Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter M

An Argentine cartoonist.In 1994, Para Ti -a leading Argentine women's magazine- approached her to do

An Argentine cartoonist.In 1994, Para Ti -a leading Argentine women's magazine- approached her to do a weekly humor page. Such was the origin of Mujeres Alteradas ("Women on the Edge"), a comic strip now published widely throughout the world. In 1999, Mujeres Alteradas was 'translated' from Argentine Spanish to European Spanish and started appearing in El País Semanal, the Sunday edition of El País, from Madrid. Mujeres Alteradas has been translated into several languages.

Was a Polish painter.She made a few caricature cartoons of Adolf Hitler which resulted in the offici

Was a Polish painter.She made a few caricature cartoons of Adolf Hitler which resulted in the official protest of the German Embassy in Paris, which sued Berezowska. She appeared in court but escaped having to pay any fine. However, Nazi Germans remembered her "outrage". After her return to Poland and the outbreak of WW2 she was imprisoned at Pawiak, and later - with the death sentence - sent and imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp. After liberation of the Ravensbrück camp by the Soviet forces she left, with a group of other Polish women, first for Stockholm and a year later, in 1946, returned to her native Poland.

A popular singer who has considerable success in former Yugoslav countries. She has made eleven albu

A popular singer who has considerable success in former Yugoslav countries. She has made eleven albums since she started singing in 1992, .

She convinces her parents that she wants to learn how to play the piano and ends up in music school

She convinces her parents that she wants to learn how to play the piano and ends up in music school Pavao Markovac in Zagreb, where she studies piano until 1992. She starts composing and arranging and occasionally singing in public. She has worked with many musicians varying from one style to another, finally finding herself in more jazzy tunes.She started with a more pop/rock band called Flyer in 1998, performing as a lead female vocalist along with a male vocalist and a rhythm section, doing all sorts of covers. After that band she finds herself in one original band named Bazaar dealing with a harder style, mixing hard core and jazzy sounds, where she wrote her own lyrics and vocals. They release a demo "Broken pieces" and get pretty good reviews.

Majida El Roumi was born to renowned musician Halim El Roumi and wife Marie Loutfi who were a Melkit

Majida El Roumi was born to renowned musician Halim El Roumi and wife Marie Loutfi who were a Melkite Greek Catholic couple from Tyre, a city in South Lebanon. Halim el Roumi became a renowned musician and continued to live in Kfarshima, which was home to many Lebanese singers, musicians, poets and writers, like the late Philemon Wehbi, Melhem Barakat and Issam Rajji. The residence of Halim el Roumi in Kfarshima was a meeting place for many cultural figures.

Is a South African drummer.Ntshoko played with Dollar Brand's trio in 1958, and recorded in a sextet

Is a South African drummer.Ntshoko played with Dollar Brand's trio in 1958, and recorded in a sextet with Hugh Masekela and John Mehegan in 1959. Ntshoko plays on the Jazz Epistles album Jazz Epistle: Verse 1, one of the most prominent examples of South African hard bop. After the breakup of the group Ntshoko founded his own group, the Jazz Giants, with Kippie Moeketsi, Dudu Pukwana, Gideon Nuxmalo, and Martin Mgijima.Ntshoko left South Africa in 1962, moving to Switzerland and playing with Johnny Gertze and Dollar Brand at the Club Africana in Zurich from 1963-65. This trio appears in the 1966 Danish documentary Portrait of a Bushman. Following Brand's move to New York City, Ntshoko played in Copenhagen (1966, 1969-70) and recorded with Stuff Smith (1967), Benny Bailey (1968), Dexter Gordon (1968-69), and Ben Webster (1969).

A J-pop singer currently signed to the sublabel Rhythm Zone under the Avex Trax label. Before joinin

A J-pop singer currently signed to the sublabel Rhythm Zone under the Avex Trax label. Before joining Avex, she was a soloist of Hello! Project and member of Morning Musume. She has performed in numerous Hello! Project subgroups such as Petitmoni, Akagumi 4, 7-nin Matsuri, Sexy 8, Gomattou and Nochiura Natsumi.In 1999, Maki Goto was selected as the only member for the 3rd generation of Morning Musume. Their first single after Goto joined, "Love Machine" sold over a million copies, over nine times the amount of copies they had sold for their previous single. During her time in Morning Musume she was one of the founding members of Pucchi Moni and she started a solo singing career in 2001 with the single "Ai no Bakayaro" (???????, "Ai no Bakayaro"?)

