* 1984 – Manila Luzon, American drag queen performer

The five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

* 1871 – Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer ( d. 1932 )

* 1928 – Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer

* 1885 – Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer ( d. 1965 )

It starred his wife, Lyubov Orlova ( an operatic singer who had also appeared in The Jolly Fellows ) as an American circus performer who has to immigrate to the USSR from the U. S. because she has a mixed race child, whom she had with a black man.

* 1972 – Pandora Boxx, American drag performer

In the book Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, James Delmont wrote: " Marlon Brando was arguably the finest screen actor of the twentieth century, winning worldwide acceptance as both a movie star of the first rank and as a performer of uncommon skill.

* Meredith Monk ( born 1942 ), American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer

Sheryl Suzanne Crow ( born February 11, 1962 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, performer, record producer, actress, and political activist.

** Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright ( 3OH! 3 )

* August 3 – Bee Ho Gray, Native American Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer ( b. 1885 )

* May 6-Bill Quinn, American radio performer ( d. 1994 )

* July 20 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer ( b. 1867 )

* December 16 – Sylvester James, American R & B singer, disco performer ( b. 1948 )

** Emily Robison, American country music performer ( Dixie Chicks )

** Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer ( d. 1975 )

* April 28 – Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer ( b. 1911 )

** Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer ( d. 1965 )

* December 19 – Criss Angel, American musician, magician, illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer

** Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer ( original voice of Goofy ) ( b. 1892 )

* March 22 – Karl Wallenda, American circus performer ( b. 1905 )

** J. Homer Tutt, American vaudeville producer and performer ( d. 1951 )

* August 13 – Annie Oakley, American west show performer ( d. 1926 )

In USA in July 1943, as a result of the American Federation of Musicians boycott of US recording studios, the a cappella vocal group The Song Spinners had a best-seller with " Comin ' In On A Wing And A Prayer ".

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA ) defines accountancy as " the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.

* 1939 – Gary Kellgren, American audio engineer, co-founder of the Record Plant recording studios

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

* 1957 – Vesta Williams, American recording artist and songwriter ( d. 2011 )

* 1939 – Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer ( Mountain ) ( d. 1983 )

He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low ( 1977 )— the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years.

The first EVA in deep space was made on August 5, 1971, by American Al Worden, to retrieve a film and data recording canister from the Apollo 15 Service Module on the return trip from the Moon.

* Eve ( entertainer ) ( born 1978 ), American recording artist and actress

Sharp also worked in America, recording the traditional songs of the Appalachian Mountains in 1916 – 1918 in collaboration with Maud Karpeles and Olive Dame Campbell and is considered the first major scholar covering American folk music.

In January 2012, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, with the Association for Cultural Equity, announced that they would release Lomax's vast archive of 1946 and later recording in digital form.

James Joseph Brown ( May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006 ) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist.

In 1889, one Theo Wangemann, a representative of American inventor Thomas Edison, visited the composer in Vienna and invited him to make an experimental recording.

Hart was influential in recording global musical traditions on the verge of possible extinction, working with archivists and ethnomusicologists at both the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution.

A variety of small and medium-sized recording companies offer an abundance of recent music by Native American performers young and old, ranging from pow-wow drum music to hard-driving rock-and-roll and rap.

* 1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer

* 1984 – Trey Songz, American recording artist

A. Rolfe, American musician known as " The Boy Trumpet Wonder ", bandleader, recording artist, radio personality and film producer ( d. 1956 )

The Library of Congress also began recording traditional American music and folklore onto acetate discs.

He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 ( early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a ' talking-machine ' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 ), and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 ( it was patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200, 521 ).

Most of these bands rapidly moved on from recording and performing American standards to writing and recording their own music, often leaving their R & B roots behind.

When requiring fresh ideas, Anderson would travel to New York, buy songs that had been American hits, and then translated or transcribe the lyrics on the return journey ready for a recording session shortly after and then have the record on the shelves within a few days.

Salvatore Phillip " Sonny " Bono (; February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998 ) was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.