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Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (बड़े गुलाम अली ख़ान)
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (बड़े गुलाम अली ख़ान), 1902–1968, Hindustani classical vocalist of the Kasur-Patiala gharana, famed for thumri, the Sabrang compositions, and Mughal-e-Azam songs.
Badfinger
Badfinger was a Welsh pop rock and power pop band formed in Swansea, signed to the Beatles' Apple Records, known for "Come and Get It" and "No Matter What."
Badly Drawn Boy
Badly Drawn Boy is the alias of English singer-songwriter Damon Gough (born 1969), whose 2000 debut The Hour of Bewilderbeast won the Mercury Prize and led to the acclaimed About a Boy soundtrack.
Baha Men
Baha Men, Bahamian Junkanoo-pop band from New Providence formed in 1977 (originally High Voltage), best known for the Grammy-winning 2000 hit "Who Let the Dogs Out", a cover of Anslem Douglas's "Doggie" released on S-Curve, plus later albums and touring.
Bahamas (musician)
Bahamas is the indie folk-rock project of Toronto-born, Finnish-descent singer-guitarist Afie Jurvanen, formerly a sideman for Feist; Juno-winning albums include Bahamas Is Afie, Earthtones, Sad Hunk, and Bootcut.
Bailey Zimmerman
Bailey Zimmerman, American country-pop singer from Louisville, Illinois; viral TikTok breakout, Warner Music Nashville; hits 'Fall in Love,' 'Rock and a Hard Place,' 'Religiously'; debut album No. 7 Billboard 200; 2025's 'All the Way' peaked No. 4.
Balabhaskar
Balabhaskar Chandran (Malayalam: ബാലഭാസ്കർ, 1978–2018) was a Kerala violinist, composer, and fusion music pioneer, youngest Malayalam film composer at 17, Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar 2008, died in a 2018 car crash under continued CBI investigation.
Baltimora
Baltimora (also written BALTIMORA) was an Italian Italo disco music project from Milan, active 1984-1987, founded by producer Maurizio Bassi with Northern Irish frontman Jimmy McShane, best known for the 1985 hit "Tarzan Boy" (#3 UK, #13 US) and the follow-up "Woody Boogie."
Balu Brigada
Balu Brigada, also styled Balu Brigada (no native-script name), is a New Zealand alt-pop duo of brothers Henry and Pierre Beasley, formed in Auckland in 2016, known for "So Cold", the 2025 debut album Portal, and touring with Twenty One Pilots.
Bambie Thug
Bambie Thug (Bambie Ray Robinson, born 1993, Macroom, Cork) is a non-binary Irish 'ouija-pop' singer signed to Spinefarm; 'Doomsday Blue' placed sixth for Ireland at Eurovision 2024.
Bamboo Mañalac
Bamboo Mañalac (Francisco Gaudencio Lope Belardo Mañalac), Filipino-American singer known as Bamboo, frontman of Rivermaya 1994-1998 and band Bamboo 2002-2011, solo albums No Water No Moon and Bless This Mess, Voice of the Philippines coach.
Bananarama
Bananarama are a British pop group formed in London by Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward, and Siobhan Fahey; later a duo. Hits "Cruel Summer", "Venus" (US No. 1), "I Heard a Rumour"; 12 studio albums, 30 million records sold.
Band Aid (band)
Band Aid is the British charity supergroup formed by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in November 1984 to record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for Ethiopian famine relief, spawning Live Aid, four chart-topping re-recordings, and the Band Aid Charitable Trust.
Band Aid 30
Band Aid 30: 2014 Bob Geldof-organized re-recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for West African Ebola relief; 312,000 first-week UK sales, number 1 in 69 countries, over £1.9m in early grants, and wide criticism of its lyrics.
Band of Gypsys (band)
Band of Gypsys: 1969-1970 Jimi Hendrix power trio with Billy Cox (bass) and Buddy Miles (drums), distinct from the Jimi Hendrix Experience; played four Fillmore East shows and released the funk-driven live album Band of Gypsys (1970).
Band of Horses
Band of Horses: American indie rock band formed 2004 in Seattle by Ben Bridwell after Carissa's Wierd; albums Everything All the Time (2006, Sub Pop, "The Funeral") through Things Are Great (2022), based in South Carolina.
Band-Maid (バンドメイド)
Band-Maid (バンドメイド) is a five-piece all-female Japanese hard rock band formed in Tokyo in 2013, known for maid-café costumes, fans called masters and princesses, albums like Epic Narratives, and the 2026 world tour ending at Nippon Budokan.
Banda el Recodo
Banda El Recodo (Banda Sinaloense El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga), "La Madre de Todas las Bandas," is a Mexican banda sinaloense founded in 1938 by clarinetist Cruz Lizárraga in El Recodo, Sinaloa; first performed abroad in Los Angeles in 1962 and is a multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winner.
Banda music
Banda music (banda sinaloense, tambora sinaloense): a Mexican brass-band genre from Sinaloa with clarinets, trumpets, trombones, sousaphone, and tambora drum; consolidated in the late 19th century, standardized after 1920, globalized via technobanda and the regional Mexican streaming boom.
Bands of America
Bands of America (BOA) is Music for All's national high school marching band circuit, with Regional, Super Regional, and Grand National Championships founded in 1976, scored 60% music and 40% visual under a criteria reference adjudication system.
Bandslam
Bandslam is a 2009 American teen musical comedy-drama directed by Todd Graff. It follows a music-obsessed high school outsider recruited to manage a rock band for a competition.
Banks (singer)
Banks (Jillian Rose Banks, born 1988, Orange County, California) is an American alternative R&B/electropop singer-songwriter, known for the gold 2014 debut Goddess, the platinum single "Beggin for Thread", five studio albums, and an independent career since 2021.
Banners (ΞRS) (musician)
BANNERS (BANNΞRS), stage name of Michael Joseph Nelson (born 1986), is an English indie-pop singer-songwriter from Liverpool, formerly of the Liverpool Cathedral Choir, based in Toronto; known for "Someone to You" and albums Where the Shadow Ends (2019) and All Back to Mine (2024).
Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri (Alokesh Lahiri, 1952–2022), Indian music director and singer called the Disco King, pioneered disco in Bollywood with Disco Dancer (1982), Namak Halaal, and Sharaabi, winning the Filmfare Award and 2018 Lifetime Achievement honor.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson, born 1947 in Dunfermline, is a Scottish singer and actress. Known for the UK No. 1 duet "I Know Him So Well" with Elaine Paige, originating Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers, two Olivier Awards, and an OBE.
Barbara Gaskin
Barbara Gaskin (born 1950, Hatfield, England) is an English singer, ex-Spirogyra vocalist and Northette backing singer for Hatfield and the North, later of the duo Stewart/Gaskin, whose 1981 single "It's My Party" hit UK number 1.
Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell (born 1948, Houston, Texas) is an American country singer and multi-instrumentalist, first artist to win CMA Entertainer of the Year in consecutive years (1980, 1981), NBC variety star, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee (2009).
Barbara McNair
Barbara McNair, born Barbara Jean McNair, was an American singer and actress, a nightclub headliner, Motown artist, and Broadway performer who hosted her own TV variety show from 1969 to 1971.
Barbara Siggers Franklin
Barbara Siggers Franklin was an American gospel singer and pianist, the second wife of C. L. Franklin, and mother of Aretha Franklin. She died in Buffalo, New York, in 1952.
Barbershop music
Barbershop music, also known as barbershop harmony, is a uniquely American style of unaccompanied four-part close-harmony singing, revived in 1938 with the founding of the Barbershop Harmony Society in Tulsa.