Well Known Recording Artists from your Region

Name the general area where you live,and music peeps from your area. I live in the Cleveland /Akron , Ohio, USA region.

Artists from here include: Joe Walsh,The Pretenders,Devo,Kate Voegele,The Black Keys, and Donnie Iris (Cleve. / Pittsburgh)

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, the Foo Fighters, Minus the Bear, Jimi Hendrix, Queensryche, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains.

Seattle, WA.

Guided by Voices. Kim Deal from the Pixies.

Dayton, OH

Nobody from New Zealand.

Only person I can think of who literally lived only a few miles away is Wale.

*Does Google search of famous people from Maryland*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Maryland#Musicians

Shitload more people than I thought there'd be.

Thin Lizzy, U2, Bob Geldof, Sinead O Connor, The Frames, The Script

Dublin, Ireland

Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Boston, Mighty Mighty Bostones, Extreme, J Geils band.....

Boston area so more then I could list.

..Bar Rafaeli comes from my country, she has boobs. 
And that's about it!

Some musical actors, but that's about it.

I'm not going to do where I live because that's not interesting.

I was born in Leicester, so Kasabian.

The few I can think of from my area off the top of my head: The Roots, Will Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Dr. Dog, John Coltrane

Philadelphia, PA

Youngstown Ohio

Wikipedia says Dave Grohl - Best known as drummer for Nirvana (band) and vocalist / guitarist for Foo Fighters

Dublin, Ireland.. so:

Thin Lizzy, Snow Patrol, Redneck Manifesto, Mojo Spade, The Devine Comedy and U2

I'm from Birmingham, so Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Duran Duran, Electric Light Orchestra, Wizzard ...

Bunch of peeps come from here.

North Carolina. Onward To Olympas, a metalcore band that got signed when I was in my senior year of high school, is from Charlotte, a city that is one county over from me. He Is Legend was also formed here, though to be honest I don't care at all for them. Between the Buried and Me is from somewhere around here.

Newfoundland, Canada..umm Great Big Sea is probably the biggest band to come out of here.

Lowell Mass, some of the ones that jump out at me and are from near here include Rob Zombie, his brother was in Powerman 5000, a couple members of Godsmack.

I live in a very small town in southeast Missouri, and Sheryl Crow was born and raised in a town about roughly 20-25 minutes from here called Kennet. I know of this because anytime I pass into that town I see a "Welcome to Kennet, Hometown of Sheryl Crow" sign. *shrug*

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Shinedown, Limp Bizkit, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Quad City DJ's, 38 Special, Molly Hatchet, and The Allman Brothers Band.

Jacksonville, Florida

I'm from Pomona, California so its Suga Free, Tom Waits, and Kokane.

Michael Buble, The New Pornographers and Swollen Members

Vancouver BC

Are there any? I think Jewel is from Utah, if anyone knows who she is. We've also got David Archuleta, who was the runner-up on American Idol a few years back. The lead singer from the band "The Killers" lived here for a while, too. Probably the biggest musical name to ever come out of Utah is Donny Osmond, and the rest of the Osmond family.

Yeah, we rock.

@AhmadMetallic said:

..Bar Rafaeli comes from my country, she has boobs. And that's about it!

I sat in the table next to her in a restaurant the other month, oddly enough.

Oh and I'm from Wilmington, DE in the US, and apparently George Thorogood was from there. Bob Marley also lived in a nearby DE city for a while.

Kanye West, R Kelly, Common, Fall Out Boy, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick and Chicago (of course).

Chicago, Illinois.

@thevigilanteoflove said:

Guided by Voices. Kim Deal from the Pixies.

Dayton, OH

The Breeders originally formed in Dayton, I believe.

@Scrumdidlyumptious said:

Nobody from New Zealand.

You're crazy, man! There's tons of great bands from Dunedin. The Clean, The Chills, Tall Dwarfs...

John Foxx, electronic musician and first Ultravox singer.

Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens

Gary Kemp and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet

A few of many. Islington, London is the region.

Sacramento is home of deftones, papa roach, oleander, tesla, dance gavin dance, oh and cake! not all *amazing* bands but hey there's somethin. i know there's a few somewhat popular sac rappers but i cant think of any.

haha, also smosh is from sacramento, so whoopee.

