which American musician did King recommend
Noelle Scaggs
James King (musician)
James King is an American multi-instrumentalist who is a cofounder for soul band Fitz and The Tantrums.
 In 2008, he was approached by college friend Michael Fitzpatrick to play saxophone on a few songs that he had written which turned out to be the beginnings of Fitz and The Tantrums.
 King recommended Noelle Scaggs and other musicians.
 They performed for the first time a week later at Hollywood's Hotel Café, They released their debut EP "Songs for a Breakup, Vol.
 1" in August 2009, and the tracks soon received airplay on public radio station KCRW in Los Angeles.
Noelle Scaggs
Noelle Scaggs (born October 8, 1979) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles.
 For ten years she served as front-woman for soul band The Rebirth, and has also collaborated as a composer or vocalist with artists such as The Black Eyed Peas, Dilated Peoples, Quantic, Mayer Hawthorne, Defari, and Damian Marley.
Wayne King
Wayne King (February 16, 1901 – July 16, 1985) was an American musician, songwriter, singer and orchestra leader with a long association with both NBC And CBS.
 He was sometimes referred to as the Waltz King because much of his most popular music involved waltzes; "The Waltz You Saved For Me" was his standard set closing song in live performance and on numerous radio broadcasts at the height of his career. Dave Henzerling
David Philip "Dave" Henzerling (born 3 May 1961), a.k.a. David Michael-Philips, is an American musician, songwriter and producer.
 He has been a member of numerous hard rock bands including Schoolboys, Keel, King Kobra, Lizzy Borden, Geronimo!
, Liquid Black, Big Cock, Icon, Tunnel, Steelshine and Kelly Keeling & Friends.
 He is the older brother of Dan Henzerling, also a musician and has two sisters (both younger).
 David was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and moved to Phoenix, Arizona with his family in December 1969.
 He claims to have been blessed with the good fortune of "...growing up in the 60s, being a teenager in the 70s, living my 20s during the big-80s and starting a family in the 90s...I think I benefited from the best that each decade had to offer..." Tito Puente
Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000) was an American musician, songwriter and record producer.
 The son of Ernest and Ercilia Puente, native Puerto Ricans living in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Puente is often credited as "The Musical Pope", "El Rey de los Timbales" (The King of the Timbales) and "The King of Latin Music".
 He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that endured over a 50-year career.
 He and his music appear in many films such as "The Mambo Kings" and Fernando Trueba's "Calle 54".
 He guest-starred on several television shows, including "Sesame Street" and "The Simpsons" two-part episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?
". R. B. Korbet
R.B. Korbet (born Rebecca Korbet, a.k.a. R.B. Korbet-Wootton) is an American musician living in the United Kingdom.
 She contributed drumming and vocals to King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), the first incarnation of avant-garde band King Missile.
 She has also played guitar in the bands Even Worse (in which she was also the singer), Chop Shop, Hit by a Truck, Missing Foundation, Pussy Galore, Madgodz, Bubba Zanetti, Sloth, Hellvis, The Floyds of Flatbush, The Wharton Tiers Ensemble, and Judas Livingston Seagull, and bass in the bands Big Stick, Navigator and Verona Downs. Doug Pinnick
Douglas Theodore "Doug" Pinnick (born September 3, 1950), sometimes stylized as dUg Pinnick or simply dUg, is an American musician best known as the bass guitarist, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist for the hard rock/progressive metal band King's X.
 He has performed on fifteen albums with King's X, and recorded four solo albums.
 Pinnick has also participated in numerous side projects, and has multiple guest appearances to his credit.
 He is recognized for his unique vocals (which are characterized by a strong gospel influence), and heavily distorted bass tone (the product of multiple Ampeg, and Traynor bass amplifiers). Frank Portman
Frank Portman (born September 21, 1964), better known by the pseudonym Dr. Frank, is an American musician, singer, guitarist, and author.
 He is the singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the Berkeley, California punk rock band The Mr. T Experience, and has remained the only consistent member of the band since its formation in 1985, performing on ten studio albums and five EPs.
 He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, releasing the album "Show Business is My Life" in 1999 and the EP "Eight Little Songs" in 2003.
 In recent years he has pursued a writing career in young adult literature, authoring the novels "King Dork" (2006), "Andromeda Klein" (2009), and "King Dork Approximately" (2014). Justin King (guitarist)
Justin King (born June 13, 1979) is an American musician and artist from Eugene, Oregon, recognized as a pioneering guitarist for his percussive "tapping" playing style which consists of a variety of influences ranging from Flamenco to Celtic music.
 Currently, King is running a recording studio in Brooklyn, New York called Vinegar Hill Sound as well as doing part-time war photojournalism in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. King Black Acid
Daniel John Riddle is an American musician best known by his pseudonym King Black Acid.
 Riddle began recording music under the name King Black Acid as a high school student in the late 1980s while also bassist for Portland industrial rock band Hitting Birth.
 Since then Riddle has worked with an ever-changing collective of musicians, referred to as the "Electric Chair Band" (1993), the "Womb Star Orchestra" (1993-1997), the "Starseed Transmission" (1997-2001), the "144,000 Piece Acid Army" (2002-2003), and the "Sacred Heart" (2006-2009).
 All King Black Acid material is written and produced by Riddle, who sings and plays guitar during live shows, and who plays a variety of other instruments in the recording studio.
 Riddle also operates a recording studio, Mazinga Studio, where he produces records under the name King Black Acid.
 In addition to several studio releases, King Black Acid has recorded music for several film and TV soundtracks including "The Mothman Prophecies", "", "Zig Zag", "", and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".