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Ys (music)
Ys is a 1972 concept album by the Italian progressive rock band Il Balletto di Bronzo, a five-movement work now regarded as a classic of Italian symphonic prog.
YU Grupa
YU Grupa (ЈУ Група) is a Serbian rock band formed in Belgrade in 1970 by brothers Dragi and Žika Jelić, the longest-active rock band of the former Yugoslavia.
Yuksek
Yuksek, the working name of Pierre-Alexandre Busson, a French electronic producer and DJ born in Reims in 1977, has released five studio albums and founded the label Partyfine.
Yulianna Karaulova
Yulianna Karaulova (Юлианна Караулова), born 1988 in Moscow, is a Russian pop singer who fronted 5sta Family from 2011 to 2015 before a solo career with the hit «Ты не такой».
Yung Trappa
Yung Trappa, born Vladislav Shiryaev (Владислав Ширяев), was a Russian hip-hop artist from St. Petersburg and a founding figure of the early Russian trap scene, imprisoned for drug dealing and dead at 27 in 2023.
Yuri Malikov and Novye Samotsvety
Yuri Malikov and Novye Samotsvety covers the Soviet ensemble Samotsvety, created by Yuri Malikov in 1971, and the revival Novye Samotsvety launched by his daughter Inna in 2006.
Zagrebfest
Zagrebfest, since 1984 the short name of the Zagrebački festival, is a Croatian festival of pop and rock music held in Zagreb since 1953, the oldest popular-music festival in Croatia.
Zambetas
Giorgos Zambetas (Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας) was a Greek laiko composer, singer, and bouzouki virtuoso, born in Athens in 1925 and died there in 1992. He wrote more than 250 songs and music for over 100 films.
Zartmann
Zartmann is a German singer-songwriter from Berlin whose single "Tau mich auf" topped the German chart in 2025 and became the country's most-streamed song of the year.
Zazie
Zazie, born Isabelle de Truchis de Varennes in 1964, is a French singer-songwriter who has won five Victoires de la musique and four The Voice titles as a coach.
Zdenka Kovačiček
Zdenka Kovačiček is a Croatian singer of pop, rock, blues, and jazz, born in Zagreb in 1944, called the "first lady" of Croatian jazz and a rock pioneer.
ZDF Fernsehgarten
ZDF Fernsehgarten is a live open-air Sunday entertainment show ZDF has staged in Mainz every summer since 1986, mixing Schlager and rock with games, hosted by Andrea Kiewel.
Željko Joksimović
Željko Joksimović (Жељко Јоксимовић) is a Serbian singer, composer, and producer born in Belgrade in 1972, best known for finishing second at Eurovision 2004 with "Lane moje".
Zeus Record
Zeus Record is a record label in Naples, Italy, founded by Espedito Barrucci in the early 1960s and still run by his family, known for Neapolitan and neomelodico music.
ZickZack
ZickZack was a Hamburg independent record label founded by music journalist Alfred Hilsberg around 1980, releasing Neue Deutsche Welle acts like Abwärts and Einstürzende Neubauten.
Zillertaler Schürzenjäger
The Zillertaler Schürzenjäger, known since 1995 as Schürzenjäger, are an Austrian folk-pop band from Mayrhofen in the Zillertal, Tyrol, founded in 1973 and pioneers of Alpenrock.
Zivert
Zivert, also known as Yulia Zivert (Зиверт), is a Russian pop singer born in Moscow in 1990 whose 2018 single "Life" topped the Russian Shazam and iTunes charts.
ZK
ZK, short for Zentralkomitee, was a German-language punk band from Düsseldorf, West Germany, active until 1981 and led by Campino, later of Die Toten Hosen.
Zlata Ognevich
Zlata Ognevich (Злата Огневич), born Inna Bordyug in 1986, is a Ukrainian estrada singer who finished third for Ukraine at Eurovision 2013 in Malmö with "Gravity".
Zlata Petrović
Zlata Petrović is a Serbian folk singer born in Belgrade in 1962, whose debut album Dođi da mi ruke greješ appeared in 1983 and whose signature song is Učinilo vreme svoje.
Zolotoe Koltso
Zolotoe Koltso (Золотое кольцо, "Golden Ring") is a Russian estrada folk ensemble founded in 1988 at the Smolensk Philharmonic, known for Kadysheva's folk-pop hits and a 2024 viral revival.
Zoopark
Zoopark (Зоопарк) was a Soviet rock band founded in Leningrad in 1980 by singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mike Naumenko, a fixed point of the Leningrad underground whose rock'n'roll catalog survived his 1991 death.
Zucchero
Zucchero is the stage name of Adelmo Fornaciari, born 1955, an Italian blues-rock singer who has sold over 60 million records and worked with Eric Clapton, Bono, and Pavarotti.
Züri West
Züri West is a Swiss dialect rock band from Bern, founded in 1984 and fronted by Kuno Lauener, whose 1994 hit "I schänke dr mis Härz" made them mainstream stars.
Zvonkiy
Zvonkiy (Звонкий) is the stage name of Andrey Lyskov, a Russian singer and producer on the Velvet Music label whose «Голоса» was the most-played male-vocal song on Russian radio in 2019.
Zvuk
Zvuk (Звук) is a Russian music and audio streaming service with more than 75 million tracks, podcasts, and audiobooks, launched in 2010 as Zvooq and acquired by Sberbank in 2020.
Zvuki Mu
Zvuki Mu (Звуки Му) was a Russian post-punk group from Moscow led by singer and songwriter Pyotr Mamonov, formed in 1981 and regarded as a leader of Soviet post-punk.
Zwei kleine Italiener
"Zwei kleine Italiener" is a 1961 German Schlager song recorded by Conny Froboess; it placed sixth at Eurovision 1962 and topped the German charts for six weeks.
Альянс (group)
Альянс (Alliance) is a Soviet and Russian rock band founded in Moscow in 1981, a pioneer of Soviet new wave and synth-pop best known for the 1987 song «На заре».
Ёлка (musician)
Ёлка (Elizaveta Ivantsiv) is a Russian-language pop and R&B singer born in 1982 in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, whose 2011 hit «Прованс» made her a mainstream star in Moscow.