Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Is an Irish blues musician and actor.Baker is a singer-songwriter who plays the harmonica and the gu

Is an Irish blues musician and actor.Baker is a singer-songwriter who plays the harmonica and the guitar. He appeared in several movies, his most notable appearance being in In the Name of the Father. He also published harmonica instruction books and videos.

Is an American rock vocalist and guitarist. He is one of the founding members of the Southern rock b

Is an American rock vocalist and guitarist. He is one of the founding members of the Southern rock band .38 Special.The band, which started as a Southern rock band and switched to a more straight-ahead rock sound, had several hit singles between 1981 and 1991.

Is an American funk-jazz pianist, singer, songwriter, producer born in Queens, New York.Blackman's n

Is an American funk-jazz pianist, singer, songwriter, producer born in Queens, New York.Blackman's neighbor as a child was Charles McPherson, and while still a teenager he played in McPherson's ensemble with Sam Jones and Louis Hayes. At the beginning of

Is an astronomical artist practicing space art in the tradition of Chesley Bonestell, who believed t

Is an astronomical artist practicing space art in the tradition of Chesley Bonestell, who believed that scientific accuracy is a fundamental aspect of the esthetic of this genre. Space artists attempt to depict realistically parts of the universe that have not yet been explored by astronauts or robotic probes. Dixon has created cover art for Scientific American, Sky and Telescope, Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Astronomy Magazine, and many other publications. Dixon's paintings have been used to illustrate the covers of several science fiction books, such as the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson and the Galactic Center Saga by Gregory Benford. He directed and co-wrote the immersive animated film Centered in the Universe, which premiered in 2006 at the Samuel Oschin Planetarium at Griffith Observatory, where he has served as Art Director since 1991. He is a founding member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) and was elected a Fellow of that organization in 2000. He lives in Long Beach, California.

Is an American tattoo artist raised in Southern California. He was a pupil of Sailor Jerry Collins.

Is an American tattoo artist raised in Southern California. He was a pupil of Sailor Jerry Collins. Through his association with Sailor Jerry, Hardy was invited to study tattooing in Japan in 1973 with the Japanese classical tattoo master, Horihide. He became recognized for incorporating Japanese tattoo aesthetic and technique into his American style work.

An American painter who gained initial fame as a photorealist artist. His recent works have veered a

An American painter who gained initial fame as a photorealist artist. His recent works have veered away from photorealism, into the realm of metaphysics.Eddy's earlier works of the 1970s paid homage to cars and the urban cityscape. In the 1980s, his work was more object oriented, depicting glassware, silverware and toys on a reflective series of glass shelves. Often composed of ditychs or polyptychs (paintings with several panels), he juxtaposes images in poetic relationship to one another, "echoing ecosystems," as the artist calls these connections of structure.

Was a British actor and singer.During World War II, at the age of eight, he was evacuated to Darwen,

Was a British actor and singer.During World War II, at the age of eight, he was evacuated to Darwen, Lancashire, twenty miles away from his home town, to escape the German bombing of the city. It was here that he found his voice as a treble at the local H

Was an American jazz stride pianist born in Baltimore, Maryland, perhaps best-known for his work wit

Was an American jazz stride pianist born in Baltimore, Maryland, perhaps best-known for his work with several prominent New Orleans-based musicians such as Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, George Lewis, George Brunis, Muggsy Spanier and Bunk Johnson.

Is an English pop singer.In 1973 his track "Delta Queen" reached #86 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Is an English pop singer.In 1973 his track "Delta Queen" reached #86 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[2] He covered the The Kinks hit, "Lola" in 1974. Fardon also released a cover version of "Running Bear". In 2006 he re-released his single, "Belfast Boy",

A Canadian singer and songwriter best known for his works about life on the Western Canadian prairie

A Canadian singer and songwriter best known for his works about life on the Western Canadian prairies and the province of Saskatchewan in particular. He is occasionally referred to by the more formal Donald Freed.Freed, who is of Métis descent, began his

Is a jazz pianist.His parents loved classical music and they owned a piano. Don started playing pian

Is a jazz pianist.His parents loved classical music and they owned a piano. Don started playing piano at age four and took lessons from age five from a private teacher named Katherine Swint. Though he had no exposure to jazz at this time, Don taught himse

An American sculptor. His early work concentrated on table top and wall-mounted sculpture, but in th

An American sculptor. His early work concentrated on table top and wall-mounted sculpture, but in the mid 1980s he shifted his interest to large free-standing works, often in bronze. In the 1990s he added a variety of other materials, such as stainless steel, aluminum and stained glass. His interest in large outdoor works also led him to an interest in public art.He studied at Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis, and then at the Herron School of Art (also in Indianapolis) from 1964 to 1966. From 1966 to 1970 he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, and then completed his studies at Yale University where he received his BFA and MFA.

