Musicians

Yuko Nakazawa (June 19, 1973 -) is a singer, artist, and host born in Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto Prefecture, and is also a member of Morning Musume. The first generation captain is also the oldest among all the members in history. He was also the captain of Hello! Project.

Hisaishi Joe (Japanese: Hisaishi Yield／Hisaishi affection, romanized: Hisaishi Jō, December 6, 1950 -), whose real name is Fujisawa Mamoru, is a Japanese composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. Born in Nakano City, Nagano Prefecture, graduated from the Composition Department of the National University of Music. The stage name "Hisaishi Joe" comes from his idol, the African American musician and producer Quincy Jones. He chose the Chinese character "Kuishi Jō", which has a similar pronunciation to "Quincy Jones", and then changed the pronunciation of "Kuishi" from the pronunciation to the pronunciation, and it became the current stage name (Hisaishi Jō). His main musical activity is to create film soundtracks, especially works by directors such as Hayao Miyazaki, Takeshi Kitano, and Nobuhiko Obayashi. In 2015, Joe Hisaishi won the Japan Film Awards Best Music Award eight times and the Japan Film Awards Music Award seven times. In 2009, he was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal by the Japanese government. In addition to film scores, Joe Hisaishi is also committed to classical music composition, and his works include symphonies, concertos, string quartets and other minimalist music.

George Harrison, MBE (English: George Harrison, February 25, 1943 - November 29, 2001), was a British guitarist, musician, singer, composer, music and film producer, who is world-famous as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. Although John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the band's main songwriters, most of their albums contained at least one Harrison song, including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something". The latter is the second most cover version of the Beatles song. Since 1965, the Beatles' albums have included at least two songs by Harrison.

Georges Bizet (French: Georges Bizet, pronounced: [ʒɔʁʒ bizɛ]; born Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; October 25, 1838 - June 3, 1875) was a French composer during the Romantic period. He was an opera composer who died young, and his composition career was not smooth during his lifetime. After his death, his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and most frequently performed works in the entire operatic repertoire. Bizet received many awards while studying at the Paris Conservatoire, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognized as an outstanding pianist in the academy, but he did not make a living playing the piano and rarely played in public. After studying in Italy for nearly three years, he returned to Paris and discovered that the Paris Opera favored famous and established operas over budding composers. As a result, most of his keyboard and orchestral works were ignored by the opera houses of the time, causing his career to stagnate and he needed to make a living by arranging and arranging other people's music. Even so, he still desired success and wrote many plays in the 1860s, most of which were abandoned. The two operas he composed during this period - "The Pearl Fishers" and "Le Belle Dame Perth" - were not premiered. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, Bizet served in the National Guard. After the war, his one-act opera "Jamile" was not successful. However, the incidental music he wrote for Alphonse Daudet's play "Les d'Allais" was adapted into an orchestral suite and became popular among the public. Bizet was concerned that Carmen's themes of betrayal and murder would offend audiences, so he delayed production of Carmen. After its premiere on March 3, 1875, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure. Three months later he died of a heart attack. Bizet was happily married to his wife, Genevieve Allévi, and they had a son. After his death, except for "Carmen", his works were generally ignored by the public. His manuscripts were lost and his works were often rewritten and adapted by others. He founded no school, trained no disciples, and had no successors. After being ignored for many years, his works began to gain popularity and be performed more frequently in the 20th century. After his death, critics praised him as a talented and original composer and considered his early death a great loss to the French opera world.

Giorgio Armani (Italian: Giorgio Armani, Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒordʒo arˈmaːni]; July 11, 1934 – September 4, 2025) was an Italian fashion designer best known for founding the eponymous brand Armani. In his early years, he rose to prominence through his collaboration with the fashion brand Cerruti 1881. After establishing his own company in 1975, his business gradually expanded to music, sports, luxury hotels and other fields. In 2001, Armani was recognized as Italy's most successful designer and is known for pioneering red carpet fashion. At the time of his death, his fashion empire was valued at more than $12.1 billion. Armani is credited with revolutionizing fashion in the 1970s, with his minimalist and deconstructed silhouettes reflected in his famous soft jackets and unstructured suits. He transformed the elegance of men's and women's clothing into modern, simple and sophisticated styles, and is known as a pioneer in red carpet fashion and celebrity styling.

