The Most Influential People Across History

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#10251

Chris E. Vargas

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Overall Influence
Chris E. Vargas is an artist and video maker whose work explores the ways that queer and trans people negotiate institutions and popular culture. Vargas is the founder of the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art , a project that blurs artist and curatorial practice. MOTHA has no permanent space, instead it has been presented at venues such as the Henry Art Gallery, Cooper Union, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Hammer Museum. Vargas videos have screened at SFMOMA, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MIX NYC, Palais de Tokyo, Outfest, amongst other venues.
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Brandee Younger

#170460
Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
Brandee Younger is an American harpist. Younger infuses classical, jazz, soul, and funk influences to the harp tradition pioneered by her predecessors and idols Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Younger leads her own ensemble, performs as a soloist and has worked as a sideman for such musicians as Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Bill Lee and Reggie Workman, and other popular artists including Lauryn Hill, John Legend , Common , Ryan Leslie, Drake, Maxwell, The Roots, Moses Sumney and Salaam Remi. Younger is noted for her work with saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, who was featured on her 2019 release, Soul Awakening.
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#10253

Évelyne Crochet

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Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Évelyne Crochet is a Franco-American classical pianist. Biography Crochet was born in Paris, where she studied piano with Yvonne Lefébure and Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire de Paris. She also worked with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, Pierre Pasquier, Pierre Petit, Norbert Dufourcq. In 1953, she won first prize at the Conservatoire. She continued her piano studies with Edwin Fischer and Rudolf Serkin. At the international competition in Geneva in 1956, she won the first prize, and was among the winners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. In Bern, Rudolf Serkin heard her playing and invited her to follow his masterclasses.
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#10254

Ann Magnuson

Ann Magnuson
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer. She was described by The New York Times in 1990 as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does".
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#10255

Herbert Blendinger

#178946
Overall Influence
1936 - 2020 (84 years)
Herbert Blendinger was an Austrian composer and viola player of German origin. Career Born in Ansbach, Blendinger studied viola and composition with Willy Horwath and Max Gebhard at the conservatory in Nuremberg, then from 1961 to 1963 at the Musikhochschule München with Georg Schmid and Franz Xaver Lehner. As a composer, he was inspired also by Paul Hindemith.
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#10256

Dominic Seldis

#181027
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Dominic Seldis is a British double bass soloist and principal double bass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Biography Dominic Max Seldis is the second son of Raymond Max Seldis by his marriage to Lynda Holmes.
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#10257

Avner Faingulernt

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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Avner Faingulernt is an Israeli independent filmmaker. He is Professor and the dean of the Faculty of Arts, Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv. He was chair of the School of Audio & Visual Arts, Sapir Academic College, founder of Cinema South Festival in Sderot, chief editor of the annual "Cinema South Notebooks" and "Cinema South The Curator Book". Faingulernt was also a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York, the University of Haifa, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and at Filmakademie Baden Württemberg. He is an educator and a peace activist.
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#10258

Suha Arın

#174892
Overall Influence
1942 - 2004 (62 years)
Mustafa Suha Arın was a Turkish film directorrector, writer, producer and educator. He was born in Balikesir, Turkey. He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. In 1965, he went to USA to receive his license degree on film directing from Howard University and his master's degree on mass communication from the American University. He also worked as a translating speaker and interviewer at the Voice of America Radio, and as the Washington DC reporter of Turkish Radio and Television. He returned to Turkey in 1974.
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#10259

Michael F. Robinson

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Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Michael Finlay Robinson is an English composer, musicologist, and academic. His scholarly work focuses on opera of the 17th and 18th centuries; and in particular the development of Italian opera during the 1700s. His publications include the books Naples and Neapolitan Opera , Opera Before Mozart , and A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Giovanni Paisiello . He also contributed to several collaborative works, including Research Chronicle of the Royal Musical Association , The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna , and to several music journals like ...
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Sergiu Nicolaescu

#170618
Overall Influence
1930 - 2013 (83 years)
Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu was a Romanian film director, actor and politician. He was best known for his historical films, such as Mihai Viteazul , Dacii , Războiul Independenței , as well as for his series of thrillerss that take place in the interwar Kingdom of Romania, such as Un comisar acuză . Joanna Pacuła starred in his film Ultima noapte de dragoste in 1980 before eventually emigrating to the United States, where he went on to a very successful career.
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#10261

