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Mohsen Yeganeh
Mohsen Yeganeh (محسن یگانه) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and composer born in 1985 in Gonbad-e Kavus, best known for his 2016 hit "Behet Ghol Midam".
Morteza Barjesteh
Morteza Barjesteh, billed as Morteza, is an Iranian pop singer and composer based in Los Angeles since 1981, a leading voice of the Tehrangeles exile pop scene.
Mostafa Amar
Mostafa Amar, also known as Moustafa Amar (مصطفى قمر), is an Egyptian singer, composer, and actor born in 1966 in Alexandria, a central figure of 1990s jeel-pop.
Müge Anlı
Müge Anlı is a Turkish television presenter and journalist, born in Istanbul in 1973, best known as the host of the crime-reality program Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert.
Muhlis Akarsu
Muhlis Akarsu (1948–1993) was a Turkish Alevi folk singer and bağlama player known for the Muhabbet series with Musa Eroğlu and Arif Sağ, who died in the 1993 Sivas Madımak Hotel fire.
Mustafa Ceceli
Mustafa Ceceli is a Turkish pop singer, arranger, and producer born in Ankara in 1980 who rose from arranging for stars to a solo career with his 2009 debut album.
Muwashshah
The muwashshah (موشح) is a strophic Arabic song and poetry genre from al-Andalus, its literary form dating to the 9th century and its sung tradition blossoming in Aleppo in the 17th.
MÜYAP
MÜYAP (MÜ-YAP), the Professional Union of Connected Rightsholder Phonogram Producers, is the Turkish professional association of recorded-music producers, founded in Istanbul in 2000, which collects and distributes royalties for member companies and fights piracy.
Myriam Fares
Myriam Fares (ميريام فارس) is a Lebanese singer, dancer, and songwriter born in 1983, known for dance-driven Arabic pop and the 2019 viral hit "Goumi".
N7
N7 is a Saudi performer billed on the opening night of the first MDL Beast festival in Riyadh, held 19 to 21 December 2019 and later branded Soundstorm.
Nabati poetry
Nabati poetry (الشعر النبطي) is the colloquial Bedouin verse tradition of Arabia and the Gulf, composed in everyday speech rather than Classical Arabic and attested since the fourteenth century.
Nabil Shuail
Nabil Shuail, also written Nabeel Shuail (نبيل شعيل), is a Kuwaiti singer nicknamed the Gulf Nightingale who has led Gulf pop for more than four decades since his 1982 breakthrough.
Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam (نجوى كرم) is a Lebanese singer and television personality known as Shams El-Ghinnieh, born in Zahle in 1966, with more than twenty albums since 1989.
Naşide Göktürk
Naşide Göktürk (1965–2016) was a Turkish pop singer, lyricist, and composer from Istanbul who rose to fame writing for Sezen Aksu before releasing six albums of her own.
Nasıl Delirdim?
Nasıl Delirdim? ("How Did I Go Mad?") is the fifth studio album by Turkish pop singer Hande Yener, released in 2007 and marking her full shift to electronic music.
Nasrat Parsa
Nasrat Parsa (نصرت پارسا) was an Afghan pop singer, born in Kabul around 1968, who released ten albums blending pop, ghazal, and classical Afghan styles before his death in Vancouver in 2005.
Nassif Zaytoun
Nassif Zaytoun (نصيف زيتون) is a Syrian pop singer who won season 7 of Star Academy and became known for the 2014 single "Mich Aam Tezbat Maii".
Nawal
Nawal, also known as Nawal El Kuwaitia (نوال), is a Kuwaiti singer born Nawal Thaher Habib Al-Zaid in 1966, a Khaliji superstar popular across the Persian Gulf states.
Nay
The nay (ناي) is the end-blown reed flute of Arab art music, the only wind instrument of the classical takht ensemble, with roots in ancient Egypt.
Neşet Ertaş
Neşet Ertaş (1938–2012), who wrote under the pen name Garip, was a Turkish Abdal folk singer and bağlama player from Kırşehir, known as Bozkırın Tezenesi, the plectrum of the steppe.
Nigina Amonqulova
Nigina Amonqulova (Нигина Амонқулова), also transliterated Nigina Amonkulova, is a Tajik pop singer born in 1986 in Panjakent, best known for retro Tajik and Persian repertoire, including Rumi's poetry.
Nil Karaibrahimgil (musician)
Nil Karaibrahimgil is a Turkish pop singer-songwriter born in Ankara in 1976, who debuted in 2002 and is known for witty, self-written hits such as "Bu Mudur?".
Nooshafarin
Nooshafarin (نوشآفرین), born Fatemeh Abdi in 1956, is an Iranian pop singer and former actress who began in 1970s Tehran and rebuilt her career in exile in Los Angeles, best known for "Golam, Gol-e Aftabgardun".
Norm Ender
Norm Ender is the stage name of Ender Eroğlu, a Turkish rapper born in İzmir in 1985, best known for his 2017 album Aura and its hit "Kaktüs".
Nour Mhanna
Nour Mhanna, also written Nour Mahanna (نور مهنا), is a Syrian tarab vocalist from Aleppo, born in 1966, best known for reviving Souad Mohammed's "Wahashitni" in the early 1990s.
O-Hum
O-Hum (اوهام) is an Iranian rock band formed in Tehran in the late 1990s and fronted by Shahram Sharbaf, known for setting Hafez's poetry to rock.
Ogün Sanlısoy
Ogün Sanlısoy, born 1971 in Gölcük, Turkey, is a Turkish rock singer known as vocalist of the metal band Pentagram in two spells and for a solo career.
Oğuzhan Koç
Oğuzhan Koç is a Turkish singer-songwriter and comedian, born in 1985, known for the BKM comedy troupe and his 2013 debut album Ben Hala Rüyada.
Oka & Ortega
Oka & Ortega (أوكي وأورتيجا) are an Egyptian mahraganat and electro-shaabi duo from Cairo, formed of Mohamed Salah (Oka) and Ahmed Metwali (Ortega), pioneers of the genre.
Ömer Faruk Tekbilek
Ömer Faruk Tekbilek, also known as Omar Faruk Tekbilek, is a Turkish multi-instrumentalist born in 1951 in Adana who plays the ney, zurna, oud, and bağlama.