Yu Xiaoguang (May 16, 1981 -), born in Dandong, Liaoning, is a Chinese actor, pop singer, and composer. He graduated from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama.

Yu Zhenhuan (September 30, 1977-) is known as "China's first hairy boy". According to Guinness World Records, he is the person with the largest body hair coverage in the world, reaching more than 96%, with a density of 41 hairs per square centimeter and an average hair length of 4.2 centimeters.

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (English: Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, Amharic: አቤል ተስፋዬ, ʾÄbel Täsfaye, February 16, 1990 -), whose stage name is The Weeknd, is nicknamed Potted Brother and Music Demon in the Chinese circle. He is a Canadian singer, songwriter, music producer and dancer. In late 2010, Tesfaye uploaded some songs to YouTube and signed them as "The Weeknd". In 2011, he released three nine-song mixtapes: "House of Balloons", "Thursday", and "Echoes of Silence". These mixtapes were widely praised. The following year, he released the compilation album Trilogy, which consisted of thirty cover tracks mixed with different elements, as well as three additional songs. This album is jointly released by Lianzhong Records and XO. In 2013, The Weeknd released his first studio album "Kiss Land", with the title songs "Kiss Land" and "Live For". His second studio album, "Wild Beauty," became his first album to top the Billboard 200 album chart. Among them, the single "Worth It" ranked in the top five of the "Billboard" Hot 100 Singles Chart, and "The Hills" and "Unstoppable Love" ranked first on the "Billboard" Hot 100 Singles Chart. The above-mentioned singles were both in the top three of the "Billboard" Hot R&B Songs Chart, making him the first singer in history to occupy the top three of the "Billboard" Hot R&B Songs Chart. He has won two Grammy Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. In September 2016, The Weeknd announced that he would release a new album "Star News" and released two singles: "Star News" and "Wrong Love". In November 2019, The Weeknd returned and released two singles "Heartless" and "Blinding Lights". In February 2020, The Weeknd announced the title of the new album "After Hours", released a single of the same name, and announced that the album would be released one month later. On March 20, 2020, the new album "Black Tide Moment" was officially released. On the 23rd, The Weeknd released "Dark Tide Moment (Deluxe Edition)". On January 7, 2022, the next chapter of "The Dark Tide Moment" was released as a surprise, "Dawn"

Alexander Nikolayevich Skryabin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин; Romanized: Aleksander Nikolayevich Skryabin; January 6, 1872 – April 27, 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. He is both a mystic and a pioneer in the transition from romantic music to atonal music.

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (Russian: Александр Константинович Глазунов, Romanized: Aleksandr Konstantinovič Glazunov (August 10, 1865 - March 21, 1936), also translated as Glazunov, Glazunov, Glaznov, Russian composer, music educator and conductor. He served as director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1906 to 1917. He later participated in the reorganization of the Petrograd Conservatory and later the Leningrad Conservatory and continued to serve as director until 1930. Glazunov's most famous student during his tenure as dean was Dmitri Shostakovich. In 1928, Glazunov left the Soviet Union and traveled to Europe and the United States, finally settling in Paris. Glazunov became famous quite early. His early works were close to the style of the powerful group. Later, he tried to integrate the strong group and Tchaikovsky styles in his works, and made extensive use of counterpoint. Glazunov's musical orchestration is rich in color, melodies are beautiful, and his writing skills are superb. Glazunov was essentially an instrumental composer, especially known for his orchestral, ballet and chamber music. He is also a rare Russian composer who wrote organ works. Glazunov was once ignored and forgotten in the history of music, and his works were rarely performed or recorded in public. Glazunov's nine symphonies, like Gustav Mahler's nine symphonies, were once regarded as unworthy of discussion and insignificant symphonic creations in the history of music because they were neither avant-garde nor classical enough. However, as the historical positioning of Mahler's symphonies gradually settled, the world's music industry finally began to be curious about the value of the symphonies left by Glazunov and re-evaluate them. In the late 20th century, his complete symphonies and orchestral works have become the most astonishing to senior classical music fans. They have asked many questions, but they have been suffering from a set of "missing links" that cannot be collected. Glazunov's works have sweet and romantic melodies, rich orchestrations, and rich Russian sentiments. As an important link in the history of symphony between Tchaikovsky's Russian romantic school and Shostakovich's modern music school, many record companies and conductors began competing to record the complete works of Glazunov's symphonies at the same time.

