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| King of pop, Music Videos, Career highlights |
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| German electro group, influence on disco and hip-hop |
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| First full-time songwriter in america, mid 19th century |
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| Popular black dance band leader, arranger for vernon & irene castle |
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| Classic blues musician, recorded st louis blues, known as the empress of the blues |
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| Beatles, singer & song writer, collaboration with michael jackson on That girl is mine |
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| Metal Guitarist, Jump, Collaboration with Michael Jackson on “Beat It” |
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| Beatles: mutual influence |
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| Early Rock n Roll musician, new guitar technique |
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| Psychedelic rock, soul, funk |
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| The godfother of soul and the father of funk |
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| White hip-hop act, fusing hardcore punk aesthetics with hip-hop techniques |
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| The Jazz Singer, belting style of singing, popularity, blackgace performances, Tin Pan Alley |
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| Social Commentary – Public Enemy |
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| Producer for several Michael Jackson albums |
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| Multiple influences, cover versions, unusual rhythmic meters, male audience, influence on metal |
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| Nashville sound – 1960s country and pop star/style |
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| alternative rock band, incorporated elements of folk rock |
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| Unofficial group of 1970s country singers including Waylon jennings & Willie Nelson |
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| Folk rocker, went electric at the Newport Folk Festivel in 1965 |
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| Song writing team for motown, particularly the supremes |
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| White musicians who combined blues & hillbilly musical styles |
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| First recording star of country blues, example of East Texas style |
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| one of the earliest known pioneers of the Mississippi Delta country blues style |
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| Later mississippi delta country blues musicians, influenced later rock stars like eric clapton |
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| Ragtime composer and pianist, famous for Maple Leaf rag, The Entertainer, Etc. |
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| Major Soul singer, Respect |
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| Radio DJ who promoted African-American musicians, coined and the term rock n roll |
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| Combined crooning style with bel canto, first pop superstar to create mass hysteria at concerts |
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| Seattle-born guitair hero, combined blues with psychedelic music, new uses of electric guitar |
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