List of American musicians of Irish descent

This is a list of notable Irish-American musicians.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a notable musician.

A–J

 * Christina Aguilera – singer-songwriter; Ecuadorian father and Irish-American mother
 * (Gustav Elijah Åhr) Lil Peep rapper and singer
 * Tori Amos – singer-songwriter and musician
 * Anastacia – singer-songwriter
 * Michelle Branch – part Irish through her father
 * Laura Branigan – singer-songwriter and musician
 * Jeff Buckley – estranged son of Tim Buckley
 * Tim Buckley – father was the son of Irish immigrants
 * Chris Byrne – pop musician
 * Mariah Carey – pop musician
 * Aaron Carter – singer and Nick Carter's brother
 * Nick Carter – member of the boy band Backstreet Boys
 * Dennis Casey – Flogging Molly member
 * Ken Casey – bass player and vocalist for the Boston-based Celtic punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys
 * Celtic Spring – family dance and fiddle band
 * Kelly Clarkson – pop singer
 * Rosemary Clooney – singer and actress
 * Kurt Cobain – singer-songwriter of the rock band Nirvana
 * George M. Cohan – singer-songwriter; vaudeville and Broadway theatre performer
 * Edward Joseph Collins – composer
 * Judy Collins – singer/songwriter
 * Alice Cooper – of partial Irish descent
 * Copywrite – rapper; mixed Irish and Italian descent
 * Billy Corgan – singer, lead guitarist of alternative-rock band The Smashing Pumpkins
 * Chris Cornell – lead singer of rock band Soundgarden
 * Frankie Cosmos – of Irish descent on her father's side
 * Henry Cowell – composer
 * Auliʻi Cravalho – singer and actress of partial Irish descent
 * Bing Crosby – singer and actor
 * Miley Cyrus, pop and country singer, songwriter and actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus, sister of Noah Cyrus, ex of Nick Jonas and Liam Hemsworth
 * Chris Daughtry – American Idol 2006 finalist; lead singer of the rock band Daughtry
 * Dennis Day – singer
 * Lee DeWyze – American Idol 2010 winner
 * Marié Digby – singer-songerwriter
 * Howie Dorough – member of the boy band Backstreet Boys; Irish father
 * Jimmy Dorsey – jazz musician
 * Tommy Dorsey – jazz musician
 * Hilary Duff – actress and singer/songwriter
 * Stephyn Duffy - singer/songwriter, guitarist, musician
 * Billie Eilish – singer-songwriter, director, actress, musician, and first female and youngest artist ever to win all 4 general field categories at the Grammy Awards
 * Everlast (born 1969) – singer-songwriter; known for his genre-crossing mix of rap and acoustic-based rock music
 * Eileen Farrell – opera singer
 * Fergie – pop singer
 * Karen Finley – performer and musician
 * Michael Fitzpatrick –  frontman of Fitz and the Tantrums
 * John Fogerty – singer-songwriter for rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival
 * Mike Fuentes — drummer for Pierce The Veil, born to an Irish American mother
 * Vic Fuentes — lead singer and guitarist for Pierce The Veil, born to an Irish American mother
 * G-Eazy, (born 1989), rapper
 * Judy Garland – singer and actress
 * Billy Gibbons – guitarist and singer for rock band ZZ Top; has Irish ancestry on both sides of family
 * Greg Graffin – singer-songwriter for punk-rock band Bad Religion
 * Conan Gray – singer-songwriter
 * Sasha Grey – actress and musician
 * Kirk Hammett – guitarist for rock band Metallica; Irish father, Filipino mother
 * Arthur Hanlon – pianist and Latin music musician
 * Jack Harlow – rapper
 * Matt Heafy – lead singer and guitarist for heavy-metal band Trivium; Irish father, Japanese mother
 * Jimi Hendrix – guitarist, singer.
 * Swan Hennessy – composer
 * Victor Herbert – composer
 * James Hetfield – lead singer and guitarist for rock band Metallica
 * Paris Hilton – media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, singer, and actress
 * Brent Hinds – singer and guitarist for heavy-metal band Mastodon
 * Julianne Hough – country-music singer and ballroom dancer
 * Vanessa Hudgens – actress and singer
 * Andy Hurley – drummer for rock band Fall Out Boy
 * Danny Hutton – one of the three lead vocalists in the rock band Three Dog Night
 * Jonas Brothers – pop-rock band; of Irish descent from their maternal grandfather

