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Dimartino

Dimartino is the stage name of Antonio Di Martino, an Italian singer-songwriter from Palermo known for the duo Colapesce Dimartino and its 2021 hit "Musica leggerissima".

Dimitra Galani

Dimitra Galani (Δήμητρα Γαλάνη) is a Greek singer and composer, born in Athens in 1952, whose career since 1969 spans more than 80 albums of Entekhno, Laïko, pop, and jazz.

Dino Dvornik

Dino Dvornik (1964–2008) was a Croatian singer, composer, and producer from Split, son of actor Boris Dvornik and called the Croatian king of funk; his 1989 debut sold 750,000 copies.

Diodato

Diodato, born Antonio Diodato in Aosta in 1981 and raised in Taranto, is an Italian singer-songwriter who won the 2020 Sanremo Festival with "Fai rumore" and has released five studio albums.

Directia 5

Direcția 5 is a Romanian pop-rock band founded in 1991 in Bucharest by Marian Ionescu, one of Romania's best-known bands, famous for the 1993 hit "Seducție".

Disciplin A Kitschme

Disciplin A Kitschme, also known as Disciplina Kičme (Дисциплина Кичме), is a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade founded by bassist Dušan Kojić "Koja" in 1981.

Disiz

Disiz, also Disiz la Peste and Disiz Peter Punk, is the stage name of Sérigne M'Baye Gueye, a French rapper and singer born in 1978 in Amiens.

Distemper

Distemper (Дистемпер) is a Russian ska-punk band founded in Moscow in 1989 and described as the first known ska band from Russia, with 16 studio albums.

Divlje Jagode (group)

Divlje Jagode (Дивље Јагоде) are a heavy metal and hard rock group formed in 1977 in the Yugoslav rock scene, founded and still led by guitarist Sead "Zele" Lipovača.

DJ Smash

DJ Smash, stage name of Andrey Shirman, is a Russian DJ and producer whose 2008 album IDDQD went platinum and whose single Volna topped the Russian radio chart.

Dmitry Malikov

Dmitry Malikov (Дмитрий Маликов), born 1970 in Moscow, is a Russian pop singer, composer, and pianist, a People's Artist of Russia who rose to fame in 1988 with «Лунный сон».

DÖF

DÖF, short for Deutsch-Österreichisches Feingefühl, was a short-lived Austrian-German pop project of the Neue Deutsche Welle era, best known for "Codo", which topped the German charts for five weeks in 1983.

Dolcenera

Dolcenera, stage name of Emanuela Trane, is an Italian singer-songwriter born in 1977 in Galatina, Salento, who broke through by winning the newcomers' competition at the Sanremo Festival.

Dom La Nena

Dom La Nena, born Dominique Pinto in 1989, is a Brazilian-born cellist and singer in Paris known for cello-centered pop and the duo Birds on a Wire.

Donauinselfest

Donauinselfest is a free three-day open-air music festival held each summer on Vienna's Danube Island in Austria. First held in 1984, it claims to be Europe's largest free-entry festival.

Dorofeeva

Dorofeeva, also known as Nadya Dorofeeva, is a Ukrainian singer and designer who spent 2010 to 2020 in the duo Vremya i Steklo before a solo career.

Doukissa

Doukissa (Δούκισσα), full name Doukissa Fotara, was a Greek laiko singer born in Piraeus in 1941, known for 1967 duets with Tolis Voskopoulos and gold discs in 1975 and 1984.

Dragomir Despić Desingerica

Desingerica, born Dragomir Despić in Belgrade in 1993, is a Serbian rapper whose folk-trap fusion made "Ccokolada" a number-one hit on the Billboard chart in Croatia in 2023.

Drupi

Drupi, stage name of Giampiero Anelli, is an Italian pop singer born in Pavia in 1947 whose 'Vado via' finished last at Sanremo 1973 yet sold millions across Europe.

DSDS (Deutschland sucht den Superstar)

Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) is a German television casting show based on Simon Fuller's Pop Idol format, broadcast by RTL since 2002 and produced by UFA Show & Factual.

Duet Riton

Duet Riton (Дует Ритон) is a Bulgarian pop duo of Katya Mihaylova and Zdravko Zhelyazkov, who met at the Bulgarian State Conservatory in 1975 and have performed together since 1977, selling hundreds of thousands of albums.

Durium

Durium is an Italian record label of Milan, founded in 1932, known for its unbreakable flexible cardboard records, 1930s jazz 78s, children's fairy-tale discs, and the 1960s urban-song anthologies of Roberto Murolo.

Dvizh

Dvizh (движ) is Russian youth slang for a lively party, happening, or general buzz of activity, the defining party and concert slang of Russian-speaking cities in the 2010s.

Džej Ramadanovski

Dzej Ramadanovski (1964–2020) was a Serbian folk and turbo-folk singer of Romani ethnicity from Belgrade, known for melancholy ballads like 'Nedelja' and enormously popular across the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Dzhigan

Dzhigan (Джиган), born Denis Alexandrovich Ustimenko-Vainstein in Odessa in 1985, is a Russian rapper known for pop-rap duets, seven studio albums, and his years on Timati's Black Star label.

Eddy de Pretto

Eddy de Pretto is a French singer-songwriter blending chanson and rap, born in 1991, who broke through with the EP Kid and the number-one album Cure.

Edita Piekha

Edita Piekha (Эдита Пьеха), born in France in 1937, is a Soviet and Russian estrada singer of Polish descent who built her career in Leningrad.

Édith Butler

Édith Butler is an Acadian singer-songwriter and folklorist born in Paquetville, New Brunswick, in 1942, who has recorded about 300 songs and sold more than two million records.

Ein Kessel Buntes

Ein Kessel Buntes was the flagship Saturday-evening variety show of East German television, mixing music, comedy, dance, and acrobatics; it ran from 1972 until 1992, first on GDR television and then on ARD.

Ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt

"Ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt" is a 2007 party-Schlager duet by DJ Ötzi and Nik P. that topped the German and Austrian charts and sold 1.35 million copies.