The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
#9901
Aaron Schneider
#176715
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Aaron Schneider is an American filmmaker and cinematographer. His short film Two Soldiers won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He won an Independent Spirit Award for his feature film debut, Get Low .
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Erich Urbanner
#157536
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Erich Urbanner is an Austrian composer and teacher. Biography Born in Innsbruck, Urbanner studied from 1955 to 1961 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, in the composition classes of Karl Schiske and Hanns Jelinek, as well as studying piano with Grete Hinterhofer and conducting with Hans Swarowsky. At the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music he participated in further composition studies with Wolfgang Fortner, Karlheinz Stockhausen und Bruno Maderna.
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Sadao Bekku
#181110
Overall Influence
1922 - 2012 (90 years)
was a Japanese classical composer. His works include five symphonies, film scores, a flute sonata, a piano concerto, choral work and art songs, and the opera, Prince Arima. His work took strong influence from jazz. His best-known works include the film score Matango .
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James Moody
#178223
Overall Influence
1907 - 1995 (88 years)
James Moody was a Belfast-born pianist, arranger and composer best known for his music for classical harmonica, including twenty-two works for harmonica and piano, three works for harmonica and strings, eight works for harmonica and orchestra, and some two dozen other works for instrumental combinations such as harmonica and harp, harmonica and string quartet, and harmonica ensemble. He also arranged a lot of other music for harmonica, for example Irish, Scottish, English, and Norwegian folk melodies.
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Arthur MacArthur IV
#142990
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Arthur MacArthur IV is the only child of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and Jean MacArthur. He is also the grandson of Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur Jr. Early life Arthur MacArthur IV's early life was chronicled extensively in the press. His early childhood was spent around the penthouse built for his father atop the Manila Hotel. Arthur's father would play with him every morning before work. After the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, Arthur, his mother and his nanny were forced to relocate from the Manila Hotel as bombs fell nearby. They first joined Arthur's father on Cor...
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Tony Trischka
#118457
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Anthony Cattell Trischka is an American five-string banjo player. Sandra Brennan wrote of him in 2021: "One of the most influential modern banjoists, both in several forms of bluegrass music and occasionally in jazz and avant-garde, Tony Trischka has inspired a whole generation of progressive bluegrass musicians."
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Juraj Filas
#181130
Overall Influence
1955 - 2021 (66 years)
Juraj Filas was a Slovak composer. His work included more than 100 compositions: symphonies, cantatas, numerous compositions for chamber ensemble, as well as the prize-winning TV opera Memento Mori; a concerto grosso Copernicus; the opera Jane Eyre ; The Wisdom of the Wise Man, a cantata for choir, cello and organ; The Song of Solomon, a cantata for soli, choir and orchestra; and the requiem Oratio Spei, which was dedicated to the victims of terrorism.
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Eri Klas
#118268
Overall Influence
1939 - 2016 (77 years)
Eri Klas was an Estonian conductor. Klas was born into a Jewish family in Tallinn. His mother was pianist Anna Klas. His father, Eduard Klas, was killed in 1941, during the Holocaust. Klas mainly worked in the Nordic scene, but might be best remembered for his work leading the now defunct Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1999 to 2001 Klas was music advisor to the Israel Sinfonietta Beersheba, Israel.
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Michael Grossman
#121663
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Michael N. Grossman is an American film and television director. He has directed a number of episodes from dozens of different television series, including Grey's Anatomy and the backdoor pilot of its spin-off, Private Practice. His other directorial work includes the series Charmed, Zoey 101, Angel, The Invisible Man, Arli$$, Firefly, Star Trek: Enterprise, Earth 2, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Drop Dead Diva, Manhattan, AZ, One Tree Hill, Las Vegas, Eureka, Dirty Sexy Money, Nashville and Pretty Little Liars.
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Daniel Jones
#108889
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Daniel Jones is a British-born Australian musician, songwriter, record producer and real estate agent. He was a member of the Australian pop duo Savage Garden, whose international hit singles included "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", "Truly Madly Deeply", "I Knew I Loved You", and "Crash and Burn".
