Top 10 Most Famous Singers from Phoenix, Arizona

Jordin Sparks performs on stage during the 2012 USO Gala photo by Ash Carter Wikimedia

Top 10 Most Famous Singers from Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona has its own distinct culture and history. Due to its distance from musical capitals and epicenters such as Chicago, New Orleans, and New York. The state has developed a distinct mentality and musical approach, producing many world-class acts that have gone on to change the world with their boundaryless music.

Here are the Top 10 Most Famous Singers from Phoenix, Arizona

1. Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks performing at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas on her 24 Karat Gold Tour. photo by Ralph Arvesen Wikimedia

Nicks is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. She has been known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 hence helping the band to become one of the best-selling music acts of all time. It had over 120 million records sold worldwide.

There were rumors that the band’s second Album with Nick went platinum in the United States and became one of the best-selling albums of all time.Nicks launched her solo career with the release of her studio album Bella Donna, which topped the Billboard 200 and went multiplatinum. She has released eight studio solo albums and seven studio albums with Fleetwood Mac, selling a total of 65 million certified copies in the United States alone.

2. Jordin Sparks

Jordin Sparks is an American singer-songwriter who was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1989. She got her big break when she won American Idol as the youngest-ever winner at the age of 17 in 2007. Later that year, her self-titled debut studio album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)and has sold over two million copies worldwide.

The album produced the Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles “Tattoo” and “No Air,” the latter of which, a collaboration with Chris Brown. It is currently the third best-selling single by any American Idol contestant. And selling over three million digital copies in the United States.  Sparks received her first Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the song.

3. Alec Benjamin

Alec Benjamin photo by Rudy Mancuso Wikimedia

Benjamin is an American singer-songwriter who was born in 1994 in Phoenix Arizona. His breakout single “Let Me Down Slowly” from 2018 reached the top 40 in over 25 countries and has over 1 billion Spotify streams as of April 2022.  Benjamin who  primarily writes and sings in English has Mandarin Chinese versions of his songs “Older,” “The Way You Felt,” “Water Fountain,” and “Devil Doesn’t Bargain.”

In 2019 his mixtape Narrated for you reached number 127 on the US Billboard 200. The songs “Water Fountain” and “Let Me Down Slowly” appear on the mixtape, with the latter later re-released as a single with Alessia Cara.

4. Dierks Bentley

Bentley is an American country music singer who was born in 1975 in Phoenix Arizona. Dierks Bentley, self-titled debut, was released in 2003. He was able to showcase his country-rock-pop and humorous stylings with hits like “Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)” and “Drunk on a Plane.”

Bentley has since won numerous awards and also performs in Hot Country Knights, his love letter to 90s country music.

5. Ashley Campbell

Campbell is an American musician, singer, and songwriter of country music who was born in 1986. She is Glen Campbell’s fourth wife Kimberly Woollen’s daughter. Ashley Campbell’s debut single “Remembering” was released in 2015 by Dot Records.

The song previously appeared on the soundtrack of Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, a 2015 documentary to which she also contributed the track “Home Again.”  “Remembering” is about her father’s Alzheimer’s disease battle. The compilation went on to win a Grammy and an Oscar nomination.

Campbell also made a music video for the song available. The song debuted at No. 56 on the week ending December 5, 2015, Country Airplay chart. 

6. Jessi Colter

Mirriam Johnson is also professionally known as Jessi Colter. She is a country singer from the United States best known for her work with her husband. Colter was one of the few female artists to emerge from the “outlaw country” movement of the mid-1970s. 

She pursued a career in country music after meeting Jennings, releasing her first studio album, A Country Star Is Born, in 1970. Colter signed with Capitol Records five years later and released “I’m Not Lisa. And topped the country charts and reached the top five on the pop charts. She appeared on the collaboration LP Wanted: The Outlaws in 1976, which became an RIAA-certified Platinum album.

7. Dom Flemons

 Flemons is an American old-time music piedmont blues and neotraditional country multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. He can play the banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, percussion, quills, and rhythm bones. Dom has been knowns as “The American Songster” because his musical repertoire spans nearly a century of American folklore, ballads, and tunes.

He began playing guitar and harmonica in his teens. This led to him busking around Flagstaff until he met the musicians who would go on to form his band, The Carolina Chocolate Drops.

8. Glen Campbell

Glen Campbell in concert January 25, 2004 in Texas photo by LawrieM Wikimedia

 Campbell was a guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor, and television host from the United States. He was best known in the 1960s and 1970s for a string of hit songs. As well as for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from 1969 to 1972. In a five-decade career, he released 64 albums and sold over 45 million records worldwide. Including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.

Campbell won four Grammys in the country and pop categories in 1967. He won two country and western awards for “Gentle on My Mind,” and a pop award for “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” Glen won Male Vocalist of the Year awards from both the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM), and he was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1968.

9. Brooke White

 White is an American folk-pop singer-songwriter and actress who was born in 1983 in Phoenix, Arizona. She was the fifth-place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. Brooke White released her first studio album which was songs from the Attic in 2005.

High Hopes and Heartbreak was Brook’s first post-idol album was released in 2009. Also her first single ”Hold up My Heart was released in 2009. The song was debuted at number 47 on the billboard hot 100.

10. Alice Cooper

Alice cooper photo by Biha Wikimedia

Cooper is an American rock singer who was born in 1948. He has been known as “The Godfather of Shock Rock” by music journalists and peers. Alic cooper drew equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock meant to shock audiences.Cooper has experimented in a variety of musical genres, including art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, new wave, glam metal, and industrial rock.