Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Was a Greek artist responsible for creating a large body of oil paintings and charcoal drawings that

Was a Greek artist responsible for creating a large body of oil paintings and charcoal drawings that continue to hold value amongst private collectors and prominent, international galleries. Poulianos trained at the Athens School of Fine Arts with Georgiou Roilo in 1923 and then 1924-28 at the Académie Julian in Paris where he was awarded the Smit prize. In 1931, he was awarded an MA in Art from Columbia University, New York. He was known for "living and breathing his art" and never took a wife. HIs work is characterized by turbulent, expressionistic outdoor scenes with a particular love for the sea and night sky.

He was born in Athens and began playing the piano at the age of six, giving his first concert at the

He was born in Athens and began playing the piano at the age of six, giving his first concert at the age of seven.

He is a photographer and video director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine ar

He is a photographer and video director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique and often colourful style. Theocharis's family returned to Greece whilst he was still an infant. He grew up in Chalcis (Greek ?a???da), Greece and has been living in the United Kingdom since 1995. He presently works from his studio in Covent Garden[2].

Dimitris Yeros is one of the most influential Greek artists of his generation[1] and one of the firs

Dimitris Yeros is one of the most influential Greek artists of his generation[1] and one of the first Greek artists to present Performances, Body Art, Video Art and Mail Art.

An Israeli pop and folk singer. After performing with Gaya and with the Idan Raichel Project, she re

An Israeli pop and folk singer. After performing with Gaya and with the Idan Raichel Project, she released a successful debut album, Sodotay (My Secrets) in 2006. The three singles of the album all reached the top three in the Israeli Singles Chart.She was named Dina on birth but her parents changed her name after a few days to Din Din.[1] Her parents are both artists; her mother, Aliza Aviv, is a performing singer in a wide range of styles, her father was a jazz musician, and as a child she recorded an album, Alidin,[2] with her mother and accompanied her father when he performed.[1]

An English singer of Scottish and African American descent.Carroll started singing at age of five, p

An English singer of Scottish and African American descent.Carroll started singing at age of five, primarily at home with her sister. Despite the lack of formal vocal coaching, in 1981, at the age of thirteen, she won a local Cambridgeshire talent competition, with her rendition of Barbra Streisand's "Woman in Love". After leaving school, she worked in various jobs, including a one-day stint as a chambermaid in a Cambridge hotel in 1985.At the age of sixteen, she was signed to the dance music record label Streetwave, located in London. Carroll moved to West London and recorded two singles, "Set It Off" and "One Nation", in the mid 1980s, credited to a non-existent group, Masquerade. After six unproductive months, she left Streetwave.

A popular Lebanese singer. She gained popularity by the release of her second album, Katabtillak. He

A popular Lebanese singer. She gained popularity by the release of her second album, Katabtillak. Her father is lebanese and her mother is Syrian.Hayek started her career year 1999 as a solo artist, after being discovered by composer George Mardorzian. Sh

Was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. Because of her strong voice and emotional singing, she is known as

Was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. Because of her strong voice and emotional singing, she is known as the "Queen of the Blues".[1] Despite dying at the early age of 39, Washington became one of the most influential vocalists of the twentieth century,[2][3]

Was a well-known Marathi theatre actor, a renowned Natya Sangeet musician and an exceptional Hindust

Was a well-known Marathi theatre actor, a renowned Natya Sangeet musician and an exceptional Hindustani classical vocalist.He was also popularly and reverentially addressed as Master Deenanath Mangeshkar. He is also the father of well-known singers Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, and Usha Mangeshkar as well as composers Hridayanath Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar.

Is a drummer of Parokya ni Edgar.[1]

Is a drummer of Parokya ni Edgar.[1]

Is a well-known Chinese painter.[1] He graduated from the Nanjing Fine Arts Academy in 1986, where h

Is a well-known Chinese painter.[1] He graduated from the Nanjing Fine Arts Academy in 1986, where he later taught for several years. After working both as a professional artist and on the editorial staff of Fine Arts in China Magazine, he moved in 2000 to the Institute of Fine Arts at Nanjing University, where he currently teaches. His work appeared in several prominent shows in China in the early 1980s. When political circumstances made it difficult for him to continue working as an independent artist, he began to exhibit in galleries in Sweden, Vienna, Los Angeles, London, Oxford, Sydney, and Rotterdam. In recent years his work has featured in many major Chinese exhibitions, including the Beijing Biennale in 2003 and The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art.[2] He was the subject of a retrospective at the National Art Museum of China in 2002. The Yuan Center gallery in Beijing included several of his paintings in their recent exhibition, After Culture.

Was a Chinese painter especially of human figures and landscapes during the Ming Dynasty (1368–164

Was a Chinese painter especially of human figures and landscapes during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).His style name was 'Nanyu' and his sobriquet was 'Shenghua jushi'. Ding's painting followed the style of Qiu Ying, similar to paintings from the Song Dynasty. Ding used pure and minute brush strokes for a strong and terse look and feel.

Is a Spanish singer and actor of Cuban origin.Dinio arrived in Spain in 1998. His publicity because

Is a Spanish singer and actor of Cuban origin.Dinio arrived in Spain in 1998. His publicity because of the famous Andalusian singer and actress Marujita Díaz (es) jumpstarted him into stardom eventually writing his own autobiography (see below under Books) and recording a single[1] that would become number 1 in sales in Spain for the week of June 9, 2003 and as high as number 62[2] in Billboard's official Eurochart Hot 100 Singles the week of June 21, 2003.

