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Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus, also Miley Ray Cyrus, is an American singer-songwriter and actress who rose to fame on Hannah Montana, scored hits like Wrecking Ball and Flowers, and won three Grammy Awards.
Military band
A military band is a musical ensemble within a country's armed forces that provides music for ceremonies, morale, recruitment, and public diplomacy, typically built around woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments.
Miljenko Matijevic
Miljenko Matijevic (Miljenko Matijević), born 1964 in Zagreb, Croatian-American rock singer, founder and frontman of Steelheart, singing voice of Mark Wahlberg in Rock Star (2001), known for multi-octave range and "She's Gone".
Milkie Way
Milkie Way, born Rachel Alexandra Hastings in 1997, is a Northern Irish musician. She plays bass and vocals in Wargasm, releasing the albums Explicit: The Mixxxtape and Venom.
Milky Chance
Milky Chance: German folktronica duo from Kassel (Clemens Rehbein, Philipp Dausch), formed 2012; known for the viral 2013 hit Stolen Dance, albums Sadnecessary through Trip Tape III, Lichtdicht/Muggelig Records, and the Milky Change environmental initiative.
Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli was a German-French pop duo created by producer Frank Farian in 1988, fronted by dancers Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan lip-syncing to uncredited session singers; three US No. 1 hits, a 1990 Best New Artist Grammy that became the award's first revoked prize, and a lasting shorthand for pop fraud.
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson (Mildred Virginia Jackson, born 1944, Thomson, Georgia) is an American R&B and soul singer known for explicit spoken monologues, the Caught Up concept albums, three gold records, and Grammy-nominated hit "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right."
Millie O'Connell
Millie O'Connell, full name Emilia Rose O'Connell, is an English musical theater actress and singer from the Isle of Wight, best known for originating Anne Boleyn in SIX.
Milo Aukerman
Milo Aukerman, Descendents lead vocalist and plant molecular biologist, joined the band in 1980; his 1982 debut album Milo Goes to College marked his exit to biochemistry, and he left DuPont science work for the band full-time in 2016.
Milo Greene
Milo Greene is an American indie pop band from Los Angeles, formed around 2009 in Northern California, named after a fictional booking agent. Members share lead vocals; albums Milo Greene (2012), Control (2015), Adult Contemporary (2018).
Mimi Fariña
Mimi Fariña (Margarita Mimi Baez, 1945-2001), American folk singer, younger sister of Joan Baez, half of the duo Richard & Mimi Fariña, and founder in 1974 of Bread & Roses, which brings free live music to institutionalized Bay Area audiences.
Mimi Smith
Mimi Smith (Mary Elizabeth Smith, née Stanley, 1906–1991) was John Lennon's maternal aunt and guardian, who raised him at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool, from the mid-1940s; distinct from the artist Mimi Smith and Mimi Alford.
Mimi Webb
Mimi Webb (Amelia Webb, born 2000) is a British pop singer-songwriter from Canterbury, an Epic Records TikTok breakout whose hits "Good Without" and "House on Fire" preceded debut album Amelia (2023) and Confessions (2025).
Mina (Italian singer)
Mina (Mina Anna Mazzini, born 1940, Busto Arsizio), 'La Tigre di Cremona', Italian pop singer and TV star; 150 million records, retired from public in 1978, still records from Lugano.
Mindless Behavior
Mindless Behavior was an American pop-R&B boy band formed in Los Angeles in 2008 (Prodigy, Ray Ray, Princeton, Roc Royal). Debut single "My Girl" (2010); albums #1 Girl (No. 7 Billboard 200), All Around the World (No. 6), #OfficialMBmusic (2016); disbanded 2017.
Mindless Self Indulgence
Mindless Self Indulgence (MSI), American electropunk/industrial rock band formed 1997 in New York City, fronted by Jimmy Urine; albums Tight (1999) through How I Learned... (2013); on hiatus since 2013.
Mindy McCready
Mindy McCready (Malinda Gayle McCready, 1975-2013), American country singer. Debut album Ten Thousand Angels (1996, BNA) went platinum; hit "Guys Do It All the Time" reached No. 1; died by suicide in Heber Springs, Arkansas.
Mingus Big Band
Mingus Big Band: 14-piece New York jazz repertory band founded in 1991 by Sue Mingus, playing only Charles Mingus's compositions; weekly NYC residency, 2011 Grammy winner for Live at Jazz Standard.
Minnie Riperton
Minnie Riperton (1947-1979), American soul singer from Chicago, famed for the five-octave voice and whistle register on the 1975 No. 1 hit "Lovin' You"; also Rotary Connection lead vocalist, Stevie Wonder protege, and breast cancer awareness advocate.
Minor Threat
Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C., active from 1980 to 1983, whose song "Straight Edge" named the drug-free straight edge lifestyle.
Minstrel
Minstrel: a medieval entertainer, from Old French menestral and Late Latin ministerialis, employed by courts, nobles, and towns to play music, sing, and recite poetry; in America the word also names blackface minstrel-show performers.
Minutemen (band)
Minutemen were an American punk trio from San Pedro, California, active 1980–1985: D. Boon, Mike Watt, George Hurley. SST Records band famed for 'jamming econo' brevity and the 1984 double album Double Nickels on the Dime; ended when Boon died in December 1985.
Mira (singer)
Mira (Maria Mirabela Cismaru, born 1995, Rovinari) is a Romanian pop singer, Vocea României 2012 contestant, DJ Project vocalist from 2017, and Mira Divina (2021) album artist.
Miracle Legion
Miracle Legion: American alternative rock band formed 1983 in New Haven, Connecticut, led by Mark Mulcahy and Ray Neal; college radio hit The Backyard EP, Rough Trade and Morgan Creek albums, Polaris side project, and 2016 and 2024 reunions.
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert, American country singer-songwriter from Lindale, Texas; three-time Grammy winner and most-awarded artist in ACM history (37 awards). Albums from Kerosene (2005) to the country-disco Crisco (2026, MCA); also Pistol Annies co-founder and Velvet Rodeo Las Vegas headliner.
Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu is a French popular singer born in 1946 in Avignon, known as the "Demoiselle d'Avignon", who has sold about 130 million albums in 11 languages.
Mirella (singer)
Mirella (Mirella Roininen, born 2005), Finnish pop singer from Vantaa, not the opera singer Mirella Freni. Broke through with the 2024 hit Timanttei, topped Finnish charts, released debut album Kunpa oisin kertonut, and won six Emma awards in 2025.
Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni (born Fregni, 1935–2020), Italian lyric soprano from Modena, lifelong partner of Pavarotti, famed Mimì in La bohème, Karajan collaborator, Met debut 1965, retired 2005.
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba, born Zenzile Miriam Makeba and known as "Mama Africa", was a South African singer and activist who spent 30 years in exile after her passport was revoked in 1960.
Mirit Shem-Ur
Mirit Shem-Ur (מירית שם אור), Israeli lyricist and former theater journalist; ex-wife of composer Tzvika Pik; wrote "Mari Lo", "Hahashtakfut", "Elef Neshikot" for Gaon, "HaLev" for Buskila, and the 2005 Kochav Nolad audition song.