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This is a list of notable Irish-American musicians.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a notable musician.

Musicians

A–J

Christina Aguilera – singer-songwriter; Ecuadorian father and Irish-American mother
Tori Amos – singer-songwriter and musician
Anastacia – singer-songwriter
Michelle Branch – part Irish through her father^[1]
Laura Branigan – singer-songwriter and musician
Jeff Buckley – estranged son of Tim Buckley
Tim Buckley – father was the son of Irish immigrants
Chris Byrne^[2]
Mariah Carey^[3]
Aaron Carter – singer and Nick Carter's brother
Nick Carter – member of the boy band Backstreet Boys
Dennis Casey – Flogging Molly member^[4]
Ken Casey – bass player and vocalist for the Boston-based Celtic punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys^[5]
Celtic Spring – family dance and fiddle band^[6]
Kelly Clarkson^[7]
Rosemary Clooney^[8]
Kurt Cobain – singer-songwriter of the rock band Nirvana^[9]
George M. Cohan – singer-songwriter; vaudeville and Broadway theatre performer
Edward Joseph Collins – composer
Judy Collins^[10]
Alice Cooper – of partial Irish descent
Copywrite – rapper; mixed Irish and Italian descent
Billy Corgan – singer, lead guitarist of alternative-rock band The Smashing Pumpkins^[11]
Chris Cornell – lead singer of rock band Soundgarden^[12]
Frankie Cosmos – of Irish descent on her father's side
Henry Cowell – composer
Bing Crosby^[13]
Chris Daughtry – American Idol 2006 finalist; lead singer of the rock band Daughtry
Dennis Day – singer
Lee DeWyze – American Idol 2010 winner
Marié Digby – singer-songerwriter^[14]
Howie Dorough – member of the boy band Backstreet Boys; Irish father
Jimmy Dorsey^[15]
Tommy Dorsey^[16]
Hilary Duff
Everlast (born 1969) – singer-songwriter; known for his genre-crossing mix of rap and acoustic-based rock music^[17]
Eileen Farrell^[18]
Fergie
Michael Fitzpatrick – frontman of Fitz and the Tantrums
John Fogerty – singer-songwriter for rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival
Judy Garland^[19]
Billy Gibbons – guitarist and singer for rock band ZZ Top; has Irish ancestry on both sides of family
Greg Graffin – singer-songwriter for punk-rock band Bad Religion
Sasha Grey
Kirk Hammett – guitarist for rock band Metallica; Irish father, Filipino mother
Arthur Hanlon – pianist and Latin music musician^[20]
Matt Heafy – lead singer and guitarist for heavy-metal band Trivium; Irish father, Japanese mother
Swan Hennessy – composer
Victor Herbert^[21]
James Hetfield – lead singer and guitarist for rock band Metallica
Brent Hinds – singer and guitarist for heavy-metal band Mastodon
Julianne Hough – country-music singer and ballroom dancer
Andy Hurley – drummer for rock band Fall Out Boy
Danny Hutton – one of the three lead vocalists in the rock band Three Dog Night
Jonas Brothers – pop-rock band; of Irish descent from their maternal grandfather^[22]

