Is a German video artist. He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, where he studi

Is a German video artist. He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, where he studied with Astrid Klein.[1] In 2008, he was a resident at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] He lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany.

Is a German artist living in the United States. Clemens Weiss grew up in the Region of the Lower Rhi

Is a German artist living in the United States. Clemens Weiss grew up in the Region of the Lower Rhine Valley where he received technical training in mechanical engineering from 1970 to 1973. From 1977 to 1982, he studied art, philosophy, medicine and geology in Krefeld and Düsseldorf (Germany], and Vienna (Austria). Beginning in 1974, he also worked as an independent artist. In 1983 he moved to the small town of Süchteln in Germany in order to concentrate on his own philosophical and visual work. Since 1986 he has maintained a studio in Mönchengladbach in Germany (where he finished and documented his body of work) and, in 1987, moved to New York where he established his main studio and residence.

Was an influential American art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In p

Was an influential American art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he promoted the abstract expressionist movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock.

An English R&B/pop singer, dancer, songwriter and actress. Higgins rose to fame as the lead singer o

An English R&B/pop singer, dancer, songwriter and actress. Higgins rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop/R&B girl group Cleopatra.Since leaving Cleopatra, Higgins has released her debut single "Feelin' Like This" and is currently working on her debut album. Higgins has recorded two duets with tenor Russell Watson. The first duet "Someone Like You" was featured on Watson's multi-platinum debut album The Voice and topped the U.S classical charts.[1][2] She performed the duet both on tour with Watson, and on the National Lottery, at which time she was five months pregnant with her first child, Chika. Higgins and Watson collaborated again with a track called "The Best That Love Can Be", on his third album, Reprise.

Is a Greek singer with a strong, emotional performance. She is known for having represented Greece i

Is a Greek singer with a strong, emotional performance. She is known for having represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, in Sweden. The musician Christos Lagos composed for her the song "Olou Tou Kosmou I Elpida" (Everyone's Hope). Cleopatra scored 94 points and reached the 5th place, one of the best places a Greek song has ever reached in the Contest. She has worked with the famous musician Mimis Blessas and she sang a duet with the pop/folk idol Stelios Rokkos, entitled "Na M'Agapas" (Love Me). She was planning to record a new album, but the death of her husband and co-worker Christos Lagos caused her to cancel it.

The daughter of Moldovan-Romanian singer, Pavel Stratan, is the youngest person ever to score commer

The daughter of Moldovan-Romanian singer, Pavel Stratan, is the youngest person ever to score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani ("At the age of 3").

He was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting

He was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.He attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City (1924-1932); and from age 11 to age 14 he began his formal art training with Antonia Nell, (who had been a student of George Bellows). At 15 until the age of 18 he attended the Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts; where he studied painting with Bartlett Hayes and won the Samuel F. B. Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940 he graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude, with a degree in Art and Archaeology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Princeton he studied painting with James C. Davis and Far Eastern Art with George Rowley, for whom he wrote his thesis on Yuan dynasty landscape painting.[1][2][

Is an English singer, actor and businessman. With his backing band The Shadows, Richard dominated th

Is an English singer, actor and businessman. With his backing band The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during the The Beatles' first year in the charts. A conversion to Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to his having more of a pop than rock image.

Aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving

Aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, Valery Ponomarev, and Wynton Marsalis.

Is an illustrator and militant anarchist.His father was a postman and his mother a cook. Expelled fr

Is an illustrator and militant anarchist.His father was a postman and his mother a cook. Expelled from school at 13 and placed on 2 years probation at 14, he then worked in a series of "menial jobs" before 'turning on, tuning in and dropping out' in 1967

Is an American rapper, songwriter, and producer, actor, philanthropist and co-CEO of Grand Hustle Re

Is an American rapper, songwriter, and producer, actor, philanthropist and co-CEO of Grand Hustle Records.His debut album I'm Serious was released on October 9, 2001 through Arista Records, which spawned the single of the same title which featured reggae vocalist Beenie Man. His debut album included Pharrell of The Neptunes (who named him the Jay-Z of the south), Jazze Pha, and Youngbloodz. Production was by The Neptunes, DJ Toomp, Madvac, and The Grand Hustle Team. However, the album did not sell very well, and he was dropped from the label. The album sold 268,000 copies.[cit

Was an Australian painter considered one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal ar

Was an Australian painter considered one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings are held in many galleries and collections, Australian and worldwide.He was the most famous of the Aboriginal artists who lived around Papunya, in the Northern Territory's Western Desert area, when the acrylic painting style (known popularly as "dot art") was initiated. Geoffrey Bardon came to Papunya in the early 1970s and encouraged the Aboriginal people to put their dreaming stories on canvas, stories which had previously been depicted ephemerally on the ground. Clifford Possum emerged as one of the leaders in this school of painting, which has come to be called Papunya Tula.

Was a popular English singer/songwriter, best known for his career as a solo artist.In 1962, shortly

Was a popular English singer/songwriter, best known for his career as a solo artist.In 1962, shortly after leaving school, Ward formed a beat band called Cliff Ward and The Cruisers. The band was popular in Birmingham and also in demand at American Army b

Was an Australian artist, who won the Archibald Prize three times, and an Order of Australia medal i

Was an Australian artist, who won the Archibald Prize three times, and an Order of Australia medal in 1985. A pioneering environmental activist, he was known for his landscapes, and also for portraiture. He was a member of the Antipodeans Group, who protested against Abstract Expressionism.In 1951 he started buying up former farming land at Cottles Bridge near the town of Hurstbridge, north of Melbourne, and built a small shack out of natural materials scavenged from the area. After a time he moved his family into the rudimentary dwelling and decided to attempt to live in harmony with nature. Pugh became committed to seeing the Australian bush rejuvenate in the surrounding land, buying up further paddocks, pulling down fences, uprooting exotic plants and weeds, and starting a wild animal shelter. The close observation of the nature and its cyclical rhythms became a key theme in Pugh's paintings from this time, leading to his later being recognised as a pioneer in Environmental art.

Was a popular music British singer of the 1950s and 1960s.He began his recording career as Clinton F

Was a popular music British singer of the 1950s and 1960s.He began his recording career as Clinton Ford with the Oriole record label, where he recorded his best-known song, "Fanlight Fanny". His career outlasted many of his contemporaries, with his single