Musicians

A list of links dedicated to musicians who bring good music into this world.

Algeria  + Souad Massi | سعاد ماسي
Armenia  + Arman Hovhannisyan | Արման Հովհաննիսյան + Inga and Anush Arshakyan | Ինգա և Անուշ Արշակյաններ  + Sirusho | Սիրուշո
Australia  + The Axis of Awesome  + The Crooked Fiddle Band + Gurrumul (f)+ Spiral Dance + Tetrafide Percussion + Tommy Emmanuel + Yothu Yindi
Belarus  + Alesia Unukoŭskaja
Brazil  + Arandu Arakuaa + Chico Buarque + Uakti
Bulgaria  + Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
Canada  + The Arrogant Worms + Artcirq + La Bottine Souriante + Captain Tractor + The Duhks + Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan + Great Big Sea + Leahy +  Matthew Lien  + Matt Maher  + Melodika + Mes Aïeux  + Natalie MacMaster + Spirit of the West + Susan Aglukark + Tanya Tagaq Gillis + Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie  + Le Vent du Nord + Vishtèn
Chile  + Misión País
China  + Akšan | ᠠᡴᡧᠠᠨ | 宋熙东 + Hanggai | 杭盖 + Kurash Sultan + Tan Dun | 谭盾
Colombia + Magín Díaz y el Sexteto Gamerano (f)
Czech Republic + Hradišťan & Jiří Pavlica + Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák + DVA
Denmark  + Sorten Muld
Egypt + U Turn Team (sc)
England + Afro Celt Sound System + Cornwall Fiddle Orchestra + Florence and the Machine + Igudesman and Joo + Kaikhosru Sorabji + Oysterband
Estonia + Arvo Pärt + Greip + Mari Pokinen + Tuļļi Lum (m)
Faroe Islands + Eivør Pálsdóttir
Finland + Gjallarhorn + Jouhiorkesteri + Kuunkuiskaajat + Lepistö and Lehti + Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat + Milla Viljamaa + Mimmit  + Neljä Ässää + Rajaton + Rautakoura + Sari Kaasinen + Tiina Sanila  + Värttinä + Wimme Saari
France + Alan Stivell + Bruno Coulais + Christian Lemaître + Dan Ar Braz + Ensemble Vocal Pythagore + Jean Banwarth + Lo Còr de la Plana (f) + Louis Capart + La Mal Coiffée + Merzhin + Nolwenn Leroy + Orchestre National de Pays de la Loire + Skolvan + Taizé Community + Tri Yann + Yann Tiersen
Georgia + Basiani | ბასიანი + Sukhishvili | ხანჯლური
Germany + Al Andaluz Project + An Erminig + Faun + Hans Reichel + Die Toten Hosen + Nena  + Schandmaul
Greece + Eleftheria Arvanitaki | Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη + Haris Alexiou | Χάρις Αλεξίου + Iannis Xenakis | Γιάννης Ξενάκης  + Ithikon Akmeotaton | Ηθικόν Ακμαιότατον  + Maria Simoglou Ensemble + Ross Daly + Stelios Petrakis | Στέλιος Πετράκης  + Vassilis Stavrakakis | Βασίλης Σταυρακάκης
Hungary + Bartók Béla + Besh o droM + Makám + Muzsikás
Iceland + Amiina + Árstíðir + Björk + Kjartan Sveinsson + múm + Ólafur Arnalds  + Sigur Rós
India + Rexband + The Koi + Laihui Ensemble + Mangka Mayanglambam (f) + Tetseo Sisters
Indonesia + Seringai
Iran + Bijan Chemirani + The Kamkars + Niyaz
Ireland  + Altan + Anúna  + The Chieftains + Colm Mac Con Iomaire + Cormac Breatnach + Cork Gamelan Ensemble + Glen Hansard + The Gloaming + Iarla Ó Lionáird  + Kíla  + Liam Ó Maonlaí + Lisa Hannigan + Lúnasa  + Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh  + Planxty + Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy + Shaun Davey + Téada + Tommy Peoples + Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill + West Cork Ukulele Orchestra
Isle of Man  + King Chiaullee + Skeeal
Italy  + Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino  + Lou Dalfin + Samsingen (m)
Japan  + Agnes Chan + Isamu Shimoji | 下地勇 + Joe Hisaishi | 久石譲 + Kanaho | 奏帆 + Kazuki Tomokawa | 友川かずき  + Oki | 加納沖  +  Rimi Natsukawa | 夏川りみ  + Ryuz | リュズ  + Sachiko Miyashita | 宮下祥子  + Syzygys
