# List of American musicians of Irish descent

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## Musicians
### A–J

* Christina Aguilera – singer-songwriter; Ecuadorian father and Irish-American mother
* (Gustav Elijah Åhr) Lil Peep rapper and singer
* Tori Amos – singer-songwriter and musician
* Anastacia – singer-songwriter
* Michelle Branch – part Irish through her father
* Laura Branigan – singer-songwriter and musician
* Jeff Buckley – estranged son of Tim Buckley
* Tim Buckley – father was the son of Irish immigrants
* Chris Byrne – pop musician
* Mariah Carey – pop musician
* Aaron Carter – singer and Nick Carter's brother
* Nick Carter – member of the boy band Backstreet Boys
* Dennis Casey – Flogging Molly member
* Ken Casey – bass player and vocalist for the Boston-based Celtic punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys
* Celtic Spring – family dance and fiddle band
* Kelly Clarkson – pop singer
* Rosemary Clooney – singer and actress
* Kurt Cobain – singer-songwriter of the rock band Nirvana
* George M. Cohan – singer-songwriter; vaudeville and Broadway theatre performer
* Edward Joseph Collins – composer
* Judy Collins – singer/songwriter
* Alice Cooper – of partial Irish descent
* Copywrite – rapper; mixed Irish and Italian descent
* Billy Corgan – singer, lead guitarist of alternative-rock band The Smashing Pumpkins
* Chris Cornell – lead singer of rock band Soundgarden
* Frankie Cosmos – of Irish descent on her father's side
* Henry Cowell – composer
* Auliʻi Cravalho – singer and actress of partial Irish descent
* Bing Crosby – singer and actor
* Miley Cyrus, pop and country singer, songwriter and actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus, sister of Noah Cyrus, ex of Nick Jonas and Liam Hemsworth
* Chris Daughtry – American Idol 2006 finalist; lead singer of the rock band Daughtry
* Dennis Day – singer
* Lee DeWyze – American Idol 2010 winner
* Marié Digby – singer-songerwriter
* Howie Dorough – member of the boy band Backstreet Boys; Irish father
* Jimmy Dorsey – jazz musician
* Tommy Dorsey – jazz musician
* Hilary Duff – actress and singer/songwriter
* Stephyn Duffy - singer/songwriter, guitarist, musician
* Billie Eilish – singer-songwriter, director, actress, musician, and first female and youngest artist ever to win all 4 general field categories at the Grammy Awards
* Everlast (born 1969) – singer-songwriter; known for his genre-crossing mix of rap and acoustic-based rock music
* Eileen Farrell – opera singer
* Fergie – pop singer
* Karen Finley – performer and musician
* Michael Fitzpatrick – frontman of Fitz and the Tantrums
* John Fogerty – singer-songwriter for rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival
* Mike Fuentes — drummer for Pierce The Veil, born to an Irish American mother
* Vic Fuentes — lead singer and guitarist for Pierce The Veil, born to an Irish American mother
* G-Eazy, (born 1989), rapper
* Judy Garland – singer and actress
* Billy Gibbons – guitarist and singer for rock band ZZ Top; has Irish ancestry on both sides of family
* Greg Graffin – singer-songwriter for punk-rock band Bad Religion
* Conan Gray – singer-songwriter
* Sasha Grey – actress and musician
* Kirk Hammett – guitarist for rock band Metallica; Irish father, Filipino mother
* Arthur Hanlon – pianist and Latin music musician
* Jack Harlow – rapper
* Matt Heafy – lead singer and guitarist for heavy-metal band Trivium; Irish father, Japanese mother
* Jimi Hendrix – guitarist, singer.
* Swan Hennessy – composer
* Victor Herbert – composer
* James Hetfield – lead singer and guitarist for rock band Metallica
* Paris Hilton – media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, singer, and actress
* Brent Hinds – singer and guitarist for heavy-metal band Mastodon
* Julianne Hough – country-music singer and ballroom dancer
* Vanessa Hudgens – actress and singer
* Andy Hurley – drummer for rock band Fall Out Boy
* Danny Hutton – one of the three lead vocalists in the rock band Three Dog Night
* Jonas Brothers – pop-rock band; of Irish descent from their maternal grandfather

