The Most Famous
MUSICIANS from Singapore
This page contains a list of the greatest Singaporean Musicians. The pantheon dataset contains 2,662 Musicians, 2 of which were born in Singapore. This makes Singapore the birth place of the 69th most number of Musicians behind Egypt and Dominican Republic.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Singaporean Musicians of all time. This list of famous Singaporean Musicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Vanessa-Mae (1978 - )
With an HPI of 53.08, Vanessa-Mae is the most famous Singaporean Musician. Her biography has been translated into 49 different languages on wikipedia.
Vanessa-Mae (Chinese: 陈美; pinyin: Chén Měi; born 27 October 1978), also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. She competed under the name Vanessa Vanakorn (Thai: วาเนสซ่า วรรณกร, romanized: Wa-nes-sa Wan-na-kon; her father's surname) for Thailand in alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was initially banned from skiing by the International Ski Federation (FIS) after participating in a qualifying race allegedly organised to enable her to qualify for the Winter Olympics. An appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport led to the ban being nullified, citing lack of evidence for her own wrongdoing or any manipulation. The FIS later issued an apology to her.
2. Kygo (1991 - )
With an HPI of 41.17, Kygo is the 2nd most famous Singaporean Musician. His biography has been translated into 41 different languages.
Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (born 11 September 1991), known professionally as Kygo (Norwegian: [ˈkỳːɡuː]), is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. He garnered international attention with his December 2013 remix of the track "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran and his December 2014 single "Firestone" (featuring Conrad Sewell). In late 2015, he reached 1 billion streams on Spotify faster than any other artist, and by June 2016, he had reached 2 billion streams. Kygo has since released several singles, such as "Stole the Show", "Here for You", and "Stay" in 2015, "It Ain't Me" collaborating with Selena Gomez in 2017 and a 2019 remix of "Higher Love" performed by Whitney Houston, all of which have debuted on several international charts. His debut album, Cloud Nine, was released on 13 May 2016. Kygo became the first house music producer to perform at an Olympics closing ceremony in August 2016 at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In March 2018, Billboard ranked Kygo 3rd on its 2018 ranking of dance musicians titled Billboard Dance 100. The same year, he was ranked 32 on DJ Mag's top 100 DJs of the world, and in October 2019 he was ranked 42. Kygo's stage name is derived from the first two letters of his first and last names, generated during his use of Itslearning.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as musicians born between 1978 and 1991. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living musicians include Vanessa-Mae and Kygo.
