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folk and pop music > 20s:
American folk:
 Bing Crosby (US)

folk and pop music > 30s:
American folk:
 Woody Guthrie (US)
 The Mills Brothers (US)

folk and pop music > 40s:
American folk:
  Pete Seeger (New York, US)

folk and pop music > 50s:
American pop:
 Marilyn Monroe (Los Angeles, US)
French pop:
 Edith Piaf (Paris)
German pop:
 Marlène Dietrich
French and Belgium song writers:
 Georges Brassens (South of France)
 Jacques Brel (Brussels, Belgium & Paris, France)
 Léo Ferré (France)
 Serge Gainsbourg (Paris, France)
 Boris Vian (Paris, France)

folk and pop music > 60s:
American folk:
 Arlo Guthrie (US)
 Lee Hazelhood & Nancy Sinatra (US)
John Sebastian (US)
Simon & Garfunkel (US)
Bruce Springsteen (US)
American pop:
The Beach Boys (California, US)
The Righteous Brothers (California US)
The Velvet Underground (with singer Lou Reed) (New York, US)
British pop:
 Rod Stewart (London, UK)
French pop:
 Barbara (Paris, France)
De Giafferi
 Juliette Greco (South of France)
Blues rock:
Jeff Beck
 Canned Heat (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Chicken Shack
 Derek & The Dominos (New York, NY, US) (incl. guitarist Eric Clapton)
 Free (London, UK)
 Fleetwood Mac (London, UK) (including Peter Green)
 J. Geils Band (Boston, MA, US)
 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Chicago, IL, US)
 Al Kooper (solo) (Brooklyn, NY, US) „membe rof Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Blues Project)
 John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (UK)
 Ten Years After (Nottingham, UK)
 The Allman Brothers Band (US)
 The Band (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
British invasion [1, 9] / British psychedelia:
Dave Berry
 Blind Faith (UK) (with Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech and Eric Clapton)
Blossom Toes
Arthur Brown
Cream (incl. guitarist Eric Clapton)
Dantalian’s Charriot
Donovan
 Fairport Convention (UK)
Family
Herman’s Hermits
John’s children
The Beatles
The Dukes of Stratosphear
The Rolling Stones
The Small Faces
The Who
 Traffic (Midlands, UK)
American psychedelia / American west coast:
 Big Brother & The Holding Company (San Francisco, CA, US)
 Michael Bloomfield (solo) (Chicago, IL, US) (member of Electric Flag and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
 Blue Cheer (San Francisco, CA, US)
 Buddy Miles (US)
 Country Joe McDonald & The Fish
 Electric Flag (Chicago, IL, US)
 Moby Grape (San Francisco, CA, US)
 Jerry Garcia & Grateful Dead (San Francisco, CA, US)
 Iron Butterfly (San Diego, CA, US)
 Jefferson Airplane (San Francisco, CA, US)
 Janis Joplin (US)
 Erkin Koray (Istanbul, Turkey)
 Pearls before Swine (US)
 Quicksilver Messenger Service (San Francisco, CA, US) (with singer Dino Valente, guitarist John Cipollina, singer Jim Murray, bassman David Freiberg, drummer Greg Elmore and guitarist Gary Duncan)
 The Byrds (Los Angeles, CA, US) (with Roger McGuinn)
 The Doors (Los Angeles, CA, US)
 The Jimi Hendrix Experience (US, and then UK)
American & Canadian writers:
 Tim Buckley (US)
 Leonard Cohen (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
 Nick Drake (US)
 Bob Dylan (US, original name Robert Allen Zimmerman)
 Tim Hardin (US)
 Richie Havens (Brooklyn, NY, US)
 Melanie (Safka) (US)
 Joni Mitchell (Canada)
 Tom Waits (California, US)
French song writers:
 Graeme Allwright (France, but from New Zealand)
 Charles Aznavour (France)
 Jacques Dutronc (Paris, France)
German song writers:
 Jackson Browne (Germany)
British and Irish song writers:
 Van Morrison (solo) (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

folk and pop music > 70s:
British pop:
David Bowie (London, England, UK)
French pop:
Brigitte Fontaine
Catherine Ribeiro
Philippe Chatel
Maxime Leforestier
Renaud
American folk / American blues rock:
 Crosby, Still, Nash and Young (US)
 Eagles (Los Angeles, California US)
 Little Feat (Los Angeles, CA, US)
 Elliott Murphy (US and then Paris, France)
British pub rock:
 Dr. Feelgood (Canvey Island, England, UK) (with singer Lee Brilleaux and “Fender Telecaster” guitarist Wilko Johnson)
American song writers:
 Neil Young (California, US) (ex-The Squires, ex-Buffalo Springfield, ex-Crosby Still Nash & Young)
 Stephen Stills (Dallas, Texas, US) (ex-Buffalo Springfield, ex-Crosby Still Nash & Young)
 Lou Reed (solo) (Brooklyn, NY, US) (ex-The Velvet underground)
 Lucinda Williams (US)
British song writers:
 Elton John (England, UK)
French song writers:
Nino Ferrer
Jacques Higelin
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

folk and pop music > 80s:
British, Irish, Scotish and Australian pop:
 Buggles (England, UK)
 Edwyn Collins (Edimburgh, Scotland, UK)
 Culture Club (with Boy George) (London, England, UK)
 Eurythmics (London, England, UK) (with Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart)
 Everything But The Girl (EBTG) (Hull, England, UK) (with Ben Watt and Tracy Thorn)
 INXS (Sydney, Australia)
 Happy Mondays (Manchester, England, UK)
 Inspiral Carpets (Manchester, England, UK)
 Madness (Camden, London, England, UK)
 Midnight Oil (Sydney, Australia)
 Kylie Minogue (Melbourne, Australia)
 Shack (England, UK) (with singer Michael Head ex-The Pale Fountains)
 Talk Talk (London, England, UK)
 Tears for Fears (Bath, England, UK)
 The Pale Fountains (Liverpool, England, UK) (with singer Michael Head)
 The Smiths (Manchester, England, UK) (with singer Morrissey, Craig Gannon, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce)
 U2 (Dublin, Ireland)
American pop:
 Madonna (New York, NY, US)
French pop:
Axel Bower
Patrick Coutin
Etienne Daho
Mano Negra
Manu Chao
Marc Seberg
 Marquis de Sade
Plastic Bertrand
Les Rita Mitsouko
Iceland pop:
 The Sugar Cubes (Reykjavik, Iceland) (with singer Bjork)
American underground:
 Hüsker (Minneapolis, Minneapolis, US) (with Grant Hart, Bob Mould, Greg Norton)
 Phish (Burlington, VT, US)
 Pixies (Boston, Michigan US) (with Franck Black, Kim Deal, David Lovering and Joey Santiago)
 R.E.M. (Athens, Georgia, US)
 Sonic Youth (New York, NY, US) (with Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon and Jim O’Rourke)
 The Thrown Ups (US)
 Wipers (Portland, Oregon, US)
 Yo La Tengo (Hoboken, New Jersey, US)
American song writers:
 Tracy Chapman (Cleveland, Ohio, US)
 Chris Isaak (Californa, US)
British song writers:
 Ben Watt (England, UK)
French song writers:
Arno
Alain Bashung
Dominic Sonic