Paul-Heinz Dittrich

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Overall Influence
1930 - 2020 (90 years)
Paul-Heinz Dittrich was a German composer and academic teacher. Based in East Berlin, he focused on chamber music, with many works inspired by poetry. His works were performed earlier in the West than in the East. He was an influential composer of contemporary music in Germany who taught internationally, including in the United States, Israel, and Korea.
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#10262

Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk

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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk is a composer and musicologist who was born in Poznań, Poland. She studied composition with Florian Dąbrowski at the Poznań Academy of Music, graduating in 1969. She finished her postgraduate studies in library and information science in 1974; two years later she received a doctorate at the Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She studied electronic music for three months in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1981, and in Oxford, England.
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#10263

Hanna Ludwig

#181243
Overall Influence
1918 - 2014 (96 years)
Hanna Ludwig was a German contralto and mezzo-soprano and an academic voice teacher. She participated in several roles at the first Bayreuth Festival after World War II and performed leading roles at major European opera houses, such as the title role of Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera. She toured the world as a lieder singer. After retiring from the stage she turned to teaching in Ankara and, from 1971, at the Mozarteum.
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#10264

Johannes Moser

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Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Johannes Moser is a German-Canadian cellist who has played with leading orchestras internationally. Life and career Born in Munich, Moser studied the cello from age eight, and became a student of David Geringas in 1997. He has performed with leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, Philadelphia and Cleveland ...
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Mark White

Mark White
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Mark White is an American bass player, best known as the former bassist for the rock band Spin Doctors. He has collaborated with many musical groups, including America's Got Talent finalists The Robotix, The Heavy Pets, Eight53, and the Free World Jazz Ensemble. As a songwriter and bass player, he also has been an active teacher in several high-profile rock and jazz schools, such as the Rockin' Robin Music Center in Houston, Texas. White has also been an outspoken advocate for atheist rights, and was a keynote speaker at the American Atheists National Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah in 201...
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Robert Turner

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Overall Influence
1920 - 2012 (92 years)
Robert Comrie Turner, was a Canadian composer, radio producer, and music educator. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from McGill University in 1943. While there he studied with Douglas Clarke and Claude Champagne. He continued his studies briefly at Colorado College in 1947, where he met his wife, percussionist Sara Scott. They married in 1949. In 1947, Turner transferred to Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he studied with Roy Harris. He graduated in 1950 with a master's degree. During this time, Turner spent two summers studying with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jac...
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Henry Marsh

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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Ian Henry Murray Marsh is an English musician and composer, best known as a member of the pop group Sailor. Marsh was born in Bath, Somerset. He was educated at Sherborne School and New College, Oxford.
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#10268

Shirish Korde

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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Shirish Korde , is a Ugandan composer of Indian ancestry. He is the Chair of the Music Department at the College of the Holy Cross and has previously been on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music, the New England Conservatory, and Brown University. Korde studied jazz and composition at the Berklee College of Music, analysis and composition at the New England Conservatory, and ethnomusicology at Brown University.
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#10269

Javier Torres Maldonado

#175138
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Javier Torres Maldonado is a Mexican composer internationally recognized for, mostly, his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works. Biography Born in Chetumal , José Javier Torres Maldonado studied violin and composition at the Mexico City Conservatory and later, invited by Franco Donatoni, composition at the “G. Verdi” Milan Conservatory, under the supervision of Sandro Gorli and Alessandro Solbiati; he completed his postgraduate studies under Franco Donatoni, Azio Corghi and Ivan Fedele . In 2003, he earned a diploma from the G. Verdi Conservatory for his work in electronic mu...
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#10270

Alfred Prinz

#184584
Overall Influence
1930 - 2014 (84 years)
Alfred Prinz was an Austrian composer, clarinetist, and music educator. In 1947 he was awarded a gold medal at the Geneva Music Competition and in 1971 he won a composition award from the city of Vienna. His compositional output includes 7 symphonies, many concertos, several works for solo piano, songs, and chamber music. In 1998 his Fünf Goethe-Lieder were premiered by soprano Caroline Dowd-Higgins for whom Prinz had composed the pieces. As a concert clarinetist, he performed as a soloist with orchestras throughout the world and performed in concerts of chamber music internationally. He rec...
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#10271

