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Yeşim Salkım
Yeşim Salkım is a Turkish singer and film and television actress, daughter of soloist Dursun Salkım, who debuted with the 1994 album Hiç Keyfim Yok.
Yılmaz Erdoğan
Yılmaz Erdoğan is a Turkish actor, poet, screenwriter, and director born in 1967 in Hakkâri, who founded the Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi theater and wrote and directed the hit film Vizontele.
Yonca Evcimik
Yonca Evcimik is a Turkish pop singer and dancer, born in Istanbul in 1963, whose 1991 debut album Abone broke 1990s sales records and pioneered dance choreography in Turkish pop.
Yosra Saouf
Yosra Saouf, also spelled Yousra Saouf (يسرا سعوف), is a Moroccan singer who rose to fame on Arab Idol in 2013, finishing ninth at age 20.
Youm Wara Youm
Youm Wara Youm (يوم ورا يوم) is a 2002 duet by Samira Said and Cheb Mami, the title track of Said's album of the same name.
Yüzyüzeyken Konuşuruz
Yüzyüzeyken Konuşuruz is a Turkish alternative rock and indie band formed in Istanbul in 2011, led by singer and songwriter Kaan Boşnak and guitarist Engin Sevik.
Zahir Howaida
Zahir Howaida (ظاهر هویدا) was an Afghan singer from Daykundi province, a leading voice of the Radio Kabul golden age of the 1960s and 1970s.
Zakaria Ghafouli
Zakaria Ghafouli (Zakaria El Ghafouli) is a Moroccan pop singer who modernizes Moroccan heritage styles, from Amazigh melodies to chaabi and rai, and became nationally known with his 2018 hit "Hobino".
Zamil
Zamil (Arabic: زامل) is a traditional Saudi group chanting art from Aseer and Najran provinces, in which five to sixty performers chant occasion-specific poems in call-and-response.
Zap Tharwat
Zap Tharwat (زاب ثروت), born Ahmed Tharwat Zaki in 1987, is an Egyptian rapper and songwriter in Cairo who rose with his 2011 revolution songs.
Zara (musician)
Zara, born Neşe Yılmaz in Istanbul in 1976, is a Turkish folk-music vocalist and actress, a contracted TRT folk voice artist since 1996, whose 1998 album Avuntu made her nationally known.
Zedbazi
Zedbazi (زدبازی) is an Iranian hip-hop group formed in Tehran in 2002, credited as the pioneer of gangsta rap in Iran with its 2007 hit "Tabestoon Kootahe".
Zena Emad
Zena Emad (زينه عماد) is a Saudi Khaleeji pop singer, born in 1998, who rose from Instagram covers and represented Saudi Arabia at its inaugural Intervision 2025 contest in Moscow.
Ziynet Sali
Ziynet Sali is a Turkish-Cypriot pop singer born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1975, known for Turkish and Greek songs and hits like "Bana Da Söyle".
Zouhair Bahaoui
Zouhair Bahaoui (زهير البهاوي) is a Moroccan pop singer and producer born in 1995 in Tétouan, whose Darija-language singles made him a leading artist of the Moroccan pop wave.
روبي (musician)
Ruby (روبي), born Rania Hussein in Cairo in 1981, is an Egyptian pop singer and actress whose controversial 2004 video "Leh Beydary Keda" made her famous as "the bike singer".