Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is an American pair skater. Babilonia & Gardner began skating together as children, when Babilonia w

Is an American pair skater. Babilonia & Gardner began skating together as children, when Babilonia was eight and Gardner ten. Their coach was John Nicks. The pair were five-time gold medalists at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and won the gold meda

Is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabam

Is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion,

A Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec.Lee toured North America in th

A Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec.Lee toured North America in the 1970s as a jazz drummer and tenor saxophonist. She subsequently landed a starring role playing Billie Holiday in Lady Day, and won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance. She subsequently began recording as a vocalist, releasing her first album in 1989.

An award-winning veena instrumentalist and winner of Presidential Award for Carnatic Instrumental Mu

An award-winning veena instrumentalist and winner of Presidential Award for Carnatic Instrumental Music.Ranganayaki came under the tutelage of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Late Sri Karaikudi Veenai Sambasiva Iyer at the early age of two and started training in the strict Gurukula system, until the death of Sri Sambasiva Iyer in 1958.

A Dutch singer.Rania Zeriri grew up in the Netherlands as daughter of a Dutch mother and an Algerian

A Dutch singer.Rania Zeriri grew up in the Netherlands as daughter of a Dutch mother and an Algerian father who left the family when she was still very young. After finishing school with a General Certificate of Secondary Education (Mittlere Reife) she mo

A Sinhalese R&B and hip hop artist who raised the international profile of Sinhalese RnB/pop[1]. Lan

A Sinhalese R&B and hip hop artist who raised the international profile of Sinhalese RnB/pop[1]. Lankage is the first Sinhalese artist to be played on BBC Radio1 and the creator of the first Sinhalese single to be played on MTV and channel V and Z music India[1].Lankage has produced hits that have revolutionized Sri Lankan music.[1] In 2003, DeLon's single "Nasty Girl" debuted at #36 on the Billboard Charts.[3] Lankage's first single with Ashanthi, "Oba magemai," gained popularity and made Ranidu & Ashanthi the youngest Sri Lankan artists to be signed by an international record label, Sony Music India.[4] Ranidu followed his first single with four Top 20 hits: "Obe ath allagena," "Sinasenna," "Kandulen midee" and "Sadaa." The "Oba Magemai" (Your mine) album was one of the top-selling albums in Sri Lanka[5].

Roger is an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s two-tone band, The Beat (known in the U

Roger is an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s two-tone band, The Beat (known in the U.S. as The English Beat) and one of its successor bands, General Public. He currently leads a re-formed Beat line-up with Everett Morton.

A Japanese actress. She was an idol and singer in the 1990's. She began her carrier as an idol in th

A Japanese actress. She was an idol and singer in the 1990's. She began her carrier as an idol in the early 1990's, in commercials, then got her first role in a drama in 1992. In 1994, she performed in rabbit-cosplay in duet with future J-pop star Namie A

Was an early San Francisco school painter, specializing in Northern California landscapes.Holdridge

Was an early San Francisco school painter, specializing in Northern California landscapes.Holdridge was recognized as a great painter during his life. His paintings are in the permanent collections of many museums, particularly those specializing in California Artists. His works are (or have been) displayed in the Shumate Collection of the Oakland Museum of California[8]; the De Young Museum[9]; the Hart Collection at the Sonoma County Museum[10]; the Utah Museum of Fine Arts[4]; Sacramento's Crocker Museum; Society of California Pioneers; Bohemian Club; University of California Berkeley's Bancroft Library; Prescott, Arizona's The Phippen Museum of Western Art[11]; The Colorado Heritage Center at the Colorado Historical Society in Denver, Colorado[11]

Was a French singer.His best known song is undoubtedly Quand la mer monte, written by his friend Jea

Was a French singer.His best known song is undoubtedly Quand la mer monte, written by his friend Jean-Claude Darnal. He also sang the P'tit quinquin.

Was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for

Was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs for ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events.

Was a French sculptor.[1] During the First World War, he worked as an interpreter for American force

Was a French sculptor.[1] During the First World War, he worked as an interpreter for American forces in France. He was a pupil of Antoine Bourdelle between 1920 and 1926. He came to Chicago, Illinois in 1932 with his longtime collaborator Jose Martin to pursue a job with the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company only to find the job closed, but developed plenty of work, first in Illinois, briefly with Cowan Pottery in Lakewood, Ohio, and then principally in Texas [2].

Was a French painter, sculptor,In 1937, he did Tete du Mannequin, a photograph taken of a mannequin

Was a French painter, sculptor,In 1937, he did Tete du Mannequin, a photograph taken of a mannequin (made by André Masson) consisting of everyday objects. Another of his work's include the photograph 'La Conciliabule'.

