# Hottest people who are also brilliant musicians **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472 "2008-08-10T03:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/21 "2008-08-10T09:27:24Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] [Evelyn Glennie](http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=Evelyn+Glennie&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2) the deaf Scottish classical percussionist and composer. [Here](http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen.html) she is talking about music. [/QUOTE] Good call. I saw her live once in a smallish venue. Great stuff. I was sitting near the front and I swear she gave me a wink. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/22 "2008-08-10T09:31:15Z")
It has nothing to do with the topic of this thread but if you go to the Evelyn Glennie talk link in my post check out the Keith Barry video that comes up. I am watching it now and …WOW just WOW. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/23 "2008-08-10T13:08:09Z")
Well, there’s me, of course. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/24 "2008-08-10T13:26:59Z")
I’m going to go old school and mention Linda Ronstadt and Olivia Newton John. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/25 "2008-08-10T13:49:50Z")
[Christina Aguilera.](http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/christina-aguilera-2007-clive-davis-pre-grammy-awards-party-1csGkr.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/26 "2008-08-10T14:13:00Z")
> [@Windwalker](#): > > I came here to mention Nellie McKay. Great songwriter who can mix the styles of pop and musical theater, and has a razor-edge wit and beautiful face to boot. Why isn’t she married to me? Well obviously if she is going to marry me then she can’t be married to you as well. We have laws against polygamy in this country you know. > [@CaerieD](#): > > Rufus Wainwright. Good lord, I can’t believe I forgot about him. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/27 "2008-08-10T14:17:06Z")
I’m surprised I’m the first to mention Alicia Keyes. ---
**Author:** ![Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hook)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/28 "2008-08-10T14:25:44Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MIIlUHBNkEc/hqdefault.jpg "CONCRETE BLONDE - Joey") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIlUHBNkEc) Concrete Blonde with Johnette Napolitano - incredible looks, gorgeous voice! (I really need to learn that clever thing of turning a link to a word). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/29 "2008-08-10T15:17:08Z")
> [@](#): > > I really need to learn that clever thing of turning a link to a word You have to reply via Post Reply not Quick Reply. There’s a line of various functions above the reply window that starts with **B** _I_ U. There’s an icon that looks like a blue circle with a paperclip in front of it (I believe it’s a globe with a link). Punch that and you’ll get a window - type in your word. Hit OK and a second window opens - insert your hyperlink address. Hit OK again and you’re set. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/30 "2008-08-10T15:27:49Z")
[QUOTE=Harry1945] Emmylou Harris…still. [/QUOTE] I’m surprised nobody else has seconded this. Much more beautiful than most of the women in this thread. (And definitely hotter than Tori Amos.) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/31 "2008-08-10T16:23:59Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] You have to reply via Post Reply not Quick Reply. There’s a line of various functions above the reply window that starts with **B** _I_ U. There’s an icon that looks like a blue circle with a paperclip in front of it (I believe it’s a globe with a link). Punch that and you’ll get a window - type in your word. Hit OK and a second window opens - insert your hyperlink address. Hit OK again and you’re set. [/QUOTE] # Doin this manually, type in “[”(i.e., left bracket), “url”, equals sign, quotation mark, paste in the URL, another quotation mark and “]” (right bracket – don’t use the quotation marks I put around them; that’s to simply show the character). Then type in the word or phrase you want to have stand for the link, and close with “[”, frontslash , “url” and “]”. To respond to the substantive question here, I have something that’s a request for information, not an assertion. I’ve been told by a couple of gay acquaintances who are fans of his that Joshua “JC” Chasez, the good-looking young singer in \*NSync a few years back, was actually a competent jazz musician and composer of some talent with a basically dead career, who had been a childhood friend of Justin Timberlake. When the impresario was putting \*NSync together, Justin recommended his friend as good looking and a good singer, and JC was smart enough to use the gig with \*NSync to jumpstart his career. Anyone who knows the story here who can validare or refute that? ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/32 "2008-08-10T16:57:43Z")
[Eddie](http://www.dosomething.org/files/Images/EddieVedder.jpg) [Freakin’](http://www.showclix.com/event_pictures/Eddie-Vedder.jpg) [Vedder](http://www.mysticgames.com/famouspeople/pictures/EddieVedder.jpg). That man has looked good for 20 years. Blows my mind. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/33 "2008-08-10T17:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=Hook] [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MIIlUHBNkEc/hqdefault.jpg "CONCRETE BLONDE - Joey") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIlUHBNkEc) Concrete Blonde with Johnette Napolitano - incredible looks, gorgeous voice! (I really need to learn that clever thing of turning a link to a word). [/QUOTE] This is the cutest of hers…[Great song while singing in her PJ’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47UplyBQK4Y&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/34 "2008-08-10T18:09:26Z")
[Alison Krauss](http://www.alisonkrauss.com/site.php) [Bond](http://www.bondmusic.net/) [Celtic Woman](http://www.celticwoman.com/trellis/Gallery) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/35 "2008-08-10T18:24:12Z")
I personally think [Jeff Tweedy is hot](http://wilcoworld.net/promo/photos/tweedy_chasharris/j_tweedy_428_96dpi.jpg) though my sister thinks he looks like a [homeless man](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/194264830_84a95baa5b.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/36 "2008-08-10T19:28:51Z")
One-album wonder Willis Alan Ramsey was [a hottie in the 1970s](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JKG2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg), and he’s [a hottie today](http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/3/8/10/f_WillisAlanRm_33e3c54.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/37 "2008-08-10T20:16:48Z")
[Sufjan Stevens](http://kidzeppelin.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/sufjan-stevens.jpg) is absolutely beautiful and a crazy good musician. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/38 "2008-08-10T20:21:18Z")
[QUOTE=Sam Lowry] [Sufjan Stevens](http://kidzeppelin.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/sufjan-stevens.jpg) is absolutely beautiful and a crazy good musician. [/QUOTE] You like him you’ll like [Girl Talk.](http://phillyist.com/2007/09/17/girl_talk_and_d.php) ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/39 "2008-08-10T20:32:49Z")
Nobody has said [Liz Phair](http://www.rockinpa.com/images/auto_liz_phair.jpg). Talented, and HOT!!! Well Hot, even if she is not talented. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472/40 "2008-08-10T20:37:50Z")
Her newer stuff is a little over produced. Her older stuff is aces. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-people-who-are-also-brilliant-musicians/459472.md?page=3)