68 Notable alumni of
Musicians Institute

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Musicians Institute is 799th in the world, 294th in North America, and 273rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 68 notable alumni from Musicians Institute sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Jeff Buckley

    Jeff Buckley
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1966-1997 (aged 31)
    Occupations
    composersinger-songwriterguitaristsinger
    Biography

    Jeffrey Scott Buckley was an American musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a moderate following in the early 1990s performing at venues in East Village, Manhattan such as Sin-é. After rebuffing interest from record labels and Herb Cohen—the manager of his father, singer Tim Buckley—he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and released his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.

  2. Shruti Haasan

    Shruti Haasan
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1986-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    composermodelsingeractor
    Biography

    Shruti Haasan is an Indian actress and singer who works in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil films. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Filmfare Award South and seven South Indian International Movie Awards. Haasan has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list of 2015 and 2016.

  3. Chad Smith

    Chad Smith
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    drummermusician
    Biography

    Chad Smith is an American musician who has been the drummer of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988, and became the band's longest-serving drummer, and appeared on the band's total 10 studio albums. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, formed in 2008, and of the all-instrumental outfit Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, formed in 2007. He worked with the Chicks on Taking the Long Way, an album that won five Grammy Awards in 2007.

  4. Kat Graham

    Kat Graham
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1989-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    film actortelevision actordancerphilanthropistexecutive producer
    Biography

    Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham is an American actress, singer, dancer, and activist. She played Bonnie Bennett on The CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017). Her film credits include The Parent Trap (1998), 17 Again (2009), The Roommate (2011), Honey 2 (2011), Addicted (2014), and All Eyez on Me (2017). In music, Graham has released two extended plays and four studio albums.

  5. Steve Vai

    Steve Vai
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    record producercomposersongwriterguitarist
    Biography

    Steven Siro Vai is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, and played in Zappa's band from 1980 to 1983. He embarked on a solo career in 1983 and has released 11 solo albums to date. He has recorded and toured with Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake, as well as recording with artists such as Public Image Ltd, Mary J. Blige, Spinal Tap, Alice Cooper, Motörhead, and Polyphia. Additionally, Vai has toured with live-only acts G3, Zappa Plays Zappa, the Beat Tour (playing 1980s era King Crimson), and the Experience Hendrix Tour, as well as headlining international tours.

  6. Rivers Cuomo

    Rivers Cuomo
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    composersingerguitarist
    Biography

    Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer. Cuomo was born in New York City and raised in several Buddhist communities in the northeastern U.S. until the age of 10 when his family settled in Connecticut. He played in several bands in Connecticut and California before forming Weezer in 1992.

  7. Q'orianka Kilcher

    Q'orianka Kilcher
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1990-.. (age 35)
    Occupations
    actorstunt performerfilm actorsingertelevision actor
    Biography

    Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher is an American actress. Her best known film roles are Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's 2005 film The New World, and Kaʻiulani in Princess Kaiulani (2009). In 2020, she starred in a recurring role on the Paramount Network show Yellowstone.

  8. Synyster Gates

    Synyster Gates
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1981-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    guitaristmusiciansongwriter
    Biography

    Brian Elwin Haner Jr., better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn, is an American guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist of heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. He ranks No. 9 on Guitar World's best metal guitarists of all time. Gates was voted as Best Metal Guitarist in the World by Total Guitar in 2016 and once again in 2017.

  9. Paul Gilbert

    Paul Gilbert
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1966-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    composerguitarist
    Biography

    Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American hard rock and heavy metal guitarist. He is the co-founder of the band Mr. Big, and was also a member of Racer X, with whom he released several albums. In 1996, Gilbert launched a solo career, for which he has released numerous solo albums, and featured in numerous collaborations and guest appearances on other musicians' albums.

  10. Bishop Briggs

    Bishop Briggs
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1992-.. (age 33)
    Occupations
    singersongwriter
    Biography

    Sarah Grace McLaughlin, known professionally as Bishop Briggs, is an English singer and songwriter. Her single "River" peaked at number 3 on the US Alternative Chart, and has been streamed more than 485 million times on Spotify. It was included on her debut album, Church of Scars, released in April 2018. Island Records released her second album, Champion, in July 2019, which was included in The Young Folks Top 50 albums of the year.

