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Sara Dallin

Sara Elizabeth Dallin is an English singer-songwriter from Bristol and a founding member of Bananarama, formed in London in the early 1980s with Keren Woodward and Siobhan Fahey; she co-wrote hits including Venus and Cruel Summer and remains in the duo lineup.

SATCHVAI Band

SATCHVAI Band, also SatchVai, is a rock band formed in 2024 by guitarists Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with Kenny Aronoff, Marco Mendoza, and Pete Thorn; debut album The Sea of Emotion (earMUSIC, 2026) and Surfing with the Hydra tours.

Sault (band)

Sault (SAULT) is an anonymous British music collective, active since 2019, blending R&B, house, disco, gospel, and Afrobeat with Black-centric themes; led by producer Inflo with Cleo Sol, known for surprise limited-availability albums like Untitled (Black Is) and 10. Distinct from the French duo Saults.

Savage Garden

Savage Garden were an Australian pop duo of Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones, formed in Queensland in 1994. Two albums, two US number-one singles (Truly Madly Deeply, I Knew I Loved You), ten 1997 ARIA Awards, tens of millions sold, split in 2001.

Savages (band)

Savages (Jehnny Beth, Gemma Thompson, Ayşe Hassan, Fay Milton) were a London post-punk band formed 2011; albums Silence Yourself (2013) and Adore Life (2016), two Mercury nominations, hiatus 2017.

Save Ferris

Save Ferris: Orange County, California ska-punk band formed 1995, named after Ferris Bueller's Day Off, fronted by Monique Powell; known for the Come on Eileen cover and albums It Means Everything (1997) and Modified (1999).

Savoy Brown

Savoy Brown (originally Savoy Brown Blues Band) was an English blues rock band formed in Battersea, London in 1965 by guitarist Kim Simmonds, its only constant member until his December 2022 death; over 40 albums, US hits like I'm Tired, and alumni who founded Foghat.

Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown is an American country band formed in 1981 in Apopka, Florida, from Don King's road band. Winners of Star Search's inaugural season, they placed three singles at number one on the Billboard country chart and have played over 6,000 shows.

Say Anything (band)

Say Anything: Los Angeles pop-punk/emo band formed in 2000 by Max Bemis, known for ...Is a Real Boy (2004), In Defense of the Genre, and the 2019 farewell album Oliver Appropriate.

Say She She

Say She She: Brooklyn disco-funk-soul vocal trio of Piya Malik, Sabrina Cunningham, and Nya Gazelle Brown, named for Nile Rodgers; albums Prism (2022), Silver (2023), Cut & Rewind (2025).

Scandal (American band)

Scandal is an American pop-rock band formed in New York City in 1981 by Zack Smith with singer Patty Smyth, known for the 1982 Columbia EP and the 1984 platinum album The Warrior; disbanded 1985, reunited 2004.

Scandal (スキャンダル) (Japanese band)

Scandal (スキャンダル) is a Japanese all-female rock band formed in Osaka in 2006, certified by Guinness World Records as the longest-active female rock band with the same members.

Scary Pockets

Scary Pockets is a Los Angeles funk band founded in 2017 by Ryan Lerman and Jack Conte (Patreon co-founder, Pomplamoose), releasing weekly live-in-studio funk covers of pop songs on YouTube with rotating session musicians.

School of Fish

School of Fish was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1989, disbanded 1994, led by Josh Clayton-Felt and Michael Ward; known for the 1991 Capitol debut and the single "3 Strange Days."

Scissor Sisters

Scissor Sisters: American pop band formed 2001 in New York (Jake Shears, Ana Matronic, Babydaddy, Del Marquis); disco-glam act whose 2004 debut topped UK sales (9x platinum) yet peaked at US number 102; reunited as a trio in 2025.

Scooter (band)

Scooter (also known as Ratty) is a German happy hardcore, rave and techno band founded in Hamburg in 1993, fronted by H.P. Baxxter. Known for 'Hyper Hyper' and 'Ramp! (The Logical Song)', it has sold over 30 million records.

Scorpions (band)

Scorpions are a German hard rock band formed in Hanover in 1965, best known for 1980s melodic arena rock, the ballad "Wind of Change", and over 100,000,000 records sold.

Scratch Orchestra

Scratch Orchestra: London experimental music ensemble founded 1969 by Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons, and Howard Skempton, open to musicians and non-musicians, disbanded early 1970s after Maoist political turn.

Scream (band)

Scream is an American hardcore punk band from the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Virginia. They released Still Screaming in 1983 on Dischord Records and later featured Dave Grohl.

Screaming Trees

Screaming Trees were an American rock band formed in 1984 in Ellensburg, Washington, part of the Pacific Northwest grunge scene and fronted by singer Mark Lanegan.

Screeching Weasel

Screeching Weasel: Chicago-suburb pop-punk band formed 1986 by Ben Weasel (Ben Foster) and John Jughead; known for My Brain Hurts (1991), Bark Like a Dog (1996), repeated breakups, and ongoing touring.

Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti: British band formed 1977 in Leeds, vehicle for Welsh singer Green Gartside; post-punk Marxist collective turned sophisti-pop act behind Cupid & Psyche 85 (UK No. 5) and hits Wood Beez, The Word Girl, Perfect Way.

Seals and Crofts

Seals and Crofts (also Seals & Croft), American soft rock duo of Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, ex-Champs and Dawnbreakers; Baháʼí-themed 1970s hits "Summer Breeze," "Diamond Girl," "Get Closer," each No. 6 Hot 100.

Seasons in the Abyss

Seasons in the Abyss is Slayer's fifth studio album, released October 9, 1990 on Def American Recordings; produced by Rick Rubin and Andy Wallace, it expands South of Heaven's moodier direction with tracks such as War Ensemble and Dead Skin Mask.

Secret Garden (duo)

Secret Garden is a Norwegian-Irish duo of Rolf Løvland and violinist Fionnuala Sherry, formed 1994, who won Eurovision 1995 for Norway with the near-instrumental "Nocturne" and later wrote "You Raise Me Up."

Seduction (group)

Seduction was an American dance-pop and freestyle girl group from New York, assembled by producers Robert Clivillés and David Cole, best known for the 1990 hit "Two to Make It Right."

Seether

Seether is a South African hard rock/post-grunge band formed 1999 in Pretoria as Saron Gas; also known by that original name. Known for "Fine Again", "Broken" with Amy Lee, "Fake It", and Top Five U.S. albums Isolate and Medicate (2014) and Holding Onto Strings (2011).

Selena Gomez & the Scene

Selena Gomez & the Scene: American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 2008 around lead vocalist Selena Gomez, also called Selena Gomez and the Scene. Released three Hollywood Records albums (Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, When the Sun Goes Down) that each hit the Billboard 200 Top Ten; split in 2012.

Selena y Los Dinos

Selena y Los Dinos: Corpus Christi Tejano family band formed by Abraham Quintanilla, fronted by Selena Quintanilla with siblings Suzette and A.B.; EMI Latin act, Grammy 1994, over 1.5 million records sold before 1995.

Semisonic

Semisonic is an American rock trio formed in Minneapolis in 1993 by Dan Wilson, John Munson, and Jacob Slichter, best known for the chart-topping 1998 single "Closing Time."