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Pages in category "Artists from New Orleans" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Joseph A. Shakspeare, Mayor of New Orleans at the time of the March 14, 1891 lynchings; Eric Skrmetta, attorney from Metairie, Louisiana; Republican member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission for District 1; Jefferson B. Snyder, lived in New Orleans 1893–1897; later district attorney in three delta parishes in northeast Louisiana 1904 ...
Doreen J. Ketchens (born October 3, 1966) is an American jazz clarinetist who performs Dixieland and trad jazz.She has performed at concert halls, music festivals, and U.S. embassies, as well as in decades of weekly performances in Dixieland's tradition in the Royal Street Performing Arts Zone in the French Quarter of New Orleans with her band, Doreen's Jazz New Orleans.
Some seminal New Orleans artists from No Limit included Mia X, Mystikal, Master P, Soulja Slim, C-Murder, and Silkk the Shocker. Cash Money likewise signed and released albums by several New Orleans artists including BG, Juvenile, Turk, Big Tymers, and Lil' Wayne. The city is also the birthplace of bounce music which is gaining popularity.
Charles Gillam Sr. was born in 1945 in rural Louisiana, and raised in the Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. [1] He learned to paint by watching street artists in the French Quarter where he shined shoes with his brother. [1]
LaFontaine was born to Pierre, Sr. and Madeline, in a small Creole cottage-style frame house on White Street (between Dumaine Street and St. Ann Street) in New Orleans. [4] Pete was the great-grandson of a French immigrant, François Fontaine, who was born in Toulon , circa 1796, and came to the U.S. in the early 19th century, and died on the ...
Simon of New Orleans is a French-born artist who first moved to the United States of America in the late 1980s. In Louisiana he became known for his painted bright and colorful signs [1] which can include distinguishing lettering, various animals, and slogans that include an assortment of French, English, and local New Orleans dialect.
Chris Owens (October 5, 1932 – April 5, 2022) was an American performer, club owner and entrepreneur who based her act out of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. She was a French Quarter fixture and celebrity from the start of the 1960s through the early 21st century.