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Adele
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a British cultural icon, she is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. Her accolades include 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards (including three for British Album of the Year), an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa is an English singer and songwriter. Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards.
Harry Styles
Harry Edward Styles is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. An influential figure in popular culture, he is known for his showmanship, artistry, and flamboyant fashion. Styles's musical career began in 2010 as part of One Direction, a boy band formed on the British music competition series The X Factor after each member of the band had been eliminated from the solo contest. They became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016. Styles released his eponymous debut solo album through Erskine and Columbia Records in 2017, which was led by the UK number-one single "Sign of the Times".
Spice Girls
British girl group
Rita Ora
English-Albanian singer and actress
Annie Lennox
Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1954)
Charli XCX
Charlotte Emma Aitchison, known professionally as Charli XCX, is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She began posting songs on Myspace in 2008 before entering the London rave scene. Signing a recording contract with Asylum Records in 2010, Charli XCX released a series of singles and mixtapes in the early 2010s. In 2012, she was featured on "I Love It" by Swedish duo Icona Pop, which became her first number-one song in the UK and received global success, but her debut studio album, True Romance (2013), failed to meet commercial expectations.
Sam Smith
British singer-songwriter
Jessie J
English singer (born 1988)
Emma Bunton
British singer
M.I.A.
British singer and rapper (born 1975)
Little Mix
English girl group
Melanie Brown
British singer, actress and television personality
Marina Diamandis
British singer
Ethel Smyth
English composer and suffragette (1858–1944)
Kate Nash
British musician
Shirley Manson
Scottish singer
Jessie Ware
British singer
All Saints
British girl group
Bill Bailey
British comedian, musician and actor
Olivia Dean
Olivia Lauryn Dean is an English singer and songwriter. Her accolades include four Brit Awards and the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Teddy Sinclair
British singer and actress
Little Simz
Nigerian-British rapper, singer and actress
Mae Muller
British singer
Lady Sovereign
English rapper and grime artist
Will Young
British singer
Jade Thirlwall
British singer
Perrie Edwards
British singer
Leigh Anne Pinnock
British singer
Mark Kermode
English film critic
Melanie Blatt
British singer
Lauren Mayberry
Scottish singer
Dodie
Dorothy Miranda Clark (born 11 April 1995), known mononymously as Dodie (stylised dodie), is an English singer, songwriter, author and YouTuber. She has released two studio albums: Build a Problem (2021), which peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart, and Not for Lack of Trying (2025). She has also released four independent extended plays (EPs): Intertwined (2016), You (2017), Human (2019), and Hot Mess (2022), the first three of which charted in the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart. In 2023, she co-founded a band, Fizz, with her friends Orla Gartland, Greta Isaac, and Martin Luke Brown.
Shaznay Lewis
British singer
Lindsay Cooper
English musician (1951–2013)
Rockbitch
Rockbitch were a British rock band, composed mostly of female, lesbian and bisexual members, who performed nude and incorporated sexual acts and Pagan rituals into their performances.
Paris Paloma
British singer-songwriter
Maggie Nicols
British musician and dancer
Girli
Amelia Toomey (born 6 December 1997), known professionally as Girli, is an English singer and songwriter. Based in London, she has released a number of singles, five EPs and two studio albums. The Guardian has described her sound as veering "between PC Music, bubblegum pop, pop punk and rap, each one treading a line between catchy and deliberately discomforting." Much of her music is about feminism, sexuality, queer culture, and mental health.
Oli London
British Internet personality, singer and actor
Lambrini Girls
UK music group from Brighton
Georgina Born
Musician, academic, anthropologist
Constance Bryer
British classical violinist and suffragette