Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter F

Is an Egyptian musician who was born in Cairo, Egypt. He grew up listening to the radio, which playe

Is an Egyptian musician who was born in Cairo, Egypt. He grew up listening to the radio, which played artists who placed a deep influence upon him, his childhood influences were musicians Umm Kulthum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Farid El Atrache.

Is a Turkish pop music and jazz singer and composer.Fatih Erkoç is Hasan Erkoç's son. Hasan Erkoç

Is a Turkish pop music and jazz singer and composer.Fatih Erkoç is Hasan Erkoç's son. Hasan Erkoç played the oud. He gave a violin to Fatih Erkoç, when Fatih Erkoç was three years old. Fatih Erkoç studied at Istanbul Municipality Conservatory. He played trombone and worked with Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra. Then he went to Norway. He returned to Turkey in 1986.

An Egyptian actress and singer. Now retired, she is famous for her roles in light comedies and drama

An Egyptian actress and singer. Now retired, she is famous for her roles in light comedies and drama in the 1950s and 1960s. Her first appearance was in the film el-Aql Fi Agaza (The Mind on Vacation), and she retired after her last film La Tas'alni Man A

Ezen Aksu was born Fatma Sezen Yildirim in Sarayköy, Turkey. Her family moved to Izmir when she w

Ezen Aksu was born Fatma Sezen Yildirim in Sarayköy, Turkey. Her family moved to Izmir when she was 3 years old and she spent her childhood and early youth there. After finishing high school, she began studying at the local agricultural institute, but left college to concentrate on music.

Was an Italian mezzo-soprano.She was born in Venice and brought up under the protection of the arist

Was an Italian mezzo-soprano.She was born in Venice and brought up under the protection of the aristocratic brother composers Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello. Her singing teacher was another composer, Michelangelo Gasparini. For many years in the servic

Was a Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer, the last surviving member of the traditional Cuban

Was a Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer, the last surviving member of the traditional Cuban trova. Most of his repertoire consisted of sons and guaracha-sons, many with double entendres in the lyrics. One of his compositions was included in the Buena Vista Social Club album.[1]

A theatre actress and singer who first gained fame as a member of the pop group Steps.Steps were a p

A theatre actress and singer who first gained fame as a member of the pop group Steps.Steps were a pop group that achieved a series of charted singles between 1997 and 2001. Their name was based around a simple marketing gimmick: each of their music videos were choreographed, and the dance steps were included with most of their single releases. Steps formed on 7 May 1997 and disbanded on 26 December 2001. In total Steps have sold over 25 million records, including 15 million albums worldwide.

Is a Chinese singer, songwriter, actress and model. She is an icon popular in mainland China, Taiwan

Is a Chinese singer, songwriter, actress and model. She is an icon popular in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and to some extent in the West.

A Turkish pianist and composer.Fazil Say studied piano and composition at the Ankara State Conservat

A Turkish pianist and composer.Fazil Say studied piano and composition at the Ankara State Conservatory. At the age of seventeen, he was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship that enabled him to study for five years with David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany. From 1992 to 1995, he continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory. In 1995, he was the winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which gave a rapid start to his international career.

Using the stage name Teoman, is a popular Turkish acoustic rock singer and song-writer. His biggest

Using the stage name Teoman, is a popular Turkish acoustic rock singer and song-writer. His biggest hits include "Paramparça" (All In Pieces) , Senden Önce Senden Sonra (Before You, After You) and Papatya (Daisy). On Papatya, Turkish female rock singer Rumeysa Yargi features as backing vocals. Sebnem Ferah has also featured on a couple of Teoman's tracks.

Is a singer, who first found fame as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones, famous for t

Is a singer, who first found fame as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones, famous for the hit single "Teenage Kicks", discovered by John Peel. Since the end of his recording career he has worked in the business side of music and held several

Is an Italian ice dancer. She competes with Massimo Scali. They are the 2010 World bronze medalists,

Is an Italian ice dancer. She competes with Massimo Scali. They are the 2010 World bronze medalists, 2009 & 2010 European silver medalists and six-time (2003–2005, 2007–2009) Italian national champions. They have won eleven Grand Prix medals.

Was a Spanish classical and jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and bandleader.His wealthy family own

Was a Spanish classical and jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and bandleader.His wealthy family owned several plantations in the Philippines. He studied at the Madrid Conservatory and then at St. Joseph's College, London and Stanford University in the 1920s. He took composition lessons under Ernst Bloch at Stanford, and gave up law temporarily for music, leaving the school in 1926. He then embarked on a career as a jazz bandleader, leading the Stanford University Band at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles while he studied composition. He recorded with the Cinderella Roof Orchestra in 1926, then returned to England, where he entered Cambridge University in the fall as a law student.