Was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grac

Was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Is a young French clarinet prodigy. At eleven he had his first international successes. a Hungarian

Is a young French clarinet prodigy. At eleven he had his first international successes. a Hungarian pianist and his father, a French clarinettist, gave him a very early musical education – piano, violin and cello.

Was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American

Was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York City, although he avoided subjects that were particularly critical of society. He also wrote several books on his life and art.

Is considered the first professional American painter of still-life.Artist. Born Raphaelle Peale in

Is considered the first professional American painter of still-life.Artist. Born Raphaelle Peale in Annapolis, Maryland on February 17, 1774, the fifth child, though eldest surviving, of Charles Willson Peale and his first wife Rachel Brewer. As with all

A Chilean actress, singer and model. She was become known from very early age, for being the daughte

A Chilean actress, singer and model. She was become known from very early age, for being the daughter of a television star Raquel Argandoña and the attorney Hernán Calderón.[1] ContentsCalderón, the year 2006 began her career as actress in the infantile miniseries of TVN called Karkú. The series was not released until February 5, 2007, and lasted some months to the air. As almost all the infantile series and pre-teens of the Chilean television, also it began to Karkú's interior a musical group, with the same like integral actors. The group, which was called Six Pack, was formed by a musical producer who listened to the young men in one of his(its,her) recordings

A Portuguese singer and actress. She was born in Elvas.One of the finalists of the Portuguese Idols,

A Portuguese singer and actress. She was born in Elvas.One of the finalists of the Portuguese Idols, along with Luciana Abreu, they both worked in the soap-opera Floribella broadcasted on the SIC network. Raquel Guerra plays the role of Clara Miranda.Raquel Guerra also won a musical contest hosted by the TV show SIC 10 Horas.Perhaps of interest to note is that Raquel Guerra was born in the same day and year as Kalan Porter, a Canadian singer, who was also a second winner of an Idols show.

An actress and at one time singer. She started her career in her native Cuba before moving to Mexico

An actress and at one time singer. She started her career in her native Cuba before moving to Mexico in 1959 at the start of Fidel Castro's regime's rule of Cuba.Raquel began her career in theatre singing opera in her native Cuba. In the wake of the 1959 Cuban revolution, when millions of people fled Cuba[citation needed], Raquel came to Mexico in 1959 as an unknown artist. She did little work in the movie business before finally landing a small role in the telenovela "La Sombra Del Otro" in 1963. Whilst she was relatively new to the acting world, Raquel excelled in this genre further revealing yet another talent that she would master. She built a body of acting experience before finally being able to indulge her first field, singing.

Is a painter, poet, and essayist. She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got

Is a painter, poet, and essayist. She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city of Bahía Blanca in1954, that she attended for several years the Buenos Aires’s workshop of the influential Argentine painter and teacher Demetrio Urruchúa.

Was a popular Danish singer. She was born in Copenhagen, and grew up in a little apartment in the po

Was a popular Danish singer. She was born in Copenhagen, and grew up in a little apartment in the poor central part of the city. Her parents had immigrated to Denmark from Russia at the start of the 1900s. Her father was a tailor, and her mother was a sea

Is a Saudi singer, musician, and record producer. He is known to be one of the region's most popular

Is a Saudi singer, musician, and record producer. He is known to be one of the region's most popular vocalists alongside Mohammed Abdu, Rabeh Sager and Abdulmajeed Abdullah.

Was an Azerbaijani singer and actor. He sang in Azerbaijani, Russian, Persian, Turkish, Hindi, Armen

Was an Azerbaijani singer and actor. He sang in Azerbaijani, Russian, Persian, Turkish, Hindi, Armenian, Urdu and Bengali among other languages.Rashid Behbudov was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1915. His father, Majid Behbudov was a singer as well. In 1938 - 1944, Rashid worked at Yerevan State Philharmonia and Opera House, and in 1945, upon the invitation of Tofig Guliyev, Rashid Behbudov moved to Baku.

Rashid Choudhury completed his five-year course in fine arts from the Charukala Institute in 1954 an

Rashid Choudhury completed his five-year course in fine arts from the Charukala Institute in 1954 and attended a teachers' training certificate course at Asutosh Museum of the Calcutta University. He did his post-graduate studies with a scholarship from Spanish government and studied sculpture at the Central Escula des Bellias Artes de San Fernando in Madrid from 1956-57. He also studied sculpture, fresco and tapestry at the Academy of Jullian and Beaux Arts in Paris from 1960-64. He was also honoured with the Leadership Grant Award by the US government in 1975.