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Romanized: Aleksandr Porfiryevich Borodin; November 12, 1833 – February 27, 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist. One of the major Russian composers of national music at the end of the 19th century. He formed a powerful group with Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Guy, and Mussorgsky.

Adam Mitchel Lambert (January 29, 1982 -), American male singer. His mother is Jewish and his father is Norwegian. He stood out from the talent show "American Idol Season 8" in 2009 and was regarded as the favorite to win. In the end, he lost votes due to sexual orientation discrimination and lost votes. Chris Allen said after winning the championship: "Adam should be the champion, I'm sorry, I don't know what to think right now, this is crazy." Time called him the first openly gay pop star in the United States. In 2010, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The first album "For Your Entertainment" was released on November 23, 2009. In the first week after its release, the album ranked third on the Billboard charts, with sales exceeding 198,000 copies.

Adam Noah Levine (English: Adam Noah Levine, March 18, 1979 -) is an American male singer, songwriter, record producer and actor, the lead singer and guitarist of the pop rock music group Maroon 1. In addition to performing as the lead singer of Magic Red, he also performs personal music activities. He is also a mentor on the American talent show "The Voice".

Arthur Schopenhauer (German: Arthur Schopenhauer, pronunciation: [ˈaʁtuːɐ̯ ˈʃoːpn̩haʊɐ]; February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher and the founder of voluntarism. His ideas had a profound influence on modern academic and cultural circles. Unlike his contemporaries Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, Schopenhauer did not eliminate the thing-in-itself. He inherited Kant's distinction between the thing-in-itself and representation, believing that it can be known through intuition, and identifying it as will. Schopenhauer believed that will is independent of time and space. It also includes all reason and knowledge. We can only get rid of it through meditation. Schopenhauer linked his famous philosophy of pessimism to this doctrine, arguing that being dominated by the will ultimately only brings nothingness and suffering. His repressed, distorted understanding of the mind's surrender to organs, desires, and impulses inspired later psychoanalysis and psychology.

Iggy Pop (English: Iggy Pop, April 21, 1947 -), whose real name is James Newell Osterberg, Jr., is an American singer and musician who sometimes participates in theater performances. Iggy Pop is considered an influential innovator in music genres such as punk rock. Iggy Papp originally served as the drummer for the band Iggy and the Stooges. In 1967, inspired by the success of The Doors, he changed the band's name to The Stooges. Their music style has been described as primitive and decadent rock.

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a turning point in modernist music.

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz Pascual (Spanish: Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz Pascual; May 29, 1860 – May 18, 1909) was a Spanish composer and pianist. Albéniz's music creation was strongly influenced by Andalusian folk music. His piano works have superb performance skills and rich and complex harmonies and rhythms. He was the first native Spanish composer to introduce Spanish folk music to European audiences.

Wu Bai (January 14, 1968 -) was born in Suantou Village, Liujiao Township, Chiayi. His real name is Wu Junlin. Taiwanese male rock music singer, music producer, and concert conductor. He has been active as the lead singer and lead guitarist of the rock band "Wu Bai & China Blue" for a long time. However, the public is still accustomed to calling him Wu Bai instead of the full group name.

Hugh John Mungo Grant (English: Hugh John Mungo Grant, September 9, 1960 -) is a famous British actor and film producer. He has played characters from the British middle and upper classes many times. In 1987, he won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival for "Maurice's Lover". In 1994, he won the British Academy Film Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Film for "You Are My Bride".

Leonard Bernstein (English: Leonard Bernstein, August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990), a Ukrainian-Jewish American composer, conductor, author, music educator, and pianist. Bernstein conducted a wide range of repertoire, ranging from Baroque to modern works, especially Romantic works. Among them, the works of Mahler, who is also a Jewish conductor and composer, are the most important.

Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 - February 8, 2023 ), American singer. He is also a songwriter, composer, record producer and pianist. He has won six Grammy Awards and three Oscars in his lifetime. His genre of music is pop, for which he was best known from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Most of the lyrics for his band were written by Buckrick and David (see chart for band members). Most of the band's hit singles were written by Dionne Warwick, but early work on the band was done by Kat McDaniels and Kat Pitney. Following the band's initial success, Buckrick went on to sing for The Carpenters, Springfield, Bobby Gentry, Jack DeShannon, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B.J. Thomas and others. As of 2014, Buckrick has had 73 singles and 52 singles in the top 40 in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively.