K–Z

Maynard James Keenan
Bill Kelliher (born 1971) – guitarist for the heavy-metal band Mastodon; father was an Irish immigrant who moved to New York in the 1950s^[23]
Tori Kelly
Alicia Keys^[24]
Dave King^[25]
Chris Kirkpatrick – former member of the boy band 'N Sync
Larry Kirwan^[26]
Beyoncé Knowles
Ben Kyle – singer-songwriter; leader of the Americana band Romantica^[27]
Demi Lovato – Hispanic, Italian and Irish ancestry^[28]
Lorna Luft^[29]
Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) ^[30]
Benji Madden – lead guitarist of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte; both parents are Irish
Joel Madden – lead singer of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte; both parents are Irish
Meaghan Jette Martin – actress and singer from television musical film Camp Rock (2008)
Mike McColgan – former lead singer of the Celtic-punk band Dropkick Murphys; vocalist of the punk-rock band Street Dogs
John McCormack^[31]
Tim McGraw – singer; both parents have Irish ancestry
The McGuire Sisters – female vocal group of the 1950s
Katharine McPhee – singer; runner-up on American Idol, season 5
Natalie Merchant – singer; mother is of Irish descent
Patrick Monahan – singer with the pop-rock band Train^[32]
Mandy Moore – actress and singer; father is Irish
Jim Morrison – singer-songwriter of the rock band The Doors
Lacey Mosley – lead singer of hard-rock band Flyleaf
Gerry Mulligan^[33]
Dave Mustaine – co-founder of the heavy-metal band Megadeth; first lead guitarist for the heavy-metal band Metallica
Willie Nile – rock singer-songwriter
Bradley Nowell (1968–1996) – lead singer and guitarist for the ska-punk band Sublime
Virginia O'Brien^[34]
Aubrey O'Day – member of the female music group Danity Kane
Chauncey Olcott – singer and composer
Katy Perry – her great-great-grandmother was from Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland
Tom Petty
Pink – pop-singer
Robert Pollard – singer-songwriter; leader of the alternative-rock band Guided by Voices
Elvis Presley
Seth Putnam^[35]
Carmel Quinn^[36]
Christopher "Kid" Reid – rapper; Jamaican and Irish descent
Trent Reznor – singer-songwriter, composer and record producer; founder of the industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails^[37]
Bianca Ryan^[38]
Slaine – rapper
Carly Smithson – Dublin, Ireland, native who placed sixth on the seventh installment of American Idol; lead singer of the gothic-metal band We Are the Fallen
Britney Spears
Bruce Springsteen – instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
Gwen Stefani – mother is part Irish
Patrick Stump – lead singer of American rock band Fall Out Boy
Jessica Sutta – member of pop girl group The Pussycat Dolls
Taylor Swift
Stuart Michael Thomas – film and television composer and producer^[39]
Justin Timberlake
Chris Trousdale (born 1985) – singer; former member of the pop boy band Dream Street^[40]
Shania Twain – singer
Danielle White – singer from the television singing-competition series American Juniors
Joseph M. White – tenor
Robert White – tenor
Ace Young – singer from American Idol^[41]

