Favorite Music

Blues:
Luther Allison
Eric Clapton
John Lee Hooker
Son House
Robert Johnson
B.B. King
Lead Belly
Muddy Waters
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Classical:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonard Bernstein 
Frederic Chopin
Claude Debussy
George Gershwin
Christoph Willibald Gluck 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Antonio Vivaldi
Richard Wagner

Country: 
Johnny Cash 
Merle Haggard
Waylon Jennings
Willie Nelson
Kenny Rogers

Hip Hop:
2Pac
Arrested Development
Boogie Down Productions (and KRS-One)
Common
dead prez
Gang Starr (and Guru)
Talib Kweli
Mos Def (aka Yasiin Bey)
OutKast
Poor Righteous Teachers (and Wise Intelligent)
Public Enemy
Rakim
Pete Rock & CL Smooth
The Roots

Jazz:
Cannonball Adderley
Louis Armstrong
Art Blakey
Dave Brubeck
Donald Byrd
John Coltrane
Ornette Coleman
Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald
Stan Getz
Dizzy Gillespie
Herbie Hancock
Billie Holiday
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Charlie Parker
Django Reinhardt
Sonny Rollins
Sun Ra
Max Roach
Art Tatum
Sarah Vaughan
Randy Weston

Latin:
Willie Colon
Hector Lavoe
Eddie Palmieri
Tito Puente
Willie Rosario
Arturo Sandoval

Reggae & Calypso:
The Abyssinians
Big Youth
Black Uhuru
Ken Boothe
Buju Banton
Dennis Brown
Burning Spear
Capleton
Jimmy Cliff
Culture
Beres Hammond
John Holt
Lord Kitchener
Mad Professor
Bob Marley
Jackie Mittoo
David Rudder 
Garnett Silk
Mighty Sparrow
Peter Tosh
U-Roy

Rock, Grunge, Heavy Metal:
Alice In Chains
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
Queensryche
Rage Against The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers

R&B, Soul, & Funk:
Marvin Gaye
Anthony Hamilton
Donny Hathaway
The Isley Brothers
Amel Larrieux
Curtis Mayfield
Maxwell
Parliament Funkadelic
Otis Redding
Sade
Nina Simone
The Temptations
Stevie Wonder

World Music:
1 Giant Leap
Mahmoud Ahmed
Alpha Blondy
Lucky Dube
Gilberto Gil
Salif Keita
Angélique Kidjo
Fela Kuti
Femi Kuti
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ismael Lô
Hugh Masekela
Youssou N'Dour
Ravi Shankar