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 containing the words popular and/or music:
“The best of us would rather be popular than right.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“While the music is performed, the cameras linger savagely over the faces of the audience. What a bottomless chasm of vacuity they reveal! Those who flock round the Beatles, who scream themselves into hysteria, whose vacant faces flicker over the TV screen, are the least fortunate of their generation, the dull, the idle, the failures . . .”
—Paul Johnson (b. 1928)