Top Music-related figures by U.S State

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So, checked my email, received news from Billboard.com and saw an interesting article: Top Artists by U.S State. So I thought, who could that be? For Michigan, I thought of a few people such as Bob Seger, Diana Ross, and Madonna.

Here they are.

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Alabama: The band Alabama
Alaska: Jewel
Arizona: Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks
Arkansas: The man in black himself, Johnny Cash!
California: The Beach Boys; Paula Abdul, Frank Zappa, Katy Perry are also mentioned
Colorado: John Denver (R.I.P)
Connecticut: John Mayer; Michael Bolton
Delaware: Bb-b-b-b-ad to the bone George Thorogood.
Florida: Gloria Estefan (raised)
Georgia: Ray Charles
Hawaii: Bruno Mars
Idaho: Paul Revere and the Raiders
Illinois: Chicago
Indiana: John Mellencamp, Michael Jackson
Kansas: Martina McBride, Kansas
Kentucky: Loretta Lynn (=D She taught us about the pill!)
Louisiana: Louis Armstrong
Maine: Stephen Hague (producer)
Maryland: Toni Braxton
Massachusetts: Aerosmith
Michigan: Madonna (I was thinking up Bob Seger, madonna, diana ross)
Mississippi: Elvis Presley

Michigan: Madonna of course
Minnesota: Prince and Bob Dylan
Mississippi: Elvis Presley
Missouri: Eminem (that's ok, you're still Mi's best selling rap artist?)
Montana: Nicolette Larson (Really?!)

Nebraska: Eagles's Randy Meisner

Nevada: The Killers

New Hampshire: Ray Lamontagne

New Jersey: Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston

New Mexico: The Shins
New York: Billy Joel (Lady gaga, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z. Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey also mentioned)
North Carolina: Jermaine Dupri (producer)
North Dakota: Lawrence Welk, Bobby Vee and Wiz Khalifa are also mentioned

Ohio: Chrissie Hynde
Oklahoma: Garth Brooks
Oregon: Esperanza Spalding (the Decemberists, Everclear and Courtney Love also mentioned)
Pennsylvania: Taylor Swift, Daryl Hall & John Oates.
Rhode Island: Jeffrey Osborne
South Carolina: James Brown (how can you beat that?)
South Dakota: L. Frank Baum (author) for his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
Tennessee: Dolly Parton (Juggies!)
Texas: George Strait
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Utah: The Osmonds (Donny and Marie)
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Vermont: Phish

Virginia: Bruce Hornsby

Washington: Nirvana

West Virginia: Brad Paisley

Wisconsin: Les Paul,

Wyoming: Chris LeDoux

Done

Here's one for Lynn!