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Star Academy Arab World (music)
Star Academy (ستار أكاديمي) was a pan-Arab reality music show on Lebanon's LBC from 2003, where viewers voted weekly; Egypt's Mohammed Attia won the first season.
Sussan Deyhim
Sussan Deyhim, born in Iran in 1958, is an Iranian composer and vocalist who left Tehran in 1980, blending Persian music with electronics from New York and later Los Angeles.
Suzanne Tamim
Suzanne Tamim (سوزان تميم) was a Lebanese pop singer who rose to fame across the Arab world after winning the Studio El Fan talent show in 1996 and was murdered in Dubai in 2008.
Tajik pop
Tajik pop, also known as Tajikistani pop, is the Persian-language popular music of post-Soviet Tajikistan, centered on Dushanbe and reaching audiences across Afghanistan, Iran, and the diaspora.
Talal Maddah
Talal Maddah (طلال مداح), known as the Voice of the Earth, was a Saudi singer and composer born in Mecca who shaped the modern Saudi song.
Talal Salamah
Talal Salamah (طلال سلامة) is a Saudi singer born in Medina in 1966, a classic-era exponent of Saudi romantic song whose 1985 anthem "Allah Allah Ya Muntakhabna" launched his career.
Tamer Hosni
Tamer Hosni (تامر حسني) is an Egyptian pop singer, songwriter, and actor who in 2018 became the first Egyptian musician to hold a concert in Saudi Arabia.
Tamtam
Tamtam is a Saudi singer-songwriter based between Riyadh and Los Angeles, singing in Arabic and English; she performed the official Coca-Cola anthem for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Tanju Okan
Tanju Okan (1938–1996) was a Turkish singer and actor whose melancholic baritone on aranjman hits like 'Hasret' and 'Kadınım' earned him the label of Turkey's Frank Sinatra.
Tiktaak
Tik Taak (تیک تاک) is an Iranian hip-hop and pop-rap group active since 2011, known for 'Erade Kon', 'Na Dige Na', and '5Shanbe', with over 300 million plays.
TNK
TNK is a Turkish alternative rock and pop group founded in 2001 in Ankara, best known for "Aşkı Harcamanın 80 Yolu" and "Yine Yazı Bekleriz".
Tombak
The tombak (تنبک), also spelled tonbak and also called zarb, is a goblet-shaped wooden drum and the most important percussion instrument in Iranian classical music, made a solo instrument by Hossein Tehrani in the 1950s.
TootArd
TootArd, Arabic for "strawberry," is a band from Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, founded in 2010 by the Nakhleh brothers and now a genre-fluid duo.
Trio Joubran
Trio Joubran, or Le Trio Joubran, is a Palestinian oud trio of brothers Samir, Wissam, and Adnan Joubran from Nazareth, the world's first professional three-oud ensemble, performing internationally since the mid-2000s.
Tuna Kiremitçi
Tuna Kiremitçi is a Turkish novelist and songwriter born in 1973 in Eskişehir, whose duet albums with female vocalists have drawn hundreds of millions of streams.
TuralTuranX
TuralTuranX are an Azerbaijani music duo formed of twin brothers Tural and Turan Bağmanov, who represented Azerbaijan at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with "Tell Me More".
Turkish classical music
Turkish classical music, also called Turkish art music (Türk sanat müziği), is the makam-based art music that developed in the Ottoman court and dervish lodges.
Universal Arabic Music (record label)
Universal Arabic Music is a record label dedicated to Arabic music, founded in 2021 by Universal Music Group and Republic Records with Wassim "SAL" Slaiby as CEO.
Usul
Usûl is the metric system of Turkish music: fixed, named rhythmic cycles of strong, semi-strong, and weak beats, one of its two primary elements alongside makam.
Valy
Valy (والی), born Valy Hedjasi, is an Afghan pop singer born in Mashhad, Iran, raised in Germany, known for his 2007 debut album After Love.
Viguen
Viguen (Vigen Derderian, ویگن) was an Armenian-Iranian pop singer and guitarist, born in Hamadan in 1929, regarded as Iran's first male pop star and known as the "Sultan of Jazz".
Visa for Music
Visa for Music is an annual four-day music showcase festival and professional market held each November in Rabat, Morocco, founded in 2014 by Brahim El Mazned.
Waad
Waad (وعد) is a Saudi singer, real name Hanan Bakr Younis, who began her career in 1999 and records in Gulf, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Iraqi dialects.
Wael Kfoury
Wael Kfoury (وائل كفوري), born Michel Émile Kfoury in 1974, is a Lebanese singer and songwriter known across the Arab world as "The King of Romance" for his ballad style.
Waheshni
Waheshni (وحشتيني), meaning "you made me miss you", is a Khaleeji ballad by Saudi and Bahraini singer Rashed Al-Majed, a notable track on his 1996 album Al-Musafir.
Walid Toufic
Walid Toufic (وليد توفيق), born Walid Toutounji in 1954 in Tripoli, Lebanon, is a Lebanese singer and oud player known for the party staple 'Enzel Ya Gameel'.
WHITE Dubai (nightclub)
WHITE Dubai is a rooftop nightclub in Dubai, opened in 2013 at Meydan Racecourse and ranked as high as No. 15 in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.
Wust El Balad
Wust El Balad (وسط البلد) is an Egyptian soft-rock and independent band founded in Cairo in 1999, named after Downtown Cairo and blending Arabic music with rock and jazz.
Yalın
Yalın, born Hüseyin Yalın in 1980 in Istanbul, is a Turkish pop singer who writes his own songs and rose to fame with his 2004 debut album Ellerine Sağlık.
Yaşar
Yaşar is a Turkish pop singer born in 1970 in Adana, whose gold 1996 debut album Divane and its song "Kumralım" made him a defining romantic-pop voice of 1990s Turkey.