References

^ [1] Mike: I learned that your dad is Irish, and your mom is Dutch Indonesian and French.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 13, 2005. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Irish-American recording artist Chris Byrne, familiar to Irish music fans as Seanchai (pronounced SHAN-a-kee), and as a founder of the Irish musical group, Black 47..."
^ [2] "I've always said that my father is half black and half Venezuelan and my mother is Irish. But people don't understand... They can't fathom that I'm African American, Venezuelan and Irish."
^ The punk of the Irish :: Honolulu Weekly
^ [3] "Ken Casey's Boston-Irish immigrant family experience is in many ways very similar..."
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 10, 2006. Retrieved August 9, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Born into a family of Irish descent, the Wood children, Elizabeth, (20), Deirdre, (18), Sean, (16), Patrick, (14), and Maire, (10), reside in the rural Ojai Valley in Southern California, with their parents and their little brother, Aidan"
^ [4] "I'm Greek and Irish."
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 25, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..."
^ Cobain: Actually it was, but the Coburns screwed it up when they came over. They came from County Cork, which is a really weird coincidence, because when we toured Ireland, we played in Cork and the entire day I walked around in a daze. I'd never felt more spiritual in my life. It was the weirdest feeling and-I have a friend who was with me who could testify to this-I was almost in tears the whole day. Since that tour, which was about two years ago, I've had a sense that I was from Ireland.
^ [5] "I was born with the Irish virus. That's easy. I came by it honestly through centuries and centuries of ancestors, I am sure..."
^ "I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens."
^ [6] "I'm Irish: If I could get the cap off something, I would drink it."
^ [7] "Bing’s mother was of Irish descent and his father was descended from a maritime family." [8]
^ [9]"Marié is of Japanese and Irish descent"
^ [10] "heritage Irish"
^ [11] "Irish-American trombonist Tommy Dorsey, more than two years younger (according to recently unearthed baptismal papers) than his clarinetist and alto saxophonist brother Jimmy..."
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 16, 2003. Retrieved July 13, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "OH, FOR THE DAYS when Everlast was Irish, angry, and proud of it."
^ [12] [13] "The daughter of Irish-American vaudeville singers..."
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 9, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)"Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 25, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "What would "White Christmas" have sounded like if Bing Crosby (great-grandfather from Co. Cork) hadn't made it a hit? Ditto for "Over the Rainbow", sung by Judy Garland (grandmother Fitzpatrick from Dublin), whose popularity in Ireland was so great that the song It's A Great Day for the Irish was written especially for her."
^ Bonacich, Drago. "Arthur Hanlon - Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
^ [14] "Victor Herbert, an Irish-born American composer and conductor of operettas and light music..."
^ [15] "Maternal grandfather is of Irish descent"
^ [16] "Father was an Irish immigrant"
^ [17] Her mother is Irish-Italian..."
^ [18] "For Dave King, the Dublin-born singer/guitarist/songwriter of SideOneDummy recording group Flogging Molly..."
^ [19] "Irish playwright and musician Larry Kirwan" [20] "Larry Kirwan, a native of Wexford on the southeast coast of Ireland, writes the songs of Black 47..."
^ Bialas, Michael. "After Sleeping on It, Ben Kyle Gets His Solo Act Together". The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
^ [21] "Demi is of Hispanic, Italian and Irish descent."
^ [22] daughter of Judy Garland and (half) sister of Liza Minnelli "and developed the powerful Irish charm and sense of style that stayed with him for the rest of his life. My family has sometimes survived on (Irish) charm alone."
^ Storrs, Kev (November 21, 2011). "RI Exclusive: Macklemore Interview with Rap Ireland". Rap Ireland. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 19, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "John McCormack ( Irish Tenor )" [23] "...was one of the greatest singers of this century, born in Ireland in 1884 to working class parents."
^ [24] "Being the youngest of seven kids in an Irish family..."
^ lphares.com Archived September 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 13, 2004. Retrieved October 10, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Her Irish father was the captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department and later the city's deputy district attorney."
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 17, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "I'm half English and half Irish." "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 17, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Basically I'm.. if you really want to know my ethnic background... I'm a quarter Irish and a Quarter English. My father's side of the Family was English and they came here in 1630. And my mother's side of the family... there was a potato famine."
^ [25] [26] "show is an evening of songs and stories based on Quinn's early life in Dublin..."
^ [27].
^ The Bob Rivers Show: 11-year-old singing sensation Bianca Ryan shows us why she's got talent Archived October 31, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ [28]. Internet Movie Database.
^ Trousdale - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 16, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Well my background is Greek and something called Black Irish. It's an ethnic Irish. It's not the blonde haired blue eyed Irish. My mom can almost look Spanish. She has really dark dark eyes. So it's basically like an Italian Irish or a Spanish Irish. It's dark. So yeah, Greek and Black Irish..."
^ "No one really sounds like me. I'm German-Irish but for some reason I have soul in me. I've always had it - ever since I was a kid. So I'm bringing my spirit and my heart because every song I sing, I'm telling a story."

[1] [1] Mike: I learned that your dad is Irish, and your mom is Dutch Indonesian and French.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 13, 2005. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Irish-American recording artist Chris Byrne, familiar to Irish music fans as Seanchai (pronounced SHAN-a-kee), and as a founder of the Irish musical group, Black 47..."

[3] [2] "I've always said that my father is half black and half Venezuelan and my mother is Irish. But people don't understand... They can't fathom that I'm African American, Venezuelan and Irish."

