Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

Was an African American singer, best known for her 1976 recording of "It Should Have Been Me".Born F

Was an African American singer, best known for her 1976 recording of "It Should Have Been Me".Born Flora Yvonne Coleman in Richmond, Virginia, Fair got her start as a latter-day member of the re-formulated Chantels and the James Brown Revue.[1] Whilst per

Is an Australian opera singer. She is variously billed as a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.She

Is an Australian opera singer. She is variously billed as a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.She studied voice on a scholarship at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She won the National Eisteddfod in Canberra, as well as number of other singing competitions.

Is a Spanish-American figure skater who competed internationally for both Spain and the United State

Is a Spanish-American figure skater who competed internationally for both Spain and the United States. She represented Spain at the 1988 Winter Olympics where she finished 18th.

An American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, espe

An American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique.According to askart.com and artcyclopedia.com, her works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and others. According to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's online bio

An Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel and Mozart roles.she first studied at the

An Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel and Mozart roles.she first studied at the University of Sydney in science, hoping to become a biochemist, but decided to pursue a career in music instead. She studied first with Myra Lambert at the Sydney Conservatorium, and later won a schorlarship to study at the opera school at La Scala in Milan.After a year of study there she came to England, where after a few recitals and TV appearances, her breakthrough came on October 11, 1975, when she replaced, with only four days' notice, the soprano scheduled to sing in an Opera Rara concert performance of Donizetti 's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. It was a triumph and the virtually unknown Kenny became an overnight star.

A French pianist, and the widow of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the ondes Martenot play

A French pianist, and the widow of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.Loriod was born in Houilles, Paris, France. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire and became one of Olivier Messiaen's most avid pupils. She also studied with Marcel Ciampi. At the age of 25, she was appointed professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. She went on to become a nationally-acclaimed recording artist and concert pianist, and premiered most of Messiaen's works for the piano, starting in the 1940s. Messiaen said that he was able to indulge in "the greatest eccentricities", when writing for piano, knowing that they would be mastered by Loriod.[1] Both she and her sister Jeanne often performed as the soloists in his Turangalîla-Symphonie.[2] Loriod also orchestrated part of Messiaen's final orchestral work, Concert à quatre.

Is an American singer and actress. Her father was of Irish descent, and her mother shared Japanese a

Is an American singer and actress. Her father was of Irish descent, and her mother shared Japanese and Chinese ancestries. She was born and raised in Honolulu, and graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1970.

An American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging an

An American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental.In 1957 Rainer moved to New York to study theater. She found herself more strongly drawn to modern dance than acting, however, and began studying at the Martha Graham School and later with Merce Cunningham. Rainer was one of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s, and she formed her own company for a brief time after the Judson performances ended. Rainer is noted for an approach to dance that treats the body more as the source of an infinite variety of movements than as the purveyor of emotion or drama. Many of the elements she employed—such as repetition,

Was a Franco-Belgian artist. After undertaking a tour of Italy and Greece, she exhibited her paintin

Was a Franco-Belgian artist. After undertaking a tour of Italy and Greece, she exhibited her paintings in Paris at the Salon in 1898. It was at this point that she decided to become a sculptor, a decision which led her back to Brussels where she began new studies with sculptor Égide Rombaux. In 1904 she returned to Paris where she established her own workshop.