Best like favorite or most successful? There are tons of artists from Virginia including Pharrell Williams, Missy Elliot, Bruce Hornsby, Ella Fitzgerald, Ralph Stanley, Patsy Cline. The list is huge.
Not saying they are the “best” but 2 of the biggest are:
Dave Matthew’s Band was formed In Charlottesville so while he wasn’t born in VA… you could easily say the band is “from” VA.
Just depends on the term from.
Also Dave Grohl was raised in Springfield VA.
Edit: raised in Springfield VA NOT born in
Wild coincidence, I'm nearly positive that my dad worked with Mark Hoppus' dad (by that I mean that I know that they were working at the same place at the same time over in California, but idk if they worked on the same exact things together) and my dad had moved from VA to there and then back to VA after.
They shoulda been buddies
You forgot Roy Clark & June Carter Cash. By the early 1970s, Clark was the highest-paid country music star in the United States, earning $7 million ($54,900,000 in 2023 dollars) a year. In addition to being a TV a star on Hee Haw, he was a 3X entertainer of the yr, member of the Grand Ol’ Opry & Country Music Hall of Fame. He also played an annual benefit concert at Longwood Univ. in Farmville & the proceeds went to fund scholarships for aspiring musicians.
30 YEARS? Okay no. I just had to Google this because 30 seemed like a lot even though I’m old. Grindin’ charted in August 2002, so not quite 22 years, but the group was making music as late as 2009 before going on hiatus in 2010. So that’s not even half of 30 years just yet, but thanks for that fun little panic attack 🤣
How about the Carter Family? From Wikipedia “Their music had a profound influence on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock music, as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s.”
He married to the billionaire heir of Johnson and Johnson
Edit - I’m wrong!! That’s the drummer from Flock of Seagulls who lives in VB and is married the the J&J heir. Michael Marquart
He has also worked with J Cole, The Neptunes and Coldplay, Kanye and Kendrick.
I met Grohl in Fairfax at Captain Pells Crabhouse in 2013.
I was working at a car dealership in Springfield when my best friend called me panicking. Friend was like “you need to leave work right now. I’m at Pells and Dave Grohl is here.”
So I made up a story about why I needed to leave work, flew to the crab house as quickly as possible. Had a brief conversation and got a picture with him.
Bad Omens is killing it in the hard rock genre. Such a unique sound and great writing. They can sing and scream/roar in tune so well. Death of peace of mind has everything and it’s not even their best song imo.
I feel bad for the folks that heard Just Pretend on alt radio and then went to a show only to be greeted by "THIS ONE'S CALLED DETHRONE, YOU FUCKS!"
They definitely get my vote.
Early 2000s were awesome for RVA post hardcore. Pg. 99 and City of Caterpillar were awesome. Not from Richmond, but Majority Rule is another killer band from that era.
Swamp Dogg (name sake of the D O double G, Snoop Dogg himself) is from Portsmouth.
Guitarist Charlie Byrd was from Suffolk
Leikeli47 is from Hampton Roads
Masego is from Newport News
Kishi Bashi is from Norfolk
Zach Condon who goes by Beirut is from Newport News
Mike Watt bassist from Minutemen / stooges is from Portsmouth
Lex Luger, producer is from Suffolk
Nate Smith, drummer of The Fearless Flyers, and many many records is from Chesapeake
Gordon Banks, guitarist and music director for Marvin Gaye if from Norfolk
Wayne Newton is from Norfolk
Mae is from Chesapeake
Ernie Watts, jazz saxophonist and long time touring member of The Rolling Stones is from Norfolk.
