Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following are notable keyboard players, mostly in the fields of metal, rock, and jazz. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
One of the best known keytarists, Jean Michel Jarre, playing an AX-Synth. The following is a list of keytarists. A keytarist is a musician that plays the keytar, a keyboard or synthesizer worn around the neck and shoulders, similar to a guitar. Only notable musicians who are widely noted for their use of the keytar as reported in reliable ...
John Raymond Goadsby (May 2, 1945 – August 1, 2017), known as Goldy McJohn, was a Canadian keyboard player best known as the original keyboardist for rock group Steppenwolf. Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the early use of the electronic organ in heavy metal.
A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists . Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, such as synthesizers and digital piano , requiring ...
In 2024, Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph ranked Tench as the third greatest keyboard player of all time, calling him "the King of the Hammond in the contemporary rock era". [ 18 ] Personal life
In his introduction to the 2010 BBC Radio program Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It, former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman said of Preston: "Every keyboard player I know loves Billy Preston. You can spot his playing a mile off, whether it's the Hammond organ, the Fender Rhodes or the piano.
Gary Brooker, the frontman for Procol Harum, the long-running band most famous for 1967’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died Saturday at age 76. The cause of death was cancer. The surviving ...
This is an alphabetized list of notable solo pianists who play (or played) classical music on the piano.For those who worked with other pianists as piano duos, see List of classical piano duos (performers).