Toronto: Broken Social Scene, Rush.

Kurt Cobain wrote most of Nevermind while living in my city, but that's about it.

Wolves in the Throne Room are well known in the black metal world.

No one.

Jake Owen

Vero Beach, FL.

Scott Joplin

Texarkana, TX / AR

Montréal; Arcade Fire, Metric, Chromeo, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Malajube, One of the sisters from Tegan and Sara lives here, The Stills, We Are Wolves, April Wine, Despised Icon, ...

And in our shame, Simple Plan and Celine Dion.

Georgia.

R.E.M.

@TheKramer89 said:

Vero Beach, FL.

Oh yeah? I'm from Port Saint Lucie.

Which, on the proper topic of this thread - The closest thing we have to a known recording artist down here that I know of are VersaEmerge. 'Though apparently Vanilla Ice lives or lived here.

I'm from Texas and I know Pantera and Bowling for Soup are from Texas.

Mogwai, The Proclaimers, Runrig, Nazereth, KT Tunstall, The View (wankers) The Fratellis, Franz Ferdinand, Idlewild, Snow Patrol, Twin Atlantic

East Scotland

@chrissedoff: Kim and Kelly played together there, but the Breeders didn't officially form until they were in Boston. I think. Wikipedia seems to agree with me for what that's worth.

Destroyer.. anyone?

Vancouver, B.C.

@mjwyoshi64 said:

@TheKramer89 said:

Vero Beach, FL.

Oh yeah? I'm from Port Saint Lucie.

Which, on the proper topic of this thread - The closest thing we have to a known recording artist down here that I know of are VersaEmerge. 'Though apparently Vanilla Ice lives or lived here.

I've got some family in PSL. Small world.

Also in Vero beach, FL, Gloria Estefan.

hatebreed, connecticut.

@Wes899 said:

Georgia.

R.E.M.

Athens, GA is also the birthplace of most great bands.

@W0lfbl1tzers said:

I'm from Pomona, California so its Suga Free, Tom Waits, and Kokane.

I would like to hear all three of these people on one track.

@Jasta said:

Mogwai, The Proclaimers, Runrig, Nazereth, KT Tunstall, The View (wankers) The Fratellis, Franz Ferdinand, Idlewild, Snow Patrol, Twin Atlantic

East Scotland

God bless you for listing Idlewild on this site. Oh and some of those other bands are okay too. Scotland must be a great place to live if you like good music.

On topic: Absolutely nothing where I come from.. well, does anyone here know the band "Slut"? They´re from around here somewhere.

I went to school with a bunch of dudes that made it big in the hardcore scene.

@Drakoji said:

Montréal; Arcade Fire, Metric, Chromeo, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Malajube, One of the sisters from Tegan and Sara lives here, The Stills, We Are Wolves, April Wine, Despised Icon, ...

And in our shame, Simple Plan and Celine Dion.

Yeah I was about to say that too.

I laugh when I hear Americans saying they are tired of Celine Dion. Guys... you've known her for only 15 years... we've been stuck with her since 1980!

@Jasta said:

Mogwai, The Proclaimers, Runrig, Nazereth, KT Tunstall, The View (wankers) The Fratellis, Franz Ferdinand, Idlewild, Snow Patrol, Twin Atlantic

East Scotland

God bless you for listing Idlewild on this site. Oh and some of those other bands are okay too. Scotland must be a great place to live if you like good music.

On topic: Absolutely nothing where I come from.. well, does anyone here know the band "Slut"? They´re from around here somewhere.

Out of all those bands I listed, I only really listen to and enjoy Mogwai, which is a shame I guess. Idlewild used to record in the studio across the hall from where my band practices, and thats pretty much the only exposure I've had to them. Couldn't tell you the name of one of their songs if you asked. =P

@EVO said:

I went to school with a bunch of dudes that made it big in the hardcore scene.

There aren't any.

From my part of South London: Kate Bush, Maxi Priest, some guy from the Kooks, and Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman.

As an extra note, she didn't live in my area, but Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine fame went to the same school as me.