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Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago. [9] His mother, Bobbie Scott, born in Mississippi, [17] was an opera singer who performed with the Oratorio Society of New York.His father, Gil Heron, nicknamed "The Black Arrow", was a Jamaican footballer who in the 1950s became the first black man to play for Celtic F.C. in Glasgow, Scotland. [18]
Olen (poet), early poet from Lycia who went to Delos Onomacritus , (c. 530 – 480 BC), also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, a chresmologue , or compiler of oracles Oppian or Oppianus (in Greek, Οππιανος) was the name of the authors of two (or three) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified as one poet, but now ...
John Burnside (born 1955), Scottish poet and writer, winner of T. S. Eliot and Forward poetry prizes; William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), US novelist, poet and essayist; Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957), Polish poet and writer; Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Japanese haikai poet and painter; Raegan Butcher (born 1969), US poet and singer
The singer-poet, promoting a new album with 33-year-old son Art Garfunkel Jr., also revealed that he and Simon will reconnect again and that their lunch meeting "was about wanting to make amends ...
Tanya Davis – singer-songwriter, poet; Desirée Dawson – singer-songwriter, ukulele player; Sophie Day – jazz singer; Luc de Larochellière – singer-songwriter; deadmau5 – house artist, electronic music producer, real name Joel Zimmerman; Aselin Debison – Celtic pop; Art d'Ecco – indie rock, glam rock singer
Brian Peter George Eno (/ ˈ iː n oʊ /; born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. [1]
Steven Patrick Morrissey (/ ˈ m ɒr ɪ s i / MORR-iss-ee; born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter. He came to prominence as the frontman and lyricist of rock band the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, he has pursued a successful solo career.
This is a list of singer-songwriters who write, compose, and perform their own musical material. The list is divided into two sections to differentiate between artists categorized as singer-songwriters and others who do not fall under the definition associated with the genre: Traditional singer-songwriters; Others who both write songs and sing