Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter N

A seiyu, or voice actor. Hidaka is most known for the roles of Minami Asakura (Touch), Akane Tendo (

A seiyu, or voice actor. Hidaka is most known for the roles of Minami Asakura (Touch), Akane Tendo (Ranma ½), Satsuki Kusakabe (My Neighbor Totoro), Near (Death Note), Seta Sojiro (Rurouni Kenshin), Jean (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water), Kikyo (Inu-Yasha

A Japanese former video game composer and musician.Her works include Front Mission, which she co-com

A Japanese former video game composer and musician.Her works include Front Mission, which she co-composed with Yoko Shimomura, Bahamut Lagoon, Racing Lagoon, The Bouncer, and Final Fantasy X-2. Matsueda co-composed Racing Lagoon, The Bouncer and Final Fantasy X-2 with Takahito Eguchi. She contributed one track (Boss Battle 1) to Chrono Trigger, and also worked on various tracks for the PlayOnline Viewer. She left Square Enix soon after the release of the Final Fantasy X-2 soundtrack, and she retired from the video game music industry after finishing working on Final Fantasy X-2 Piano Collection.[1]

A Japanese actress and J-pop singer born in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan on 20 July 1973. She graduated i

A Japanese actress and J-pop singer born in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan on 20 July 1973. She graduated in sociology at Waseda University.

A J-pop singer and actress. She was born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She is married (1998

A J-pop singer and actress. She was born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She is married (1998), and has one son (1999). She is particularly popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan.Sakai released her debut single, "Otoko no Ko ni Naritai" (????????, I Want to Be a Boy) on February 51987, nine days short of her sixteenth birthday. Over 40,000 copies of the single were sold. In the early years of her career, she used the nickname NORI-P (????), although around the mid-1990's she started to distance herself from it.[1][2][3]

An animator, illustrator, character designer, and animation director born on 1940-03-28 in Kumamoto

An animator, illustrator, character designer, and animation director born on 1940-03-28 in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] He is most well known for his work as character designer on the anime TV series Armored Trooper Votoms. Shioyama, along with Koichi Murata, Kazuo Komatsubara, and Koshin Yonekawa, was one of the founding members of the animation studio Oh! Production.[3][4]

A Japanese video game music composer. He was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He be

A Japanese video game music composer. He was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. The first award he won the Best Game Music award, the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis in U.S.) category for Lunar: The Silver Star in 1991. He also won the Best Game Music award in the Sega Saturn Music category for Grandia in 1997 and in the Sega Dreamcast category for Grandia 2 in 2000. Iwadare first composed music for Tokyo Disney Resort, in addition to Japanese dance programs, television programs, and radio programs. He dreams to have orchestral arrangements of his musical works, while he himself has done several times, as with the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra arrangements (orchestral arrangements of the Ace Attorney series music)

A well-known J-Pop singer and songwriter. He was born on May 18, 1969 in Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan. He

A well-known J-Pop singer and songwriter. He was born on May 18, 1969 in Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan. He attended Aoyama Gakuin University to study English literature. In addition to creating songs for his own music career, he has written, produced and performed songs for many other artists, the most notable being SMAP's Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana. He is ranked at No.84, in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians, provided by HMV.Makihara made his debut to the J-Pop scene in the early 90's after performing on a televised song competition program. He made a name for himself with the release of monster hits such as Mou Koi Nante Shinai (?????????) and Donna Toki Mo (???????), both of which, among several others, are covered to this day by current popular artists (including English-language covers by various American artists)

Was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter.After attending Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute,

Was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter.After attending Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute, Hacking started performing while a student at Scarborough College (a campus of the University of Toronto),[1] where he graduated as an English major.[3] Hi

A British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her

A British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations.Winstone began singing in bands around Dagenham in the early 1960s, before joining Michael Garrick's band in 1968. Her first recording came the following year, with Joe Harriott. She recorded one album under her own name in 1972. [1Winstone has worked with most of her peers in British jazz including Garrick, Mike Westbrook and her former husband, the pianist John Taylor. With Taylor and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler she has performed and recorded three albums for ECM as a member of the trio Azimuth between 1977 and 1980. In addition she made an album with the American pianist Jimmy Rowles (Well Kept Secret, 1993).

Was an American actress and singer.Donaldson launched her career as a nightclub singer and then tour

Was an American actress and singer.Donaldson launched her career as a nightclub singer and then toured with Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. During the 1970s, she was a popular Broadway star and was most famous for portraying the loveless chorine Miss Adel

Is an American country music singer. She is best-known for her spot on The Porter Wagoner Show from

Is an American country music singer. She is best-known for her spot on The Porter Wagoner Show from 1961–1967 (a position subsequently filled by Dolly Parton).

An American Country Music Singer and Grand Ole Opry star, best-known for her 1973 chart-topping Coun

An American Country Music Singer and Grand Ole Opry star, best-known for her 1973 chart-topping Country hit, "Satin Sheets", that spent three weeks at No. 1.The song "Satin Sheets" was and has always been Jeanne Pruett's signature song. The song sounded m

Was an American folk/pop singer. She was a camp counselor in the Catskills when she signed to New Vo

Was an American folk/pop singer. She was a camp counselor in the Catskills when she signed to New Voice Records in 1966. Her debut single, "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog", hit #22 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, but she never came close to charting again.

