David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known by his nickname and stage name The Edge (or simply just Edge), is an Irish musician known best as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist for the Irish rock band U2. His distinctive electric guitar timbre and percussive style of playing, along with his use of digital sound processing — delay in particular — have been instrumental in defining U2's unique sound. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him at #24 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

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Bryan Adams, OC, OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams on November 5, 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an “unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks". He has been nominated for several Grammy Awards; and was first nominated at the 28th Grammy Awards for Reckless and "It's Only Love" and won the Grammy and in 1992 won the award for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media". He has won numerous Junos in Canada, MTV, ASCAP, American Music and Ivor Novello awards. He has also been awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world. Adams was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998 and in April 2006, he was inducted into the Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards. He was nominated for his fifth Golden Globe in 2007 for songwriting on the film Bobby which was sung by Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige, and has been nominated three times for Academy Awards for writing music in film.

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Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is a popular American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads.

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Amanda Palmer is the lead singer, pianist, and songwriter of the "Brechtian punk cabaret" duo The Dresden Dolls and solo artist in her own right.

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Linda Strawberry (real name Linda Michelle Rowberry) is the nom de plume of a Los Angeles singer, best known as the keyboardist from Billy Corgan's solo tour in 2005. She signed to Chrysalis Records with a publishing development deal, but announced in her blog in October 2006 that she has since been dropped by the label. She left citing artistic differences. It is estimated that she completed thirty songs with various producers for her debut album[citation needed]. She started her own label in the spirit of DIY independents called "LOVELY CHAOS RECORDS" and released The Lost Record EP in August 2007 online via iTunes, snocap, nimbit, Napster and other outlets. The Lost Record EP includes six songs: "The Ballerine Song", "Dig", "Color", "Fuck You I'm Beautiful", "Reckless Heart", and "Thieves".

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Thomas Dolby is an English musician and producer. He is often called "The Godfather of Internet Music" and created the 80's hit album The Golden Age of Wireless and its hit single She Blinded Me With Science.

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Curt Smith (born June 24, 1961, Bath, Somerset) is an English singer, bassist, synthesizer player and songwriter. He is best known for forming the band Tears for Fears, along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Now also a solo artist, he released his third album Halfway, pleased in May 2008.

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