Lin Hsin Hsin

#166249
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Lin Hsin Hsin is an IT inventor, artist, poet and composer from Singapore, deeply rooted in mathematics and information technology. Early life and education Lin was born in Singapore. She graduated in mathematics from the University of Singapore and received a postgraduate degree in computer science from Newcastle University, England. She studied music and art in Singapore, printmaking at the University of Ulster, papermaking in Ogawamachi, Japan and paper conservation at the University of Melbourne Conservation Services.
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#10272

Wayne Jackson

#176081
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Wayne Jackson is an English singer, songwriter and producer, who lives in Berlin. Biography Born and raised in Manchester, Jackson now resides in Berlin. He studied English literature in Wales and has a degree. In addition to his interest in football he has trained extensively in kick boxing, participating in the German national championships. He was the founder of the British band The Dostoyevskys who split up in the late 1990s. Before splitting, they were the support-act for Oasis on two of their tours. In 2005 Jackson co-wrote and appeared as featured vocalist and musician on Paul van Dy...
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#10273

Gareth Walters

#179994
Overall Influence
1928 - 2012 (84 years)
Gareth Walters was a Welsh composer, teacher and producer. Biography Gareth Walters was born on 27 December 1928 in Swansea, South Wales, and completed his early education there. As a schoolboy he began to compose, and he received early encouragement from the famous British composer, conductor and pianist Benjamin Britten, who was a frequent guest at his family home. The composer's visits were related to his preparations for the first recording of A Ceremony of Carols, for which Walters's father, the conductor Irwyn Ranald Walters, had suggested a local boys’ choir in Morriston.
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#10274

Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom Jr.
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Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Leslie Lloyd Odom Jr. is an American actor and singer. He made his acting debut on Broadway in 1998 and first gained recognition for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the musical Hamilton, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in the same year. His performance was captured in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Limited Series or Movie nomination.
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#10275

Bernt Petersen

#136170
Overall Influence
1937 - 2017 (80 years)
Bernt Petersen , often known simply as Bernt, was a Danish furniture designer. Trained as a cabinetmaker , he attended Denmark's Design School, graduating in 1960. He then worked for Molibia and Hans J. Wegner before opening his own studio in 1963. He taught at Denmark's Design School and was lector at the Royal Danish Academy's Furniture School . Bernt's furniture designs were mainly in light wood such as ash and beech. Some of his pieces have been used in theaters and concert halls in towns throughout Denmark. Petersen was recognized for his simple style which is suitable for industrial production.
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#10276

Laurence Traiger

#174487
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Laurence Traiger is an American composer. Originally from Bellmore, Long Island, New York, he has studied and worked in Europe since 1976. At age 11 he composed duos for violin; at age 14 he took lessons in harmony, counterpoint and composition from his violin instructor, William Cosgriff, and at 16 had a work performed at the Hartt School of Music. In 1974 he graduated from John F. Kennedy High School where he studied under Barry A. Beeber and performed with the Long Island Youth Orchestra. He received a scholarship from the University of Kansas, studying composition under Prof. John Pozdro.
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#10277

Francesco Benozzo

Francesco Benozzo
#131754
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Francesco Benozzo is an Italian poet, musician and philologist. He works as a Research Fellow in Philology at the University of Bologna, Italy. Biographical notes PoetryAuthor of long epic poems about natural landscapes, Benozzo usually composes them orally and then performs them with his harp and La capanna del naufrago / The Castaway's Shack [2017]. Since 2015 he has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry in defence of natural places and for his use of techniques belonging to the ancient tradition of oral poetry. In 2016, on the official webpage of the Swedish Acad...
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#10278

John Russell

John Russell
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Overall Influence
1954 - 2021 (67 years)
John Russell was an acoustic guitarist who worked in free improvisation beginning in the 1970s. He promoted concerts and appeared on more than 50 recordings. Career Russell was born in Battersea and grew up in Ruckinge, Kent. His grandfather gave him his first guitar at the age of eleven. A fan of blues, Russell taught himself guitar in school and started a band. At seventeen he moved to London and began playing at the Little Theatre Club run by drummer John Stevens, becoming a member of the Musicians' Co-op and organizing concerts. In 1975, he helped start the journal Musics. For a year Russell received weekly lessons in conventional technique from Derek Bailey.
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#10279