  11. Kenan Doğulu

    Kenan Doğulu
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1974-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    composersingersongwriter
    Biography

    Kenan Doğulu is a Turkish pop musician. He represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, where he was placed fourth, with 163 points. In the summer of 2006, Doğulu released the album Festival, containing the hit single "Çakkıdı", in collaboration with Sezen Aksu.

  12. Ray Luzier

    Ray Luzier
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    musician
    Biography

    Raymond Lee Luzier is an American musician. He is the drummer of nu metal band Korn, having become a full-time member of the band in April 2009.

  13. Tanya Chua

    Tanya Chua
    Born in
    Singapore Flag Singapore
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    singerrecord producersongwriter
    Biography

    Tanya Chua is a Singaporean singer-songwriter. She launched her singing career by releasing her debut studio album Bored in 1997. She was part of the trio that sang "Moments of Magic" (1999), Singapore's official millennium song. Her albums, Amphibian (2005), Goodbye & Hello (2007), Sing It Out of Love (2011) and Depart (2021), each won her a Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer award.

  14. JinJoo Lee

    JinJoo Lee
    Born in
    South Korea Flag South Korea
    Years
    1987-.. (age 38)
    Occupations
    musicianguitarist
    Biography

    JinJoo Lee is a Korean-American musician, best known as the guitarist for the pop rock band DNCE.

  15. Stefan Olsdal

    Stefan Olsdal
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1974-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    guitaristbassistsongwriter
    Biography

    Bo Stefan Alexander Olsdal is a Swedish-Luxembourgish musician, best known as the bassist/guitarist of the alternative rock band Placebo, he is also part of the electronic band Digital 21 + Stefan Olsdal and launched the electronic/dance remix at Hotel Persona.

  16. Bibi Zhou

    Bibi Zhou
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1985-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    actorsingersongwriter
    Biography

    Zhou Bichang, also known as Bibi Zhou, is a Chinese singer, songwriter, and actress. She debuted her singing career by winning the second place at the Chinese singing contest Super Girl in 2005. The next year she released her debut album Who Touched My Violin String. She debuted her acting career by featuring in the 2006 Chinese films McDull, the Alumni and The 601st Phone Call. In 2014, she won an MTV Europe Music Award for Best Worldwide Act. In 2015, she won a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Chinese Act.

  17. Scott Shriner

    Scott Shriner
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    bassistmusician
    Biography

    Scott Gardner Shriner is an American musician best known as a member of the rock band Weezer, with whom he has recorded twelve studio albums. Joining the band in 2001, Shriner is the band's longest serving bass guitarist.

  18. Dave Kushner

    Dave Kushner
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1966-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    musicianguitarist
    Biography

    Dave Kushner is an American musician best known as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver. Kushner has also been a member of Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs, Loaded, Danzig, Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro's solo band, Sugartooth, Zilch while he has also recorded with Infectious Grooves, Cyco Miko and more recently collaborated with Scars on Broadway guitarist Franky Perez releasing songs under the pseudonym of DKFXP, a combination of the initials of Perez and Kushner, as well as working with Indian singer and actress Shruti Haasan.

  19. Jennifer Batten

    Jennifer Batten
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    musicianguitarist
    Biography

    Jennifer Batten is an American guitarist who has worked as a session musician and solo artist. From 1987 to 1997, she played on all three of Michael Jackson's world tours, and from 1999 to 2001, she toured and recorded with Jeff Beck.

  20. Takayoshi Ohmura

    Takayoshi Ohmura
    Born in
    Japan Flag Japan
    Years
    1983-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    singer-songwriterguitarist
    Biography

    Takayoshi Ohmura is a Japanese musician and songwriter. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his first instrument was the piano, which he began playing when he was three years old. By the age of 11, he had started to play acoustic guitar, moving to electric guitar at the age of 14. By the age of 17, he had developed an interest in western hard rock and heavy metal music and devoted himself to it.

  21. Frank Gambale

    Frank Gambale
    Born in
    Australia Flag Australia
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    session musicianjazz guitaristguitaristjazz musician
    Biography

    Frank Gambale is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He has released twenty albums over a period of three decades, and is known for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques.

