List of Scottish musicians

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This article is part of the List of Scots series
List of Scottish musicians is a list of Scottish musicians, please see Scottish composers for classical writers.

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  • Andrew Iain Hamilton (born 1987) Bassist, Drummer and songwriter
  • Calvin Harris, electronic musician
  • Douglas Haston, (died 2003) Recorder teacher, Double Bass player and Conductor
  • Ali Hutton..Living Legend

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  • George Paterson, singer/songwriter; White, DMP and composer of songs from the film "We've got the Toaster"
  • Karine Polwart
  • Ripped in Pieces (pieces) Scottish urban artist most know for "i saw you at déjà vu".
  • Primal Scream, band

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List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland.

Actors (see also humorists)

Please refer to List of Scottish actors

Architects

  • Robert Adam, (1728-92)
  • William Adam, (1689-1748) Father of Robert and architect and builder

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Motto
Nemo me impune lacessit   (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
"Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh"   
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musician is a person who plays or composes music. Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music:
  • A musician or instrumentalist plays a musical instrument.

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Ian Scott Anderson (born August 10, 1947 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) (also known as 'The Voice of Jethro Tull') is a Scottish singer, songwriter, guitarist and flutist best known for his work as the head of British rock band Jethro Tull.
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Jethro Tull are a Grammy Award winning English rock band that formed in 1967-1968[1]. Their music is marked by the distinctive vocal style and lead flute work of front man Ian Anderson.
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Del Amitri are a British pop-rock guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1982. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after the teenaged Currie placed an advert in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to
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AC/DC are a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. The band are considered pioneers of heavy metal, alongside bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.
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Ian Bairnson (born 3 August 1953, Levenwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland) has been one of the most sought after session musicians in the music industry, working with a myriad of artists from many musical genres.
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Pilot was a pop rock group formed in 1973 in Edinburgh, Scotland by former Bay City Rollers members David Paton and Billy Lyall.

Career

Joined by Stuart Tosh and Ian Bairnson, the band recorded several demos over the course of 1973 and 1974, eventually catching the
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This article is about the collective named The Alan Parsons Project. For information concerning the individual and his solo work, see Alan Parsons.

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Aly Bain MBE (born 15 May 1946 in Lerwick, Shetland) is a Shetland fiddler who learned his instrument from the old-time master Tom Anderson. Now considered one of the finest fiddlers in the Celtic tradition, he became nationally prominent as a founding member of Boys of the Lough,
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Belle & Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1996. Belle & Sebastian have much in common with influential indie bands such as The Smiths and Felt, and have more recently taken in the influences of northern soul and funk.
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Nicola Benedetti (born July 1987 West Kilbride, North Ayrshire) is a Scottish violinist.

Biography

At the Yehudi Menuhin School

Nicola Benedetti started to learn the violin at the age of four.
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''For the Anne Rice novel, see Violin (novel)


The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and
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Martyn Bennett (February 17 1971 – January 30 2005) was a Scottish musician who was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He was extremely influential in the evolution of modern Celtic Fusion, a blending of traditional Celtic and modern music.
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Shannon Rae Bex (b. March 22, 1980) is an American singer, and member of the musical group Danity Kane.

The group was founded by P. Diddy through the MTV reality television series Making the Band 3. Danity Kane's album debuted at #1 on August 22, 2006.
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Danity Kane is an American R&B girl group signed to Bad Boy Records. Formed on the third installment of the Making the Band series, the quintet consists of Shannon Bex, Aundrea Fimbres, Aubrey O'Day, Dawn Richard, and Wanita "D. Woods" Woodgette.
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Norman Blake is a name shared by several people:
  • Norman Blake, American folk / bluegrass instrumentalist and vocalist
  • Norman Blake, Scottish rock musician who is a member of Teenage Fanclub

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Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish alternative rock band from Bellshill, near Glasgow, formed in 1989.

Overview

Teenage Fanclub are revered by power-pop fans for their devotion to chiming, Byrds-esque guitars and harmony vocals.
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Sandy Brown (February 25, 1929–March 15, 1975) was a noted Indian jazz clarinetist of Scottish descent, band leader and acoustic engineer who performed mostly dixieland.

Biography

Brown was the son of Scottish/Indian parents.
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A clarinetist (also spelled clarinettist) is a musician who plays the clarinet. Some clarinetists also play other woodwind instruments, particularly the saxophone, and may therefore also be saxophonists and multireedists.
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John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce (born May 14, 1943) is a Scottish-born musician, composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bassist, harmonicist and pianist, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bassist for the 1960s rock band Cream. He lives in Essex, England.
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Cream were a classic 1960s British rock band, comprised of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Celebrated as the first great power trio and supergroup of rock, their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, pop and psychedelic rock.
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David Byrne (born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a Grammy Award, Academy Award and Golden Globe winning musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads. He lives in New York City.
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Biffy Clyro (often known colloquially as Biffy)[1] are a Scottish rock group from Ayrshire whose members are Simon Neil (lead vocals, guitar), James Johnston (vocals, bass guitar) and Ben Johnston (vocals, drums).
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Isobel Campbell (born on April 27 1976) is a Scottish singer, cellist and composer in the indie and folk genres. She is often labelled as "twee pop".

Campbell was a member of Belle & Sebastian from their formation in Glasgow in 1996 until 2002, when she departed the band for
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Edwyn Collins (born August 23, 1959 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish musician.

He formed the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which became Orange Juice in 1979. Critically admired within independent rock circles, Orange Juice is perhaps best known for the #8 hit "Rip It Up",
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The Corries were a Scottish folk group which emerged from the Scottish folk revival of the early 1960s. Although the group was a trio in the early days, it was as the partnership of Roy Williamson and Ronnie Browne that it is best known.
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James Crabb (born 1967 in Dundee, Scotland) is an accordion player.

He grew up in the Lochee district of Dundee and was educated at Harris Academy and the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark where he is now Professor of classical accordion.
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Phil Cunningham, MBE (born 1960) in Edinburgh, Scotland is a Scottish folk musician and composer.

Biography

Phil played accordion and violin from a very young age.
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