David Proud

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Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
David Proud is an English actor, writer and producer. He was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. Proud has received critical praise for his comic acting ability in many popular series. Proud was named in the Shaw Trust Power 100 as one of the 100 most influential people with a disability for 2015, 2018, and 2019.
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John Hayes

#179567
Overall Influence
1930 - 2000 (70 years)
John Patrick Hayes was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career as a screenwriter, writing 1959's The Kiss, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film. Hayes is best known for directing low-budget B-movie features and later, exploitation films.
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#10281

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

#180713
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a Norwegian researcher and musician. He is Professor of music technology and was Head of the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo during the period 2013-2016. He is currently Deputy Director of RITMO - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo, and serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for NIME, the International Conference in New Interfaces for Musical Expression. He is the grandson of politician Marie Borge Refsum.
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#10282

Marilyn Tyler

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Overall Influence
1926 - 2017 (91 years)
Marilyn Tyler was an American soprano and music pedagogue. Of Romanian Jewish descent, Tyler was born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that contained many performers, including singers, dancers, musicians, actors and clowns. She studied music at the Manhattan School of Music, and was twice a recipient of Fulbright Scholarships.
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#10283

George Balch Wilson

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Overall Influence
1927 - Present (99 years)
George Balch Wilson was an American composer who is known for his contributions to electronic music. In 1955 he won the Prix de Rome for composition. He taught for more than 30 years on the faculty of the University of Michigan where he founded and directed the school's electronic music studio. Upon his retirement he was made a professor emeritus.
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#10284

Joe Thomas

Joe Thomas
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Overall Influence
1933 - 2017 (84 years)
Joseph Samuel Thomas was an American jazz flutist and occasional saxophonist. Biography As a child, Thomas learned to play alto and soprano saxophone, trombone, flute and piano, and also taught himself how to write music. Encouraged by his older brother, he began performing in clubs from the age of fifteen and was noticed by James Moody. After enlisting in the United States Army he received a Purple Heart during combat in the Korean War he returned to the US and performed with Specks Williams and joined Rhoda Scott's Trio in the early 1960s.
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#10285

Béla Síki

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Overall Influence
1923 - 2020 (97 years)
Béla Síki was a Hungarian pianist. Career He was born in Hungary, where he was a student in Budapest of Leo Weiner and Ernest von Dohnányi at the Franz Liszt Music Academy. He moved to Switzerland in 1945, where he studied with Dinu Lipatti and won the 1948 Geneva Competition. His international solo career led him to perform on all five continents with distinguished conductors and orchestras.
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#10286

Karen Finch

Karen Finch
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Overall Influence
1921 - 2018 (97 years)
Karen Solveig Sinding Møller Finch was a Danish-born British master weaver, conservator and educator who was the founder of the Textile Conservation Centre. Life Karen Finch was born in May 1921 on a farm in Rødding in Denmark to Soren Møller and Ellen Sinding. She left the farm to study art in Copenhagen under Gerda Henning and Kaare Klint. She witnessed the occupation of her country and moved to England after she married Norman Finch in 1946.
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#10287

Ruby Turner

Ruby Turner
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Francella Ruby Turner MBE is a British Jamaican R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and actress. In a music career spanning more than 30 years, Turner is best known for her album and single releases in Europe and North America. She is also known for her work as a session backing vocalist, with artists including Bryan Ferry, UB40, Steel Pulse, Steve Winwood, Jools Holland, and Mick Jagger. She has also written songs that have been covered by musicians including Lulu, Yazz and Maxi Priest.
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#10288

Hezekiah Walker

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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Bishop Hezekiah Walker is a popular American gospel music singer and artist and pastor of prominent Brooklyn New York Pentecostal megachurch, Love Fellowship Tabernacle. Walker has released several albums on Benson Records and Verity Records as Hezekiah Walker & The Love Fellowship Crusade Choir.
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#10289

Paul Rapoport

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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Paul Rapoport is a Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Biography Rapoport was born in 1948 in Toronto, Ontario. He received his bachelor's degree in linguistics and music at the University of Michigan in 1970 and his master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972 with a thesis on Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony. He went on to gain a doctorate at the same university in 1975, with a dissertation about Vagn Holmboe's four Symphonic Metamorphoses.
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#10290

