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Piers Faccini

Piers Faccini is a British-Italian singer-songwriter and painter, born in 1970 and based in the Cévennes since 2004, who runs the label Beating Drum and won a Victoire du jazz.

Piknik

Piknik (Пикник) is a Russian rock band formed in 1978 at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, known for its art-rock sound, theatrical concerts, and frontman Edmund Shklyarsky, who has led it since 1981.

Pinguini Tattici Nucleari

Pinguini Tattici Nucleari is an Italian indie pop band formed in 2010 in the province of Bergamo, fronted by Riccardo Zanotti, who writes the songs.

Pino Donaggio

Pino Donaggio is an Italian singer-songwriter and film composer, born in Venice in 1941, known for "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and De Palma scores.

Plavi Orkestar

Plavi Orkestar (Плави Оркестар, "Blue Orchestra") is a pop-rock band formed in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in 1983 and fronted by Saša Lošić, whose 1985 debut album Soldatski bal sold over 600,000 copies.

Playmen

Playmen is a Greek dance-pop production and DJ act formed in Athens in 2009, known for "Fallin'" with Demy and as the first Greek DJs at Tomorrowland.

Poly Panou

Poly Panou (Πόλυ Πάνου), born Polytimi Koliopanou in Athens in 1940, was a Greek laiko and rembetiko singer who died in Athens in 2013 at 73.

Pop-Schlager

Pop-Schlager, also written Popschlager, is the modern, pop-produced form of German-language Schlager with bass-heavy, beat-driven production comparable to mainstream pop; its leading exponents include Helene Fischer, Vanessa Mai, and Beatrice Egli.

Pop'n'Gum

Pop'n'Gum is the second album by the French pop-rock band Superbus, released in 2004 on Mercury, certified gold in France, and featuring the hit "Radio Song".

Pornofilmy

Pornofilmy (Порнофильмы) is a Russian punk rock band founded in 2008 in Dubna, Moscow Oblast, whose lyrics address poverty, torture, official lawlessness, and the "Russian world".

Poshlaya Molly

Poshlaya Molly (Пошлая Молли) is a Russian-language pop-punk project founded in 2016 and fronted by Ukrainian performer Kirill Bledny, a key figure in the new Russian wave.

Predrag Živković Tozovac

Predrag Živković Tozovac (Предраг Живковић Тозовац), known as Tozovac, was a Serbian folk singer, composer, and accordionist, born in Kraljevo in 1936, who popularized starogradska songs.

Preslava

Preslava (Преслава) is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer, born Petya Koleva Ivanova in Dobrich in 1984, who signed with Payner in 2004 and is among Bulgaria's most awarded singers.

Princ

Princ, also known as Princ od Vranje, is the stage name of Stefan Zdravković, a Serbian singer born in 1993 who represented Serbia at Eurovision 2025 with 'Mila'.

Prix Constantin

The Prix Constantin, also known as the Constantin Award, is a French music prize for the album of a rising artist, awarded each year since 2002.

Prljavo Kazalište

Prljavo Kazalište, Croatian for "Dirty Theatre," is a rock band from Zagreb formed in 1977, a leading act of the Yugoslav new wave that became a mainstream rock institution.

Raf

Raf, stage name of Raffaele Riefoli, is an Italian singer-songwriter whose 1984 hit "Self Control" topped charts worldwide before he built a four-decade Italian pop-rock career.

Rai Radio 2

Rai Radio 2, also known as Radio Due, is the entertainment and music network of Italian public broadcaster RAI and the official radio of the Sanremo Music Festival.

Raina

Raina (Райна), born Raina Kirilova Terziyska in 1981 in Sandanski, is a Bulgarian pop-folk (chalga) singer who has recorded for the Payner label since about 2001.

Rainhard Fendrich

Rainhard Fendrich is an Austrian singer, composer, and actor, born in Vienna in 1955, who performs his own songs in Viennese dialect and is counted among the most important Austro-Pop artists.

Ralph Siegel

Ralph Siegel, born 1945 in Munich, is a German Schlager composer and producer with over 2,000 registered titles, who won the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest with "Ein bisschen Frieden".

Ramil'

Ramil' (Рамиль) is the stage name of Ramil Alimov, a Russian pop singer born in Nizhny Novgorod in 2000, known for Eastern-tinged ballads and the double-platinum hit 'Сияй'.

Ramon Roselly

Ramon Roselly, born Ramon Kaselowsky, is a German Schlager singer from Zschernitz in Saxony-Anhalt who won the seventeenth season of DSDS in 2020 and has since released six studio albums.

Ranetki

Ranetki (Ранетки) was an all-female Russian teen pop-rock band formed in Moscow in 2005, best known for its own СТС television series and stadium-scale concerts before dissolving in 2012 or 2013.

Rani Mraz

Rani Mraz, meaning "Early Frost", was a Yugoslav acoustic band active from 1978 to 1980 and led by singer-songwriter Đorđe Balašević, best known for the 1978 single "Računajte na nas".

Rasta

Rasta, born Stefan Đurić in 1989 in Priština, is a Serbian R&B, reggae, and hip hop singer and producer who founded the Balkaton label and broke through with "Kavasaki" in 2014.

Regina

Regina is a pop-rock band formed in Sarajevo around 1990 that scored hits across former Yugoslavia and represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at Eurovision 2009, finishing ninth with 'Bistra voda'.

Reinhard Mey

Reinhard Mey, born 1942, is a German Liedermacher in the French chanson tradition whose hallmark song 'Über den Wolken' has identified him for almost fifty years.

Renato Carosone

Renato Carosone (1920–2001) was an Italian pianist, singer, and composer from Naples who fused swing, boogie-woogie, and jazz with Neapolitan song, best known for "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" (1956).

Renato Zero

Renato Zero is the stage name of Renato Fiacchini, born in Rome in 1950, an Italian singer-songwriter known for theatrical makeup, costumes, and concert-shows since the 1970s.