| OLDFIELD | Mike, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter whose debut album was Tubular Bells (8) |
| SHEETMUSIC | It helps instrumentalist and cues him set to perform (5,5) |
| SUSATO | Tielman ___, Antwerp-based 16th-century Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and music publisher |
| FELAKUTI | Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer and pioneer of afrobeat music who died in 1997 |
| PHILBEER | Multi-instrumentalist who is one half of English folk duo Show of Hands |
| KATIEMELUA | Georgian-British singer/songwriter whose debut album was Call Off The Search in 2003 (5,5) |
| NUTINI | Paolo, British singer/ songwriter whose debut album was These Streets in 2006 (6) |
| RUMER | Pakistani-born British singer?songwriter whose debut album, Seasons of My Soul, was released in 2010 |
| ARLO | ____ Parks, British singer/songwriter whose debut album was Collapsed In Sunbeams in 2021 (4) |
| LAVIGNE | Avril, Canadian singer/songwriter whose debut album Let Go was released in 2002 (7) |
| NORAH | _ Jones, singer-songwriter whose debut album was 2002's Come Away with Me (5) |
| BLUNT | Singer-songwriter whose debut album was Back To Bedlam, James _ (5) |
| ETHEL | _ Cain, US singer-songwriter whose debut album was 2022's Preacher's Daughter (5) |
| SADE | British/Nigerian singer/ songwriter whose debut album released in 1984 was titled Diamond Life (4) |
| FENDER | Sam ___, singer-songwriter whose debut album Hypersonic Missiles was released in 2019 (6) |
| GEORGEMICHAEL | English singer/songwriter whose debut solo album was Faith released in 1987 (6,7) |
| APPLE | Fiona, U.S. singer/songwriter whose debut studio album Tidal was released in 1996 (5) |
| LILYALLEN | Singer-songwriter whose debut studio album was Alright, Still (4,5) |
| ASHANTI | American singer and songwriter whose eponymous debut album won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album in 2003 |
| SHAKIRA | Colombian singer and songwriter whose first album was 1991's Magia (7) |
