This is a list of musicians utilizing some form of overtone singing. The groups they work with should be listed after.
These are musicians using a traditional method of overtone singing: Overtone singing originates among the people in the Urankhai region of Siberia, who have historic links to Mongols (although they might speak Turkic languages, like Tuvans).
Tuvans and Mongols
Alash
Kaigal-ool Khovalyg of Huun-Huur-Tu
Igor Koshkendey of Chirgilchin
Anatoli Kuular formerly of Huun-Huur-Tu
Sainkho Namtchylak
Kongar-ool Ondar featured on Genghis Blues and work with Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Mongun-ool Ondar of Chirgilchin
Tyva Kyzy
Albert Kuvezin of Yat-Kha (formerly Huun-Huur-Tu)
Aldar Tamdyn of Chirgilchin
Tuvan National Orchestra
Saidash Mongush
Altai Khairkhan from Mongolia
Tanya Tagaq from Nunavut
Paul Pena from San Francisco featured on Genghis Blues
Demetrio Stratos
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää Yoik singer from Finland
Fátima Miranda
Enrique Ugalde alias Soriah
Natascha Nikeprelevic
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Overtone Choir Spektrum, Prague, Czech Republic - connects traditional choir singing with overtone techniques
Attila Csihar is a prominent figure in Black Metal and Extreme Metal and is noted for utilising the overtone technique most commonly with drone band Sunn O)))
Avi Kaplan Bass singer and vocal percussionist in Pentatonix
Ego Fall (Metalcore) and Tengger Cavalry (Black Metal) are Mongolian Folk Metal bands from Inner Mongolia that utilize Throat Singing.
Ray Anderson - jazz singer & trombonist
Theo Bleckmann - featured in composer John Hollenbeck's composition The Music of Life
Arrington de Dionyso of Old Time Relijun
Diamanda Galás - Greek-American performance artist and renowned vocalist; when performing an opera by Vinko Globokar she had to produce four tones at once
Jim Gillette of Nitro
Dani Filth of Cradle Of Filth
Bruce Lamont of Yakuza
Darroh Sudderth of Fair to Midland
Baby Gramps - folk musician
John Hammink - engineer and singer, has originally used both Sygyt and Kargyraa for testing Skype audio quality, particularly as it relates to telephony hardware
David Hykes featured overtoning with his score for incarnate Tibetan lama Dzongsar Khyentese's film "Travellers and Magicians", the scores to "The Yatra Trilogy" by John Bush, and film trailer music for "The New World" by Terrence Malick, the first of the "Blade" movies and "X Men: The Last Stand"
Enver Izmailov throatsings on his album With My Best Wishes
Elton John produced hundreds of overtones on his 1986 world tour.
Space Mandino - American folk musician
Bobby McFerrin - jazz vocalist
Lalah Hathaway - soul & jazz vocalist, daughter of Donny Hathaway. Uses overtone singing during live improvisation
Aengus Ó Maoláin - Irish singer, both solo and with Anúna and Bulraga, uses both Karygraa and Sygt but mainly Khoomei
David Lee Roth (formerly of Van Halen) sometimes uses a multi-pitched wail similar to throat singing
Roswell Rudd - jazz trombonist, features a traditional Mongolian ensemble with a throat sing on his album Blue Mongol
Demetrio Stratos - Italian singer of Greek and Egyptian origin, explored diplophony, triplophony and even quadrophony with Area (band) and in his solo records, in particular Cantare la voce
Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence
Pol Guasch - Catalan musician of the one-man-band Naakhum, uses mainly Kargyraa and occasionally Sygyt in his songs combined with Extreme Metal.
Anna-Maria Hefele
Robert Een - American composer, cellist, and vocalist
Michael Ormiston - British Khöömii singer and teacher, multi-instrumentalist, composer
Loïc ...W... - French Extreme Metal musician, vocalist of Bemskiant and Heboïdophrenie. Uses several overtones techniques combined with growling and screaming during live performance.