Was a Mexican singer and actor. He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.In a career that spanned

Was a Mexican singer and actor. He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.In a career that spanned over seven decades, Guízar trained early as a opera singer and traveled to New York in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara. He also performed both operatic and Mexican popular songs at Carnegie Hall, but he succeeded with his arrangements of popular Mexican and Spanish melodies such as Cielito Lindo, La Cucaracha, Granada, and You Belong to My Heart (English version of Solamente una Vez). In 1936, his song Allá en el Rancho Grande launched the singing charro in Mexico after appearing in the film of the same name, succeeding as well in the United States.

Is an Argentine singer-songwriter whose music blends a variety of genres and styles: Jamaican dub an

Is an Argentine singer-songwriter whose music blends a variety of genres and styles: Jamaican dub and reggae, American ambient and hip-hop, Mexican bolero, and Argentine tango. He describes his music as a synthesis of styles from throughout the Americas.he started playing music at 12, with his early musical influences coming from his mother, an amateur guitarist (although she was a notary by profession). He moved to Berlin in 2001 (during the Argentine crisis), where he lived for several years (he speaks German). After submitting a demo via email to Thievery Corporation's Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, he was signed quickly to the label, and released his debut album Gran Hotel Buenos Aires, produced by Thievery Corporation, in 2003. In 2006, he played at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. His song "Esta Noche" was featured in the 5th season of Alias (TV series) (episode 8).

Was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was

Was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio, which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two wheel cart drawn by oxen. His work fills an oft-overlooked period of art; w

Is an editorial and advertising illustrator. His work has been published in Forbes, Harvard Business

Is an editorial and advertising illustrator. His work has been published in Forbes, Harvard Business Review and The New York Times among others.Born in Torreón, Coahuila, México he received formal training as an architect at Universidad Autónoma del Nores

Is Spanish pop singer. In the year 2003, he was contestant on interactive reality television show Op

Is Spanish pop singer. In the year 2003, he was contestant on interactive reality television show Operación Triunfo.

Was an influential Ukrainian early modernist painter. He was the brother of graphic designer Vasyl K

Was an influential Ukrainian early modernist painter. He was the brother of graphic designer Vasyl Krychevsky. Krychevsky was born in Lebedyn to the family of a Jewish country doctor who converted to Orthodox Chritianity and married a Ukrainian woman. He

Was a Russian painter. He was born a serf of the landlady Avdotya Nikolayevna Semenova, in the villa

Was a Russian painter. He was born a serf of the landlady Avdotya Nikolayevna Semenova, in the village of Vyshkovo in Tver Guberniya. He became Venetsianov’s student in 1839 in his estate of Safonkovo. Venetsianov did his best to buy freedom to Slavyansky

Was an early Russian painter of landscape art. After training in the Saint Petersburg Imperial Acade

Was an early Russian painter of landscape art. After training in the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, he spent three years in Venice studying the works of famous French and Italian landscape painters.

Was an Italian mezzo-soprano.She made her official debut in Florence in 1940, but retired in 1943 be

Was an Italian mezzo-soprano.She made her official debut in Florence in 1940, but retired in 1943 because of her marriage. She re-emerged in 1945. She was one of the first performers to investigate and perform in early operas by Monteverdi and Pergolesi.

Is widely regarded as the greatest sculptor of 18th-century Russia.Through the help of Falconet, in

Is widely regarded as the greatest sculptor of 18th-century Russia.Through the help of Falconet, in 1767 he joined the Paris atelier of the great Pigalle, before moving to Rome three years later. Upon his return to Russia in 1772, Shubin became the most f

Is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter. Felicia Lynn Dobson was born on February 28, 1985, in Scar

Is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter. Felicia Lynn Dobson was born on February 28, 1985, in Scarborough, Ontario. Fefe Dobson is biracial. Her mother is of Irish, Dutch and English ancestry, while her father is of Jamaican heritage

Courtesy name as Zizhao, sobriquet as Xiaolou, Ouweng and Huanzhusheng, is a famed Chinese painter i

Courtesy name as Zizhao, sobriquet as Xiaolou, Ouweng and Huanzhusheng, is a famed Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. He was a native Wucheng (now Wuxing, Zhejiang Province).