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Kalan Müzik
Kalan Müzik, also listed as Kalan Ses, is an Istanbul record label founded by Hasan Saltık in 1991 or 1992 to document Anatolian folk, Alevi, and minority-language music.
Kalben
Kalben, full name Kalben Sağdıç, is a Turkish singer-songwriter of the Istanbul independent pop scene, born in 1986 in İskenderun, whose debut album came out in 2016.
Kamancheh
The kamancheh (کمانچه, literally "small bow") is the spiked bowed fiddle of Persian classical music, held vertically on a spike, with over 1,000 years of history in Iran and Azerbaijan.
Kargo
Kargo is a Turkish rock band formed in 1993, best known for the era fronted by singer Koray Candemir and its 1996 breakthrough album Yarına Ne Kaldı.
Karl Wolf
Karl Wolf, born Karl Abou Samah in Beirut in 1979, is a Lebanese-Canadian pop and R&B singer best known for his 2008 cover of Toto's "Africa."
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor, born 1963 to a Kurdish family, is an Iranian kamancheh virtuoso and composer who co-founded Dastan and Masters of Persian Music and won a Grammy with the Silkroad Ensemble.
Kazım Koyuncu
Kazım Koyuncu (1971–2005) was a Laz-origin Turkish musician and activist who blended Black Sea and Laz folk music with rock, fronting Turkey's first Laz-language rock band, Zuğaşi Berepe.
Kekra
Kekra, verlan for "crack", is a masked French rapper from Courbevoie, active since 2015, known for the Vréel mixtapes and albums including Land (2018) and Stratos (2023).
Kemancı
Kemancı is an Istanbul rock bar and live-music venue, founded in 1986, best known on Sıraselviler Caddesi in Taksim as a fixture of Turkish rock.
Kesmeşeker
Kesmeşeker is a Turkish alternative rock band formed in 1990 in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul, led by singer and guitarist Cenk Taner, who writes all their songs.
Khaled Kayhan
Khaled Kayhan (خالد کیهان) is an Afghan keyboardist, composer, and producer, born in Kabul, the son of artist Arif Kayhan, and based in Hamburg, Germany, since 1992.
Khalid Abdulrahman
Khalid Abdulrahman (خالد عبد الرحمن) is a Saudi singer-songwriter identified with Najdi song, the popular tradition of central Arabia, active since his 1988 debut album Sarhini.
Kiosk (group)
Kiosk (کیوسک) is an Iranian rock band formed in Tehran in 2003 by Arash Sobhani, whose censored music led it to relocate to the United States in 2006.
Kourosh Yaghmaei
Kourosh Yaghmaei (کوروش یغمایی) is an Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in 1946, known as the godfather of Iranian psychedelic rock and for the 1973 ballad "Gole Yakh".
Kral FM
Kral FM is a Turkish national music radio station, broadcasting since 1992 with an arabesk and fantezi format, owned by Doğuş Yayın Grubu since 2008 and Turkey's most-listened station.
Kral TV Video Müzik Ödülleri
The Kral TV Video Müzik Ödülleri is a Turkish music awards ceremony run by the channel Kral TV, first held in 1995 and later renamed Türkiye Müzik Ödülleri.
Kürşat Biçici
Kürşat Biçici, who performs as Kürşat, is a Turkish folk-music singer and television presenter born in Ankara in 1974 who debuted with the album Leyla in 2002.
La Ya Sadiki
La Ya Sadiki (لا يا صديقي) is a 1990 album and song by Iraqi singer Kadim Al Sahir, roughly 47 minutes long, the longest of his career.
Latifa
Latifa (لطيفة), full name Latifa Bint Alaya El Arfaoui, is a Tunisian Arab pop singer born in 1961 who built her career in Egypt and won the 2004 World Music Award.
Levantine Pop
Levantine pop is the Arabic pop industry and sound centered on Beirut and Damascus from the 1990s onward, built on satellite television and backed by Gulf capital through Rotana.
Levent Yüksel
Levent Yüksel is a Turkish pop singer born in Antalya in 1964, whose 1990s hits "Medcezir", "Tuana", "Kadınım", and "Zalim" were written or produced by Sezen Aksu.
Liberté
"Liberté" is a song by the Algerian rapper and singer Soolking with Ouled El Bahdja, released in March 2019 and adopted as an anthem of Algeria's Hirak protests.
Lil Baba
Lil Baba (ليل بابا) is an Egyptian rapper and producer in Cairo's trap and mahraganat scene, first known for producing hits for the Mexico Crew.
Los Niños de Sara
Los Niños de Sara, also written Los Ninos De Sara, is a French Gitano rumba group formed in Montpellier in 1990, later the band behind Alabina with singer Ishtar.
Maamoun Al-Shinnawi
Maamoun Al-Shinnawi (مأمون الشناوي) was an Egyptian poet and lyricist who wrote hundreds of songs for Umm Kulthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, and other leading Arab singers.
Macan Band
Macan Band (ماکان بند) is an Iranian pop group formed in 2016, led by composer Yashar Khosravi with vocalists Raham Hadian and Amir Maghare, known for «هر بار این درو».
Mahdieh Mohammadkhani
Mahdieh Mohammadkhani (مهدیه محمدخانی) is an Iranian classical vocalist, a mezzo-soprano of Persian traditional music born in Tehran in 1986, trained by Mohammad Reza Shajarian.
Mahmoud Guinia
Maâlem Mahmoud Guinia, also Mahmoud Gania, was a Moroccan Gnawa master musician from Essaouira, foremost exponent of the Saouiri style, who recorded with Pharoah Sanders and died in 2015.
Mahmoud Refat
Mahmoud Refat, also spelled Mahmoud Refaat, is an Egyptian electronic and experimental musician and producer who founded the Cairo label 100Copies in 2006 and championed mahraganat street music.
Mai Selim
Mai Selim (مي سليم), born Mai Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan Selim in 1983, is a Jordanian singer and actress who grew up in Egypt and performs Egyptian-dialect Arabic pop.