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#9351

Peter Jones

#145625

Overall Influence

1963 - 2012 (49 years)

Peter Robert Jones was an English-born Australian musician. He replaced Paul Hester on drums for Crowded House in mid-1994. After the band split up in June 1996, he played in Deadstar with Caroline Kennedy and Nick Seymour, but did not return to Crowded House when they re-formed in 2006 about a year after Hester's death. Jones worked as a secondary teacher in Melbourne and on 18 May 2012, he died from brain cancer, aged 49.

#9352

Chris Bailey

#161380

Overall Influence

1950 - 2013 (63 years)

Christopher Mark Bailey was an Australian bass guitarist and vocalist. He was a member of various rock groups including Headband , The Angels , Gang Gajang , and The Stetsons . Bailey died of throat cancer, aged 62.

#9353

Arild Linneberg

#90277

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Arild Linneberg is a Norwegian researcher of literature, literary critic, essayist and translator. Early life and career He was born in Oslo, and is a Doctor of Philosophy by education. He became a lecturer at the University of Bergen in 1985, and was promoted to professor in 1992. In addition to his academic works, he has published essays as well as the satirical novel Ubehaget i kulturen together with Vigdis Hjorth in 1995.

#9354

Carsten Thomassen

#96460

Overall Influence

1969 - 2008 (39 years)

Carsten Thomassen was a Norwegian journalist, political commentator and war correspondent for the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet. He had earlier covered the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake from Thailand and Indonesia. He was killed in the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.

#9355

Kofi Akpabli

#79707

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Kofi Akpabli is a Ghanaian academic, journalist, publisher, tourism consultant and cultural activist. He is a two-time winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalist for Arts and Culture Awards. His latest work 'Made in Nima' has been featured in the new Commonwealth Anthology which was published in May 2016 Safe House: Explorations into Creative Non-Fiction. Akpabli has four books to his credit and currently works as a lecturer at Central University College in Ghana. He is a founding member of Ghana Cultural Forum and has participated in Xplore FrankfurtRheinemann 2012, Tallberg Forum, Sw...

#9356

José Antonio Bowen

José Antonio Bowen

#122430

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

José Antonio Bowen is an American author and academic. He served as the 11th president of Goucher College from 2014 to 2019. Early life and education Bowen was born in Woodland, California, to Wayne Bowen and Celina Antonio. He lived until the age of six outside of Madrid and Barcelona. He also spent parts of his childhood in Atlanta and Italy. When Bowen was six, his family moved to Fresno, California, where he resided for the remainder of his childhood. Bowen is of Ashkenazi descent on his father's side and Afro-Cuban on his mother's. In high school, Bowen was the valedictorian of class, graduating with a 4.0 GPA.

#9357

Rick Schmidlin

#165549

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Rick Schmidlin is a film preservationist and silent film scholar, and a producer-director whose work has focused on restorations, reconstructions and documentaries. Until 2010, he taught for the University of British Columbia in the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies as an adjunct faculty member. In 2018 Schmidlin was the house manager and programmer of the restored Queen Theatre in Bryan, Texas.

#9358

Jack Stamp

#132090

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jack Stamp is a North American wind ensemble conductor and composer. He has approximately sixty compositions available from Neil A. Kjos Music Company, including his most well-known piece, Gavorkna Fanfare, which was dedicated to Eugene Corporon. In 1993, he formed the Keystone Wind Ensemble, comprising students, alumni and professors at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, which has been recorded on 16 albums.

#9359

Ramesh Narayan

#120091

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Ramesh Narayan is an Indian classical vocalist, composer and music producer who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema. He belongs to the Mewati gharana of Hindustani classical music. Narayan began his initial training in Carnatic music and later mastered the classical Hindustani style under the renowned Pandit Jasraj.

#9360

Leif Rantala

#163783

Overall Influence

1947 - 2015 (68 years)

Leif Rantala was a Finnish-Swedish linguist, and a specialist of Sami languages, cultures of history, especially of the Kola Peninsula. Valentina Sovkina characterized Rantala in Facebook with the following words: “He left a large, radiant footprint in the lives of the Sami people, with his interest in and knowledge of the Skolt Sami and the Sami of the Kola Peninsula.”