R. Winston Morris

R. Winston Morris
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Ralph Winston Morris is an American tubist. He served as professor of tuba and euphonium at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, Tennessee, for 55 years, and subsequent to his retirement after the 2021-2022 academic year, was named Professor Emeritus of Tuba and Euphonium. Morris is editor of The Tuba Source Book and the Euphonium Source Book.
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#10291

James Thomas

#170485
Overall Influence
1926 - 1993 (67 years)
James "Son Ford" Thomas was an American Delta blues musician, gravedigger and sculptor from Leland, Mississippi. Biography Thomas was born in Eden, Mississippi on October 14, 1926. While working in the fields, he began listening to blues on the radio. As a self-taught guitarist, he learned to play songs from older blues guitarists Elmore Davis and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. He then worked as a gravedigger in Washington County.
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#10292

David Lumsden

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Overall Influence
1928 - Present (98 years)
Sir David James Lumsden was a British musical educator, conservatoire-chief, conductor, choirmaster, organist and harpsichordist. After studying music at Cambridge he was a church organist, and later an academic. He was principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow from 1976 to 1982 and of the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1982 to 1993.
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#10293

David Field

David Field
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
David Field is an Australian character actor and film director who has appeared in numerous film and television roles, including Chopper, Two Hands and Gettin' Square. In 2009, Field made his directorial debut with The Combination. He is also known for his role in advertisements for Oak as part of the Hungry/Thirsty campaign and as the ex prison inmate uncle in the mini series A Moody Christmas. Field is an amateur organist and gave some recitals in Sydney at a young age. He featured in The Australian Organist of December 1997.
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#10294

Alessandro Agostinelli

Alessandro Agostinelli
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Alessandro Agostinelli is an Italian writer, journalist and poet. Alessandro Agostinelli is an Italian writer, journalist and poet. Early life Born in Follonica, he obtained a Ph.D. in "history of visual arts and show business".
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#10295

Sarah Jeffrey

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Overall Influence
Sarah Jeffrey is a Canadian oboist and teacher. Jeffrey is Principal Oboe with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and has performed as a chamber musician with Trio Arkel and Amici Chamber Ensemble. She is a faculty member at the University of Toronto, and The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music.
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#10296

Jascha Brodsky

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Overall Influence
1907 - 1997 (90 years)
Jascha Brodsky was a Russian-American violinist and teacher. Born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire , he began his violin studies with his violinist father at the age of six. He later studied at the conservatory in Tbilisi, Georgia, and by 1926, was performing successfully all over the Soviet Union. That same year, he went to Paris to study with Lucien Capet. There he also played for Sergei Prokofiev and performed with pianist Vladimir Horowitz and violinists Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman.
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#10297

Friedrich Schenker

Friedrich Schenker
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Overall Influence
1942 - 2013 (71 years)
Friedrich Schenker was a German avant-garde composer and trombone player. Life Born in the German town of Zeulenroda, Schenker learned trombone and piano as a child and made his first compositional attempts at the age of 10.
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#10298

Ken Schaphorst

#181246
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Ken Schaphorst is a composer, performer, and educator. Career Before moving to Boston in 2001, Schaphorst served as Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin for ten years. Schaphorst is also a founding member of the Jazz Composers Alliance, a Boston-based non-profit corporation promoting new music in the jazz idiom since 1985.
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Mike Jones

Mike Jones
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Mike Jones is an American jazz pianist who works with Penn and Teller in Las Vegas. Career Jones performed professionally at the age of ten. Following the advice of Oscar Peterson, he attended Berklee School of Music in Boston. While attending the school he started work as a studio musician. During his time commuting from Boston to New York, Jones worked as the on-air pianist and music director of the Nancy Merrill Show. He appeared throughout New England with jazz musicians Herb Pomeroy, Gray Sargent, and Dick Johnson. In 1994 Chiaroscuro released his debut solo album Oh, Look at Me Now, f...
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#10300

Marcia Haufrecht

#171256
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Marcia Haufrecht is an American actress, playwright and director, as well as a noted acting teacher and coach. A life member of The Actors Studio, and a longtime member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre, she is also the founder and artistic director of the Off-Off-Broadway company , The Common Basis Theatre .
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