Kazakhstan  + Galymzhan Zholdasbay | Галымжан Жолдасбай (in) (sc) + Galymzhan Moldanazar | Галымжан Молданазар
Korea (DPRK)  + Poch'ŏnbo Electronic Ensemble | 普天堡電子樂團
Korea (ROK) + Baramgot | 바람곶 + National Changgeuk Company of Korea | 국립창극단 + SamulNori | 사물놀이  + Seulgidoong | 슬기둥
Kyrgyzstan + Gülnur Satylganova | Гулнур Сатылганова (f) + Aaly Tutkuchev | Аалы Туткучев (f)
Latvia  + Laima Jansone + Tautumeitas
Lebanon + Abeer Nehme | عبير نعمة + Fairouz | فيروز
Mali + Fatoumata Diawara  + Rokia Traoré (f)
Malta + Pilgrim and King
Mexico + Jésed Ministerio de Música Católica
Mongolia + Altan Urag
The Netherlands + Anneke van Giersbergen
New Zealand  + Flight of the Conchords + Hayley Westenra
Niger + Toumast
Norway  + Adjágas + Annbjørg Lien + Gåte + Hege Rimestad  + Knut Reiersrud + Mari Boine Persen + Röyksopp + Secret Garden + Terje Isungset + Tine Thing Helseth
Palestine + Le Trio Joubran
Poland + Agnieszka Musiał + Kwiat Jabłoni (f) + Małgorzata Hutek + Paweł Bębenek + Piotr Pałka + SĄSTĄD + Siewcy Lednicy + Warsaw Village Band - Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa 
Portugal  + Anabela Braz Pires
Romania  + Viorica și Ioniță de la Clejani
Russia  + Aina Yefimova | Аина Ефимова (vk) + Ayarkhaan | Айархаан (m)  + Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha + Erener | Эренер (vk) + Heda Hamzatova | Хеда Хамзатова (f) + Kyunney (Ulyana Sergucheva) | Куннэй (in) + Huun-Huur-Tu | Хүн Хүртү + Islam Satyrov | Ислам Сатыров (sc) + Santtu Karhu and Talvisovat + Sirin Ensemble | Ансамбль „Сирин“ + Stanislav Shakirov | Станислав Шакиров (vk)
Scotland  + Battlefield Band + Capercaillie + Malinky + Tannahill Weavers + Tony McManus  + Aly Bain  + Catriona Macdonald
Senegal  + Youssou N'Dour
Serbia  + Sviraj
Singapore  + Balraj Gopal + Cappella Martialis + Corrinne May + The Observatory + Robert Casteels
Slovakia  + Kristína Peláková
Slovenia  + Perpetuum Jazzile
South Africa  + Miriam Makeba
Spain  + Carlos Núñez + Discipulos de Salieri (f) + Efrén López + Hutsun Txalaparta (f) + Martin Söderberg + Obrint Pas + Paco de Lucía + Susana Seivane
Sweden  + Ale Möller + Elina Järventaus Johansson (f) + Esbjörn Hazelius (f) + Frifot + Garmarna (2015) + Göran Månsson + Groupa + Hans Ek + Harv + Hedningarna + Hoven Droven + Laleh Pourkarim + Niklas Roswall + Olov Johansson + The Original Swedish Arvika Blues Breakers + Pascal Bachir (f) + Rafael Sida Huizar + Rosenbergs Sjua + Rymdreglage + Sofia Jannok + Sofia Karlsson + Stefan Brisland-Ferner (sc) + Triakel + Ulrika Bodén + Väsen
Switzerland  + Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Turkey  + Doğa İçin Çal + Fuat Saka + Hakan Ali Toker + Idil Biret + Kardeş Türküler + Karsu Donmez + Öykü and Berk Gürman (f) + Ramazan Kubat + Seval Eroğlu + Sinan Cem Eroğlu + Tarkan Tevetoğlu + Tolgahan Çoğulu
Turkmenistan + Mähri Pirgulyýewa (f) 
Ukraine + DakhaBrahka | ДахаБраха
United Arab Emirates + Master Plan
United States  + The Album Leaf + Alan Hovhaness + Amy Sand + Anderson and Roe  +  Andy McKee + Audrey Assad + Christopher Tin + Dobhran + Dominic Frasca + Gaelic Storm + Jon Foreman + Kiner Brothers + Liz Carroll + Muriel Anderson  + Pamyua + P. D. Q. Bach  + Phillip Glass  + Seven Nations + Solas + String Sisters + Time for Three
Uzbekistan  + Shahrizoda | Шахризода | شهريزاده
Vietnam  + Phạm Quỳnh Anh + Trần Quang Hải
Wales  + Carreg Lafar + Gwenno Saunders + Siân James

