BESTS FROM IRAN

Best Iranian Pop Singer: Googoosh
Folk Artis: Mohammad-Reza Shajarian

49. LEBONAN

BESTS FROM LEBONAN

Academy Award Winning Composer: Gabriel Yared
Best Arabic Singing Voice Ever: Fairuz
Most Famous Lebanese Singer abroad: Paul Anka
UNESCO Artist for Peace: Marcel Khalife

48. LITHUANIA

BESTS FROM LITHUANIA

Best Lithuanian Classical Composer: Clara Rockmore
Best Lithuanian Rock Band: Foje
One of the Greatest Violin Players of All-Time: Jascha Heifetz

47. ARMENIA

BESTS FROM ARMENIA

Four time Grammy Award nominated Armenian Band: System of a Down
Best Armenian Classical Composer: Aram Khachaturian
Three times Oscar Winner Composer: Michel Legrand
Greatest Duduk Player Ever: Djivan Gasparyan
Most Famous Armenian Singers : Cher, Charles Aznavour

46. PERU

BESTS FROM PERU

Greatest Singing Voice Ever (over 4 octaves): Yma Sumac
Greatest Peruvian Musician: Chabuca Granda
Peruvian Hip-Hop Singer: Immortal Technique

45. ICELAND

BESTS FROM ICELAND

Best Icelandic Band Ever Sigur Ros
Greatest Female Musician of Iceland: Bjork
Best Icelandic Classical Composer: Johann Johannsson

44. ETHIOPIA

BESTS FROM ETHIOPIA

Father of Ethiopian Jazz: Mulatu Astatqe
Best Gurage Singer: Mahmoud Ahmed
Ethiopian James Brown, Soul Singer: Alemayehu Eshete

43. SOUTH AFRICA

BESTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA

Best South African Composer (European Origin): Trevor Jones
Best South African Jazz Musicians: Abdullah Ibrahim, Hugh Masekela
Grammy Award Winning Artist, Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba

42. ROMANIA

BESTS FROM ROMANIA

Best Romanian Musicians Ever: George Enescu, Dinu Lipatti
Best Gipsy Bands ever: Fanfarte Ciocarlia, Taraf de Haidouks
Master of the Pan-Flute: Gheorge Zamfir
Greatest Band of Romania: Phoenix

41. MALI

BESTS FROM MALI

One of the Top Three Greatest African Musicians Ever (with Fela Kuti and Miriam Makeba): Ali Farka Toure
Golden Voice of Africa, Albino Singer: Salif Keita
Best African Music Duo ever (blind couple): Amadou & Mariam

40. DENMARK

BESTS FROM DENMARK

Best Danish Composer Ever: Carl Nielsen
Best Danish Bands: Mew, Mercyful Fate
Best Danish Electronic Musician: Trentemoller

39. UKRAINE

BESTS FROM UKRAINE

The Sound: Stan Getz
Best Ukranian Bands: Fleur, Nokturnal Mortum, Drudkh

38. SERBIA

BESTS FROM SERBIA

Greatest Garage Rock Band of Ex-Yugoslavia: Partibrejkers
Best Serbian Gypsy Musician: Saban Bajramovic
Best Acoustic Rock Singer of East Europe: Djordje Balasevic

37. WALES

BESTS FROM WALES

The Most Inventive and Influential Figure in Contemporary Electronic Music: Aphex Twins
One of the Most Powerful Singing Voices Ever: Tom Jones
Best Welsh Bands: Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals

36. CHILE

BESTS FROM CHILE

Best Chilean Musicians Ever: Violeta Parra, Victor Jara
Best Chilean Folk Band: Inti-Illimani
Best Chilean Rock Bands: Los Prisioneros, Los Jaivas

35. CHINA

BESTS FROM CHINA

Multiple Grammy Awards Winner Cellist: Yo-Yo Ma
Grammy and Oscar Winner Contemporary Classical Composer: Tan Dun
Best Chinese Pop Singers Ever: Leslie Cheung, Faye Wong

34. ISRAEL

BESTS FROM ISRAEL

Best Israeli Band: Orphaned Land
One of the Greatest Violinist of the 20th Century: Itzhak Perlman
Best Israelian Female Musician Ever: Chava Alberstein

33. BELGIUM

BESTS FROM BELGIUM

Best Belgian Classical Composer: Cesar Franck
One of the Most Renowned Jazz Guitarists due to His Innovative and Distinctive Playing: Django Reinhardt
Greatest Belgian Singer Ever: Jacques Brel

