List of American musicians of Irish descent
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This is a list of notable Irish-American musicians.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a notable musician.
A–J
- Christina Aguilera – singer-songwriter; Ecuadorian father and Irish-American mother
- (Gustav Elijah Åhr) Lil Peep rapper and singer
- Tori Amos – singer-songwriter and musician
- Anastacia – singer-songwriter
- Michelle Branch – part Irish through her father[1]
- Laura Branigan – singer-songwriter and musician
- Jeff Buckley – estranged son of Tim Buckley
- Tim Buckley – father was the son of Irish immigrants
- Chris Byrne – pop musician[2]
- Mariah Carey – pop musician[3]
- Aaron Carter – singer and Nick Carter's brother
- Nick Carter – member of the boy band Backstreet Boys
- Dennis Casey – Flogging Molly member[4]
- Ken Casey – bass player and vocalist for the Boston-based Celtic punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys[5]
- Celtic Spring – family dance and fiddle band[6]
- Kelly Clarkson – pop singer[7]
- Rosemary Clooney – singer and actress[8]
- Kurt Cobain – singer-songwriter of the rock band Nirvana[9]
- George M. Cohan – singer-songwriter; vaudeville and Broadway theatre performer
- Edward Joseph Collins – composer
- Judy Collins – singer/songwriter[10]
- Alice Cooper – of partial Irish descent
- Copywrite – rapper; mixed Irish and Italian descent
- Billy Corgan – singer, lead guitarist of alternative-rock band The Smashing Pumpkins[11]
- Chris Cornell – lead singer of rock band Soundgarden[12]
- Frankie Cosmos – of Irish descent on her father's side
- Henry Cowell – composer
- Auliʻi Cravalho – singer and actress of partial Irish descent
- Bing Crosby – singer and actor[13]
- Miley Cyrus, pop and country singer, songwriter and actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus, sister of Noah Cyrus, ex of Nick Jonas and Liam Hemsworth
- Chris Daughtry – American Idol 2006 finalist; lead singer of the rock band Daughtry
- Dennis Day – singer
- Lee DeWyze – American Idol 2010 winner
- Marié Digby – singer-songerwriter[14]
- Howie Dorough – member of the boy band Backstreet Boys; Irish father
- Jimmy Dorsey – jazz musician[15]
- Tommy Dorsey – jazz musician[16]
- Hilary Duff – actress and singer/songwriter
- Stephyn Duffy - singer/songwriter, guitarist, musician
- Billie Eilish – singer-songwriter, director, actress, musician, and first female and youngest artist ever to win all 4 general field categories at the Grammy Awards
- Everlast (born 1969) – singer-songwriter; known for his genre-crossing mix of rap and acoustic-based rock music[17]
- Eileen Farrell – opera singer[18]
- Fergie – pop singer
- Karen Finley – performer and musician
- Michael Fitzpatrick – frontman of Fitz and the Tantrums
- John Fogerty – singer-songwriter for rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Mike Fuentes — drummer for Pierce The Veil, born to an Irish American mother
- Vic Fuentes — lead singer and guitarist for Pierce The Veil, born to an Irish American mother
- G-Eazy, (born 1989), rapper
- Judy Garland – singer and actress[19]
- Billy Gibbons – guitarist and singer for rock band ZZ Top; has Irish ancestry on both sides of family
- Greg Graffin – singer-songwriter for punk-rock band Bad Religion
- Conan Gray – singer-songwriter
- Sasha Grey – actress and musician
- Kirk Hammett – guitarist for rock band Metallica; Irish father, Filipino mother
- Arthur Hanlon – pianist and Latin music musician[20]
- Jack Harlow – rapper[21]
- Matt Heafy – lead singer and guitarist for heavy-metal band Trivium; Irish father, Japanese mother
- Jimi Hendrix – guitarist, singer.
