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Singer-songwriter Recording Artists
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Albums: American IV: The Man Comes Around, Super Hits, At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash, born J. R. Cash, (February 26, 1932--September 12, 2003) was a Grammy Award-winning American country singer. Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century. Cash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, the boom-chick-a-boom or...
- Alanis Morissette
Albums: Jagged Little Pill, Under Rug Swept, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a seven time Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of alternative rock/pop music and occasional actress. She is the best-selling female rock artist of all time. Her international debut album Jagged Little Pill (1995) became one of the most...
- Billy Joel
Albums: The Stranger, Piano Man, An Innocent Man
William Martin "Billy" Joel was born on May 9, 1949, in Bronx, New York. He is a singer, pianist, and songwriter. Joel recorded many popular hit songs and albums from 1971 to his retirement from recording pop music in 1993. He is one of the very few rock or even pop artists to have Top 10 hits in...
- Cat Stevens
Albums: Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat, The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21st July 1948, and now named Yusuf Islam) is best known for his work as a popular British singer-songwriter, although born and raised by a Cypriot father and a Swedish mother. At the outset of his musical career, Georgiou adopted the stage name "Cat...
- Sarah McLachlan
Albums: Surfacing, Afterglow, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Sarah McLachlan (born Sarah Ann McLachlan January 28, 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Grammy-winning musician, singer and songwriter. She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads. Some of her most popular songs include "Angel", "Building a Mystery", "Adia", "Possession"...
- Norah Jones
Albums: Come Away With Me, Feels Like Home, Not Too Late
Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones has announced the title and release date of her upcoming album, The Fall, her fourth studio album which will be released by EMI's Blue Note Records on November 17. Jones has also revealed the cover artwork for the album, which features...
- Sheryl Crow
Albums: Tuesday Night Music Club, Sheryl Crow, The Very Best of Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an american blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist, pianist and songwriter. Her music blends country, pop, folk, and blues rock into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a noted political activist.
- Bruce Springsteen
Albums: Greatest Hits, Magic, Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949 in Freehold, New Jersey, US) is an American songwriter, singer and guitarist. He is also known as "The Boss." He has frequently recorded and toured with the E Street Band. Springsteen is most widely known for his brand of heartland rock...
- Jewel
Albums: Pieces of You, Spirit, Perfectly Clear
There are at least four artists with this name. 1) Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah, United States) is a singer, songwriter, actress, and poet, generally known just by her first name, Jewel. She has received three Grammy Award nominations.
- Dashboard Confessional
Albums: A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar, Dusk and Summer, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
Dashboard Confessional was started in 2000, by Chris Carrabba in Boca Raton, Florida, as a side project from his band Further Seems Forever. Chris recorded his first album, The Swiss Army Romance, in 2000. The following year, he recorded Further Seems Forever's debut album The Moon Is Down.
- Tori Amos
Albums: Under the Pink, Boys For Pele, Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) plays the piano, sings and composes.
- Paul Simon
Albums: Graceland, Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Paul Simon first gained world wide recognition as the writing talent behind the popular American folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel formed with fellow musician Art Garfunkel. Paul Simon still tours occasionally, both as a solo artist and with his old musical partner Art Garfunkel.
- James Taylor
Albums: Greatest Hits, The Best of James Taylor, JT
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. He owns a home in the Town of Washington, Massachusetts in Berkshire County . A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the...
- Tracy Chapman
Albums: Tracy Chapman, Crossroads, Collection
Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for legendary singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' Bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", and "Give Me One Reason." She is a multi-platinum and multi-Grammy award-winning artist.
- Neil Diamond
Albums: In My Lifetime, His 12 Greatest Hits, 12 Songs
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter, born in Brooklyn, NY. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Diamond was one of the more successful pop music performers, scoring a number of hits. As critic William Ruhlmann writes, "as of 2001, he claimed worldwide record...
- Carly Simon
Albums: Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, Anthology, No Secrets
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter boom. Simon's major breakthrough was 1972's "No Secrets". The album spawned several successful singles, including Simon's biggest hit...
- Lisa Loeb
Albums: Tails, Firecracker, The Way It Really Is
Lisa Anne Loeb (born March 11, 1968 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She launched her career in 1994 with the song, "Stay (I Missed You)". To this day, she is still the only artist to have a number one single while not signed to a recording contract.
- Jeff Buckley
Albums: Grace, Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (disc 1), So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (Scotty Moorhead) was born in Anaheim, California November 17, 1966 to musicians Tim Buckley and Mary Guibert. Buckley died in a tragic drowning accident in Memphis, Tennessee on May 29, 1997. He had emerged in New York City's avant-garde club scene in the 1990s as one of...
- Tom Waits
Albums: Rain Dogs, Swordfishtrombones, Bone Machine
Tom Waits (Thomas Alan Waits, Pomona, California, December 7, 1949 ) is a prolific American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation (poets like Jack Kerouac...
- Joni Mitchell
Albums: Blue, 1972-02-23: New York, NY, USA, Ladies of the Canyon
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada), is a musician, artist, and poet. Joni spent most of her school years in Saskatoon Saskatchewan and then briefly attended the Alberta College of Art at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology...
- Leonard Cohen
Albums: Songs of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, Songs of Love and Hate
Leonard Cohen, (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a poet, novelist and singer-songwriter. His musical career has largely overshadowed his prior work as a poet and novelist, although he has continued to publish poetry sporadically after his breakthrough in the music industry.
- John Denver
Albums: Greatest Hits, The Harbor Lights Concert, Back Home Again
John Denver was born with the name Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. on Dec. 31, 1943, in Roswell, N.M. One of America's most popular performers in the '70s, Denver's rise to fame began when he was "discovered" in a Los Angeles nightclub. He initially joined the BACK PORCH MAJORITY, a nursery group for...
- Conor Oberst
Albums: Conor Oberst, Here's to Special Treatment, Water
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter born February 15, 1980 in Omaha, Nebraska. He began his recording career in 1993 at the age of 13 and has since produced an enormous amount of material. His first two albums "Water" and "Here's to Special Treatment" were both released in 1994.
