List of Italian American Entertainers - Singers

Singers

• Demi Lovato
• Ariana Grande
• Romina Arena, Pop Classical Crossover Singer
• Kaci Battaglia, singer
• Tony Bennett, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, singer.
• Sonny Bono (1935–1998), born Salvatore Phillip Bono, singer, actor, and politician
• Gioia Bruno, born Carmen Gioia Bruno, singer.
• Keith Caputo, Vocalist for Life of Agony, as well as a solo artist.
• Micheal Castaldo — singer, songwriter, producer, entrepreneur
• Lou Christie, born Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco on February 19, 1943 in Glenwillard, Pennsylvania).
• Perry Como (1912–2001), born Pierino Ronald Como
• Don Cornell (1919–2004), born Luigi Francisco Varlaro, a popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s.
• Jim Croce (1943–1973), born James Joseph Croce.
• Rivers Cuomo (1970 - ), (Weezer)
• Victor Damiani
• Diana DeGarmo (1987 - ) runner-up on American Idol (Season 3)
• Johnny Desmond(1920–1985), born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone, was a popular singer.
• Tommy DeVito, (born June 19, 1936) is a musician and singer, best known as a member and the lead guitarist of the rock band The Four Seasons.
• Ani DiFranco(1970 - ), Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, songwriter (Italian American on her father's side)
• Dion DiMucci (1939 - ), better known as Dion.
• Jimmy Durante (1893–1980), born James Francis Durante.
• Jessicka (born Jessica Fodera in Brooklyn)
• Connie Francis (1936 - ), born Concetta Rosemarie Franconero, singer.
• Lady Gaga (1986 - ), born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta,is a singer and songwriter.
• Bob Gaudio (1942 - ) is a singer, songwriter, and record producer from the Bronx, New York. He shot to musical fame at the age of 15 as a member of the Royal Teens when he co-wrote the hit "Short Shorts". For years afterward he seemed destined to be a one-hit wonder until he met Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi, all from Newark, New Jersey, forming the band that became the Four Seasons.
• Frank Gari (1942 - ) late 1950s singer, and founder of Gari Communications, a news music company that created The CBS Enforcer Collection and the Eyewitness News Theme for ABC O&O and affiliated local newscasts.
• Mikalah Gordon (1988 - ) singer and eleventh-place finalist on the fourth season of American Idol
• Francesca Gregorini, (born Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savingnano di Romagna in 1968) is a singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of Jewish/Irish American model Barbara Bach and Italian businessman Augusto Gregorini, and stepdaughter of Ringo Starr. Until 2004, she was engaged to actress Portia de Rossi.
• Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), jazz and R&B singer; her father is Cuban/Italian and her mother was African American.
• Alicia Keys
• Frankie Laine (1913 - ), born Frank Paul LoVecchio, one of the most successful singers in history.
• Mario Lanza, (1921–1959), operatic tenor and Hollywood movie star.
• Cyndi Lauper (part Italian)
• Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone) is a singer, song-writer, record producer and film director from Michigan, daughter of Italian father and French-Canadian mother.
• Sanjaya Malakar, American Idol season six finalist (half-Italian through his mother)
• Dean Martin (1917–1995) singer and film actor, known as one of the most famous music artists from the 1950s period
• Al Martino, born October 7, 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Alfred Cini.
• Nick Massi, (born Nicholas Macioci, September 19, 1935 - December 24, 2000) was the bass singer for the Four Seasons, born in Newark, New Jersey.
• Tim McGraw (1967 - ), country music singer and actor, mother is of Italian descent.
• Lou Monte, (1917–1989)
• Mýa
• Stacie Orrico (b. 1986) contemporary Christian music/pop singer
• Nicola Paone (1915–2003), singer-songwriter
• Haley Scarnato
• Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), Born in Hoboken, became one of the most popular singers in the 20th century
• Frank Sinatra, Jr.
• Nancy Sinatra
• Gwen Stefani, singer/musician, best known as lead singer of pop/ska band No Doubt (Italian father)
• Taylor Swift, American country singer-songwriter
• John Tartaglia (b. 1978) singer, actor, dancer and puppeteer who began performing part-time with Sesame Street's puppetry team at age 16
• Marc Terenzi (b. 1978), pop star, songwriter
• Pia Toscano (b. 1988), Contestant on the tenth season of American Idol.
• Frankie Valli, (born May 3, 1937 in the Italian First Ward of Newark, New Jersey as Francis Stephen Castelluccio) is best known as lead singer of The Four Seasons, one of the biggest music acts of the 1960s, which continued from then to the 1970s disco scene to the present day.
• Timi Yuro, born Rosemarie Timotea Aurro (1940–2004)