Beck

Rock Musician

Name at birth: Beck David Campbell

Beck mixed folk, blues and hip-hop into a crowd-pleasing sound that made him one of the hotter pop musicians of the 1990s. His 1993 single Loser was an alternative radio hit, and a few years later he scored his first gold record with Odelay. That 1996 album won him a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance and also made him a big-time star; he soon won Best Artist awards from publications as diverse as Spin and Seventeen. His album Midnight Vultures was nominated for a 2000 Grammy as Record of the Year. His other albums include Sea Change (2002), Guero (2005) and The Information (2006).

Extra credit: Beck's mother, Bibbe Hansen, was a crony of pop artist Andy Warhol... Beck took her last name of Hansen after his parents split up.

Other hit musicians of the 1990s: Moby, Sarah McLachlan, Kurt Cobain and Busta Rhymes.