Is an American rock singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles be

Is an American rock singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful Grammy Award winning solo career. Henley has also played a founding role in several environmental and political causes, most notably the Walden Woods Project. Since 1994, he has divided his musical activities between the Eagles and his solo career.

Is the creator of many short animated films, including the Academy-Award nominated Rejected and Ever

Is the creator of many short animated films, including the Academy-Award nominated Rejected and Everything Will Be OK. His animated films have received over one hundred and fifty awards and have been presented around the world. Before the age of thirty, his films were already the subject of several career retrospectives. He was the youngest director named in the "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They" list of "The 100 Important Animation Directors" of all time,[1] and in 2010 he received the San Francisco International Film Festival's "Persistence of Vision" Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 33.

Was a Hawaiian and traditional pop musician and singer and entertainer.Ho, of mixed Chinese, Hawaiia

Was a Hawaiian and traditional pop musician and singer and entertainer.Ho, of mixed Chinese, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent, was born in the small Honolulu neighborhood of Kaka?ako, but he grew up in K?ne?ohe on the windward side of the island of O?ahu. He was a graduate of the Kamehameha Schools in 1949 and he attended Springfield College in 1950, but returned home to earn a bachelor's degree in sociology at University of Hawai'i in 1953. In 1954 Ho entered the United States Air Force and spent time flying fighter jets in both Texas and Hawaii.

Was a trombone player and singer, who led his own British band called 'Don Lang & his Frantic Five'.

Was a trombone player and singer, who led his own British band called 'Don Lang & his Frantic Five'. He appeared on the first BBC Television show for teenagers called Six-Five Special, for which he recorded the theme tune. In 1958 his cover version of "Wi

Is an English busker, one-man band[1] and singer-songwriter, who found fleeting fame in the mid to l

Is an English busker, one-man band[1] and singer-songwriter, who found fleeting fame in the mid to late 1960s.Partridge travelled around Europe in the early 1960s as a solo entertainer, perfecting his one-man band persona. Discovered by Don Paul of The Vi

Is a drummer who founded the English glam rock group, Slade.As a child Powell joined the Boy Scouts

Is a drummer who founded the English glam rock group, Slade.As a child Powell joined the Boy Scouts where he became interested in the drums after being asked to join the band on a Sunday morning parade.

A Canadian artist. While primarily a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition, he is also not

A Canadian artist. While primarily a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition, he is also notable as a photographer and digital media artist. Born in Libau, Manitoba in 1932 to parents who had immigrated from Austria, he studied art in Canada, Mexico, and England. He taught for many years at the University of Manitoba. Praised early on by the critic Clement Greenberg, Reichert has produced work that is held in many notable public, corporate and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and the Canada Council Art Bank, among others.

Is an Australian musician and songwriter

Is an Australian musician and songwriter

Was an American figure skater who competed in ice dancing with Roger Campbell. The pair won the silv

Was an American figure skater who competed in ice dancing with Roger Campbell. The pair won the silver medal at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships, earning them the right to compete a month later at the World Championships in Prague. They

Was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed). In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clar

Was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed). In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. It created an outpouring of seemingly effervescent structure without the rigor associated with minimalism proper.His first solo exhibition, of expressionist paintings, opened in New York in 1957. His artistic style soon moved away from illusory media and embraced constructions in which materiality was central to the work. Humble materials such as metals, industrial plywood, concrete and color-impregnated Plexiglas became staples of his career. Most of his output was in freestanding "specific objects" (the name of his seminal essay of 1964)

Is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the Lead Singer and "front-man" with the

Is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the Lead Singer and "front-man" with the rock band Steely Dan. He also is the co-founder, keyboard and melodica player as well as the co-writer. Fagen is a 1965 graduate of South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick, New Jersey

A noted portrait artist. He currently resides in Santa Monica, California.One of his most notable wo

A noted portrait artist. He currently resides in Santa Monica, California.One of his most notable works is the official gubernatorial portrait of Governor Jerry Brown hanging in the California State Capitol. (The California state official biography page for Governor Jerry Brown features a photograph of the painting.)

Was a popular Welsh singer.Peers was born in Betws, near Ammanford, and quickly established himself

Was a popular Welsh singer.Peers was born in Betws, near Ammanford, and quickly established himself as a crooner with several British dance bands in the 1930s. After the war he achieved enormous success as a balladeer on Radio Luxembourg. At the peak of h