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Eunice Kathleen Waymon (21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, soul, folk, rhythm and blues, gospel, and pop. Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on 21st February 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA, one of eight children. Read more on Last.fm

David Grusin (born June 26, 1934 in Littleton, Colorado) is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger whose works in films and TV have garnered him numerous awards. Grusin has a filmography of about 100 credits with many awards including an Oscar for best original score for The Milagro Beanfield War, as well as Oscar nominations for The Champ, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Firm, Havana, Heaven Can Wait, and On Golden Pond. He also received a best original song nomination for "It Might Be You" from the film Tootsie. Read more on Last.fm

Bruno Hoffmann was a German player of the glass harp. Hoffmann is widely acknowledged as the virtuoso who reanimated contemporary interest in the glass harp and glass harmonica. The son of a church music director, he was trained in piano and organ playing, but on encountering the "musical glasses" at age 16 his lifelong devotion to resurrecting this unearthly beauty was begun. He discovered and mastered the old repertoire for glass harp by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read more on Last.fm

Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero are two fast-fingered Mexicans with a unique sound created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock and often imbued with timeless Hispano – classical influences. The fire in their music comes from their life-long passion for metal music. In spring 2006, “Rodrigo y Gabriela,” beat both the Arctic Monkeys AND Johnny Cash to number one in the Irish charts. Both Read more on Last.fm

The Smashing Pumpkins, also known simply as Smashing Pumpkins, are an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1988 by vocalist and guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Since the band's formation, Corgan has been its principal songwriter and only constant member. The current line-up consists of Corgan, Iha and Chamberlin. The band's music combines elements of alternative rock with influences from gothic rock Read more on Last.fm

Richard Melville Hall (born 11 September 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold approximately 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic has described him as among the most significant figures in early 1990s dance music, noting his role in bringing the genre to a wider mainstream audience in both the United States and the United Kingdom. After learning guitar and piano at the age of nine Read more on Last.fm

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Klein is a London-based experimental electronic producer and recording artist. Signed to Hyperdub in 2017, she released 'Tommy EP' as a follow up to her first two self-released projects 'Only' and 'Lagata'. She has since founded labels ijn inc. and Parkwuud Entertainment. Her music, through mostly sound collage, is heavily influenced by a variety of genres, including R&B and gospel. She has received praise from other artists who share similar creative interests, such as Arca and Mica Levi. She was selected by Björk to tour with her in 2018. Read more on Last.fm

Vanessa Wagner (born 11 June 1973, in Rennes) is a French classical pianist. She studied in the class of Dominique Merlet at the Conservatoire de Paris. At 17, she won the first prize, and went on to study with Jean-François Heisser. On the recommendation of the pianist Leon Fleisher, she took up a place at the Academy at Cadenabbia, in Italy, where her teachers included Fleisher himself, Fou Ts'ong, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Murray Perahia and Alexis Weissenberg. Read more on Last.fm