Top Ten Most Mysterious Music Artists
Brian Patrick Carroll, known professionally as Buckethead, is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who has worked within many genres of music. Wears KFC buckets, does robot dances, releases an album every week (he currently has 190 albums in his catalog), and is a guitar genius - that's all we know about him.
Now has 309 albums. We still don't know what he looks like.
Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians.
Johnson died in 1938 at the age of 27. The exact circumstances of his death are still unclear today. His death makes him one of the earliest members of the so-called "Club 27". This man is the stuff legends are made of. Before pursuing a career in music, he disappeared from his hometown only to come back a week or two later with a guitar. People who knew him said that he wasn't really that good before his disappearance, so they think he made a deal with the devil to increase his musical talents (and because his lyrics discuss the matter).
But that's not all. He died at the young age of 27, cause of death unknown (many believe it was poisoning), only two confirmed photos of him exist and has three different graves in three different states all with the same birthdate and death date.
Another musician who dies at the age of 27.
He always wanted to play guitar and the blues but wasn't very good.
One night he went away and came back changed. Acc. to his friends, he seemed to have acquired the mastery of guitar overnight, And when they asked what he had done, He said he met the devil at a crossroad ( In Mississippi ) The devil had tuned the strings of his guitar and given Johnson a talent of guitar in exchange of his soul. He also wrote a song ' Me and the devil'
Despite the legend he is, there are only two confirmed photos of Robert Johnson in existence. Beautifully put by a music journalist - "It seems nobody has a clue who he really was. They just know his music."
I'm really so surprised, Only 2 confirmed photographs of him...That's very strange...
Roger Keith Barrett was an English musician, composer, singer, songwriter, and painter. Best known as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band. Since most of everything that's known about Barrett (beyond the most literal parts of his music career) is from his bandmates recollecting 20+ years in the past who lost contact with him after 1970 and his sister who doesn't seem to often go out of her way to be put in the spotlight, there definitely is a lot of vagueness and even contradictions around him.
Something that's notable for how little it's generally talked about is how there were abandoned sessions for a third solo album (one seemingly more r&b focussed) recorded in 1974, which there are bootlegs available for.
The most attractive, charismatic singer did have a dark side of his life... "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was written about him as well as many other songs.
Syd Barret from Pink Floyd. Almost all of us know Syd's sad and strange story.
Peter Lennodo is a British musician. He is also a composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and main songwriter of the rock band The Arcana. I know absolutely nothing about him, but his music's great.
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 - April 21st, 2016) was an American musician, best known for being one of the most popular and influential artists from the 80s, with songs such as "Purple Rain", "Little Red Corvette", "1999", and "When Doves Cry" . One of the most private and insane musicians who thinks "mysterious" is a good character trait.
Ghost is a Swedish heavy metal band that was formed in Linköping in 2008. Ghost consists of 5 masked instrumentalists, known as The Nameless Ghouls, and a demonic anti-pope known as Papa Emeritus. They have released 4 studio albums, 1 live album and 2 EPs. Each album brings in a new version of Papa ...read more. I'm glad to see Ghost up here. They have a gimmick that mocks the Roman Catholic church, with the singer being a satanic anti-pope. Their music is amazing and has lots of satanism in it, and all the members' identities are secret
Everything about the band, including the band members' names is unknown. Their music is quite weird too.
Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work in the hard rock/metal bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. He was ranked number 16 on Guitar World's "100 Greatest Metal Guitarists of All Time" in 2004, and number 50 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the ...read more. He just proves this title in rainbow when they play gates of Babylon
James Patrick Page is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. His interest in the occult and Aliester Crowley (occultist who created the religion of Thelema), and his soundtrack for the "Lucifer Rising" movie. Jimmy's always been a little strange.
The Residents are an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, Meet the Residents, the group has released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs. Should be higher
Brian Hugh Warner, better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician, songwriter, actor, painter, multimedia artist, author, and former music journalist. The name, the makeup, the music videos, the lyrics, it's all just bizarre.
Glenn Danzig is an American singer, songwriter, and musician from Lodi, New Jersey. He is the founder of the bands Misfits, Samhain and Danzig. He owns the Evilive record label as well as Verotik, an adult-oriented comic book publishing company. He's a singer with a very rare type of voice - baritenor (baritone voice with tenor range).
His interest in the occult and sex/eroticism comes through in his songs - "frighteningly intense images of doom" and "darkly seductive" (ex. - How The Gods Kill, The One).
Martial arts - Danzig became a student of Jerry Poteet, a world-renowned martial artist in Jeet Kune Do and also earned a teaching degree in the discipline.
His tattoos - his lower back features the logo for the Devilman manga.
His large book collection - subjects including the occult, religious history, horror books, comic books, true murder cases and New World Order related conspiracies.
He started his own company to produce "crazy, violent, erotic comics." (an adult-oriented comic book company called Verotik)
Though sometimes portrayed as a Satanist by the media, Danzig has denied this in several interviews, elaborating that "I embrace both my light and dark side... I definitely believe in a yin and yang, ...more
Daft Punk was a French electronic music duo consisting of producers Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara, 5th September 1946 - 24th November 1991) was a Zanzibari-born British singer of Indian descent, songwriter and record producer, known as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the British rock band Queen. He also became known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave ...read more. He was very flamboyant on stage, but very shy in his private life.
Anything mysterious about this guy, starts with his name.
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, and artist who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.
Lana Del Rey is a California based singer, songwriter, and model who currently resides in Malibu, California. She was born under the name Elizabeth Woolridge Grant to entrepreneur Robert England Jr. and Patricia Ann Hill in rural Lake Placid, New York on June 21, 1985. She has two siblings, Chuck and ...read more. So beautiful and famous, and yet people don't know a thing about her. Controversial statements about death, feminism and alcohol - shy person but tenacious persona. Nobody is ever sure of her real intentions.
"She just stabs my soul all the time and makes me just want to cry. I love how mysterious she is as well. And I love that she just puts a record out and that's it." - Adele
Per Yngve Ohlin, better known by his stage name Dead, was a Swedish black/death metal vocalist and lyricist best known for his work with Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. He committed suicide in 1991 in which former guitarist Euronymous took a few pictures of his corpse and used one of them as the ...read more. Should be higher. He was a depressed guy who cut himself during mayhem concert because he wanted to let escape everyone
Anna is a trans-gender and the leader of the Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows. She/he stays isolated from public life and refuses to perform "in front of humans". Anna's music is just as eerie as her persona.
I'm genuinely curious to find more about this genius of music. Where does his incredible talent and ability to outdo himself come from? What inspires him to make these deep and haunting pieces?
James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, and poet best remembered as the lead singer of the Doors.
Christopher Comstock, known professionally as Marshmello, is an American electronic music producer and DJ.
Michael Jackson (Michael Joseph Jackson; August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, dancer, and songwriter. He passed away from cardiac arrest caused by a propofol and benzodiazepine overdose on June 25, 2009. He donated (at least) a remarkable 500,000,000 dollars to charity. Michael is also known as The King of Pop (a title given to him by Elizabeth Taylor) or under the initials MJ. Dubbed the King of Pop, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. ...read more.
David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie (January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016) was an English singer born in London, the son of a fundraiser and a waitress. He is credited for his experimental and creative musical discography which has won praise and accolades for many critics and fans. ...read more.