The Yardbirds legend and music has graduated three of rock's greatest guitar players: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. They created hard rock out of standard twelve-bar blues, doubling the tempos and whacking the amps up to ten. On the British club scene, the Yardbirds, the Animals, and the Rolling Stones ruled the stages. The Yardbirds are best known... read full bio
Yascha Mounk is a speaker and writer. He focuses his work on the rise of populism and issues facing liberal democracy. With a PhD in Government from Harvard University, Mounk is now a Government lecturer at Harvard, a Senior Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America, and an Executive Director at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.... read full bio
Yasheng Huang is a professor in international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he founded and heads the China Lab and India Lab. His research areas include human capital formation in China and India. He had previous appointments at the University of Michigan and Harvard Business School. Huang is the author of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, a... read full bio
YaSi is a young singer and songwriter from Denver, Colorado, noted for her distinctive style and inspiring lyrics. YaSi was born Yasmeen Al-Mazeedi. YaSi was born in 1998, grew up in a musical family, and at a young age she learned to play the piano and compose music. She pursued her education at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she... read full bio
Yasiel Puig is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder. Puig played for the Cuban national baseball team. He was selected by Baseball America to their annual All-Rookie team". Puig enjoyed a breakout season in the Cuban National Series, with a .330 batting average, 17 home runs, 47 runs batted in and 78 runs scored in 327 at-bats. Puig had 27 hits... read full bio
Yasmin Maya, who was born in the Mexican town of Amatepec, traveled about 225 miles from her home in Carpinteria, a picturesque seaside California city, to Tijuana, where she would stay for three years to determine her residency status before returning to the United States. Maya turned to YouTube for solace as she was anxious and upset about her uncertain immigration... read full bio
Yasmine Bleeth is an American actress most popular for her role on Baywatch. Yasmine has also been featured in other television series including NBCs primetime soap opera, Titans, and police drama Nash Bridges. Yasmine has been in numerous made for television movies including It Came From the Sky, Goodbye Casanova and Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding where she revisited her character in... read full bio
Yassir Lester is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer from Marietta, Georgia. He has acted on series such as, “My Super-Overactive Imagination”, “After the Party”, “Key and Peele”, “The Characters”, “Making History”, “The Mindy Project”, and Shabaz in “Champions”. As a writer Lester has written for the series “Girls”, “The Carmichael Show”, “The Late Night Fix with Yassir Lester” and... read full bio
One of R&B's most captivating storytellers is Yaya Bey. The singer/songwriter skillfully navigates life's challenges and happy times via music by combining ancestral powers with her own self-actualization. Bey's latest album, "Remember Your North Star", portrays this emotional rollercoaster via a soul-satisfying blend of hip-hop, soul, jazz, reggae and afrobeat. The album's lead hit, "keisha," finest exemplifies the artist's talent for storytelling.... read full bio
Yazmin Lacey is a RnB soulful jazz singer-songwriter who grew up in East, London, and found her love for singing at a young age. Lacey later on moved to Nottingham where she began pursuing a musical career. Her musical career first started after she had a lot to drink and sang for a girl who asked her to sing. That... read full bio
Yazz The Greatest is an actor and rapper. He has appeared at a variety of music festivals on the east coast, including Jay Z’s Made in America Festival, The Roots’ Picnic Festival, and Power 99FM’s Powerhouse concert. Yazz The Greatest has worked with rappers like Fabolous and 2 Chainz, along with Serayah and Jussie Smollett. His tracks have hit the... read full bio
Jay Gerard Bradley, better known as his stage name, YBN Almighty Jay, is an American rapper who rose to fame as part of the YBN collective before their disbandment. YBN Almighty Jay began his career after the release of singles which included “No Hook,” which featured YBN Nahmir, “Bread Winners,” which featured YBN and YBN Nahmir, and “Chopsticks,” which had... read full bio
Cordae Dunston, better known as his stage name YBN Cordae, is an American rapper from Raleigh, North Carolina. YBN originally started rapping under the stage name Entendre and released three mixtapes under this name; “Anxiety”, “I’m So Anxious”, and “I’m So Anonymous”. YBN went on to study at Towson University for a while before dropping out to move to Los... read full bio
Nicholas Alexander Simmons, better known as his stage name, YBN Nahmir, is an American rapper, songwriter, and actor, who rose to fame being part of the YBN collective that has since disbanded. YBN Nahmir was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and he began his musical career after forming the YBN hip-hop collective which was composed of him, YBN Almighty Jay, YBN... read full bio
YDE is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress who was born in Australia and based out of Los Angeles. YDE is a modern Rockstar and sets to break every mold. Through her music, YDE has a sharp perspective, fearless honesty and earth-quaking vocals. YDE originally began her career in acting and was featured in Netflix and Nickelodeon shows and was... read full bio
A teenager's body that was 2000 years old and extraordinarily well-preserved due to the peat's acidic properties was discovered in a local bog in the Dutch town of Yde. Her chest and pelvis were nearly dissolving, and her skull had been partially shaved. It's a picture that has stuck with Danish artist Andrea Novel, giving rise to not just her stage... read full bio
Brothers Diarmuid and Brán Mac Gloinn, who live in Dublin, make up the Irish folk duet known as Ye Vagabonds. They have already won more RTE Radio 1 Folk Awards than any other artist, including Best Track and Best Group and have been referred to as "being at the fore of a new wave of Irish folk". The brothers played onstage... read full bio
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a Grammy-nominated indie rock trio from New York. They have been described as having a unique alternative sound that is considered dance-friendly, with elements of art-rock and post punk. The band has recorded four studio albums, Fever to Tell, Show Your Bones, It’s Blitz! and Mosquito, with the first three albums earning Grammy nominations for... read full bio
The new brass-house-soul sound from Cardiff and Bristol is quickly rising and destroying the festival, radio and TV circuits. Year of the Dog, who have established themselves as one of the most legendary dance-inspiring live bands on the underground scene, have rocked the main stages at festivals like Noz Stock, Cheltenham Jazz, Cardiff Pride and Big Cwtch and have been interviewed by... read full bio
Yeardley Smith is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, writer and artist who is best known for playing Lisa Simpson on the television series “The Simpsons”. She was born in Paris, France, and moved to Washington, D.C. with her family a few years after she was born. Smith later graduated from drama school and moved to New York City where... read full bio
