Kitarō taught himself how to play guitar. He says of teaching himself, "I never had education in music, I just learned to trust my ears and my feelings." He gives credit for his creations to a power beyond himself. "This music is not from my mind," he said. "It is from heaven, going through my body and out my fingers through composing. Sometimes I wonder. I never practice. I don't read or write music, but my fingers move. I wonder, 'Who's song is this?' I write my songs, but they are not my songs.

Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb were born on the Isle of Man to English parents. They sang three-part tight harmonies that were instantly recognizable; as brothers, their voices blended perfectly. They co-wrote most of their hits, and they said that they felt like they became 'one person' when they were writing. It has been estimated that the Bee Gees' record sales total more than 220 million, easily making them one of the best-selling music artists of all-time. Foremost stars of the disco music era in the late 1970s.

Amy Winehouse is the first British singer to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist.

Édith Piaf (1915— 1963) was a French singer and cultural icon who "is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer." Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being the ballads. Although she was denied a funeral mass by the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris because of her lifestyle, her funeral procession drew tens of thousands of mourners onto the streets of Paris and the ceremony at the cemetery was attended by more than 100,000 fans.

Yusuf Islam best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam. As 'Cat Stevens', he has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including the 2004 Man for Peace award and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In March 2006, Yusuf Islam finished recording his first all-new pop album since 1978 The album, An Other Cup. On CBS Sunday Morning in December 2006, Yusuf Islam said, "You know, the cup is there to be filled ... with whatever you want to fill it with..."

Rachid Taha is an Algerian-French musician. Politically-engaged, he has always stood up to defend democracy, tolerance and altruism against racism, fundamentalism and discrimination.

Bollywood is commonly referred to as Hindustani cinema. Shahrukh Khan, شاہ رخ خان, born 2 November 1965, is a highly acclaimed Indian actor who works in Bollywood films, as well as film producer and television host. He made his film debut with the commercially successful Deewana (1992). Khan's statue is in Madame Tussauds wax museum, London. Khan has been chosen for the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Literature) award of the French government for his exceptional career.

Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab (عمرو دياب‎) (born October 11, 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of jeel music. Diab has become one of the highest selling Middle Eastern artists of all time, as he was awarded "The World Music Award" 3 times; 1998, 2002 & 2007, as being the best selling Middle Eastern singer .

Published in 1929, but the song is best known today as the centerpiece of the 1952 musical film Singin' in the Rain. Its listed as number 3 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs. The film offers a comic depiction of Hollywood's transition from silent films. Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer and stunt man...

The Uyghurs are one of the 56 official nationalities in China, and Uyghur is an official language of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. ئۇيغۇر people are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Uyghur neighborhoods can be found in major Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Uyghur Religion is Sunni Islam.

Arash has been top of the charts in Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Israel, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Sweden, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Czech Republic. He has gone gold in 5 countries: Germany, Russia, Slovenia and Greece for his album, Arash, and in Sweden for "Boro Boro".

Armstrong grew up at the bottom of the social ladder, in a highly segregated city, but one which lived in a constant fervor of music, which was generally called “ragtime”, and not yet “jazz”. Despite the hard early days, Armstrong seldom looked back at his youth as the worst of times but instead drew inspiration from it, “Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine—I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans...It has given me something to live for