page_title: List of musicians who play left-handed
section_title: Notable players
hierarchical_section_title: List of musicians who play left-handed / Guitarists and bassists / Guitarists / Left-handed with normal stringing / Notable players
caption_attribution_description: English: Jimi Hendrix at the amusement park Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden, May 24, 1967. Svenska: Jimi Hendrix fångad på bild på Gröna Lunds scen den 24 maj 1967.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable left-handed musicians who play their instruments naturally.
context_section_description: Adrian Borland (The Sound)
  Al McKay (Earth, Wind & Fire)
  Ali Campbell (ex-UB40)
  Anton Cosmo (ex-Boston)
  Atahualpa Yupanqui
  Austin Carlile (ex-Attack Attack!, Of Mice & Men)
  Barbara Lynn
  Beeb Birtles (Little River Band)
  Ben Howard
  Billy Ray Cyrus
  Blake Schwarzenbach (Jawbreaker)
  Calogero (plays guitar and bass left-handed)
  Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos)
  Cheyenne Kimball
  Courtney Barnett
  Craig Scanlon (The Fall)
  Dave Kilminster (former lefty; originally played left-handed until injury, now exclusively plays right-handed)
  Dave King (Flogging Molly)
  Dave Parasite (Parasites (band))
  David Cook
  David Reilly (God Lives Underwater)
  Dickey Lee
  Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide)
  Elliot Easton (The Cars)
  Emma Bale
  Eric Bogle
  Ernie C (Body Count)
  Fyfe Dangerfield (Guillemots)
  Georgina "Georgi" Kay
  Greg Sage (right-handed, decided to play left-handed with the Wipers) 
  Gregor Mackintosh (Paradise Lost)
  Gustavo Cordera (Bersuit Vergarabat)
  Hayley Kiyoko
  Ian Fowles (The Aquabats, Death By Stereo)
  Iggy Pop
  Imai Hisashi  (Buck-Tick)
  Jeffrey Steele (formerly of Boy Howdy)
  Jill Barber
  Jimi Hendrix (wrote right-handed)
  Jo Callis (The Rezillos/The Human League)
  Joanna Wang
  Jonah Citty (ASG)
  Jonathan Butler
  John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants)
  Josey Scott (Saliva)
  Joyce Jonathan (French pop singer)
  Justin Bieber
  Mark "Kazzer" Kasprzyk (Redlight King/Solo)
  Klaus Eichstadt (Ugly Kid Joe)
  Kameron Jolliffe (The Flesh Velvet, Sister Envy)
  Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) (wrote right-handed)
  Lars Johansson (Candlemass)
  Lukas Rossi can play the guitar with either hand.
  Luke Morley (Thunder / The Union)
  Mac Powell (Third Day)
  Maria Taylor (Azure Ray, Little Red Rocket, Now It's Overhead, solo)
  Martin Bramah (The Fall/Blue Orchids)
  Mdou Moctar
  Nicke Andersson (The Hellacopters, Imperial State Electric)
  Ollie Halsall
  Omar Rodríguez-López (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta)
  Pasi Koskinen (St. Mucus, Ajattara, To Separate the Flesh from the Bones)
  Paul Gray (Slipknot) started out playing right-handed, then changed to left-handed as it was more comfortable being left-handed.
  Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first struggled playing right-handed, but then saw a picture of Slim Whitman playing left-handed and realized that he could reverse the guitar, reverse the strings, and pick with the left hand (Babiuk 2001:14).
  Paul Mullen (The Automatic/Young Legionnaire/Yourcodenameis:milo)
  Paulo Furtado (Wraygunn/The Legendary Tigerman)
  Pernilla Andersson
  Perry Bamonte (ex-The Cure)
  Ragnar Þórhallsson (Of Monsters and Men)
  Rami Yosifov (Teapacks)
  Richie Stotts (Plasmatics)
  Robin Campbell (UB40)
  Ronnie Radke (Falling in Reverse, ex-Escape the Fate)
  Santiago Feliú
  Scott Hedrick (Skeletonwitch)
  Shae Dupuy
  Slim Whitman (was right-handed but played guitar left-handed due to loss of his two fingers on the left hand)
  Stella Parton
  Sylvia Tyson
  Ted Gärdestad
  Ted Sablay (The Killers)
  Christian Savill (Slowdive)
  Zubin Thakkar (musical director for Shawn Mendes)
  Templeton Thompson (female country singer-songwriter)
  Tim Armstrong (Rancid)
  Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)
  Toronzo Cannon
  Willie Duncan (Spider Murphy Gang)
  Will Glover (The Pyramids)
  Verónica Romero
  Vicentico
  Zach Irons (Awolnation)
  Zacky Vengeance (Avenged Sevenfold; started to play right-handed but then shortly moved to left-handed playing)
  Andrew "Whitey" White (Kaiser Chiefs)
  Michael Zakarin (The Bravery)
caption: Hendrix on stage in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1967
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