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Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse was a British singer, songwriter, musician, and businesswoman. She is known for her distinctive contralto vocals, expressive and autobiographical songwriting, and eclectic blend of genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz. Her music, along with her fashion and highly publicised personal life, made her an influential figure in popular culture.

Vanessa-Mae
Vanessa-Mae (; born 27 October 1978), also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist and skier with Thai heritage from her father. Her album sales reached several million by 2006, making her the wealthiest entertainer aged under 30 in the United Kingdom at that time. She is known for fusing classical and popular genres, which she calls "violin techno-acoustic fusion". This crossover style combines her classical violin training with electronic music influences like techno and synth-pop, as seen for example in the title track from her album Storm from 1997.
Dusty Springfield
British singer (1939–1999)
Natalia Tena
British-Spanish actress
Anoushka Shankar
British-American musician

Joe Strummer
British singer, musician and songwriter (1952–2002)

Caetano Veloso
Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist
Mark Sheppard
English actor and musician

John Lundvik
Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter

Paul Oakenfold
British DJ and electronic music producer (born 1963)

Lita Ford
American rock guitarist and singer
Malcolm McLaren
English artist, performer and fashion designer (1946–2010)
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
John Williams
Australian classical guitarist (born 1941)
Femi Kuti
Nigerian musician

Beabadoobee
Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus (born 3 June 2000), known professionally as Beabadoobee (; ''; stylized in all lowercase), is a Filipina-British singer-songwriter. From 2018 to 2021, she released five extended plays (EPs) under the independent label Dirty Hit: Lice (2018), Patched Up (2018), Loveworm (2019), Space Cadet (2019) and Our Extended Play (2021). Her debut studio album Fake It Flowers was released in October 2020, and received critical acclaim. Her second studio album, Beatopia, was released on 15 July 2022, which spawned the hit "The Perfect Pair". Her third studio album, This Is How To
Richie Faulkner
British guitarist (born 1980)
Julian Lloyd Webber
British solo cellist and conductor
Simon Wright
English drummer
Jacob Collier
English musician
Mitsuko Uchida
Japanese-British pianist, conductor (1948-)
Justin Chancellor
English musician; book and record store owner
Atticus Ross
English musician, composer and record producer
Phil Manzanera
British guitarist
Thomas Dolby
English musician, producer, entrepreneur and teacher (born 1958)
Sona Jobarteh
Gambian musician
Burial
British electronic musician
Fou Ts'ong
Chinese-British pianist (1934-2020)

Alexis Korner
British blues musician and radio broadcaster (1928–1984)

Perry Bamonte
Perry Archangelo Bamonte was an English musician and artist, best known as a guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure from 1990 to 2005, and again from 2022 to 2025. He was also the bassist for Love Amongst Ruin.
Mutt Lange
South African record producer
Manfred Mann
South African-born musician (born 1940)
Guy Pratt
British bassist
Sam Totman
British guitarist
Julian Marley
English musician
Jax Jones
British DJ and record producer
Jule Styne
British-born American songwriter (1905-1994)
Johann Baptist Cramer
British musician (1771-1858)
Kele Okereke
English singer/songwriter and guitarist
Vashti Bunyan
English singer-songwriter
Vernon Reid
American fusion and crossover guitarist (born 1958)
Adnan Sami
Indian musician
Joel Fry
English actor and musician
Philip Catherine
British-Belgian jazz rock guitarist
Morgan Nicholls
British musician
Simon Posford
British musician
George Alexander Macfarren
British composer and musicologist (1813–1887)
Jason Cooper
British drummer
Mick Jones
English rock guitarist (born 1944)
David Rose
English-born American conductor and composer (1910–1990)
Nellie McKay
American musician
Anna Calvi
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Adolph Deutsch
British-American composer, conductor and arranger
Grace Chatto
British musician
Graham Parker
British singer
Raymond Leppard
British conductor and harpsichordist (1927-2019)
Henry Litolff
Piano virtuoso, composer and music publisher (1818–1891)
Gerald Finzi
British composer
Solomon Cutner
English pianist (1902–1988)
Gilad Atzmon
Israeli-born British jazz musician and author