[4] The punk of the Irish :: Honolulu Weekly

[5] [3] "Ken Casey's Boston-Irish immigrant family experience is in many ways very similar..."

[6] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 10, 2006. Retrieved August 9, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Born into a family of Irish descent, the Wood children, Elizabeth, (20), Deirdre, (18), Sean, (16), Patrick, (14), and Maire, (10), reside in the rural Ojai Valley in Southern California, with their parents and their little brother, Aidan"

[7] [4] "I'm Greek and Irish."

[8] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 25, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..."

[9] Cobain: Actually it was, but the Coburns screwed it up when they came over. They came from County Cork, which is a really weird coincidence, because when we toured Ireland, we played in Cork and the entire day I walked around in a daze. I'd never felt more spiritual in my life. It was the weirdest feeling and-I have a friend who was with me who could testify to this-I was almost in tears the whole day. Since that tour, which was about two years ago, I've had a sense that I was from Ireland.

[10] [5] "I was born with the Irish virus. That's easy. I came by it honestly through centuries and centuries of ancestors, I am sure..."

[11] "I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens."

[12] [6] "I'm Irish: If I could get the cap off something, I would drink it."

[13] [7] "Bing’s mother was of Irish descent and his father was descended from a maritime family." [8]

[14] [9]"Marié is of Japanese and Irish descent"

[15] [10] "heritage Irish"

[16] [11] "Irish-American trombonist Tommy Dorsey, more than two years younger (according to recently unearthed baptismal papers) than his clarinetist and alto saxophonist brother Jimmy..."

[17] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 16, 2003. Retrieved July 13, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "OH, FOR THE DAYS when Everlast was Irish, angry, and proud of it."

[18] [12] [13] "The daughter of Irish-American vaudeville singers..."

[19] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 9, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)"Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 25, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "What would "White Christmas" have sounded like if Bing Crosby (great-grandfather from Co. Cork) hadn't made it a hit? Ditto for "Over the Rainbow", sung by Judy Garland (grandmother Fitzpatrick from Dublin), whose popularity in Ireland was so great that the song It's A Great Day for the Irish was written especially for her."

[20] Bonacich, Drago. "Arthur Hanlon - Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved October 21, 2014.

[21] [14] "Victor Herbert, an Irish-born American composer and conductor of operettas and light music..."

[22] [15] "Maternal grandfather is of Irish descent"

[23] [16] "Father was an Irish immigrant"

[24] [17] Her mother is Irish-Italian..."

[25] [18] "For Dave King, the Dublin-born singer/guitarist/songwriter of SideOneDummy recording group Flogging Molly..."

[26] [19] "Irish playwright and musician Larry Kirwan" [20] "Larry Kirwan, a native of Wexford on the southeast coast of Ireland, writes the songs of Black 47..."

[27] Bialas, Michael. "After Sleeping on It, Ben Kyle Gets His Solo Act Together". The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 10, 2013.

[28] [21] "Demi is of Hispanic, Italian and Irish descent."

[29] [22] daughter of Judy Garland and (half) sister of Liza Minnelli "and developed the powerful Irish charm and sense of style that stayed with him for the rest of his life. My family has sometimes survived on (Irish) charm alone."

[30] Storrs, Kev (November 21, 2011). "RI Exclusive: Macklemore Interview with Rap Ireland". Rap Ireland. Retrieved July 27, 2013.

[31] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 19, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "John McCormack ( Irish Tenor )" [23] "...was one of the greatest singers of this century, born in Ireland in 1884 to working class parents."

[32] [24] "Being the youngest of seven kids in an Irish family..."

[33] res.com Archived September 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

[34] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 13, 2004. Retrieved October 10, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Her Irish father was the captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department and later the city's deputy district attorney."

[35] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 17, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "I'm half English and half Irish." "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 17, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Basically I'm.. if you really want to know my ethnic background... I'm a quarter Irish and a Quarter English. My father's side of the Family was English and they came here in 1630. And my mother's side of the family... there was a potato famine."

