Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Is an Academy-Award winning songwriter, actor, and vocalist/guitarist for Irish rock group The Frame

Is an Academy-Award winning songwriter, actor, and vocalist/guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames.Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets. He first came to widespread public attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the Alan Parker film The Commitments, after attending the New York Film Academy School of Acting.

Is an American animator, author, illustrator and director. Keane is best known for his character ani

Is an American animator, author, illustrator and director. Keane is best known for his character animation at Walt Disney Studios for feature films including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and Tarzan.

Is a bass guitarist most famous for being in the original lineup of the punk rock band Sex Pistols.

Is a bass guitarist most famous for being in the original lineup of the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs, while lead singer Johnny Rotten came up with the lyrics. Matlo

Is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award American country po

Is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award American country pop singer and guitarist and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a television variety show

An American artist, academic and author. Her experiences in painting a portrait of Jesus Christ in 1

An American artist, academic and author. Her experiences in painting a portrait of Jesus Christ in 1992 led her to write a book of her inner conversations with Jesus which has become a best seller. [2]She graduated magna cum laude with honors in painting from Texas Christian University in 1967. She obtained an M.A. in art history from Tulane University in 1970. There she taught art history and was curator of collections for the Newcomb College art department. Also during this period (1968-69) she worked at Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum as research assistant to the institution's director. She began to seriously paint as an artist in 1971. She later taught at the University of Oklahoma, and had a retrospective show there in 1986. [3] In 1998 she had a show at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art. [4]

Glenn Danzig was born Glenn Anzalone in 1955 to a New Jersey Protestant family of Italian, German, a

Glenn Danzig was born Glenn Anzalone in 1955 to a New Jersey Protestant family of Italian, German, and Scottish-American heritage. He has two older brothers and one younger brother. Their father was a strict Marine Corps veteran of World War II and the Korean War who worked as a television repairman. One of Danzig's brothers introduced him to heavy metal at an early age by playing him music by Blue Cheer.

Is an Australian singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member and lead singer of pop group

Is an Australian singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member and lead singer of pop group Little River Band. Shorrock currently lives in Sydney with his wife Jo.Glenn Shorrock originally came to fame in Australia, as the co-lead singer of popular '60s band The Twilights. They scored major Australian hits with singles including "Needle In A Haystack", and their definitive cover of The Hollies' "What's Wrong With The Way I Live", which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.

Is an English stage actor and singer-songwriter known particularly for his leading roles in musicals

Is an English stage actor and singer-songwriter known particularly for his leading roles in musicals staged in London's West End, the pinnacle of the commercial theatre profession in the United Kingdom. He is a longtime leader of the British branch of the international UFO religion called the Raëlian Movement. The Raelian Movement earned worldwide fame in December 2002 for claiming to have produced the first human clone without offering any documentary or photographic evidence, a controversy in which Carter took part.

Is a English musician. A founder member of Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit records such

Is a English musician. A founder member of Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit records such as "Temptation".Gregory had known the founder members of The Human League for many years. He had been singing and playing bass in bands with Ian Craig Mar

Was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, h

Was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, his remarkable technical proficiency, his unorthodox musical philosophy, and his eccentric personality and piano technique. He was one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the twentieth century. He stopped performing concerts in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career—as well as performances for television and radio, non-musical radio documentaries, and other projects.

Is a bassist and vocalist well-known as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath during the mid 1980s, as

Is a bassist and vocalist well-known as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath during the mid 1980s, as well as playing bass and performing vocals for the Mk. III & IV line-ups of Deep Purple.

Is a Sydney, Australia based singer, songwriter, guitarist, performer, record producer and sound eng

Is a Sydney, Australia based singer, songwriter, guitarist, performer, record producer and sound engineer. Formerly, he was a part of renowned Australian Pop rock/Soft Rock band LemonJuice, which enjoyed several years of success in Japan and South Korea with partner Steve Glover.

