RIP Wailers percussionist Secco Patterson with Bob Marley (left), The Gap Band’s Ronnie White (right)
A
Richie Albright - Waylon Jennings drumnmer
Susan Anyway - singer with The Magnetic Fields
Astro (nee Terence Wilson) - UB40 singer
B
Rodney Bakerr - Chicago house DJ
Chris Barber - British jazz trombonist
Franco Battiato - Italian singer-songwriter-composer
Byron Berline - Kansas-born C&W fiddler
Biz Markie (nee Marcel Hall) - New York rapper
Black Rob (nee Robert Ross) - New York rapper
Charlie Black - Country & Western songwriter
Jay Black (nee David Blatt) - lead singer of Jay and the Americans
DeWayne Blackwell - Country & Western songwriter
Tim Bogert - Vanilla Fudge; Cactus; Beck, Bogert & Appice bassist
Mick Bolton - Mott the Hoople, Dexys Midnight Runners keyboardist
Juini Booth - Buffalo-born jazz bassist
Sérgio Brandão - Brazilian bassist
Sheila Bromberg - British harpist, played on The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home"
Hux Brown - Jamaican guitarist with Toots & the Maytals
Jeff Brown - Austin-based singer/guitarist, played with Shinyribs
James Burke - The Five Stairsteps singer
Bunny Wailer (nee Neville Livingston) - original member of Bob Marley & the Wailers, won three Grammys
Ron Bushy - Iron Butterfly drummer
C
Captain Rock (nee Ron Green) - New York rapper
Ian Carey - EDM DJ
Cassiano (nee Genival Cassiano) - Brazilian singer-songwriter
Malcolm Cecil - British jazz bassist, synthersizer pioneer
Michael Chapman - British singer/songwriter/guitarist
Louis Clark - Electric Light Orchestra arranger
Chick Corea - jazz pianist, won 25 Grammys
Commander Cody (nee George Fraye) - leader of the band Commader Cody & HIs Los Planet Airmen
Paul Cotton - Poco singer-songwriter and guitarist
Count M'Butu (nee Harold L. Jones) - Derek Trucks Band percussionist
D
Sarah Dash - singer with LaBelle and the Rolling Stones
John Davis - Milli Vanilli vocalist
Tommy DeBarge - member of Ohio R&B group Switch
Dee Pop (nee Dimitri Papadopoulos) - Bush Tetras drummer
Deezer D (nee Dearon Thompson) - rapper/actor
Morris "B.B." Dickerson - War bassist
DJ SqueakPIVOT (nee Javunte Wheeler) - Chicago-based DJ
DMX (nee Earl Simmons)- New York-born rapper
Double K (nee Michael Turner) - People Under the Stairs rapper
