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Indy (musician)

Indy is the stage name of India Yelich O'Connor (born 1998), New Zealand indie pop singer-songwriter and poet, younger sister of Lorde and daughter of poet Sonja Yelich. Debut single "Threads" (2022), EPs Threads (2023) and Fame Is a Bedroom (2025), based in New York City.

Infinity Song

Infinity Song is a New York-based soft rock band of four Boyd siblings, Abraham, Angel, Israel, and Momo, formerly of Detroit. Buskers signed to Roc Nation in 2016, they went viral with Hater's Anthem in 2023 and released the self-titled album Infinity Song in 2026.

Information Society (band)

Information Society (InSoc), Minneapolis synth-pop/electro band formed early 1980s by Paul Robb, James Cassidy, Kurt Harland; 1988 gold debut with "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" (No. 3 pop, Leonard Nimoy sample); disbanded 1996, reformed 2006.

IngaRose

IngaRose (also Inga Rose) is an AI-generated female R&B/soul vocalist persona built with Suno and released via Myers Music; its single "Celebrate Me" topped US and global iTunes charts in April 2026.

Ingrid Andress

Ingrid Andress, American country-pop singer-songwriter from Michigan and Colorado, Berklee-trained, ex-songwriter for Charli XCX; debut album Lady Like, four GRAMMY nominations, 2024 anthem incident.

Ingrid Croce

Ingrid Croce (Ingrid Jacobson, born 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, artist, restaurateur, and author, widow of Jim Croce, founder of San Diego's Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar (1985-2016), and author of I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story.

Ingrid Michaelson

Ingrid Michaelson (born 1979) is an American indie-pop singer-songwriter from Staten Island, known for "The Way I Am", self-released albums including Girls and Boys, and the Broadway musical The Notebook.

Inhaler (band)

Inhaler are a Dublin indie rock band formed in 2012 at St Andrew's College by Elijah Hewson (Bono's son), Robert Keating, Ryan McMahon, and Josh Jenkinson; albums It Won't Always Be Like This (2021, UK/Ireland #1), Cuts & Bruises (2023), Open Wide (2025).

Iniko

Iniko (Iniko Ijhara Dixon, born 1996) is a Brooklyn-born nonbinary singer-songwriter signed to Audio Angel/Columbia Records, known for the viral, gold-certified single "Jericho" and the 2025 debut album The Awakening.

Injury Reserve

Injury Reserve: experimental hip hop trio from Tempe, Arizona (RiTchie, Stepa J. Groggs, Parker Corey), 2013–2023; albums Injury Reserve (Loma Vista, 2019) and By the Time I Get to Phoenix (2021); continued as By Storm.

Inna

Inna (Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu, born 1986) is a Romanian dance-pop singer whose 2008 debut single "Hot" topped charts across Europe and Billboard's US dance chart; later hits include "Sun Is Up" and "Cola Song".

Inner Circle (band)

Inner Circle: Jamaican reggae band formed in Kingston in 1968 by brothers Ian and Roger Lewis, famed as the Bad Boys of Reggae for the Cops theme song and the hit Sweat, with a Jacob Miller era and a 1990s Grammy.

Insane Clown Posse

Insane Clown Posse (ICP) is a Detroit horrorcore rap duo, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, formed 1989 as Inner City Posse, known for the Dark Carnival Joker's Cards, Psychopathic Records, Faygo-sprayed shows, Juggalo fans, and the 2011 FBI gang-label lawsuit.

Inspiral Carpets

Inspiral Carpets, English rock band from Oldham, Manchester, part of the Madchester scene with Stone Roses and Happy Mondays; known for Clint Boon's Farfisa organ, "This Is How It Feels", and Noel Gallagher's roadie past.

International Barbershop Quartet Contest

The International Barbershop Quartet Contest is the Barbershop Harmony Society's annual championship for barbershop quartets, held since 1939, with medals awarded by classification and gold medalists retiring from competition.

International Staff Band

The International Staff Band (ISB) is the premier brass band of The Salvation Army, formed 1891 in London by Bramwell Booth. 32 volunteer musicians; bandmasters from George Mitchell to Stephen Cobb and Jonathan Evans.

Interpol (band)

Interpol: New York post-punk revival band formed at NYU in the late 1990s by Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, Carlos Dengler, and Sam Fogarino; albums from Turn on the Bright Lights (2002) to This Mirror Weighs a Ton (2026).

Inti-Illimani

Inti-Illimani, Chilean Nueva Canción ensemble founded 1967 at the Universidad Técnica del Estado; exiled in Italy 1973-1988; known for Canto de los Autores Chilenos, Horacio Salinas's compositions, and six decades of performance.

Inva Mula

Inva Mula (Inva Mula-Tchako), Albanian lyric soprano born 1963 in Tirana; Operalia 1993 winner, voice of Diva Plavalaguna in The Fifth Element, Paris-based international opera career.

INXS

INXS (formerly the Farriss Brothers), Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1977, fronted by Michael Hutchence; breakthrough album Kick (1987) sold over 10 million copies with four US Top Ten singles.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin, 1896-1983), American lyricist and older brother of composer George Gershwin; first lyricist to win a Pulitzer Prize (Of Thee I Sing, 1932), lyricist of Porgy and Bess, Lady Be Good, and I Got Rhythm.

Iris DeMent

Iris DeMent (Iris Luella DeMent, born 1961) is an American folk, country, and gospel singer-songwriter, youngest of 14 children, whose 1992 debut Infamous Angel and albums My Life, The Way I Should, Sing the Delta, The Trackless Woods, and Workin' On A World define her career.

Irlene Mandrell

Irlene Mandrell (Ellen Irlene Mandrell), born 1956 in Corpus Christi, Texas, is the youngest Mandrell sister: a drummer in Barbara's band the Do-Rites, co-star of the NBC Mandrell Sisters variety show, Hee Haw Honey, and 2024 Texas Country Music Hall of Fame inductee.

Irmin Schmidt

Irmin Schmidt, born 29 May 1937 in Berlin, is a German keyboardist and composer who co-founded the experimental band Can in 1968 with Czukay, Karoli, and Liebezeit, studied under Stockhausen and Ligeti, and composed over 120 film scores plus the opera Gormenghast.

Iron & Wine

Iron & Wine is the indie folk project of American singer-songwriter Sam Beam (born 1974, Columbia, South Carolina). Known for The Creek Drank the Cradle, Our Endless Numbered Days, collaborations with Calexico and Fiona Apple, and albums on Sub Pop, Warner Bros., and Nonesuch.

Iron Butterfly

Iron Butterfly: American psychedelic rock band formed 1966 in San Diego by Doug Ingle, known for the 17-minute 1968 hit In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and the music industry's first Platinum Album award; pioneers of heavy psychedelic rock.

Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin, born Israel Beilin, was a Russian-born American songwriter who wrote over a thousand songs across sixty years, including "White Christmas" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band."

Isaac Albéniz

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz (1860–1909), Spanish pianist and composer of the Spanish Modern Nationalist School, born in Camprodon, died in Cambo-les-Bains. Known for Iberia, Suite española, and operas for patron Money-Coutts.

Isaac Brock (musician)

Isaac Brock, born 1975, is the American singer, guitarist, and songwriter who founded and still fronts indie rock band Modest Mouse, runs Glacial Pace Recordings, led the Ugly Casanova side project, and is the band's sole original member after drummer Jeremiah Green's 2022 death.

Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes, born Isaac Lee Hayes Jr., was an American soul singer and songwriter who wrote Soul Man at Stax and won an Oscar for the 1971 Shaft soundtrack.