folk and pop music > 90s:
American pop:
 Fountains of Wayne (New York, NY, US)
 The Walkabouts (Seattle, Washington, US)
Belgian pop:
 dEUS (Antwerp)
British, Irish, Scotish and Australian pop:
 Belle and Sebastian (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
 Blur (Colchester, England, UK)
 David Byrne (Dumarton, Scotland, UK) (ex-Talking Heads)
 Haven (Cornwall, UK)
 Kula Shaker (London, England, UK) (with singer and guitarist Crispian Mills)
 Manic Street Preachers (Blackwood, Wales, England, UK)
 Morrissey (solo) (Manchester, England, UK)
 Muse (Teignmouth, Devon, England, UK)
Painful
 Oasis (Manchester, England, UK)(with Liam and Noel Gallagher)
 Placebo (London, UK) (with singer Brian Molko)
 Primal Scream (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
 Pulp (Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK) (with singer Jarvis Cooker)
 Radiohead (Oxford, England, UK)
 Ride (Oxford, England, UK)
 Shed Seven (York, England, UK)
 Slowdive (Reading, England, UK)
 Suede (England, UK)
 Super Furry Animals (Cardiff, Wales, England, UK)
 Supergrass (Oxford, England, UK)
 The Auteurs (London, England, UK)
 The Bluetones (Hounslow, England, UK)
 The Boo Radleys (Liverpool, England, UK) (with Martin Carr)
 The Charlatans (80s) (Manchester, England, UK) (with singer Tim Burgess)
 The Divine Comedy (Londonderry, Northern Ireland) (with singer Neil Hannon)
 The La’s (UK)
 The Stone Roses (Manchester, England, UK)
 The Verve (Wigan, England, UK) (with singer Richard Ashcroft)
 The Wedding Present (Leeds, England, UK)
 Tindersticks (Nottingham, England, UK) (with singer Stuart Staples)
 Travis (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
French pop:
Natacha Atlas
Au p’tit bonheur
 Autour de Lucie (with singer Valérie Leulliot, guitarist Olivier Durand then Jean-Pierre Ensuque and bassist Fabrice Dumont)
 Jane Birkin
 Philippe Katerine
 Les Wampas (with Didier Wampas aka Didier Chappedelaine)
 Louise Attaque (with singer / guitarist Gaëtan Roussel, bassist Robin Feix, drummer Alexandre Margraff, violonist Arnaud Samuel)
 ‘M’ aka Mathieu Chédid
Mano Solo
Noir Désir
No One is Innocent
Vanessa Paradis
Pink Martini
Sergent Garcia
 [Saint Etienne] (not french !)
 Stereolab
 Tahiti 80 (with singer Xavier Boyer, bassist Pedro Resende, guitarist Mederic Gontier and drummer Sylvain Marchand)
 The Little Rabbits
Scandinavian pop:
 The Cardigans (Jönköping, Sweden)
Spanish pop:
 Luz Casal
American underground and grunge:
 Steve Albini (Chicago, US) (solo) (ex-Big Black)
 Alice in Chains (Seattle, Washington, US)
 Beat Happening (Olympia, Washington, US)
 Beck (Los Angeles, California, US)
 Blood Circus (US)
 Cake (Sacramento, California, US)
Cat Butt (US)
 Dinosaur Jr (US)
 Fastbacks (Seatlle, Washington, US)
 Steve Fisk (US)
 Foo Fighters (Seattle, Washington, US) (with singer Dave Grohl)
 Free Kitten (New York, NY, US) (with Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth)
 Garbage (Madison, Wisconsit US)
 Girl Trouble (US)
 Grandaddy (Modesto, California US) (with singer guitarist and keyboardist Jason Lytle)
  Green River (Seattle, Washington, US) (with singer Mark Arm)
 Hole (Los Angeles, California US) (with singer Courtney Love)
 Iron & Wine (Columbia, SC, US) (with singer Samuel Beam)
 Ivy (New York, NY, US)
 Jane’s Addiction (Los Angeles, California, US) (with singer Perry Farrell)
 L7 (Los Angeles, California, US)
 Terry Lee Hale (US)
 Mercury Rev (Buffalo, NY, US)
 Mudhoney (Seattle, Washington, US) (with singer Mark Arm, whose word “grungy” comes from)
 Neutral Milk Hotel (Athens, Georgia, US)
 Nirvana (Seattle, Washington, US) (with singer and guitarist Curt Cobain and drummer Dave Grohl, future Foo Fighters)
 Pavement (Stockton, California, US) (with singer Stephen Malkmus)
 Pearl Jam (Seattle, Washington, US)
 Porno for Pyros (with singer Perry Farrell from Jane’s Addiction)
 Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA) (US) (with singer and guitarist Josh Homme)
 Silver Jews (New York, NY, US) (with Stephen Malkmus)
 Smashing Pumpkins (Chicago, Illinois, US)
 Smog (with singer Bill Callahan)
 Soundgarden (Seattle, Washington, US)
 Sparklehorse (US)
 John Spencer Blues Explosion (New York, NY, US)
 Stone Temple Pilots (US)
  Sugar (US) (with Bob Mould, ex-singer and guitarist of Hüsker )
Swallow (Seattle, Washington, US)
 Tad (Seattle, Washington, US)
 The Amps (US) (with singer and guitarist Kim Deal from The Breeders and Pixies)
 The Breeders (US) (with Kim Deal from Pixies)
 The Chemistry Set (US)
 The Dandy Warhols (Portland, Oregon, US)
 The Flaming Lips (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US)
The Fluid (US)
 The Jesus Lizard (Chicago, Illinois, US)
 The Melvins (Aberdeen, Washington, US)
The Night and the Days (US)
 The Screaming Trees (US) (with singer Mark Lanegan)
 Weezer (US)
 Wilco (US)
 Dweezil Zappa (Los Angeles, California, US) (son of Frank Zappa)
British, Irish and Scotish noise pop:
  Lush (London, England, UK)
  My Bloody Valentine (Dublin, Ireland, UK) (with Kevin Shields)
  The Jesus and Mary Chain (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
American and Canadian song writers:
 Jeff Buckley (Orange county, California, US) (son of Tim Buckley)
 Cat Power (Georgia, US) (with singer Chan Marshall)
  Sheryl Crowe (Kennett, MO, US)
 Ben Harper (California, US)
 Lenny Kravitz (New York, NY, US)
 Alanis Morissette (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
 Liz Phair (New Haven, Connecticut, US)
 Elliott Smith (Los Angeles, California, US)
British song writers:
 PJ Harvey (with singer and guitarist Polly Jean Harvey)
French song writers:
 Arthur H
 Dominique A.
 Thomas Fersen
 Jean-Louis Murat
 Kat Onoma (with Rodolphe Burger and Philippe Poirier)
 Yann Tiersen

