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Kinky Friedman
Kinky Friedman (Richard Samet Friedman, 1944-2024), American country satirist, leader of the Texas Jewboys, author of 18 Kinky Friedman detective novels, and 2006 independent candidate for Texas governor who won 12.6% of the vote.
Kino (Кино) (band)
Kino (Кино) was a Soviet rock band founded in Leningrad in 1982 and led by Viktor Tsoi. The group reunited in 2019 with Tsoi's digitized voice.
Kip Moore
Kip Moore (born 1980, Tifton, Georgia) is an American country singer-songwriter whose 2012 debut Up All Night produced three No. 1 singles; later albums include Slowheart, Damn Love, and Solitary Tracks on Virgin Music Group.
Kip Winger
Kip Winger (Charles Frederick Kip Winger, born 1961, Denver) is an American singer-bassist who fronted the platinum hard rock band Winger and became a Grammy-nominated classical composer with Ghosts, Conversations with Nijinsky, and Nashville Symphony works.
Kiri Te Kanawa
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (born 1944, Gisborne, New Zealand) is a lyric soprano famous as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden (1971), the 1981 royal wedding soloist, a 1984 Grammy winner, and a performer who retired from public singing in 2017.
Kirk Brandon
Kirk Brandon (born 1956) is an English post-punk singer-songwriter, frontman of Theatre of Hate (Westworld, 1982) and founder of Spear of Destiny (Never Take Me Alive, UK No. 14, 1987); also of The Pack.
Kirk Franklin
Kirk Franklin (born 1970, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American gospel singer, songwriter, producer, and choir director whose 1993 debut sold over a million copies.
Kirk Hammett
Kirk Hammett (Kirk Lee Hammett), born 1962 in San Francisco, is lead guitarist of Metallica since 1983, replacing Dave Mustaine after co-founding Exodus; known for wah-driven leads, Satriani training, the Greeny Les Paul, and the 2022 Portals EP.
Kirsten Flagstad
Kirsten Flagstad (Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad, 1895–1962), Norwegian Wagnerian dramatic soprano; Metropolitan Opera debut as Sieglinde 2 February 1935; first director of Den Norske Opera; cleared of wartime collaboration charges.
Kirstin Maldonado
Kirstin Maldonado (born 1992, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American singer, founding member and lone female voice of a cappella group Pentatonix (three Grammys), solo artist as Kirstin (EP L O V E, 2017), and Broadway performer in Kinky Boots (2018) and SIX (2026).
Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty MacColl (1959–2000), English singer-songwriter, daughter of Ewan MacColl; known for Fairytale of New York with The Pogues, A New England, and albums Kite, Titanic Days, Tropical Brainstorm.
Kishi Bashi
Kishi Bashi is the stage name of Kaoru Ishibashi (born 1975), American violinist, singer, and Berklee-trained film-scoring composer known for loop-based indie pop albums 151a, Lighght, Sonderlust, Omoiyari, and Kantos, plus the Omoiyari documentary on Japanese American incarceration.
Kiss (band)
Kiss, the American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Simmons, Stanley, Frehley and Criss, is known for face paint, personas like Spaceman and Catman, pyrotechnics, 100 million records, the 2014 Rock Hall induction and a 2024 $300 million Pophouse catalog sale.
Kitarō (喜多郎)
Kitarō (喜多郎), real name Masanori Takahashi, is a Japanese new age composer and synthesizer artist born 1953 in Toyohashi; famous for NHK's Silk Road score, Golden Globe for Heaven & Earth, and 2001 Grammy for Thinking of You.
KitschKrieg
KitschKrieg, also KITSCHKRIEG, is a Berlin-founded German hip-hop production collective of Fizzle, Fiji Kris, and art director awhodat, formed 2014 from the dancehall scene. Known for Trettmann's #DIY, the number-one single "Standard", the 2020 self-titled album, German Engineering albums, and the 2026 viral hit "Gut Genug".
