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My New Band Believe

My New Band Believe is the project of ex-black midi bassist Cameron Picton; his self-titled eight-track debut, released April 10, 2026 on Rough Trade, features mostly acoustic, chamber-folk arrangements by 22 musicians and rotating live lineups.

Mya (singer)

Mýa (Mýa Marie Harrison, born 1979, Washington D.C.) is an American R&B singer whose 1998 debut and 2001 Grammy-winning "Lady Marmalade" made her famous; she runs the independent label Planet 9 and released her tenth album Retrospect in 2026.

Myawaddy Mingyi U Sa

Myawaddy Mingyi U Sa (မြဝတီမင်းကြီး ဦးစ, 1766–1853) was a Burmese poet, composer, playwright, and general of the Konbaung dynasty who enlarged the saung-gauk harp from seven to thirteen strings.

MyGO!!!!!

MyGO!!!!! (マイゴ) is a five-member Japanese girls band in Bushiroad's BanG Dream! project, voiced and performed live by Hina Yomiya, Rin Tateishi, Hina Aoki, Mika Kohinata, and Coco Hayashi; named for maigo (lost child), with a 2023 anime and albums through 2026.

Mykhailo Verbytsky

Mykhailo Verbytsky (Михайло Вербицький, 1815–1870) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and composer in Galicia, best known for composing the music of the Ukrainian national anthem in 1862–63.

Mykola Leontovych

Mykola Leontovych (Микола Леонтович, 1877–1921) was a Ukrainian composer and choral conductor best known for "Shchedryk," the choral work that became "Carol of the Bells." He was shot by a Cheka agent in 1921.

Mykola Lysenko

Mykola Lysenko (Микола Лисенко) was a Ukrainian composer and ethnomusicologist who founded the modern Ukrainian national school of music, writing operas like Taras Bulba in Kyiv.

Mylène Farmer

Mylène Farmer, stage name of Mylène Jeanne Gautier, is a Canadian-born French pop singer and songwriter active since the 1980s, best known for "Désenchantée" and her gothic aesthetic.

Myles Kennedy

Myles Kennedy (born Myles Richard Bass, 1969) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist fronting Alter Bridge and Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, with solo albums Year of the Tiger, The Ides of March, and The Art of Letting Go.

Myles Smith

Myles Smith (born 1998, Luton) is a British folk-pop singer-songwriter, not the surgeon or footballer of the same name, known for "Stargazing", BRIT Rising Star 2025, and debut album My Mess, My Heart, My Life (2026).

Myron Floren

Myron Floren (1919-2005), American accordionist and assistant conductor on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1950 to 1982, nicknamed the Happy Norwegian; joined Welk after a 1950 St. Louis ballroom audition and later played about 150 concerts a year.

Mzwakhe Mbuli

Mzwakhe Mbuli, born 1959 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, is a South African performance poet and mbaqanga singer known as the "People's Poet" for his anti-apartheid resistance poetry.

N-Dubz

N-Dubz are a British hip hop and pop trio from Camden, London (Dappy, Tulisa, Fazer), formed in 2000, with four MOBO Awards, the 2009 UK number-one "Number 1" with Tinchy Stryder, and the 2023 comeback album Timeless.

N.E.R.D.

N.E.R.D. (No One Ever Really Dies) is a Virginia Beach alternative hip-hop band of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and Shay Haley, the Neptunes producers' band project, with five albums from In Search Of... (2002) to NO_ONE EVER REALLY DIES (2017).

N.Flying (엔플라잉)

N.Flying (엔플라잉), also N.Flying, is a five-member FNC Entertainment South Korean boy band formed 2013, Korean debut 2015, known for the 2019 viral hit Rooftop, hybrid rap-rock style, and the Everlasting album and &CON4 world tour.

N.W.A

N.W.A (Niggaz Wit' Attitudes), the Compton, Los Angeles rap group of Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren, and DJ Yella; pioneered gangsta rap with 1988's Straight Outta Compton and the FBI-condemned F tha Police.

