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Matthieu Chedid (musician)

Matthieu Chedid, who performs as -M-, is a French singer-songwriter born in 1971, known for "Je dis aime" and a record 13 Victoires de la Musique.

MattyBRaps

MattyBRaps (MattyB) is the stage name of Matthew David Morris, an American rapper born in 2003 in Georgia who launched his YouTube channel on May 31, 2010 with a cover of "Eenie Meenie" and became a child star through profanity-free covers and original songs.

Matuê

Matuê, stage name of Matheus Brasileiro Aguiar, is a Brazilian rapper and singer from Fortaleza, Ceará, a leading figure of Brazilian trap who founded the label 30PRAUM in 2016.

Matumbi

Matumbi is a reggae band formed in 1971 in South London, co-founded by Dennis Bovell and among the earliest Black British reggae bands; their "Man in Me" was the biggest-selling UK reggae single of 1976.

Matute

Matute is a Mexican pop covers group formed in 2007, led by Jorge D'Alessio, that performs 1980s and 1990s hits in Spanish and English at arenas, fairs, and festivals.

Mau P

Mau P (Maurits Jan Westveen), Dutch house and techno DJ-producer from Amsterdam, formerly big room artist Maurice West. Breakout hit "Drugs From Amsterdam" (2022) reached 200 million streams; runs the Baddest Behaviour party brand and Pacha Ibiza residency.

Mauvais Djo

Mauvais Djo (Joel Raul Marcolino, born 1997, Rouen) is a French-Congolese rapper and speaker from Évry, member of Triangle des Bermudes, known for the hits "Pilé" and "Maladie" and the L'Undertaker albums.

Mavado (singer)

Mavado, stage name of David Constantine Brooks (born 1981), Jamaican dancehall singer from Cassava Piece, Kingston; the "Gully God" behind "Real McKoy" and Gangsta for Life, rival then partner of Vybz Kartel.

Mavin Global Holdings

Mavin Global Holdings is a UK-registered holding company that owns Mavin Records, the Lagos-based Afrobeats label founded by Don Jazzy in 2012, in which Universal Music Group took a majority stake in 2024.

Mavin Records

Mavin Records, also known as the Supreme Mavin Dynasty, is a Nigerian record label founded in Lagos in 2012 by producer Don Jazzy, home to Rema and Ayra Starr.

Mawi

Mawi (Asmawi bin Ani, born 1981 in Kulai, Johor) is a Malaysian singer who won Akademi Fantasia season 3 in 2005, triggering the nationwide Mawi World phenomenon.

Mawwal

Mawwal (موال) is an improvised, non-metric solo vocal genre of Arab music, sung in colloquial Arabic, that traditionally opens a song and is especially prominent in Gulf ṣawt music.

Max B

Max B (Charley Wingate, born 1978), also Max Biggavelli and the Wave God, is a Harlem rapper who co-wrote "We Fly High", led the wavy mixtape era with Coke Wave, served about 16 years in prison, and returned to chart success in 2026.

Max Cooper

Max Cooper is a Belfast-born, London-based electronic music producer and former genetics researcher with a PhD in computational biology, known for albums like Human and Emergence and 3D audio-visual live shows.

Max Dean, Luke Dean

Max Dean and Luke Dean are British house-music DJ-producers from London who are cousins, known for the 2025 UK chart hit "Can't Decide" and their joint "The Finest" EP.

Max Greger

Max Greger (1926–2015) was a German bandleader, saxophonist, and composer from Munich who recorded over 3,000 titles for Polydor and led ZDF's show orchestra from 1963 to 1977.

Maxi Jazz

Maxi Jazz (Maxwell Alexander Fraser, 1957–2022), English rapper, DJ, and lyricist, frontman and founder of Faithless, whose Insomnia, God Is a DJ, and We Come 1 defined 1990s dance music; also led Soul Food Cafe and the E-Type Boys.

Maxi Priest

Maxi Priest (Max Alfred Elliott, born 1961) is a British reggae vocalist from Lewisham, London, known for lovers rock and reggae fusion. His "Close to You" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990; he has three Best Reggae Album Grammy nominations.

Maxidrom

Maxidrom (Максидром) is an international rock festival created by Moscow radio Maximum, first held in 1995 and staged intermittently until 2016, ending as an open-air stadium festival.

Maxim (musician)

Maxim (Keith Andrew Palmer, born 1967, Peterborough) is the English MC and vocalist of The Prodigy, formerly Maxim Reality, with solo albums Hell's Kitchen, Fallen Angel, and Love More and art under the name MM.

Maxim Lany

Maxim Lany is a Belgian DJ, producer, and remixer from Ghent working in melodic house and techno, whose breakthrough came with the 2019 track 'Renaissance' on Armada.

Maxime Le Forestier

Maxime Le Forestier, stage name of Bruno Le Forestier, is a French singer-songwriter born in Paris in 1949, a leading poetic chansonnier whose 1972 debut sold 1.5 million copies.

Maximum the Hormone (マキシマムザホルモン)

Maximum the Hormone (マキシマムザホルモン, MTH) is a Japanese four-piece rock band formed in 1998 in Hachioji, Tokyo, mixing loud rock with pop melodies; Yoshu Fukushu (2013) topped Oricon for three weeks and total sales exceed 2.2 million.

Maxo Kream

Maxo Kream (Emekwanem Ogugua Biosah Jr., born 1990) is a Nigerian-American rapper from Alief, Houston, known for autobiographical albums Punken, Brandon Banks, Weight of the World, and O.Y.N.

Maxon Margiela

Maxon Margiela, born Mason Jorge Reyes, was an American rapper from Orlando, Florida whose 2024 single "Austin Powers" went viral before his death in 2025.

May D (musician)

May D (Akinmayokun Awodumila) is a Nigerian Afropop singer, songwriter, and dancer from Warri who runs Confam Entertainment, known for "Ile Ijo" and "Chop My Money" with P-Square.

Maya Kamaty

Maya Kamaty is a singer from Réunion, France, and the daughter of Ziskakan leader Gilbert Pounia, who fuses traditional maloya with folk, electro-pop, and urban rhythms.

Mayada El Hennawi

Mayada El Hennawi, also known as Mayada al-Hinawi, is a Syrian singer of classical Arabic tarab, born in Aleppo in 1959 and known as the Songstress of the Generation.

Mayan Warrior (Full Art Car)

Mayan Warrior is a Mexican collaborative art car and sound camp founded by Pablo González Vargas, a mobile electronic-music stage at Burning Man from 2012.

Mayhem (band)

Mayhem: Norwegian black metal band formed at Langhus in 1984 by Euronymous, Necrobutcher, and Manheim; named after Venom's "Mayhem with Mercy"; debut De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994); seventh album Liturgy of Death (2026).