- Swan Hennessy – composer
- Victor Herbert – composer[22]
- James Hetfield – lead singer and guitarist for rock band Metallica
- Paris Hilton – media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, singer, and actress
- Brent Hinds – singer and guitarist for heavy-metal band Mastodon
- Julianne Hough – country-music singer and ballroom dancer
- Vanessa Hudgens – actress and singer
- Andy Hurley – drummer for rock band Fall Out Boy
- Danny Hutton – one of the three lead vocalists in the rock band Three Dog Night
- Jonas Brothers – pop-rock band; of Irish descent from their maternal grandfather[23]
K–Z
- Maynard James Keenan – singer/songwriter
- Bill Kelliher – guitarist for the heavy-metal band Mastodon; father was an Irish immigrant who moved to New York in the 1950s[24]
- Tori Kelly – singer/songwriter
- Alicia Keys – singer/songwriter[25]
- Dave King – singer/songwriter[26]
- Chris Kirkpatrick – former member of the boy band 'N Sync
- Larry Kirwan – punk musician[27]
- Beyoncé – pop singer
- Ben Kyle – singer-songwriter; leader of the Americana band Romantica[28]
- Lindsay Lohan – actress, singer-songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur
- Demi Lovato – singer/songwriter and actress of Hispanic, Italian and Irish ancestry[29]
- Lorna Luft – actress and singer[30]
- Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) – rapper[31]
- Benji Madden – lead guitarist of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte; both parents are Irish
- Joel Madden – lead singer of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte; both parents are Irish
- Barry Manilow – iconic singer/songwriter from Brooklyn; paternal great-grandfather from County Limerick
- Meaghan Jette Martin – actress and singer from television musical film Camp Rock (2008)
- Mike McColgan – former lead singer of the Celtic-punk band Dropkick Murphys; vocalist of the punk-rock band Street Dogs
- John McCormack – tenor[32]
- Travie McCoy – rapper, singer co founder and lead singer of Gym Class Heroes
- Tim McGraw – singer; both parents have Irish ancestry
- The McGuire Sisters – female vocal group of the 1950s
- Katharine McPhee – singer; runner-up on American Idol, season 5
- Natalie Merchant – singer; mother is of Irish descent
- Patrick Monahan – singer with the pop-rock band Train[33]
- Mandy Moore – actress and singer; father is Irish
- Jim Morrison – singer-songwriter of the rock band The Doors
- Lacey Mosley – lead singer of hard-rock band Flyleaf
- Gerry Mulligan – jazz musician[34]
- Dave Mustaine – co-founder of the heavy-metal band Megadeth; first lead guitarist for the heavy-metal band Metallica
- James Murphy founder, lead singer, songwriter, musician of LCD Soundsystem
- Willie Nile – rock singer-songwriter
- Bradley Nowell – lead singer and guitarist for the ska-punk band Sublime
- Virginia O'Brien – actress and singer[35]
- Finneas O'Connell – Singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and actor with Scottish and Irish ancestry
- Aubrey O'Day – member of the female music group Danity Kane
- Chauncey Olcott – singer and composer
- Katy Perry – her great-great-grandmother was from Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland
- Tom Petty – rock musician
- Pink – pop-singer
- Robert Pollard – singer-songwriter; leader of the alternative-rock band Guided by Voices
- Elvis Presley – singer
- Seth Putnam – musician[36]
- Carmel Quinn – singer[37]
- Christopher "Kid" Reid – rapper; Jamaican and Irish descent
- Trent Reznor – singer-songwriter, composer and record producer; founder of the industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails[38]
- Geoff Rickly – vocalist of the bands Thursday and No Devotion
- Olivia Rodrigo, pop singer
- Jack Russell – founder of Great White
- Bianca Ryan – singer/songwriter and actress[39]
- M.Shadows – lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold
- Michael Shrieve - drummer of Santana
- Slaine – rapper
- Carly Smithson – Dublin, Ireland, native who placed sixth on the seventh installment of American Idol; lead singer of the gothic-metal band We Are the Fallen
- Britney Spears – pop singer
- Bruce Springsteen – instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
- Gwen Stefani – mother is part Irish
- Kevin Shields – vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine
- Patrick Stump – lead singer of American rock band Fall Out Boy
- The Rev – former drummer for metal band Avenged Sevenfold
- Jessica Sutta – member of pop girl group The Pussycat Dolls
- Taylor Swift – pop singer
- Corey Taylor – lead singer of heavy metal band Slipknot
- Stuart Michael Thomas – film and television composer and producer[40]
- Tinashe – singer of Zimbabwean, Danish, Norwegian and Irish descent
- Justin Timberlake – pop singer and actor
- Chris Trousdale – singer[41]
- Shania Twain – pop singer
- Danielle White – singer from the television singing-competition series American Juniors
- Joseph M. White – tenor
- Robert White – tenor
- Ace Young – singer from American Idol[42]
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