Musicians

Ofra Haza, whose real name was Bat-Sheva Haza, was an Israeli singer, actress, and Yemeni Jew. Known as the "Israeli Madonna", the "Middle Eastern Madonna" and the "Oriental Madonna".

Nicole Mary Kidman (AC) Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is an Australian and American actress and producer. She is well-known for her work in various types of commercial and independent films. She has been one of the highest-paid actresses in the world since the late 1990s. Her awards and nominations include an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a British Academy Film Award, six Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Volpi Cup. Kidman started his acting career in Australia, starring in the 1983 films "Christmas in the Jungle" and "The Roadster". In 1989, she rose to prominence by starring in "Over the Horizon" and the miniseries "Bangkok Hilton". She played a supporting role in "The King of Thunder" (1990), and subsequently starred in "Far From Home" (1992), "Whatever It Takes" (1995), "Batman Forever" (1995), "The Witcher" (1998) and "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), gradually gaining popularity in the international film industry. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performances in "Moulin Rouge" (2001), "End of Sorrow" (2010), "The Long Road Home" (2016) and "The Road to Ricardo" (2021). She played Virginia Woolf in "The Hours" (2002), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and shared with other actors the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. On the television front, Kidman produced and starred in the HBO series "Beauty" (2017-2019), for which she won the Best Limited Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie. Kim has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 1994 and a UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador since 2006. In 2006, she was awarded the Order of Australia. She was previously married to actor Tom Cruise and country musician Keith Urban, and they have two children from each marriage. In 2010, she founded the production company Blossom Films. In both 2004 and 2018, Time Magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world; in 2020, the New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. In 2003, she was also selected as a movie star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2024

Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003), formerly known as Eunice Kathleen Waymon, was an American singer, composer and pianist. Although most people think of her as a great jazz diva, Nina doesn't like to be classified as such. Her songwriting genres mainly include blues, rhythm and blues, and soul. Her singing style is characterized by emotional and breathy tremolo.

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American musician, songwriter, actor, and social movement figure. Nelson is one of the iconic figures of renegade country music, a genre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a riposte to the traditional, conservative Nashville sound of the time.

Willard Carroll "Will" Smith Jr. (English: Willard Carroll "Will" Smith Jr., September 25, 1968 -) is an American actor, film producer, and hip-hop singer. Will Smith has made remarkable achievements in the music, television and film industries. He has won 4 Grammy Awards, 1 British Academy Film Award, 1 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, 1 Golden Globe Award and 1 Academy Award. His representative works include "Jedi Men" (1995), "ID4 Star Terminator" (1996), "MIB Star Wars" (1997), "Will Smith: The King of Storm" (2001), "Mechanical Enemy" "(2004), "The Pursuit of Happiness" (2006), "I Am Legend" (2007), "Concussive Effect" (2015), "Suicide Squad" (2016) and "King Richard" (2021), etc. Among them, "Will Smith: The King", "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "Richard" earned him three Oscar nominations for Best Actor. In the end, he successfully won the Academy Award for the first time in 2022 with "Richard". At the same time, Will Smith was also rated as the world's most profitable movie star by Forbes. As of 2014, he has starred in seventeen roles in his twenty-four films, with cumulative global box office revenue exceeding $3.1 billion.

Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, FRS, KH (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, English: Frederick William Herschel, November 15, 1738 - August 25, 1822), was born in Hanover, Germany. He was a British astronomer and musician who made many astronomical discoveries, including Uranus. Known as the "Father of Stellar Astronomy".

Kenneth Brian Edmonds (English: Kenneth Brian Edmonds, April 10, 1959 -), whose stage name is Babyface, is a well-known American musician, film producer and entrepreneur. He was once a member of the group "The Deele". Babyface and his works have won a total of 12 Grammy Awards so far, and he has set a record of winning the Producer of the Year Award for three consecutive years.

Im Nayeon (Korean: Nayeon Lim/Lin Nayeon, Romanized: Im Nayeon; September 22, 1995 -), a South Korean KPOP female singer. She is also a member of the Korean KPOP girl group TWICE. On June 24, 2022, he became the first member of the group to debut solo with his first solo mini album "IM NAYEON".

