Who were or are the most cheerful musicians?

Al Jarreau always seemed pretty upbeat onstage.

(xp) The guy's been grumpy and miserable as sin for about 30 years now. Probably since he gave up boozing.

Mickey Dolenz was the most cheerful Monkee and he's outlived them all.

Ray Charles

Sometimes I like to pretend the last 30 years hasn’t happened.

Classic EVH is ebullient and joyful, cannot deny.

Is Weird Al too obvious?

Bressa Creeting Cake are probably the most cheerful band I've seen. It helps that their music is joyously ridiculous.

Lawrence Arabia (James Milne) also oozes cheerfulness. I saw him perform a solo piano show where he recreated all the brass instrumental parts with his voice. It was silly and charming and heartwarming. He even managed to imbue joy into the line "Everything is shit, so shit."

it's been a while since I've seen them, but Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon as the most cheerful (couple of) musicians.

Céline Dion

Toto?
Faces / Small Faces?

Can't leave out Carmen Miranda

I saw Minyo Crusaders at WOMAD this weekend and that is my answer

My God was Charles Bradley a fountain of ebullience. The one time I saw him his band jammed for about 30 min. while a huge chunk of the crowd took turns giving him a hug.

Celia Cruz

oops she was already mentioned
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Buster Poindexter

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51RwqPr8N8L.jpg

well yeah

the mention of Hiromi led me to watch this again, a duet with Akiko Yano - they both look like they're having so much fun. Hiromi has that kid in a candy shop grin the whole time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faa_c5V_Vww

Ian Dury to thread!

He had many reasons to be cheerful.

Except he wasn't particularly cheerful, quite an intense drive dude.

... driven

Well I dunno, he actually wrote a song about being cheerful which is more than you can say for Roy Clark.

Fats Domino?

xp "Happy to be Unhappy" by Roy Clark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DRVpnBXu9c

Dolly Parton seems a rather upbeat person

Kirk Hammett

Bob Nastanovich

Bez

https://i.imgur.com/BrOMMkg.jpg

(minnie riperton)

Livvy, obv

Bill Black