Profiles — Musicians

Musicians

Singers, players and composers, and the records and performances that carried their work.

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction.

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British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)

Douglas Adams

Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter.

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British actor, comedian, composer and musician (1935–2002)

Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer.

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Welsh singer (born 1984)

Duffy

Duffy Jones, known mononymously as Duffy, is a Welsh singer and actress.

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American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)

Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life.

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Dutch singer

Duncan Laurence

Duncan de Moor, known professionally as Duncan Laurence, is a Dutch singer and songwriter.

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British singer (1939–1999)

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer.

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Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.

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German writer (1776-1822)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.

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