List of Irish American musicians

"This is a list of famous Irish American musicians."

Musicians

*Kirk Hammett - metallica founder/ musician(Irish Father,Fillipino Mother)
*Gene Kelly - Singer/Dancer/Actor
*The Mc Guire Sisters - Biggest selling female vocal group of the 50's
*David Byrne - Lead singer songwriter with Talking Heads
*Tori Amos - singer/songwriter and musician
*Michelle Branch [ [http://www.asianconnections.com/a/?article_id=189] Mike: I learned that your dad is Irish, and your mom is Dutch Indonesian and French. ] Is part Irish through her father.
*Chris Byrne [ [http://www.sds-law.com/RealTime.cgi?case_id=byrne_v_bbc&merge=cases%7Cdescription] "Irish-American recording artist Chris Byrne, familiar to Irish music fans as Seanchai (pronounced SHAN-a-kee), and as a founder of the Irish musical group, Black 47..."]
*Mariah Carey [ [http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/mariah_carey/] "I've always said that my father is half black and half Venezuelan and my mother is Irish. But people don't understand... They can't fathom that I'm African American, Venezuelan and Irish."]
*Nick Carter - Member of The Backstreet Boys
*Dennis Casey - Flogging Molly member [ [http://honoluluweekly.com/entertainment/2006/05/the-punk-of-the-irish/ The punk of the Irish :: Honolulu Weekly ] ]
*Ken Casey [ [http://www.shitenonions.com/features_Dropkick.html] "Ken Casey’s Boston-Irish immigrant family experience is in many ways very similar..."] - Bass player and vocalist for the Boston based punk rock band, Dropkick Murphys
*Celtic Spring [ [http://www.celticspringband.com/bio.html] "Born into a family of Irish descent, the Wood children, Elizabeth, (20), Deirdre, (18), Sean, (16), Patrick, (14), and Maire, (10), reside in the rural Ojai Valley in Southern California, with their parents and their little brother, Aidan"]
*Rosemary Clooney [ [http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/obituaries/asymbolofgoodmodernamericanmusiclondonindependent7102.htm] "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..."]
*George M. Cohan [ [http://www.musicals101.com/cohanbio2.htm] "For Cohan, the spirit of Ireland thrived in the large Irish-American communities of New York, Boston and his native Providence. To be Irish in America was, for him, to be an American with a proud ancestral heritage."]
*Judy Collins [ [http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1609555.htm] "I was born with the Irish virus. That's easy. I came by it honestly through centuries and centuries of ancestors, I am sure..."]
*Chris Cornell - lead singer of Soundgarden [ [http://www.desoto.k12.ms.us/OBHS/WebDesign/bhale/Interview.htm] "I'm Irish: If I could get the cap off something, I would drink it."]

*Billy Corgan - singer, lead guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins ["I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens."]