#9361

John Hicks

#139923

Overall Influence

1941 - 2006 (65 years)

John Josephus Hicks Jr. was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was leader of more than 30 recordings and played as a sideman on more than 300. After early experiences backing blues musicians, Hicks moved to New York in 1963. He was part of Art Blakey's band for two years, accompanied vocalist Betty Carter from 1965 to 1967, before joining Woody Herman's big band, where he stayed until 1970. Following these associations, Hicks expanded into freer bands, including those of trumpeters Charles Tolliver and Lester Bowie. He rejoined Carter in 1975; the five-year stay brought him more attention and helped to launch his recording career as a leader.

#9362

Salem Mekuria

#107029

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Salem Mekuria is an Ethiopian-born independent filmmaker, video artist and educator living in the United States. Life and work Mekuria was born in Addis Ababa. She was educated there and in Axum, and moved to the United States in 1967 where she studied political science and journalism at Macalester College. Mekuria earned a MA in education technology and media production from San Francisco State University in 1978. She later worked at the WGBH TV station in Boston, starting as a secretary but eventually becoming a producer for the Nova series. Mekuria is the Luella LaMer Professor of Women's...

#9363

Saeed Farajpouri

#162169

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Saeed Farajpouri is a composer, performer, and instructor of a classical Iranian instrument called the Kamancheh or Spike Fiddle. He started learning music at age nine under Maestro Hassan Kamkar. Then he remembered the Iranian music repertoire under Maestro Mohammad Reza Lotfi and the ensemble performance under the instruction of Maestro Hossein Alizadeh.

#9364

Ray Still

#171353

Overall Influence

1920 - 2014 (94 years)

Ray Still was an American classical oboist. He was the principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 40 years, from 1953 to 1993. Early life He was born March 12, 1920, in Elwood, Indiana, and moved to Los Angeles as a teenager. He started studying the clarinet at 14, and volunteered as an usher at Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts, where he heard the Belgian oboist Henri de Busscher, whose “singing” style inspired him to switch to the oboe at 16. His first oboe teacher was Philip Memoli, who played second oboe to de Busscher in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. From 1941-1943, Still was a...

#9365

T. Viswanathan

#134265

Overall Influence

1927 - 2002 (75 years)

Tanjore Viswanathan was a Carnatic musician specializing in the Carnatic flute and voice. Early life and background Viswa, as T. Viswanathan is often called, was born in Madras, India. He was the grandson of the legendary Veena Dhanammal, considered one of the greatest players of Veena, the South Indian lute. His mother Jayammal was a singer, and often provided vocal support at her daughter's dance performances. Viswa's elder sister was T. Balasaraswati, the greatest exponent of Bharatanatyam in the second half of the 20th century. His elder brother was the mridangam player T. Ranganathan...

#9366

Kazys Morkūnas

#175736

Overall Influence

1925 - 2014 (89 years)

Kazys Morkūnas was a Lithuanian stained glass artist. He is considered a master of the form. He was a student of Stasys Ušinskas and along with fellow pupil Algimantas Stoskus they began creating new methods that incorporated thick panels of glass which have been adopted by other artists.

#9367

Melvin Kaplan

#173228

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Melvin Kaplan was an American oboist, concert manager, and formerly a teacher at the Juilliard School for 25 years. He was for many years a featured performer and lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kaplan is a founding member of both the New York Chamber Soloists and the Festival Winds, though he is perhaps best known as Artistic Director of the original Vermont Mozart Festival, which he cofounded in 1974 with William Metcalfe, a conductor and professor at the University of Vermont. He received the Governor's Award for Extraordinary Contribution to Vermont in 1990 and a Lifetime Ach...

#9368

Kim Pensyl

#142189

Overall Influence

Kim Pensyl is an American pop-jazz and new-age music keyboardist. He attended Ohio State University, and California State University, Northridge for graduate school and had several CDs produced by Shanachie Records. He has worked in bands with Al Hirt, Don Ellis, Hubert Laws, Gerald Wilson, and Guy Lombardo. He is part of the Jazz Studies Department faculty at the College-Conservatory of Music .

#9369

Jane Ira Bloom

#125555

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jane Ira Bloom is an American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer. Early years Bloom was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Joel and Evelyn Bloom. She began as a pianist and drummer, later switching to the alto saxophone, and eventually settling on the soprano saxophone as her primary instrument. She first began playing the saxophone at age 9, studying with woodwind virtuoso Joseph Viola, chair of the Berklee College of Music Woodwinds Department, from 1968 to 1979, and studying music at Yale University from which she received a liberal arts degree and a master's degree in music . Following Yale, Bloom relocated to New York City.

