What is the most important artist in the music history?

With all respect to the others... I think Frank Sinatra is my favorite!

 

Depends what's your pick I guess. I like guitar stuff, which brings Jimi Hendrix on top for me.....

 

I vote for Hedrix also.

Matti

 

Frank Sinatra.

 

We are talking about popular music of the 20th century, right?

The Beatles of course was far more than the sum of its parts and perhaps should be included as an "artist" in its own right rather than John and Paul individually.

 

I have to agree with Peter, Hence I can't vote on this one with just Paul and Johns names there!

 

I think Lennon/McCartney belong to the most important artists... but George and Ringo are not on the same rank like Elvis or Sinatra (IMHO).

I hope that's not a sacrilege against all Beatles fans here.

 

Have to agree with Peter.

If you are talking about the most popular individual, then that may be a different story. Then I may go with Jimi Hendrix.

 

Mark... you're right that was my question!

 

Can't and won't vote unless "The Beatles" are added.

It wasn't Lennon or McCartney, any more than Harrison or Starkey. The sum of those four individuals was greater than the individual parts. None of them would have had the same impact without the others. Therefore The Beatles, as a unit, should be added to the ballot.

 

Da Vinci

Peace-
Norm

 

Debussy.

 

Well, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis would have to be on the short list.

It's interesting, Claus, that you included Frank Zappa. He's far more revered in Europe than in his home country. I've met other Europeans who rate him as highly. While he does have a dedicated following in the U.S., most American listeners probably wouldn't include him on a list like this if given one hundred entries, if they even thought of him at all.

 

Most important?

Enrico Caruso, probably.
He made the "record" an
artform "way back when"...

 

Ellington. He was and forever will be unsurpassed.

 

Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.
Duke Ellington
Rolling Stones, The Who
Brian Wilson

Apologies to Claus. Don't mean to thread crap.

 

Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Claus left a space for "others" so your answer looks good. It's hard to pick one.

 

I assume as much. In which case, my vote goes to Louis Armstrong.

 

I can't vote for a "most important" since music is constantly changing and evolving. Elvis may have broken down doors, but then he was followed by the Lennon/McCartney era which began the songwriting era, IMHO. In other words, artists wrote and recorded (even produced) most of their own music, vs. covering hits by established tunesmiths like the Brill Building. One could also further argue that the Sugarhill Gang was the first "rap" group...maybe not THE first, but the first that had a recognizable, well known hit that opened the floodgates for all that followed.

 

Oh...MUSIC History!

Dylan

Peace

Norm

 

Re: Oh...MUSIC History!

you're right... I missed Bob!

 

Gotta vote for the Beatles; much more important together than as individual artists. Plus the social impact the Beatles brought was greater than Elvis (although his and Sinatra's social influences were pretty great, too).