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Haim (band)

Haim, American pop rock band of sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim from Los Angeles, formed 2007; known for Days Are Gone, Women in Music Pt. III, I Quit, and historic Grammy nominations.

Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, by Ragni, Rado, and Galt MacDermot, opened Off-Broadway 1967 and became Broadway's first rock musical in 1968 at the Biltmore, running 1,750 performances.

Haircut One Hundred

Haircut One Hundred (Haircut 100), English new wave/funk-pop band formed in Beckenham in 1980 by Nick Heyward, Les Nemes, and Graham Jones; debut Pelican West (1982) hit UK No. 2 with four top 10 singles; 2026 reunion album Boxing the Compass.

Hairspray (musical)

Hairspray is a 2002 Broadway musical comedy by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Mark O'Donnell, and Thomas Meehan, based on John Waters's 1988 film, about Tracy Turnblad integrating a 1962 Baltimore TV dance show; it won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and ran 2,642 performances.

Haiti Kanaval

Haiti Kanaval, also known as Haitian Carnival or Kanaval, is Haiti's pre-Lenten carnival season of street celebrations culminating on Mardi Gras, traditionally held in Port-au-Prince, with a distinct papier-mâché carnival in Jacmel a week earlier.

Haji (musician)

Haji (ハジ→), formerly HAZZIE, is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, who blends rap and singing; his best album "ハジベスト。" reached No. 4 on Oricon in 2015.

Hakan Taşıyan

Hakan Taşıyan (born 1973, Ankara) is a Turkish arabesk and fantezi singer, composer, and actor, presented as heir to Müslüm Gürses, whose hit era ran from 1997 to 2000.

Haken (band)

Haken are a London progressive metal band formed in 2007 by Richard Henshall of To-Mera. Seven albums from Aquarius (2010) to Fauna (2023), the Vector/Virus concept diptych, Peter Jones's 2021 return, and the 2026 departures of Griffiths and Green define the band.

Hakkasan

Hakkasan Las Vegas, also known as Hakkasan, is a five-level nightclub and restaurant complex at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, opened in April 2013 and known for its EDM headliner residencies.

Hakuna Matata (song)

Hakuna Matata, Elton John and Tim Rice song from Disney's The Lion King (1994), sung by Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella; Swahili for no worries; Oscar-nominated and trademarked by Disney.

Hakushi Hasegawa (長谷川白紙)

Hakushi Hasegawa (長谷川白紙) is a Japanese experimental pop musician blending jazz, breakcore, and electronica; first Japanese artist on Brainfeeder, known for Mahōgakkō (2024) and Honest Feeling Album (2026).

Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine (Harold Simon Belsky, 1929-2019), American session drummer who named and led the Wrecking Crew, played on an estimated 35,000 sessions including the Be My Baby intro, 40 US No. 1 hits, Rock Hall 2000, 2018 Grammy Lifetime Achievement.

Hal David

Hal David (Harold Lane David, 1921-2012), American Brill Building lyricist, longtime partner of composer Burt Bacharach; wrote "Walk On By", "Alfie", Oscar-winning "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"; ASCAP president 1980-86; Gershwin Prize 2012.

Hal Ketchum

Hal Ketchum (1953-2020) was an American country singer-songwriter, born in Greenwich, New York, whose 1991 gold album Past the Point of Rescue and Opry membership defined him; he retired with dementia in 2019.

Hala February

Hala February (هلا فبراير) is Kuwait's annual February shopping and entertainment festival, first staged in 1999, combining retail promotions and raffles with a concert season of Khaleeji and Arab stars.

Halay music

Halay, called govend in Kurdish, is a collective line and circle dance-music genre of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Anatolia, performed to davul and zurna at weddings and festivals.

Halcyon (Kingfishr album)

Halcyon is the 2025 debut album by Irish indie folk trio Kingfishr (Eddie Keogh, Eoghan McGrath, Eoin Fitzgibbon), released August 22, 2025 on B-Unique/Atlantic; 16 tracks, 52 minutes, with a November 2025 deluxe edition.

Hale

Hale is a Filipino alternative rock band formed in 2004 and fronted by Champ Lui Pio, known for "The Day You Said Goodnight" and "Broken Sonnet".

Halestorm

Halestorm, American hard rock band formed 1997 in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, by siblings Lzzy and Arejay Hale; Grammy winners (2013, "Love Bites (So Do I)") with six Atlantic albums through Everest (2025).

Haley Reinhart

Haley Reinhart (born 1990, Wheeling, Illinois), also Haley Elizabeth Reinhart, is an American singer and American Idol season 10 third-place finalist whose 2015 cover "Can't Help Falling in Love" went Platinum.

Half Blood (mixtape)

Half Blood is the seventh mixtape by Philadelphia rapper-producer Slayr (Evan McDonald), self-released November 5, 2025; a trap, rage, and digicore tape of about 26 minutes, expanded in March 2026 as the deluxe Half Blood (BloodLuxe).

Half Man Half Biscuit

Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB) are a satirical indie rock band formed in Birkenhead in 1984 by Nigel Blackwell and Neil Crossley, famous for Back in the D.H.S.S., refusing The Tube for a Tranmere Rovers match, and one-off gigs rather than touring.

Half-diminished seventh chord

Half-diminished seventh chord (ø7, m7♭5, minor seventh flat five): a diminished triad plus minor seventh, diatonic as viiø7 in major and iiø7 in minor, differing from the fully diminished seventh only in the seventh.

Hall & Oates

Hall & Oates, formally Daryl Hall & John Oates, is an American pop-soul duo formed 1970 in Philadelphia. Six US number one singles, six platinum albums, RIAA's most successful rock duo (1984), Rock Hall 2014; split by 2023–2025 litigation.

Hall of Fame (song)

Hall of Fame (song): 2012 pop single by The Script featuring will.i.am, leadoff from album #3 on Epic/Phonogenic; first UK number 1 for the band, 49 weeks on the UK chart, peak #25 on the Billboard Hot 100, RIAA Double Platinum.

Halle Bailey

Halle Bailey, also known mononymously as Halle, is an American singer and actress from Mableton, Georgia, half of the duo Chloe x Halle, Ariel in Disney's 2023 The Little Mermaid, and a six-time Grammy nominee.

Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)

"Hallelujah" is Leonard Cohen's 1984 song from Various Positions, rejected by Columbia in the US, popularized by John Cale's 1991 and Jeff Buckley's 1994 covers, and recorded over 360 times.

Hallelujah Chorus

Hallelujah Chorus, chorus No. 44 of Handel's Messiah (HWV 56), concludes Part II; composed 1741, premiered Dublin 1742, text from Revelation, famous standing tradition since 1743.

HallyuPopFest

HallyuPopFest is a K-pop music festival first held in September 2018 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, featuring 111 idols from 21 acts, and expanded to London and Sydney in 2022.

Halo (Beyoncé song)

Halo is a 2009 pop-R&B power ballad by Beyoncé from I Am... Sasha Fierce, written with Ryan Tedder and Evan Bogart, released January 20, 2009 on Columbia; US Hot 100 No. 5, UK No. 4, 2010 Grammy winner.