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (French: Juliette Nadia Boulanger, pronounced: [ʒyljɛt nadja bulɑʒe]; September 16, 1887 – October 22, 1979), French music educator, composer, and conductor. She was born in a musical family in Paris. Her grandmother Marie-Julie is a musician, her grandfather Frederic is a cellist, her father Ernst Boulanger is a Prix de Rome winner, her mother Lysa Mushetzkaya is a Russian princess, and her sister Lily Boulanger is also a famous composer. She herself has been engaged in composition, and her oratorio "Mermaid" won second place at the Prix de Rome. But she is mainly known as an outstanding music teacher. She began teaching in 1907. Many famous musicians of the 20th century came from her students, including generations of American composers from Winston to Philip Glass, and made great contributions to the development of classical music in the United States in the 20th century. In addition to a large number of orthodox classical music composers, her students include the cross-border Argentinian tango master Piazzolla. In addition, she is also committed to the study of early music composers such as Monteverdi and Schutz.

Gong Min Ji (Korean: Gongminji, Romanized: Gong Min Ji, English: Gong Min Ji, January 18, 1994 -), stage name Minzy (Korean: Minji/Minji, Romanized: Min Ji), a Korean female singer and dancer, a member of the Korean girl group 2NE1. She is the main dancer, lead singer, rap leader and maknae of the team. She terminated her contract and left the company before the group was officially disbanded in 2016. YG Entertainment also announced her withdrawal from the group in the future, and later signed with Music Works to become a solo singer. On April 17, 2020, it was revealed that she had terminated her contract with Music Works. From July 21, 2024, he will become a member of 2NE1 again.

Sun Nan (February 18, 1969 -), a native of Dalian, Liaoning, is a male pop singer in mainland China and the captain of the football team of Mengzhou Star Sports Club.

Stefanie Sun Yanzi (English: Stefanie Sun Yanzi, July 23, 1978 -), a Singaporean Chinese female singer. In 2000, she made her debut in Taiwan with the album of the same name "Stefanie Sun". She became famous with the song "It's Dark" adapted from a Hokkien nursery rhyme. In 2001, she won several Best Newcomer Awards including the Taiwan Golden Melody Award, and then entered the entertainment circles in mainland China and Hong Kong. To date, she has won a total of 7 IFPI Hong Kong Record Sales Awards, 5 MTV Asia Awards and 1 MTV Japan Music Video Award. She has sold more than 20 million records in Asia. Her physical and digital albums have achieved impressive results in the Chinese region. She is the Singaporean and Malaysian female singer with the highest record sales in the Chinese music circle. Stefanie Sun has been nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer six times, and won the award in 2005 for her album "Stefanie".

Meng Jia (Korean: Manga, Romanized: Maeng Ga, English: Meng Jia; February 3, 1990 -), whose stage name is Jia (Korean: Zia, Romanized: Ji Ah), was born in Loudi City, Hunan Province, a Chinese female singer and dancer. In 2007, she joined JYP Entertainment as a trainee. On July 1, 2010, she officially debuted in South Korea as a member of the Chinese-Korean girl group miss A, serving as the lead singer and rap singer. On May 20, 2016, Meng Jia's contract with JYP Entertainment expired and was officially terminated. Subsequently, she signed the Banana Project on June 8 and returned to China for development. In 2020, Meng Jia was a member of the women's limited music group X-SISTER.

Utada Hikaru (Japanese: Utada Hikaru／Song Hikaru, Romanized: Utada Hikaru, January 19, 1983 -) is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter and music producer. His 1999 debut album "First Love" set the highest sales record in Japanese music history. Hikaru Utada was born in New York City, United States, the only son of music producer Terumi Utada and enka singer Keiko Fuji. In 1998, Hikaru Utada successfully launched a rhythm and blues trend in Japan after releasing his Japanese debut single "Automatic/time will tell" under his real name. Later, he established his position in the Japanese music scene with several best-selling albums such as "First Love", "Distance" and "DEEP RIVER". After Utada issued a declaration of "human activities" in 2010, he briefly left the music scene from 2011 to 2015, and then returned in 2016 and continues to be active in the music scene to this day. As a singer-songwriter, Utada Hikaru has been heavily involved in song creation since his debut. Later, he also began to participate in the arrangement and production of songs. He is one of the few top-level all-round singers in terms of lyrics, music, arrangement, supervision, and singing. With more than 37 million physical albums sold, he became the tenth-highest-selling singer in the Heisei era. Among the ten best-selling albums in the history of Japanese pop music, Utada Hikaru alone has three, including "First Love", which became the best-selling album of Japanese pop music with a sales volume of 7.69 million. The second album "Distance" was also the album with the highest single-week sales in global music history. The 2007 single "Flavor Of Life" also broke the world record for digital sales of songs at that time, and the number of downloads eventually exceeded 8 million. In addition, Hikaru Utada became the second-highest-paid musician in the Heisei era with an income of more than 7.6 billion yen, second only to Tetsuya Komuro. Utada also entered the European and American music scene and became the seventh Japanese singer in history to have an album in the top 100 of the Billboard 200 album chart, making him a well-known Japanese singer in Europe and the United States.

