Notable Delaware Musicians
- Spindrift
- David Bromberg
- Gary Allegretto, blues harmonica musician
- Clifford Brown, jazz trumpeter
- Cab Calloway, jazz band leader, retired to Wilmington, and died in Hockessin, Delaware
- Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell of the band Television. Attended school at St. Andrew's School. Verlaine would later briefly attend the University of Delaware.
- George Thorogood, blues/rock musician.
- Bob Marley lived in Delaware for a brief time, during which he was employed at the General Motors site in Newport.
- Boysetsfire, post-hardcore punk band,
- The Spinto Band
- Omnisoul
- The Caulfields
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