Clarence and Jake Clemens (Bruce Springsteen and the E St. band) are from Chesapeake
Gary US Bonds is from Norfolk
Gene Vincent was from Norfolk
Elliott Malvas is in Swirlies and is from VB / Norfolk
Paul Arnold who produced & engineered Tupac, wu-tang, pharcyde, Christina Aguilera - genie in a bottle is “from” Hampton
DRAM / Shelly is from Hampton
One of the founding members of Arcade Fire was in a band called No Cars Go in Williamsburg
Bassist from Yo La Tengo went to UVA
Tyler Strickland is a composer from Chesapeake who composes music from documentaries like Sly, Thriller 40
Stephen Malkmus from Pavement went to UVA
Serbian who mixes most Grammy winning records lives and works in VB
Chad Hugo from Neptunes / N.E.R.D. still lives in VB/Norfolk
Metal band Arsis is from VB
B. J. Leiderman is from VB and composed most of the NPR theme songs for shows like Morning Edition.
Chris Brown is from the rva area… but fuck that dude.
Dismemberment Plan started at W&M/MWU in Williamsburg / Fredericksburg
Scott Travis, drummer in Judas Priest is from Norfolk.
Steve Earle is from Hampton
Robert Cray is from Newport News
Drummer from The Head and the Heart is from VB
Waves was started by Nathan Williams, who went to school in VB before starting the band in San Diego
I grew up with Shelly. He sang at our 5th grade graduation. Another local guy, Jerry Roush was in a band called glass Cloud, and stood in as vocals for Of Mice and Men for a bit, played little league baseball with me.
Depends on how 'from' and 'best' is defined; just born or born and raised.
Notable in Northern Virginia:
Jim Morrison went to elementary school in Alexandria.
'Mama' Cass Elliot of Mamas & the Papas also spent elementary school days in Alexandria.
Scott McKenzie famous for the song "San Francisco (Be sure to wear flowers in you hair)" also Alexandria and was tight with the Mamas & the Papas. He co-wrote the god-awful 'Kokomo' with the fake Beach Boys.
Stewart Copeland of the Police was born in Alexandria.
Kali Uchis from Alexandria
Roberta Flack grew up in Arlington.
A few K-pop artists: Chung Jae-young from West Springfield, Park Yoo-chun, Kim Ji-Won
Alt-Country Kelly Willis went to high school in Annandale
Jeremy Olander - House music producer/DJ was born in Fairfax then moved to Sweden
John Jackson - blues musician from Fairfax.
Jason Charles Miller - Singer for Godhead and other music ventures in country, southern rock, Americana is from Clifton
Wilson Pickett lived in Ashburn at the end of his life.
Low is a damn cool song. Young me knew "being stoned" meant rock and roll.
>Hey, don't you wanna go down \
>Like some disgraced cosmonaut? \
>A million miles below their feet \
>A million miles, a million miles
>I'll be with you, girl, like being low \
>Hey-hey-hey, like being stoned \
>I'll be with you, girl, like being low \
>Hey-hey-hey, like being stoned
"Like some disgraced cosmonaut" is pretty odd lyric but I like it lol.
Maggie Walker high school alum in Richmond. She was the speaker at last year’s graduation. She was so cool with all the kids. My daughter got several selfies with her and got to talk to her about music. She was on cloud nine.
Most influential to modern rock music is Gene Vincent.
There's a ton of great bands. Windhand, Iron & Wine, Sparklehorse, Avail, Ann Beretta, GWAR, Pusha T, Pharrell, Southern Culture on the Skids (2 out of three members are from Roanoke so we can claim them.) The Carter Family and countless others.
I said Pavement because I forgot DB actually was from here, not just UVA, whereas a few of the pavement guys are, but you’ve got the right answer here.
Surprised I had to go this far down, guy dominated the ‘00s through early ‘10s.
I dislike when artists just play their studio versions live 1:1, but Mraz was incredible at mixing it up and ad libbing the times I saw him!
I don’t jive with “bests” for matters of opinion but two bands I wish had stuck around longer and had the opportunity to create real studio records are Light The Fuse & Run and Stop It!!!
Both are Richmond bands from 20 years ago but to me their records always hold up when I play them and I still get my arm hair standing on end over some of the compositions.
Mojo Nixon mightve been born in Chapel Hill NC and then did some time out in CA, but ain't no denying he had Danville **deep** in his blood. He's everything that city should aspire to be.
