List of Refugees - Music and Dance

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