  22. Meja

    Meja
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1969-.. (age 56)
    Enrolled in Musicians Institute
    Studied in 1992
    Occupations
    composersinger
    Biography

    Meja Anna Pernilla Kullersten is a Swedish composer, artist and singer. Among her best known songs are "Happy" (with Legacy of Sound), "Private Emotion", a duet with Ricky Martin from his multi-Platinum album Ricky Martin (1999), and "All 'Bout the Money", which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1998.

  23. John Shanks

    John Shanks
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    record producercomposersongwriterguitarist
    Biography

    John Matthew Shanks is an American songwriter, record producer and guitarist. He has been a longtime session and touring member of the rock band Bon Jovi.

  24. Juan Alderete

    Juan Alderete
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    bassistguitarist
    Biography

    Juan Alderete de la Peña is an American musician. He is best known as the longtime bassist of Racer X and for his tenures in the Mars Volta and Marilyn Manson.

  25. Lex Lang

    Lex Lang
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    record producerscreenwriterstage actorsinger-songwritervoice actor
    Biography

    Lex Lang is an American voice actor and voice director, who has provided voices and served as a director for a number of animations and video games. He is best known for voicing Doctor Neo Cortex in the Crash Bandicoot franchise, Suguru Geto in Jujutsu Kaisen, Ecliptor in Power Rangers in Space, and Goemon Ishikawa in Lupin the Third.

  26. Paul Masvidal

    Paul Masvidal
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1971-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    composersingerguitarist
    Biography

    Paul Albert Masvidal is an American musician, best known as the guitarist, singer and a founding member of the progressive metal band Cynic. He has remained a continual member in Cynic for nearly three decades and has developed numerous other projects including Æon Spoke, Onward with Love, and Masvidal (a solo project). Masvidal was ranked in Loudwire's 66 Best Hard Rock + Metal Guitarists of All Time and 50 Best Metal Songwriters of All Time.

  27. Alessandro Cortini

    Alessandro Cortini
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1976-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    vocalistkeyboardistrecord producersingerguitarist
    Biography

    Alessandro Cortini is an Italian musician best known for his work with the American industrial band Nine Inch Nails. He plays modular synthesizers, keyboards, guitar, and bass guitar.

  28. Patiparn Patavekarn

    Patiparn Patavekarn
    Born in
    Thailand Flag Thailand
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    singeractortelevision actor
    Biography

    Patiparn Patavekarn, is a Thai film and television actor and pop singer from GMM Grammy. He released his debut album in 1992 and is known for his melodic ballads.

  29. Jimmy Herring

    Jimmy Herring
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    recording artistguitarist
    Biography

    Jimmy Herring is an American guitarist, known as the lead guitarist for the band Widespread Panic since 2006. He is a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit and Jazz Is Dead and has played with The Allman Brothers Band, Project Z, Derek Trucks Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, and The Dead.

  30. Jeff Young

    Jeff Young
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    guitarist
    Biography

    Jeffrey "Jeff" Young is an American guitarist. He graduated from Musicians Institute in 1985, and is best known for his time with the thrash metal band Megadeth, appearing on the 1988 album So Far, So Good... So What! (Capitol Records). In 1998, Young co-wrote, produced and played on the world-fusion album Chameleon by Badi Assad. In addition to his subsequent music projects, he served as a writer for Guitar for the Practicing Musician.

  31. Matt McJunkins

    Matt McJunkins
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1983-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    musician
    Biography

    Matt McJunkins is an American musician and photographer best known for touring and recording with the American rock band A Perfect Circle. He is a former touring bassist for Eagles of Death Metal. He is one of the founding members of The Beta Machine, a rock band formed with Jeff Friedl. McJunkins has also worked with Thirty Seconds to Mars, Ashes Divide, Puscifer, Poppy and Socadia.

  32. Scott Henderson

    Scott Henderson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    recording artistjazz musicianmusicianguitaristjazz guitarist
    Biography

    Scott Henderson is an American jazz fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech. He was born in West Palm Beach and raised in Lake Worth Beach.

  33. Russ Parrish

    Russ Parrish
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    musicianguitarist
    Biography

    Russell John Parrish, better known as Satchel, is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist for the comedic glam metal band Steel Panther.