Was Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" for more than two decades on The Lawrence Welk Show.She sang wi

Was Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" for more than two decades on The Lawrence Welk Show.She sang with a succession of top vocal groups — the Norman LuBoff Choir, the Pete King Chorale, the Ken Darby Singers, among them — and she appeared on most of the popular television variety shows during the 1950s as well as landing a small singing part in Bing Crosby's 1950 film, Mr. Music (uncredited). She also worked as a studio singer and performed on Welk's 1956 Thanksgiving album. Zimmer officially joined the Welk show as his Champagne Lady on New Year's Eve, 1960.

Is a guitarist and songwriter, mostly known for his membership of the band Gravy Train and the Chris

Is a guitarist and songwriter, mostly known for his membership of the band Gravy Train and the Christian groups the Alwyn Wall Band and the Barratt Band.The band Gravy Train was formed in 1970 and they signed a two-album deal with Vertigo Records. The two

Was a prolific commercial artist who produced paintings for pulp magazines, paperbacks, men's advent

Was a prolific commercial artist who produced paintings for pulp magazines, paperbacks, men's adventure magazines, comic books, and trading cards. On occasion, he signed his work with his middle name,

Is a singer-songwriter in the Glasgow based band, Teenage Fanclub.Blake and Sean Dickson (The Soup D

Is a singer-songwriter in the Glasgow based band, Teenage Fanclub.Blake and Sean Dickson (The Soup Dragons) were in The Faith Healers together, which also contained various members at different times Stevie Gray, Hugh McLaughlin, Brian Carson and Colin Mu

Was an American painter classified as an abstract expressionist, and as an action painter. His paint

Was an American painter classified as an abstract expressionist, and as an action painter. His paintings are also related to Tachisme and Lyrical Abstraction.He studied under Mies van der Rohe at the then Armour (now Illinois) Institute of Technology. After service in World War II with the USAAF he decided not to resume his architectural studies. Rather he studied art at the Academia de Belle Arte, Florence, Italy and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s he lived in Paris. He had numerous friends in art, literature, and other creative fields. Among his close acquaintances were Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Jean Paul Riopelle, Zao Wou-ki and others. He was married to Claude Souvrain until 1956.

Was a Canadian singer, best known for his ability to sound like Al Jolson.He was born Norman Joseph

Was a Canadian singer, best known for his ability to sound like Al Jolson.He was born Norman Joseph Arie, the son of Lebanese parents, in Montreal in 1928. He played Jolson in the 1956 film, The Best Things in Life Are Free. Brooks performed in nightclubs

Is a American sculptor and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist styl

Is a American sculptor and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style.Norman Carlberg was born in Roseau, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and at the University of Illinois before going on to study und

A Canadian singer and songwriter.A graphic artist turned performance artist, Norman Iceberg emerged

A Canadian singer and songwriter.A graphic artist turned performance artist, Norman Iceberg emerged from the Montreal underground music scene in the early-80s. One of a handful of gender-bending new wave artists to come out following the success of artist

Is a Polish painter.His work has been exhibited at Warsaw's Centre for Contemporary Art (Ujazdowski

Is a Polish painter.His work has been exhibited at Warsaw's Centre for Contemporary Art (Ujazdowski Castle) and at Jeune Création Européenne 2007 in France.

Australian landscape painter.Norman Lloyd was born in 1895 near Newcastle, NSW, where he attended pr

Australian landscape painter.Norman Lloyd was born in 1895 near Newcastle, NSW, where he attended primary school. He left school in 1911 and started to work and study painting with Julian Ashton and James R. Jackson in Sydney.On his 21st birthday in 1916 he enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces and was transported to Europe where he was seriously wounded in battle a year later. After returning to Sydney in February 1918, he took up painting lessons at the Julian Ashton Art School again. From 1921 to 1926, Lloyd exhibited with galleries in Sydney and Melbourne, showing landscapes and Sydney harbour scenes painted in the more traditional style of his teachers.

Was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the U

Was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter (although his Rosie was reproduced less than others of the day), Saying Grace (1951), and the Four Freedoms series.During the First World War, he tried to enlist into the U.S. Navy but was refused entry because, at 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and 140 pounds (64 kg), he was eight pounds underweight. To compensate, he spent one night gorging himself on bananas, liquids and donuts, and weighed enough to enlist the next day. However, he was given the role of a military artist and did not see any action during his tour of duty.

Was an award-winning African-American painter, scholar, and teacher. He is associated with Abstract

Was an award-winning African-American painter, scholar, and teacher. He is associated with Abstract Expressionism. Lewis was African-American, of Caribbean descent.Norman W. Lewis was born in Harlem, New York. His parents had emigrated from Bermuda. Always interested in art, he had amassed a large art history library by the time he was a young man. A lifelong resident of Harlem, he also travelled extensively during the two years that he worked on ocean freighters. An important early influence was the sculptor and teacher Augusta Savage, who provided him with open studio space at her Harlem Art Center. He also participated in WPA art projects, alongside his friends Romare Bearden and Jackson Pollock, among others.