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Peter Ah Sing or Peter Henry Ah Sing is an American guitarist. He played with the Royal Hawaiian Band and with Lein'ala Simerson in the early 1990s. He plays several instruments in addition to Hawaiian guitar, and also sings.

Albert Ahuna is an American steel guitarist. He was born in Laupāhoehoe, Hawaii. He began playing the Hawaiian guitar at age 12 when he heard Hawaii Calls. He was a regular player at the Hilo Yaght Club, Jungle Jim's (Hilo), and Volcano House. One of his compositions was recorded by George Naʻope on 49th State Hawaii record company. Active into the 1990s. Father of Kihei Ahuna.

Ben Ahuna was an American bass and steel guitarist. He was born circa 1905. He was the featured performer at a Los Angeles restaurant called Seven Seas for many years.

Kihei Ahuna is an American steel guitarist. He was born in Hilo, Hawaii as the son of Albert Ahuna. Also plays slack-key guitar.

Joseph Aibl was a guitar virtuoso and teacher who lived in Vienna and Munich in the early 1800s. He composed numerous works for guitar solo. He published his own compositions as well as those of his friend Anton Diabelli. His publishing efforts eventually formed into the Jos. Aible music publishing house.

Samuel K. Ako is a Hawaiian pianist and steel guitarist. He played with Billy Gonsalves' Paradise Serenaders, with whom he recorded on guitar.

Dr. Isaac Akuna is a dentist and Hawaiian guitarist. He studied guitar under Jerry Byrd. Active as a musician in the 1990s.

Elwood Alapa (1912 - 1986 ) was a Hawiian guitarist. He was born in Honolulu in 1912. In the 1930s he played with the Nautical Hawaiians. He spent the 1940s - 1950s with the Firemen's band.

Ida Allecante was a Hawaiian guitarist from the 1920s who played lap steel. She made a worldwide tour with Tom and Alice Pahu. She wrote a song with Johnny Noble in 1934, "Kuu Ipo Kualoha Poina Ole."

Robert Lopaka Amarai was a Hawaiian steel guitarist. He was born on August 20, 1927 in Honolua, Maui. His professional career began in 1947, playing for the Kaopuiki's halau group. He earned a living as a barge tender and as a Lanai harbormaster.

Alexander (Alec) Among is a Hawaiian musician, steel guitar is among the instruments he performs upon. He played in a quartet with his brothers. In 1990 he was performing at Kapiolani Park. He was at one time a police officer, who played guitar in the Kalia Serenaders of the Police Activities League.

Arco Records was a label of brief existence from Alice, Texas, but was the first to record Tony De La Rosa. The label was founded by Reymundo Treviño.

Carl Asercion, also know professionally as Carl Kalani and Kalani and the Paradise Islanders was a Hawaiian steel guitarist. His ancestry is Philippine. He was based in Chicago for many years as one of the first Hawaiian-style entertainers there. In 1943 he was drafted into the United States Navy, which interrupted his group named Carl's Hawaiians. He trained at Naval Station Great Lakes. He teamed with Ken Griffin on Columbia Records. In 1957 he was the bandleader for an album on Mercury Records of Hawaiian music recorded by Eddy Howard. In 1960 he relocated his base of operations from Chicago to Florida in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, performing there for several years. A self-titled LP on Replica Records was released.. Asercion died in 1990.

Eugene Stuart Barrie (October 26, 1899 - ? ) was an organist born in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. He was educated in England (Royal Academy of Music), France, Germany (Beyer-Royal Conservatory, Kassel) and the United States (Berkeley), receiving a doctorate at the Berlin High School of Music. He was a pupil of Max Reger. He designed several organs for Wurlitzer, including a 1927 27-rank instrument at Pittsburgh's Stanley Theatre. In addition to his musical studies, he earned a Doctorate in Comparative Philosophy at Berlin's College of Higher Technology. He moved the the United States, and was a theatre organist for twelve years, seven with Paramount-Publix, and five years with Warner Brothers. He relocated to England in the late 1930s, and worked for the Granada Theatre group. While there he was broadcasted on a regular basis, and made several recordings. The song he was most associated with was "La Paloma" He left performing to become an academic, giving lectures on musical science and philosophy. He did not entirely leave performing, making a few more recordings.

Doc Bebko is an American organist described as "well travelled" by Theatre Organ.

Bejo Records was a record label from the post-World War 2 era who specialized in tejeno music. It was founded by the Paulino Bernal of El Conjunto Bernal, who found a niche among recent Mexican immigrants. They had wanted to market specifically to the Monterrey region, but initially found little success there. They did find success among the Mexican immigrants in Texas. A significant artist of theirs was Los Relámpagos del Norte. Bejo's releases of El Conjunto Bernal were very successful for the genre, regularly selling twenty-thousand copies per title.

