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Byron Messia

Byron Messia is a dancehall and rap artist born in Jamaica and based in Saint Kitts and Nevis, best known for the 2023 single "Talibans" and its Burna Boy remix.

Byun Euijoo

Byun Euijoo (변의주), known professionally as EJ, is a singer and leader of the nine-member boy group &TEAM, formed through I-LAND and &AUDITION and debuted in 2022.

C. Ashwath

C. Ashwath, born Channappa Ashwath (1939–2009), was a Kannada singer-composer and leading exponent of Sugama Sangeetha, best known for the 1982 cassette Mysuru Mallige, setting K.S. Narasimhaswamy's poems.

C. Narayana Reddy

C. Narayana Reddy, known as Cinare, was a Telugu poet and film lyricist who wrote more than 3,000 songs for Telugu cinema and won the 1988 Jnanpith Award for his epic poem Vishwambhara.

C. Ramchandra

C. Ramchandra (सी. रामचंद्र), also known as Chitalkar, was an Indian film composer and playback singer who brought swing into Hindi film song and composed 'Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon'.

C. T. Fernando

C. T. Fernando (1921–1977) was a Sri Lankan singer who fused Western pop and jazz with Sinhala song, the country's most popular singer from 1956 to 1960.

C.Gambino

C.Gambino (Karar Ali Salem Ramadan, 1998-2024) was a masked Swedish gangsta rapper from Gothenburg, Grammis winner 2024, known for M.O.B, In Memory of Some Stand Up Guys, and the hit G63; shot dead 4 June 2024.

C.K. Mann

C.K. Mann (Charles Kofi Amankwaa Mann) was a Ghanaian highlife singer, guitarist, and bandleader who led the Carousel 7 in Takoradi and recorded Funky Highlife in 1975.

C.R.E.A.M.

C.R.E.A.M. is a 1994 hip hop song produced by RZA for the Wu-Tang Clan. It uses a 1967 soul sample and features verses by Raekwon and Inspectah Deck.

C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory, the dance project of producers Robert Clivillés and David Cole (formed 1989, New York), scored 1990-91 hits like "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" with Martha Wash's vocals and Freedom Williams's rap, amid famous credit lawsuits.

C2C Festival

C2C Festival, called Club To Club until 2019, is an independent festival of avant-garde electronic and club music held annually in Turin, Italy, since 2002.

C4 Pedro

C4 Pedro, born Pedro Henrique Lisboa Santos, is an Angolan singer, composer, and producer born in Luanda in 1983, known for kizomba hits like "Bo Tem Mel".

Cabaret Sauvage

Cabaret Sauvage is a Magic Mirror concert venue in the Parc de la Villette in Paris, created by Méziane Azaïche and opened in December 1997.

Cabas

Cabas, also known as Andrés Cabas, is a Colombian singer-songwriter from Barranquilla who fuses Caribbean coastal rhythms like cumbia and bullerengue with rock and pop.

Cabo Verde Show

Cabo Verde Show is a Cape Verdean band formed in Paris in the mid-1970s by musicians born in Dakar, credited with turning Cape Verdean music toward the diaspora.

Cachorro Grande

Cachorro Grande is a Brazilian rock band formed in Porto Alegre in 1999, known for a retro 1960s and 1970s sound and hits such as "Lunático" and "Sinceramente".

Cacique de Ramos

Cacique de Ramos, formally the Grêmio Recreativo Cacique de Ramos, is a carnival bloco and samba venue in Rio de Janeiro's Olaria neighborhood, founded in 1961.

Cadet (rapper)

Cadet, stage name of Blaine Cameron Johnson (born 1990), was a British grime and UK rap artist from Clapham, London, of the Gipset crew and cousin of Krept. Known for storytelling EPs The Commitment and The Commitment 2 and the single Advice, he died in a 2019 taxi crash; his posthumous debut album The Rated Legend followed in 2020.

Café del Mar

Café del Mar, also known as Cafe Del Mar, is a bar in San Antonio, Ibiza, opened in 1980 and known for its sunset chillout sessions and the compilation series they spawned.

Café Quijano

Café Quijano is a Spanish pop trio formed in León by the brothers Manuel, Óscar, and Raúl Quijano, known for the 1999 hit "La Lola".

Cage (rapper)

Cage, born Christian Palko, also known as Cage Kennylz, is an American underground rapper who came up through the New York underground in the 1990s.

Cai Xukun (蔡徐坤)

Cai Xukun (蔡徐坤), born 1998, is a Chinese singer, songwriter, and producer who finished first on Idol Producer in 2018 before building a self-produced solo career.

Caifanes (album)

Caifanes, also known as Volumen I or Mátenme Porque Me Muero, is the 1988 debut album of the Mexican rock band Caifanes, a landmark of rock en español that fused new wave with cumbia.

Cairo International Film Festival

The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF; مهرجان القاهرة السينمائي الدولي) is an annual film festival in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 1976 and one of the oldest in Africa and the Arab world.

Cairo Jazz Club

Cairo Jazz Club (CJC) is a live-music venue and nightclub in Agouza, Cairo, Egypt, open since 2001 and known for jazz, rock, indie, and electronic music.

Cairokee

Cairokee (كايروكي) is an Egyptian rock band formed in 2003 in Cairo, fronted by Amir Eid, whose song "Sout El Horeya" made it a voice of the 2011 revolution.

Cajual Records

Cajual Records is an American house music label founded in Chicago in 1992 by Curtis Jones, who records as Cajmere and Green Velvet, and a pillar of the 1990s Chicago house revival.

Cal_Vin

Cal_Vin, born Mgcini Calvin Nhliziyo, was a Zimbabwean rapper from Bulawayo who rose to fame in 2014 with "Bebengakholwa" and "Z'khuphani", rapping in Ndebele until his death in 2020.

Calema

Calema are a musical duo from São Tomé and Príncipe based in Portugal, formed by the brothers António and Fradique Mendes Ferreira, blending kizomba with pop and Latin music.

Cali y El Dandee

Cali y El Dandee is a Colombian Latin pop and urban duo formed by brothers Alejandro (Cali) and Mauricio (Dandee) Rengifo, known for the 2011 ballad "Yo te esperaré".