American outsider musicians

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.

American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer

American guitarist

American actor

American musician and painter (1941-2010)

American actor, singer and drag queen (1945–1988)

American soprano, renowned for her lack of musical skill and singing ability (1868–1944)

American punk rock band

American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments

American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)

American musician (1961–2019)

American YouTube personality

attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan (born 1955)

American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)

American singer and guitarist (born 1954)

American singer and musician (1932–1996)

Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child, and Latin American music. His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music, in particular American composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

American musical group

Canadian-American musician (1946–1999)

American musician, singer, and songwriter (born 1978)

actress, singer (1918-1984)

American singer and guitarist (1947–2019)

American rapper from California (born 1989)

American composer (1876-1971)

American musician and artist (1963–2003)

American musician who pioneered lo-fi/DIY music

American songwriter and recording artist (1908–1995)

American musician (1944-2011)

Jandek is the musical project of Sterling Smith (born October 26, 1945), a Houston, Texas-based American lo-fi folk singer. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 120 albums while granting an interview extremely rarely and providing no biographical information, releasing on a self-made label, "Corwood Industries". Jandek often plays an idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk and blues music, frequently using an open and unconventional chord structure. AllMusic has described Jandek as "the most enigmatic figure in American music."

American singer

American band

American folk singer-songwriter, cartoonist and painter

American singer (1937–2009)

American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1937-2005)

American actress (1885–1973)

American singer (1907-1997)

American musician and visual artist (born 1944)

American musician

American woman rapper from Iowa

American musician, artist and preacher (1900–1980)

American composer (1923-1957)

American rapper and actor

American composer (1924-2004)

singer

American singer