Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Was a Polish singer and songwriter, member of Czerwone Gitary, later Trzy Korony.

Was a Polish singer and songwriter, member of Czerwone Gitary, later Trzy Korony.

Is a Polish pop singer having a baritone voice, a guitarist and composer. He was the vocalist of a p

Is a Polish pop singer having a baritone voice, a guitarist and composer. He was the vocalist of a popular Polish band, Trubadurzy, from 1963 to 1973 when he started his solo career. He was co-founder of the Post-secondary School of Stage Art in Lódz. His creative activity in the area of music is characterized by a combination of various music genres such as rock and roll, country music and rhythm & blues.

Was a Polish Baroque painter and engraver active during the Dutch Golden Age in Amsterdam.Krzysztof

Was a Polish Baroque painter and engraver active during the Dutch Golden Age in Amsterdam.Krzysztof and his brother Teodor Lubieniecki hailed from an Arian family. They learned to paint from Juriaan Stur in Hamburg. In 1667 they travelled to Amsterdam, where Krzysztof apprenticed with Adriaen Backer, and Teodor with Gerard de Lairesse. In 1682, Teodor moved to Hannover before eventually moving to Poland in 1706, where he died.[2]

Is a Polish musician, song writer, satirist, essayist and actor. In 1983 cofounder of anarchy organi

Is a Polish musician, song writer, satirist, essayist and actor. In 1983 cofounder of anarchy organization Ruch Spoleczenstwa Alternatywnego (Movement of Alternative Society). In 1988 cofunded a rock band Big Cyc. For several years he has been writing opinion pieces for a Polish magazine Wprost, published in 2005 in a book "Skiba w mur".

Is an artist currently living in Boston and teaching at MIT. The son of Polish conductor of an orche

Is an artist currently living in Boston and teaching at MIT. The son of Polish conductor of an orchestra Bohdan Wodiczko,[1] he was born in 1943 in Warsaw, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw in 1968 with a degree in industrial design, and taught at the Warsaw Polytechnic until 1977. He emigrated that year to Canada to teach at the University of Guelph in Ontario. In 1979 he taught at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and from 1977 to 1981 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.

Is a Polish singer and is the winner of Idol (Poland) season two.

Is a Polish singer and is the winner of Idol (Poland) season two.

Russian avant-garde artist (Futurist, Suprematist) poet and interior decorator. Her husband Ivan Pun

Russian avant-garde artist (Futurist, Suprematist) poet and interior decorator. Her husband Ivan Puni was also a notable painter. She seems to be the originator of the Mavva (symbol of the World Evil) in poems of Velemir Khlebnikov.

Sometimes also transliterated as Kseniya Sitnik or Xenia Sitnik, born on 15 May 1995 in Mozyr, Belar

Sometimes also transliterated as Kseniya Sitnik or Xenia Sitnik, born on 15 May 1995 in Mozyr, Belarus) is a Belarusian child singer. She represented her home country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005, which she won with the song "My Vmeste" (We Are Together), written by herself.Ksenia Sitnik started her career at a very early age. She has taken part in many festivals such as the Chernobyl Way charity show (her city is still contaminated with radiation since it is a few kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear plant) and the festivals 'Falling Stars' in Nowa Ruda, Poland and 'Star Light' in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She won prizes in the Golden Bee festival as well as the Grand Prix at the international children's contest at the Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk in Belarus in 2005.

Russian avant-garde artist (Futurist, Suprematist) poet and interior decorator. Her husband Ivan Pun

Russian avant-garde artist (Futurist, Suprematist) poet and interior decorator. Her husband Ivan Puni was also a notable painter. She seems to be the originator of the Mavva (symbol of the World Evil) in poems of Velemir Khlebnikov.In 1915 Boguslavskaya jointed the Supremus group of avant-garde artists (Liubov Popova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Varvara Stepanova, Aleksandra Ekster, Ivan Kliun, Nina Genke-Meller, Ivan Puni and others) that was led by the founder of Suprematism Kazimir Malevich.