[36] [25] [26] "show is an evening of songs and stories based on Quinn's early life in Dublin..."

[37] [27].

[38] The Bob Rivers Show: 11-year-old singing sensation Bianca Ryan shows us why she's got talent Archived October 31, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

[39] [28]. Internet Movie Database.

[40] Trousdale - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 16, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Well my background is Greek and something called Black Irish. It's an ethnic Irish. It's not the blonde haired blue eyed Irish. My mom can almost look Spanish. She has really dark dark eyes. So it's basically like an Italian Irish or a Spanish Irish. It's dark. So yeah, Greek and Black Irish..."

[41] "No one really sounds like me. I'm German-Irish but for some reason I have soul in me. I've always had it - ever since I was a kid. So I'm bringing my spirit and my heart because every song I sing, I'm telling a story."

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 * [[Jeff Buckley]]{{spaced ndash}} estranged son of [[Tim Buckley]]
 * [[Tim Buckley]]{{spaced ndash}} father was the son of Irish immigrants
-* [[Chris Byrne (musician)|Chris Byrne]]<ref>[http://www.sds-law.com/RealTime.cgi?case_id=byrne_v_bbc&merge=cases%7Cdescription] "Irish-American recording artist Chris Byrne, familiar to Irish music fans as Seanchai (pronounced SHAN-a-kee), and as a founder of the Irish musical group, Black 47..."</ref>
+* [[Chris Byrne (musician)|Chris Byrne]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sds-law.com/RealTime.cgi?case_id%3Dbyrne_v_bbc%26merge%3Dcases%7Cdescription |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050913134538/http://www.sds-law.com/RealTime.cgi?case_id=byrne_v_bbc&merge=cases%7Cdescription |archivedate=September 13, 2005 |df= }} "Irish-American recording artist Chris Byrne, familiar to Irish music fans as Seanchai (pronounced SHAN-a-kee), and as a founder of the Irish musical group, Black 47..."</ref>
 * [[Mariah Carey]]<ref>[http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/mariah_carey/] "I've always said that my father is half black and half Venezuelan and my mother is Irish. But people don't understand... They can't fathom that I'm African American, Venezuelan and Irish."</ref>
 * [[Aaron Carter]]{{spaced ndash}} singer and [[Nick Carter (musician)|Nick Carter]]'s brother
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 * [[Dennis Casey (musician)|Dennis Casey]]{{spaced ndash}} [[Flogging Molly]] member<ref>[http://honoluluweekly.com/entertainment/2006/05/the-punk-of-the-irish/ The punk of the Irish :: Honolulu Weekly<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 * [[Ken Casey]]{{spaced ndash}} bass player and vocalist for the [[Boston]]-based [[Celtic punk|Celtic punk-rock]] band [[Dropkick Murphys]]<ref>[http://www.shitenonions.com/features_Dropkick.html] "Ken Casey's Boston-Irish immigrant family experience is in many ways very similar..."</ref>
-* [[Celtic Spring]]{{spaced ndash}} family dance and [[Irish fiddle|fiddle]] band<ref>[http://www.celticspringband.com/bio.html] "Born into a family of Irish descent, the Wood children, Elizabeth, (20), Deirdre, (18), Sean, (16), Patrick, (14), and Maire, (10), reside in the rural Ojai Valley in Southern California, with their parents and their little brother, Aidan"</ref>
+* [[Celtic Spring]]{{spaced ndash}} family dance and [[Irish fiddle|fiddle]] band<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celticspringband.com/bio.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-08-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060810044835/http://www.celticspringband.com/bio.html |archivedate=August 10, 2006 |df= }} "Born into a family of Irish descent, the Wood children, Elizabeth, (20), Deirdre, (18), Sean, (16), Patrick, (14), and Maire, (10), reside in the rural Ojai Valley in Southern California, with their parents and their little brother, Aidan"</ref>
 * [[Kelly Clarkson]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D18UsuIZ8hI] "I'm Greek and Irish."</ref>
