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Poly Panou

Poly Panou (Πόλυ Πάνου), born Polytimi Koliopanou in Athens in 1940, was a Greek laiko and rembetiko singer who died in Athens in 2013 at 73.

Poncho Zuleta

Poncho Zuleta, also known as Alfonso Zuleta, is a Colombian vallenato singer born in 1949 in Villanueva, La Guajira, frontman of the duo Los Hermanos Zuleta with his brother Emiliano.

Pooh Shiesty

Pooh Shiesty (Lontrell Dennell Williams Jr., born 1999) is a Memphis rapper signed to Gucci Mane's 1017 Records, known for Shiesty Season (2021) and "Back in Blood"; later convicted of a Florida firearms offense and charged in a 2026 Dallas kidnapping case.

Poolside (group)

Poolside is an electronic music act from Los Angeles, started in 2011 by Jeffrey Paradise and Filip Nikolic, known for its relaxed, sunny style of dance music called daytime disco.

Pop Smoke

Pop Smoke (Bashar Barakah Jackson, 1999–2020) was a Brooklyn rapper, face of New York drill, with hits 'Welcome to the Party' and 'Dior'; killed at 20 in a Hollywood Hills robbery, with two posthumous albums topping Billboard.

Pop-Schlager

Pop-Schlager, also written Popschlager, is the modern, pop-produced form of German-language Schlager with bass-heavy, beat-driven production comparable to mainstream pop; its leading exponents include Helene Fischer, Vanessa Mai, and Beatrice Egli.

Pop'n'Gum

Pop'n'Gum is the second album by the French pop-rock band Superbus, released in 2004 on Mercury, certified gold in France, and featuring the hit "Radio Song".

Popcaan

Popcaan (Andrae Hugh Sutherland, born 1988) is a Jamaican dancehall deejay from St. Thomas, protégé of Vybz Kartel, known for "Clarks", Where We Come From (2014), his OVO Sound signing, and Unruly Fest.

Popcorn (Romanian music style)

Romanian Popcorn, also called Romanian House or Romanian Dance, is a late-2000s Romanian dance-pop style with staccato off-beat synth leads, 120-130 BPM, known for Inna's Hot, Stereo Love, and Mr. Saxobeat.

Poppin'Party

Poppin'Party (ポッピンパーティー), often shortened to Popipa, is a five-member Japanese voice-actress band formed in 2015 under Bushiroad, the first real band from BanG Dream!, whose members play instruments live while voicing their characters.

Popstar Alaturka

Popstar Alaturka was a Turkish televised music competition on Star TV, later FOX, produced and hosted by Osmantan Erkır, that ran from 2006 to 2013.

Porn and Chicken

Porn and Chicken is a long-running Chicago bass-music party and DJ trio, launched in 2010, known for free chicken and crowds that peaked at 5,000 weekly.

Pornofilmy

Pornofilmy (Порнофильмы) is a Russian punk rock band founded in 2008 in Dubna, Moscow Oblast, whose lyrics address poverty, torture, official lawlessness, and the "Russian world".

Porter Robinson

Porter Robinson, also known as Virtual Self and formerly Ekowraith, is an American electronic producer born 1992 in Atlanta. Known for complextro, the 2012 hit "Language," the 2014 album Worlds, Nurture (2021), and SMILE! :D (2024); he shaped but did not invent future bass.

Portola

Portola, also billed as the Portola Music Festival, is an annual two-day electronic dance music festival held at Pier 80 in San Francisco since 2022, produced by Goldenvoice.

Poshlaya Molly

Poshlaya Molly (Пошлая Молли) is a Russian-language pop-punk project founded in 2016 and fronted by Ukrainian performer Kirill Bledny, a key figure in the new Russian wave.

Positive Black Soul (group)

Positive Black Soul is a Senegalese hip hop duo formed in Dakar in 1989 by Didier Awadi and Duggy Tee, whose 1995 album Salaam opened African rap's history.

Possessed (band)

Possessed: San Francisco death/thrash metal band formed 1983; regarded as the first death metal band. Seven Churches (1985) and its song "Death Metal" named and defined the genre; Jeff Becerra leads the 2007-reformed band.

Post Malone

Post Malone, stage name of Austin Richard Post (born 1995, Syracuse, New York), is an American genre-blending singer-rapper behind "White Iverson," "Rockstar," "Sunflower," and the 2024 country album F-1 Trillion, with 18 Grammy nominations and no win.

Post-disco

Post-disco is the dance-music style that followed disco's 1979 US collapse, centered on New York 1979-1983, also called Leftfield Disco or Proto-House. Traits: 100-118 BPM, drum machines, Prophet-5, stripped-down grooves; artists ESG, D-Train, Arthur Russell.

Postcards

Postcards are a dream-pop and shoegaze trio from Beirut, Lebanon, formed in 2012, described as Lebanon's longest-running alternative band, blending dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk, and noise.

Potato (group)

Potato (Thai: โปเตโต้) is a Thai rock band on Genie Records, one of Thailand's most influential and enduring acts, with chart-topping hits since its 2001 self-titled debut album.

Potshot

Potshot is a Japanese ska-punk band formed in Tokyo in 1995 by vocalist RYOJI, among Japan's earliest ska-punk bands, charting on Oricon before disbanding in 2005.

Powder (musician)

Powder is a Japanese DJ and producer based in Tokyo who emerged in 2015 and became one of the most in-demand selectors on the international house circuit.

Power Trip (band)

Power Trip is a Dallas, Texas crossover thrash band formed in 2008, known for Manifest Decimation (2013) and Nightmare Logic (2017) on Southern Lord, a Grammy-nominated Executioner's Tax, vocalist Riley Gale's 2020 death, and a 2023 return with Seth Gilmore.

Powerman 5000

Powerman 5000 (PM5K), Boston electro-metal and nu metal band fronted by Spider One (Michael Cummings), Rob Zombie's younger brother; platinum 1999 album Tonight the Stars Revolt!, hits When Worlds Collide and Bombshell.

Powerwolf

Powerwolf is a German heavy metal band formed around 2004, fronted by Romanian classically trained vocalist Attila Dorn, known for werewolf and religious-history lyrics, church organ, corpse paint, German chart-topping albums, and 2026 Wembley Arena and Wacken headlining shows.

PP Krit

PP Krit (พีพี กฤษฏ์), born Krit Amnuaydechkorn in 1999, is a Thai actor and singer who rose to fame in I Told Sunset About You.

Ppcocaine

Ppcocaine (Lilliane Catherine Diomi, born 2001), formerly trapbunniebubbles, is an American TikTok-viral rapper behind "DDLG" and "3 Musketeers", signed to Columbia Records in 2020.

Prabh Deep

Prabh Deep (प्रभ दीप) is a Punjabi-language rapper, songwriter, and producer from Tilak Nagar in West Delhi, signed to Azadi Records, whose debut album Class-Sikh was released in 2017.