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Winston Marshall
Winston Marshall, British musician, former banjoist and lead guitarist and co-founder (2007) of Mumford & Sons; left the band in June 2021 after praising Andy Ngo's book Unmasked; later a Spectator podcaster and founder of Hong Kong Link Up.
Wipers (band)
Wipers: American punk rock band formed 1977 in Portland, Oregon by Greg Sage; studio-project origins, albums Is This Real? (1980), Youth of America, Over the Edge; key influence on Nirvana, Mudhoney and grunge.
Wir sind Helden
Wir sind Helden, German pop-rock band founded 2000 in Hamburg with Judith Holofernes, Jean-Michel Tourette, Mark Tavassol, and Pola Roy; breakthrough self-released EP "Guten Tag" (2002), albums Die Reklamation (2003), Von hier an blind (2005), Soundso (2007), Bring mich nach Hause (2010).
Wire (band)
Wire: English art-punk/post-punk band (Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert, Robert Grey) formed in London, Roxy debut April 1977; Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154; pinkflag label; influence on hardcore and post-punk.
Wishbone Ash
Wishbone Ash is a British rock band formed in 1969, known for pioneering twin lead guitars in rock and for Argus, its multi-million-selling 1972 album.
Wishy
Wishy is an Indianapolis indie rock band led by Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites, blending shoegaze, dream pop, and power pop; albums Triple Seven (2024) and Nature's Pill (2026) on Winspear.
Wisp (musician)
Wisp is the stage name of Natalie Lu (born 2004), a San Francisco-born shoegaze musician also called nu-gaze, whose 2023 TikTok-viral debut single "Your Face" led to Interscope, the 2024 Pandora EP, and the 2025 debut album If Not Winter.
Wizkid
Wizkid, the stage name of Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter born in 1990, a leading figure of Afrobeats whose hit "Essence" reached the Billboard Hot 100.
Wizzard
Wizzard: English glam rock band formed in Birmingham in 1972 by Roy Wood after leaving ELO; UK No 1 hits "See My Baby Jive" and "Angel Fingers" and the 1973 Christmas hit "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day"; disbanded 1975. Not the Swedish, Finnish, or Detroit metal bands of the same name.
Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice: English alternative rock quartet from North London (Rowsell, Oddie, Ellis, Amey), formed 2010. Four albums; Mercury Prize 2018, Brit Best Group 2022, four Mercury nominations; fourth album The Clearing (2025, Columbia) hit UK No 1.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart, Austrian Classical composer born Salzburg 27 January 1756, died Vienna 5 December 1791; over 600 works catalogued by Köchel, 22 operas including Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte.
Wolfgang Van Halen
Wolfgang Van Halen (born 1991), son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, was Van Halen's bassist from 2007 through A Different Kind of Truth (2012), then built the multi-instrumentalist solo band Mammoth (Mammoth WVH, Mammoth II, The End).
Wolfmother
Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band from Sydney formed around Andrew Stockdale, also known for the 2005 debut album Wolfmother and the Grammy-winning single Woman; original members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett left in 2008.
Wolves of Glendale
Wolves of Glendale is an American comedy rock trio formed in 2022 in Glendale, California, blending '80s pop rock with satirical lyrics about everyday life.
Womack & Womack
Womack & Womack, also the House of Zekkariyas, were the husband-and-wife R&B duo of Cecil Womack and Linda Cooke, daughter of Sam Cooke; songwriters for Pendergrass and Pickett, best known for the 1988 international hit "Teardrops".
WondaGurl
WondaGurl (Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde), Canadian Grammy-nominated producer from Brampton; Jay-Z "Crown," Rihanna "BBHMM," Travis Scott "Antidote"; first Black woman Juno Producer of the Year; Wonderchild label; METAL TAIL album.
Wong Ka Kui (黄家驹)
Wong Ka Kui, also known as Huang Jiaju, was a Hong Kong singer and co-founder of the rock band Beyond. He was a lead vocalist and chief songwriter.
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, 1912–1967), Oklahoma-born American folk singer-songwriter, wrote "This Land Is Your Land" and over 3,000 songs about the Dust Bowl, migrants, and unions; died of Huntington's disease in New York.
Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw (1944–1989), American jazz trumpeter and composer of hard bop and post-bop; played with Eric Dolphy, Horace Silver, and Freddie Hubbard; known for pentatonic superimposition and albums Rosewood and The Moontrane.
World Choir Games
The World Choir Games, also known as the Choir Olympics, are a biennial international choir competition run by Interkultur since 2000, billed as the Olympic Games of choral music.
World Class Wreckin' Cru
World Class Wreckin' Cru, a Compton electro-hop group formed in 1983 by Alonzo "Lonzo" Williams, featured Dr. Dre and DJ Yella before N.W.A and hit the Hot 100 in 1988 with "Turn Off the Lights".
World News (band)
World News are a London four-piece jangly indie rock band formed as Tinman in Brighton in 2018 by brothers Alex and Rory Evans; debut album In Purgatory (2026) on their Pie & Mash label.
World Party
World Party was the British rock project of Welsh multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger, formed in London in 1986 after he left The Waterboys. Five albums, including Goodbye Jumbo (1990) and Egyptology (1997); "She's the One" became a Robbie Williams number one.
WSTRN
WSTRN are a British hip hop and R&B trio from West London, known for their 2015 debut single "In2", which peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan, Staten Island hip-hop collective formed in the early 1990s by nine MCs led by RZA; debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993) and a solo-label business model reshaped rap, leading to 2026 Rock Hall induction.
Wyatt Flores
Wyatt Flores, also styled as a red dirt country and Americana singer-songwriter, is a Mexican American Oklahoma artist born 2001 in Stillwater, known for "Please Don't Go" (2x Platinum) and the albums Welcome to the Plains (2024) and Scared of Heights (2026).
Wynne Evans
Wynne Evans, Welsh tenor born 1972 in Carmarthen, is the Gio Compario of the GoCompare adverts, a BBC Radio Wales presenter, WNO principal, Celebrity MasterChef winner, and BEM recipient who left the BBC in 2025.
Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Judd, born Christina Claire Ciminella (1964), American country singer; half of the Judds with mother Naomi (14 No. 1 singles, five Grammys), then a platinum solo artist; 2026 album The Hard Truth.
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis (born 1961, New Orleans) is an American jazz and classical trumpeter, composer, and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Pulitzer winner for Blood on the Fields and a central, debated figure in jazz traditionalism.
X (American band)
X is an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977, featuring Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake; its albums Los Angeles and Wild Gift are Rolling Stone 500-greatest entries.