Hans Hugo Harold Faltermeier is a German musician, composer and record producer. Faltermeyer is best known for composing the “Axel F” theme for the feature film Beverly Hills Cop, an influential synth-pop hit in the 1980s. He also composed the “Top Gun Anthem” for the feature film Top Gun.
Irving Berlin was a Russian-American composer, songwriter and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook.
Yusuf Islam, commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, later in his career, Islamic music. He returned to making secular music in 2006. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of … Read more
Daniel Alomía Robles was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song “El Cóndor Pasa” in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts — of the same name. This song was based on Andean folk songs and is possibly the … Read more
The Byrds were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964. The band underwent multiple lineup changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn (known as Jim McGuinn until mid-1967) remaining the sole consistent member. Although their time as one of the most popular groups in the world only lasted for a … Read more
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. Her album She’s So Unusual (1983) was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—”Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, “Time After Time”, “She Bop”, and “All Through the Night”—and earned Lauper … Read more
Angelo Badalamenti is an American composer, best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga (1990–1992, 2017), The Straight Story, and Mulholland Drive. Badalamenti received the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his “Twin Peaks Theme”, and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award … Read more
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor, known professionally as Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Taking inspiration from aristocracy for her stage name, she is known for her unconventional musical styles and introspective songwriting. Her music is primarily electropop with elements of dream pop and indie-electro.
Julie and the Phantoms is an American musical comedy-drama streaming television series created by Dan Cross and David Hoge that was released via streaming on Netflix on September 10, 2020.
Stephen Collins Foster, known also as “the father of American music”, was an American composer and songwriter known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs.