We provide a list of intercountry and transracial adoptee musicians from around the world, listed by their country of birth / origins.
Bangladeshi
Black American
Lisa Marie Simmons (soul singer)
Bolivian
Brazilian
Chinese
An-Laurence Higgins (singer & guitarist)
I Am Monday Music (composer, singer)
Jordan Pyle (oboe & english horn)
Xanne-Li (singer, song writer)
Filipino
Dan R Moen (multi artist)
Guatemalan
Carmen Maria Vega (singer)
Haitian
Jjanice (singer & songwriter)
Raymondrum (classical percussionist, drummer, pianist, teacher)
Sabine Jobin (singer, pianist)
Indigenous Canadian
Elisapie (singer & songwriter)
Tom Wilson (singer)
Tyse Nett (Christian hip hop artist)
Jamaican
Dionne Draper (singer, actor)
Japanese
Jack Peterson (cellist)
Korean
An Laurence (chants)
Birgitte Soojin (jazz musician)
Bonnie Jones (improvising musician with sound and text)
Callie Bennett (singer, songwriter, musician)
Dan Matthews (musician, band)
Denis Sungo (classical guitarist & composer)
Dylan Dukat (composer, educator, performer)
Jacqueline Wells (singer, songwriter, pianist)
Jonathan Hurley (guitarist)
Jordan VanHemert (saxaphonist, composer, educator)
Junseok Kim (DJ, MC)
Lali Puna (singer) and an article
Luke McQueen (singer & songwriter) and an article about his music background
Matthew Pellegrino (classical musician & composer)
Mayda (R&D infused pop musician)
Miriam Akkermann (professor of musicology, flutist, harpist)
Rebecca Larkin (Broadway singer, actor & visual artist)
Sarah Meehran Cave (violin sound healer)
Mixed Race
Ferera Swan (Filipino American singer, songwriter, pianist, violinist)
Nahko Bear (Puerto Rican/Native American/Filipino guitarist & singer) and article
Senegalese
Karim Ouellet (singer & songwriter)
Sarahmée or here (rapper, singer & songwriter)
Sri Lankan
Roshani Priddis (singer) and article
Linn Sjöbäck (singer)
Transracial
David Douglas Wright transracial adoptee in reverse, white adoptee raised into a family of Korean (mother) & USA (father) heritage; his story My Adopted Curse
Corey Quinn black transracial adoptee in the USA, his story
Vietnamese
Alice Svensson (singer, Swedish Idol 2018 runner up)
Jahred Rehberg (singer & songwriter)
Kym Purling (jazz pianist)
Lara Price (blues singer)
Lou Arbour (band)
Matthew Brodnax (blues singer)