A J-pop singer, and the oldest member of the group Coco. She was born in Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan.

A J-pop singer, and the oldest member of the group Coco. She was born in Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan.

A Japanese pop singer and songwriter. She is from Sapporo in Hokkaido.In 1989, she passed the '3rd B

A Japanese pop singer and songwriter. She is from Sapporo in Hokkaido.In 1989, she passed the '3rd BAD' audition. Her famous songs are "DA·KA·RA", "Chotto", and so on... Her second single "DA·ka·RA" sold 1.1 million copies and won the 'Japan Record Grand

A Japanese singer and musician. She is best known for performing the first two ending themes of One

A Japanese singer and musician. She is best known for performing the first two ending themes of One Piece and is currently the lead vocalist of the J-pop band CASSIS.

A Japanese pop singer and actress best known as a former member of Morning Musume. She joined the gr

A Japanese pop singer and actress best known as a former member of Morning Musume. She joined the group in August 2001 along with fellow fifth generation members Ai Takahashi, Risa Niigaki, and Asami Konno.Before joining Morning Musume, Makoto Ogawa was enrolled at an entertainment school Apple Little Performers (ALP) in Niigata, where she was one of the top students. She even made her CD debut on a cheer song for the J2 soccer team, Albirex Niigata. She has also been a model for magazines and campaign,

Is a Kazakh singer who rose to popularity after placing sixth in the 2004 edition of SuperStar KZ, t

Is a Kazakh singer who rose to popularity after placing sixth in the 2004 edition of SuperStar KZ, the Kazakh version of Pop Idol, shown by Perviy Kanal Evraziya.

Is a Ukrainian Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is best known as one

Is a Ukrainian Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is best known as one of the professional dancers on the American television series Dancing With The Stars, on which he has appeared since season two.Immigration was very hard on Chmerkovskiy and his family due to financial and language barriers. At the age of thirteen Chmerkovskiy broke his right leg in a skiing accident. Doctors said he would probably always walk with a limp due to the metal rod that was surgically implanted in his right leg. However, he was able to make a successful recovery and continued to dance.

Was a Jewish–Polish artist, lithographer and photographer.In chromolithography he published Kwiaty

Was a Jewish–Polish artist, lithographer and photographer.In chromolithography he published Kwiaty i poezje (Flowers and Poems, 1858, after his own drawings), illustrations for albums and books (Karola Gustawa trofea...—Carl Gustav's Trophies...—by E. Tyszkiewicz, 1856; Album widoków Polski—Album of Polish Views—by N. Orda, 1875–83). He also collaborated with the publisher, Samuel Orgelbrand. In addition, he worked in utilitarian graphics (calendars, diplomas).

Is a Georgian-Russian opera singer (soprano). Born March 13, 1942 (not March 15, 1948, as some sourc

Is a Georgian-Russian opera singer (soprano). Born March 13, 1942 (not March 15, 1948, as some sources incorrectly state) in Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, she graduated from Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1966. Since 1968, she has been a soloist with Bolshoi Thea

Is an Azerbaijani khananda (folk singer).She also performed in many countries of the world, includin

Is an Azerbaijani khananda (folk singer).She also performed in many countries of the world, including USA, Germany, Australia, France, Romania, Belgium, Russia and others. In 1995, she played the title role of Leyli in Uzeyir Hajibeyov's opera Leyli and Majnun on the stage of the Azerbaijan Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre.

