Musicians from Islington (district)

The list Musicians from Islington (district) includes Leona Lewis, Lily Allen, Jean Simmons, Alexandra Burke and Shaznay Lewis. The list consists of 44 members.

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Leona Lewis

British singer–songwriter

Overview: Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer, songwriter, actress, model, and activist. She was born and raised in the London Borough of Islington, where she attended the BRIT School for ...

Date of birth: 3 April 1985

Age: 40

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Dennis Jauch (Married)

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Black British female singers 125T

Actresses of Irish descent 597T

MTV Europe Music Award winners 363T
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Lily Allen

Singer-songwriter

Overview: Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen left school when she was 15 and c ...

Date of birth: 2 May 1985

Age: 40

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Electropop musicians 36T

21st-century British women singers 61T

Women's Equality Party people 17T
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Jean Simmons

British actress and singer (1929–2010)

Overview: Jean Merilyn Simmons OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1929

Date of death: 22 January 2010

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Deaths from lung cancer in California 364T

Volpi Cup for Best Actress winners 70T

21st-century American women 14,670T
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Alexandra Burke

British singer, songwriter, actress (born 1988)

Overview: Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke (born 25 August 1988) is a British singer, songwriter and actress. She won the fifth series of the British television series The X Factor in 2008, and has been signed ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1988

Age: 36

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

Partner: Darren Randolph (Engaged)

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21st-century Black British women singers 152T

Black British women singers 146T

21st-century English women singers 630T
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Shaznay Lewis

Musician

Overview: Tricia Marie "Shaznay" Lewis (born 14 October 1975) is a Brit Award and Ivor Novello Award winning British singer, actress, songwriter, and member of girl group All Saints. Lewis has co-written most of ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: Jamaican

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Christian Storm (Married)

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Black British women 70T

Black British female singers 125T

British female pop singers 28T
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Mica Paris

English soul/jazz singer

Overview: Michelle Antoinette Wallen MBE (born 27 April 1969), known professionally as Mica Paris, is an English singer, presenter and actress. She was born in Islington in North London, but moved to Brockley ...

Date of birth: 27 April 1969

Age: 56

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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Black British women 70T

Black British female singers 125T

21st-century English women singers 582T
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Tony Hadley

British singer and actor

Overview: Anthony Patrick Hadley (born 2 June 1960) is an English singer-songwriter, occasional stage actor and radio presenter. He rose to fame in the 1980s as the lead singer of the New Romantic band Spandau Ballet ...

Date of birth: 2 June 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

Partner: Alison Evers (Married)

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British male jazz musicians 333T

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series) participants 208T

Male new wave singers 115T
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Gary Kemp

British actor and musician

Overview: Gary James Kemp (born 16 October 1959) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the New Romantic band Spandau ...

Date of birth: 16 October 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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English male guitarists 868T

English male singer-songwriters 639T

Male actors from London 1,398T
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Little Simz

British rapper, singer and actress (born 1994)

Overview: Simbiatu 'Simbi' Abisola Abiola Ajikawo (born 23 February 1994), better known by her stage name Little Simz, is a British rapper, singer and actress. Following the release of four mixtapes and five EPs ...

Date of birth: 23 February 1994

Age: 31

Nationality: British

Occupation: Rapper

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Black British women rappers 38T

English women rappers 53T

English people of Yoruba descent 186T
10.

Rebel MC

English music producer

Overview: Michael Alec Anthony West (born 27 August 1964 in Islington, London, England), better known as Rebel MC and Congo Natty, is a British jungle producer and toaster. He has also gone by aliases including ...

Date of birth: 27 August 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: British

Occupation: Rapper

Gender: Male

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Black British male rappers 156T

English male rappers 234T

Hip house musicians 18T
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Chris Farlowe

British singer

Overview: Chris Farlowe (born John Henry Dighton, 13 October 1940) is an English rock, blues and soul singer. He is best known for his hit single "Out of Time", which rose to #1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1966 ...

Date of birth: 13 October 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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Atomic Rooster members 13T

Colosseum (band) members 15T

Immediate Records artists 17T
12.

Jon Buckland

Welsh guitarist (born 1977)

Overview: Jonathan Mark Buckland (born 11 September 1977) is a Welsh musician and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band Coldplay.

Date of birth: 11 September 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: British

Occupation: Guitarist

Gender: Male

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Welsh male songwriters 48T

English male songwriters 1,046T

British male songwriters 605T
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Dana Rosemary Scallon

Irish singer and politician

Overview: Dana Rosemary Scallon (born Rosemary Brown; 30 August 1951), known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer and former politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.

Date of birth: 30 August 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century women MEPs for the Republic of Ireland 9T

21st-century women MEPs for the Republic of Ireland 18T

People with acquired American citizenship 943T
14.

Kenny Thomas

British singer

Overview: Kenny Thomas (born 12 September 1968, Islington, London) is an English soul singer who had a successful solo career in the 1990s with eight UK Top 40 singles and two UK Top Ten albums.

Date of birth: 12 September 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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British contemporary R&B singers 171T

Singers from London 639T

British Telecom people 93T
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Denis Quilley

British actor

Overview: Denis Clifford Quilley, OBE (26 December 1927 – 5 October 2003) was an English actor and singer. From a family with no theatrical connections, Quilley was determined from an early age to become an actor ...

Date of birth: 26 December 1927

Date of death: 5 October 2003

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Male

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20th-century British male singers 334T

20th-century male singers 6,336T

English male musical theatre actors 241T
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Patrick Walden

Musical artist

Overview: Patrick George Walden (born 5 October 1978 in Islington, London) is best known as the former guitarist for Babyshambles. Prior to joining Babyshambles, Walden belonged to a variety of London groups, among ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: British

Occupation: Songwriter

Gender: Male

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21st-century British guitarists 290T

21st-century British male musicians 983T

Babyshambles members 8T
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Brinsley Forde

English actor-musician

Overview: Brinsley Forde MBE (born 16 October 1953, Islington, North London) is best known as the founder member of the reggae band Aswad and as a child actor in the children's television series Here Come the Double ...

Date of birth: 16 October 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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English male guitarists 868T

English male film actors 3,279T

English male child actors 342T
18.

Joe Leeway

British musician

Overview: Joseph Martin Leeway (born 15 November 1955, in Islington, London) is the former multi-instrumentalist, and stylings guru, for the 1980s band, Thompson Twins. Leeway joined Thompson Twins in 1981 after ...

Date of birth: 15 November 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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English male guitarists 868T

Male bass guitarists 788T

Male guitarists 1,781T
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Jean Adebambo

British black Caribbean singer

Overview: Jean Adebambo (1 July 1962 – 15 January 2009) was a British singer, best known for songs in the lovers rock genre. It is believed she died by suicide.

Date of birth: 1 July 1962

Date of death: 15 January 2009

Age: 46 (age at death)

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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2009 suicides 70T

Rock musicians who committed suicide 104T

Black British female singers 125T
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Ola Onabule

British singer-songwriter

Overview: Ola Onabulé (born Islington, London, England) is a British-Nigerian singer-songwriter

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

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British male singer-songwriters 87T

Pages containing blacklisted links 1,510T

British people of Yoruba descent 59T