Anton Bruckner (German: Anton Bruckner, September 4, 1824 - October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music educator. He is famous for composing symphonies, masses and motets, as well as outstanding chamber music works such as string quartets and string quintets. His symphonies are considered representative of the final stage of German-Austrian Romanticism due to their rich sound structure, multiple polyphonic characteristics and grand structure. Bruckner's work has had a wide-ranging influence on contemporary musical activism with its use of dissonance, sudden modulations, and sustained harmonies. Unlike the rebellious musical radicals of his time, Wagner and Hugo Wolf, Bruckner was extremely humble towards other musicians, especially Wagner. This disparity between Bruckner as a person and as a composer makes it extremely difficult to describe his life and, through this description, to understand the context of his music. His works, especially his symphonies, have been criticized by many people. Prominent among the critics were the Austrian composer Eduard Hanslick and other supporters of Brahms (including Wagner's critics). They criticized the work for its length, repetitive melodies, and Bruckner's habit of constantly revising his works, often with the help of his colleagues, and for his indecision over which version to approve. It is precisely because Bruckner frequently and repeatedly revised the completed works that he created many versions of his symphonies, resulting in the famous "Bruckner Problem" in musicology. Although he had many critics, Bruckner also had many supporters, the most famous of whom was his student and friend Gustav Mahler. Hans von Bülow once commented that Bruckner was "a half-god and half-mad".

Anton Szandor LaVey (English: Anton Szandor LaVey, April 11, 1930 - October 29, 1997), formerly known as Howard Stanton Levey, was an American writer, musician and occultist. He is the founder of the Church of Satan and a promoter of Satanism. He has authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, Satanic Ritual, The Satanic Witch, The Devil's Notebook, and So Said Satan! 》. In addition, he has released three music albums, including "Satanic Mass", "Satan's Day Off" and "Weird Music". Ravi advocated a kind of Satanism based on individualism and indulgence in worldly pleasures. He does not believe that Satan is a spiritual entity. On the contrary, he believes that Satan is a literary symbol with secular value in the world. He declared that year as the first year of the Satanic Era on Walpurgis Night, April 30, 1966, established the Church of Satan, and wrote The Satanic Bible in 1969.

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (Czech: Antonín Leopold Dvořák, September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of national music. Following the example of Bedouiz Smetana, the nationalist figure of the Romantic period, Dvořák often used melodies and other aspects of folk music from Moravia and his native Bohemia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the Czech Republic) in his compositions. Dvořák's own style is often described as "absorbing the influence of folk songs and finding effective ways to use them, using the symphonic tradition to most fully reproduce the characteristics of a nation." His representative works include Symphony No. 9 "New World", Cello Concerto, "Slavic Dances", and the opera "Rusalka". He is considered "probably the most comprehensive composer of his time". His famous musician disciples include Su Ke, who is also his son-in-law, and military music composer Fuchik.

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (Italian: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, March 4, 1678 - July 28, 1741), an Italian composer, violinist, and Roman Catholic priest, known as the "red-haired priest" (il prete rosso), was good at composing concertos (Concerto). He is world-famous for his violin concerto "The Four Seasons", which has become one of the most famous musical works in the history of classical music. Vivaldi is considered one of the most influential musicians in Baroque music, and his fame was already spread throughout contemporary Europe during his lifetime. Vivaldi made many innovations based on the Baroque style. Vivaldi and two other Baroque musicians, Bach and Handel, are known as the "Three Masters of the Baroque".

