Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter J

An American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received fiv

An American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories (winning a Country Grammy in 1983), as well as a CMA Award for Best New F

A Japanese musician who came first into the scene when being recruited by famous Visual Kei artist M

A Japanese musician who came first into the scene when being recruited by famous Visual Kei artist Mana for his solo project Moi dix Mois.In the middle of February 2007 Juka announced the start of his solo career while continuing the activities with HIZAK

Is a Finnish jazz pianist and classical composer. He has composed music for the Finnish National Ope

Is a Finnish jazz pianist and classical composer. He has composed music for the Finnish National Opera and led several jazz Big Bands[1] In addition he has won two Jussi awards for music.[2]

His first album came out in 1981 and he has been called the "Bruce Springsteen of Finland." He state

His first album came out in 1981 and he has been called the "Bruce Springsteen of Finland." He states that his music is a mix of "Blues, Rock´n´roll, Folk, Country, Soul, Funky, New Orleans stuff." He also listened to old-time musicians like Tommy Jarrell and Clarence Ashley while learning the 5-string banjo.

A Finnish guitarist.Tolonen became famous as guitarist for the band Tasavallan Presidentti. While ma

A Finnish guitarist.Tolonen became famous as guitarist for the band Tasavallan Presidentti. While making several solo albums and projects he also played on albums Tombstone Valentine (1970) and Fairyport (1971) by Wigwam.Tolonen is a virtuoso guitarist who is highly respected in his native Finland as well as in Sweden where he has lived for long periods. Among Tolonen's side projects are Guitarras Del Norte, Trio Tolonen, and Jukka Tolonen Band (JTB).

Is an American singer, and actress.With a distinctive, airy voice, Cruise has recorded three albums,

Is an American singer, and actress.With a distinctive, airy voice, Cruise has recorded three albums, but is probably best known for the lead vocal on "Falling," the theme song for the cult U.S. television series Twin Peaks. Until recently, she was a frequ

Is an American director, producer, composer, and author.Educated at New York University, he first wo

Is an American director, producer, composer, and author.Educated at New York University, he first worked at an advertising agency in New York until the early 1960s, when he founded the film production company Videocraft International (now called Rankin/Ba

French painter, was born in the village of Damvillers, Meuse and spent his childhood there.

French painter, was born in the village of Damvillers, Meuse and spent his childhood there.

Was a French sculptor. He was a student of François Jouffroy. Blanchard is perhaps best known for h

Was a French sculptor. He was a student of François Jouffroy. Blanchard is perhaps best known for his renovation of the Fontaine du Palmier in the Place du Châtelet, Paris.

Was a once renowned, but now semi-forgotten baritone, and the first African American artist to gain

Was a once renowned, but now semi-forgotten baritone, and the first African American artist to gain regular employment on Broadway.Bledsoe performed in Frank Harling's opera Deep River in 1926 and he created the role of Joe in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammer

Was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. Often called

Was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. Often called the father of the modern poster.

French painter, was one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot

French painter, was one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of her tragic and dramatic aspects.

A sculptor living and working in Montreal. He has made many commemorative monuments that we can see

A sculptor living and working in Montreal. He has made many commemorative monuments that we can see in Montreal, Longueuil, Quebec city, and other places...

Was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.Olitski had his first one-person show at

Was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.Olitski had his first one-person show at Galerie Huit, Paris in 1951. He returned to New York, reacting against the color and imagery of his Paris works, he began to paint monochromatic pictures with empty centers. He divorced and began exhibiting in group shows, and by 1956 was remarried and had joined the faculty of C. W. Post College on Long Island. In 1958 he had his first New York one-person show, at the Zodiac (Iolas) Gallery, and met Clement Greenberg, who exhibited Olitski's paintings in a large solo show at French & Company in May 1959.

Was a French sculptor. He produced a monumental sculpture of Joan of Arc at Chinon, Lazare Carnot at

Was a French sculptor. He produced a monumental sculpture of Joan of Arc at Chinon, Lazare Carnot at Nolay, Théodore de Banville in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris and Nicolas Appert (1893) at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Châlons-en-Champagne.

Was a French painter, ceramicist and photographer of the French school. Ziegler was born in 1804 in

Was a French painter, ceramicist and photographer of the French school. Ziegler was born in 1804 in Langres, Haute-Marne.[1] He was appointed knight of the Légion d'Honneur in 1825.[2] He was the pupil of Dominique Ingres and began to participate exhibitions at the Salon in 1932.[3]

Was a French sculptor and one of its finest medallists. With Louis Oscar Roty (1846–1911) he helpe

Was a French sculptor and one of its finest medallists. With Louis Oscar Roty (1846–1911) he helped found the Art Nouveau movement.

