Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a noted Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
Mitchell's musical career began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She ...
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953), better known as Cyndi Lauper, is an iconic Grammy Award-winning singer and Emmy Award-winning film, television and theatre actress. Her melodic voice and wild costumes have come to epitomize the 1980 ...
:For the New Zealand Maori leader and academic, see Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck)
Peter Lawrence Buck (born 6 December, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe of the sem ...
Richard Wayne Mullins (October 21, 1955 – September 19, 1997) was an American singer/songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana.
He was a well-known Christian music artist until his untimely death in an automobile accident in 1997. He is best known ...
The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, although contemporary versions of the instrument can have as many as twelve strings and six courses. The body extends the length of th ...
Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet.
Tyner was born in Philadelphia as the oldest of three children. He was encouraged to study piano by ...
Tim Hart is also the name of the original Theory of a Deadman drummer.
Tim Hart (born 9 January 1948, in Lincoln, England) is a retired English folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of Steeleye Span.
Early years
Ti ...
Jean Ritchie (born December 8, 1922) is an American folk singer and Appalachian dulcimer player.
Out of Kentucky
In the mid-thirties Alan Lomax recorded in Kentucky for the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Song. Among the people he recorded w ...
Richard George Fariña ( March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966 ) was an American writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era.
Early years ...
Simon John Breckenridge Nicol, born October 13 1950, Muswell Hill, North London is an English folk rock guitarist and singer. He is a founding member and the longest-serving member of Fairport Convention although between 1971 and 1975/6 he took a "sa ...