Is a Turkish folk singer and composer distinguished with his particular style and his applied use of

Is a Turkish folk singer and composer distinguished with his particular style and his applied use of electronic instruments in his songs. He is from an Alevi background (http://www.aksam.com.tr/arsiv/aksam/2003/09/29/yasam/yasam2.html

A popular Filipino pop and jazz singer. She is known in the Philippines as the "Pop Diva". Kuh Ledes

A popular Filipino pop and jazz singer. She is known in the Philippines as the "Pop Diva". Kuh Ledesma has been performing for 25 years in the music industry which encompasses more than 300 concerts, numerous awards in the Philippines, and 18 albums in the Philippine recording industry. She was the first Filipino singer to become a recipient of the Salem Music Awards in London in March 1989. In 1997 she released her international debut album Precious in collaboration with the best American and Filipino songwriters, arrangers and musicians.[1][2

Was an award-winning, internationally famous popular Punjabi Indian singer. He died at the age of 32

Was an award-winning, internationally famous popular Punjabi Indian singer. He died at the age of 32 in a car accident on 19 March, 2006, near Chandigarh, Punjab, India. He is regarded as one of the most gifted musicians of the modern Bhangra era, known for his improvisations and style of Bhangra.Kulwinder Dhillon started his career with his debut album Kacheriyan Ch Mele Lagde that had the hit song, Boliyan which got a lot of airplay on the radios. Dhillon made his career with his third, smash hit album Akhara in 2003 that had made waves in India, and still is. The most popular song on the album was Kalli Kite Mil. Though this was not a fast paced tune; the album was redone later for an international release and the song was converted to a hardcore Bhangra, fast-paced song.

Was a Soviet Kazakh opera singer.he was one of the 13 original recipients of the award of People's A

Was a Soviet Kazakh opera singer.he was one of the 13 original recipients of the award of People's Artist of the USSR in 1936.

A rugby union footballer who plays at wing/full back for London Irish. The speedy winger is recognis

A rugby union footballer who plays at wing/full back for London Irish. The speedy winger is recognisable by his speed and is a prime example of the new millennium winger. At 6ft 4in (193cm) he possesses a threatening combination of power, pace and elusiveness that has made him an entertaining player. His running style is unique in that he is exceptionally laid back and never seems to be running flat out, which is deceptive as he incredibly quick. Before his rugby career took off, he attended Papakura High and Wesley College.

A Japanese video game music composer and musician. She is best known for composing the Final Fantasy

A Japanese video game music composer and musician. She is best known for composing the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series.She joined Square (now Square Enix) in 1998. Her major works include Chocobo's Dungeon 2 (with Yasuhiro Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Sekito and Kenji Ito), All Star Pro-Wrestling (with Kenichiro Fukui and Sekito), Final Fantasy XI (with Naoshi Mizuta and Nobuo Uematsu), Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Code Age Commanders. She is also part of the band The Star Onions that arranged Final Fantasy XI music.

A Japanese singer and songwriter from Kyoto, known for her Urban and R&B songs. Having debuted in 20

A Japanese singer and songwriter from Kyoto, known for her Urban and R&B songs. Having debuted in 2000 with the single "Take Back", Koda gained fame for her seventh single, "Real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba", the songs of which were used as themes for the vi

A J-pop artist from Tokyo. Her blood type is A. In 1964 she recorded a song with Crown Records using

A J-pop artist from Tokyo. Her blood type is A. In 1964 she recorded a song with Crown Records using the pseudonym Momoko Shibayama (????? ,Shibayama Momoko?). The first song to be released under her real name was Attack No. 1 (????No.1 ,Atakku Nanba Wan?