K–Z

 * Maynard James Keenan – singer/songwriter
 * Bill Kelliher – guitarist for the heavy-metal band Mastodon; father was an Irish immigrant who moved to New York in the 1950s
 * Tori Kelly – singer/songwriter
 * Alicia Keys – singer/songwriter
 * Dave King – singer/songwriter
 * Chris Kirkpatrick – former member of the boy band 'N Sync
 * Larry Kirwan – punk musician
 * Beyoncé – pop singer
 * Ben Kyle – singer-songwriter; leader of the Americana band Romantica
 * Lindsay Lohan – actress, singer-songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur
 * Demi Lovato – singer/songwriter and actress of Hispanic, Italian and Irish ancestry
 * Lorna Luft – actress and singer
 * Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) – rapper
 * Benji Madden – lead guitarist of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte; both parents are Irish
 * Joel Madden – lead singer of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte; both parents are Irish
 * Meaghan Jette Martin – actress and singer from television musical film Camp Rock (2008)
 * Mike McColgan – former lead singer of the Celtic-punk band Dropkick Murphys; vocalist of the punk-rock band Street Dogs
 * John McCormack – tenor
 * Travie McCoy –  rapper, singer co founder and lead singer of Gym Class Heroes
 * Tim McGraw –  singer; both parents have Irish ancestry
 * The McGuire Sisters – female vocal group of the 1950s
 * Katharine McPhee – singer; runner-up on American Idol, season 5
 * Natalie Merchant – singer; mother is of Irish descent
 * Patrick Monahan – singer with the pop-rock band Train
 * Mandy Moore – actress and singer; father is Irish
 * Jim Morrison – singer-songwriter of the rock band The Doors
 * Lacey Mosley – lead singer of hard-rock band Flyleaf
 * Gerry Mulligan – jazz musician
 * Dave Mustaine – co-founder of the heavy-metal band Megadeth; first lead guitarist for the heavy-metal band Metallica
 * James Murphy founder, lead singer, songwriter, musician of LCD Soundsystem
 * Willie Nile – rock singer-songwriter
 * Bradley Nowell – lead singer and guitarist for the ska-punk band Sublime
 * Virginia O'Brien – actress and singer
 * Finneas O'Connell – Singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and actor with Scottish and Irish ancestry
 * Aubrey O'Day – member of the female music group Danity Kane
 * Chauncey Olcott – singer and composer
 * Katy Perry – her great-great-grandmother was from Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland
 * Tom Petty – rock musician
 * Pink – pop-singer
 * Robert Pollard – singer-songwriter; leader of the alternative-rock band Guided by Voices
 * Elvis Presley – singer
 * Seth Putnam – musician
 * Carmel Quinn – singer
 * Christopher "Kid" Reid – rapper; Jamaican and Irish descent
 * Trent Reznor – singer-songwriter, composer and record producer; founder of the industrial-rock band Nine Inch Nails
 * Geoff Rickly –  vocalist of the bands Thursday and No Devotion
 * Olivia Rodrigo, pop singer
 * Jack Russell – founder of Great White
 * Bianca Ryan – singer/songwriter and actress
 * M.Shadows – lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold
 * Michael Shrieve - drummer of Santana
 * Slaine – rapper
 * Carly Smithson – Dublin, Ireland, native who placed sixth on the seventh installment of American Idol; lead singer of the gothic-metal band We Are the Fallen
 * Britney Spears – pop singer
 * Bruce Springsteen – instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
 * Gwen Stefani – mother is part Irish
 * Kevin Shields – vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine
 * Patrick Stump – lead singer of American rock band Fall Out Boy
 * The Rev – former drummer for metal band Avenged Sevenfold
 * Jessica Sutta – member of pop girl group The Pussycat Dolls
 * Taylor Swift – pop singer
 * Corey Taylor – lead singer of heavy metal band Slipknot
 * Stuart Michael Thomas – film and television composer and producer
 * Tinashe – singer of Zimbabwean, Danish, Norwegian and Irish descent
 * Justin Timberlake – pop singer and actor
 * Chris Trousdale – singer
 * Shania Twain – pop singer
 * Danielle White – singer from the television singing-competition series American Juniors
 * Joseph M. White –  tenor
 * Robert White –  tenor
 * Ace Young – singer from American Idol