Mikhas ( Mikhail ) Klimkovich (; ) ( 20 November 18995 November 1954 ) was a Belarusian poet, librettist, and author of the lyrics to the Anthem of the Byelorussian SSR.

; pioneer of the Old Belarusian language ( historically Old Lithuanian Language ); first to print a book in an Eastern Slavic language ( 1517 in Prague )

The year involved the deaths of at least several highly prominent writers, including among them the following: The late poet Oscar Wilde ( a " celebrity " poet in late-19th century western European society ), the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( critical and acclaimed philologist of Weimar Classicism and one of the most famous German thinkers ), the English poet Ernest Dowson ( marking the death of one of the last notable poets of the Decadent movement ), John Ruskin ( one of the most important historical art critics and an influential essayist ), Francišak Bahuševič ( a literary pioneer of New Belarusian literature ), Stephen Crane, R. D. Blackmore and José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, often considered the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style.

This was hip-hop pioneer KRS-One's inspiration for his thought provoking group BDP, or Boogie Down Productions, which included DJ Scott La Rock.

Rock and roll pioneer Wynonie Harris ; jazz great Preston Love ; drummer Buddy Miles ; and Luigi Waites are among the city's homegrown talent.

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

Rock and Roll pioneer Little Richard, who at one time gave up Rock and Roll to become a minister performed the ceremony.

In June 1970, after Stonehill graduated from Leigh High School, in San Jose, California, he moved to Los Angeles where he stayed with pioneer Christian Rock singer, Larry Norman in an attempt to launch his professional music career.

George L. Scott, Sr., an Alabaster pioneer, owned and operated Alabaster Lime Co. His shipping point, named for him, was known as “ Scott Rock ”.

The name comes from Mary Louise Van Solen, a pioneer settler who was the first schoolteacher on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

* Bob Hartman-Guitarist and founder of the pioneer Christian Rock Band Petra ( band )

** Rock and Roll pioneer Bill Haley performs for the last time during a tour of South Africa.

In the fall of 2008, Common appeared in an ad for Microsoft's Zune, comparing his new song, " Universal Mind Control ", to ," Planet Rock ", a song from hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa.

He was a tenant of James Lawson, a white man, who was a prominent member of a pioneer family of Little Rock.

Rock and roll recording pioneer Cordell Jackson played a bit part as " Bathroom Woman.

Maná is considered to be a pioneer in the " Rock en Espanol " movement and has earned four Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, six Premios Juventud awards, fourteen Billboard Latin Music Awards and fifteen Premios Lo Nuestro awards.

Comrie later left Cancom to join Rock and US cellular industry pioneer, Craig McCaw to co-found Netlink USA, and the Kirkland WA-based company launched its DBS lineup of Denver's ABC, CBS, NBC affiliates and PBS and independents at the Western Cable Show in Anaheim CA in December 1986.

Hononegah ( c. 1814-1847 ) was the wife of Stephen Mack, Jr. an employee for The American Fur Company, a pioneer to the Rock River Valley in northern Illinois and founder of the community of Rockton, Illinois.

* Larry Norman, Class of ' 65, pioneer of Christian Rock

Naked Prey's aggressive, distorted sound was characterized as " rough-edged country rock " and " folk-distorto-rock " and the band was credited with helping to pioneer the guitar-heavy " Desert Rock " sound associated with Tucson in the 1980s and 1990s.

Frosty Freeze of the Rock Steady Crew says, " we were known as b-boys ", and hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa says, " b-boys, what you call break boys ... or b-girls, what you call break girls.

He is often credited as a pioneer in Cowpunk and Alt-country music, which combines elements of Rock with Country, outlaw country and punk rock.

* Died: Bill Haley, 55, American rock and roll pioneer ( Rock Around the Clock )

Robert Arthur " Bob " Moog ( ; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005 ), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

* Mike McCready ( music entrepreneur )-Co-founder Platinum Blue Music Intelligence, pioneer of Hit Song Science

* Pee Wee King, pioneer in the country and western music industry ; wrote " Tennessee Waltz " and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974

Music critics consider them a key pioneer of pop punk music.

* The Oxford Music Hall, 14 / 16 Oxford Street ( 1861 )-built on the site of an old coaching inn called the Boar and Castle by Charles Morton, the pioneer music hall developer of The Canterbury, who with this development brought music hall to the West End.

* Southern Gospel pioneer and music publisher James David Vaughan ( 1864 – 1941 ), the founder of the Vaughan Conservatory of Music ( 1911 ) and the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company ( 1902 ), who was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1997, became a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee ( now known as Vaughan Memorial Church of the Nazarene ) in the 1920s, and brought the singing Speers Family into the denomination.

Charles Kaman, a guitarist as well as an aerospace pioneer, worked with his engineers and other musicians to create the round-backed, composite-body Ovation guitar, which revolutionized the guitar industry and led to the eventual creation of Kaman Music.

* Mason Hall is home to the School of Music and was named after American music education pioneer Lowell Mason.

* Morton Subotnick, Electronic Music / Synthesizer pioneer

In 1980, Ayers released Music Of Many Colors with the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.

In particular Thring was a pioneer in his introduction of Music into the regular system of education ; thus were the foundations laid for Uppingham ’ s present flourishing musical life.

In October 1998, GoodNoise acquired eMusic. com along with on-line music pioneer Internet Underground Music Archive ( IUMA ).

He soon studied under electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and minimalist icon La Monte Young and was a member of Young's group, The Theater of Eternal Music, during the early seventies ; Chatham also played with Tony Conrad in an early version of Conrad's group, The Dream Syndicate.

A writer of operas, theater pieces, orchestral, chamber and instrumental music, she is recognized in North America and Europe as a pioneer of postminimalism and a force on the new music scene with over 20 releases on a number of labels including Lovely Music, Point / Polygram, 4-Tay, O. O.

In 1995 they acquired Diadem Music Group which included gospelJazz pioneer Ben Tankard's Tribute Records label contracts.

In-flight Music: He was an early pioneer in creating in-flight music with compositions for Indian Airlines.

Donald Glaude is a pioneer of House Music and is doing what a lot of other world class DJs aren't.

" Those " things " have included such previously overlooked but now-celebrated icons as composer / bandleader / electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott, Space Age Pop avatar Esquivel, illustrator / fine artist Jim Flora, various outsider musicians, and The Langley Schools Music Project.

Moog modular synthesizer refers to any of a number of monophonic analog modular synthesizers designed by the late electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog and manufactured by R. A. Moog Co. ( Moog Music after 1972 ) from 1965 – 80.

The station was also a pioneer of Contemporary Christian Music in the city, airing the weekly show Masterpeace, hosted by Steven Joseph.

The station in its current incarnation signed on the air as a beautiful music station, featuring programming of SRP ( Stereo Music Productions Schulke ) on December 24, 1970, originally owned by Sudbrink Broadcasting, an originator of FM broadcasting nationwide and prior to that time, owned by Booth Broadcasting as a pioneer FM station, WAQE ( FM ), signing on in 1963.