-* [[Rosemary Clooney]]<ref>[http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/obituaries/asymbolofgoodmodernamericanmusiclondonindependent7102.htm] "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..."</ref>
+* [[Rosemary Clooney]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/obituaries/asymbolofgoodmodernamericanmusiclondonindependent7102.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061025074152/http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/obituaries/asymbolofgoodmodernamericanmusiclondonindependent7102.htm |archivedate=October 25, 2006 |df= }} "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..."</ref>
 * [[Kurt Cobain]]{{spaced ndash}} singer-songwriter of the [[rock band]] [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]<ref>Cobain: Actually it was, but the Coburns screwed it up when they came over. They came from County Cork, which is a really weird coincidence, because when we toured Ireland, we played in Cork and the entire day I walked around in a daze. I'd never felt more spiritual in my life. It was the weirdest feeling and-I have a friend who was with me who could testify to this-I was almost in tears the whole day. Since that tour, which was about two years ago, I've had a sense that I was from Ireland.
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 * [[Tommy Dorsey]]<ref>[http://www.irishecho.com/search/searchstory.cfm?id=17186&issueid=434+] "Irish-American trombonist Tommy Dorsey, more than two years younger (according to recently unearthed baptismal papers) than his clarinetist and alto saxophonist brother Jimmy..."</ref>
 * [[Hilary Duff]]
-* [[Everlast (singer)|Everlast]] (born 1969){{spaced ndash}} singer-songwriter; known for his genre-crossing mix of [[rap music|rap]] and [[acoustic rock|acoustic-based rock]] music<ref>[http://www.varsity.utoronto.ca/archives/121/nov30/review/hotwax.html] "OH, FOR THE DAYS when Everlast was Irish, angry, and proud of it."</ref>
+* [[Everlast (singer)|Everlast]] (born 1969){{spaced ndash}} singer-songwriter; known for his genre-crossing mix of [[rap music|rap]] and [[acoustic rock|acoustic-based rock]] music<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.varsity.utoronto.ca/archives/121/nov30/review/hotwax.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-07-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031116031833/http://www.varsity.utoronto.ca/archives/121/nov30/review/hotwax.html |archivedate=November 16, 2003 |df= }} "OH, FOR THE DAYS when Everlast was Irish, angry, and proud of it."</ref>
 * [[Eileen Farrell]]<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9125717] [http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/farrell/bio.html] "The daughter of Irish-American vaudeville singers..."</ref>
 * [[Fergie (singer)|Fergie]]
 * [[Michael Fitzpatrick (musician)|Michael Fitzpatrick]] {{spaced ndash}} frontman of [[Fitz and the Tantrums]]
 * [[John Fogerty]]{{spaced ndash}} singer-songwriter for [[rock band]] [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]]
-* [[Judy Garland]]<ref>[http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/con070951.html][http://www.irisheyes.fr/pages/march2005.html] "What would "White Christmas" have sounded like if Bing Crosby (great-grandfather from Co. Cork) hadn't made it a hit? Ditto for "Over the Rainbow", sung by Judy Garland (grandmother Fitzpatrick from Dublin), whose popularity in Ireland was so great that the song [[It's A Great Day for the Irish]] was written especially for her."</ref>
+* [[Judy Garland]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/con070951.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909011853/http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/con070951.html |archivedate=September  9, 2006 |df= }}{{cite web|url=http://www.irisheyes.fr/pages/march2005.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125014737/http://www.irisheyes.fr/pages/march2005.html |archivedate=November 25, 2006 |df= }} "What would "White Christmas" have sounded like if Bing Crosby (great-grandfather from Co. Cork) hadn't made it a hit? Ditto for "Over the Rainbow", sung by Judy Garland (grandmother Fitzpatrick from Dublin), whose popularity in Ireland was so great that the song [[It's A Great Day for the Irish]] was written especially for her."</ref>