  34. Joacim Cans

    Joacim Cans
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    singersongwriter
    Biography

    Joacim Cans is a Swedish singer, best known as the lead vocalist of power metal band HammerFall. He is the only member aside from founder and guitarist Oscar Dronjak to appear on all of the band's albums.

  35. Elli Kokkinou

    Elli Kokkinou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    Elli Kokkinou is a Greek singer. She is among the most popular singers in Greece today and has performed together with many notable Greek names of the music industry such as Anna Vissi, Glykeria, Paschalis Terzis, Sakis Rouvas, Tolis Voskopoulos, Thanos Petrelis, Natassa Theodoridou, Despina Vandi, Giorgos Tsalikis and Kalomoira. Kokkinou has been certified for the sales of 135 thousand albums by IFPI Greece. On 14 March 2010, Alpha TV ranked Kokkinou the 27th top-certified female artist in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960).

  36. Jeff Berlin

    Jeff Berlin
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    recording artistbassistjazz musician
    Biography

    Jeffrey Arthur Berlin is an American jazz fusion bassist. He first came to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the band Bruford led by drummer Bill Bruford.

  37. Ehsaan Noorani

    Ehsaan Noorani
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    Ehsaan Noorani is an Indian composer and guitarist.

  38. Demir Demirkan

    Demir Demirkan
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1972-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    composeractormusiciansingersongwriter
    Biography

    Demir Demirkan is a Turkish musician, Eurovision Song Contest winning composer, guitarist for thrash metal band Mezarkabul and writer. Demir Demirkan started playing music when he was 13 and played guitar with various groups in college. Demir Demirkan also wrote television jingles and composed soundtracks for television and films.

  39. Kevin Fowler

    Kevin Fowler
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1966-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    singer-songwriterguitarist
    Biography

    Kevin Fowler is an American singer-songwriter. He has released five studio albums, and has charted four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the top 40 hit "Pound Sign (#?*!)". In addition, he wrote Sammy Kershaw's 2003 single "Beer, Bait & Ammo", Mark Chesnutt's 2004 single "The Lord Loves the Drinkin' Man" and Montgomery Gentry's 2009 single "Long Line of Losers".

  40. Brooke White

    Brooke White
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1983-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    singer-songwritermusiciancomposerguitaristpianist
    Biography

    Brooke Elizabeth White is an American folk-pop singer-songwriter and actress who was the fifth place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. In 2005, White released her first studio album, called Songs from the Attic.

  41. LaToya London

    LaToya London
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1978-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    singeractor
    Biography

    LaToya Renee London is an American R&B and soul singer and stage actress who was fourth-place finalist on the third season of American Idol. Her debut album, Love & Life, was released in September 2005 and spawned a number of moderate R&B chart hits. She has concentrated on stage work, including originating and performing the role of Nettie in the national tour of the Broadway musical The Color Purple from 2007 to 2010, for which she won an Ovation Award. She was the lead in the U.S. regional debut of The Bodyguard, a musical based on the 1992 film.

  42. Norman Brown

    Norman Brown
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    composerjazz guitaristguitaristjazz musician
    Biography

    Norman Brown is an American smooth jazz guitarist and singer.

  43. Bryan Mantia

    Bryan Mantia
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    drummer
    Biography

    Bryan Kei Mantia, known professionally as Brain, is an American rock drummer. He has played with bands such as Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis, and Godflesh, and with other performers such as Tom Waits, Serj Tankian, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, and Buckethead. He has also done session work for numerous artists and bands.

  44. Nicole Row

    Nicole Row
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1991-.. (age 34)
    Occupations
    bass guitarist
    Biography

    Nicole Sue Row is an American musician and singer known for touring with Miley Cyrus in 2017 and Panic! at the Disco during 2018–2023. She joined Incubus in March 2023 and was made a full band member in February 2024.

  45. Shane Theriot

    Shane Theriot
    Occupations
    composerrecord producer
    Biography

    Shane Theriot is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is the musical director, guitarist, and band leader for Hall & Oates and musical director/guitarist for the television show Live from Daryl's House. As a composer for TV his music has been used by ESPN, HBO, and Showtime Networks. He is the author of several books on guitar styles, including New Orleans Funk Guitar Styles, and instructional DVDs.

