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"Move On Up a Little Higher" sold two million copies.Mahalia JacksonHis poems were admired and imitated by Geoffrey Chaucer.Guillaume de MachautWrote her own piano concerto at 14, Mendelssohn conducting.Clara SchumannHer stage name means 'sparrow' in Paris slang.Edith PiafHis 'Johnny B. Goode' is the only rock song aboard Voyager.Chuck BerryRecorded Kind of Blue, jazz's best-selling album ever.Miles DavisWith 35 wins, she is the most-awarded artist in Grammy history.BeyonceAmong the first to give music a written notation.Al-FarabiAn architect's son who became a fetishist of pure sound.Florian SchneiderWas buried with his Gibson guitar, a Bible, and cannabis.Bob MarleyHis family sang qawwali for nearly 600 years.Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanBuilt an opera house where the orchestra is invisible.Richard WagnerA perfectionist, he claimed to have destroyed 20 string quartets.Johannes BrahmsDied at 44 with just 70 cents in the bank.Billie HolidayAfter his death, 'Bird Lives' graffiti spread across the city.Charlie ParkerThe Pulitzer board denied him the 1965 music prize.Duke Ellington"Move On Up a Little Higher" sold two million copies.Mahalia JacksonHis poems were admired and imitated by Geoffrey Chaucer.Guillaume de MachautWrote her own piano concerto at 14, Mendelssohn conducting.Clara SchumannHer stage name means 'sparrow' in Paris slang.Edith PiafHis 'Johnny B. Goode' is the only rock song aboard Voyager.Chuck BerryRecorded Kind of Blue, jazz's best-selling album ever.Miles DavisWith 35 wins, she is the most-awarded artist in Grammy history.BeyonceAmong the first to give music a written notation.Al-FarabiAn architect's son who became a fetishist of pure sound.Florian SchneiderWas buried with his Gibson guitar, a Bible, and cannabis.Bob MarleyHis family sang qawwali for nearly 600 years.Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanBuilt an opera house where the orchestra is invisible.Richard WagnerA perfectionist, he claimed to have destroyed 20 string quartets.Johannes BrahmsDied at 44 with just 70 cents in the bank.Billie HolidayAfter his death, 'Bird Lives' graffiti spread across the city.Charlie ParkerThe Pulitzer board denied him the 1965 music prize.Duke Ellington

His act closed with a fake collapse and a cape rescue.James BrownAt 11 he fired a gun on New Year's, landing in reform school.Louis ArmstrongHer grave stayed unmarked until Janis Joplin paid for a stone.Bessie SmithCut her first international album barefoot at 47.Cesaria EvoraPublished his first book of sacred music at just fifteen.Claudio MonteverdiPlague took his wife and two sons within a decade.Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaMisspelled his opera Moses und Aron to dodge 13 letters.Arnold SchoenbergWrote eight songs in a single day at age 18.Franz SchubertSnuck into Japan on a fake passport, banned a year.Teresa TengNailed Purple Rain in pouring rain at the Super Bowl.PrinceJailed for a month for pestering a duke to let him quit.Johann Sebastian BachAccepting Dylan's Nobel, she forgot the lyrics.Patti SmithDied at 35 and was buried in an unmarked common grave.Wolfgang Amadeus MozartA quack eye surgeon left him completely blind by 1752.George Frideric HandelWon the 2016 Nobel, the first songwriter ever to.Bob DylanWrote the earliest morality play, a century ahead of any other.Hildegard of BingenHis act closed with a fake collapse and a cape rescue.James BrownAt 11 he fired a gun on New Year's, landing in reform school.Louis ArmstrongHer grave stayed unmarked until Janis Joplin paid for a stone.Bessie SmithCut her first international album barefoot at 47.Cesaria EvoraPublished his first book of sacred music at just fifteen.Claudio MonteverdiPlague took his wife and two sons within a decade.Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaMisspelled his opera Moses und Aron to dodge 13 letters.Arnold SchoenbergWrote eight songs in a single day at age 18.Franz SchubertSnuck into Japan on a fake passport, banned a year.Teresa TengNailed Purple Rain in pouring rain at the Super Bowl.PrinceJailed for a month for pestering a duke to let him quit.Johann Sebastian BachAccepting Dylan's Nobel, she forgot the lyrics.Patti SmithDied at 35 and was buried in an unmarked common grave.Wolfgang Amadeus MozartA quack eye surgeon left him completely blind by 1752.George Frideric HandelWon the 2016 Nobel, the first songwriter ever to.Bob DylanWrote the earliest morality play, a century ahead of any other.Hildegard of Bingen

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