THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME

7 Leonard Bernstein 7 As a composer Bernstein made skillful use of diverse elements ranging from biblical themes, as in the Symp ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Seeger was born to a musically gifted family. His father was the influential ...

7 Pete Seeger 7 music making). As a solo performer, Seeger was still a victim of blacklisting, especially after his 1961 convict ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and the following year he received hi ...

7 Ravi Shankar 7 Indian musician Ravi Shankar plays a sitar in 2004 at a function paying tribute to the former Beatle George Har ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Beginning in the 1960s, his concert performances with the American violinist ...

7 Charlie Parker 7 Parker grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, during the great years of Kansas City jazz and began playing alto sa ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 York City and on tours to major U.S. cities and abroad, played in a Gillespie ...

7 Charlie Parker 7 If Parker’s life was chaotic in the 1950s, he nonetheless retained his creative edge. From roughly 1950 he ab ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Tito Puente (b. April 20, 1923, New York, N.Y., U.S.—d. May 31, 2000, New Yor ...

7 Tito Puente 7 age of mambo, a dance form of Cuban origin; his infectious energy and dynamic stage presence quickly made him a ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 vocalist, the “Hillbilly Shakespeare,” as he often was called, also experienc ...

7 Hank Williams 7 tune that Williams parlayed into a chart-topping hit, an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, a ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 successful country performer in his own right (like Williams’s grandson, Hank ...

7 Maria Callas 7 took place in November 1954 at Chicago’s Lyric Opera in the title role of Norma, a performance she repeated bef ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 by the live performances of many local Cajun and Creole musicians, Chenier qu ...

7 Clifton Chenier 7 amputated. Although Chenier experienced somewhat of a comeback in the early 1980s—when he expanded his band ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 fixture on the Billboard charts through the mid-1980s. His strongest studio a ...

7 Miles Davis 7 Starting Out Davis grew up in East St. Louis, Ill., where his father was a prosperous dental surgeon. He began s ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 short-lived but during its brief history recorded a dozen tracks that were or ...