We provide a list of intercountry and transracial adoptee musicians from around the world, listed by their country of birth / origins.
Black American
Lisa Marie Simmons (soul singer)
Bolivian
Fusion Andino
Johannes R Helsper
Chinese
An-Laurence Higgins (singer & guitarist)
I Am Monday Music (composer, singer)
Jordan Pyle (oboe & english horn)
Filipino
Dan R Moen (multi artist)
Guatemalan
Carmen Maria Vega (singer)
Haitian
Jjanice (singer & songwriter)
Raymondrum (classical percussionist, drummer, pianist, teacher)
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)
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)
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
Vietnamese
Alice Svensson (singer, Swedish Idol 2018 runner up)
Jahred Rehberg (singer & songwriter)
Lara Price (blues singer)
Lou Arbour (band)
Matthew Brodnax (blues singer)