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Omid
Omid (امید) is the stage name of Omid Soltani, an Iranian pop singer of the Tehrangeles diaspora scene who signed with Taraneh Records in 1992.
Ozan Çolakoğlu
Ozan Çolakoğlu is a Turkish arranger, producer, and composer born in 1972 in Adana, who has shaped Turkish pop through his work with Tarkan and Hande Yener since 1992.
Ozan Musluoğlu
Ozan Musluoğlu is a Turkish jazz double bassist, composer, and bandleader in Istanbul, known for his albums Coincidence through Nine and for his years with Athena.
Özledim
Özledim is the 1991 debut album by the Turkish pop trio İzel-Çelik-Ercan, which sold over one million copies and made the trio famous almost overnight.
PARG
PARG (Պարգ) is the stage name of Pargev Vardanian, an Armenian singer-songwriter blending indie-folk, R&B, pop, and rock with traditional Armenian elements, who represented Armenia at Eurovision 2025 with "SURVIVOR", finishing 20th in the grand final.
Patron (musician)
Patron (Ege Erkurt, born 1988 in Mersin, Turkey) is a Turkish rapper and songwriter active since 1999, a staple of the underground rap scene and founder of the PMC label.
Pınar Deniz
Pınar Deniz is a Turkish actress best known for playing lawyer Ceylin Erguvan in the Kanal D drama Yargı, winning Golden Butterfly Best Actress awards in 2022 and 2023.
Poll Production
Poll Production is a Turkish music production, artist management, and concert promotion company founded in 1996 by Polat Yağcı in Istanbul, managing around 40 artists and formerly trading as Poll Organizasyon.
Popstar Alaturka
Popstar Alaturka was a Turkish televised music competition on Star TV, later FOX, produced and hosted by Osmantan Erkır, that ran from 2006 to 2013.
Postcards
Postcards are a dream-pop and shoegaze trio from Beirut, Lebanon, formed in 2012, described as Lebanon's longest-running alternative band, blending dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk, and noise.
Pre-revolution pop (Golden Age of Iranian pop)
Pre-revolution pop is the Iranian popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, centered on Tehran's state radio and television, performed on Western instruments with Persian lyrics, and banned after the 1979 revolution.
Prestij Müzik
Prestij Müzik was a Turkish record label of the 1990s Istanbul music market, founded by Hilmi Topaloğlu and Burhan Aydemir and known for arabesk and pop stars like Mahsun Kırmızıgül.
Qatar National Convention Centre
The Qatar National Convention Centre (مركز قطر الوطني للمؤتمرات, QNCC) is a convention, exhibition, and concert venue on the Qatar Foundation campus in Doha, opened in 2011.
Qusai (aka Don Legend the Kamelion)
Qusai, also known as Don Legend the Kamelion, is a Saudi rapper, producer, and television personality born in 1978, considered the first professional rapper from Saudi Arabia.
Rabih Al Assmar
Rabih Al Assmar, also written Rabih Al Asmar, is the stage name of Abdullah Nasr Al-Din, a Lebanese shaabi singer who broke through with the 2004 hit Ghalak.
Radio Farda
Radio Farda, meaning "Radio Tomorrow" in Persian, is a US-funded Persian-language radio service for Iran, launched in 2002, mixing news with pop music for young Iranians.
Radyo Eksen
Radyo Eksen is a Turkish alternative and rock radio station in Istanbul, broadcasting on 96.2 FM since around 2000 and known as one of Turkey's main outlets for alternative music.
Radyo Fenomen
Radyo Fenomen is a national Turkish radio station headquartered in Istanbul, founded in 2007, playing foreign pop and Top 40 hits under the slogan "Maksimum Hit Müzik".
Rai (music genre)
Rai (Raï, راي) is a popular folk song genre from Algeria, born in the cities of western Algeria in the 1920s and made internationally famous by Khaled's 1992 hit "Didi".
Rap-e Farsi
Rap-e Farsi (رپ فارسی), or Persian rap, is Persian-language hip-hop that emerged in Iran in the 2000s, spread through the diaspora, and remains largely illegal in Iran.
Rapstar
Rapstar is the second solo album by the Turkish rapper Ceza, released in 2004 on Hammer Müzik; critics describe it as the record that carried Turkish rap from the underground toward the mainstream.
Rashed Al-Majed
Rashed Al-Majed (راشد الماجد) is a Saudi Khaleeji pop singer, born in Bahrain in 1969, whose career began in 1984 and spans more than 22 albums, including the best-selling Al Musafir (1996).
Rashid Al Faris
Rashid Al Faris (راشد الفارس, Rashed Al Fares), born in 1971, is a Saudi Khaleeji pop singer nicknamed the Knight of Saudi Song, active since his 1997 debut album.
Reza Sadeghi
Reza Sadeghi (رضا صادقی), born 1979 in Bandar Abbas, is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and composer known as Meshki Poosh, the man in black, active since the 1990s.
Riad Al Sunbati
Riad Al Sunbati, also Riad Sonbati (رياض السنباطي), was an Egyptian composer who wrote about 95 songs for Umm Kulthum, including the celebrated "Al Atlal" of 1966.
Rim'K
Rim'K (Abdelkrim Brahmi, born 1978 in Vitry-sur-Seine) is a French-Algerian rapper, a founding member of 113 and Mafia K'1 Fry, and a solo artist since 2004.
Riq
The riq (رق), also spelled riqq or rik, is a small tambourine-family frame drum with paired metal jingles, a mainstay of Arab art music ensembles in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
Riyadh International Jazz Festival
The Riyadh International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, produced by the Music Commission and first held in February 2024 with Chaka Khan headlining.
Riyadh Season
Riyadh Season (موسم الرياض) is an annual entertainment festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, running October to March since 2019, with concerts, sports, and over 20 million visitors in 2024.
Roman havası
Roman havası is the 9/8 dance music of Turkey's Roma communities, played on davul, zurna, and clarinet, centered in Thrace and performed above all at weddings and street festivities.