Was a French sculptor and educator. As a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Coutan was awarded the

Was a French sculptor and educator. As a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Coutan was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1872; after his return to Paris he executed the fountain group France Bearing the Torch of Civilization for the Exposition Universelle (1889), one of the two prominent sculptural commissions for the Exposition grounds.[1] Later he taught at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1900, where he expressed his disdain for the researches of Rodin— fumiste—[2] and the Impressionist sculptors who followed him. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1905.[3]

Was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersbur

Was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including Pas de Quatre, La Esmeralda, Ondine, and Giselle with Jean Coralli.

Was a Jewish-Polish figurative artist. Since many records from the WWII period and the German occupa

Was a Jewish-Polish figurative artist. Since many records from the WWII period and the German occupation of Poland are missing, the year of her birth in Lemberg and death in the Lviv Ghetto are listed in the "Exhibition Catalogue from the Collections of the Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv Museum of History," section relating to "Biographies of Artists."Acker spent her entire life and career in Lviv and surrounding communities. She was born when Poland was still part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Lemberg was in the Empire's Eastern Province of Galicia. She "studied painting at the Free Arts Academy of Leonard Podhorodecki and took private lessons at Pawel Gajewski in Lviv," [1] in the new independent Poland after World War I. She continued her painting studies "at Pawel Gajewski in Lviv...and painted genre compositions as well as scenes from Jewish community life and also children's portraits, still lifes and flowers." [1]

Was an internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano in the years 1901-1919.Soon after completing her stu

Was an internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano in the years 1901-1919.Soon after completing her studies in 1900, Culp's singing career took flight. She was discovered by German-American conductor Wilhelm Berger, who took her to Berlin to perform at the concert hall Saal Bechstein in 1901. Before long, she was performing all over Europe and America, sharing the stage with such notable composers, conductors and singers as Edward Grieg, Richard Strauss, Camille Saint-Saëns, Enrico Caruso, Otto Klemperer, Willem Mengelberg, Pablo Casals, Percy Grainger, Enrique Granados and Thomas Beecham.

A founding member and Artistic Director of the Canadian Chamber Choir.Davids is a performer, educato

A founding member and Artistic Director of the Canadian Chamber Choir.Davids is a performer, educator, and conductor. As a soprano soloist, she is an avid performer, having appeared with the Amabile Youth Singers, the Ontario Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir, Opera Atelier, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, the Toronto Chamber Choir, the Toronto Consort, the Guelph Chamber Choir, the Aradia Ensemble, the Forces of Virtue, the Peninsula Music Festival, the Publick Musick and the Mark Morris Dance Company in Chicago.

An Israeli jazz vocalist, composer and educator. Her singing combines elements of multiple jazz genr

An Israeli jazz vocalist, composer and educator. Her singing combines elements of multiple jazz genres, free improvisation and modern classical music.[1][2][3][4]Feldman was born in Samara, Russia into a family with a large musical background- her grandfather, Solomon Feldman, was an accomplished conductor and a leader of the city philharmonic orchestra[5][6] and her father, Ilya Feldman, while being a jewellery designer, also plays jazz piano[7][3]. She had been classically trained by studying the piano from the age of 5 till the family's immigration to Israel in 1990. The family resided in Jerusalem, where she continued her classical piano studies with Anatoly Tartakovsky alongside with jazz improvisation studies with the composer and a saxophone player Stephen Horenstein in the music department of the High School Of Arts in Jerusalem.[

She has worked with internationally acclaimed conductors, such as Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach

She has worked with internationally acclaimed conductors, such as Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Yakov Kreizberg, Yuri Temirkanov, Sir Neville Marriner, David Zinman, Zdenek Mácal, Jun Märkl, Ruben Gazarian, Marek Janowski, Herbert Blomstedt, Michael Tilson Thomas and with a variety of top German, American, British, Polish, French, Italian, Swiss, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, Japanese, Czech and Slovakian orchestras. Julia Fischer has performed in most European countries, the United States, Brazil and Japan; in concerts broadcast on TV and radio in every major European country, as well as on many US, Japanese and Australian radio stations.

A British singer-songwriter based in California. Her professional career started in the early 1980s,

A British singer-songwriter based in California. Her professional career started in the early 1980s, under the name "Jules Fordham", as a backing singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde.In 1988, she released her first album on Circa Records, Julia Fordham. The album, which contained the UK Top 40 single "Happy Ever After" (#27 in August), introduced her as a singer with considerable vocal range, and her deeply emotional lyrics endeared her to a small, committed audience.[1] Licensed to Virgin Records America, the album was a minor hit and paved the way for the success of 1989's Porcelain. The single, "Manhattan Skyline", was an adult contemporary radio and VH-1 hit.