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Haris Džinović

Haris Džinović (Харис Џиновић) is a Bosnian folk and pop-folk singer, composer, and lyricist born in Sarajevo in 1951 who led the ensemble Sar e Roma.

HATIK

Hatik, the stage name of Clément Penhoat, is a French rapper, singer, and actor born in 1992 who broke through with the series Validé and the hit single "Angela".

Heineken Jammin' Festival

The Heineken Jammin' Festival was a major Italian rock festival held from 1998 to 2012, opening at Imola with Vasco Rossi and drawing up to 175,000 spectators.

Heino

Heino, real name Heinz Georg Kramm, is a German Schlager singer born in 1938 in Düsseldorf, known for his deep baritone, dark sunglasses, and hits like "Blau blüht der Enzian".

HENSY

HENSY (Гэнси) is the stage name of Alexander Kogan, a Russian pop and rap singer from Tatarstan whose 2020 single «Поболело и прошло» topped the VKontakte chart.

Hervé Vilard

Hervé Vilard, born René Villard in Paris in 1946, is a French chanson and variété singer whose 1965 summer hit "Capri c'est fini" sold 3.3 million copies worldwide.

Hi-Fi

Hi-Fi (Хай-Фай) is a Russian pop group formed in 1998 by producer Erik Chanturia and composer Pavel Esenin, best known for the hits «Не дано» and «Глупые люди».

Hitradio Ö3

Hitradio Ö3, usually shortened to Ö3, is the national pop music station of Austrian public broadcaster ORF and the most-listened radio station in Austria, with over 2.4 million daily listeners.

Holger Hiller

Holger Hiller, born 1956 in Hamburg, is a German vocalist and sampler pioneer of the Neue Deutsche Welle who co-founded the band Palais Schaumburg before a solo career.

Hubert von Goisern

Hubert von Goisern, born Hubert Achleitner in 1952 in Bad Goisern, Austria, is an alpine-rock songwriter whose band the Alpinkatzen topped the Austrian charts in 1993 with "Koa Hiatamadl".

I Nomadi

I Nomadi are an Italian beat and rock band formed in 1963 between Modena and Reggio Emilia, best known for 'Dio è morto' and 'Io vagabondo'.

I Pooh

I Pooh are an Italian pop-rock group formed in Bologna in 1966, winners of the 1990 Sanremo Festival with 'Uomini soli' and sellers of over 100 million records.

I-Days Milano

I-Days Milano, also known as I-Days, is a summer concert series of single-date headline shows in Milan, Italy, founded in 1999 as Independent Days Festival.

IAM

IAM is a French hip-hop group formed in Marseille around 1988, a pillar of French rap known for the hit "Je danse le mia" and the diamond album L'École du micro d'argent.

Ibo

Ibo, born Ibrahim Bekirović in Skopje in 1961, was a German party-schlager singer whose 1985 summer hit "Ibiza" made him a star; he died in 2000.

Ibrahim Maalouf

Ibrahim Maalouf is a French trumpeter of Lebanese origin, born in Beirut in 1980, who plays a quarter-tone trumpet invented by his father Nassim Maalouf.

Ici Musique

Ici Musique, known as Espace musique until 2014, is Radio-Canada's French-language music radio network and web destination, airing mainly Canadian music from chanson and jazz to hip-hop.

Il Discotto

Il Discotto was an Italian italo disco record label and distributor near Milan, run by Roberto Fusar Poli, debuting in 1982 and closing in the mid-1980s over financial problems.

Il Rovescio della Medaglia

Il Rovescio della Medaglia is an Italian progressive rock group formed in Rome around the end of 1970 from the beat band I Lombrichi, best known for Contaminazione (1973).

Il Teatro degli Orrori

Il Teatro degli Orrori is an Italian noise-rock band formed in Marghera, Venice, in 2005, fronted by Pierpaolo Capovilla and a leading act of the independent scene.

Il Tre

Il Tre is the stage name of Guido Senia, an Italian rapper and singer-songwriter known for the number-one albums Ali and Invisibili and his 2024 Sanremo debut.

Im Wizemann

Im Wizemann is a concert and event house in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany, opened in 2015 in the former Zapata club, hosting over 400 events and roughly 200,000 visitors yearly.

Imany

Imany, the stage name of French singer-songwriter Nadia Mladjao, works in folk, soul, and blues, and reached No. 1 across Europe with the 2016 remix of "Don't Be So Shy".

Inga Rumpf

Inga Rumpf, born 1946 in Hamburg, is a German rock, soul, and blues singer known as frontwoman of Frumpy and Atlantis and as a pathbreaker for women in rock.

INSTASAMKA

INSTASAMKA (Инстасамка), real name Daria Zoteeva, is a Russian rap and pop singer and former Instagram blogger whose single «За деньги да» topped charts in 2022.

Iosif Kobzon

Iosif Kobzon (Иосиф Кобзон), also known as Joseph Kobzon, was a Soviet and Russian estrada baritone singer and State Duma deputy named People's Artist of the USSR in 1987.

Irina Allegrova

Irina Allegrova (Ирина Аллегрова) is a Russian estrada pop singer, born in 1952, whose 1992 album «Странник мой» made her a first-rank star of 1990s Russian pop.

Irina Dubtsova

Irina Dubtsova (Ирина Дубцова) is a Russian singer-songwriter from Volgograd who won Fabrika Zvezd 4 in 2004 and has written songs for Kirkorov, Alsou, and Timati.

Irina Rimes

Irina Rimes is a Moldovan-born singer and songwriter who built her career in Romania, where her 2016 debut single "Visele" topped all Romanian charts for three months.

Isi Glück

Isi Glück, civil name Isabel Gülck, is a German party-schlager and après-ski singer at Mallorca's Ballermann whose debut album Alles Isi reached number 1 in 2025.