Musical pieces in my music library by place of origin  

Map of places of origin

Musical pieces by language
More than 100 songs:
English [1099] - French [589] - Swedish [472] - Finnish [367] - Polish [214] - Irish [198] - Latin [165] - Turkish [153] - Breton (France, Brittany) [125] - Icelandic [105] - Scots Gaelic [104] 

50 to 100 songs:
Japanese [100] - North Sami [100] - Korean [93] - Yakut (Sakha Republic) [87] - Arabic [84] - Spanish [84] -  Greek [83] - Hungarian [72] - Russian [67] - Neo-Aramaic (Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran) [62] - Ainu (Japan) [57] - Occitan (France) [54] - Tuvan (Tuva Republic) [54] - Inuktitut (Canada) [51] - Greenlandic [50]

21 to 50 songs:
German [47] - Slovak [46] - Kazakh [40] - Catalan [35] - Belarusian [33] - Scots [33] - Koryak (Kamchatka) [32] - Mongol [31] - Norwegian [27] - Karelian (Finland and Karelian Republic) [26] - Persian [24] - Wolof (West Africa) [24] - Innu (Canada, Quebec) [23] - Uyghur [23] - Elfdalian (Sweden, Dalarna) [22] - Galician (Spain) [22] - Mari (Mari El) [22] - Danish [21] 

11 to 20 songs:
Bambara (Mali) [19]- Angermanlandic (Sweden, Ångermanland) [17] - Cornish (UK, Cornwall) [17] - Mandarin Chinese [17] - Portuguese [17] - Yukaghir (Sakha Republic / Magadan) [17] - Kyrgyz [16] - Bulgarian [15] - Chukchi (Chukotka) [14] - Estonian [14] - Even (Russia) [14] - Italian [14] - Romanian [14] - Uzbek [14] - Welsh [14] - Armenian [12] - Sicilian [11] - Skolt Sami (Finland and Russia, Murmansk) [11]  

3 to 10 songs:
Urdu [10] - Xhosa [10] - Yolngu (Australia) [9] - Javanese [8] - Ukrainian [8] - Judeo-Spanish [7] - Nogai (Stavropol Region) [6] - Kurdish [6] - Livonian (Latvia) [6] - Manchu [6] - Meitei (India, Manipur) [5] - Old Church Slavonic [6] - Azeri [5] - Hindi [5] - Miyako (Japan, Miyakojima) [5] - Zulu [5] - Chokri (India, Nagaland) [4] - Nanai (N.E. China, Russia) [4] - Akwẽ Xerente (Brazil) [3] - Coptic [3] - Hebrew [3] - Indonesian [3] - Manx Gaelic [3] - Maori [3] - Romani [3] - Seediq (Taiwan) [3] - Slovene [3] - South Sami [3] - Sumerian [3] - Thai [3] - Tupi [3] - Udmurt (Russia, Udmurtia) [3] - Wongatha (Australia) [3] - Yupik (Alaska) [3] 

Two [2] songs each in:
Altai (Russia, Altai) - Bashkir (Bashkortostan) - Bosniak - Buryat (Russia and Mongolia) - Cantonese - Chulym (Russia, Krasnoyarsk) - Colville-Okanagan (United States, Northwest / Canada) - Dari (Afghanistan) - Georgian - Guarani (South America) - Jamtlandic (Sweden, Jämtland) - Karbardian (North Caucasus) - Kabyle (Algerian Berber) - Latvian - Okinawan (Japan) - Ossetian (Russia and Georgia) - Quechua - Swahili - Swazi - Tamasheq (Tuareg) - Turkmen - Vepsian (Leningrad Region) - Volga Tatar - Yiddish

One [1] song each in: 
Adyghe (North Caucasus) - Amami (Japan, Amami Islands) - Baegu (Solomon Islands) - Basque - Bengali - Crimean Tatar - Czech - Dorze (Ethiopia) - Dutch - Faroese - Fulani (West Africa) - Hakka - Igbo - Inari Sami (Finland) - Iñupiatun (Alaska) - Itelmen (Kamchatka)  - Karachay-Balkar (North Caucasus) - Khanty - Khmer - Kildin Sami (Murmansk Region) - Komi (Komi Republic) - Lezgin (Dagestan) - Lithuanian - Lule Sami - Luri (Iran) - Macedonian - Mandinka (West Africa) - Mauritian Creole - Mikmak (Canada) - Moksha - Nenets (Russia) - Nivkh - Pajaro Wala - Punjabi - Rusyn (Ukraine, Slovakia) - Sanskrit - Serbian - Serer (West Africa) - Seri (Mexico, Sonora) - Shawnee - Sotho (South Africa and Lesotho) - Squamish (Pacific Northwest) - Sümi (India, Nagaland) - Suya (Brazil, Mato Grosso) - Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea) - Vietnamese - Votic (Russia, Ingria) - Wyandot - Zaza (Turkey)

Instrumental and lyricless vocal songs: 3463 pieces

Not sorted: 6 pieces
Total 9218 pieces in 169 languages

Updated: 21 June 2023