Was a popular rokyoku recitalist in Meiji Japan. His immense popularity helped rokyoku break into th

Was a popular rokyoku recitalist in Meiji Japan. His immense popularity helped rokyoku break into the mainstream. At his height, he performed tales of the Forty-seven ronin to sell-out crowds at some of the biggest theatres in Tokyo and Osaka. These performances also roused nationalist sentiment during Russo-Japanese War.[1]Tochuken's style of reciting left a lasting impression on rokyoku, and indirectly also on enka, especially the music of Haruo Minami and Hideo Murata.[2]

A Kathak dancer and choreographer based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where she has founded an institution

A Kathak dancer and choreographer based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where she has founded an institution named Kadamb, a centre for Indian dance and music.She began her career dancing with Ram Gopal as he toured the West, bringing Indian dance to the eyes of people abroad for the first time, and then became a noted dancer and choreographer in her own right. She learned first from various gurus of Jaipur gharana, and then from the renowned Shambhu Maharaj. She particularly excels in her multi-person choreographies which are renowned for their fresh and innovative use of the performance space while losing none of the pure classicism of the dance form. Some of her most famous choreographies include Dhabkar (Pulse), Yugal (The Duet), and Atah Kim (Where Now?). In each of these

Was a painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing. He became a Chan Buddhism monk at an

Was a painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing. He became a Chan Buddhism monk at an early age and in Nanjing was abbot of a monastery on Niushou Shan. His style of landscape painting was influenced by Wang Meng and he is one of the Four Monk Masters in the early Qing Dynasty. The others being Zhu Da, Hong Ren, and Shitao. As he was also known as Shi Xi he was at times said to be one of the "Two Shi". Few of Kun Cán's works survive.

A South Korean pianist.Over the years Kun Woo Paik has performed recitals in major musical centres s

A South Korean pianist.Over the years Kun Woo Paik has performed recitals in major musical centres such as the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and Berlin Philharmonie. He has also performed with such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Last Night of the Proms 1987), Pittsburgh Symphony, Russian National Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Rai Torino, Warsaw Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra and Polish National Radio Orchestra

An Indian painter, writer and translator. She currently lives in Kathmandu, Nepal[1], where, in Apri

An Indian painter, writer and translator. She currently lives in Kathmandu, Nepal[1], where, in April 2008, she was witness to the abolition of the monarchy which had reigned in Nepal for 240 years and the transformation of Nepal into a federal democratic state.Dasgupta gained a diploma in Commercial art in 1994 and earned a Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1998. She was the Chief Eexecutive Officer of the Society For the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Films (The Ray Society) for two years until 2006.[1] She was also the head of Lotus Print publishing house for three years. She shares her time between Kathmandu and Kolkata at the moment, with her son and husband.

Was a Kazakh composer, instrumentalist, and folk artist. He is buried in the Astrakhan region of Low

Was a Kazakh composer, instrumentalist, and folk artist. He is buried in the Astrakhan region of Lower Volga in today's Russian Federation.

Was a German bass.He was born in Dresden, Germany, where he studied with Adolf Kluge at the Dresden

Was a German bass.He was born in Dresden, Germany, where he studied with Adolf Kluge at the Dresden Conservatory. He made his debut in 1930 in Bautzen as Kaspar, one of his most important roles further on. From 1930 till 1950 he was member of the Dresden State Opera, 1949 he became member of the Munich State Opera an in 1955 member of the Vienna State Opera. In the 1950s and 1960s he gets known worldwide because of his acting talents, as Bass-Buffo Baron Ochs and also as "Bösewicht" (Kaspar 1954 with Wilhelm Furtwängler, Fafner 1958-1964 with Georg Solti). "Matteo" in Fra Diavolo; Dresden Nov. 1944.

Is an American vocalist, best known for his work with the crossover thrash band D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten

Is an American vocalist, best known for his work with the crossover thrash band D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles).Brecht formed D.R.I. in 1982 when he was 21 years old, along with his brother Eric on drums, Spike Cassidy on gutiar and Dennis Johnson on bass