### K–Z

* Maynard James Keenan – singer/songwriter
* Bill Kelliher – guitarist for the heavy-metal band Mastodon; father was an Irish immigrant who moved to New York in the 1950s
* Tori Kelly – singer/songwriter
* Alicia Keys – singer/songwriter
* Dave King – singer/songwriter
* Chris Kirkpatrick – former member of the boy band 'N Sync
* Larry Kirwan – punk musician
* Beyoncé – pop singer
* Ben Kyle – singer-songwriter; leader of the Americana band Romantica
* Lindsay Lohan – actress, singer-songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur
* Demi Lovato – singer/songwriter and actress of Hispanic, Italian and Irish ancestry
* Lorna Luft – actress and singer
* Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) – rapper
* Benji Madden – lead guitarist of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte; both parents are Irish
* Joel Madden – lead singer of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte; both parents are Irish
* Barry Manilow – iconic singer/songwriter from Brooklyn; paternal great-grandfather from County Limerick
* Meaghan Jette Martin – actress and singer from television musical film Camp Rock (2008)
* Mike McColgan – former lead singer of the Celtic-punk band Dropkick Murphys; vocalist of the punk-rock band Street Dogs
* John McCormack – tenor
* Travie McCoy – rapper, singer co founder and lead singer of Gym Class Heroes
* Tim McGraw – singer; both parents have Irish ancestry
* The McGuire Sisters – female vocal group of the 1950s
* Katharine McPhee – singer; runner-up on American Idol, season 5
* Natalie Merchant – singer; mother is of Irish descent
* Patrick Monahan – singer with the pop-rock band Train
* Mandy Moore – actress and singer; father is Irish
* Jim Morrison – singer-songwriter of the rock band The Doors
* Lacey Mosley – lead singer of hard-rock band Flyleaf
* Gerry Mulligan – jazz musician
* Dave Mustaine – co-founder of the heavy-metal band Megadeth; first lead guitarist for the heavy-metal band Metallica
* James Murphy founder, lead singer, songwriter, musician of LCD Soundsystem
* Willie Nile – rock singer-songwriter
* Bradley Nowell – lead singer and guitarist for the ska-punk band Sublime
* Virginia O'Brien – actress and singer
* Finneas O'Connell – Singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and actor with Scottish and Irish ancestry
* Aubrey O'Day – member of the female music group Danity Kane
* Chauncey Olcott – singer and composer
* Katy Perry – her great-great-grandmother was from Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland
* Tom Petty – rock musician
* Pink – pop-singer
* Robert Pollard – singer-songwriter; leader of the alternative-rock band Guided by Voices
* Elvis Presley – singer
* Seth Putnam – musician
* Carmel Quinn – singer
* Christopher "Kid" Reid – rapper; Jamaican and Irish descent
* Trent Reznor – singer-songwriter, composer and record producer; founder of the industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails
* Geoff Rickly – vocalist of the bands Thursday and No Devotion
* Olivia Rodrigo, pop singer
* Jack Russell – founder of Great White
* Bianca Ryan – singer/songwriter and actress
* M.Shadows – lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold
* Michael Shrieve - drummer of Santana
* Slaine – rapper
* Carly Smithson – Dublin, Ireland, native who placed sixth on the seventh installment of American Idol; lead singer of the gothic-metal band We Are the Fallen
* Britney Spears – pop singer
* Bruce Springsteen – instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
* Gwen Stefani – mother is part Irish
* Kevin Shields – vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine
* Patrick Stump – lead singer of American rock band Fall Out Boy
* The Rev – former drummer for metal band Avenged Sevenfold
* Jessica Sutta – member of pop girl group The Pussycat Dolls
* Taylor Swift – pop singer
* Corey Taylor – lead singer of heavy metal band Slipknot
* Stuart Michael Thomas – film and television composer and producer
* Tinashe – singer of Zimbabwean, Danish, Norwegian and Irish descent
* Justin Timberlake – pop singer and actor
* Chris Trousdale – singer
* Shania Twain – pop singer
* Danielle White – singer from the television singing-competition series American Juniors
* Joseph M. White – tenor
* Robert White – tenor
* Ace Young – singer from American Idol