Selected Composers & Musicians of Color

African American Composers:

• Harry Burleigh

• Nathaniel Dett

• Hall Johnson

• William Dawson

• Moses Hogan

• Florence Price

• Undine Smith Moore

• Jester Hairston

• Margaret Bonds

• Zenobia Powell Perry

• J. Rosamond Johnson

• Robert Owens

• Adolphus Hailstork

• Rollo Dilworth

• B.E. Boykin

• Shawn Okpebholo

Haitian musicians:

• Gerdes Fleurant

• Sydney Guillaume

• Daniel Bernard Roumain

• Christopher Ducasse

• Jean Perrault

• Sabrina Jean Louis

• Werner Jaegerhuber

African American Singers:

• George Shirley

• Robert McFerrin

• Leontyne Price

• Roland Hayes

• Jessye Norman

• Ben Matthew

• Angela Brown

• Oral Moses

• Marian Anderson

• Dorothy Maynor

• Robert Sims

• Florence Quivar

• Lawrence Brownlee

• Kathleen Battle

• Angel Blue

• Louise Toppin

• Darryl Taylor

Latin American musicians:

• Carlos Chavez

• Astor Piazzola

Instrumental

• Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges

• George Bridgetower

• Frances Johnson

• José Silvestre White

• Thomas Wiggins

• Scott Joplin

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

• William Grant Still

• George Walker