Trumpeter Pete Minger, a South Carolina native, moved to Florida where he played with drummer William Peeples among others, and studied music at the University of Miami after working with Count Basie in the 1970s.
Dean Dewberry (1926–2006), a Jazz (American Music) Hall of Fame[clarification needed] concert pianist, was born and raised in St. Petersburg.
He played in local night clubs with his wife, Penny Parker Dewberry, as well as with jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington and Wild Bill Davidson.
Their close friend Bobby Braddock, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame with multiple number ones to his credit, was born in Lakeland, in Polk County, and grew up in nearby Auburndale.
While attending the University of South Florida, Lavoie formed a band called The Rumors with Jim Stafford and Gram Parsons.
He had a central role in the rock-and-roll scene of the 1960s, being friends or collaborating on projects with notables like Mick Jagger, Linda Ronstadt, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and The Kingston Trio.
Florida musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant is buried in a suburb of Jacksonville; his widow founded Freebird Live).
Jim Morrison of The Doors was born in Melbourne, spent part of his childhood in Clearwater, and attended Florida State University for a few years.
Alter Bridge (Creed minus lead vocalist Scott Stapp) from Orlando had a number 5 album on the Billboard 200 with One Day Remains (2004).
Todd LaTorre, the current vocalist for Queensrÿche, grew up in Tampa Bay; he also was the frontman of Crimson Glory.The American emo band Pool Kids formed in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2017.
Mercy recorded a Jack Sigler, Jr. original entitled "Love (Can Make You Happy)" at the old Charles Fuller Studio on MacDill Avenue in Tampa.
Petersburg area in the late 1970s, including bands such as The Straight Jackets, The Shades, the Jackers, Just Boys, The Art Holes, The Stick Figures, A New Personality, and the Veal Rifles.
Miami also was home to one of the first American punk bands to release an indie single: "Silver Screen" (1978) by Critical Mass, which is still in demand by collectors today.
Rat Cafeteria, U-Boats (Tampa); Sector 4, Hated Youth, and Paisley Death Camp (all from Tallahassee); No Fraud (Venice); F (Fort Lauderdale); Morbid Opera (Miami); and Crucial Truth (Pompano Beach) also gained an audience and some had songs compiled on the album We Can't Help It If We're From Florida.
In the 1980s, hardcore bands from Orlando included Dissent, Damage, Zyklon-B, The Bully Boys, Florida's Unwanted Children, Sewer Side Rouges, Declared Ungovernable, Contradiction, The Damn Maniacs, and Genitorturers.
[citation needed] Black Label released one single, "Rootbeer For Everyone", a song that was in heavy rotation on Rollins College radio station WPRK, which was hosted at the time by future Genitorturers' front woman Jennifer Zimmerman.
Other hardcore, post-hardcore, and metalcore bands from Florida include: Against All Authority, Anberlin "Feel Good Drag" (Stephen Christian graduated from UCF), Underoath, The Almost, Combatwoundedveteran, Poison the Well, Assholeparade, A Day to Remember (from Ocala), New Found Glory (from Coral Springs), Fake Problems (from Naples), and Shai Hulud.
Indie rock bands Mortimer Nova, Surfer Blood, Iron & Wine, Copeland, The Drums, and The Generators are from Florida.
Shaped by the producers Scott Burns and Jim and Tim Morris of Morrisound Recording, the emergent Florida death metal scene produced artists such as Death, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Obituary, Atheist, Hate Eternal, Monstrosity, Assück, Nocturnus, Nasty Savage, and Acheron.
The recording and commercial opportunities of the scene induced non-Floridian bands such as Cannibal Corpse and Malevolent Creation to relocate to Tampa.
TK Records produced the R&B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright (d.2020), George McCrae, Gwen McCrae, Timmy Thomas, Little Beaver, Foxy, Peter Brown, and Jimmy "Bo" Horne, as well as a number of soul and disco hits, many influenced by Caribbean music.
R&B artists Kirby Maurier was raised in Miami and Miramar, Sammie is from Boynton Beach and Pleasure P is from Carver Raches, West Park.
Music from the 1990s included Murk (aka Funky Green Dogs), Planet Soul, No Mercy, and DJ Robbie Rivera.
Florida pop musicians with at least one number one Billboard Hot 100 hit included KC and the Sunshine Band (5) in the 1970s; Terence Trent D'Arby and Exposé in the 1980s; Vanilla Ice and Stevie B in the 1990s; Rob Thomas, Matchbox 20, Creed, NSYNC, Enrique Iglesias "The King of Latin Pop" (2), T-Pain (2), Flo Rida (3), Sean Kingston, and Jason Derulo (2) in the 2000s; and Pitbull (2), Camila Cabello (2), XXXTentacion.
In 2017, the music video for "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee reached over a billion views on YouTube in under 3 months.
The lyrics to Miami bass were often sexually explicit, and when 2 Live Crew began to achieve national attention, the words in their songs caused controversy; several stores were prosecuted under obscenity laws for selling the disc, and members of 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing songs from the album As Nasty As They Wanna Be.
[10] They were one of the first rap collectives to integrate the style of early-Three 6 Mafia into their music, a pattern subsequently embraced throughout the hip-hop scene, namely in the form of ASAP Mob and Drake.
[11] Raider Klan members and affiliates Denzel Curry, Chris Travis and Xavier Wulf pioneered the Soundcloud rap movement.
[12] Subsequent Florida rappers XXXTentacion, Ski Mask the Slump God, Lil Pump, Smokepurpp, and Wifisfuneral brought SoundCloud rap to the mainstream in the mid-to-late-2010s.
[16] Additional Floridian rappers include Trick Daddy, Kodak Black, Denzel Curry, Rick Ross, Ace Hood, Plies, Trina, Rod Wave, Cool & Dre, Flo Rida, Jacki-O, stic.man, Dead Prez, Pitbull, YNW Melly, BossMan Dlow, and M-1.