An Yu-jin (Korean: Yujin Ahn/An Yuzhen, Romanized: An Yu-Jin, Japanese: Ahn Yoo Jin; September 1, 2003 -) is a Korean idol, K-pop singer and model. She serves as the captain and vocal of STARSHIP Entertainment's well-known female music group IVE, and was once a member of the limited group IZ*ONE.

Amuro Namie (Japanese: Amuro Namie／Amuro Namie, Romanized: Amuro Namie, Ryukyuan: Amuro Namie／Amuru Namikue , Romanized: Amuru Namikuwē; September 20, 1977 -) Japanese female singer, born in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, is a Ryukyu tribe with a quarter of Italian ancestry (the mother is of mixed Ryukyu and Italian descent). She has titles such as "Queen of Japanese Pop Music" and "Japanese Diva". In 1992, she debuted as a member of the girl group Super Monkey's. In 1995, Amuro, who was under 18 years old, joined the Komuro family and released a solo record. She immediately became a super queen in the Japanese music scene and started a fashion trend called "Amuro Phenomenon". Together with Tomomi Hanahara, she was the most representative fashion leader in East Asia in the second half of the 1990s. She even has broad popularity around the world. Namie Amuro's music works have sold nearly 40 million copies in Japan so far. From her debut to the eve of her retirement, she had more than 8 million-selling music works. She is one of the best-selling Asian female singers from the end of the 20th century to the present. The record company is Dimension Point, a subsidiary of Avex, and the management company is Stella88, a studio established by himself. On September 20, 2017, Amuro announced that he would retire on September 16, 2018, the 26th anniversary of his solo debut. According to statistics from "Nikkan Sports" newspaper, Amuro's concerts in the past 25 years have attracted about 5 million people, and a total of 716 concert tours have been held. Looking at Amuro's 26-year singing career, she is the only female singer and solo singer who can have singles in the top ten for 23 consecutive years. Amuro, who became Japan's super diva at the age of 19, also faced a lot of pressure in her private life, such as her mother's murder, divorce, and being a single mother. Amuro is considered one of the most successful singers in the history of Japanese pop music. Her single "CAN YOU CELEBRATE?" also ranks as the highest-selling single in the history of Japanese female singers with nearly 2.3 million copies. This record is still maintained to this day; and this single is also a very popular wedding music used by modern Japanese.

Andrea Bocelli is a blind Italian singer. He is a classical crossover music tenor, and is a crossover music singer between classical music and pop music, such as British soprano Sarah Brightman and New Zealand soprano Hayley Westra.

Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. In Chinese-speaking areas, Anton Rubinstein is generally called by his first name and surname to distinguish him from his brother Nikolai Rubinstein, who is also a pianist, or from the modern Polish piano master Artur Rubinstein.

Angela Aki (Japanese: Angela Aki; September 15, 1977 -), whose real name is Aki Seimei Angela (installEI Sei Shimei angela／free space Kiyomi Angela, aki kiyomi anjera) is a Japanese female singer-songwriter of Japanese-Italian descent. She was born in Itano Town, Itano County, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. My favorite nickname is Anji. He is characterized by wearing glasses and speaks Awa dialect (the local dialect of Tokushima Prefecture). Usually they play the piano and sing by themselves.

Song Zuying (August 13, 1966 -), female, Miao nationality, native of Guzhang, Hunan, Chinese singer, member of the Communist Party of China, graduated from the National Vocal Music Major of the China Conservatory of Music, with an on-the-job postgraduate degree and a doctorate in art. He once served as vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, representative of the 9th National People's Congress, and member of the 10th, 11th and 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Was nominated as Secretary-General of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 2004, he was elected as the torch bearer for the Beijing Olympic Games in Athens. On August 7, 2008, he served as the torch bearer for the Beijing Olympic Games and lit the cauldron at the Altar of Earth. She has appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 24 consecutive years and is the only singer in the world who has continuously sang for the World Cup (2002 Japan and South Korea), the Olympic Games (2008 Beijing), and the World Expo (2010 Shanghai). In December 2006, the album "A Century of Sound" was nominated for "Best Classical Mixed Music Album" at the 49th Grammy Awards, and won the Kennedy Arts Gold Medal in 2007. October 12th is "Song Zuying Day" in Washington, DC.