  46. Greg Edmonson

    Greg Edmonson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    composerfilm score composer
    Biography

    Greg Edmonson is an American music composer for television and movies. He is primarily known for composing the soundtrack to the television series Firefly. He is also the composer for the first three games in the Uncharted video game series, and for a number of episodes of the American animated sitcom King of the Hill.

  47. Christopher Maloney

    Christopher Maloney
    Years
    1969-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    singer-songwriter
    Biography

    Christopher Patrick Maloney is an American singer-songwriter, bass guitarist and music educator. He is widely known for his work with instrumental hard rock band Cosmosquad, his stints in Hardline and with Dweezil Zappa, as an independent solo artist, an instructor at the Musicians Institute, the co-owner of Absolute Music Studios and the co-creator of the online music education site Practice Warriors.

  48. Howard Alden

    Howard Alden
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    jazz guitaristjazz musicianbanjoist
    Biography

    Howard Vincent Alden is an American jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach, California. Alden has recorded many albums for Concord Records, including four with seven-string guitar innovator George Van Eps.

  49. Rick Hill

    Rick Hill
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    bureaucratpolitician
    Biography

    Richard Allan Hill is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Montana. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Montana in 2012.

  50. Allen Hinds

    Allen Hinds
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1956-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    musicianguitarist
    Biography

    Allen Hinds is an American guitarist, who has recorded or performed with Natalie Cole, BeBe & CeCe Winans, The Crusaders, Hiroshima, Roberta Flack, Randy Crawford, Bobby Caldwell, James Ingram, Marilyn Scott, Eric Marienthal, Marc Antoine, Gino Vannelli and Boney James, among many others. His songs have appeared on the TV shows Lucky, JAG, Pawn Stars, Sons of Guns and Sliced, among others. He is also an instructor and artist in residence at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, and has released a number of solo albums.

  51. David Becker

    David Becker
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    jazz guitaristjazz musicianguitarist
    Biography

    David Becker is an American jazz guitarist and leader of the David Becker Tribune. He is also a graduate of the Musicians Institute.

  52. Sharon Aguilar

    Sharon Aguilar
    Born in
    Panama Flag Panama
    Years
    1986-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    singersongwriter
    Biography

    Sharon Isabel Aguilar is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. She toured with 2NE1 in 2012, and has both founded and performed with several other groups.

  53. Magos Herrera

    Magos Herrera
    Born in
    Mexico Flag Mexico
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    singerjazz musician
    Biography

    Magos Herrera is a Mexican jazz singer, songwriter, producer, and educator. She sings in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and has collaborated with Javier Limón, saxophonist Tim Ries, Aaron Goldberg, Pedro Aznar, Ed Simon Trio, John Patitucci, Luis Perdomo, Adam Rogers, Tim Hagans, Alex Kautz, composer Paola Prestini, former Kronos Quartet cellist Jeff Zeigler, and many others.

  54. Rafael Moreira

    Rafael Moreira
    Born in
    Brazil Flag Brazil
    Years
    1974-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    singerguitarist
    Biography

    Rafael Moreira is a Brazilian-American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead guitarist / vocalist on the hit CBS television shows Rock Star: INXS and Rock Star: Supernova, MTV's Rock The Cradle and most recently on NBC's The Voice. He has also appeared as lead guitarist / supporting vocalist live on world tours and television, as well as on CD & DVD releases, with world-renowned and groundbreaking artists such as Paul Stanley, Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction), Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe) and Natasha Bedingfield. Rafael has also performed as the lead guitarist for Grammy-winning artists Pink, Christina Aguilera, Don Felder (The Eagles) Marc Anthony, Colbie Caillat and Mýa.

  55. Jeff Zwart

    Jeff Zwart
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    photographerfilm director
    Biography

    Jeffrey "Jeff" Robert Zwart is an American commercial film director, racer, photographer, cameraman and author for Porsche, BMW, Cadillac, General Motors, Hyundai, Ford and more.

  56. Michael Denning

    Michael Denning
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    Michael Denning is an American cultural historian and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His work has been influential in shaping the field of American Studies by importing and interpreting the work of British Cultural Studies theorists. Although he received his Ph.D. from Yale University and studied with Fredric Jameson, perhaps the greatest influence on his work is the time he spent at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies working with Stuart Hall.