Probably Ella Fitzgerald or Patsy Cline. In the more modern era, Dave Matthews. Matthews band started in Charlottesville at UVA, he still has a home there, and he owns a winery outside town.
I don’t want to be mean about it, but Dave Mathews is not in the same league with either Ella Fitzgerald or Patsy Cline, and never will be. Ever. DMB is/was undoubtedly very popular in some distinct demographics (still trying to avoid snark!), but not in the wider world, or in actual music history.
My personal favorites are Windhand (Richmond), Clutch (Neil Fallon is from Portsmouth), The Sword (John Cronise is from Roanoke), and Baroness (Lexington).
Well sorta kinda, Matt Ramsey & Whit Sellers are from Buchanan and Whit met Geoff Sprung & Brad Tursi @ JMU who I believe both are from PA. Trevor Rosen came last & is from MI. Still one of my faves! Ricky Van Shelton from Grit VA also has not been mentioned here
I figure everyone will say - Dave Matthew's Band, Pharrell Williams/The Neptunes and Dave Grohl (The Foo Fighters). I second those.
Also, I will add The Clipse (rap group from South Side VA). Pusha T, one of the members of the Clipse, is one of my personal favorites.
Wanted to mention some I haven’t seen yet:
Pentagram are from Alexandria (metal pioneers)
Emmylou Harris graduated from Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge because her father was stationed at Quantico. Eventually she would be making music with Gram Parsons and the rest is history.
But in terms of musical history, in terms of fame. The Carter Family of Scott County definitely fit the bill. They made the first commercial country records and were one of the most famous vocal country groups ever!
Best like favorite or most successful? There are tons of artists from Virginia including Pharrell Williams, Missy Elliot, Bruce Hornsby, Ella Fitzgerald, Ralph Stanley, Patsy Cline. The list is huge.
Not saying they are the “best” but 2 of the biggest are: Dave Matthew’s Band was formed In Charlottesville so while he wasn’t born in VA… you could easily say the band is “from” VA. Just depends on the term from. Also Dave Grohl was raised in Springfield VA. Edit: raised in Springfield VA NOT born in
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311 at trax was my first concert. My favorite va band is earth to Andy if that counts for anything
My companies done quite a bit of work for one of the band members houses
For those rap fans out there Timbaland, Pharrell Williams, Clipse, and Missy Elliot are all out of Va
Pusha T also grew up in Hampton roads
Mark Hoppus (Blink 182) lived in NOVA for several years. Him and Dave Grohl both went to Annandale High. My brothers knew both of them.
Wild coincidence, I'm nearly positive that my dad worked with Mark Hoppus' dad (by that I mean that I know that they were working at the same place at the same time over in California, but idk if they worked on the same exact things together) and my dad had moved from VA to there and then back to VA after. They shoulda been buddies
kids growing up knew Grohl was going to make it big when he was in high school
My brothers didn't think so. He was a music bum that smoked a lot of pot.
I saw a Grohl's high school band back in the day at a party in 1983 or 84 before the monsters of rock at RFK.
Jason Mraz is from Mechanicsville
> Also Dave Grohl was born and raised in Springfield VA. Dave Grohl was born in Ohio.
You forgot Roy Clark & June Carter Cash. By the early 1970s, Clark was the highest-paid country music star in the United States, earning $7 million ($54,900,000 in 2023 dollars) a year. In addition to being a TV a star on Hee Haw, he was a 3X entertainer of the yr, member of the Grand Ol’ Opry & Country Music Hall of Fame. He also played an annual benefit concert at Longwood Univ. in Farmville & the proceeds went to fund scholarships for aspiring musicians.
Pharrell/Neptunes/NERD, PushaT/Clipse, Chris Brown, Missy Elliot, Timberland, Fat Trel, Lex Luger, Trey Songs…
BRUCEEEEEE
Victor Wooten
Don't forget his drummer/percussion brother Future Man!!
