Roy Smeck was an influential performer on many fretted instruments including banjo.

Alan Stivell is perhaps the most influential folk-rock performer of continental Europe.

Ray Charles was one of popular music's most influential performers, fusing R&B, jazz, and country into many popular songs.

Jack Armstrong (1904-1978) was an influential performer on the Northumbrian smallpipes.

The newly announced "legends" constitute a multiethnic coalition, assembling influential white, black and Hispanic performers.

He is widely considered among the most influential performers in the Arab World.

The Boston Phoenix named Lunch "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 1990s."

He was recognized as an influential performer, respected writer, and poet in the New York literary scene.

Winter's view that Juba was the "most influential single performer of nineteenth-century American dance" is now the consensus.

He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s.