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92 relations: Adam and the Ants, Adrian Belew, AllMusic, Andy Gill, Audio engineer, Barclay (record label), BBC Radio 3, Bertelsmann Music Group, Brian Eno, Camel (band), Comic strip, Countdown Spectacular, Croydon, Croydon College, David Bowie, David Richards (record producer), Discogs, Do It Records, Dub Pistols, Dublin, Elvis Costello, EMI, Epic Records, Folk music, Gang of Four (band), Gary Barnacle, Hit song, Independent music, John Martyn, Julien Temple, Junior Vasquez, Kenya, King Crimson, Level 42, Lydia Canaan, M (band), Malcolm McLaren, Mark King (musician), MCA Records, Mighty Baby, Montreux, Mountain Studios, Music publisher, Music video, Muzak, New wave music, New York–London–Paris–Munich, Paul Riley (musician), Pete Thomas (drummer), Phil Gould (musician), ... Expand index (42 more) »
- Musicians from the London Borough of Croydon
- Singers from the London Borough of Croydon
Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants were an English rock band that formed in London in 1977.
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Adrian Belew
Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Andy Gill
Andrew James Dalrymple Gill (1 January 1956 – 1 February 2020) was an English musician and record producer.
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Audio engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.
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Barclay (record label)
Barclay is a French Universal Music Group record label, originally owned Eddie Barclay in 1953.
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BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
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Bertelsmann Music Group
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.
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Camel (band)
Camel are an English progressive rock band formed in Guildford, Surrey, in 1971.
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Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
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Countdown Spectacular
The Countdown Spectacular is a series of concerts reviving the nostalgia of the Australian music television series Countdown.
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Croydon
Croydon is a large town in South London, England, south of Charing Cross.
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Croydon College
Croydon College is a large further and higher education college located in Croydon, within the London Borough of Croydon.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Robin Scott (singer) and David Bowie are British male new wave singers and English male singer-songwriters.
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David Richards (record producer)
David Richards (1956 – 20 December 2013) was an English Swiss-based record producer, engineer and musician.
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Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.
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Do It Records
Do It Records was a British independent record label based in London, England.
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Dub Pistols
Dub Pistols are an English electronic music band founded in 1996 by Barry Ashworth and Jason O'Bryan.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television presenter. Robin Scott (singer) and Elvis Costello are British male new wave singers, English male singer-songwriters, English new wave musicians and English singer-songwriters.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
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Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Gang of Four (band)
Gang of Four are an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Leeds.
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Gary Barnacle
Gary Barnacle (born 1959) is an English saxophonist, flautist, brass instrument arranger, composer, and producer.
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Hit song
A hit song, also known as a hit record, hit single or simply hit, is a recorded song or instrumental that becomes broadly popular or well-known.
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Independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.
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John Martyn
Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British guitarist and singer-songwriter.
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Julien Temple
Julien Temple (born 26 November 1953) is a British film, documentary and music video director.
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Junior Vasquez
Junior Vasquez (born Donald Gregory Mattern, August 24, 1949) is an American DJ, record producer and remixer.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
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King Crimson
King Crimson were an English-based progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London.
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Level 42
Level 42 are an English jazz-funk band formed on the Isle of Wight in 1979.
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Lydia Canaan
Lydia Canaan is a Lebanese singer-songwriter, poet, humanitarian activist, and diplomat.
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M (band)
M is an English new wave and synth-pop music project from London led by Robin Scott.
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Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (3 September 1946 – 8 April 2010) was a Yemeni-Born fashion designer and music manager. Robin Scott (singer) and Malcolm McLaren are English new wave musicians.
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Mark King (musician)
Mark Raymond King (born 20 October 1958) is an English musician. Robin Scott (singer) and Mark King (musician) are British male new wave singers and English new wave musicians.
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MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the UK from the 1960s.
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Mighty Baby
Mighty Baby were an English band formed in January 1969 by former members of the Action.
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Montreux
Montreux (Montrolx) is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps.
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Mountain Studios
Mountain Studios was a commercial recording studio founded by American singer and composer Anita Kerr and husband Alex Grob in 1975 within the Montreux Casino in Montreux, Switzerland.
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Music publisher
A music publisher is a type of publisher that specializes in distributing music.
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Music video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.
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Muzak
Muzak is an American brand of background music played in retail stores and other public establishments.
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New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.
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New York–London–Paris–Munich
New York–London–Paris–Munich (styled New York · London · Paris · Munich) is M's first album, released in 1979, the title being taken from a line in the verse of the March 1979 hit single "Pop Muzik", an extended version of which is featured on the album.
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Paul Riley (musician)
Paul Riley (born 3 October 1951, Islington, London) is an English bassist, singer and record producer.