#9370

Walter Steffens

#137948

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Walter Steffens is a German composer. He is noted for the diversity of his creative works, but has specialised in opera, such as Eli, as well as music inspired by paintings. Life The son of a bridge construction engineer, Steffens was born in Aachen-Burtscheid and grew up in Dortmund. His road to music was a bumpy one, especially since his father could not imagine a career in the fine arts as being a respectable way to earn a living. During the Second World War the Ruhrgebiet was being increasingly bombed, and at the age of eight, young Walter was sent, within the Kinderlandverschickung progr...

#9371

Stephen Kimber

#119349

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Stephen Edward Kimber is a Canadian journalist, editor and broadcaster and professor at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Early life and education Kimber was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He attended Dalhousie University from 1967 to 1970, where he served as editor of the Dalhousie Gazette. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in Baltimore in 2001.

#9372

Guillaume Sutre

Guillaume Sutre

#180754

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Guillaume Sutre is a French classical violinist. Ensembles 1987–1995: Trio Wanderer, founding member1995–2014: Ysaÿe Quartet, 1st violin1991– : Duo Sutre-Kim, violin and harp Teaching 1995–2008: , Chamber music teacher, Ysaÿe Quartet's class2008–2017: University of California, Los Angeles , Professor of violin and chamber music, director of chamber musicSince 2019: Tianjin Juilliard School, Professor of violin and chamber music

#9373

Ian Crawford

#112770

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Ian Miles Crawford is an American musician and vocalist born in Eugene, Oregon. He is most prominently known for being a guitarist and backing vocalist for a number of different bands including The Cab, Panic! at the Disco, Never Shout Never, and The Academy Is... In 2016, he founded the rock and roll group The Contestants, which released their debut studio album, No Contest, in May 2016.

#9374

Wendy Williams

#156537

Overall Influence

1934 - 2019 (85 years)

Wendy Williams was a British actress. She is best known for her work on television, with credits including: Danger Man, Z-Cars, The Regiment, The Pallisers, Thriller, Doctor Who , Survivors, Poldark, Beau Geste, Tenko and The Darling Buds of May. She had a long running role in Crossroads as Sally Banks, stepping in to the role at very short notice when the original actress Patricia Mort quit the series without notice.

#9375

Sergey Schepkin

#175468

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Sergey Schepkin is an American pianist of Russian birth. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Performer Schepkin was born in St. Petersburg. He started playing piano at the age of five under the tutelage of Leah Zelikhman, and studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexandra Zhukovsky , Grigory Sokolov, and Alexander Ikharev, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. He gave his first full-length piano recital in 1978, and made his orchestral debut with the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladislav Chernushenko in 1984. After his permanent move to th...

#9376

Lori Kido Lopez

#167941

Overall Influence

Lori Kido Lopez is an American media activist and an associate professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose research centers on depictions of Asian Americans in modern media. Additionally, she is affiliate faculty in the Department of Women's Studies and the Asian American Studies Program. She most notably wrote Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship, which was published in 2016 by New York University Press. She is also a Co-Editor of the Routledge Companion to Asian American Media. Lopez's work explores minorities’ use of medi...

#9377

William Cochran

#174273

Overall Influence

1943 - 2022 (79 years)

William Cochran was an American Heldentenor who achieved an international career. Life Born in Columbus, Ohio, Cochran studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Martial Singher. He attended the Music Academy of the West in 1967 and 1968. A winner of the Lauritz Melchior Heldentenor Foundation Award, he debuted with the Metropolitan Opera as Vogelgesang in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, in 1968. The following year, he appeared as Froh in Wagner's Das Rheingold with the San Francisco Opera.

#9378

Mark Morton

#161091

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Mark Morton is an American classical musician and academic working as Professor of Double Bass at Texas Tech University, Principal Double Bassist of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra, and the West Texas Symphony, and the artistic director of the American School of Double Bass.

#9379

Branko Tosovic

#176459

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Branko Tošović is an Austrian and Serbian philologist, linguist and literary scholar. Life Branko Tošović was born on 10 April 1949 in Vihovići , not far from Sarajevo. In 1968 he finished high school in Sarajevo. He grew up in Kalinovik and Sarajevo , where he studied, received his doctorate and completed his habilitation. From 1968 to 1973 he studied Slavic Studies at the University of Sarajevo. In January 1979 he received his doctorate with a dissertation titled The Stylizations of Language in A. N. Tolstoy's novel Peter the First and its reflection in our translation . In October 1983 he ...