folk and pop music > 2000s:
Bang Gang
 Beulah
  Broken Social Scene (with member Leslie Feist)
 Coldplay
 Death Cab for Cutie
 Doves
 Elbow
  Franz Ferdinand
 Girls in Hawaii
Gorillaz
 Interpol
JJ72
 Kings of Leon
Leaves
 Lift to Experience
 My Morning Jacket
Slo-Mo
 Starsailor
Stellastarr
 Stereophonics
The Arcade Fire
The Calling
 The Dead 60s
The Decemberists
 The Electric Soft Parade
The Jeevas
 The Kingsbury Manx
 The Music
The New Pornographers
 The Shins
The Servant
 The Warlocks
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Turin Breakes
  Yeah yeah yeahs
American and Canadian pop:
 Maroon 5 (Los Angeles, California, US)
British and Australian pop:
 Alfie (Manchester, England, UK)
The Baby Shambles (with Pete Doherty)
 The Bees (2000s) (Isle of Wight, England, UK)
 The Coral
The Dirty Pretty Things (with Carl Barat)
 The Libertines (with Pete Doherty and Carl Barat)
  The Vines (Sydney, Australia)
French pop:
A.S. Dragon
Astonvilla
 Déportivo
 Charlotte Gainsbourg
 Nouvelle Vague
 Phoenix
 Poney Express (with singer / guitarist Anne Berthe, ex-Tétard, bassist Robin Feix, ex-Louise Attaque)
 Télépopmusik (with Fabrice Dumont, from Autour de Lucie, Stephan Haeri and Christophe Hetier)
Yan et les Abeilles
Spanish pop:
 Los Planetas
Deluxe
La Habitacion Roja
Love of Lesbians
Sexy Sadie
Sidonie
American underground and post-grunge:
 A Place To Bury Strangers (APTBS) (Brooklyn, NY, US)
 Audioslave (Los Angeles, California, US) (with singer Chris Cornell from Soundgarden, and former members of Rage Against The Machine)
 Destroyer (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (US)
American R&R revival:
 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC)
 Hoggboy
 The Strokes
American and Canadian song writers:
Amy Bezunartea
 Feist (Canada) (with singer and guitarist Leslie Feist)
 Jennifer O’Connor (Connecticut, US)
  Josh Rouse (Nebraska, US)
British song writers:
  Badly Drawn Boy (UK) (with guitarist and singer Damon Gough)
Pete Doherty (solo) (UK)
French song writers:
 Guillaume Aldebert
Andréel
 Keren Ann (with Keren Ann Zeidel)
 Camille Bazbaz (former member of punk-rock band Cri de la mouche)
 Bénabar
 Rodolphe Burger (from Kat Onoma)
 Cali
 Camille (aka Camille Dalmais, ex-singer of Nouvelle Vague)
 Etienne Charry
 Vincent Delerm
 Thomas Dutronc
 Renan Luce
 Christophe Miossec

mise à jour: 12 juillet 2009
droits d’auteur: Jérôme Pons 2006-2009

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