page_title: List of German Americans
section_title: Composers and musicians
hierarchical_section_title: List of German Americans / Entertainment / Composers and musicians
caption_attribution_description: Eminem performs during The Concert for Valor in Washington, D.C. Nov. 11, 2014. DoD News photo by EJ Hersom
context_page_description: German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English. Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.
context_section_description: George Antheil – avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century
  Tre Cool – punk rocker (born in Frankfurt, West Germany)
  Bix Beiderbecke – jazz cornet player and a classical and jazz pianist
  Jon Bon Jovi – singer and musician
  Eva Cassidy – singer
  Miley Cyrus – singer, songwriter, and actress
  Patrick Dahlheimer – bassist for the band Live
  Walter Johannes Damrosch – conductor
  John Denver (born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.) – musician
  David Ellefson – co-founder of thrash metal band Megadeth
  Eminem – rapper and actor His mother nearly died during her 73-hour labor with him.
  Lukas Foss – conductor
  Chris Frantz – musician and record producer; the drummer for both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club
  Norman Frauenheim – acclaimed pianist and music teacher
  Ace Frehley – band member of Kiss
  Hugo Friedhofer – film music composer
  Louis F. Gottschalk – composer
  Dave Grohl – musician
  Daryl Hall – born Daryl Hohl, rock, R&B, and soul singer; keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the co-founder and principal lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist and songwriter John Oates)
  Jeff Hanneman – guitarist of Slayer
  Reinhold Heil – film and television composer
  Otto K. E. Heinemann – manager for the U.S. branch of German-owned Odeon Records
  James Hetfield – vocalist, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of Metallica
  Elbert Joseph Higgins – songwriter
  Paul Hindemith – composer, violinist and teacher
  Hanya Holm – choreographer
  Horst P. Horst – photographer
  Terry Kath – first guitarist of the rock band Chicago, 1966–1978; German mother
  Josh Kaufman – singer-songwriter and season six winner of NBC's The Voice
  John Kiffmeyer – first drummer of the punk rock band Green Day
  Otto Klemperer – conductor
  Alison Krauss – bluegrass-country singer, songwriter, and musician
  Nick Lachey – pop singer
  Armando Lichtenberger Jr. – Member of musical band La Mafia
  Charles Martin Loeffler – composer
  Courtney Love – actress and frontwoman of Hole
  Marilyn Manson – front man of rock band Marilyn Manson; father is of German descent
  Melissa Auf der Maur – rock singer
  Alyson Michalka – actress, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
  Amanda Michalka – actress, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
  Sanford A. Moeller – rudimental drummer, national champion, educator, author and Spanish–American War veteran
  Tomo in der Mühlen – producer and guitar player, known for work with Harold Perrineau, Masta Ace, Styles P, and Ekatarina Velika
  Dave Mustaine – co-founder of thrash metal band Megadeth and first lead guitarist for thrash metal band Metallica
  James Pankow – trombone player for the rock band Chicago
  Jaco Pastorius – musician and songwriter widely acknowledged for his virtuosity with the fretless bass
  Jaan Patterson – founder of the Surrism-Phonoethics label, also known as Undress Béton
  Katy Perry – singer and songwriter; English, German, Irish, and Portuguese ancestry
  Pink (Alecia Beth Moore) – singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress
  Jimmy Pop – musician, composer, comedian and lead singer of the Bloodhound Gang
  Elvis Presley – singer, songwriter, and actor
  Dee Dee Ramone – bassist for the Ramones
  Eric Remschneider – composer and cellist
  Trent Reznor – musician, film score composer and founder of Nine Inch Nails
  Heinz Eric Roemheld – composer; won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1943
  Linda Ronstadt – singer and songwriter
  Nate Ruess – singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of indie rock band Fun
  Felix Salten – composed scores for some 150 Hollywood movies
  Peter Schless – Grammy-nominated composer, of such hits as Jeffrey Osborne's "On the Wings of Love"
  Arnold Schoenberg – expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School
  Wesley Schultz – guitarist and lead vocalist for the American folk rock band The Lumineers
  Pete Seeger – folk singer
  John Philip Sousa – composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly 
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