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René Carol
René Carol, born Gerhard Tschierschnitz, was a German Schlager singer of the 1950s whose "Rote Rosen, rote Lippen, roter Wein" earned the first postwar Goldene Schallplatte.
Renée Claude
Renée Claude, stage name of Renée Bélanger (1939–2020), was a Quebec chanson singer and actress who topped Quebec charts with original Quebec material in the 1960s and 1970s.
Reprise (cover tradition)
Reprise is the French term for a cover, any new version of a song from an existing original; broader than "cover", it is central to the chanson tradition.
Revolverheld
Revolverheld is a German pop-rock band from Hamburg, founded in 2002, that placed eight albums on the German chart and entered an indefinite break in 2026 after a 20th-anniversary tour.
Riblja Čorba
Riblja Čorba (Рибља Чорба), also rendered Riblja Corba, is a Serbian hard rock band formed in Belgrade in 1978, fronted by singer Bora Đorđević until his death in 2024.
Ricky Gianco
Ricky Gianco, real name Riccardo Sanna, born 1943, is an Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer who co-founded Celentano's Clan in 1961 and later the labels Intingo and Ultima Spiaggia.
Righeira
Righeira is an Italian Italo disco duo from Turin, formed by Stefano Righi and Stefano Rota, whose 1983 single "Vamos a la playa" sold three million copies.
Rika Zarai
Rika Zarai, born Rika Gozman, was a singer from Jerusalem who became a bestselling French variety artist of the 1960s and 1970s with hits like "Casatschok".
Rino Gaetano
Rino Gaetano was an Italian singer-songwriter of the 1970s cantautori scene, known for the ironic hits "Ma il cielo è sempre più blu" and "Gianna".
Rio Reiser
Rio Reiser, born Ralph Möbius in 1950, was a German rock singer and songwriter who fronted Ton Steine Scherben before a solo career with "König von Deutschland".
Rocco Hunt
Rocco Hunt, stage name of Rocco Pagliarulo, is an Italian rapper and singer from Salerno who won the newcomers' section at Sanremo 2014 with the Neapolitan-dialect rap "Nu juorno buono".
Romanian Music Awards
The Romanian Music Awards (Premiile Muzicale MTV România) is an annual Romanian pop-music awards gala decided by fan vote, created by MTV Romania in 2005 and revived in 2022.
Romen Theatre
The Romen Theatre (цыганский театр «Ромэн»), formally the Moscow Music and Drama Roma Theatre, is a state theater in Moscow founded in 1931, described as the world's only professional repertory Roma theater.
Ronquières Festival
The Ronquières Festival is a three-day pop-rock festival held since 2012 at the Plan Incliné canal boat lift in Ronquières, Belgium, drawing up to 80,000 visitors.
Rosenstolz
Rosenstolz was a German-language pop duo formed in Berlin in 1991 by singer AnNa R. and keyboardist Peter Plate, whose six number-one albums made them Deutschpop stars.
Ross Antony
Ross Antony, born Ross Anthony Catterall in 1974, is a British singer and television host working in Germany, first known from the band Bro'Sis and since 2013 a Schlager artist.
Rote Fabrik
Rote Fabrik, meaning Red Factory, is a collectively run cultural center in a former silk factory on Lake Zurich in Zurich, occupied by artists and activists in 1980.
Roy Black (musician)
Roy Black, born Gerhard Höllerich (1943–1991), was a German Schlager singer and film actor whose 1966 hit "Ganz in Weiß" sold about 2.5 million copies.
Rudi Schuricke
Rudi Schuricke (1913–1973) was a German Schlager singer and tenor whose 1943 recording "Capri-Fischer" became the first great postwar hit and earned him the first gold record given a postwar performer.
Rudolf Barshai
Rudolf Barshai (Рудольф Баршай) was a Soviet violist and conductor who founded the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in 1955, led it until 1977, and later recorded Shostakovich's complete symphonies.
Ruki Vverh!
Ruki Vverh! (Руки Вверх!) is a Russian pop and eurodance duo founded in 1996 by Sergei Zhukov and Alexei Potekhin, a symbol of late-1990s Russian pop.
Ryan Paris
Ryan Paris, stage name of Fabio Roscioli, born 1953 in Rome, is an Italian Italo disco singer best known for "Dolce Vita" (1983), one of the genre's biggest hits.
Saez
Saez, also known as Damien Saez, is a French singer-songwriter of engaged chanson and rock who broke through in 1999 with "Jeune et con" from his debut album Jours étranges.
Samanta Karavella
Samanta Karavella is an Albanian pop singer from Tirana, active since 2004, who won the Top Fest 10 grand prize in 2013 with Loti i fundit.
San Salvador (group)
San Salvador is a French six-voice vocal and percussion group from Saint-Salvadour in Corrèze, singing in Limousin Occitan; its first album, La Grande Folie, won the 2021 Victoires du Jazz for best world-music album.
Sanja Vučić
Sanja Vučić is a Serbian singer who represented Serbia at Eurovision twice, with the band ZAA in 2016 and the girl group Hurricane in 2021.
Sara Jovanović
Sara Jovanović (Сара Јовановић), known professionally as Sara Jo, is a Serbian singer born in Rome in 1993 who represented Serbia at Eurovision 2013 with the trio Moje 3.
Sarbel
Sarbel (Σαρμπέλ), born Sarbel Michael Maronitis in London in 1981, is a Greek-British pop singer who represented Greece at Eurovision 2007 with "Yassou Maria", finishing 7th.
Šarlo Akrobata
Šarlo Akrobata (Шарло Акробата) was a Yugoslav post-punk trio from Belgrade, active from 1980 to 1981, best remembered for its songs on the compilation Paket aranžman.
Schlagerboom
Schlagerboom is a large annual German-language schlager television show on Das Erste, hosted by Florian Silbereisen since its first edition in 2016 at the Westfalenhalle Dortmund, billed as Europe's largest schlager live show.