Nacio Herb Brown

Nacio Herb Brown (Ignatius Herbert Brown, 1896–1964), American composer of MGM film musicals and popular songs; chief collaborator Arthur Freed. Wrote "Singin' in the Rain", "Broadway Melody", "Good Morning"; Songwriters Hall of Fame 1970.

Nada Surf

Nada Surf: American alternative rock band formed in New York City in 1992 by Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca, with drummer Ira Elliott. Known for the 1996 hit "Popular" and a long independent second act through albums Let Go, Lucky, and Moon Mirror (2024).

Nadeem–Shravan

Nadeem-Shravan, also Nadeem Shravan, was the Indian music director duo of Nadeem Akhtar Saifi and Shravan Kumar Rathod, whose 1990 Aashiqui soundtrack (20 million units, Bollywood's bestselling) and dholak-harmonium melody defined 1990s Hindi film music.

Nadin Amizah

Nadin Amizah (full name Nadin Amizah Harahap) is an Indonesian singer and songwriter from Bandung, born in 2000, known for folk-influenced songs such as "Bertaut" and "Rumpang".

Nadine Coyle

Nadine Coyle (Nadine Elizabeth Louise Coyle, born 1985, Derry) is a Northern Irish singer, lead vocalist of Girls Aloud, formed on Popstars: The Rivals in 2002; solo albums Insatiable (2010, Tesco-exclusive) and 2017's Go to Work; 2024 reunion tour.

Nahko and Medicine for the People

Nahko and Medicine for the People is an American folk-rock and world music band formed in 2008 under singer-songwriter Nahko Bear, whose 2016 album HOKA won a Native American Music Award.

Nai Barghouti

Nai Barghouti (ناي البرغوثي), born 1996 in Jerusalem, is a Palestinian singer, composer, and flutist blending Arabic tarab with jazz; creator of the NaiStrumentation vocal technique, debut album Nai 1 (2022), and Skrillex's XENA (2023).

Naïka

Naïka (Victoria Naicka Richard, born 1998, Miami) is a French-Haitian indie-pop singer-songwriter singing in English, French, and Haitian Creole; EPs Lost in Paradïse, Transitions, debut album ECLESIA (2026), 270M+ streams.

Naira Marley

Naira Marley (Azeez Adeshina Fashola, born 1994, Agege, Lagos) is a Nigerian Afrobeats and street-pop artist, founder of Marlian Records (2019), leader of the Marlians fan movement, and hitmaker of "Issa Goal" and "Soapy".

Naked City (band)

Naked City was John Zorn's 1988-1993 New York avant-garde band with Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Wayne Horvitz, Joey Baron, and Boredoms vocalist Yamatsuka Eye, fusing jazz, grindcore, and film music in jump-cut compositions across seven albums.

Naked Raygun

Naked Raygun, Chicago punk band formed February 1980 by Marko Pezzati and Santiago Durango with vocalist Jeff Pezzati; classic lineup with John Haggerty, Pierre Kezdy, Eric Spicer; albums Throb Throb, Jettison; reunited 2006; 2021 album Over the Overlords.

Nana Mouskouri

Nana Mouskouri (Νάνα Μούσχουρη), born 1934 in Crete, is a Greek singer of 1,500 songs in a dozen languages, famous for "White Rose of Athens", her glasses, UNICEF work, and an MEP term 1994–99.

Nanci Griffith

Nanci Griffith (1953-2021), Texas folk-country singer-songwriter known for "folkabilly," the Grammy-winning Other Voices, Other Rooms, and songs covered by Kathy Mattea and Bette Midler.

Nancy Ajram (نانسي نبيل عجرم)

Nancy Ajram (نانسي نبيل عجرم), born 1983 in Beirut, is a Lebanese pop singer, "Queen of Arabic Pop," UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and best-selling Arab artist whose 2003 hit "Akhasmak Ah" launched her fame and whose 2022 Marshmello collaboration "Sah Sah" charted on Billboard.