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K-Trap

K-Trap is the stage name of Devonte Perkins, a South London UK drill and trap rapper. Known for his early balaclava persona, 2017 mixtape The Last Whip, Headie One collaboration Strength to Strength, and 2024 album SMILE?; distinct from other artists named K-Trap.

K.Flay

K.Flay (Kristine Meredith Flaherty, born 1985) is an American genre-blending singer, songwriter, and rapper from outside Chicago; Stanford graduate, Grammy-nominated for "Blood in the Cut," albums Life as a Dog, Every Where Is Some Where, Solutions, and MONO.

K'naan

K'naan (Keinan Abdi Warsame, born 1978) is a Somali-born Canadian rapper behind "Wavin' Flag," the 2010 FIFA World Cup anthem, and Juno-winning albums The Dusty Foot Philosopher and Troubadour.

KAABOO Music Festival 2016

KAABOO Music Festival 2016 was the second edition of a three-day music, comedy, food, and art festival held September 16-18, 2016, at Del Mar, California.

Käärijä

Käärijä (Jere Pöyhönen, born 1993) is a Finnish rapper from Vantaa who came second at Eurovision 2023 with "Cha Cha Cha", winning the televote; albums Fantastista and People's Champion.

Kaaris

Kaaris is the stage name of Gnakouri Okou, a French rapper of Ivorian origin born in 1980, best known for the 2013 album Or Noir and his feud with Booba.

Kah-Lo

Kah-Lo is a Nigerian singer-songwriter of electronic pop and house music, born and raised in Lagos, known for the Grammy-nominated 2016 single "Rinse & Repeat" with Riton.

Kalmah

Kalmah is a Finnish melodic death metal band from Pudasjärvi, formed in 1998. The group is known for its high-velocity style, twin guitars, and nine studio albums.

Kamal Givens

Kamal Givens (Chance), American rapper and VH1 reality star of I Love New York, I Love Money, Real Chance of Love and One Mo' Chance; Stallionaires member, brother of the late Ahmad Givens (Real).

Kamelot

Kamelot is an American symphonic power metal band formed in Tampa, Florida, in 1991 by guitarist Thomas Youngblood. Known for the Faust-based Epica and The Black Halo, singers Roy Khan and Tommy Karevik, and fourteen albums through Dark Asylum (2026).

Kamma & Masalo

Kamma & Masalo are an Amsterdam-based DJ and production duo known for their Brighter Days party series since 2014, their 2023 Rush Hour compilation, and their label Brighter Discs.

Kandi (bead bracelets)

Kandi are handmade beaded bracelets, spelled with a k, that ravers trade as a show of friendship at electronic dance music events, primarily in North America.

Kangding Ray

Kangding Ray is David Letellier (born 1978, France), a Berlin-based experimental techno producer of Stabil, Ultrachroma, and Zero, and composer of the Cannes-winning Sirât soundtrack.

Kano (British musician)

Kano, born Kane Robinson in 1985, is an East London grime MC and actor; debut album Home Sweet Home (2005), six studio albums, Mercury nominations, and Sully in Top Boy.

Kanonenfieber

Kanonenfieber is a German blackened death metal band formed in 2020 in Bamberg, led by anonymous musician Noise, themed entirely on World War I through authentic soldiers' documents; albums Menschenmühle and Die Urkatastrophe.

Kanye West

Kanye West, legally Ye since 2021, is a Chicago-raised American rapper and producer born in Atlanta in 1977, known for chipmunk soul sampling, The College Dropout, MBDTF, Yeezus, and later antisemitic controversy.

Kap G

Kap G (George Ramirez, born 1994) is a Mexican-American rapper from College Park, Georgia, signed to Atlantic with Pharrell's i am OTHER, known for "Girlfriend" (2016, platinum), SupaJefe, No Kap, and the 2017 XXL Freshman Class.

Kappa FuturFestival

Kappa FuturFestival is an annual techno and house music festival held each July at Parco Dora in Turin, Italy, which drew 120,000 attendees in 2025 and ranked 6th in DJ Mag's Top 100 Festivals poll.

Karan Aujla

Karan Aujla (Jaskaran Singh Aujla, born 1997, Ghurala, Punjab) is an Indo-Canadian Punjabi singer, rapper, and songwriter based in Surrey, BC. Known for Making Memories, Street Dreams, P-POP CULTURE, 'Tauba Tauba', and as the first Punjabi artist to win a Juno Award.

Kardinal Offishall

Kardinal Offishall (Jason Harrow, b. 1976, Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian rapper and producer from Toronto; dancehall-infused hip-hop, "Naughty Dread," "Northern Touch," "Bakardi Slang," "Dangerous," Not 4 Sale, Universal Music Canada A&R.

Karim Youssef

Karim Youssef is an Egyptian trance vocalist and producer, best known as the featured singer on "The Chronicles", the FSOE 500 anthem with Aly & Fila.

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe is an American funk and jazz-funk jam band formed in 1998 by saxophonist Karl Denson, growing out of San Diego's acid-jazz scene.

Karmon

Karmon is a Dutch house and techno producer and DJ associated with Solomun's Hamburg label Diynamic since 2012, with early tracks 'Wowshit' and the 'Feel It' EP.

Karrahbooo

Karrahbooo (Karrah Schuster, born 1997) is an Atlanta rapper, formerly of Lil Yachty's Concrete Boys, known for "Box the 40" and "Running Late" and the 2026 mixtape NOT DA 2.

Kash Doll

Kash Doll is Detroit rapper Arkeisha Knight, active from 2014; viral 2017 single "For Everybody," debut album Stacked (2019, Republic), The Last Doll (2024), Back on Dexter mixtape with DJ Drama, and recurring BMF role.

Kaskade

Kaskade (Ryan Raddon, born 1971) is an American progressive house DJ and producer, Chicago-born and San Francisco-based, known for Fire & Ice, Atmosphere, Las Vegas residencies, the Kx5 project with deadmau5, and eight Grammy nominations.

Kassem Mosse

Kassem Mosse, the performing moniker of Gunnar Wendel, is a German DJ and producer based in Leipzig whose murky house and techno music is closely tied to the Workshop label.

Kat

Kat, Polish for "executioner", is a heavy and speed metal band formed in 1979 in Katowice, Poland, whose early albums helped inspire the first wave of Polish black metal.

Kataklysm

Kataklysm, a Canadian death metal band from Montreal formed in 1991, known as Northern Hyperblast pioneers, led by Maurizio Iacono and J-F Dagenais, with fifteen albums from Sorcery (1995) to Goliath (2023) on Nuclear Blast.

Katatonia

Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström, evolving from death/doom (Dance of December Souls, Brave Murder Day) to gothic-progressive metal across 13 albums, most recently Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State (2025) on Napalm Records.