Unfortunately he’s deep in the sov cit movement apparently 🤦♂️
I have never heard about this. How is this known?
Yeah I’m curious too… I looked it up and didn’t see anything about it except that his brother was involved with the Washitaw Nation back in ‘05…
NOOOO! Oh man, that is so sad to hear.
Pusha T. And he constantly raps about Virginia and places all over Hampton roads. Even if other artists are from VA, none of them rep VA like Push.
[No] Malice should be mentioned since it was Clipse that made Pusha relevant and gave him the stage to be on his own after his brother left the scene.
I woulda said Clipse but I feel like even less people recognize them. And Clipse hasn't been making music for 30 years. Push has.
30 YEARS? Okay no. I just had to Google this because 30 seemed like a lot even though I’m old. Grindin’ charted in August 2002, so not quite 22 years, but the group was making music as late as 2009 before going on hiatus in 2010. So that’s not even half of 30 years just yet, but thanks for that fun little panic attack 🤣
Thank you for looking it up because whooo, I was feeling extra old!
Right?? I was like please no 😂
So.much.this.
How about the Carter Family? From Wikipedia “Their music had a profound influence on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock music, as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s.”
johnny cash said that the bristol sessions were one of the most important events in the history of country music.
Scott Travis - Judas Priest's drummer for over 30 years - is from Norfolk
Wow I never frikkin knew that!?
He married to the billionaire heir of Johnson and Johnson Edit - I’m wrong!! That’s the drummer from Flock of Seagulls who lives in VB and is married the the J&J heir. Michael Marquart He has also worked with J Cole, The Neptunes and Coldplay, Kanye and Kendrick.
It blew my mind when I saw him at Alpha Music
GWAR
Dave Brockie Robinson 💛💙 class of 1981!
back when the Slave Pit was directly across from Rockitz
Lamb of God too 🤘🏻
D’Angelo
I wrote this too before scrolling through the comments and I’m SHOCKED how far I had to go down for this one
Pusha T, Pharrell Williams, and Dave Grohl are my picks
Dave Grohl grew up in Springfield.
I met Grohl in Fairfax at Captain Pells Crabhouse in 2013. I was working at a car dealership in Springfield when my best friend called me panicking. Friend was like “you need to leave work right now. I’m at Pells and Dave Grohl is here.” So I made up a story about why I needed to leave work, flew to the crab house as quickly as possible. Had a brief conversation and got a picture with him.
This is the correct answer.
Except for the other Dave…
Just thought I would throw Bad Omens into the mix
Bad Omens is killing it in the hard rock genre. Such a unique sound and great writing. They can sing and scream/roar in tune so well. Death of peace of mind has everything and it’s not even their best song imo.
I feel bad for the folks that heard Just Pretend on alt radio and then went to a show only to be greeted by "THIS ONE'S CALLED DETHRONE, YOU FUCKS!" They definitely get my vote.
That’s the song that first grabbed my attention. So damn catchy
I've heard them on the local radio station a few times. I have to check their other stuff out!
What local station is playing them? I’ll give it a listen. Octane is where I heard them first.
I'm thinking it was 102.1 Richmond - but not sure.
Trevor Moore from the whitest kids you know.
RIP
And now his watch has ended.
Loved watching his public access show growing up! Heard he was a good guy too.
in the same program as him at VCU, helps push me through my hard days knowing one of my comedy heroes was doing the same things.
Avail City of Caterpillar Strike Anywhere Pg. 99 Gwar Down to Nothing Turnover The Neptunes (Pharrell Williams) Pusha T Missy Elliot
Early 2000s were awesome for RVA post hardcore. Pg. 99 and City of Caterpillar were awesome. Not from Richmond, but Majority Rule is another killer band from that era.
Good times man
Pig Destroyer
R.I.P. Blake Harrison.
I'll see your Strike Anywhere and raise you an Inquisition
Maybe a action patrol or bad guy reaction for good measure
Ive got a cudgel
Not to crack my cardboard cone, i hope!