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Dmitry Petrov
#181472
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Dmitry Yuryevich Petrov is a Russian polyglot, simultaneous interpreter, lecturer, broadcaster, and teacher. He is a host of the reality show Polyglot on the TV channel Russia-K. Finished Translation School of Moscow State Linguistics University where he teaches, as of 2016, at the Department of Translation Studies and English Translation Practice. Since 2012 has his multilingual language school called Dmitry Petrov's Innovative Communication Linguistics Center that works using his 16 academic hour method Polyglot 16, implemented in eponymous course books and mobile applications.
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Frank Bungarten
#179802
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Frank Bungarten is a classical guitarist from Germany. Although he is often regarded as a Bach expert on the guitar, Bungarten plays a wide and diverse repertoire. Biography Born in Cologne, Bungarten first came in touch with the guitar aged ten. His first teacher was Paraguayan virtuoso Carlos Baez, then a temporary resident in the Rhineland. As a teenager he played in a school band. He had an early passion for jazz and taught himself tenor and soprano saxophone. Despite his later career as a classical musician, he has always regarded John Coltrane as one of his towering influences. Later he...
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Nelly Ben-Or
#178672
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Nelly Nechama Ben-Or Clynes is a concert pianist and professor of music. She is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the United Kingdom where she has taught the piano and the Alexander technique since 1975. Ben-Or is a Holocaust survivor.
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Hendrik Bouman
#173723
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Hendrik "Henk" Bouman is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th and 18th century. Biography In the late '70s, Hendrik Bouman studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory with several of the pioneers of the baroque revival, notably Ton Koopman and Lucie van Dael, and followed masterclasses, with Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Max van Egmond. He was principal harpsichordist of the baroque ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln from 1976 to 1983, with whom he toured worldwide under the auspices of the Goethe Instit...
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Noel DaCosta
#180710
Overall Influence
1929 - 2002 (73 years)
Noel G. Da Costa was a Nigerian-Jamaican composer, jazz violinist, and choral conductor. Early life and educational career Noel Da Costa was born on 24 December 1929 Lagos, Nigeria to parents from Kingston, Jamaica, who were Salvation Army missionaries. After returning to Jamaica while Da Costa was young, they emigrated to New York City, living in Harlem. It was here that he started violin lessons with Barnabas Istok at the age of 11. While in High School, he was inspired by one of his teachers to work in an artistic field.
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Dorothy Morton
#175362
Overall Influence
1924 - 2008 (84 years)
Libbie McCarthy [Macarty] Conger , better known publicly by her stage name Dorothy Morton, was an American stage actress and soprano who had an active career in mainly light operas and musical theatre from the 1880s until her retirement from the stage in 1918. She also occasionally appeared on the stage in grand opera roles like Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and Marguerite in Faust, and in vaudeville. She is best remembered for her work on Broadway; including creating the role of Cleopatra in Victor Herbert's The Wizard of the Nile and portraying the title role in the United States premier...
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Attila Grandpierre
#114666
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Attila Grandpierre is a Hungarian musician, astrophysicist, physicist, self-taught historian, writer and poet. He is best known as leader/vocalist of the Galloping Coroners rock band. Personal ideology From his childhood on he was very interested in dealing with the Sun and the cosmos. As an adult he is looking for the answer whether the Universe does have a physical, biological or psychological nature.
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Susanne Mentzer
#167814
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Susanne Mentzer is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. She is best known for singing trouser roles, such as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo, Octavian in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and the composer in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as other music of Mozart, Strauss, Rossini, Berlioz and Mahler.
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Ali Zare Ghanat Nowi
#173591
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Ali Zare Ghanatnowi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, translator, cinema teacher, graphic designer, cameraman, and film producer. An active film-maker from 2000, he had been involved in over twenty films, including animations, shorts, and documentaries. Zare attained critical acclaim for directing Empty View and Dad's Fragile Doll which was awarded the best animation of International Open Film Festival . His other film Empty View has won multiple international awards, including the best animation of Asians On Film . The music part in Empty View is made by Mohammadreza Aligholi. Em...
