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Alireza Eftekhari
Alireza Eftekhari (علیرضا افتخاری) is an Iranian vocalist of Persian classical music, born in Isfahan around 1958, whose 1996 album Niloufaraneh sold three million copies.
Alishmas
Alishmas (علیشمس) is an Iranian rapper, singer, and songwriter in Persian pop rap, known for collaborations with Mehdi Jahani and based in Turkey since 2018.
Amal Maher
Amal Maher (آمال ماهر) is an Egyptian singer born in Cairo in 1985, known for the 2015 hit Seket El Salama and called the "Queen of Singing".
Amina Annabi (musician)
Amina Annabi, also known as أمينة, is a Tunisian-French singer-songwriter and actress born in Carthage in 1962 who represented France at Eurovision 1991, finishing level on points with the winner.
Amina Fakhet
Amina Fakhet (أمينة فاخت) is a Tunisian singer, born in 1968, who performs Arab tarab and popular Tunisian song, known for "Sultan Hobbak" and "Ana haweet".
Amir Jan Saboori
Amir Jan Saboori (امیرجان صبوری) is an Afghan singer, composer, and poet born in Herat province, credited with promoting Herati-dialect song; after years of exile he returned in 2005 with the album Zindagi Hameen Ast.
Anatolian rock
Anatolian rock, also called Anadolu pop, is a Turkish music movement of the 1960s and 1970s fusing Anatolian folk music with Western rock, led by Erkin Koray and Barış Manço.
Anıl Piyancı
Anıl Piyancı is a Turkish rapper from İzmir who founded Yeşil Oda, Turkey's first rap studio, at age 16 in 2006, and signed with Universal Music Turkey in 2020.
Ankara Opera House
The Ankara Opera House, known as the Ankara Opera Sahnesi or Büyük Tiyatro, is the opera house of the Turkish State Opera and Ballet in Ankara, opened in 1948.
Arab Music Festival
The Arab Music Festival, also called the Cairo Arab Music Festival (مهرجان الموسيقى العربية), is an annual Arab music festival in Cairo, Egypt, first staged in 1992.
Arabs Got Talent
Arabs Got Talent is the Arabic version of the Got Talent format, broadcast by MBC since January 2011 and open to performers from across the Arab world.
Aref
Aref (عارف), fully Aref Arefkia, was an Iranian pop singer and actor nicknamed Sultan of Hearts, a pre-revolution radio star who spent decades in exile and died in 2026.
Arian Band
Arian Band (گروه آریان) is an Iranian pop band formed in Tehran in 1998 by Ali Pahlavan and Payam Salehi, reportedly the first mixed-gender pop band officially approved in post-revolutionary Iran.
Ariana TV
Ariana TV (Ariana Television Network, ATN) is a private television and radio network in Kabul, Afghanistan, founded by Ehsan Bayat in 2005, with a sister news channel, Ariana News.
Arif Susam
Arif Susam is a Turkish arabesque and fantezi singer born in 1956 in Elazığ, who rose to fame in the 1980s on Istanbul's taverna circuit.
Aryam
Aryam (أريام) is an Emirati female pop singer, born Reem Shaban Ibrahim Hassan, who has performed khaleeji music since 1995, known for "Ya Ma'zil", written by Sheikh Zayed.
Asala
Asala, also known as Asala Nasri (أصالة نصري), is a Syrian singer born in Damascus in 1969, known as the "Crown of the Gulf Song".
Aseel Hameem
Aseel Hameem (أسيل حميم) is an Iraqi singer from Baghdad, born in 1984, whose 2019 heartbreak ballad 'Al Mafroud' was the most streamed song in Saudi Arabia on Spotify.
Aslı Güngör
Aslı Güngör is a Turkish pop singer and songwriter born in İzmir in 1979, whose 2008 duet "Kalp Kalbe Karşı" and 2009 debut album sold millions of digital copies.
Asmaa Al-Mnawar
Asmaa Al-Mnawar, also known as Asma Lamnawar (أسماء لمنور), is a Moroccan singer born in Casablanca in 1978 who fuses khaleeji and Moroccan music, releasing albums through Rotana.
Asmahan
Asmahan (أسمهان) was the stage name of Amal al-Atrash, a Syrian-born Druze singer and sister of composer Farid al-Atrash, a defining voice of Egyptian song who died in 1944.
Assi El Hellani
Assi El Hellani (عاصي الحلاني) is a Lebanese singer, nicknamed the Knight of the Arab Song, known for dabke and hawara singing and for coaching on MBC's The Voice.
Ata Demirer
Ata Demirer is a Turkish comedian, actor, and musician born in 1972 in Bursa, known for musical stand-up and for writing and starring in Eyyvah Eyvah, Turkey's highest-grossing film of 2010.
Ayben Sever
Ayben Sever, known as Ayben, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter born in Istanbul in 1982, the sister of rapper Ceza and a pioneer of Turkish hip-hop.
Aytekin Ataş
Aytekin Ataş (born 1978 in Adana) is a Turkish composer of film and television scores, best known for Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Bir Zamanlar Çukurova, and Sen Çal Kapımı.
Ayten Alpman
Ayten Alpman was a Turkish singer who began with İlham Gencer's ensemble at İstanbul Radyosu in 1949 and became best known for the 1972 song 'Memleketim'.
Ayten Amer
Ayten Amer (آيتن عامر) is an Egyptian actress and singer from Alexandria, born Samar Ahmed Abd El Ghaffar and the sister of actress Wafaa Amer.
Azam Ali
Azam Ali is an Iranian-born vocalist, composer, and producer based in Los Angeles, co-founder of Vas and Niyaz, who also records as a solo artist.
Aziz Maraka
Aziz Maraka (عزيز مرقة) is a Jordanian singer and composer who created Razz, a rock, Arabic, and jazz fusion, known for the 2008 hit "Bent El-Nas".
Baba Zula
Baba Zula is a Turkish psychedelic band formed in Istanbul in 1996, blending an electrified saz and Anatolian instruments with dub and electronics, a style the band calls Istanbul psychedelia.