  57. Shane Alexander

    Shane Alexander
    Occupations
    singer-songwritersinger
    Biography

    Shane Alexander is a contemporary American singer-songwriter and musician. Alexander was born in San Diego, California, raised in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and is currently residing in Southern California.

  58. Douglas R. Docker

    Douglas R. Docker
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1967-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    musicianrecord producersongwriter
    Biography

    Douglas R. Docker is an American-French musician, singer, songwriter and producer known for his work with Docker's Guild, a progressive-metal space opera, and as a member of Cheap Prick, an Italian Cheap Trick tribute act. He has also worked with artists including Shining Line and Tony Mills. Docker is also the founder and owner of the Black Swan Rock School of Music, a music and ESL teaching facility located in Italy.

  59. Mohammad Ridwan Hafiedz

    Mohammad Ridwan Hafiedz
    Born in
    Indonesia Flag Indonesia
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    musician
    Biography

    Mohammad Ridwan Hafiedz or Ridho is an Indonesian guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter. He is best known as Slank's rhythm guitarist and back vocalist along with another lead guitarist, Abdee Negara. With Slank, Ridho has created nine studio albums and three live albums, also one compilation album which was released in May 2006.

  60. Moses Stone

    Moses Stone
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1986-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    rapper
    Biography

    Moses Kenneth Haughton Jr. better known by his stage name Moses Stone is an American recording artist, music producer, entrepreneur, and actor. Moses Stone is the founder of brands Art Sky Agency (Creative Digital Agency ), Art Sky Entertainment (Record Label), Art Sky Productions (Music Production & Licensing) he founded in 2013. Stone has appeared on MTV, BET, Showtime at the Apollo, NBC'S The Voice, Nickelodeon.

  61. Terje Gewelt

    Terje Gewelt
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    recording artistjazz musiciancomposer
    Biography

    Terje Gewelt is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass).

  62. Mike Campese

    Mike Campese
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    Mike Campese is an American guitarist and composer best known for being a member of the multi-platinum group Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Campese was picked over several guitarists in 2005 during the band's fourth CD, The Lost Christmas Eve, and received a gold record for his work. In 2008 Mike released his own rock Christmas CD, The Meaning of Christmas, which was well received. Campese is an honors graduate from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California and is a graduate of Shaker High School.

  63. Big Chris Flores

    Big Chris Flores
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    musician
    Biography

    Chris Trinidad Flores, known professionally as Big Chris Flores, is an American-Mexican record producer and sound engineer. He first began his music production career in 1999, and in 2002, he founded Moodswing Records. Over the years, Big Chris has been producing music for people such as; Slash, Fergie, K-Ci & JoJo, Layzie Bone, KRS-One, C-Bo, Bun B, Trill OG, Lil Zane, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

  64. Charles Olivier

    Charles Olivier
    Occupations
    journalistscreenwriter
    Biography

    Charles Olivier is an American film and television writer, producer, playwright, journalist and editor. His work has won several Emmys, a G. Foster Peabody award, a Thurgood Marshall Humanitarian Award for Excellence in Journalism, as well as many other accolades. He and his films have taken top awards or been nominated at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, and many more.

  65. Jean Marc Belkadi

    Jean Marc Belkadi
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Occupations
    jazz guitaristjazz musician
    Biography

    Jean Marc Belkadi is a French-born, American jazz fusion guitarist known for his improvisational soloing technique.

  66. Anel Paz

    Anel Paz
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    record producercomposerguitaristsinger
    Biography

    Jose Manuel "Anel" Paz is an Argentinian guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and recording and mix engineer. He has been a member of Los Violadores, and Los Politicos.

  67. Gilles Renne

    Gilles Renne
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in Musicians Institute
    Studied in 1980
    Occupations
    jazz guitarist
    Biography

    Gilles Renne is a French jazz-fusion guitarist and composer.

  68. Phillip Michael Pacetti

    Phillip Michael Pacetti
    Occupations
    musicianrecord producersongwriter
    Biography

    Phillip Pacetti known as "Philonious" is an American musician active in the 1990s to present.