Skip to content
Category

American percussionists

page 1
Fred Astaire
American dancer, actor, and singer (1899–1987)
Josh Dun
American musician
Randy Jackson (Jacksons singer)
Steven Randall Jackson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is the ninth child in the Jackson family. Randy is the youngest Jackson brother and the second-youngest Jackson sibling before his sister Janet. Randy is a former member of his family band the Jacksons, which he joined after his brother Jermaine left the group. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his work on the 1980 studio album Triumph.
Philip Bailey
American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor
Saul Williams
American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor
Alison Mosshart
American musician
Cal Tjader
American vibraphonist (1925–1982)
Troy Van Leeuwen
American musician and record producer
Danielle Brisebois
American producer, singer-songwriter and former child actress
Ruth Underwood
American musician
Z'EV
'''Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser''', February 8, 1951 – December 16, 2017) was an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of independent and underground record labels. He is regarded as a pioneer of industrial music.
Poncho Sanchez
American musician
Parry Gripp
American singer-songwriter
Vicki Randle
American musician
Ed Benguiat
American typographer (1927–2020)
Hamilton Bohannon
American drummer, band leader, percussionist, record producer and songwriter (1942–2020)
David Choi
Korean-American musician and YouTube video producer
Art Tripp
American musician
Germaine Franco
American film composer
Jack Conte
American musician and entrepreneur
Ray Sawyer
American singer (1937-2018)
Martin Denny
American pianist and composer best known for originating the Exotica genre of music (1911–2005)
Glen Velez
American musician
Giovanni Hidalgo
Puerto Rican percussionist and music educator
Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez
American musician
Ches Smith
American musician
Vito Fossella
American politician
Cyril Neville
American musician
Warren Benson
American composer (1924–2005)
Hamid Drake
American musician
Michael Carabello
American percussionist
Joe Plummer
American musician
Klayton
Klayton (born Scott David Albert; June 17, 1969) is an American multi-instrumentalist and singer based in Los Angeles, California. He has led several electronic/industrial bands and has performed under a variety of stage names since the early 1990s. His current projects are Celldweller, Scandroid, Circle of Dust and FreqGen.
Billy Martin
American jazz drummer
Dave Samuels
American musician (1948–2019)
Tyshawn Sorey
American composer and multi-instrumentalist
Meytal Cohen
Israeli-American drummer
Marcus Malone
American musician
Andrea Centazzo
Italian musician
John Bergamo
American composer (1940-2013)
Murray Spivack
sound engineer (1903-1994)
David Van Tieghem
American musician and composer
Robert Prince
American composer (1929-2007)
Rafael Cortijo
Puerto Rican musician (1928-1982)
Joachim Cooder
American percussionist
Carlos Vega
American drummer
Steve Shehan
American composer, musician and percussionist
Kevin Norton
American musician
Teddy Brown
American musician (1900–1946)
Charlie Adams
musician, drummer, percussionist
Rachel Blumberg
American musician
Lenny Hart
American musician
Richard Pelham
American actor (1815-1876)
Roberto Roena
Puerto Rican musician
Marc Quiñones
Drummer of the Allman Brothers Band
Billy Brooks
American musician and music educator (1943–2023)
Richard Horowitz
American composer (1949—2024)
George Lawrence Stone
American musician (1886-1967)