32. CROATIA

BESTS FROM CROATIA

Best Grunge Band of East Europe: Laufer
Greatest Croatian Pianist: Ivo Pogorelich
Best Croatian Bands: Azra, Prljavo Kazaliste

31. FINLAND

BESTS FROM FINLAND

Greatest Finnish Musician of All-Time: Jean Sibelius
Best Symphonic Metal Band Ever: Nightwish
Death Metal Band: Amorphis

30. CATALONIA (Autonomous Community)

BESTS FROM CATALONIA

Greatest Cello Player of All-Time: Pablo Casals
Best Classical Guitar Composer Ever: Isaac Albeniz
Mambo Musician: Xavier Cugat

29. PUERTO RICO

BESTS FROM PUERTO RICO

Godfather of Latin Jazz: Ray Barretto
Most Renowned Singer and Composer of Salsa Music: Ismael Rivera
King of Mambo Music: Tito Puente
Great Salsa Singer: Hector Lavoe
Most Successful Puerto Rican Musical Group Ever: El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico

28. HUNGARY

BESTS FROM HUNGARY

Top Hungarian Classical Composers and Pianists: Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok
Best Film Score Composers: Gyorgy Ligeti, Miklos Rozsa
Best Hungarian Folk Music Band: Muzsikas

27. CZECH REPUBLIC

BESTS FROM CZECH REPUBLIC

Composer of New World Symphony, One of The Greatest Romantic Music Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Most Famous Czech Composer just aftert Dvorak: Bedrich Smetana
Best Czech Folk Musicians: Jaromir Nohavica, Karel Kryl

26. INDIA

BESTS FROM INDIA

Greatest Indian Musician Ever: Ravi Shankar
Sitar Maestro: Vilayat Khan
Most Famous Female Bollywood Playback Singers: Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle
One of the Most Versatile Singing Voices Ever: Mohammed Rafi

25. TURKEY

BESTS FROM TURKEY

Creators of Turkish Music, Classical and Sufi Music Composers: Dede Efendi, Tanburi Cemil Bey
Best Turkish Singing Voices Ever: Zeki Muren, Muzeyyen Senar
Best Anatolian Rock Musicians: Erkin Koray, Baris Manco, Cem Karaca, Selda
Queen of Turkish Pop: Sezen Aksu
Best Turkish Band Ever: Nekropsi, Moğollar

24. MEXICO

BESTS FROM MEXICO

A Rock and Roll Pioneer and a Forefather of the Chicano Rock Movement: Ritchie Valens
Most Famous Actor and Singer of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema: Pedro Infante
The King of Space Age Pop: Esquivel
Internationally Known Music Trio: Los Panchos
Best Ranchera Musicians Ever: Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Vicente Fernandez

23. AUSTRALIA

BESTS FROM AUSTRALIA

One of the Greatest Hard Rock Bands Ever, Pioneers of Heavy Metal: AC/DC
Rock Band fronted by Nick Cave: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Greatest Ethereal Wave Band Ever: Dead Can Dance

22. SCOTLAND

BESTS FROM SCOTLAND

Greatest Electronic Music Duo Ever: Boards of Canada
Best Scottish Bands Ever: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream
Best Known Scottish Band: Belle & Sebastian

21. PORTUGAL

BESTS FROM PORTUGAL

Queen of Fado, One of the Greatest European Singers ever: Amalia Rodrigues
Most Talented Portuguese Musician in the 20th century, Man with a 1000 fingers: Carlos Paredes
Most Famous Portuquese Singer abroad: Nelly Furtado

20.GREECE

BESTS FROM GREECE

Greek Soprano, Best European Female Voice of the Twentieth Century: Maria Callas
One of the Greatest Composers of Electronic Music of All-Time: Vangelis
Modernist Composer: Iannis Xenakis
Academy Award Winner Film Composer: Manos Hadjidakis

19. NORWAY

BESTS FROM NORWAY

Greatest Norwegian Musician Ever: Edvard Grieg
Electronic Music Duo: Royksopp
Famous New Wave Band of 80s: a-ha

18. IRELAND

BESTS FROM IRELAND

Most f,Famous Irish Band: U2
Grammy Award Winning Singer, Songwriter: Van Morrison
Famous Hard Rock Band: Thin Lizzy

17. NETHERLANDS

BESTS FROM NETHERLANDS

Greatest Dutch Bands: The Gathering, Golden Earring, Focus
Top Djs of the World: Ferry Corsten, DJ Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren

