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Free jazz
Free jazz: avant-garde jazz style emerging in the late 1950s with Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and Albert Ayler, abandoning chord progressions, fixed forms, and meter; named by Coleman's 1960 album Free Jazz.
Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert
Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert: December 9, 2021 joint show by Ye and Drake with Sunday Service Choir at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, streamed free on Amazon platforms and IMAX, advocating prison and sentencing reform for Larry Hoover.
Free TC
Free TC is the 2015 debut studio album by Los Angeles R&B singer Ty Dolla $ign, released on Atlantic Records and dedicated to his incarcerated brother Gabriel "TC" Griffin; it earned a Metacritic score of 76.
Free Weezy Album
Free Weezy Album (FWA) is Lil Wayne's July 4, 2015 album, released exclusively on Tidal amid his Cash Money Records dispute over Tha Carter V; 15 tracks, 10 million first-week streams, re-released as FWA in 2020.
Freebandz
Freebandz (Free Bandz, Freeband Gang) is the Atlanta record label and collective founded in 2011 by rapper Future (Nayvadius Wilburn), distinct from unrelated artists using the same name; known for Epic Records joint ventures, Doe Boy, Zoey Dollaz, and its clothing line.
Freed from Desire
Freed from Desire is a 1996 Eurodance hit by Italian singer Gala (Gala Rizzatto), number one in France and Belgium, later famous as the "Will Grigg's on fire" football chant, protest anthem, and subject of a royalties dispute.
Freedom Call
Freedom Call is a German melodic power metal band from Nuremberg, formed in 1998 by Chris Bay and Dan Zimmermann, known for its upbeat "happy metal" style.
Freedom! '90
Freedom! '90 is a 1990 George Michael single from Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, released via Epic Records, declaring independence from his Faith-era image; its David Fincher video stars five lip-syncing supermodels burning his leather jacket.
Freestyle music
Freestyle music, also called Latin freestyle, is an electronic dance genre that emerged among Latino communities in New York City and Miami in the early 1980s.
Freestyle rap
Freestyle rap is improvised rapping over a beat or a cappella, born in the 1970s South Bronx; the term once meant verses "free of style". Known for ciphers, battle formats like Red Bull Batalla, and studied in fMRI creativity research.
Freestyler
Freestyler is a 1999 breakbeat/hip-hop single by Finland's Bomfunk MC's, written by Raymond Ebanks and composed by JS16 (Jaakko Salovaara), from the album In Stereo; it peaked at UK number 2 and was Europe's best-selling single of 2000.
Freestylers
Freestylers (The Freestylers): British breakbeat/bass music group formed in London in 1996 by producers Matt Cantor and Aston Harvey, originally with Andrew Galea; known for 'B-Boy Stance', the 2004 hit 'Push Up', and albums We Rock Hard and Raw As Fk.
Freeway (rapper)
Freeway (Leslie Edward Pridgen, born 1978) is a Philadelphia rapper, State Property member, and Roc-A-Fella artist whose 2003 debut Philadelphia Freeway reached number five on the Billboard 200; later independent, and a 2019 kidney transplant recipient.
Frejat
Frejat (Roberto Frejat) is a Brazilian rock singer, composer, and guitarist who co-founded Barão Vermelho in 1981, fronted it from 1985 to 2017, and has recorded solo since 2001.
French horn
French horn (cor d'harmonie): brass wind instrument with a coiled tube up to 3.7 m long, valves played by the left hand, and the right hand in the bell. Transposing in F, evolved from 17th-century hunting horns; valves added 1814, double horn 1898.
French house
French house, also called French touch or filter house, is the 1990s Parisian house style built on filtered disco and funk samples, heavy compression, and vocoded vocals at 120–128 BPM, known for Daft Punk, Stardust, Air, Cassius, and Justice.
French Kiss (music)
"French Kiss" is a 1989 instrumental house track by Chicago producer Lil' Louis, known for its mid-song slowdown and two weeks at number 1 on Billboard's dance chart.
French Kiwi Juice
French Kiwi Juice (FKJ) is the stage name of Vincent Fenton, a French multi-instrumentalist and producer of new French house. Debut album French Kiwi Juice (2017), viral improvised track Tadow with Masego, later albums V I N C E N T and Tyber.
French Montana
French Montana, born Karim Kharbouch in 1984 in Morocco, is a Moroccan-American rapper from the Bronx known for Cocaine City DVDs, the diamond single "Unforgettable" with Swae Lee, and albums Excuse My French and Jungle Rules.
Frenchmen Street
Frenchmen Street: live music corridor in the Faubourg Marigny, New Orleans, between Esplanade Avenue and Royal Street; named for five Frenchmen executed in 1769 (1768 by another account); clubs include Snug Harbor, Spotted Cat, d.b.a., Blue Nile.
Frenna
Frenna, the stage name of Francis Edusei, is a Dutch rapper and singer of Ghanaian descent who broke through with SFB in 2014 and founded the 777 label.
FRENZ (group)
FRENZ, also known as フレンズ (Friends), is a Japanese mixed-gender band formed in Shibuya, Tokyo, in 2015, whose songs have appeared in commercials, films, and anime.
Frenzo
Frenzo Harami is a British Pakistani rapper from east London, active since 2018, known for blending English and Punjabi in UK rap and for the Chaabian Boyz mixtape series.
Frère Jacques
Frère Jacques (Brother John, Are You Sleeping) is a French children's round about a sleeping monk who must ring matines bells. A four-voice canon first printed in 1811, possibly by Rameau; Mahler quoted it in his First Symphony.
Fréro Delavega
Fréro Delavega is a French pop-folk duo from the Bassin d'Arcachon, formed by Jérémy Frérot and Florian Delavega, who rose to fame on The Voice in 2014.
Fresh Cream
Fresh Cream is the 1966 debut album by British rock trio Cream (Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker), released 9 December 1966 on Reaction in the UK and on Atco in the US, reaching UK No. 6, and distinct from fresh dairy cream.
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the 1980 debut album by Dead Kennedys, released on Cherry Red in the UK and Alternative Tentacles in the US, recorded at Mobius Music, San Francisco, with cover art of police cars burned in the 1979 White Night riot.
Fresno
Fresno is a Brazilian rock band formed in 1999 in Porto Alegre, a leading name of 2000s Brazilian emo, with a gold record and a Latin Grammy.
Frevo
Frevo is the fast, brass-led carnival music of Recife, Pernambuco, performed mainly during Carnival by martial bands and fanfares, together with its accompanying solo dance, the passo, recognized by UNESCO in 2012.
Freya Ridings
Freya Ridings, born 1994 in London, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose piano ballad Lost Without You hit UK Number 9 after Love Island; her albums are Freya Ridings (2019), Blood Orange (2023), and Mother of Pearl (2026).