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Pete Thomas (drummer)
Peter Michael Thomas (born 9 August 1954) is an English rock drummer best known for his collaboration with singer Elvis Costello, both as a member of his band the Attractions and with Costello as a solo artist. Robin Scott (singer) and Pete Thomas (drummer) are English new wave musicians.
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Phil Gould (musician)
Philip Gabriel Gould (born 28 February 1957) is a British drummer, songwriter and singer from the Isle of Wight in southern England. Robin Scott (singer) and Phil Gould (musician) are English new wave musicians.
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Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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Pop Muzik
"Pop Muzik" is a 1979 song by M, a project by English musician Robin Scott, from the debut album New York • London • Paris • Munich.
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Progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.
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Pub rock (United Kingdom)
Pub rock is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
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Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).
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Radar Records
Radar Records was a UK-based record label formed in late 1977 by Martin Davis (managing director) who had previously worked at United Artists Records, and Andrew Lauder, who had previously been head of A&R at the UK divisions of Liberty Records and United Artists.
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Ralph McTell
Ralph McTell (born Ralph May; 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s. Robin Scott (singer) and Ralph McTell are English male singer-songwriters and English singer-songwriters.
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Record chart
A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period.
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Recording contract
A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording act (artist or group), where the act makes an audio recording (or series of recordings) for the label to sell and promote.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Riverdance
Riverdance is a theatrical show that consists mainly of traditional Irish music and dance.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott OBE (born Ronald Schatt; 28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was a British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.
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Roogalator
Roogalator was a pub rock band formed in London in 1972, by the US-born guitarist Danny Adler.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
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Sex (boutique)
Sex (stylised SEX) was a boutique run by Vivienne Westwood and her then partner Malcolm McLaren at 430 King's Road, London between 1974 and 1976.
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Sire Records
Sire Records (formerly Sire Records Company) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Records.
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Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.
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Steve Osborne
Stephen John "Steve" Osborne (born 1963) is a British record producer, living in Bath, England.
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Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock and pop rock. Robin Scott (singer) and Steve Winwood are English male singer-songwriters.
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Stiff Records
Stiff Records is a British independent record label formed in London, England, by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera.
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Surrey
Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Terry Britten
Terence Ernest Britten (born 17 July 1947) is an English-Australian singer-songwriter and record producer, who has written songs for Tina Turner, Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Status Quo and Michael Jackson amongst many others. Robin Scott (singer) and Terry Britten are English male singer-songwriters and English singer-songwriters.
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The Official Secrets Act (album)
The Official Secrets Act is M's second album, released in 1980 on Sire Records.
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The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien.
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The Slits
The Slits were a punk rock band based in London, formed there in 1976 by members of the groups the Flowers of Romance and the Castrators.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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Thomas Dolby
Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, producer, composer, entrepreneur and teacher. Robin Scott (singer) and Thomas Dolby are British male new wave singers, British synth-pop new wave musicians and English new wave musicians.
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Tony Levin
Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass.
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Top 40
In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.
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Trouser Press
Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and an acronymic play on the British TV show Top of the Pops).
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U2
U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, design, crafts, and architecture.
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Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022) was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.
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Wally Badarou
Waliou Jacques Daniel Isheola "Wally" Badarou (born 22 March 1955) is a French musician.
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World music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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Yukihiro Takahashi
was a Japanese musician, singer, record producer, and actor, who was best known internationally as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band.
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See also
Musicians from the London Borough of Croydon
- Algy Ward
- Andrew Skeet
- Ben Haenow
- Benga (musician)
- Bob Stanley (musician)
- Conrad Leonard
- Damon Reece
- Dornik
- Ego Ella May
- Florence Tyzack Parbury
- Frankmusik
- Freddy Kempf
- James Buckley (actor)
- Jonathan Vaughn
- Joseph Holbrooke
- Joy Orbison
- Les Nemes
- Lola Young (singer)
- Otis Grand
- Paul Simonon
- Peter Sarstedt
- Robin Scott (singer)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Steve James Sherlock
- Thomas Igloi
Singers from the London Borough of Croydon
- Algy Ward
- Ben Haenow
- Dane Bowers
- David McAlmont
- Des'ree
- Dickie Pride
- Dornik
- Ego Ella May
- Frankmusik
- Hardy Caprio
- Jamie Isaac
- Jimmy Justice (musician)
- Jords
- Kirsty MacColl
- Lola Young (singer)
- Osh (singer)
- Paul Simonon
- Peter Sarstedt
- Pozer
- Rachel Chinouriri
- Robin Scott (singer)
- Roxanne Tataei
- Sandy Green (singer)
- Stormzy
- ZieZie
References
Also known as M (artist).