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Cairo Jazz Club
Cairo Jazz Club (CJC) is a live-music venue and nightclub in Agouza, Cairo, Egypt, open since 2001 and known for jazz, rock, indie, and electronic music.
Cairokee
Cairokee (كايروكي) is an Egyptian rock band formed in 2003 in Cairo, fronted by Amir Eid, whose song "Sout El Horeya" made it a voice of the 2011 revolution.
Carmen Suleiman
Carmen Suleiman, also written Carmen Soliman (كارمن سليمان), is an Egyptian pop singer, born in 1994, who won the first season of Arab Idol in 2012.
Cem Adrian
Cem Adrian, born Cem Filiz in Edirne in 1980, is a Turkish singer-songwriter known for a reported 4.5-octave range and arrangements built from his own voice.
Ceylan Ertem
Ceylan Ertem is a Turkish alternative singer and songwriter, born in 1980 in Adapazarı, who led the band Anima before releasing solo albums from 2010.
Ceza
Ceza, born Bilgin Özçalkan, is a Turkish rapper from Istanbul who rose out of the 1990s underground with the group Nefret and became a defining force of Turkish rap.
Chalgi ensemble tradition
The chalgi ensemble, also called chalghi baghdadi or jalghi, is the traditional Iraqi instrumental group accompanying maqam al-iraqi, Baghdad's art song, with santur, joza, tabla, and daff.
Charmooverz
Sharmoofers (شارموفرز) is an Egyptian band formed in Cairo in 2012 by Ahmed "Bob" Bahaa and Mohamed "Moe" El-Arkan, known for comedic pop blending shaabi, funk, and reggae.
Cheb Abbes
Cheb Abbes is an Algerian raï singer from the Oran scene in western Algeria, documented at the Festival culturel national de la chanson raï in 2023 and 2025.
Cheb Hasni
Cheb Hasni, born Hasni Chakroun in Oran in 1968, was an Algerian raï singer who pioneered romantic raï sentimental and was assassinated in Oran in 1994.
Cheb Jilani
Cheb Jilani, the stage name of Hussein Jilani, is a Libyan singer from Tripoli whose raï-inflected Arabic pop reached a pan-Arab audience in the early 2000s.
Cheb Nasro
Cheb Nasro, stage name of Nasereddine Souïdi, is an Algerian rai singer from Oran, called 'Le prince du Raï sentimental', with a catalog of more than 130 albums.
Cheb Sahraoui
Cheb Sahraoui (شاب صحراوي), born Mohammed Sahraoui in 1961, is an Algerian raï singer from Oran and half of raï's only married duo, with Chaba Fadela.
Çiftetelli
Çiftetelli, in Greek tsifteteli, is a two-beat dance rhythm and solo dance in Turkish, Greek, and Romani popular music, today largely a Turkish wedding form and a Greek belly dance.
Cultural Hall (Manama)
The Cultural Hall (دار الثقافة) is a concert and events hall in Manama, Bahrain, opened in the early 1980s and run by the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities.
Damascus Opera House
The Damascus Opera House (دار الأوبرا بدمشق), officially Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts, is Syria's main opera house and concert hall at Umayyad Square in Damascus, opened in 2004.
Darbuka
The darbuka, also called tabla or dümbelek, is a goblet-shaped hand drum played across Arab, Turkish, and Persian musical traditions, and a standard of modern Turkish music.
Dariush Talai
Dariush Talai (داریوش طلایی) is an Iranian tar and setar player, musicologist, and educator, born in 1953, who moved to France in 1979 and recorded the Persian classical radif.
Davul
The davul is a large double-headed drum of Turkey and the Middle East, played with a mallet and a thin switch, often paired with the zurna.
Dedublüman
Dedublüman, also written Dedüblüman, is a six-member Turkish rock band founded in 2010 in Trabzon and based in Istanbul, blending rock with ud, clarinet, and yaylı tambur.
Delikanlım
"Delikanlım" is a 1994 song written and performed by Yıldız Tilbe, the title track of her debut album, reported to have sold 3,000,000 copies in Turkey.
Deniz Tekin
Deniz Tekin (Hatice Deniz Tekin) is a Turkish singer-songwriter born in İzmir in 1997, known for her acoustic cover of Beni Vur and the 2017 debut album Kozakuluçka.
Dervişan
Dervişan, whose name means 'dervishes' in Turkish, was a Turkish Anatolian rock group formed in 1974 as Cem Karaca's backing band, best remembered for the protest-era single '1 Mayıs'.
Diana Karazon
Diana Karazon (ديانا كرزون) is a Jordanian singer who won the first season of Superstar, the Arabic version of Pop Idol, on Future TV in 2003.
Didi (music)
"Didi" (ديدي) is a 1992 song by the Algerian raï singer Khaled, produced by Don Was, a hit in 49 countries and the first Arabic-language record to reach the French Top 10.
Dmitri Vegas & Like Mike
Dmitri Vegas & Like Mike are a Belgian electronic dance music duo formed by Greek-Belgian brothers Dimitri and Michael Thivaios, who topped DJ Mag's poll in 2015 and 2019.
Done Events
Done Events is a Dubai-based concert promoter and events company founded in 2005 under Arab Media Group, known for RedFestDXB and acquiring the Dubai Jazz Festival in 2018.
Dr. Fuchs
Dr. Fuchs is the professional name of Tarık Gamert, born 1978 in Germany, a Turkish rapper who co-founded Nefret with Ceza in 1998 and stayed underground.
Draganov
Draganov, real name Adnan Mahyou, is a Moroccan rapper and producer from Oujda, active since 2008 and named among the leading figures of the new generation of Moroccan rap.
Dudu (Tarkan EP)
Dudu is a 2003 album by Turkish pop singer Tarkan, released on his own label, HİTT Müzik, mixing new songs with remixes and reaching number 2 in Turkey.