Music
- Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz pianist, composer/arranger, and bandleader
- Nadia Ali of the music group iiO
- Amerie, R&B/pop singer
- Steve Aoki electro house, musician, record producer and the founder of Dim Mak Records.
- apl.de.ap (Lindo) of The Black Eyed Peas
- Jin Au-Yeung, a pioneer in the Asian-American hip-hop scene
- Sameer Bhattacharya, a guitarist in the Texas alternative rock band Flyleaf
- Cassie, an R&B singer
- Angelin Chang, a Grammy Award-winning pianist and renown music professor
- Jeff Chang, a music critic and historian of hip-hop culture
- Jocelyn Enriquez
- Far East Movement, the first Asian-American group to be in the Top 10 in Mainstream Pop charts
- Ming Freeman, keyboardist/pianist
- Lisa Furukawa, Japanese-American folk singer, songwriter, and pianist
- Matt Heafy, a guitarist and vocal of band Trivium.
- Nichkhun Horvejkul, member of South Korean boy group 2PM
- Magdalen Hsu-Li, out bisexual Chinese American singer-songwriter recording artist, poet and artist.
- Chad Hugo, musician and producer, member of The Neptunes and N.E.R.D.
- William Hung is a contestant from American Idol
- Tiffany Hwang, Korean American member of girl group SNSD.
- Enrique Iglesias, whose mother, Isabel Preysler, is Filipino
- James Iha, formerly the guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins
- Norah Jones, Musician, Grammy Award winner, daughter of Ravi Shankar.
- Jessica Jung, Korean American member of girl group SNSD.
- Krystal Jung, member of South Korean girl group f(x)
- Nicole Jung, member of South Korean girl group KARA
- Tony Kanal, Two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt.
- Jeff Kashiwa, smooth jazz saxophonist
- Kelis, R&B singer
- Eli Kim, member of South Korean boy group U-KISS
- Amber Josephine Liu, member of South Korean girl group f(x)
- Yo-Yo Ma renowned cellist
- Bruno Mars singer-songwriter, music producer
- Zubin Mehta, Conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Dawn Xiana Moon, singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist (also arts and culture critic)
- Natalise, Burmese-Chinese singer
- Ne-Yo, R&B singer, songwriter, and actor.
- Justin Nozuka, singer and songwriter.
- Seiji Ozawa Boston Symphony Conductor
- Paperdoll (band), Indie band from NYC fronted by Asian American Teresa Lee.
- Jay Park, a Korean-American singer, rapper, bboy & actor. Also famous in South Korea as the former leader of South Korean boyband 2PM.
- Mike Park was the singer of Skankin Pickle and currently runs Asian Man Records
- Mike Relm is a scratch video DJ who has toured with the Blue Man Group
- Nicole Scherzinger, singer and former member of The Pussycat Dolls.
- Mike Shinoda and Joseph Hahn are successful Asian Americans in the popular rap rock band Linkin Park.
- Vienna Teng, folk and pop singer-songwriter
- Kim Thayil, Guitarist for Grammy Award winning rock group Soundgarden
- Hikaru Utada, Japanese-American singer-songwriter active in both Japan and United States; her single Devil Inside topped the U.S. Billboard Dance Chart.
- Kevin Woo, member of South Korean boy group U-KISS
- Catalina Yue, Chinese-Japanese-American pop singer-songwriter
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“As if, as if, as if the disparate halves
Of things were waiting in a betrothal known
To none, awaiting espousal to the sound
Of right joining, a music of ideas, the burning
And breeding and bearing birth of harmony,
The final relation, the marriage of the rest.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Where should this music be? I’ th’ air, or th’ earth?
It sounds no more.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When in our music God is glorified,
and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried Alleluia!”
—Frederick Pratt Green (b. 1903)