 * [[Billy Gibbons]]{{spaced ndash}} guitarist and singer for [[rock band]] [[ZZ Top]]; has Irish ancestry on both sides of family
 * [[Greg Graffin]]{{spaced ndash}} singer-songwriter for [[punk rock|punk-rock]] band [[Bad Religion]]
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 * [[Meaghan Jette Martin]]{{spaced ndash}} actress and singer from television musical film ''[[Camp Rock]]'' (2008)
 * [[Mike McColgan]]{{spaced ndash}} former lead singer of the [[Celtic punk|Celtic-punk]] band [[Dropkick Murphys]]; vocalist of the [[punk rock|punk-rock]] band [[Street Dogs]]
-* [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]]<ref>[http://www.besmark.com/mcormack.html] "John McCormack ( Irish Tenor )" [http://www.mccormacksociety.co.uk/Mccormack/Biography/John%20McCormack%20Biography,%20Chapter%203.htm] "...was one of the greatest singers of this century, born in Ireland in 1884 to working class parents."</ref>
+* [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.besmark.com/mcormack.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619203521/http://www.besmark.com/mcormack.html |archivedate=June 19, 2006 |df= }} "John McCormack ( Irish Tenor )" [http://www.mccormacksociety.co.uk/Mccormack/Biography/John%20McCormack%20Biography,%20Chapter%203.htm] "...was one of the greatest singers of this century, born in Ireland in 1884 to working class parents."</ref>
 * [[Tim McGraw]] {{spaced ndash}} singer; both parents have Irish ancestry
 * [[The McGuire Sisters]]{{spaced ndash}} female vocal group of the 1950s
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 * [[Jim Morrison]]{{spaced ndash}} singer-songwriter of the [[rock band]] [[The Doors]]
 * [[Lacey Mosley]]{{spaced ndash}} lead singer of [[hard rock|hard-rock]] band [[Flyleaf (band)|Flyleaf]]
-* [[Gerry Mulligan]]<ref>[http://www.lphares.com/hhjs/page32.html lphares.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
+* [[Gerry Mulligan]]<ref>[http://www.lphares.com/hhjs/page32.html lphares.com<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906073720/http://www.lphares.com/hhjs/page32.html |date=September  6, 2006 }}</ref>
 * [[Dave Mustaine]]{{spaced ndash}} co-founder of the [[Heavy metal music|heavy-metal]] band [[Megadeth]]; first lead guitarist for the heavy-metal band [[Metallica]]
 * [[Willie Nile]]{{spaced ndash}} rock singer-songwriter
 * [[Bradley Nowell]] (1968&ndash;1996){{spaced ndash}} lead singer and guitarist for the [[ska punk|ska-punk]] band [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]]
-* [[Virginia O'Brien]]<ref>[http://www.classicimages.com/1999/january99/virginiaobrien.html] "Her Irish father was the captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department and later the city's deputy district attorney."</ref>
+* [[Virginia O'Brien]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicimages.com/1999/january99/virginiaobrien.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-10-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040813221406/http://www.classicimages.com/1999/january99/virginiaobrien.html |archivedate=August 13, 2004 |df= }} "Her Irish father was the captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department and later the city's deputy district attorney."</ref>
 * [[Aubrey O'Day]]{{spaced ndash}} member of the [[girl group|female music group]] [[Danity Kane]]
 * [[Chauncey Olcott]]{{spaced ndash}} singer and composer
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 * [[Robert Pollard]]{{spaced ndash}} singer-songwriter; leader of the [[alternative rock|alternative-rock]] band [[Guided by Voices]]
 * [[Elvis Presley]]
-* [[Seth Putnam]]<ref>[http://www.thegrimoire.com/anal_cunt.htm] "I'm half English and half Irish." [http://www.thegrimoire.com/anal_cunt.htm] "Basically I'm.. if you really want to know my ethnic background... I'm a quarter Irish and a Quarter English. My father's side of the Family was English and they came here in 1630. And my mother's side of the family... there was a potato famine."</ref>
