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OneRepublic
OneRepublic is an American pop rock band formed in Colorado in 2002, fronted by Ryan Tedder. Known for "Apologize" (2007), "Counting Stars" (2013), and "I Ain't Worried" (2022), with six studio albums including Native and Artificial Paradise (2024).
OneRepublic discography
OneRepublic (ワンリパブリック) discography: six Mosley/Interscope studio albums 2007–2024, hits 'Apologize', 'Counting Stars', 'I Ain't Worried', BMG deal 2025, seventh album era and The Collection.
Operation Ivy (band)
Operation Ivy: Berkeley, California ska-punk band (1987–1989) with Jesse Michaels, Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Dave Mello; released Hectic EP and Energy on Lookout Records; forerunner of Rancid.
Opus Kink
Opus Kink: Brighton, England jazz-punk six-piece formed 2017 (Angus Rogers, Sam and Fin Abbo, Jazz Pope, Jed Morgans, Jack Banjo Courtney). Debut album The Sweet Goodbye, 31 July 2026, SO Recordings; runs Hideous Mink Records.
Ora Cogan
Ora Cogan is a Canadian experimental folk singer-songwriter from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, based on Vancouver Island. Albums include Crickets (2017), Formless (2023), and her Sacred Bones debut Hard Hearted Woman (2026); distinct from the French DJ Cogan.
Orchestra
Orchestra: large Western instrumental ensemble of strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion; symphony and philharmonic orchestras exceed 100 players, standardized since the mid-18th century, conducted, fan-shaped seating.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), English synthpop band formed 1978 on the Wirral by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys; Kraftwerk-influenced, 14 albums from 1980 debut to Bauhaus Staircase (2023), hits Enola Gay and If You Leave.
Organized Noize
Organized Noize is an Atlanta-based hip-hop and R&B production trio formed in 1992, comprising Rico Wade, Ray Murray, and Sleepy Brown, best known for TLC's "Waterfalls" and OutKast's early albums.
Orianthi
Orianthi (Orianthi Penny Panagaris, born 1985, Adelaide) is an Australian hard rock guitarist and singer; RIAA-Platinum single "According To You" (2009), This Is It guitarist, Alice Cooper and RSO collaborator.
Orishas (band)
Orishas, Cuban hip-hop group formed in Paris (1998/1999) by ex-Amenaza members Yotuel Romero, Ruzzo, Roldán González, and Flaco-Pro; debut A lo Cubano fused son, rumba, and rap, going platinum in Europe.
Oritsé Williams
Oritsé Williams is a British singer-songwriter, founder of the boy band JLS, X Factor 2008 runner-up with five UK number one singles, now an independent Afro-Island solo artist and young carers advocate.
Orleans (band)
Orleans (band): American pop/rock band formed in Woodstock, NY, in 1972 by John Hall, Larry Hoppen, and Wells Kelly; known for "Dance With Me", "Still the One", and "Love Takes Time"; 2026 is its final touring year.
Orville Peck
Orville Peck, pseudonym of Daniel Pitout, is a masked, openly gay country singer born 1988 in Johannesburg, South Africa, known for Pony (2019), Bronco (2022), Stampede (2024), and the 2026 sobriety concept album Mule.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), American lyricist and librettist; co-wrote Show Boat with Jerome Kern and, with Richard Rodgers from 1943, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson (1925-2007), Montreal-born Canadian jazz pianist known as the Maharaja of the Keyboard, led the celebrated Oscar Peterson Trio and won 8 Grammy Awards, including Lifetime Achievement, over six decades and more than 500 recordings.
Osibisa
Osibisa: British Afro-rock band formed in London in 1969 by Ghanaian saxophonist Teddy Osei with Mac Tontoh, Sol Amarfio, Nigerian and Caribbean members; hits "Sunshine Day" and "Music for Gong Gong"; pioneered world music.
Oskar Sala
Oskar Sala (1910–2002), German composer and physicist, co-developer and sole virtuoso of the Trautonium and its successor the Mixtur-Trautonium; created sounds for over 300 films, including Hitchcock's The Birds.
Oswald von Wolkenstein
Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/77–1445) was a Tyrolean poet, composer, and diplomat from South Tyrol, called the last of the Minnesänger; his 131 songs include 37 polyphonic settings.
Oteil Burbridge
Oteil Burbridge (born 1964, Washington, D.C.) is an American six-string bassist of the Allman Brothers Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Dead & Company, a two-time Grammy winner, and leader of Oteil & Friends.
Otis Redding
Otis Redding, born Otis Ray Redding Jr., was an American soul singer and songwriter at Stax Records who died in a 1967 plane crash at age 26.
Otis Williams
Otis Williams (born Otis Miles, Jr., 1941, Texarkana, Texas) is the American baritone singer who founded The Temptations, its last surviving original member, leader since 1961, memoirist, and subject of the musical Ain't Too Proud.
Ottoman military band
Mehter (مهتر, mehteran), the Ottoman military band or mehterhane, is among the world's oldest military bands: wind and percussion ensemble of the Janissary corps, abolished 1826, revived 1914 and 1952, source of alla turca style.
Otyken
Otyken (OTYKEN) is a Siberian folk-pop group from Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, founded by producer Andrey Medonos, singing in Khakas, Chulym, and Dolgan with throat singing and traditional instruments.
Our Lady Peace
Our Lady Peace (OLP) is a Canadian alternative rock band from Toronto formed in the early 1990s, named after a 1943 Mark Van Doren poem, known for Naveed, Clumsy, Spiritual Machines, four JUNO Awards, and the OLP30 anniversary tour.
Outkast
OutKast, Atlanta hip-hop duo of André 3000 and Big Boi formed in 1992, pioneers of Southern rap's Dirty South sound; eight albums, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below sold over 10 million, first hip-hop group to win the Album of the Year Grammy (2004), Rock Hall inductees 2025.
Outlaws (band)
The Outlaws: Tampa, Florida Southern rock band (also 'Florida Guitar Army'), formed 1972, triple-guitar attack and country harmonies, first act signed to Arista by Clive Davis; hits 'Green Grass & High Tides' and 'There Goes Another Love Song'.
Outlawz
Outlawz (The Outlawz, originally Outlaw Immortalz) was an American hip hop group formed in late 1995 by Tupac Shakur and Yaki Kadafi, featured on the Makaveli album and Still I Rise, with albums Ride wit Us or Collide wit Us and Novakane.
Ovy on the Drums
Ovy on the Drums (Daniel Echavarría Oviedo, born 1991, Medellín) is a Colombian reggaetón producer, songwriter, and solo artist; Karol G's longtime producer behind "Tusa" and Mañana Será Bonito, winner of a Latin Grammy and a Grammy.
Owen Riegling
Owen Riegling (born 1999, Mildmay, Ontario) is a Canadian country singer-songwriter who won the 2022 Boots & Hearts Emerging Artist Competition, signed to Universal Music Canada, scored Double Platinum hit "Old Dirt Roads," and released the albums Bruce County (From The Beginning) and In The Feeling.
Owl City
Owl City is the electronic pop project of American musician Adam Young, begun in 2007 in Owatonna, Minnesota, and best known for the 2009 hit "Fireflies."