List: English-language singers

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•  Aaliyah

  Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah, was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. At an early age, she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. At age 12, Aaliyah was signed to Jive Records and Blackground Records by her uncle, Barry Hankerson. He introduced her to R.

  

  31.0%
  

  29.8%
  

  39.3%
  
•  Britney Spears

  Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, author and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The All New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. In 1997, Spears signed a recording contract with Jive, releasing her debut album ... Baby One More Time in 1999.

  

  25.6%
  

  27.5%
  

  46.9%
  
•  Bing Crosby

  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was a popular American singer and actor whose career stretched over more than half a century from 1926 until his death. Crosby was the best-selling recording artist until well into the rock era, with over half a billion records in circulation. One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses.

  

  27.4%
  

  28.9%
  

  43.7%
  
•  Elvis Presley

  Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American musician and actor. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13.

  

  30.5%
  

  40.0%
  

  29.5%
  
•  Fleetwood Mac

  Fleetwood Macare a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London. The only member present in the band from the very beginning is its namesake drummer, Mick Fleetwood.

  

  34.7%
  

  26.7%
  

  38.7%
  
•  George Harrison

  George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience.

  

  48.4%
  

  23.4%
  

  28.1%
  
•  John Lennon

  John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history".

  

  41.5%
  

  26.4%
  

  32.1%
  
•  Jennifer Lopez

  Jennifer Lynn Lopez (bornJuly 24, 1969), often nicknamed J. Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in the U.S. according to People en Español's list of "100 Most Influential Hispanics". Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color.

  

  38.4%
  

  26.7%
  

  34.8%
  
•  Kim Milford

  Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer. best known for his acting in musicals such as The Rocky Horror Show and Jesus Christ Superstar.

  

  36.4%
  

  36.4%
  

  27.3%
  
•  Mariah Carey

  Mariah Carey é uma cantora, compositora, produtora musical, e atriz norte-americana. Fez sua estréia no mundo da música em 1990.

  

  35.5%
  

  24.2%
  

  40.3%
  
•  Natacha Atlas

  Natacha Atlas is a Belgian singer of Moroccan Jewish, English and Egyptian origin, known for her fusion of Arabic and Western electronic music, particularly hip-hop. She once termed her music "cha'abi moderne" (modern popular music). Her music has been influenced by many styles including Arabesque music, drum 'n' bass and reggae.

  

  24.4%
  

  43.9%
  

  31.7%
  
•  Paula Abdul

  Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American pop singer, record producer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality. In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of Pop-R&B hits in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her for fifth among the female solo performers who have reached #1 there.

  

  21.2%
  

  36.5%
  

  42.3%
  
•  Tori Amos

  Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963 in Newton, North Carolina) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument.

  

  30.4%
  

  30.4%
  

  39.1%
  
•  Whitney Houston

  Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American singer, actress, and former fashion model. A relative of several prominent soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing at her New Jersey church as a member of a junior gospel choir at age eleven.

  

  28.2%
  

  30.8%
  

  41.0%
  
•  Robbie Williams

  Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974, Stoke-on-Trent) is a multi-BRIT Award-winning English singer, songwriter, actor, and musician. His career started in 1990, at the age of 16, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. Williams left the group in 1995, after many disagreements with the management and certain group members, to launch his solo career.

  

  25.9%
  

  29.3%
  

  44.8%
  
•  Nelly Furtado

  Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is aCanadiansinger-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold 20 million albums worldwide. Furtado grew up in Victoria, BC, Canada, and currently resides in Toronto. Furtado came to fame in 2000 with the release of her debut album Whoa, Nelly!, which featured her breakthrough Grammy Award-winning single "I'm Like a Bird".

  

  27.3%
  

  27.3%
  

  45.5%
  
•  Billy Joel

  William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949 in The Bronx, New York) is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA. Joel had Top 10 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and has 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote singlehandedly.

  

  43.8%
  

  43.8%
  

  12.5%
  
•  Billie Holiday

  Billie Holiday (born Elinore Harris; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired all over the world for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing.

  

  66.7%
  

  11.1%
  

  22.2%
  
•  Joan Baez

  Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato, and her recordings have included topical songs and material dealing with social issues. Baez began her career performing in coffeehouses in the Boston-Cambridge area, and rose to fame as an unbilled performer at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. She began her recording career in 1960, and achieved immediate success.

  

  12.5%
  

  50.0%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Cliff Richard

  Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an Indian born English singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts in 1963. John Lennon once claimed that "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music."... - The Times. Nov 30th 2005.

  

  14.3%
  

  57.1%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Tina Arena

  Tina Arena (born 1 November 1967) is an Italian-Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist. She has sold approximately eight million records worldwide to date.

  

  33.3%
  

  66.7%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Barry White

  Barry White (September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003) was an American record producer and singer-songwriter. A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his rich bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with his Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring hit soul funk, and disco songs. Worldwide, White had many gold and platinum albums and singles, with combined sales of over 100 million, according to critics Ed Hogan and Wade Kergan.

  

  45.5%
  

  9.1%
  

  45.5%
  
•  Fiona Apple

  Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She gained popularity through her 1996 debut album Tidal, especially with the Grammy Award-winning single "Criminal" and its music video. Her music is influenced by everything from early jazz, pop, to alt-rock. It is also characterized by Apple's candid personal lyrics and imaginative productions, often featuring idiosyncratic arrangements with instruments as varied as the french horn and optigan.

  

  27.1%
  

  27.1%
  

  45.8%
  
•  Alicia Keys

  Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began to play classical music on the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. She later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career.

  

  38.7%
  

  32.3%
  

  29.0%
  
•  Janet Jackson

  Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her family beginning at the age of seven, and later started her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976.

  

  11.8%
  

  35.3%
  

  52.9%