+* [[Seth Putnam]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegrimoire.com/anal_cunt.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060417175505/http://www.thegrimoire.com/anal_cunt.htm |archivedate=April 17, 2006 |df= }} "I'm half English and half Irish." {{cite web|url=http://www.thegrimoire.com/anal_cunt.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060417175505/http://www.thegrimoire.com/anal_cunt.htm |archivedate=April 17, 2006 |df= }} "Basically I'm.. if you really want to know my ethnic background... I'm a quarter Irish and a Quarter English. My father's side of the Family was English and they came here in 1630. And my mother's side of the family... there was a potato famine."</ref>
 * [[Carmel Quinn]]<ref>[http://www.carmelquinn.com/] [http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/13193] "show is an evening of songs and stories based on Quinn's early life in Dublin..."</ref>
 * [[Christopher "Kid" Reid]]{{spaced ndash}} [[rapper]]; [[Jamaican people|Jamaican]] and Irish descent
 * [[Trent Reznor]]{{spaced ndash}} singer-songwriter, composer and record producer; founder of the [[industrial rock|industrial-]]rock band [[Nine Inch Nails]]<ref>[http://www.wargs.com/other/reznor.html].</ref>
-* [[Bianca Ryan]]<ref>[http://www.bobrivers.com/ontheshow/brsnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=5667 The Bob Rivers Show: 11-year-old singing sensation Bianca Ryan shows us why she's got talent<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
+* [[Bianca Ryan]]<ref>[http://www.bobrivers.com/ontheshow/brsnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=5667 The Bob Rivers Show: 11-year-old singing sensation Bianca Ryan shows us why she's got talent<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031224029/http://www.bobrivers.com/ontheshow/brsnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=5667 |date=October 31, 2006 }}</ref>
 * [[Slaine (rapper)|Slaine]]{{spaced ndash}} [[rapper]]
 * [[Carly Smithson]]{{spaced ndash}} [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]], native who placed sixth on the seventh installment of ''[[American Idol]]''; lead singer of the [[gothic metal|gothic-metal]] band [[We Are the Fallen]]
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 * [[Stuart Michael Thomas]]{{spaced ndash}} film and television composer and producer<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1580630/]. [[Internet Movie Database]].</ref>
 * [[Justin Timberlake]]
-* [[Chris Trousdale]] (born 1985){{spaced ndash}} singer; former member of the [[pop music|pop]] [[boy band]] [[Dream Street]]<ref>'''Trousdale''' - [http://www.feelingthevibe.com/ChrisInterview2.html] "Well my background is Greek and something called Black Irish. It's an ethnic Irish. It's not the blonde haired blue eyed Irish. My mom can almost look Spanish. She has really dark dark eyes. So it's basically like an Italian Irish or a Spanish Irish. It's dark. So yeah, Greek and [[Black Irish]]..."</ref>
+* [[Chris Trousdale]] (born 1985){{spaced ndash}} singer; former member of the [[pop music|pop]] [[boy band]] [[Dream Street]]<ref>'''Trousdale''' - {{cite web|url=http://www.feelingthevibe.com/ChrisInterview2.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-06-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016015110/http://www.feelingthevibe.com/ChrisInterview2.html |archivedate=October 16, 2006 |df= }} "Well my background is Greek and something called Black Irish. It's an ethnic Irish. It's not the blonde haired blue eyed Irish. My mom can almost look Spanish. She has really dark dark eyes. So it's basically like an Italian Irish or a Spanish Irish. It's dark. So yeah, Greek and [[Black Irish]]..."</ref>
 * [[Shania Twain]]{{spaced ndash}} singer
 * [[Danielle White]]{{spaced ndash}} singer from the television singing-competition series ''[[American Juniors]]''

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