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Will Linley

Will Linley, born William Peter Nel Linley, is a South African pop singer from Cape Town who broke out on TikTok with the 2021 number 1 hit "miss me (when you're gone)".

Will.i.am

Will.i.am (William James Adams Jr., born 1975, Los Angeles) is a Black Eyed Peas founder, solo artist, producer for Fergie and Usher, Beats Electronics stakeholder, FYI.AI CEO, and STEAM philanthropist.

William Basinski

William Basinski is an American experimental composer and video artist, born in 1958 in Houston, Texas, best known for The Disintegration Loops, decaying tape-loop recordings linked to September 11.

William Chan (陈伟霆)

William Chan (陈伟霆, Chan Wai Ting), Hong Kong singer, dancer, and actor born 1985; ex-Sun Boy'z member, solo debut Will Power (2008), mainland breakthrough via Swords of Legends (2014) and The Mystic Nine (2016), Emperor Entertainment artist.

Willie Colón

Willie Colón (William Anthony Colón Román, 1950–2026), Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American trombonist, composer, and producer; Fania Records pioneer whose duos with Héctor Lavoe and Rubén Blades (Siembra, 1978) defined salsa.

Willie D

Willie D (William James Dennis, born 1966, Houston) is a rapper, former Golden Gloves boxer, and member of the Geto Boys, featured on We Can't Be Stopped and "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," later a solo artist.

Willie Nelson's Luck Reunion

Willie Nelson's Luck Reunion, commonly the Luck Reunion, is an annual one-day country and Americana festival held each March during SXSW week at Nelson's Luck Ranch in Spicewood, Texas.

Willie Williams

Willie Williams, usually printed Willi Williams, is a Jamaican roots-reggae singer and producer born in 1953 in St Ann Parish, best known for "Armagideon Time", which The Clash covered.

Willis Chimano

Willis Chimano, known mononymously as Chimano, is a Kenyan singer and baritone vocalist of the Afropop band Sauti Sol, who came out publicly in 2021 and now performs solo.

Willy William

Willy William (Willy Fauade William), French DJ, producer and singer, ex-Collectif Métissé; known for "Ego" (2015) and "Mi Gente" with J Balvin (2017), first all-Spanish track to top Spotify's global chart.

Wilson Simoninha

Wilson Simoninha is a Brazilian MPB and soul singer, composer, and producer, son of singer Wilson Simonal, who debuted as a solo artist in 2000.

Wind Rose (band)

Wind Rose: Italian power metal band from Pisa, formed 2009 (earlier Power Rose), known as the "dwarf metal" band whose 2019 cover of Yogscast's "Diggy Diggy Hole" went viral on Napalm Records.

Windhand

Windhand is a doom metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2009, on Relapse Records. Albums: Windhand (2012), Soma (2013), Grief's Infernal Flower (2015), Eternal Return (2018); fronted by vocalist Dorthia Cottrell.

Windowlicker

Windowlicker is a 1999 Aphex Twin single on Warp Records (WAP105CDD), three tracks, peaking at No. 16 in the UK, with a controversial ten-minute Chris Cunningham video; NME named it best single of 1999.

Winds of Plague

Winds of Plague is an American symphonic deathcore band from Upland, California, formed in 2002 as Bleak December and renamed in 2005, known for fusing deathcore with symphonic keyboards.

Wine (music)

Wine, or winin', is a rotating hip-and-waist dance central to dancehall, soca, and calypso across the Anglophone Caribbean, known regionally as despelote in Cuba, gouyad in Haiti, and wukkin'-up in Barbados.

Wing (beatboxer)

WinG (윙, Kim Geonho, born 1997) is a South Korean beatboxer, first Korean Asia Beatbox champion (2018), BEATPELLA HOUSE member, creator of the viral 45-million-view track 'Dopamine', and GBB 2025 solo runner-up.

Winky D

Winky D, born Wallace Chirumiko in 1983, is a Zimbabwean reggae-dancehall artist from Kambuzuma, Harare, and a pioneer of Zimdancehall whose politically charged lyrics have drawn official attention.

Winner (위너) (band)

WINNER (위너) is a YG Entertainment boy group formed by winning the 2013 show WIN: Who Is Next? and debuting August 17, 2014 with 2014 S/S; hits include Empty and Really Really; now a four-member group after Nam Tae-hyun's 2016 exit.

Winston Surfshirt

Winston Surfshirt is an Australian funk, hip-hop, and R&B collective from Sydney, fronted by the singer and rapper Winston, whose debut album Sponge Cake reached number 24 on the ARIA chart.

Winter (김민정) (singer)

Winter (윈터), born Kim Min-jeong in 2001, is the main vocalist and lead dancer of K-pop girl group aespa, which debuted under SM Entertainment in November 2020 with 'Black Mamba'; she also appears with GOT the beat and co-wrote the solo song 'Spark'.

Wintersun

Wintersun is a Finnish symphonic melodic death metal band founded by ex-Ensiferum multi-instrumentalist Jari Mäenpää. Known for the debut (2004), Time I (2012), The Forest Seasons (2017), and the twelve-year-delayed Time II (2024), crowdfunded with over a million euros.

Wireless Festival

Wireless Festival is a London rap, hip-hop, and Afrobeats day festival at Finsbury Park, run by Festival Republic and Live Nation since 2005; Drake headlined all three 2025 days, and the 2026 edition was cancelled after Ye's UK entry was blocked.

Wish 107.5

Wish 107.5 is an all-hits FM radio station in Quezon City, launched in 2014 and known for the Wish Bus, a mobile performance studio on YouTube.

Wish 107.5 Bus (YouTube music platform)

The Wish 107.5 Bus, also called the Wish Bus, is a mobile FM radio studio and YouTube performance channel launched in 2014 by the Philippine station Wish 107.5.

Wish Music Awards

The Wish Music Awards, also known as the Wish 107.5 Music Awards, is an annual Philippine awards show presented by Wish 107.5 that honors upcoming and promising artists.

Wishmountain

Wishmountain is the experimental-techno alias of British electronic musician Matthew Herbert, whose tracks are built from eight sounds sampled from a single object, debuting in 1996.

Wisin

Wisin, born Juan Luis Morera Luna in 1978 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, is a reggaeton singer and producer best known as one half of Wisin & Yandel.

Wisin & Yandel

Wisin & Yandel (Wisin y Yandel, El Dúo de la Historia) were a Puerto Rican reggaeton duo formed in 1998 in Cayey by Juan Luis Morera Luna and Llandel Veguilla Malavé. Known for Pa'l Mundo, Los Extraterrestres (GRAMMY 2009), and the 2022 farewell album La Última Misión.

Witch Club Satan

Witch Club Satan is a Norwegian feminist, occult black metal trio (Røising, Spjelkavik, Kleive) formed 2021/2022, whose self-released 2024 debut on International Women's Day and nude, blood-covered ritual live shows made them a controversial force in black metal.