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Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens, born 1970, Newark, NJ) is an American rapper, singer, and actress; Grammy winner for "U.N.I.T.Y.", Oscar-nominated for Chicago, first solo female rapper with a Gold album.

Queensrÿche

Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal band formed in Bellevue, Washington in the early 1980s, known for the 1988 concept album Operation: Mindcrime and for selling more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Queso

Queso, known as Cheese until 2003, is a Filipino rock band best known for "Mottaka", credited with initiating the Philippine nu metal movement in the late 1990s.

Questlove

Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson, born 1971) is a Philadelphia-born drummer who co-founded The Roots in 1987, serves as musical director of The Tonight Show, and won an Oscar for directing Summer of Soul (2021).

Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1975 by Kevin DuBrow and Randy Rhoads and best known for its 1983 album Metal Health.

Quilmes Rock

Quilmes Rock is a major rock festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, created in 2003 by Pop Art and the Quilmes brewery and held at venues including River Plate and Tecnópolis.

Quinteto Violado

Quinteto Violado is a Pernambuco instrumental and vocal group formed in Recife in 1970, known for modernizing northeastern Brazilian music with jazz-influenced harmony and its celebrated arrangement of "Asa Branca".

Quivver

Quivver is the alias of British producer and DJ John Graham, active since the early 1990s and known for progressive house, trance, and Bedrock Records releases.

Quix

Quix, real name Jonathan Schnell, is a New Zealand DJ and electronic producer from Auckland known for wonky trap and bass music, now based in Los Angeles.

Quratulain Balouch

Quratulain Balouch, known as QB, is a Pakistani American singer-songwriter who rose to fame with "Woh Humsafar Tha" and appears across five Coke Studio seasons.

Qusai (aka Don Legend the Kamelion)

Qusai, also known as Don Legend the Kamelion, is a Saudi rapper, producer, and television personality born in 1978, considered the first professional rapper from Saudi Arabia.

Qveen Herby

Qveen Herby is the rap and R&B alter ego of Amy Noonan, formerly of pop duo Karmin with husband Nick Noonan; rebranded in 2017 with 'Karmin Is Dead, Long Live the Qveen,' releasing EPs and projects independently.

QWER (큐더블유이알)

QWER (큐더블유이알) is a four-member South Korean girl band, also called a growth-type girl band, formed in 2023 via Kim Gyeran's Favorite Children project; debuted October 18, 2023 with Harmony from Discord; members Chodan, Magenta, Hina, Siyeon.

R. D. Burman (राहुल देव बर्मन)

R. D. Burman (Rahul Dev Burman, Pancham), 1939-1994, Hindi film music director, son of S. D. Burman; 331 film scores including Teesri Manzil, Sholay, and posthumous 1942: A Love Story.

R. K. Shekhar

R. K. Shekhar (ആർ കെ ശേഖർ), Rajagopala Kulashekhara Shekhar (1933–1976), was a Malayalam film composer, arranger, and conductor who scored about 25 films including Pazhassi Raja, introduced electronic instruments to South Indian film music, and was the father of A. R. Rahman.

R.A. the Rugged Man

R.A. the Rugged Man (Richard Thorburn, born 1974, Long Island) is an American underground rapper whose Jive and Priority albums were shelved before his 2004 debut Die, Rugged Man, Die; known for the Uncommon Valor verse and Nature Sounds albums.

R.P. Patnaik

Ravindra Prasad Patnaik, known professionally as R.P. Patnaik, is an Indian film music director, singer, and filmmaker who has worked mainly in Telugu cinema since 1999.

R&S Records (record label)

R&S Records is a Belgian electronic music label founded in Ghent in 1983 by Renaat Vandepapeliere and Sabine Maes, known for releases by Aphex Twin and Joey Beltram.

R1SE

R1SE (Chinese limited boy group) formed June 8, 2019 on Tencent Video's Produce Camp 2019 with 11 members led by Zhou Zhennan; four albums, 53 songs, disbanded at farewell concert June 13, 2021.

R2Bees

R2Bees, short for Refuse 2 Be Broke, is a Ghanaian hiplife and Afrobeats duo from Tema formed in 2007 by cousins Paedae and Mugeez, winners of six 2013 Ghana Music Awards.

R3hab

R3hab, the stage name of Fadil El Ghoul, is a Dutch-Moroccan DJ and record producer born in Breda in 1986, prominent in Dutch house and known for remixing pop artists.

R3LL

R3LL is the stage name of Terrell Griffith, an American Jersey club producer and DJ from Newark, New Jersey, and an original member of the Brick Bandits crew.

Rabih Al Assmar

Rabih Al Assmar, also written Rabih Al Asmar, is the stage name of Abdullah Nasr Al-Din, a Lebanese shaabi singer who broke through with the 2004 hit Ghalak.

RaceCarBed

RaceCarBed is a Baltimore-based producer and DJ duo, Stanley Trutsi and Eric Stevens, active since 2010 and working across trap, tech house, and drum & bass.

Rachika Nayar

Rachika Nayar is an Indian-American experimental electronic musician and guitarist in Brooklyn, known for the albums Our Hands Against the Dusk and Heaven Come Crashing.

Radio Citizen

Radio Citizen, also known as Radio Citizen FM, is an all-Kiswahili FM station in Nairobi, Kenya, owned by Royal Media Services and often ranked Kenya's most listened-to station.

Radio Farda

Radio Farda, meaning "Radio Tomorrow" in Persian, is a US-funded Persian-language radio service for Iran, launched in 2002, mixing news with pop music for young Iranians.

Radio Mix FM (São Paulo)

Rádio Mix FM is a young- and adult-pop FM radio station in São Paulo on 106.3 MHz, owned by the Di Genio family's Objetivo education group.

Radio Slave

Radio Slave is the principal alias of Matt Edwards, a British techno and house producer, DJ, and remixer who founded the Rekids label in 2006.

Rádio Transamérica

Rádio Transamérica was a national Brazilian radio network founded by banker Aloysio de Andrade Faria, first broadcasting in Recife in 1976 and rebranded as TMC in 2025.