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Bora Đorđević

Bora Đorđević (Бора Ђорђевић), known as Bora Čorba, was a Serbian and Yugoslav rock musician and lead vocalist of Riblja Čorba, which he founded in 1978.

Bora Drljača

Bora Drljača (Бора Дрљача), born Borislav Drljača, was a Serbian folk singer, active from the 1960s to the 2010s, best known for the hit "Plači, mala, plači".

Bora Dugić

Bora Dugić (Бора Дугић), born 1949 in Đurđevo, is a Serbian virtuoso of the frula, a shepherd's pipe, and a Radio Television of Serbia soloist for three decades.

Bourvil

Bourvil, stage name of André Robert Raimbourg (1917–1970), was a French singer and comic actor from Normandy who recorded around 300 songs and starred in 62 films.

Brigadny Podryad

Brigadny Podryad (Бригадный Подряд) is a Russian punk-rock band formed in May 1986 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, and called one of the founders of Russian punk rock.

Brussels Summer Festival

The Brussels Summer Festival is a music festival held each August in central Brussels, Belgium, founded in 2002 and peaking at about 125,000 admissions in the mid-2010s.

Buba Corelli

Buba Corelli is the stage name of Amar Hodžić, a Bosnian rapper and producer born in 1989 in Sarajevo, known as a leading figure of Balkan trap alongside Jala Brat.

Büne Huber

Büne Huber (Bernhard Huber), born 1962 in Bern, is a Swiss singer, lyricist, and painter who founded and fronts the Bernese dialect rock band Patent Ochsner.

Butrint Imeri

Butrint Imeri is a Kosovar-Albanian singer and dancer, born in Lörrach, Germany in 1996, who has topped the Albanian charts since the mid-2010s with club-oriented R&B tracks.

Call Me (music)

"Call Me" is a 1987 Italo disco song by the Italian singer Spagna, one of the era's biggest European crossover hits, reaching number 2 in the UK and Italy.

Cantautore

Cantautore, plural cantautori, is the Italian word for a singer-songwriter, coined in 1960 as a contraction of cantante-autore and central to Italian popular music through canzone d'autore.

Canzonissima

Canzonissima was an RAI song-competition variety show tied to Italy's New Year lottery, airing in twelve editions from 1958 to 1975 and drawing over 20 million viewers.

Capital T (rapper)

Capital T, born Trim Ademi, is a Kosovo-Albanian rapper and singer from Pristina, known since his 2012 album KAPO as a foundational name of Albanian-language commercial rap.

Casinò di Sanremo

The Casinò di Sanremo, also known as the Sanremo Casino, is a historic casino and theater in Sanremo, Italy, inaugurated in 1905 as Italy's first licensed gaming house.

Caterina Caselli

Caterina Caselli, born in 1946, is an Italian singer and record producer whose 1966 hit 'Nessuno mi può giudicare' sold over a million copies; she later launched Andrea Bocelli and Elisa.

Chaif

Chaif (Чайф) is a Soviet and Russian rock group from Sverdlovsk, founded in 1985 and led by Vladimir Shakhrin, known as the flagship of Ural rock.

Charles Trenet

Charles Trenet (1913–2001) was a French singer-songwriter and defining figure of chanson, known as the "fou chantant" and for "La Mer", one of the most recorded songs in history.

Chicherina

Chicherina (Чичерина), the stage name of Yulia Dmitrievna Chicherina, is a Russian rock singer born in 1978 in Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg, who broke through in 2000 with «Ту-лу-ла».

Chiello

Chiello (Rocco Modello, born 1999 in Venosa, Italy) is an Italian rapper and singer-songwriter, a founding frontman of the trap collective FSK Satellite and a solo artist since 2021.

Chimène Badi

Chimène Badi is a French singer, born in 1982, discovered on the TV show Popstars in 2002; her debut single "Entre nous" topped the French chart in 2003.

Christophe

Christophe, born Daniel Bevilacqua in 1945, was a French singer-songwriter whose 1965 hit "Aline" made him a yé-yé idol; he died in 2020 at 74.

Christos Dantis

Christos Dantis (Χρήστος Δάντης) is a Greek singer, songwriter, and record producer who broke through with the 1990 album Daktylika Apotypomata and co-wrote "My Number One", Greece's 2005 Eurovision winner.

Christos Mastoras

Christos Mastoras (Χρήστος Μάστορας) is a Greek singer, lead vocalist and frontman of the pop-rock band Melisses, one of Greek radio's most-played acts, with a parallel solo career.

Cindy aus Marzahn

Cindy aus Marzahn is the comedy stage character of German comedian Ilka Bessin, a pink-tracksuited woman from Berlin-Marzahn who debuted in 2004 and returned in 2022.

Civilisation Tour - Orelsan

The Civilisation Tour was Orelsan's 2022–2023 arena and festival tour supporting his album Civilisation, winning concert of the year at the 2023 Victoires de la Musique.

Clan Celentano

Clan Celentano is an Italian record label founded by singer Adriano Celentano in Milan, registered in 1961, Italy's first artist-owned label and its longest-lived independent, distributed by Universal Music since 2010.

Claude Barzotti

Claude Barzotti, born Francesco Barzotti (1953–2023), was a Belgian singer of Italian origin whose ballad 'Le Rital' topped the French chart for seven weeks in 1983.

Clementino

Clementino (Clemente Maccaro) is an Italian rapper and singer born in 1982 near Naples, known for freestyle titles, two Sanremo appearances in 2016 and 2017, and 2025's Grande Anima.

Club Dogo

Club Dogo is an Italian rap group from Milan formed in 2002 by Guè Pequeno, Jake La Furia, and Don Joe, credited with popularizing rap in Italy.

Clueso

Clueso, the stage name of Thomas Hübner, born 1980, is a German singer, rapper, and songwriter from Erfurt with several number 1 albums, including 'Stadtrandlichter' and 'Neuanfang'.