Upper West Side
32 music artists that Wikipedia ties to the Upper West Side, best known first. A tie, not always an origin
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- Lady GagaSinger-songwriter · Pop
- Miles DavisTrumpeter, bandleader, composer · Jazz
- Mark RonsonMusician · Hip-Hop
- Harry BelafonteSinger · Pop
- Stephen SondheimComposer, lyricist · Stage & Screen
- Ezra KoenigMusician · Pop
- Suzanne VegaSinger-songwriter · Rock & Punk
- Sergei RachmaninoffComposer, pianist, conductor · Classical
- Patty SmythSinger · Rock & Punk
- Mike DMusician · Hip-Hop
- Ray ManzarekKeyboardist · Rock & Punk
- Jennifer RushSinger · Rock & Punk
- Aaron CoplandComposer, conductor · Classical
- Peter YarrowSinger, songwriter · Folk & Country
- John BerryGuitarist
- XaviersobasedRapper · Hip-Hop
- Cynthia WeilSongwriter · Rock & Punk
- WikiRapper · Hip-Hop
- Charles StrouseComposer, lyricist
- Sheldon HarnickLyricist, songwriter · Stage & Screen
- Adam GuettelComposer · Stage & Screen
- Lily PonsOpera singer · Classical
- Hal WillnerRecord producer
- Leopold AuerViolinist, conductor, composer · Classical
- Charles RosenPianist
- Bob WeinstockRecord producer
- Philip ShermanCantor
- Maurice SternOpera singer · Classical
- Lucine AmaraSoprano · Classical
- Jeffrey LesserMusic producer
- Madeline StoneSongwriter
- Roger RosenbergMusician · Jazz
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Music spots
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Venue
Beacon Theatre
1929A 1929 movie palace on Broadway that began presenting live entertainment in 1966. Miles Davis played it in the early 1980s and Laurie Anderson during that decade, Sonny Rollins in the second half of the 1990s, and Paul Simon gave the first performances after its 2009 reopening, per Wikipedia.
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