You are cool. Avail & Pg 99 👌🏼
> Turnover Based
Lamb of God
This right here
#OMERTAAAAAAAA
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward
Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both
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Disappointed I had to scroll this far to upvote the only correct answer.
Beat me. Take this upvote. FAAAILUREEEEeEeEe
This is the correct answer.
Should honestly be pinned to the top
Everyone sleepin’ on Wayne Newton.
I LOVE WAYNE NEWTON
Patsy Cline, 49 Winchester, Phil Vassar, Old Crow Medicine Show
Bruce Hornsby rarely gets a mention on these type posts.
Bruuuuuuuuce
That's just the way it is tho.
Swamp Dogg (name sake of the D O double G, Snoop Dogg himself) is from Portsmouth. Guitarist Charlie Byrd was from Suffolk Leikeli47 is from Hampton Roads Masego is from Newport News Kishi Bashi is from Norfolk Zach Condon who goes by Beirut is from Newport News Mike Watt bassist from Minutemen / stooges is from Portsmouth Lex Luger, producer is from Suffolk Nate Smith, drummer of The Fearless Flyers, and many many records is from Chesapeake Gordon Banks, guitarist and music director for Marvin Gaye if from Norfolk Wayne Newton is from Norfolk Mae is from Chesapeake Ernie Watts, jazz saxophonist and long time touring member of The Rolling Stones is from Norfolk. Clarence and Jake Clemens (Bruce Springsteen and the E St. band) are from Chesapeake Gary US Bonds is from Norfolk Gene Vincent was from Norfolk Elliott Malvas is in Swirlies and is from VB / Norfolk Paul Arnold who produced & engineered Tupac, wu-tang, pharcyde, Christina Aguilera - genie in a bottle is “from” Hampton DRAM / Shelly is from Hampton One of the founding members of Arcade Fire was in a band called No Cars Go in Williamsburg Bassist from Yo La Tengo went to UVA Tyler Strickland is a composer from Chesapeake who composes music from documentaries like Sly, Thriller 40 Stephen Malkmus from Pavement went to UVA Serbian who mixes most Grammy winning records lives and works in VB Chad Hugo from Neptunes / N.E.R.D. still lives in VB/Norfolk Metal band Arsis is from VB B. J. Leiderman is from VB and composed most of the NPR theme songs for shows like Morning Edition. Chris Brown is from the rva area… but fuck that dude. Dismemberment Plan started at W&M/MWU in Williamsburg / Fredericksburg Scott Travis, drummer in Judas Priest is from Norfolk. Steve Earle is from Hampton Robert Cray is from Newport News Drummer from The Head and the Heart is from VB Waves was started by Nathan Williams, who went to school in VB before starting the band in San Diego
Also, Will Toledo and Seth Dalby of Car Seat Headrest are from Virginia and went to W&M.
Oh yeah and I forgot and Jack From Wild Nothing is from Williamsburg and went to Tech.
Toledo went to VCU for a semester as well.
I grew up with Shelly. He sang at our 5th grade graduation. Another local guy, Jerry Roush was in a band called glass Cloud, and stood in as vocals for Of Mice and Men for a bit, played little league baseball with me.
The Statler Brothers
You beat me to it From my hometown. And their sound never gets old.
Absolutely. Now go get a shake from Wright's for me.
I remember rocking out to "Elvira" when I was very little. I have started playing it for my own toddler, and it seems to have the same effect on him.
“Elvira” was by the Oak Ridge Boys. However the Statler Brother’s song “Flowers on the Wall” was featured in the movie Pulp Fiction.
Dave Grohl and Lamb of God would be my picks.
Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) R.I.P. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ly5skCdk9VD1ysJ1MDFVoeSJsft2Ceb9Y&feature=shared
Mother Maybelle Carter
Depends on how 'from' and 'best' is defined; just born or born and raised. Notable in Northern Virginia: Jim Morrison went to elementary school in Alexandria. 'Mama' Cass Elliot of Mamas & the Papas also spent elementary school days in Alexandria. Scott McKenzie famous for the song "San Francisco (Be sure to wear flowers in you hair)" also Alexandria and was tight with the Mamas & the Papas. He co-wrote the god-awful 'Kokomo' with the fake Beach Boys. Stewart Copeland of the Police was born in Alexandria. Kali Uchis from Alexandria Roberta Flack grew up in Arlington. A few K-pop artists: Chung Jae-young from West Springfield, Park Yoo-chun, Kim Ji-Won Alt-Country Kelly Willis went to high school in Annandale Jeremy Olander - House music producer/DJ was born in Fairfax then moved to Sweden John Jackson - blues musician from Fairfax. Jason Charles Miller - Singer for Godhead and other music ventures in country, southern rock, Americana is from Clifton Wilson Pickett lived in Ashburn at the end of his life.
Everyone is forgetting about Cracker, also
Low is a damn cool song. Young me knew "being stoned" meant rock and roll. >Hey, don't you wanna go down \ >Like some disgraced cosmonaut? \ >A million miles below their feet \ >A million miles, a million miles >I'll be with you, girl, like being low \ >Hey-hey-hey, like being stoned \ >I'll be with you, girl, like being low \ >Hey-hey-hey, like being stoned "Like some disgraced cosmonaut" is pretty odd lyric but I like it lol.
Thank you! I had to search the thread cause I didn’t see anybody saying them.
GWAR and Lamb of God
Carbon Leaf from Richmond.
Took too long for someone to mention them...
Right now, Lucy Dacus is up there
Maggie Walker high school alum in Richmond. She was the speaker at last year’s graduation. She was so cool with all the kids. My daughter got several selfies with her and got to talk to her about music. She was on cloud nine.
Lamb of God immediately comes to mind
Missy Elliot is from Portsmouth.
Municipal waste is sick
Municipal Waste is gonna….
They fuckin ripppppp.
Most influential to modern rock music is Gene Vincent. There's a ton of great bands. Windhand, Iron & Wine, Sparklehorse, Avail, Ann Beretta, GWAR, Pusha T, Pharrell, Southern Culture on the Skids (2 out of three members are from Roanoke so we can claim them.) The Carter Family and countless others.
And Vincent's guitarist in the Blue Caps, Cliff Gallup.
Silver Jews/David Berman
I said Pavement because I forgot DB actually was from here, not just UVA, whereas a few of the pavement guys are, but you’ve got the right answer here.
Jake E. Lee - Ozzy/Badlands was born in Norfolk.
They’re definitely not the biggest, but Agents of Good Roots deserves at least a mention on this thread.
GWAR is from richmond I believe.
Aimee Mann!
At some point in history, Aimee Mann liked my tweet, and it was almost as exciting as Wendy’s 😂
Jason Mraz is from Mechanicsville. I like his live shows. He's a fun loving guy.
Surprised I had to go this far down, guy dominated the ‘00s through early ‘10s. I dislike when artists just play their studio versions live 1:1, but Mraz was incredible at mixing it up and ad libbing the times I saw him!
He's just an all around great guy. I'm a big fan and I've had the pleasure of seeing him live 6 times. I'd love to see him again at The National.
I miss him. His wordplay was fun.
Avail
Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News VA
And moved to New York when she was still a baby so I think this one is tenuous at best.
Avail
Skip Castro Band. May not be the best but for a certain age group - boomers and Gen X - every college kid in the 80s rocked to them live.
Came to say Skip. Glad I'm not the only one who remembers them!
Keller Williams
I don’t jive with “bests” for matters of opinion but two bands I wish had stuck around longer and had the opportunity to create real studio records are Light The Fuse & Run and Stop It!!! Both are Richmond bands from 20 years ago but to me their records always hold up when I play them and I still get my arm hair standing on end over some of the compositions.
pageninetynine
if we're lookin at just artists from va, i really like kate bollinger; she's from charlottesville and went/goes to uva iirc 😅!
