List of Irish American musicians
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This is a list of famous Irish American musicians.
[edit] Musicians
- Kirk Hammett - metallica founder/ musician
- Tori Amos - singer/songwriter and musician
- Michelle Branch[1] Is part Irish through her father.
- Chris Byrne[2]
- Mariah Carey[3]
- Nick Carter - Member of The Backstreet Boys
- Dennis Casey - Flogging Molly member[4]
- Ken Casey[5] - Bass player and vocalist for the Boston based punk rock band, Dropkick Murphys
- Celtic Spring[6]
- Rosemary Clooney[7]
- George M. Cohan[8]
- Judy Collins[9]
- Chris Cornell - lead singer of Soundgarden[10]
- Billy Corgan - lead singer, guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins[11]
- Bing Crosby[12]
- Howie Dorough - Member of The Backstreet Boys. He is 50% Irish by his father.
- Jimmy Dorsey[13]
- Tommy Dorsey[14]
- Tommy Dunn- Irish American singer/songwriter whose 1976 album "Down by the Glenside" was a huge hit in the New York area and played extensively on WFUV radio.
- Everlast (1969 - ) singer-songwriter, known for his genre-crossing mix of rap and acoustic-based rock music[15]
- Eileen Farrell[16]
- John Fogerty - singer/songwriter Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Judy Garland[17]
- Victor Herbert[18]
- James Hetfield - founder of Metallica
- Jonas Brothers
- Alicia Keys[19]
- Dave King[20]
- Larry Kirwan[21]
- Lorna Luft[22]
- John McCormack[23]
- Mike McColgan - Former lead singer of the Dropkick Murphys, now the vocalist of the Street Dogs
- Tim McGraw, American singer (both parents have Irish ancestry)
- Katharine McPhee- American singer, runner-up on season 5 of American Idol
- Mandy Moore, singer and actress (father is Irish)
- Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter of The Doors
- Gerry Mulligan[24]
- Virginia O'Brien [25]
- Aubrey O'Day, member of the group Danity Kane
- Seth Putnam[26]
- Carmel Quinn[27]
- Kevin Richardson - Member of The Backstreet Boys
- Bianca Ryan[28]
- Chris Trousdale (1985 - ) singer, former member of Dream Street[29]
- Shania Twain, singer
- Ace Young[30]
- Brendon Urie, Lead Singer of Alternative band Panic At The Disco
- Christina Aguilera, father Ecuadorian, mother Irish American
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ [1] Mike: I learned that your dad is Irish, and your mom is Dutch Indonesian and French.
- ^ [2] "Irish-American recording artist Chris Byrne, familiar to Irish music fans as Seanchai (pronounced SHAN-a-kee), and as a founder of the Irish musical group, Black 47..."
- ^ [3] "I've always said that my father is half black and half Venezuelan and my mother is Irish. But people don't understand... They can't fathom that I'm African American, Venezuelan and Irish."
- ^ The punk of the Irish :: Honolulu Weekly
- ^ [4] "Ken Casey’s Boston-Irish immigrant family experience is in many ways very similar..."
- ^ [5] "Born into a family of Irish descent, the Wood children, Elizabeth, (20), Deirdre, (18), Sean, (16), Patrick, (14), and Maire, (10), reside in the rural Ojai Valley in Southern California, with their parents and their little brother, Aidan"
- ^ [6] "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..."
- ^ [7] "For Cohan, the spirit of Ireland thrived in the large Irish-American communities of New York, Boston and his native Providence. To be Irish in America was, for him, to be an American with a proud ancestral heritage."
- ^ [8] "I was born with the Irish virus. That's easy. I came by it honestly through centuries and centuries of ancestors, I am sure..."
- ^ [9] "I'm Irish: If I could get the cap off something, I would drink it."
- ^ "I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens."
- ^ [10] "Bing’s mother was of Irish descent and his father was descended from a maritime family." [11]
- ^ [12] "heritage Irish"
- ^ [13] "Irish-American trombonist Tommy Dorsey, more than two years younger (according to recently unearthed baptismal papers) than his clarinetist and alto saxophonist brother Jimmy..."
- ^ [14] "OH, FOR THE DAYS when Everlast was Irish, angry, and proud of it."
- ^ [15] [16] "The daughter of Irish-American vaudeville singers..."
- ^ [17][18] "What would "White Christmas" have sounded like if Bing Crosby (great-grandfather from Co. Cork) hadn't made it a hit? Ditto for "Over the Rainbow", sung by Judy Garland (grandmother Fitzpatrick from Dublin), whose popularity in Ireland was so great that the song It's A Great Day for the Irish was written especially for her."
- ^ [19] "Victor Herbert, an Irish-born American composer and conductor of operettas and light music..."
- ^ [20] Her mother is Irish-Italian..."
- ^ [21] "For Dave King, the Dublin-born singer/guitarist/songwriter of SideOneDummy recording group Flogging Molly..."
- ^ [22] "Irish playwright and musician Larry Kirwan" [23] "Larry Kirwan, a native of Wexford on the southeast coast of Ireland, writes the songs of Black 47..."
- ^ [24] daughter of Judy Garland and (half) sister of Liza Minnelli "and developed the powerful Irish charm and sense of style that stayed with him for the rest of his life. My family has sometimes survived on (Irish) charm alone."
- ^ [25] "John McCormack ( Irish Tenor )" [26] "...was one of the greatest singers of this century, born in Ireland in 1884 to working class parents."
- ^ lphares.com
- ^ [27] "Her Irish father was the captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department and later the city’s deputy district attorney."
- ^ [28] "I’m half English and half Irish." [29] "Basically I’m.. if you really want to know my ethnic background... I’m a quarter Irish and a Quarter English. My father’s side of the Family was English and they came here in 1630. And my mother’s side of the family... there was a potato famine."
- ^ [30] [31] "show is an evening of songs and stories based on Quinn's early life in Dublin..."
- ^ The Bob Rivers Show: 11-year-old singing sensation Bianca Ryan shows us why she's got talent
- ^ Trousdale - [32] "Well my background is Greek and something called Black Irish. It’s an ethnic Irish. It’s not the blonde haired blue eyed Irish. My mom can almost look Spanish. She has really dark dark eyes. So it’s basically like an Italian Irish or a Spanish Irish. It’s dark. So yeah, Greek and Black Irish..."
- ^ "No one really sounds like me. I'm German-Irish but for some reason I have soul in me. I've always had it - ever since I was a kid. So I'm bringing my spirit and my heart because every song I sing, I'm telling a story."
