| RAYCHARLES | Late US singer/songwriter/pianist who died in 2004 (3,7) |
| NINASIMONE | Stage name of the US singer. songwriter. pianist and civil rights activist born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1933 (4,6) |
| ORBISON | Roy _ late US singer/ songwriter, aka The Big O (7) |
| OTIS | ___ Redding, late US singer/songwriter (4) |
| LIBERACE | US pianist who died in 1987 noted for his trademark candelabrum (8) |
| GARNER | Errol ___, Pittsburgh-born US jazz pianist who died in 1977 (6) |
| MONK | Thelonious, US jazz pianist who died in 1982 (4) |
| ELTONJOHN | Multi award-winning singer-songwriter-pianist (2 wds.) |
| LILITH | Canadian singer/songwriter/ pianist Sarah Mclachlan cofounded this all-female concert tour, ___ Fair |
| SHAW | Artie ?, US jazz clarinettist and band leader who died in 2004 (4) |
| HOUSTON | Whitney _, late US singer who died in 2012 (7) |
| FRANKLIN | Aretha _, late US singer who died in 2018 (8) |
| GOULD | Glenn ___, Toronto-born classical pianist who died in 1982 (5) |
| ARRAU | Claudio, Chile-born classical pianist who died in 1991 (5) |
| BORGE | Victor, Danish entertainer and pianist who died in 2000 (5) |
| GLENN | Toronto-born classical pianist who died in 1982 (5,5) |
| STAN | And 14 Ac. American jazz pianist who died in 1979 (4,6) |
| SCOTTJOPLIN | American ragtime composer and pianist who died in 1917 (5,6) |
| TATUM | Art, American jazz pianist who died in 1956 (5) |
| PUTON | Glenn -, Torontoborn classical pianist who died in 1982 (5) |
