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Jessica Wolff　

Jeanie Greene　

Jessica Sanchez　

The runner-up on American Idol’s 11th season, Jessica Sanchez is a big-voiced singer in the mold of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. The daughter of a Mexican-American Navy veteran fa ..more

Jo Mama　

Jake Bugg　

Raised on a steady diet of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and the brothers Gallagher, English singer/songwriter Jake Bugg blends the melodious, working-class swagger of the La’ ..more

Jackie Deshannon　

Johnny Marr　

Jennifer Warnes　

Jennifer Warnes has succeeded in a number of nearly unrelated areas of popular music -- as a contemporary pop singer, as a country singer, as a singer of movie themes, and as an interpreter of the ..more

Jim Kweskin　

The fun side of folk music was explored by the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. During the five years they were together, they successfully transformed the sounds of pre-World War II rural music into a spring ..more

Judee Sill　

A singer/songwriter with deeply religious overtones and a penchant for the occult, Judee Sill is one of rock’s more interesting and lesser-known stories. The daughter of old Hollywood money, S ..more

Jeff Lynne　

Following his stint as the leader of the Electric Light Orchestra, singer/guitarist Jeff Lynne forged an equally successful career in the ’80s and ’90s as a producer, with his distinctive sound ..more

Joy Formidable　

After spending several years with the post-punk outfit Sidecar Kisses, vocalist/guitarist Ritzy Bryan and bassist Rhydian Dafydd left the lineup and launched the Joy Formidable, drawing he ..more

Jason Mraz　

Jason Mraz hails from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where the singer/songwriter grew up amidst the sounds of the Dave Matthews Band and local roots musicians the Agents of Good Roots. However, it ..more

Japan　

Japan’s evolution from rather humble glam rock beginnings into stylish synth pop (and beyond) made the British group one of the more intriguing and successful artists of their era. Formed in ..more

Junior Wells　

He was one bad dude, strutting across the stage like a harp-toting gangster, mesmerizing the crowd with his tough-guy antics and rib-sticking Chicago blues attack. Amazingly, Junior Wells kept a ..more

John Frusciante　

Guitarist John Frusciante has experienced both colossal highs and death-defying lows in both his musical career and personal life. Born in 1970 and raised in California, Frusciante dropped out o ..more

Jack White　

One of the most admired guitarists of the early 21st century, Jack White helped restore the popularity of punk-blues as the frontman of the White Stripes. Meanwhile, he widened his reach by part ..more

Jim O'Rourke　

American post-classical composer Jim O’Rourke has been a key component in the increasing overlap of the American and European experimental music avant-garde, working in everything from {\jazz ..more

J.J.Cale　

With his laid-back rootsy style, J.J. Cale is best known for writing After Midnight and Cocaine, songs that Eric Clapton later made into hits. But Cale’s influence wasn’t only throu ..more

John Mayer　

After making his introduction as a sensitive, acoustic-styled songwriter on 2001’s Room for Squares, John Mayer steadily widened his approach over the subsequent years, encompassing everything f ..more