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Hedley (band)

Hedley was a Canadian pop rock band formed in 2003 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, fronted by Canadian Idol finalist Jacob Hoggard with Tommy Mac, Dave Rosin, and Chris Crippin; seven albums, Juno-winning Storms, 2018 hiatus after misconduct reports.

Heidi Range

Heidi Range, also known as Heidi India Partakis, is an English singer from Liverpool best known as a member of the pop girl group Sugababes from 2001 to 2011.

Heilung

Heilung is a Danish ritual-folk collective formed in Copenhagen in 2014, calling its music "amplified history": Juul, Faust, and Franz reconstruct pre-Christian European sound from runes, bones, and stones; albums Ofnir, Futha, Drif; fourth album due 2027.

Heisenberg (lyricist)

Heisenberg is the anonymous pen name of a Tamil film lyricist credited on Anirudh Ravichander soundtracks from Vikram (2022) onward, writing English songs such as Bloody Sweet and I Am The Danger; only Lokesh Kanagaraj claims to have met the person.

Helen Kane

Helen Kane (Helen Schroeder, 1904-1966), American singer and actress, the "Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl" of 1920s vaudeville whose baby-voice style inspired Betty Boop; she lost her 1932-1934 lawsuit against Fleischer Studios after Baby Esther testimony.

Helen O'Hara

Helen O'Hara (born Helen Bevington, 1956, Bristol) is an English violinist, Dexys Midnight Runners member 1982–1987 on Come On Eileen and Don't Stand Me Down, later with Tanita Tikaram; distinct from Kelli O'Hara and Mary O'Hara.

Helen Reddy

Helen Reddy (1941-2020), Australian-born singer and actress, best known for "I Am Woman," the 1972 feminist anthem; also had No. 1 hits "Delta Dawn" and "Angie Baby" and 14 Top 40 hits.

Helen Shapiro

Helen Shapiro, born 1946 in Bethnal Green, London, is a British singer whose 1961 hits "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness" topped the UK chart when she was 14; later a jazz and gospel singer.

Helene Fischer

Helene Fischer, born 1984 in Krasnoyarsk, is a German Schlager-pop singer and entertainer, debut album 2006, over ten million albums sold, 16 Echo awards, and a 2026 360° stadium tour drawing nearly 750,000 fans.

Hélène Mercier-Arnault

Hélène Mercier-Arnault, born 1960 in Montreal, is a Canadian concert pianist, duo partner of Louis Lortie, wife of LVMH chief Bernard Arnault, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, with Chandos and Warner Classics recordings.

Hellyeah

Hellyeah, American groove/alternative metal supergroup formed 2006 in Dallas, Texas, with members of Mudvayne, Nothingface, and Pantera/Damageplan; six albums 2007-2019, ended after Vinnie Paul's 2018 death and 2021 hiatus.

Hemango Biswas

Hemango Biswas (হেমাঙ্গ বিশ্বাস, 1912–1987) was a Bengali singer, composer, and communist activist from Sylhet known for building Bengali mass songs on folk music and pioneering IPTA in Assam.

Henri Belolo

Henri Belolo, also known as Henri Bello, was a Moroccan-born French producer who co-created Village People and the Ritchie Family with Jacques Morali, ran Scorpio Music, and lost a 2015 jury ruling over YMCA songwriting credit.

Henri Dutilleux

Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (1916–2013) was a French composer of orchestral, concertante, and chamber music whose small, meticulously revised catalog made him one of the most performed French composers.

Henry Clay Work

Henry Clay Work, also known as Henry C. Work (1832–1884), was an American songwriter and self-taught composer, a printer by trade, best known for "Marching Through Georgia" and "Grandfather's Clock".

Henry Cow

Founded in 1968 by Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson, the English experimental rock band Henry Cow fused progressive rock, avant-garde composition, and free improvisation, founding the Rock in Opposition movement.

Henry Jackman

Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1974, Hillingdon, London) is an English film composer, also known as Henry Jackman, trained at Eton and Oxford. Known for Wreck-It Ralph, X-Men: First Class, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War, and Uncharted 4; BAFTA-nominated for Captain Phillips.

Henry McCullough

Henry McCullough (1943–2016), Northern Irish guitarist from Portstewart, played with Wings 1971–1973, Joe Cocker's Grease Band at Woodstock 1969, Spooky Tooth, and recorded the one-take solo on My Love.

Henry Padovani

Henry Padovani, also called The Corsican, is a French musician born 1952 in Bastia, first guitarist and founder member of The Police (1977), later of Wayne County & the Electric Chairs and The Flying Padovanis, IRS Records vice president, Zucchero's manager, memoirist, and 2007 Stade de France reunion guest.

Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (c. 1659–1695), English Baroque composer and organist of Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal; wrote Dido and Aeneas, King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, about 800 works; died at 36, buried in the Abbey.

Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins (Henry Lawrence Garfield, born 1961) is an American punk musician, spoken word artist, writer, actor, and radio host: Black Flag singer 1981–86, Rollins Band frontman, Grammy-winning author of Get in the Van, and founder of 2.13.61.

Henry Wolfe

Henry Wolfe (Henry Wolfe Gummer, born 1979) is an American singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, son of Meryl Streep and Don Gummer; albums Linda Vista (2011) and Asilomar (2015), 1970s pop influences.

Her Loss

Her Loss is a 2022 collaborative album by Drake and 21 Savage: 16 tracks on OVO Sound/Republic, released November 4, 2022 with a Travis Scott feature and a fake-Vogue promo that drew a $4 million Condé Nast lawsuit; it topped the UK albums chart and scored 62 on Metacritic.

Her's

Her's (styled with a deliberately incorrect apostrophe) was a Liverpool indie pop duo of Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading, who died in a 2019 road accident in Arizona.

Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert (born 1935) is an American trumpeter who led Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss in 1962; nine Grammys, 72 million records sold, and the only artist with both a No. 1 vocal and No. 1 instrumental single.

Herbert Kretzmer

Herbert Kretzmer (1925-2020), South African-born British journalist and lyricist, wrote the English lyrics for Les Misérables and Aznavour's hits She and Yesterday When I Was Young; Tony and Grammy winner.

Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan, born Heribert Ritter von Karajan (1908–1989), was an Austrian conductor who led the Berlin Philharmonic from 1956 to 1989 and made over 2,000 recordings.

Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock, born 1940) is an American jazz pianist and composer, Miles Davis Quintet member, Head Hunters and Rockit innovator, 14-time Grammy and 1987 Academy Award winner.

Herencia de Patrones

Herencia de Patrones, a corridos tumbados group formed in 2017 (Yuba City, California per Apple Music; Mexico per AllMusic), blends requinto, bajo sexto, and tuba with hip-hop flow; Rancho Humilde act behind Pa Las Vibras and El Mundo Es Tuyo.

Herman Brood

Herman Brood (Hermanus Brood, 1946–2001), Dutch rock musician, painter, actor, and poet; frontman of Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, breakthrough 1978 with Shpritsz and "Saturday Night", later a pop-art painter, died jumping from the Amsterdam Hilton.