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Alicia Keys (born 1981)

singer, composer, pianist, record producer, poet, actor, art collector, presenter, recording artist, film director

• Professional Performing Arts School, Columbia University

Mark Oliver Everett (born 1963)

singer, record producer, guitarist, composer, keyboardist, drummer, rock musician

Patti Smith (born 1946)

poet, visual artist, human rights activist, guitarist, singer, composer, musician, drawer, photographer, performance artist, recording artist, rock singer, rock musician, film director

• Rowan University

Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000)

pianist, composer

• Chopin University of Music, Academy of Arts, Berlin

Fanny Crosby (1820-1915)

composer, poet, singer, teacher

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

poet, composer

• Royal College of Music, The King's School, Gloucester

Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981)

pianist, actor, composer, jazz musician, singer, television actor, film actor, bandleader, lawyer

• Indiana University, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Dimitry of Rostov (1651-1709)

composer, monk, Eastern Orthodox priest, hagiographer

• National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy