Jason Joel Desrouleaux, better known by his stage name Jason Derulo, is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Since the start of his solo recording career in 2009, Derulo has sold over 30 million singles and has achieved eleven Platinum singles, including “Wiggle”, “Talk Dirty”, “In My Head”, and “Whatcha Say”. After producing records for … Read more
Javier Navarrete is a Spanish composer of film scores. His most famous score, for which he received an Oscar nomination, was for Pan’s Labyrinth (his second collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, the first being The Devil’s Backbone). Navarrete was born in Teruel. His scores include Whore, Tras el cristal, Dot the i, and other Spanish … Read more
Jay Ungar is an American folk musician and composer. Ungar was born in the Bronx (New York City). He frequented Greenwich Village music venues during his formative period in the 1960s. In the late 1960s, he became a member of Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys and later, the Putnam String County Band. … Read more
Jeffrey Lawrence Williams is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator. Williams was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on July 6, 1950. His mother was a singer in the 1960s. Williams began playing the drums, self-taught, at the age of seven and played professionally from his mid-teens. From 1968, “he studied arranging and composition at … Read more
Jeremiah Clarke was an English baroque composer and organist, best known for his Trumpet Voluntary, a popular piece often played at wedding ceremonies. Clarke was one of the pupils of John Blow at St Paul’s Cathedral and a chorister in 1685 at the Chapel Royal. Between 1692 and 1695 he was an organist at Winchester … Read more
Jeremy Soule is an American composer of soundtracks for film, television, and video games. He has composed soundtracks for over 60 games and over a dozen other works during his career, including The Elder Scrolls, Guild Wars, Icewind Dale, and Harry Potter series. He became an employee of Square in 1994 after several years of … Read more
Jessica Ellen Cornish better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English singer-songwriter. Born and raised in London, she began her career on stage, aged 11, with a role in the West End musical Whistle Down the Wind. She studied at the BRIT School before signing with Gut Records and striking a songwriting … Read more
Kim Seok-jin (born on December 4, 1992), also known by his stage name Jin, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and member of the South Korean boy band BTS since June 2013. Kim was scouted for the group while in university and joined Big Hit Entertainment as an actor, eventually transitioning to a Korean idol. … Read more
Jodi Marie Benson (nee Marzorat) is an American actress, voice actress and singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voice of Disney’s Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequel, prequel, and television series spinoff. Benson voiced the character Barbie in the 1999 Golden Globe-winning movie Toy Story … Read more
Mamoru Fujisawa (Fujisawa Mamoru), known professionally as Joe Hisaishi, is a Japanese composer and musical director known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi is also known for his piano scores. While possessing a stylistically distinct sound, Hisaishi’s music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including … Read more