Popular Music
Akron has also produced a diverse range of popular musical artists, such as:
- rock singer/guitarist/songwriter Chrissie Hynde, lead singer for The Pretenders
- blues-rock band The Black Keys
- soul singer James Ingram
- country singer David Allan Coe
- new wave band Devo
- post-rock band If These Trees Could Talk
- rock bands Chi-Pig and Hammer Damage
- rock n roll artists Robert Quine, Glen Buxton, Rick Renstrom, Lux Interior, Tin Huey, and Jani Lane
- R&B singers Howard Hewett, James Ingram, and Ruby Nash Curtis
- protopunk band Rubber City Rebels
- heavy metal singer Tim "Ripper" Owens
- jazz musician Jeff Golub
- folk musician Len Chandler
- guitarist Dominic Frasca
- drummer Neal Smith
- baroque pop songwriter Pete Nischt
- singer-songwriters Joseph Arthur, Roger Hoover, and Brian Lisik
- vocalist Helen Jepson
- various artists Ralph Carney, Buckner & Garcia, Harvey Gold, Rachel Sweet, Vaughn Monroe, Liam Lynch, Russell Oberlin, Nikola Resanovic, Mike Lenz, and The Waitresses
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Famous quotes related to popular music:
“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of this musical esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)