Is an Australian countertenor, specialising in baroque music.Glenn Kesby made his professional singi

Is an Australian countertenor, specialising in baroque music.Glenn Kesby made his professional singing debut at the 25th Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he played Adelberto in Ottone, conducted by Charles Farncombe CBE. Since then, he has played several lead Handel opera roles including Julius Caesar and Ruggiero in Alcina for the Handel Opera Society, Rinaldo at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, and most recently Apollo in Parnasso in Festa with Baroque Encounter at St. John's, Smith Square.

A Canadian R&B and neo soul singer-songwriter. Originally planning to pursue a career in animation a

A Canadian R&B and neo soul singer-songwriter. Originally planning to pursue a career in animation as a teenager, Lewis instead decided to focus on music. His father was a member of the musical group Crack of Dawn. Lewis has cited Stevie Wonder as his big

An American conceptual artist.he graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University and currently lives

An American conceptual artist.he graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University and currently lives and works in New York City.[1] He works in multiple media, including painting, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. Ligon is best known for his large, text-based paintings in which a chosen phrase is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States. In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work.

Is a composer, guitarist, and singer of various different types of music styles, such as salsa, bole

Is a composer, guitarist, and singer of various different types of music styles, such as salsa, boleros and rumba. He is credited with recording the first rap song in Spanish.

Is one of the lead guitarists (and occasional keyboard player) for the English heavy metal band Juda

Is one of the lead guitarists (and occasional keyboard player) for the English heavy metal band Judas Priest. Prior to Judas Priest, he was in The Flying Hat Band.

Was Canadian singer, concert promoter and television producer. Glenn Campbell Stetson was born in th

Was Canadian singer, concert promoter and television producer. Glenn Campbell Stetson was born in the Ottawa Valley (Ramsayville) of eastern Ontario and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. He was a lead singer with The Diamonds, whose hits included "The Stroll",

Is the lead singer and guitarist of the English group Squeeze, a power pop band formed in the mid-19

Is the lead singer and guitarist of the English group Squeeze, a power pop band formed in the mid-1970s. He generally wrote the music for Squeeze, while his writing partner, Chris Difford, wrote the lyrics. In addition to his songwriting skills, Tilbrook

Was an American soul singer. She scored a Top Ten hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1971, with the song

Was an American soul singer. She scored a Top Ten hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1971, with the song, "I'm Gonna Run Away From You".[2]Lynn was discovered by Jerry Wexler in 1965 after hearing her sing at a talent show.[3] Wexler had her record the Bert B

A Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music a

A Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide,[1] with 26.5 million in the United States alone[2]. She has won seven Grammy Awards, becoming among the most successful crossover performers in Latin music to date.

Is an American singer, best-known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 #1, 1979), "Never

Is an American singer, best-known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 #1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 #4, 1974), "Let Me Know (I Have A Right)" (Hot 100 #42, 1980) and "I Am What I Am" (Hot 100 #82, 1983). She was born in Newark, New Jersey.

Was an Australian artist and lecturer in arts and crafts. She was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar

Was an Australian artist and lecturer in arts and crafts. She was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Trinity College of Music, Central Technical College and Kelvin Grove Teachers College. Logan lectured at Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers College as well as University of Queensland. Logan also worked for the Queensland Art Gallery as teacher of the Scholarship Children's Art Class and on numerous occasions for the Queensland Arts Council [1]. Logan was President of the Australian Society For Education Through Art (Queensland) and was an Australian delegate at International Society for Education Through Art Congresses. Her works are represented in Australian and international collections. Logan worked in a large range of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture and vitreous Enamel. Logan was also an invited judge of art exhibitions. She was also a scenic designer. Commenting on one Logan's design for "The Caretaker" by Harold Pinter,

Is an American singer and actress who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films between 1939 and 195

Is an American singer and actress who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films between 1939 and 1959. She also made radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances.

Is an American singer and songwriter. She recorded the 1964 northern soul song, "Tainted Love", late

Is an American singer and songwriter. She recorded the 1964 northern soul song, "Tainted Love", later a hit for the British synth-pop duo, Soft Cell.Jones was born in Cincinnati, and moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of 7, where she first starte