Music and Dance
- Peter Andre - Pop singer. parents from ethnically cleansed region of Cyprus
- Carlos Acosta - ballet dancer with the Royal Ballet, London and a Cuban refugee
- Norbert Brainin - Austrian-Jewish violinist and refugee
- Gloria Estefan - her father was a Cuban refugee
- Justine Frischmann - lead singer of Elastica. Her father was a Hungarian refugeeBeirut,
- Mika - singer-songwriter from Beirut, Lebanon one of five children
- Wyclef Jean Haitian refugee. Named group Fugees (short for refugee).
- M.I.A. - English-born singer. Part of a Tamil Sri Lankan refugee family
- Bob Marley - Fled Jamaica to M
- Fritzi Massary - Austrian-Jewish operetta singer and refugee
- Freddie Mercury - Fled massacre of Indians in Zanzibar with his family.
- Olivia Newton-John - singer and actress - granddaughter of refugee Max Born
- Arnold Schoenberg - composer
- Claude-Michel Schonberg - composer whose works include Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. He is the son of refugees
- Gene Simmons-Member of Kiss. His mother was a Holocaust survivor.
- Sir Georg Solti - conductor and refugee
- Oscar Straus (composer) - Austrian-Jewish composer and refugee
- Robert Stolz - Austrian composer/conductor and refugee
- Richard Tauber - Austrian-Jewish singer, composer and refugee
- Georg Ludwig von Trapp - father of the Trapp family, whose story inspired The Sound of Music after fleeing Nazi occupied Austria
- Maria von Trapp - autobiography, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, inspired The Sound of Music
- K'Naan - Somali "The Dusty Foot Philosopher" Hip Hop Artist now living in Toronto, Canada
- Karl Marx - political theorist and German refugee
- Sitting Bull - Sioux chief. He left America for Canada
Read more about this topic: List Of Refugees
Famous quotes containing the words music and/or dance:
“A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“I could dance yet—only had a good fiddle—I like music. A good fiddle always starts the Negro, even if he’s old.”
—Sylvia Dubois (1788?–1889)