*Bing Crosby [ [http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist.aspx?ob=rnd&src=rslt&aid=2748] "Bing’s mother was of Irish descent and his father was descended from a maritime family." [http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/giddins-crosby.html] ]
*Howie Dorough - Member of The Backstreet Boys. He is 50% Irish by his father.
*Jimmy Dorsey [ [http://www.bigbandlibrary.com/jimmydorsey.html] "heritage Irish"]
*Tommy Dorsey [ [http://www.irishecho.com/search/searchstory.cfm?id=17186&issueid=434+] "Irish-American trombonist Tommy Dorsey, more than two years younger (according to recently unearthed baptismal papers) than his clarinetist and alto saxophonist brother Jimmy..."]
*Tommy Dunn- Irish American singer/songwriter whose 1976 album "Down by the Glenside" was a huge hit in the New York area and played extensively on WFUV radio.
*Everlast (1969 - ) singer-songwriter, known for his genre-crossing mix of rap and acoustic-based rock music [ [http://www.varsity.utoronto.ca/archives/121/nov30/review/hotwax.html] "OH, FOR THE DAYS when Everlast was Irish, angry, and proud of it."]
*Eileen Farrell [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9125717] [http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/farrell/bio.html] "The daughter of Irish-American vaudeville singers..."]
*John Fogerty - singer/songwriter Creedence Clearwater Revival
*Judy Garland [ [http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/con070951.html] [http://www.irisheyes.fr/pages/march2005.html] "What would "White Christmas" have sounded like if Bing Crosby (great-grandfather from Co. Cork) hadn't made it a hit? Ditto for "Over the Rainbow", sung by Judy Garland (grandmother Fitzpatrick from Dublin), whose popularity in Ireland was so great that the song It's A Great Day for the Irish was written especially for her."]
*Victor Herbert [ [http://www.centralpark2000.com/database/herbert_victor.html] "Victor Herbert, an Irish-born American composer and conductor of operettas and light music..."]
*James Hetfield - founder of Metallica
*Andy Hurley - drummer for Fall Out Boy
*Jonas Brothers
*Alicia Keys [ [http://top40.about.com/od/artistsdk/p/aliciakeys.htm] Her mother is Irish-Italian..."]
*Dave King [ [http://www.altnet.com/store/album/63885/index.aspx] "For Dave King, the Dublin-born singer/guitarist/songwriter of SideOneDummy recording group Flogging Molly..."]
*Larry Kirwan [ [http://www.rootsworld.com/interview/kirwan.html] "Irish playwright and musician Larry Kirwan" [http://www.rootsworld.com/interview/kirwan.html] "Larry Kirwan, a native of Wexford on the southeast coast of Ireland, writes the songs of Black 47..."]
*Lorna Luft [ [http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/06/14/luftch1.html] daughter of Judy Garland and (half) sister of Liza Minnelli "and developed the powerful Irish charm and sense of style that stayed with him for the rest of his life. My family has sometimes survived on (Irish) charm alone."]
*John McCormack [ [http://www.besmark.com/mcormack.html] "John McCormack ( Irish Tenor )" [http://www.mccormacksociety.co.uk/Mccormack/Biography/John%20McCormack%20Biography,%20Chapter%203.htm] "...was one of the greatest singers of this century, born in Ireland in 1884 to working class parents."]
*Mike McColgan - Former lead singer of the Dropkick Murphys, now the vocalist of the Street Dogs
*LaDarius McDonald, singer/songwriter and actor
*Tim McGraw, American singer (both parents have Irish ancestry)
*Katharine McPhee- American singer, runner-up on season 5 of American Idol
*Mandy Moore, singer and actress (father is Irish)
*Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter of The Doors
*Gerry Mulligan [ [http://www.lphares.com/hhjs/page32.html lphares.com ] ]
*Virginia O'Brien [ [http://www.classicimages.com/1999/january99/virginiaobrien.html] "Her Irish father was the captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department and later the city’s deputy district attorney."]
*Aubrey O'Day, member of the group Danity Kane
*Seth Putnam [ [http://www.thegrimoire.com/anal_cunt.htm] "I’m half English and half Irish." [http://www.thegrimoire.com/anal_cunt.htm] "Basically I’m.. if you really want to know my ethnic background... I’m a quarter Irish and a Quarter English. My father’s side of the Family was English and they came here in 1630. And my mother’s side of the family... there was a potato famine."]
*Carmel Quinn [ [http://www.carmelquinn.com/] [http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/13193] "show is an evening of songs and stories based on Quinn's early life in Dublin..."]
*Kevin Richardson - Member of The Backstreet Boys
*Bianca Ryan [ [http://www.bobrivers.com/ontheshow/brsnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=5667 The Bob Rivers Show: 11-year-old singing sensation Bianca Ryan shows us why she's got talent ] ]
*Patrick Stump, Singer and songwriter for Fall Out Boy
*Chris Trousdale (1985 - ) singer, former member of "Dream Street" [Trousdale - [http://www.feelingthevibe.com/ChrisInterview2.html] "Well my background is Greek and something called Black Irish. It’s an ethnic Irish. It’s not the blonde haired blue eyed Irish. My mom can almost look Spanish. She has really dark dark eyes. So it’s basically like an Italian Irish or a Spanish Irish. It’s dark. So yeah, Greek and Black Irish..."]
*Shania Twain, singer
*Ace Young ["No one really sounds like me. I'm German-Irish but for some reason I have soul in me. I've always had it - ever since I was a kid. So I'm bringing my spirit and my heart because every song I sing, I'm telling a story."]
*Brendon Urie, Lead Singer of Alternative band Panic At The Disco
*Christina Aguilera, father Ecuadorian, mother Irish American
*Bruce Springsteen, Singer, Musician and Songwriter
*Fergie
*Carly Smithson, a Dublin, Ireland native who placed 6th on the seventh installment of American Idol.

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