Percussionist

This page lists 973 biographies of percussionists, covering lives from 1624 to 2010. Featuring Richard Feynman, Günter Sommer and Jean-Claude Casadesus. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Christopher Powell

Kesivan Naidoo

b. 1979

Renzo Spiteri

Chatrapati Singh

1919 – 1998

Edison Machado

1934 – 1990

Michael Carabello

b. 1947

Pepe Ébano

1935 – 2022

Roberto Pla

b. 1947

Anayampatti S. Ganesan

b. 1932

Coke Escovedo

1941 – 1986

Roy Knapp

1891 – 1979

E. M. Subramaniam

1940 – 2015

Karaikudi Mani

1945 – 2023

Noel Crombie

b. 1953

Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair

1925 – 2012

Pamela Racine

b. 1977

Mo Kolours

Ruth Underwood

b. 1946

Marcos Suzano

b. 1963

Douglas Walter

Laudir de Oliveira

1940 – 2017

Thrippekulam Achutha Marar

1921 – 2014

Yousif Sheronick

b. 1967

Marco Giovino

b. 1953

Choi So Ri

Guille Garcia

b. 1947

Georgia Hubley

b. 1960

Trichur C. Narendran

b. 1951

John Coghlan

b. 1946

Oliver C. Brown

b. 1946

Lloyd Knibb

1931 – 2011

Benoît Moerlen

b. 1956

Rainer Seegers

b. 1952

Dave Danford

b. 1984

Orlando Peña

1928 – 1994

Ged Lynch

b. 1968

Beibei Wang

Jerome Green

1934 – 1973

Kumbakonam M Rajappa Iyer

1916 – 2007

James Holland

1933 – 2022

Peter Giger

1939 – 2026

Steve Wacholz

b. 1962

Kasiva Mutua

b. 1980

Jean-Louis Huhta

b. 1965

Willie Bobo

1934 – 1983

P. K. Narayanan Nambiar

1927 – 2023

Sudha Kheterpal

b. 1982

Future Man

b. 1957

Lynn Vartan

José Areas

b. 1946

Rosanna Tavares

1961 – 2006

Pernell Saturnino

b. 1962

Trichy Sankaran

b. 1942

Shafaat Ahmed Khan

1944 – 2005

Mark Schulman

b. 1961

Guillermo "Willy" Oddó

1943 – 1991

K Arun Prakash

b. 1968

Hossam Ramzy

1953 – 2019

Henry Gibson

1942 – 2002

Radhika Veena Sadhika

b. 1982

Colin Currie

b. 1976

Rick Shutter

Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan

Samta Prasad

1921 – 1994

Guruvayur Dorai

b. 1935

Fiyaz Khan

1934 – 2014

Laurie Allan

b. 1943

Lisa Pegher

b. 1980

Vince DiFiore

b. 1963

Kim Dong-won

b. 1965

Carlton Barrett

1950 – 1987

William F. Ludwig

1879 – 1973

Teddy Brown

1900 – 1946

Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro

Melanie Woods

b. 1969

Dandamudi Ramamohan Rao

1933 – 2011

Leonard Gibbs

1948 – 2021

Joe Plummer

b. 1953

Habib Meftah Bouchehri

Dudu Mntowaziwayo Ndlovu

1957 – 1992

Joe Texidor

1941 – 2007

Ulpiano Díaz

1900 – 1990

Guy Evans

b. 1947

Stephen Perkins

b. 1967

Thor Harris

b. 1965

Gabriele Poso

b. 1978

Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma

b. 1965

Juma Sultan

b. 1942

George Jinda

1941 – 2002

Walter James Sinton

1911 – 1980

Airto Moreira

b. 1941

Othello Molineaux

b. 1939

Alvaro Salas

b. 1953

Finis Henderson III

Bill Rieflin

1960 – 2020

Adrian Young

b. 1969

Matīss Akuraters

b. 1982

Santaji Jagnade

1624 – 1688

Saul Goodman

1907 – 1996

Farouk El Safi