Musicians from Reading, Berkshire

The list Musicians from Reading, Berkshire includes Marianne Faithfull, Mike Oldfield, John Sykes, Luke Slater and Sally Oldfield. The list consists of 39 members and 1 sublist.

Musical groups from Reading, Berkshire
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- Blueboy
- Slowdive
- Zoot Woman
- Sylosis
- Chapterhouse

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Marianne Faithfull

British, Singer

Overview: Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (29 December 1946 – 30 January 2025) was an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became ...

Date of birth: 29 December 1946

Date of death: 30 January 2025

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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2025 deaths 667T

LGBTQ women singers 3T

Actors from the Borough of West Lancashire 7T
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Will Young

British singer

Overview: William Robert Young (born 20 January 1979) is a British singer-songwriter and actor from Wokingham, England, who came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the ITV talent contest Pop ...

Date of birth: 20 January 1979

Age: 46

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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LGBT singers from the United Kingdom 115T

21st-century male singers 6,386T

Pop Idol winners 2T
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Mike Oldfield

Musician

Overview: Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and ...

Date of birth: 15 May 1953

Age: 72

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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British male guitarists 145T

English male guitarists 896T

British male composers 40T
4.

John Sykes

British, Musician

Overview: John James Sykes (29 July 1959 – January 2025) was an English guitarist, best known as a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and Tygers of Pan Tang. He also fronted the hard rock group Blue Murder and released ...

Date of birth: 29 July 1959

Date of death: 20 January 2025

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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British lead guitarists 161T

20th-century British guitarists 187T

21st-century British guitarists 345T
5.

Harriet Wheeler

English singer

Overview: Harriet Wheeler (born 26 June 1963) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the 1980s/1990s alternative rock band, The Sundays.

Date of birth: 26 June 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Partner: David Gavurin (Married)

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20th-century women musicians 2,480T

20th-century English singers 784T

British alternative rock musicians 61T
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Luke Slater

British musician

Overview: Luke Slater (born 12 June 1968, Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English electronic musician, DJ and record producer, who has concentrated on techno since the beginning of the 1990s. He achieved break ...

Date of birth: 12 June 1968

Age: 57

Nationality: British

Occupation: Electronic Musician

Gender: Male

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Mute Records artists 135T

People from Horley 7T

English techno musicians 26T
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Chloe Alper

British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

Overview: Chloë Alper is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She began her music career in 1996 with girl punk band Period Pains, she now sings and plays bass in the British new prog rock group ...

Date of birth: 13 September 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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21st-century English bass guitarists 70T

21st-century women musicians 2,343T

21st-century bass guitarists 347T
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Sally Oldfield

Irish singer-songwriter

Overview: Sally Patricia Oldfield (born 3 August 1947) is a singer-songwriter, sister of composers Mike and Terry Oldfield.

Date of birth: 8 March 1947

Age: 78

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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People educated at St Joseph's Convent School 5T

English folk singers 198T

People from Reading, Berkshire 378T
9.

Lizbeth Webb

British singer and actor

Overview: Betty Ethel Holton (30 January 1926 – 17 January 2013), better known by her stage name, Lizbeth Webb, was an English soprano and stage actress. Known as "the champagne soprano", she is remembered partly ...

Date of birth: 30 January 1926

Date of death: 17 January 2013

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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Wives of baronets 204T

Actresses from Berkshire 24T

English musical theatre actresses 252T
10.

Daniel P. Carter

British musician and DJ

Overview: Daniel Philip Carter (born 16 November 1972) is a British musician and radio DJ. He is the former singer and guitarist for hardcore punk band Hexes, the former bassist for A, and the former lead guitarist ...

Date of birth: 16 November 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: British

Occupation: Bassist

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21st-century English bass guitarists 70T

Male bass guitarists 788T

Bloodhound Gang members 4T
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Neil Halstead

British musician

Overview: Neil Halstead (born 7 October 1970) is an English musician, widely known as singer, primary lyricist, and guitarist of shoegazing band Slowdive. He has been hailed by AllMusic as “one of Britain's most ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: British

Occupation: Guitarist

Gender: Male

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21st-century British guitarists 290T

21st-century British male musicians 983T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T
12.

Terry Oldfield

English composer

Overview: Terence Oldfield (born 12 August 1949) is an English composer, and brother to Sally and Mike Oldfield.

Date of birth: 12 August 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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People from Palmers Green 10T

English composers 1,602T

English expatriates in Australia 171T
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Vincent Crane

British musician

Overview: Vincent Crane (born Vincent Rodney Cheesman; 21 May 1943 – 14 February 1989) was an English keyboardist who was best known as the organist for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster. Crane ...

Date of birth: 21 May 1943

Date of death: 14 February 1989

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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1989 suicides 57T

Rock musicians who committed suicide 104T

Atomic Rooster members 13T
14.

Les Rythmes Digitales

British electronic musician

Overview: Stuart Price (born 9 September 1977) is a three-time Grammy-winning British electronic musician, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with artists including Madonna, The Killers, New Order ...

Date of birth: 9 September 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: British

Occupation: Electronic Musician

Gender: Male

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People from Bedale 12T

British electronic musicians 239T

Remixers 960T
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Adam Blake (musician)

British musician

Overview: Adam Blake (born Adam John Blake, 25 January 1976, Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English producer, musician and songwriter, best known as founder member of the electronic music band Zoot Woman. He ...

Date of birth: 25 January 1976

Age: 49

Nationality: British

Occupation: Songwriter

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Remixers 960T

English songwriters 1,455T

English pop musicians 115T
16.

Megan Henwood

Singer-songwriter

Overview: Megan Henwood (born 29 October 1987) is an English singer-songwriter from Oxfordshire.

Date of birth: 29 October 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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21st-century English women singers 582T

21st-century women singers 8,493T

English female singer-songwriters 308T
17.

Didz Hammond

English musician

Overview: David Jonathan Hammond (born 19 July 1981), better known as Didz Hammond, is an English bassist. He was the bassist and backing vocalist in The Cooper Temple Clause (while also occasionally playing other ...

Date of birth: 19 July 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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21st-century English bass guitarists 70T

21st-century British male musicians 983T

Dirty Pretty Things (band) members 4T
18.

Nick Fyffe

Musical artist

Overview: Nick Fyffe (born 14 October 1972) is an English bassist, known for being an ex-bassist of English funk group Jamiroquai. He replaced Stuart Zender in 1999 with the release of the album Synkronized. He ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1972

Age: 52

Nationality: British

Occupation: Bassist

Gender: Male

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21st-century English bass guitarists 70T

English male guitarists 868T

Male bass guitarists 788T
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Frederick Augustus Packer

Australian musician

Overview: Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902) was an Australian composer of Anglican spiritual and romantic music. He was born in Reading, Berkshire, in the United Kingdom He worked as a parliamentary civil ...

Date of birth: 1839

Date of death: 1902

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Jessica Lee Morgan

British singer and songwriter (born 1976)

Overview: Jessica Lee Morgan (born June 16, 1976) is a British singer and songwriter.

Date of birth: 16 June 1976

Age: 49

Nationality: British

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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Holy Holy (tribute band) members 13T

21st-century English women singers 707T

21st-century British singers 302T