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This List of musicians from Seattle recognizes artists who are either from, or significantly associated with, the city. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Pages in category "Musicians from Seattle" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 266 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Seattle is the largest city in the U.S. state of Washington and has long played a major role in the state's musical culture, popularizing genres of alternative rock such as grunge and being the origin of major bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, Foo Fighters, and Nirvana. [1]
Members of Seattle’s most famous bands have played together in several side projects and supergroups, with Temple of the Dog and Staley’s Mad Season even recording entire albums.
George Frederick Frye – Seattle pioneer and politician; Edgar Gott – aviation pioneer, first president of Boeing; Carl F. Gould – architect, educator; George Hager – cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; John "DOK" Hager – cartoonist for the Seattle Daily Times; Alex Haley – writer, author of Roots
The largest city in the state, Seattle, is known for being the birthplace of grunge as well as a major contributor to the evolution of punk rock, indie music, folk, and hip hop. Nearby Tacoma and Olympia have also been centers of influence on popular music. Several world-famous musicians have come from Washington.
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M. Mad Season (band) The Magic Magicians; Maktub (band) The Maldives (band) Mamiffer; Manooghi Hi; Math and Physics Club; Medicine Hat (band) Metal Church; Mico de Noche