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Efes Pilsen Blues Festival (İstanbul Blues Festival)

The Efes Pilsen Blues Festival, also known as the İstanbul Blues Festival, was Turkey's longest-running music festival, an annual touring blues series organized by Pozitif from 1990 to 2012.

Egyptian Pop

Egyptian Pop, or Masri pop, is the Cairo-centered mainstream of Arab popular music, sung in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, with stars such as Amr Diab, Sherine, and Mohamed Hamaki.

Ehsan Khajehamiri

Ehsan Khajehamiri (احسان خواجه امیری) is an Iranian pop singer and composer, born in Tehran in 1984, son of the singer Iraj, known for licensed Iranian pop since 2004.

Eida Al Menhali

Eida Al Menhali (عيضة المنهالي) is an Emirati singer and composer known as "The Voice of the Emirates" and for the unaccompanied sung-poetry style Al Shallat.

Ekin Beril

Ekin Beril (born 1993) is a Turkish electro-pop singer, songwriter, and producer from Çanakkale who became known for a cappella Instagram covers and released her debut album Dualite in 2020.

El Sawy Culture Wheel

El Sawy Culture Wheel (ساقية الصاوي) is a privately owned cultural center on Zamalek island in Cairo, Egypt, the first of its kind, founded in 2003 by Mohamed El Sawy.

El Waili

El Waili is the stage name of Kareem Emad Gaber (كريم عماد جابر), an Egyptian music producer born in Sohag in 1998 who works in electro-chaabi and EDM.

Elektronik Türküler

Elektronik Türküler is a 1974 album by Turkish rock musician Erkin Koray, blending electrified bağlama with Anatolian folk songs and cited as a classic of Anatolian rock.

ElGrandeToto

ElGrandeToto, born Taha Fahssi in 1996, is a Moroccan rapper from Casablanca who raps in Darija, French, and English, and has topped Morocco's Spotify rankings every year since 2020.

Elyanna

Elyanna (إليانا), born Elian Marjieh in 2002 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian-Chilean singer-songwriter in Los Angeles who performs in Arabic, blending Arabic pop with R&B and Latin sounds.

Emrah

Emrah (Emrah Erdoğan İpek) is a Turkish singer and actor who rose to fame as child star "Küçük Emrah" in 1983 and became a 1990s pop idol.

Emre Fel

Emre Fel, real name Emre Öztürk, is a Turkish singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in 1998, known for his "Yeni Anadolu" style that updates Anatolian rock, with the hit "Sana El Pençe Durmam".

Erdem Kınay

Erdem Kınay is a Turkish composer, arranger, and music producer, born in Istanbul in 1978, known for hits for Demet Akalın and Hande Yener and his Proje albums.

Erfan Tahmasbi

Erfan Tahmasbi (عرفان طهماسبی) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and composer from Shushtar in Khuzestan province, who became widely known after appearing on the talent show Asr Jadid.

Erkan Oğur

Erkan Oğur, born 1954 in Ankara, is a Turkish musician and instrument maker known for the fretless guitar in Turkish makam music and reviving the kopuz.

Erol Büyükburç

Erol Büyükburç (1936–2015) was a Turkish pop singer and composer, often described as Turkey's first pop star, whose 1961 song "Little Lucy" became one of the country's first pop hits.

Erol Köse Production

Erol Köse Production, also known as Erol Köse Müzik, was a Turkish record label founded in 1992 by producer Erol Köse, defining Turkish pop in the 1990s and 2000s.

ESSEILY

ESSEILY, the stage name of Mahmoud El Esseily (محمود العسيلي), is an Egyptian pop singer and producer born in 1982, known for "Doum Doum" and "Ya Nas".

Fahad Bin Fasla

Fahad Bin Fasla (فهد بن فصلا) is a Saudi sheila singer born in 1996 near Dammam, a leading name in Gulf shilat, the tradition of singing poetry.

Faia Younan

Faia Younan (فايا يونان) is an Assyrian-Syrian singer and independent artist, born in 1992 and raised in Sweden, known for Arabic pop rooted in Levantine tarab.

Farhad Fakhreddini

Farhad Fakhreddini (فرهاد فخرالدینی) is an Iranian composer and conductor who trained under Abu'l-Hasan Saba, conducted Iranian radio and television's grand orchestra in the 1970s, and founded Iran's National Orchestra in 1998.

Farzad Farzin

Farzad Farzin (فرزاد فرزین) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, composer, and actor born in Tehran in 1981, active in licensed Persian pop since around 2000.

Fatma Turgut

Fatma Turgut, born 1984 in Aydın, is a Turkish rock singer, vocalist of the band Model from 2007 to 2016 and a solo artist since.

Ferdi Tayfur

Ferdi Tayfur (1945–2025) was a Turkish arabesk singer, songwriter, and actor, one of the genre's dominant stars; his 1992 album Prangalar sold about 5 million copies.

Fereydoon Forooghi

Fereydoon Forooghi, also known as Fereydoon Foroughi, was an Iranian pop singer, guitarist, and composer who rose to fame in the 1970s and became best known for the protest song "Yar-e Dabestani-e Man".

Feride Hilal Akın

Feride Hilal Akın is a Turkish pop singer, songwriter, and actress born in Ankara in 1996, who broke out in 2019 when "Yok Yok" topped Turkey's Kral Liste.

Filiz Akın

Filiz Akın (born Suna Filiz Akın, 1943–2025) was a Turkish film actress who starred in 119 Yeşilçam films from 1962 to 1975, one of the era's four most iconic actresses.

Final Chapter The World Tour

Final Chapter The World Tour (Persian: فصل آخر) was the farewell world tour of Iranian singer Googoosh, opened in San Jose in 2023 and paused in 2025.

Fnaïre

Fnaïre, also known as Fnaire (Arabic: فناير, "the lanterns"), is a Moroccan rap trio founded in 2001 in Marrakech, known for fusing rap with traditional Moroccan music.

Fuat Güner

Fuat Güner, full name Aziz Fuat Güner, is a Turkish guitarist, composer, and singer, born in 1948 in Istanbul, best known as the guitarist of the pop-rock trio MFÖ.