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Roozbeh Bemani
Roozbeh Bemani (روزبه بمانی) is an Iranian poet, lyricist, songwriter, and singer born in Tehran in 1978, first known for writing songs for Dariush, Googoosh, and Mohsen Chavoshi.
Saber El Robaee
Saber El Robaee (صابر الرباعي), also known as Saber Rebaï, is a Tunisian singer born in 1967 in Sfax, best known for his modernized reprise "Sidi Mansour".
Sabri Moudallal
Sabri Moudallal (صبري مدلل, 1918–2006) was a Syrian singer, muezzin, and composer from Aleppo, a master of the muwashshah and of the classical wasla suite.
Sabri Tuluğ Tırpan
Sabri Tuluğ Tırpan is a Turkish pianist, composer, and arranger born in Istanbul in 1970, known for blending jazz, classical, and Anatolian folk music, and based in Vienna and Istanbul.
Sadegh Nojouki
Sadegh Nojouki (صادق نوجوکی) is an Iranian composer, arranger, and pianist who shaped 1970s Persian pop, then left after the 1979 revolution and worked with exiled singers in Los Angeles.
Sahneh
Sahneh (صحنه, "Scene") is the second studio album by Iranian pop singer Siavash Shams, released on Caltex Records in the early 1990s and credited with introducing modern Iranian dance music.
Saif Amer
Saif Amer (سيف عامر) is an Iraqi singer, composer, pianist, and songwriter active since 2015, whose single 'Aybaah' ranked among Saudi Arabia's most-streamed Arabic songs of 2024.
Saif Nabil
Saif Nabil, also known as Saif Nabeel (سيف نبيل), is an Iraqi singer and composer whose 2015 song "Qabel Youmeen" made him famous across the Gulf.
Salar Aghili
Salar Aghili (سالار عقیلی; full name Mir Salar Moslemi Aghili) is an Iranian singer of Persian classical music, born in 1977 in Tehran, and the regular vocalist of Iran's National Music Orchestra.
Salima Murad
Salima Murad (سليمة مراد), also known as Salima Pasha, was an Iraqi singer of Baghdadi Jewish origin who dominated Iraqi song from the 1920s to the late 1960s.
Şanışer
Şanışer is the stage name of Sarp Palaur, a Turkish rapper, songwriter, and video director best known for assembling and directing the 2019 all-star protest track Susamam.
Sawt El Ghad
Sawt El Ghad (صوت الغد, "Voice of Tomorrow") is a Beirut-based Lebanese FM radio station founded in 1997, mixing hit music with political news and broadcasting in Lebanon on 96.7 and 97.1 MHz.
Şebnem Paker
Şebnem Paker is a Turkish singer, guitarist, and music teacher who represented Turkey at Eurovision in 1996 and 1997, finishing third in Dublin with "Dinle".
Semiramis Pekkan
Semiramis Pekkan (born 1948) is a Turkish pop singer and actress, the younger sister of Ajda Pekkan, who recorded from 1968 to 1975 and returned in 2024 with 'Unutamadım'.
Sertab Erener
Sertab Erener is a Turkish pop singer born in Istanbul in 1964, the first Turkish winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, taking the 2003 title in Riga with "Everyway That I Can".
Shababeek
Shababeek (شبابيك, "Windows") is a 1981 studio album by Egyptian singer Mohamed Mounir, his third, arranged with jazz drummer Yehya Khalil and his best selling.
Shahrum Kashani
Shahrum Kashani (شهرام کاشانی), also known as Shahrum K, was an Iranian-American pop singer of the Los Angeles diaspora scene with hits like Dokhtar Bandari.
Shakila (musician)
Shakila is an Iranian-born Persian-American singer based in San Francisco, born in 1962, whose career since 1990 spans Taraneh and Caltex Records and over sixty albums.
Shardad Rohani
Shardad Rohani (شهرداد روحانی) is an Iranian-American composer, conductor, and violinist, born in Tehran and trained in Vienna, known for conducting Yanni's televised 1994 Live at the Acropolis concert.
Siavash Ghomayshi
Siavash Ghomayshi (سیاوش قمیشی) is an Iranian singer, musician, and songwriter born in 1945 in Ahvaz, who composed for Ebi and Dariush before leaving Iran after the revolution.
Sijal
Sijal (سیجل) is the stage name of Siavash Jalali, an Iranian rapper and songwriter in the Tehran hip-hop group Zedbazi, active in Persian rap since 2007.
Simge Sağın
Simge Sağın, known as Simge, is a Turkish pop singer born in Istanbul in 1981 who broke through in 2015 with "Miş Miş", a four-week number one.
Sinan Akçıl
Sinan Akçıl is a Turkish composer, singer-songwriter, and producer, born in 1982, who wrote Hadise's Eurovision 2009 hit "Düm Tek Tek" before releasing his own albums.
Sinan Özen
Sinan Özen is a Turkish singer, composer, and songwriter born in 1964 in Çayeli, Rize Province, whose blend of arabesk and pop produced 1990s hits like "Öpsene Beni".
Sıla
Sıla, born Sıla Gençoğlu in 1980, is a Turkish pop singer and songwriter whose debut single "...Dan Sonra" spent 12 weeks at number 1 in Turkey in 2007.
Sogand
Sogand (سوگند), the stage name of Sogand Soheili, is an Iranian rapper, singer, and songwriter born in Isfahan in 1987, known as a pioneering woman in Persian hip-hop.
Sohrab Pournazeri
Sohrab Pournazeri (سهراب پورناظری) is an Iranian composer and virtuoso of the tanbour, kamancheh, and setar, best known for his classical-pop duo with singer Homayoun Shajarian.
Somaya Darweesh
Somaya Darweesh (Sumaya Darwish) is an Egyptian singer and actress born in Cairo in 1989, best known for "Al-Ayam" from the 2007 film Kashf Hesab.
Sonia M'Barek
Sonia M'Barek (سنية مبارك), born 1969 in Sfax, Tunisia, is a singer of classical Arabic music credited as the first female malouf performer and minister of culture in 2016.
Sony Music Middle East (record label)
Sony Music Middle East is the Dubai-based regional arm of Sony Music Entertainment, which signs Arabic and Khaleeji pop acts including Amr Diab and Bader Al Shuaibi.