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Defected Malta

Defected Malta is a house-music festival held each October in Malta, launched in 2022 by Defected Records as an island counterpart to its Defected Croatia festival, selling out over 5,500 tickets by 2025.

Defleshed

Defleshed is a Swedish thrash and death metal band from Uppsala, formed in 1991, whose trio of Gustaf Jorde, Lars Löfven, and Matte Modin reunited in 2021 and released Grind Over Matter in 2022.

Defqon.1 Festival

Defqon.1 is Q-dance's annual hardstyle and hardcore festival, first held in 2003 at Almere Strand and now staged at Biddinghuizen, Netherlands. Largest hardstyle festival worldwide; Australian and Chilean editions; 2026 edition cancelled by code red heat.

Deftones

Deftones is an American alternative metal band formed in Sacramento, California in 1988, fronted by Chino Moreno and known for blending heavy riffs with ambient, shoegaze textures.

Deichbrand Festival

Deichbrand Festival, also known as Deichbrand, is a rock, pop, and electronic music festival held annually since 2005 on the German North Sea coast near Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony.

Deicide (band)

Deicide is an American death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987 as Amon, renamed Deicide in 1989, and ranked second in death metal sales of the SoundScan era.

Dej Loaf

Dej Loaf (Deja Monét Trimble, born 1991) is a Detroit rapper and singer whose 2014 single "Try Me," produced by DDS, went viral after a Drake Instagram co-sign and led to a Columbia Records deal.

Dejan Matić

Dejan Matić is a Serbian folk singer, born blind in 1978 in Bihać, twin brother of singer Saša Matić, best known for the 2006 hit 'Niko i neko'.

Del Records

DEL Records is an independent regional Mexican record label founded by Ángel Del Villar in Bell Gardens, California, in 2008, home to Gerardo Ortiz and Eslabón Armado.

Del the Funky Homosapien

Del the Funky Homosapien (Teren Delvon Jones, b. 1972, Oakland), also Sir DZL and Deltron Zero, is an American rapper of Hieroglyphics and Deltron 3030, known for I Wish My Brother George Was Here and Gorillaz's "Clint Eastwood".

Delain

Delain is a Dutch symphonic metal band formed in 2002 in Zwolle by ex-Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Westerholt; female-fronted, seven studio albums including Dark Waters (2023), since 2026 a guest-vocalist collective.

Delano Smith

Delano Smith is an American house and techno DJ and producer from Detroit, one of the city's first house DJs and a defining figure of the Detroit Beatdown sound.

Dele Abiodun

Admiral Dele Abiodun, born Prince Cyril Bamidele Abiodun Alele in 1948, is a Nigerian juju bandleader who created the Adawa style, led the Top Hitters Band, and headed PMAN.

Delikanlım

"Delikanlım" is a 1994 song written and performed by Yıldız Tilbe, the title track of her debut album, reported to have sold 3,000,000 copies in Turkey.

Delta Heavy (group)

Delta Heavy are a London drum and bass duo of Ben Hall and Simon James, signed to RAM Records in 2010 and known for the 2012 single "Get By".

Deluxe

Deluxe is a six-member French band formed in 2007 in Aix-en-Provence, playing music with funk and hip-hop accents and known for its moustache symbol and logo.

Dembe FM

Dembe FM is a Luganda-language commercial radio station on 90.4 FM in Kampala, Uganda, launched in 2002, closed in 2023, and relaunched in 2025 by Nation Media Group.

Dembow

Dembow, also known as the dembow riddim, is the boom-ch-boom-chick drum pattern that serves as the rhythmic foundation of reggaeton, named for Shabba Ranks' 1990 song "Dem Bow".

Demdike Stare

Demdike Stare are a British electronic music duo from Manchester, England, formed by Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty, whose records combine dark ambient, dub techno, and jungle, released mainly on Modern Love.

Demi Riquísimo

Demi Riquísimo is a British DJ and music producer, born in Kent and raised in Detroit, known for acid and italo house and for running the Semi Delicious label.

Demian (데미안) (singer)

Demian (데미안), stage name of Sohn Jeong Hyuck (손정혁), born 1994, is a South Korean singer-songwriter who debuted March 11, 2020 under Sony Music Entertainment Korea with "Cassette"; later singles include Karma, Yes, A Blue not Blues, and Basement Boy; he signed with MS Team Entertainment in 2023. Distinct from the German rapper, Chilean band, and Korean rapper of the same name.

Demo

Demo (Демо) is a Russian pop-dance group formed in Moscow in 1999, fronted by vocalist Sasha Zvereva and known for the hit "Solnyshko", one of the main dance acts of the late 1990s.

Demon Hunter (band)

Demon Hunter is an American Christian metal band from Seattle formed in 2000 by brothers Ryan and Don Clark of Training for Utopia. Twelve albums on Solid State Records, Billboard 200 charting, and a 2026 trademark suit against Netflix over KPop Demon Hunters.

Denis Teofikov

Denis Teofikov (Денис Теофиков) was a Bulgarian pop-folk singer who signed with the Payner label in 2018 and became known for duets with Emilia before dying in 2021, aged 21.

Denise Belfon

Denise "Saucy Wow" Belfon, born Denise Ann Sinoda Belfon in 1968, is a Trinidadian soca singer and dancer whose hits include "Saucy Baby", "Work", and "Wining Queen".

Deniz Tekin

Deniz Tekin (Hatice Deniz Tekin) is a Turkish singer-songwriter born in İzmir in 1997, known for her acoustic cover of Beni Vur and the 2017 debut album Kozakuluçka.

Denki Groove

Denki Groove (電気グルーヴ) is a Japanese electronic music duo formed in 1989 by Shizuoka-born Takkyu Ishino and Pierre Taki, known for the 1997 hit "Shangri-La" and influence on Japanese technopop.

Dennery Segment

Dennery Segment is a fast-paced soca subgenre born in the village of Dennery, Saint Lucia, in the early 2010s, blending kuduro, dancehall, and Kwéyòl lyrics.

Dennis Brown

Dennis Brown (Dennis Emanuel Brown, 1957–1999), Jamaican reggae singer called the Crown Prince of Reggae by Bob Marley; child star at Studio One, over 75 albums, hits include Money in My Pocket and Here I Come.

Dennis Ferrer

Dennis Ferrer is a New York house music producer and DJ active since the early 1990s, who co-founded the Sfere label and is known for "Sandcastles" and "Hey Hey".