Kitty Wells
Kitty Wells (Ellen Muriel Deason, 1919-2012), the Queen of Country Music, first woman to top the country charts with 1952's "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"; 35 Top Ten hits, Hall of Fame 1976.
Kix Brooks
Kix Brooks (Leon Eric Brooks III, born 1955, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American country singer-songwriter and radio host who, with Ronnie Dunn, formed Brooks & Dunn in 1990, the best-selling country duo with 20 #1 hits and over 30 million records sold.
Kizz Daniel
Kizz Daniel (born Oluwatobiloba Daniel Anidugbe, 1994, Abeokuta) is a Nigerian Afropop singer, formerly Kiss Daniel, known for "Woju", "Buga (Lo Lo Lo)" (most Shazammed song of 2022), the Flyboy Inc label, and albums New Era through Uncle K: Lemon Chase.
Klaatu (band)
Klaatu, Canadian prog-pop trio (Woloschuk, Long, Draper) whose anonymous 1976 debut 3:47 EST sparked a Beatles-reunion rumor; known for Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, later covered by the Carpenters.
Klaus Badelt
Klaus Badelt is a German film score composer and producer, born 1967 in Frankfurt, best known as the credited composer of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and for his Media Ventures apprenticeship under Hans Zimmer.
Klaus Meine
Klaus Meine (born 1948, Hanover) is the German lead vocalist and lyricist of the Scorpions, joining in 1969/70 after Mushrooms and Copernicus. Known for surviving a 1981 vocal-cord crisis before Blackout and for writing Wind of Change.
Klaus Nomi
Klaus Nomi (Klaus Sperber, 1944–1983) was a German countertenor and New Wave performance artist in New York's East Village, famous for his six-octave operatic voice, alien persona, 1979 Saturday Night Live appearance with David Bowie, and albums Klaus Nomi and Simple Man.
Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze (1947–2022), German electronic music pioneer of the Berlin School, godfather of techno. Drummer for Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel; solo albums Irrlicht, Timewind, Moondawn, Dune; more than 60 albums.
Klaus Voormann
Klaus Voormann, born Berlin 1938, German graphic designer, illustrator, bassist, and producer. Designed the Beatles' Revolver cover (1966 Grammy), played bass in the Plastic Ono Band, on Imagine, and at the Concert for Bangladesh; produced Trio.
Klaxons
Klaxons were a London indie rock band formed in October 2005 in New Cross, leaders of the short-lived "new rave" tag and winners of the 2007 Mercury Prize for Myths of the Near Future; Surfing the Void (2010) and Love Frequency (2014) followed; disbanded 2015.
KMFDM
KMFDM (Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid; also rendered Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit) is a German industrial rock band founded in Paris in 1984 by Sascha Konietzko, known for its 'ultra heavy beat' sound, Wax Trax!/TVT-era hits like 'Juke Joint Jezebel', and albums through Hyëna (2022) and Enemy (2026).
Kmoe
kmoe (Kale Moses Itkonen, born 2004) is a Canadian hyperpop/digicore singer-producer from Vancouver, signed to DeadAir Records, known for "Homeswitcher" with Jane Remover and the 2025 debut album K1.
Kneecap (band)
Kneecap: Belfast and Derry Irish-language hip-hop trio of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí; albums Fine Art (2024) and FENIAN (2026), a Sundance- and BAFTA-winning 2024 biopic, and a 2025 UK terrorism charge later thrown out.
Knitting Factory
Knitting Factory: music venue brand founded 1987 by Michael Dorf at 47 East Houston Street, New York, hub of the downtown avant-garde jazz scene; later Knitting Factory Entertainment with clubs in Brooklyn, Boise, Spokane, and Reno.
Knox (American musician)
Knox, full name Knox Morris, is an American pop singer-songwriter from Ohio known for the viral 2022 single "Sneakers" and the 2023 hit "Not The 1975".