Is a Cuban singer and actor.Dinio left Cuba and arrived in Spain in 1998. He rose to fame as a resu

Is a Cuban singer and actor.Dinio left Cuba and arrived in Spain in 1998. He rose to fame as a result of his relationship with the famous Andalusian singer and actress Marujita Díaz. Díaz helped pushed Dinio into stardom which eventually led him to write his own autobiography (see below under Books) and record a single[1] which in the week of June 9, 2003 became the number 1 in sales in Spain. It also rose as high as number 62[2] in Billboard's official Eurochart Hot 100 Singles for the week of June 21, 2003.

Was an Italian pianist.Ciani was born in Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia) and studied piano with Marta

Was an Italian pianist.Ciani was born in Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia) and studied piano with Marta del Vecchio in Genoa. He got his diploma at the Conservatory in Rome at the young age of 14 and later in 1958-1962 he attended the advanced courses of Alfred Cortot, the pianist he admired the most, in Paris, Lausanne and Siena. The great French pianist considered him "miraculously gifted ... one of the most remarkable examples of the rarest talents one could hope to find". His concert career was launched when he won second prize at the Liszt-Bartók Competition in Budapest in 1961. He played in some of the most important classical Concert venues like Salle Pleyel, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Philharmonic, Kennedy Center. He made his debut at Teatro alla Scala under the baton of Claudio Abbado with Beethoven's fourth piano concerto in 1968. With Abbado he also played Prokofiev's fifth piano concerto in 1969, again at Teatro alla Scala.

A young Croatian singer, musician and songwriter. He was the winner of the first Junior Eurovision S

A young Croatian singer, musician and songwriter. He was the winner of the first Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003 (JESC), which took place in Copenhagen on November 15, 2003.Dino has performed since he was very young, appearing in a lot of stages and festivals from 1998. His breakthrough however, was his appearance on Croatian television's Turbo Limach show for children ("Limac" is Zagreb youth slang for Mali - "little one"), when he was only about 7 years old. Besides his native Croatia, he has performed in cities like Cairo (Egypt), Figueira da Foz (Portugal), Alicante (Spain), Bucharest (Romania), Rimini (Italy) or Kaunas (Lithuania) before going to Copenhagen. Dino also appears frequently on Croatian radio and TV as a special guest for popular stations. He has already had his first full length concert held in the Šalata stadium in Zagreb in September 2004, gathering 6000 fans. In the same year and in the beginning of 2005 he went on a multi-city tour in Australia

Was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was tragically cut short by his death fro

Was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was tragically cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. Despite his short career and a relatively small recorded legacy, Lipatti is considered one of the finest pianists of the 20th century.

Is a Colombian vallenato singer and composer. He is one of the most widely recognized performers of

Is a Colombian vallenato singer and composer. He is one of the most widely recognized performers of this musical genre. His well known moniker El Cacique de la Junta was given early in his career by vallenato singer Rafael Orozco Maestre in honor of his birthplace; La Junta.

Was acknowledged as a head of the Moscow school of icon painters at the turn of the 15th and 16th ce

Was acknowledged as a head of the Moscow school of icon painters at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. His style of painting is sometimes termed "the Muscovite mannerism".Dionisy's first important commission was a series of icons for the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin, executed in 1481. The figures on his icons are famously elongated, the hands and feet are dimunitive, and the faces serene and peaceful. Among his many rich and notable patrons, Joseph of Volokolamsk alone commissioned him to paint more than 80 icons, primarily for the Joseph-Volokolamsk and Pavel-Obnorsk cloisters.

Is an American female R&B/soul musician who sang on three songs with the hip hop group Arrested Deve

Is an American female R&B/soul musician who sang on three songs with the hip hop group Arrested Development.[2] In 1995, she had a solo hit single called "I Know," which hit number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for the Grammy Award for B

A popular Greek singer. He was born on February 5, 1982 in Thessaloniki, Greece and was on the Greek

A popular Greek singer. He was born on February 5, 1982 in Thessaloniki, Greece and was on the Greek talent show Dreamshow.In 2006, he released his first album titled Apolafsi.[1] The lead single "Apolafsi" with its line "Itan I Zoi Mou Kolasi" (Was My Li

Is a Greek music composer, lyricist and singer.

Is a Greek music composer, lyricist and singer.

Was an Eastern Orthodox author of a manual of iconography and painting in the 18th century. He was b

Was an Eastern Orthodox author of a manual of iconography and painting in the 18th century. He was born in Fourna, the Ottoman Empire, and went to study in Constantinople around the age of twelve before returning, as a monk, to Mt. Athos. He painted several icons in Mt. Athos, although the dates are indistinct (either 1701 or 1711) and at Karyes. In 1721, he painted the chapel of St. Demetrios in Vatopedi. He then returned to live in Fourna. His last official entry into public record is in 1741, when he gained permission to start a school at Agrafa.

Was a Dutch painter who was born and died in Amsterdam. He was trained by his father, also a painter

Was a Dutch painter who was born and died in Amsterdam. He was trained by his father, also a painter, and in 1555, at the age of twenty-one, Barendsz travelled to Italy. During his seven-year stay there, Karel van Mander tells us that he was "nursed at the great Titian's bosem."

Was a Dutch painter of festivals and ballroom scenes. He was influenced by his elder brother Frans H

Was a Dutch painter of festivals and ballroom scenes. He was influenced by his elder brother Frans Hals.