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Karun

Karun, stage name of Karungari Mungai, is a Kenyan singer-songwriter in Nairobi known for alternative R&B, who broke out with Camp Mulla and later released the EP Eternal in 2026.

Karunaratne Abeysekera

Karunaratne Abeysekera (කරුණාරත්න අබේසේකර), known to listeners as Karu Aiya, was a Sri Lankan Sinhala broadcaster and lyricist who joined Radio Ceylon in 1950, became the first Sinhala cricket commentator, and wrote over 2,000 songs.

Kasane Teto (重音テト)

Kasane Teto (重音テト) is a Japanese virtual singer created as an April Fools' joke on 2channel in 2008, voiced by Oyamano Mayo, given a UTAU voicebank, and re-released in 2023 as Synthesizer V AI by AHS; hits include Mesmerizer and Override.

Kash Doll

Kash Doll is Detroit rapper Arkeisha Knight, active from 2014; viral 2017 single "For Everybody," debut album Stacked (2019, Republic), The Last Doll (2024), Back on Dexter mixtape with DJ Drama, and recurring BMF role.

Kashitarou Itou

Kashitarou Itou (伊東歌詞太郎) is a Japanese singer-songwriter who began as an utaite cover singer on Nico Nico Douga, making his major-label debut with the album 一意専心 in 2014.

Kashmir (band)

Kashmir is a Pakistani alternative rock band formed in Karachi in 2012, fronted by Bilal Ali; it won Pepsi Battle of the Bands in 2017.

Kaskade

Kaskade (Ryan Raddon, born 1971) is an American progressive house DJ and producer, Chicago-born and San Francisco-based, known for Fire & Ice, Atmosphere, Las Vegas residencies, the Kx5 project with deadmau5, and eight Grammy nominations.

Kassem Mosse

Kassem Mosse, the performing moniker of Gunnar Wendel, is a German DJ and producer based in Leipzig whose murky house and techno music is closely tied to the Workshop label.

Kat

Kat, Polish for "executioner", is a heavy and speed metal band formed in 1979 in Katowice, Poland, whose early albums helped inspire the first wave of Polish black metal.

Kataklysm

Kataklysm, a Canadian death metal band from Montreal formed in 1991, known as Northern Hyperblast pioneers, led by Maurizio Iacono and J-F Dagenais, with fifteen albums from Sorcery (1995) to Goliath (2023) on Nuclear Blast.

Katarina Grujić

Katarina Grujić (Катарина Грујић) is a Serbian pop-folk singer born in Belgrade in 1992, an eighth-place Zvezde Granda finalist in 2013 whose debut album Jača doza mene came in 2018.

Katatonia

Katatonia is a Swedish metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström, evolving from death/doom (Dance of December Souls, Brave Murder Day) to gothic-progressive metal across 13 albums, most recently Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State (2025) on Napalm Records.

Katchafire

Katchafire is an all-Māori roots reggae band from Hamilton, New Zealand, formed in 1997 around the Bell family, whose debut album Revival sold over 30,000 copies.

Kate Ryan

Kate Ryan, born Katrien Verbeeck in 1980, is a Belgian dance-pop and eurodance singer who broke through in 2002 with her dance cover of Mylène Farmer's "Désenchantée".

Kater

Kater, until 2025 Kater Blau, is a club at Holzmarkt 25 on the Spree riverside in Friedrichshain, Berlin, known for melodic house and open-air daytime parties.

Kater Club GmbH

Kater Club GmbH is a Berlin company operating the electronic-music club at Holzmarktstrasse 25, known as Kater Blau from 2014 and as Kater since its 2025 rebrand.

Katja Ebstein

Katja Ebstein, born Katharina Witkiewicz in 1945, is a German Schlager singer who took second and two third places at the Eurovision Song Contest for Germany.

Kato Miliyah

Kato Miliyah, also known as Miliyah Kato (加藤ミリヤ), is a Japanese singer-songwriter born in 1988 whose best-of album M BEST topped the Oricon chart in 2011.

Kavinsky

Kavinsky was the stage name of Vincent Belorgey (1975-2026), the French DJ and producer behind the synthwave hit Nightcall, featured in Drive and performed at the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony; his albums were OutRun (2013) and Reborn (2022).

Kavita Krishnamurti

Kavita Krishnamurti, also known as Kavita Krishnamoorthy, is an Indian playback singer famous for Hindi film songs like "Hawa Hawai", with four Filmfare Awards and the Padma Shri.

Kawabanga

Kawabanga (born Adu Sarfo Patrick, 1996) is a Ghanaian rapper and songwriter from Kumasi, a central figure of the asakaa drill scene and member of the Asakaa Boys.

Kawaii metal

Kawaii metal is a Japanese music genre fusing heavy metal with idol pop, pairing cute aesthetics with metal aggression; Babymetal, formed in 2010, is its flagship act.

Kawanaka Miyuki

Kawanaka Miyuki (川中美幸), real name Yamada Kimiko, is a Japanese enka singer born in 1955 in Osaka, known for the million-selling hits Futari-zake (1980) and Nirinsō (1998) and 24 Kohaku appearances.

Kay Flock

Kay Flock (Kevin Perez, born 2003) is a Bronx drill rapper whose 2021 mixtape The D.O.A. Tape and Cardi B collaboration "Shake It" (Hot 100 number 51) anchored New York sample drill; in 2025 he was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Kaya 959

Kaya 959, formerly Kaya FM, is a commercial radio station broadcasting on 95.9 FM to Greater Johannesburg since 1997, aimed at the urban black middle class of Gauteng.

KayBlack

KayBlack is the stage name of Kaique Menezes, a Brazilian trapper from São Paulo whose 2023 EP Contradições made him the most-listened rapper on Spotify Brasil.

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.

Kaytranada

Kaytranada (Louis Kevin Celestin, born 1992, Haiti; raised in Montreal) is a DJ and producer blending house, hip-hop, R&B, and disco; albums 99.9%, Bubba, Kaytraminé, Timeless, AIN'T NO DAMN WAY!; Polaris Prize winner.

Kayzo Unleashed XL

Kayzo Unleashed XL is a live stage production by American DJ Kayzo, fusing bass music with a live rock band, debuted at Ultra Music Festival in 2023.

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.