The Big Four Quartet was a male quartet who made early phonograph recordings. Members were Arthur Collins, Byron G. Harlan, A. D. Madeira, and Joe Natus.

Cara Records was a San Antonio-based record label which has been called the "Motown of Tejano". The label experienced a period of success and growth in the 1980s with artists such as Ram Herrera, La Mafia, Mazz, Roberto Pulido, and perhaps most importantly Selena. The label was owned by Bob Grever. It signed a distribution deal with CBS Records International in 1986, signifying a renewed period of major-label involvement in tejano music.

Mildred Leo Clemmens was a dance choreographer for Hawaiian performers Alice and Tome Pahu, active in the 1920s. She was the first cousin of Mark Twain.

The 'Columbia Quartet was a male quartet formed to make records for Columbia Records. The original members were Joe Belmont, Albert Campbell, Joe Majors and Jim Reynard.

Del Bravo Records is an independent record label specializing in norteño music. It was founded by Poncho Villagomez of the group "Los Coyotes del Rio Bravo". It was one of the earliest record labels based in Monterrey.

Favorite Records was a German record company that made records for export to Britain. Among its artists were Joe Belmont.

Charles Galloway was an American organist from St. Louis, was considered the "dean of St. Louis organists." He was a student of Alexandre Guilmant in Paris. He taught Con Maffie in the early 1920s.

Fred Hager was the first person to create commercially-issued phonograph records of solo violin music. He later became music director for Zonophone Records and Okeh Records.

George Hatch was a theatre organist who worked at the Lyric Theatre in Huntsville, Alabama. He could not read music, and played all his music in only three major keys. Lee Erwin considered him a superior improvisor.

Tom Hazelton was an American organist. When the Avenue Theatre (San Francisco) re-installed an organ in 1966, Hazelton played at the premiere. Hazelton returned to the Avenue for a concert in September 1984, shortly before its closing.

Ambrose Larsen was an American organist. He played evenings at the Indiana Theater in Chicago. He was succeeded by Con Maffie in 1927.

Lyn Larsen was an American organist who was staff organist at the Avenue Theatre (San Francisco) from 1967 to 1968.

Eugene LePique was an American musician who played piano in theaters in the St. Louis area, including at the New Grand Central Theatre. He was a student of Ottmar A. Moll. He left St. Louis to play in New York. He then moved to Hollywood to play piano and organ for radio shows.

A. D. Madeira was a pioneer recording artist and a member of the Big Four Quartet. He was born in Minneapolis.

Melco Records was a small record label from Corpus Christi, Texas who was the first to record Balde González, in 1949. The label was active into the mid 1960s when they released several records by the Texas Top Hands.

John Muri was an American organist. He played at matinees at the Indiana Theater in Chicago from 1925 to 1927. During that time, he played evenings at the Hoosier Theater in Whiting, Indiana. He often lived in an apartment within the theater itself, because of the non-stop playing schedule.

Joseph Natus was a pioneer recording artist and a member of the Big Four Quartet.

James Nordwall is an American organist. He played a concert at at the Avenue Theatre (San Francisco) in April of 1984.

Jim Riggs (organist) (b. 1956) is a theater organist active in the 1980s. He recorded an album entitled "Top Hat" at the Avenue Theatre in San Francisco in 1984. As of 2014 he lived in Wichita, Kansas, and was contracted to play the Wurlitzer organ at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle.

Mike Slater (d. 2008) was a theater organist who was active in the 1980s. He was the house organist at the Blackpool Tower Album, "Jolly Good Company", 1985.

Harry Spencer was a pioneer recording artist. He was the brother of Len Spencer. Known to phonograph collectors for such recordings as "The Mad Ravings of John McCullough."

Joseph Stoves was the principal organist at Birminham, Alabama's Loew's Temple Theatre. He was a key influence on Lee Erwin, who noted his improvisationan and compositional abilities.

Tempo-Tone Records was a United States record label from the mid 1940s who issued at least two sides by Sunnyland Slim.

Torero Records was a record label from Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1958 the label released what is considered the first rock-and-roll record created by a tejano group when it released "Safari" parts 1 and 2 by "David Coronado and the Latinaires" which featured Little Joe playing lead guitar.

Bob Vaughn was an American theater organist known as the "Silver-Haired Daddy of the Silents". He was staff organist at the Avenue Theatre (San Francisco) from 1968 until it closed in 1984.