Creating Multiple Artist Bios and Galleries

I’m looking to create an Index of popular artist, that will link to a brief bio and set of images for each musician. For example on Last FM, when you click on an Artist (example, Coldplay) it gives a Bio section for that artist with a Carousel type gallery. I’m only looking to create brief, very short descriptions for each artist with only a few pics per artist. However I don’t know if I would need to create a page per artist which probably wouldn’t work to well since there are more musicians than I can count. Is this even feasible to attempt in WordPress? Will this slow down my site significantly? Any help would be much appreciated.