He Liangchen (March 4, 1992 -) is a Chinese male singer, opera and musical actor. He graduated from Sichuan Conservatory of Music with a bachelor's degree. In 2014, he won the championship in the bel canto adult category and the pop singing adult category in the 8th Singapore China-Singapore International Music Competition. In 2019, he participated in the second season of "Sound into the Heart" as a baritone singing member and became the chief member of the year.

He Jie (March 25, 1986 -), female, Yi ethnic group, her original name is Demu Aguo, a native of Guiyang, Guizhou, and a Chinese singer. Graduated from the Popular Music School of Sichuan Conservatory of Music. In 2005, she participated in China Hunan Satellite TV's "Super Girl" and was promoted to the annual finals as the third place in the Chengdu singing area. On August 19, 2005, she was eliminated in the "5 out of 3" competition and became the fourth place in the annual finals. Now a freelance artist, he signed with Taiwan Aihui Music Co., Ltd., and his first solo album "Luminous Body" was released in August 2006. The second album "Obviously Not Angel" was released in November 2007. The first TV series "Beautiful Decibel" also known as "Super Girl" was broadcast in 2006. On June 12, 2008, he participated in the Olympic Torch Relay as the 204th Beijing Olympic Torchbearer in Guiyang Station. In June 2009, he unilaterally proposed to terminate the contract with the brokerage company Tianyu, and officially left Tianyu in August. On August 15, 2011, He Jie wore a pure white floor-length wedding dress to appear at the Huayi Brothers signing conference, announcing that she was officially "married" to the new owner. On behalf of the company, Huayi Brothers President Wang Zhonglei put on a diamond ring worth six figures and named He Jie a "Mainland Love Singer".

Denise Ho (English: Denise Ho, May 10, 1977 -), a Canadian Hong Kong female singer, actress and social activist, one of the founding members of the Great Love Alliance, is the first mainstream female singer in the Hong Kong music scene to come out publicly. Born in Hong Kong, he immigrated to Canada with his family when he was 11 years old and obtained nationality. In 1996, after winning the 15th Rookie Singing Contest co-organized by TVB and China Star Records, he signed with China Star Records and made his official debut. Denise Ho officially launched her debut EP "First" in 2001 and has released 12 studio albums so far. The songs cover homosexuality, mental illness, disadvantaged groups, politics and other social issues. The diversity of themes and music is rare in the Hong Kong music scene. She has won many awards including the Gold Award for the Most Powerful Female Singer and My Favorite Female Singer. Since 2010, she has shifted her career focus to Taiwan and released "Unknown. She has two Mandarin albums "Poetry" and "Coexistence", which made her twice nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer. She is a representative Hong Kong singer who has entered the Taiwanese music scene. In 2011, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his official debut, he collaborated with director Lin Yihua on the stage play "Jia Baoyu", which toured more than 100 shows in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and mainland China. In 2015, facing the changes in Hong Kong society, she left the record company and transformed into an independent singer. In 2014, Denise Ho supported the "Occupy Central" movement and the Taiwan Sunflower Student Movement. In 2019, Denise Ho participated in the anti-extradition movement and attended the U.S. Congressional hearings with Joshua Wong and others. In 2021, Denise Ho was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to publish seditious publications. After being detained for more than 30 hours, she was successfully released on bail on the afternoon of the 30th. As an artist in the Hong Kong music scene who participates in social movements and speaks out for social justice, Denise Ho was named one of the Top 100 Women of the Year by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2016. On the eve of International Women's Day in 2020, Japan's Nikkei Asian Review named her as one of the 11 pioneering women in Asia on the cover of its magazine. Ho's personal documentary "Denise Ho: Becoming the Song" was screened at the Frameline Film Festival from June 25 to 28, 2020. It will be released in North America on July 1 and in Japan on June 5, 2021. The documentary was also selected for the special reception unit of the 21st Tokyo New Writers Film Festival in 2020 and the 31st Melbourne Queer Film Festival in 2021.