#9380

Ariel Bybee

#176378

Overall Influence

1943 - 2018 (75 years)

Ariel Bybee was a mezzo-soprano who has had a distinguished career as a soloist, voice teacher and university opera director. According to Opera News , she was "a prominent mezzo at the Metropolitan Opera for eighteen seasons." She sang over 460 performances at the Metropolitan Opera.

#9381

Joseph Simmons

#177880

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Joseph Lee Simmons is an American guitarist, bass guitarist, songwriter and brewer. Originally from Houston, Texas, Simmons grew up in Coral Springs, Florida, where he notably played in the hardcore punk bands Dinner Time and Lock Down, the sludge metal band Bird of Ill Omen and the metallic hardcore band Morning Again. He later moved to Gainesville, Florida, where he played in the metallic hardcore bands Culture and Some Sort of Radio, the melodic hardcore band As Friends Rust, and the emotional hardcore / post-hardcore band Salem. He currently plays in the black metal band Rot in Coffins.

#9382

Naoko Tosa

#161071

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Naoko Tosa is a Japanese media artist based in Fukuoka, Japan. In recent years Tosa has been creating artwork expressing Japanese tradition and culture without utilizing digital technology but rather by taking photographic captures of water and flowers in motion at 2000 frames per second. Much of her focus is based on Japanese Zen, Shinto and Rinpa traditions. Rinpa, a school of painting which traces its origins to 17th century Kyoto emphasizes natural subjects, refinement and the use of gold leaf, and is a key influence in Tosa's most recent works.

#9383

David Dick

#176259

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

David Barrow Dick , was an American journalist. He was an Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News from 1966 to 1985. He became a professor of journalism at the University of Kentucky after retiring from CBS News.

#9384

Mike Jones

#116370

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Mike Jones is an American screenwriter and journalist. He serves as the Senior Story and Creative Artist at Pixar Animation Studios and has co-written the studio's animated feature films Soul and Luca.

#9385

John Raitt

#156279

Overall Influence

1917 - 2005 (88 years)

John Emmet Raitt was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theatre. Early years Raitt was born in Santa Ana, California, United States. He got his start in theatre as a high school student at Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton, California. While there, he played in several drama productions in Plummer Auditorium. Raitt sang in the chorus of The Desert Song. He is on the school's "Wall of Fame" for his accomplishments. In 1935, Raitt won the "football throw" at the California State High School Track and Field Championship; his mark of 220 feet remains the state record in that short-lived event.

#9386

Crawford Gates

#136001

Overall Influence

1921 - 2018 (97 years)

Crawford Marion Gates was an American musician, composer, and conductor known for his contributions to the body of music for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Early life and education Gates was born in San Francisco, December 29, 1921, and grew up in Palo Alto, California. He started playing piano at age eight and violin at age nine. In his first year of college at the College of the Pacific and San Jose State, he won a student composition contest sponsored by the Stockton Symphony During his mission for the LDS Church, he directed the Mormon Male Chorus of Philadelphia, a group of eight other missionaries.

#9387

Elizabeth Kemp

#110674

Overall Influence

1951 - 2017 (66 years)

Elizabeth Kemp was an American actress and acting coach. She began her career on the television series Love of Life in 1973, after studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. She went on to become an acting coach and faculty member of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University.

#9388

Hassan Khan

#147086

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Hassan Khan is a British-born Egyptian multimedia artist, musician, and writer who works with choreography, music, performance, sound, and video to create narratives. He resides and works in Cairo.

#9389

Raymond Wilding-White

#170369

Overall Influence

1922 - 2001 (79 years)

Raymond Wilding-White ; was an American composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music, and a photographer/digital artist. Biography Wilding-White was born in Caterham, Tandridge, Surrey, England, and spent the first five years of his life in England before moving to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris, France, where he had his first formal instruction in music at the Conservatoire Camille Saint-Saëns. In 1932 the family moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, his mother's family home. By 1940 he had moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

#9390

Allen Kaeja

#127668

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Allen Kaeja is a Canadian film director and choreographer. He entered the field of dance after nine years of wrestling and judo, and has created over 90 dance pieces since 1981 and choreographed 26 films. Kaeja is one of the co-artistic directors of Kaeja d'Dance, along with his wife Karen Kaeja and has completed an MA dance degree at York University. He is co-founder of the CanAsian International Dance Festival.

