List of Seventh-day Adventists - Art and Music

Art and Music

• Harry Anderson – Prolific American illustrator whose early works were popular paintings illustrating short stories in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Redbook. Later became well known for his religious paintings commissioned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Mormons. He is a member of the Illustrators Hall of Fame.
• Terry Benedict – assistant director in Hollywood - producer of The Conscientious Objector, a film about fellow Adventist and World War II U.S. medic Desmond Doss
• Beryl Subia - (Poet)African feminist poet who has written and performed at many events, her poetry has evoked vivid reactions from different quarters. Her works also include African political poetry. She is a communication expert who has her own Public Relations firm in Kenya.
• Herbert Blomstedt – Conductor who does not rehearse on Saturdays due to his Adventist faith.
• Patty Cabrera – recording artist
• Bill Chambers – (former) - Australian Country and Western singer. Left church back in early 1980s after accepting Desmond Ford's view on the Heavenly Sanctuary
• Kasey Chambers – (former) - Australian Country Singer. Left church in 80s because her family did not support the Investigative Judgment doctrine
• Charmaine – Singer/songwriter, and former member of Australian vocal group Endless Praise. Signed to Elevate Records, she has toured with Rebecca St. James, Casting Crowns, Jeremy Camp and others.
• Alejandro R. Cuadra – Costa Rican outside artist.
• Jerome Fontamillas – Filipino American musician
• Nathan Greene – Artist. His painting "Family of God" hangs prominently at the Loma Linda University Medical Center and the painting "Chief of the Medical Staff" hangs in Florida Hospital Orlando.
• The Isley Brothers – Grammy Award winning American musical group consisting of brothers Ron and Ernie Isley.
• IYAZ – R&B Singer, Rapper and song writer - Born Keidran Jones of the Virgin Islands. Grew up in church and still goes from time to time.
• Hugh Martin – American theater and film composer.
• Brian McKnight – Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, radio host and 2009 Celebrity Apprentice contestant
• Brandon October – A South African pop singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after being runner-up in the first season of the reality television show Idols. October grew up in the Adventist church and regularly sang in church services in Johannesburg and Cape Town. He was also a member of a number of Christian music groups within the Adventist community in South Africa, including No Compromise where he featured on their 2001 album Strange
• Wintley Phipps – Singer and songwriter. He is also an ordained pastor.
• Prince – (former) - raised in the church, later converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses
• Busta Rhymes – (former) - American rapper, producer and actor, raised in Brooklyn by Seventh-day Adventist Jamaican-immigrant parents, he later converted to Islam.
• Little Richard – (former) - raised in the church, later became a preacher, attends the Ephesus Adventist church in Los Angeles and others. He considers himself an active Adventist still. He has been reported as an ordained Adventist minister, although the denomination has denied this, suggesting he may be ordained in another denomination, hence ordained and Adventist; rather than ordained as an Adventist minister
• Robert Edwin Seamount – Member of The King's Heralds quartet, Second Tenor 1941-1947, 1949-1961. Pastor 1961–1964 for churches in the San Juan Islands. Public Relations for Texas Conference 1969-1974.