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Adrian Malone
#130302
Overall Influence
1937 - 2015 (78 years)
Hugh Adrian Malone was a British documentary filmmaker who produced and directed a number of documentaries, including The Ascent of Man , The Age of Uncertainty , and Cosmos: A Personal Voyage . Early life Malone was born in Bootle, near Liverpool, to Philip and Mary Malone. His parents were immigrants from Ireland and ran a fish-and-chip shop in Bootle. Malone quit his Jesuit school and did not go to university. However, he was an avid reader and developed knowledge of history, philosophy, music and art.
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Pía Sebastiani
#177258
Overall Influence
1925 - 2015 (90 years)
Olimpia Ana Pía Sebastiani was an Argentine pianist and composer. She studied under teachers such as Alfredo Pinto, Juan Fanelli, Georges de Lalewicz, in her hometown of Buenos Aires. In 1941, Sebastiani composed and performed a concert for piano and orchestra. She was a member of the Beethoven Conservatory. His piano concertos took her to some of the most important music halls in the world, such as Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall.
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Lina Pizzolongo
#179829
Overall Influence
1925 - 1991 (66 years)
Lina Pizzolongo was a Canadian vocal coach and concert pianist. She was married to baritone Louis Quilico and was the mother of two children Donna and Gino Quilico, also a baritone. Career She studied first at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, with Yvonne Hubert, then at the "École normale de musique" in Paris, with Alfred Cortot and Marguerite Long, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Carlo Zecchi. She performed as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra. She taught as an instructor first at the Montréal Conservator...
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Ben Knapen
#137899
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Hubertus Petrus Maria "Ben" Knapen is a Dutch historian and politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 24 September 2021 to 10 January 2022. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal , he previously was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2012 and parliamentary leader in the Senate from 2019 to 2021.
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Jay Joyce
#70745
Overall Influence
John Joseph "Jay" Joyce is an American record producer, songwriter and session musician. In the 1990s, Joyce, with Chris Feinstein and Brad Pemberton, recorded and toured as Iodine and began working as a record producer, working with artists such as The Wallflowers, Tim Finn, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, White Reaper, Lainey Wilson and Cage the Elephant. In the 2000s, Joyce began producing for Eric Church, Halestorm, Zac Brown Band, Brandy Clark, Amos Lee, Declan McKenna, Fidlar and Little Big Town. He has also played guitar for Crowded House, The Wallflowers, John Hiatt, Iggy Pop, Brendan B...
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Peter Bernstein
#155735
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Peter Andrew Bernstein is an American jazz guitarist. Biography Born in New York City on September 3, 1967, Bernstein began playing piano when he was eight but switched to guitar when he was thirteen, learning the instrument primarily by ear. He studied jazz at Rutgers University with Ted Dunbar, and Kenny Barron.
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Uwe Scholz
#101492
Overall Influence
1958 - 2004 (46 years)
Uwe Scholz was a German ballet dancer, director, and choreographer. Life Scholz was born in Jugenheim in Hesse, Germany on 31 December 1958, and moved as a child to the Landestheater Darmstadt for ballet and music training.
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Giuseppe Anedda
#181591
Overall Influence
1912 - 1997 (85 years)
Giuseppe Anneda was an Italian mandolin virtuoso who helped the mandolin gain more importance in the classical music world in the 20th Century. He performed with his instrument in concert halls around the world, including some where mandolin "had never entered", and taught at the Conservatory Pollini of Padua He also was able to gain access to manuscripts in museums, rediscovering works by Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Beethoven and many others.
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Horacio Gutiérrez
#162067
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Horacio Gutiérrez is a Cuban-American classical pianist known for his performances of works in the Romantic Repertoire. Early life and education When Fidel Castro gained control of Cuba in 1959, the family decided to leave the country.
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Guy Bovet
#164553
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Guy Bovet is a Swiss organist and composer. Career Bovet studied under Marie Dufour in Lausanne, Pierre Segond in Geneva and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. From 1979 to 1999 he taught Spanish organ music at the University of Salamanca, and since 1989 he has been Professor of Organ at the Musikhochschule in Basel, Switzerland. He has also been a visiting professor or taught masterclasses at numerous conservatories and institutions in Europe and North America, has authored some 1,400 published papers on the history of the organ, composed several works for organ and other instruments, and released...