16. SWEDEN

BESTS FROM SWEDEN

Greatest Pop Music Group of Scandinavia: ABBA
Top Swedish Folk Singer: Cornelis Vreeswijk
Best Swedish Band Ever: Opeth

15. CUBA

BESTS FROM CUBA

The Best Known and Most Influential Female Figure in the History of Cuban Music, Queen of Salsa: Celia Cruz
Greatest Guitarist and Composer of Cuban Trova Music: Compay Segundo
Popular Afro-Cuban Singer of Cuba: Ibrahim Ferrer
Leader of Nueva Trova Movement: Silvio Rodriguez

14. ARGENTINA

BESTS FROM ARGENTINA

Creator of Nuevo Tango, Excellent Bandoneon Player: Astor Piazzolla
The Most Prominent Figure in the History of Tango: Carlos Gardel
Composer of Mission Impossible Theme, Four Times Grammy Award Winner, with 21 times Nominations: Lalo Schifrin

13. JAPAN

BESTS FROM JAPAN

Best Japanese Film Score Composer: Joe Hisaishi
Video Game Composer, Composer of Final Fantasy Series: Nobuo Uematsu
Greatest Enka Singer: Meiko Kaji

12. POLAND

BESTS FROM POLAND

One of the Greatest Classical Composers of All-Time: Frederic Chopin
One of the Greatest Pianist of 20th Century: Arthur Rubinstein
Best Sung Poetry Singers Ever: Marek Grechuta, Jacek Kaczmarski

11. SPAIN

BESTS FROM SPAIN

Blind Composer and Virtuoso Pianist: Joaquin Rodrigo
Greatest Classical Guitarist: Andres Segovia
Most Famous Flamenco Guitarist of All-Time: Paco de Lucia

10. CANADA

BESTS FROM CANADA

Greatest Canadian Musician Ever: Neil Young
Jewish Canadian Folk Rock Musician: Leonard Cohen
Best Canadian Female Singer and Songwriter: Joni Mitchell
Greatest Canadian Bands Ever: Rush, Arcade Fire, The Band

9. BRAZIL

BESTS FROM BRAZIL

A Primary Force Behind the Creation of the Bossa Nova Style: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Creator of Bossa Nova Beat, Father of Bossa Nova: Joao Gilberto
Bob Dylan of Brazil: Caetano Veloso

8. JAMAICA

BESTS FROM JAMAICA

Most Well-Known Reggae Artist of All-Time: Bob Marley
Ska and Reggae Vocal Group: Toots & the Maytals
Influential Dub and Reggae Singer: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

7. AUSTRIA

BESTS FROM AUSTRIA

One of the Three Greatest Composers of All-Time: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Father of the Symphony: Joseph Haydn
Composer of Unfinished Symphony: Franz Schubert
The Waltz King: Johann Strauss II

6. RUSSIA

BESTS FROM RUSSIA

Last Great Representative of Late Romanticism in Classical Music. Sergei Rachmaninoff
One of the Five Innovators of Russian Music: Modest Mussorgsky
Russian Composer of Soviet Period: Dmitri Shostakovich
Most Influential Composer of 20th Century: Igor Stravinsky
Best Russian Bands Ever: Пикник, Алиса, Кино, Аквариум, ДДТ, Nautilus Pompilius
Composer of Swan Lake and Nutcracker Ballets: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

5. ITALY

BESTS FROM ITALY

Greatest Italian Composer Ever: Antonio Vivaldi
One of the Most Famous Opera Composers Ever: Guiseppe Verdi
Composer of More Than 500 Film and Television Productions: Ennio Morricone

4. FRANCE

BESTS FROM FRANCE

One of the Two Key Figures of Impressionist Music Along with Ravel: Claude Debussy
Composer of Gymnopedies: Erik Satie
One of the World’s most Influential Musicians: Serge Gainsbourg
Superstar of Minimalist and Avant-Garde Music: Yann Tiersen

3. GERMANY

BESTS FROM GERMANY

Greatest Composers of All-Time: Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach
Most Influential Electronic Music Band of the History: Kraftwerk
Pioneer of Classical Music: Hildegard von Bingen

2. ENGLAND

BESTS FROM ENGLAND

Over One Billion Album Seller, Greatest Band of All-Time: The Beatles
Greatest Rock and Roll Band Ever: Rolling Stones
The Heaviest Band of the Seventies: Led Zeppelin
Best Progressive Rock Band Ever: Pink Floyd

1. U.S.A

BESTS FROM U.S.A