#9391

Hermann Becht

#173198

Overall Influence

1939 - 2009 (70 years)

Hermann Becht was a German operatic bass-baritone. He notably portrayed the role of Alberich in the 1983 recording of Richard Wagner's The Ring Cycle which won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. He also portrayed Alberich in the centennial Ring under conductor Pierre Boulez, directed by Patrice Chéreau in 1980.

#9392

Eduard Brunner

#168266

Overall Influence

1939 - 2017 (78 years)

Eduard Brunner was a classical clarinetist. He began his musical education in Basel where he was born, continuing his studies at the Paris Conservatoire with Louis Cahuzac. For thirty years he was the first Clarinet of the Munich's Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and later he was Professor of Clarinet and Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Saarbrücken .

#9393

Lev Vlassenko

#167882

Overall Influence

1928 - 1996 (68 years)

Lev Nikolaevich Vlassenko , was a Soviet pianist and teacher. Biography Lev Vlassenko was born on 24 December 1928 in Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union to Nikolai Appolonovich Vlassenko and Vera Solomonovna Benditskaya.

#9394

Doris Duke

#168474

Overall Influence

1945 - 2019 (74 years)

Doris Willingham , known for much of her singing career as Doris Duke, was an American gospel and soul singer, best known for her 1969 album I'm a Loser. Biography Duke was born in Sandersville, Georgia, and reportedly started singing with gospel groups including the Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker and The Caravans, though this has been questioned. By 1963 she was working in New York City on sessions and as a backing singer at the Apollo Theatre. She also recorded some demos for Motown Records, but none were ever released.

#9395

Frank Morgan

#116425

Overall Influence

1933 - 2007 (74 years)

Frank Morgan was a jazz saxophonist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He mainly played alto saxophone but also played soprano saxophone. He was known as a Charlie Parker successor who primarily played bebop and ballads.

#9396

James Thatcher

#170672

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

James Thatcher is an American hornist. Early career Thatcher began his professional career at age 16 when he played and studied in Mexico City with his uncle, Gerald Thatcher, former principal hornist with the National Symphony of Mexico. Subsequent instructors have included Fred Fox, Don Peterson, Thomas Greer, Wendell Hoss, James Decker, Vincent DeRosa and master classes with Hermann Baumann. He also earned a bachelor's degree at Brigham Young University. Thatcher has been a member of the Phoenix Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Pacific Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

#9397

Anastasia Chebotareva

#181117

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Anastasia Chebotareva is a Ukrainian violinist. She started the violin at the age of five. Three years later, her exceptional talent was discovered by the famous professor Irina Bochkova, who was a student and follower of the legendary Yuri Yankelevich.

#9398

Edward Johnston

#180269

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Edward S. Johnston is an American multimedia artist and designer creating works involving interactive media, animation, and 3D printing. Johnston has exhibited and screened his work widely in the international Lumen Prize Exhibition, World Maker Faire New York 2012, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art , the Philoctetes Center, New York, NY ; the Tank Space for Performing and Visual Arts, New York, NY ; Video Art Festival Miden 2009, Kalamata, Greece; the Best of Artomatic 2009 at the Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD; PLAY Gallery on Michigan Television; the Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, Colorado ; and the Cothenius Gallery, Berlin, Germany .

#9399

Rob Burns

#172808

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Rob Burns , earlier also known as Robbie Burns, is an English-born New Zealand bass player, author and academic. Burns' career spans five decades, encompassing musical genres such as pop, rock, R&B, soul, jazz, gospel, folk, and country. From the late 1970s until 1999 he toured and worked several sessions a week for artists of international fame, as well as for many major British TV shows, before embarking upon an academic career.

#9400

James Wood

#168839

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

James Wood is a British conductor, composer of contemporary classical music and former percussionist. Wood studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1971 to 1972 before going on to study music at Cambridge University, where he was organ scholar of Sidney Sussex College from 1972 until 1975. After graduating from Cambridge he went on to study percussion and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1975 until 1976. After a further year studying percussion privately with Nicholas Cole, Wood embarked on a triple career as percussionist, composer and conductor.

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