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Gwendolyn Koldofsky
#148201
Overall Influence
1906 - 1998 (92 years)
Gwendolyn Koldofsky was a Canadian piano accompanist and music educator who became renowned in her field, a Professor Emerita at USC . Born Gwendolyn Williams in Bowmanville, Ontario, she studied piano with noted Danish piano teacherViggo Kihl in Toronto, with Tobias Matthay in London, as well as with Marguerite Hasselmans in Paris. She studied accompanying in London with Harold Craxton. In 1943, she married Adolph Koldofsky, a noted Canadian violinist born in London, England of Russian-Jewish parents. The pair lived in Toronto until 1944, moving to Vancouver and then to Los Angeles in 1945. ...
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Susan Rubin Suleiman
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Overall Influence
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Andy Hamilton
#171412
Overall Influence
1918 - 2012 (94 years)
Andy Raphael Thomas Hamilton, MBE was a Jamaican-born British jazz saxophonist and composer who migrated to the UK in 1949. He recorded his debut album in his early 70s. Biography Early years Hamilton was born in Port Maria, Jamaica, and learnt to play saxophone on a bamboo instrument. He formed his first band in 1928 with friends who played oil drums and Hamilton a bamboo sax, influenced by American musicians such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie and by the Kingston-based bands of Redver Cook and Roy Coburn.
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Minami Takahashi
#169502
Overall Influence
1990 - Present (36 years)
is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Haikyō. Her major roles include Megumi Tadokoro in Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma, Midoriko in Selector Infected Wixoss, Ojou in Please Tell Me! Galko-chan, Lucoa in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Saturn in Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls and Beatrix in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead.
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Ljiljana Vukajlović
#154033
Overall Influence
Ljiljana Vukajlović is a Serbian pianist and accompanist. Education She graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy, where she also completed her postgraduate studies in Piano Performance as a student of Professor Olga Mihajlović.
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Mano
#137303
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Nagoor Saheb, known by his stage name Mano, is an Indian playback singer, voice-over artist, actor, and composer. Mano has recorded more than 35,000+ songs for film and private various Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Tulu, Konkani and Assamese films. He has also performed for over 3000 live concerts across the continents. He has recorded many songs for music director Ilaiyaraaja. Mano is also recognized for being as the full-fledged dubbing artist for Rajinikanth in Telugu from Muthu onwards.
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Duncan McMillan
#183912
Overall Influence
1914 - 1993 (79 years)
Duncan McMillan was a British linguist and philologist. He was John Orr Professor of French Language and Romance Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and a founder of Société Internationale Rencesvals. McMillan was a winner of Rothschild Prize.
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Andrea Een
#119583
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Andrea Een is a violinist, violist, Hardanger fiddler, poet, and Professor Emerita of Music at St. Olaf College. Career Een is a founding member of the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America. In 2002, she was awarded St. Olav's Medal by H.M. Harald V of Norway for helping to reintroduce the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle tradition to the United States. She received the Ole Bull Award, from the eponymous academy in Voss, Norway, in 1987, and was accredited as a Master Folk Artist Teacher by the Minnesota State Arts Board in 1998.
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Peter Walker
#178492
Overall Influence
1927 - Present (99 years)
Peter Thomas Walker is an American film, stage and television actor. Born in Mineola, New York. He appeared in over 30 films and television programs, and was known for his appearance as Sam in the anthology television series The Twilight Zone in the episode "A World of Difference". Walker was also a performer at the Avondale Playhouse. He later worked as a photographer and sculptor.
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Yuri Simonov
#142331
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Yuri Ivanovich Simonov is a Russian conductor. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory under Nikolai Rabinovich, and was later an assistant conductor to Yevgeny Mravinsky with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Robert Langevin
#172279
Overall Influence
Robert Langevin is a Canadian flautist. He has been principal flautist of the New York Philharmonic since 2000 and is a former principal flautist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He was associate principal flautist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for 13 years and can be heard on more than 30 recordings with that orchestra. He is a former faculty member of Duquesne University and the Université de Montréal. He currently serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music.