An English actress and singer.Even before leaving drama school, Burrows played several roles on tele

An English actress and singer.Even before leaving drama school, Burrows played several roles on television, appearing in The Practice and Fell Tiger, as well as taking two parts in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside - firstly Lucy Coflins's schoolfriend, Sue, and then Pat Hancock's girlfriend, Lisa Morrisey in 1982.Three months after leaving drama school, she auditioned for the role of Kathy Bates in the popular ITV soap opera Emmerdale (then known as Emmerdale Farm) and got the part. The role has been her most prominent to date. She became one of the programmes longest running characters, remaining in the show from 1985 to 2001 and returning briefly in 2005. Kathy is remembered for being one of the most married characters in the soap and had a reputation for having "the kiss of death" on her men. First husband Jackie Merrick accidentally shot himself in 1989; her second marriage to wheelchair-bound Chris Tate ended in 1995 when he admitted to an affair

An American pianist specializing in performance on the fortepiano, which is the 18th century version

An American pianist specializing in performance on the fortepiano, which is the 18th century version of the piano. Bilson teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he is the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music.Bilson is known for his series of recordings (on the Archiv label) of the piano concertos of Mozart, in collaboration with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. He has also recorded the complete Mozart and Schubert piano sonatas for Hungaroton. In collaboration with six of his former students Bilson has produced a complete recording, on Claves Records, of the piano sonatas of Beethoven

A Canadian-born music producer, recording engineer and musician.Burn grew up in Deep River, Ontario

A Canadian-born music producer, recording engineer and musician.Burn grew up in Deep River, Ontario and became lead singer/keyboardist for the 1980s Canadian band Boys Brigade. Following the dissolution of that group, he turned towards production and solo

Was an American pianist.Frager was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Carl Friedberg in Ne

Was an American pianist.Frager was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Carl Friedberg in New York City from 1949 until Friedberg's death in 1955. In 1957 he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a major in Russian. He won the Piano Competition in Geneva (1955), the Michaels Memorial Award in Chicago (1956), the Leventritt Competition in New York (1959), and the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition in Brussels (1960). His Grammy-nominated debut recording with RCA Victor Red Seal was Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 and Haydn's Sonata No. 35 in E-flat. He recorded music by Mozart, Haydn, Chopin, Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms and Prokofiev. Frager regularly programmed the two piano concertos and numerous solo works by Carl Maria von Weber, as well as the keyboard compositions of C. P. E. Bach.

A Scottish pianist.Malcolm Martineau has played in Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Milan, Berlin,

A Scottish pianist.Malcolm Martineau has played in Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Milan, Berlin, throughout the United Kingdom and in North America accompanying many of the world's leading singers including Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Barbara Bonney, Susan Graham, Della Jones, Simon Keenlyside, Tom Krause, Dame Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie von Otter, Frederica von Stade, Bryn Terfel,[1] Sarah Walker and Ainhoa Arteta.[2] Among many noted instrumentalists he accompanies clarinetist Emma Johnson. He has appeared at numerous festivals throughout the United Kingdom, has given many recitals for the BBC, and appeared at the Aix-en-Provence, Vienna, Edinburgh and Salzburg Festivals and in North and South America.

Is a Scottish musician best known for his work with Aidan Moffat in "post-folk" indie band Arab Stra

Is a Scottish musician best known for his work with Aidan Moffat in "post-folk" indie band Arab Strap and his solo single "We're All Going To Die".Malcolm was born and raised in Falkirk, Scotland. He attended Graeme High School.[1] He played bass and some

Is an English artist now living in the United States.Morley was born in north London. He had a troub

Is an English artist now living in the United States.Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison. After release, he studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at the Royal College of Art (1955–1957), where his fellow students included Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. In 1956, he saw an exhibition of contemporary American art at the Tate Gallery, and began to produce paintings in an abstract expressionist style.

Multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, started out in the early 1960s playing drums in West L

Multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, started out in the early 1960s playing drums in West London band The Panthers. Around 1962, he joined Jeff Curtis & The Flames, the house band at the famous Ealing Jazz Club. The group recorded a five-track ac

Is a singer and actor. Known for his distinctive tenor voice, he had a number of chart hits in the U

Is a singer and actor. Known for his distinctive tenor voice, he had a number of chart hits in the United Kingdom during the 1950s.Vaughan first appeared as an actor during his teenage years, and had minor roles in a number of films during the mid 1940s,