Category
page 1Musicians from Essex
Rod Stewart
English singer and songwriter (born 1945)
Sade Adu
British singer

Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (born 7 April 1990) is an English singer and songwriter. She has achieved commercial success with songs "Alarm" (2016), "Ciao Adios" (2017), "Friends" (2018), "2002" (2018), "Rewrite The Stars" (2018), "Don't Play" (2021), "Kiss My (Uh-Oh)" (2021), "Psycho" (2022), "Baby Don't Hurt Me" (2023), and "Unhealthy" (2023). She was featured on Clean Bandit's "Rockabye" (2016), which peaked at number one in twenty-seven terrorities, including the United Kingdom. She has released 3 albums: Speak Your Mind (2018), which peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart, Therapy (20

Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn is an English musician. He is the main vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.

Olly Murs
British singer (born 1984)

Vince Clarke
English synth-pop musician and songwriter

Sam Ryder
English singer, songwriter and social media personality
Josh Dubovie
British singer
Jamie Cullum
English jazz singer and pianist
The Horrors
English rock band

Anna Neagle
English stage and film actress and singer (1904–1986)

Squarepusher
Thomas Russell Jenkinson (born 17 January 1975), known professionally as Squarepusher, is an English electronic musician, record producer, bassist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ. His music spans several genres including drum and bass, IDM, acid techno, jazz fusion, and electroacoustic music. His recordings are often typified by a combination of complex drum programming, live instrumental playing, and digital signal processing. Since 1995, he has recorded for Warp Records as well as smaller labels, including Rephlex Records. He is the older brother of Ceephax Acid Crew (Andy Jenkinson).
Harry Judd
British drummer
Dougie Poynter
English musician, songwriter, fashion model, clothing designer, author, actor and philanthropist
James Bourne
British musician
Wilko Johnson
English musician (1947–2022)
Daniel Jones
English-born Australian musician, songwriter, and record producer
Kenny Ball
English trumpeter, band leader, arranger (1930-2013)

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.
Leeroy Thornhill
British musician
Vivian Stanshall
English musician, artist and author
Alex Gaskarth
American musician
Paul Webb
British musician

Jeremy Sheffield
British actor
Kate Walsh
English singer
Dave Lee
British DJ and house music producer
Mick Rogers
British musician
Emma Blackery
British musician
Felix
British DJ and producer
George Craig
musician and model
John Ward
composer

Kate Hall
Danish-British singer
Nicola LeFanu
British composer
Roy Hay
British musician
Daisy Dares You
British musician
Robert Lloyd
English operatic bass
Scott Robinson
British singer
Paul Wickens
British musician
Sophia Grace & Rosie
British singers
Ed Drewett
British singer-songwriter

Fugative
Harry James Byart (born 11 March 1994), better known by his former stage name Fugative, is an English rapper. He worked with Kirk Burrowes in April 2009 in Atlanta the former manager of Mary J. Blige and co-founder of Bad Boy Records after Burrowes was contacted by Byart's mother Gloria who previously worked as a publicist to Marvin Gaye. Fugative has been favourably received by BBC Radio One's Nick Grimshaw who proclaimed, "This kid is the NUTS!" on his Switch Fugative also released "The Departure" Mixtape in 2010.
Rylan Clark
English television and radio presenter, singer and model
Ceephax Acid Crew
British musician