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Ayşegül Sarıca
#171798
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Ayşegül Sarıca was a Turkish concert pianist, pedagogue. Life Ayşegül Sarıca was born into an Ottoman military family in Istanbul, Turkey in 1935. Ahmet İzzet Pasha , one of the last Ottoman grand viziers was her maternal grandfather. In 1955, she married Nejat Diyarbekirli and gave birth to a son named Osman and a daughter Zeynep.
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Gary Sherman
#133226
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Gary Sherman is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer from Chicago, Illinois. He is best known for his prolific work in the horror film genre, directing films such as Death Line, Dead & Buried, and Poltergeist III.
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Julian Patrick
#175737
Overall Influence
1927 - 2009 (82 years)
Julian Patrick was an American operatic baritone and voice teacher. Born in Mississippi, Patrick grew up in Birmingham, Alabama where he was a member of the Apollo Boys Choir. After graduating from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, he began his professional career as a musical theatre performer in the 1950s; appearing in the original Broadway productions of The Golden Apple , Bells Are Ringing , Juno , Once Upon a Mattress , and Fiorello! . He also studied singing privately in New York City with Cornelius L. Reid.
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Mahfuz Ullah
#170373
Overall Influence
1950 - 2019 (69 years)
Mahfuz Ullah was a Bangladeshi writer, journalist, television personality and environmentalist. He was notable for environmental journalism in Bangladesh. He was the founder Secretary General of the Center for Sustainable Development.
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Marilyn McCoo
#141656
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group the 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music television show Solid Gold.
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Paula Robison
#138840
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Paula Robison is a flute soloist and teacher. Early life and education Paula Robison was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of David V. and Naomi Robison, an actor. David Robison was a playwright and writer for film and television. Her paternal grandmother was a piano teacher, her maternal uncle the playwright Jerome Lawrence, and there were other musicians and dancers in the family. David studied in Vienna, and upon his return joined the faculty of Fisk University. There the family met the singer Paul Robeson, who became Paula's godfather.
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Peanut Butter Wolf
#101365
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Christopher George Manak , better known by his stage name Peanut Butter Wolf, is an American disc jockey and record producer from San Jose, California. He is based in Los Angeles, where he moved to in 2000. He is the founder of Stones Throw Records.
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Violeta Dinescu
#132653
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Violeta Dinescu is a Romanian composer, pianist and academic teacher, living in Germany since 1982. Romania Born in Bucharest, Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory "Ciprian Porumbescu" in Bucharest, composition with Myriam Marbe. In 1978 she received her master's degree with distinction. She also received diplomas in the fields of Composition, Piano and Pedagogics. She started teaching at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest, conducting courses in Music history, Aesthetics, Counterpoint, Harmony and Piano. In 1980 she joined the Romanian Composers Union.
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Francisco Feliciano
#168997
Overall Influence
1941 - 2014 (73 years)
Francisco Francisco Feliciano was a Filipino composer and conductor. He was a National Artist of the Philippines for Music. Life Feliciano was born on 19 February 1941, in Morong, Rizal. Francisco Feliciano graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Teacher's diploma in Music and a Masters in Music degree in Composition . In 1977, he went to the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin, Germany to obtain a diploma in Music Composition. In 1979 he attended Yale University School of Music and graduated with a Master of Musical Arts and a Doctorate in Musical Arts, Composition. While at Ya...
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Arthur Adams
#172579
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Arthur Adams is an American blues guitarist from Medon, Tennessee. Inspired by B.B. King and other 1950s artists, he played gospel music before attending college. He moved to Los Angeles, and during the 1960s and 1970s he released solo albums and worked as a session musician. In 1985 he was tapped to tour on bass guitar with Nina Simone, and he staged a comeback in the 1990s when he released Back on Track, and became a respected Chicago blues player and bandleader in B.B. King's clubs.
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