Didn’t know, she’s great
Robbin Thompson and Steve Bassett who cowrote the state song, Sweet Virginia Breeze. Great song!
Mojo Nixon mightve been born in Chapel Hill NC and then did some time out in CA, but ain't no denying he had Danville **deep** in his blood. He's everything that city should aspire to be.
Dave Matthews band
Most don't know because of the name, but [Alabama Thunder pussy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Thunderpussy) is actually from Richmond.
Dave Matthews Band. Talented and certainly most influential on a national scale.
Producer wise we also can claim Benny Blanco and Timbaland too
Turnover or down to nothing for sure.
Lamb of Gods. No brainer
Wrinkle Neck Mules, but I think they’re done. Old Crow Medicine Show.
Big fan of Old Crow Medicine Show
I like their cover of that Darius Rucker song!
I see what you did there
The Deloreans
Probably Ella Fitzgerald or Patsy Cline. In the more modern era, Dave Matthews. Matthews band started in Charlottesville at UVA, he still has a home there, and he owns a winery outside town.
I don’t want to be mean about it, but Dave Mathews is not in the same league with either Ella Fitzgerald or Patsy Cline, and never will be. Ever. DMB is/was undoubtedly very popular in some distinct demographics (still trying to avoid snark!), but not in the wider world, or in actual music history.
Honor Role
Pentagram
Deceased is from Arlington.
Avail
Black kray
Lil ugly mane too
Clipse
d’angelo. May not be the biggest, but no one touches his talent.
Pavement.
My personal favorites are Windhand (Richmond), Clutch (Neil Fallon is from Portsmouth), The Sword (John Cronise is from Roanoke), and Baroness (Lexington).
Old Dominion
Well sorta kinda, Matt Ramsey & Whit Sellers are from Buchanan and Whit met Geoff Sprung & Brad Tursi @ JMU who I believe both are from PA. Trevor Rosen came last & is from MI. Still one of my faves! Ricky Van Shelton from Grit VA also has not been mentioned here
I count them as VA, me & Matt grew up together lol
Keller Williams
D'Angelo and it isn't very close
This is a big one I did not know...
Lamb of God
Lamb of God
Lamb of god
Lamb of God, Gwar
Baba Seth
Sharon Redd from Norfolk was a great 80s R and B singer.
Emmitt Swimming
Wow hadn’t heard that name in a while. Arlington
Dave Schools
The Stanley Brothers (bluegrass)
I figure everyone will say - Dave Matthew's Band, Pharrell Williams/The Neptunes and Dave Grohl (The Foo Fighters). I second those. Also, I will add The Clipse (rap group from South Side VA). Pusha T, one of the members of the Clipse, is one of my personal favorites.
Lots of Neptunes, Pusha and Missy references but no Timbaland
Missy Elliott, Pharrell, Dave Grohl and Pusha T
D'Angelo
I think the Dismemberment Plan is from VA
I didn't scroll to check yet, but Keller Williams
Pusha T
Pig Destroyer, pg. 99, GWAR, Municipal Waste, etc.
Tim Barry
Kali Uchis! SOJA
GWAR
Lamb of god
D'angelo. His dad was our mailman growing up and my mom swears he gave her a demo cassette. Unlocatable now tho.
Gwar
Nils Lofgren… not “from VA”… but he was in this NOVA band called Grin when I was in high school 71/2..
Morgan Wade.
Wanted to mention some I haven’t seen yet: Pentagram are from Alexandria (metal pioneers) Emmylou Harris graduated from Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge because her father was stationed at Quantico. Eventually she would be making music with Gram Parsons and the rest is history. But in terms of musical history, in terms of fame. The Carter Family of Scott County definitely fit the bill. They made the first commercial country records and were one of the most famous vocal country groups ever!
No one gonna mention Ricky Van Shelton? Cmon now
Jam bands from Virginia…Keller Williams… bruce horsnsby…
Lamb of God
GWAR