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Hardy (singer)
Hardy is the stage name of Michael Wilson Hardy, an American country singer and songwriter from Philadelphia, Mississippi whose music ranges from radio country into Southern and heavy rock.
Hari-kirtan
Hari-kirtan (हरिकीर्तन) is a devotional performance tradition of India's Bhakti movement in which a solo kirtankar combines singing, storytelling, acting, and spiritual discourse; it is most elaborated in Maharashtra.
Haricharan
Haricharan Seshadri (ஹரிசரண்), born 1987 in Chennai, is an Indian Carnatic vocalist and playback singer in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada cinema; debut Kaadhal 2004, breakthrough "Thuli Thuli" 2010, Filmfare Tamil winner 2024 and 2025.
Hariharan (singer)
Hariharan (Hariharan Anantha Subramani, born 1955) is an Indian playback, ghazal, and devotional singer in Hindi, Tamil, and other languages, known for Tu Hi Re, the Hanuman Chalisa recording, and the fusion duo Colonial Cousins with Leslie Lewis.
Harini (ஹரினி) (singer)
Harini (ஹரினி), Tamil playback singer born 1979 in Chennai, debuted with A.R. Rahman's "Nila Kaikiradhu" in Indira (1995); married to singer Tippu, mother of Sai Abhyankar; distinct from Singer Megha and Harini Rao.
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1 July 1938, Allahabad), Indian bansuri master, Padma Vibhushan recipient; Call of the Valley (1967), Shiv-Hari film scores, Remember Shakti with John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain.
Haris Džinović
Haris Džinović (Харис Џиновић) is a Bosnian folk and pop-folk singer, composer, and lyricist born in Sarajevo in 1951 who led the ensemble Sar e Roma.
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
Harish Sivaramakrishnan is an Indian Carnatic vocalist and playback singer, lead vocalist of the Bengaluru-based Carnatic progressive rock band Agam, who won a SIIMA Award for "Veyyon Silli".
Harisu (하리수)
Harisu (하리수, Lee Kyung-eun, born 1975) is a South Korean singer, model, and actress, the country's first openly transgender entertainer. Debuted in a 2001 Dodo Cosmetics commercial, released Temptation (2001), legally changed gender in 2002.
Harj Nagra
Harj Nagra (ਹਰਜ ਨਾਗਰਾ) is a Punjabi music producer, singer, and actor from Surrey, British Columbia, who has produced for Jazzy B, Sidhu Moosewala, and Karan Aujla.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Christmas hymn by Charles Wesley, first published as "Hymn for Christmas Day" in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739); opening line altered by George Whitefield in 1753 and paired by William Cummings with a Mendelssohn Festgesang tune.
Harlem's Finest: Return of the King
Harlem's Finest: Return of the King is Big L's 2025 posthumous compilation on Mass Appeal (Legend Has It series): 16 tracks, 39:45, rebuilt from radio freestyles and old verses, with Nas, Jay-Z, Method Man, and Mac Miller.
Harlequin (Lady Gaga album)
Harlequin (ハーレクイン), Lady Gaga's 2024 companion album to Joker: Folie à Deux: 13 jazz-standard covers plus two originals, released September 27, 2024 on Interscope, distinct from the official film soundtrack.
Harley Poe
Harley Poe is an acoustic horror folk punk band formed in 2004 in Kokomo, Indiana, by Joseph Whiteford after his Christian band Calibretto 13; known for Satan, Sex and No Regrets and singing as monsters.
Harleys in Hawaii
"Harleys in Hawaii" is a 2019 song by American singer Katy Perry about riding motorcycles through Hawaii with a lover, written with Charlie Puth and later popularized on TikTok.
Harmonic series (music)
Harmonic series (music): the whole-number multiples f, 2f, 3f of a fundamental frequency, also called the overtone series. It underlies timbre, brass playing, just intonation, and consonance, with real instruments showing inharmonicity.
Harmonica
The harmonica, also called the mouth organ, is a free-reed wind instrument sounded by breathing into air channels; each channel gives a different note on inhaling and exhaling.
Harmonium
The harmonium is a hand-pumped reed organ, born in Europe but redesigned in India, central to qawwali, ghazal, thumri, and Hindi film song; India led production by 1915.
Harmonize
Harmonize, also known as Konde Boy, is a Tanzanian bongo flava singer born Rajabu Abdul Kahali in 1994, formerly signed to Diamond Platnumz's WCB Wasafi.
Harmony
Harmony in music is the simultaneous sounding of two or more pitches as intervals and chords, with practices organizing chord progressions. Founded as modern theory by Rameau's 1722 Traité; recent cross-cultural research finds melody, not harmony, drives global scale structure.
Harmony Corruption
Harmony Corruption is Napalm Death's third album, released July 1, 1990 on Earache Records. Recorded at Morrisound, Tampa with Scott Burns, it added Greenway, Pintado, and Harris and bridged grindcore and death metal.
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen (Hyman Arluck, 1905-1986), American Songbook composer from Buffalo who wrote over 400 songs including Over the Rainbow, Stormy Weather, and Get Happy, with lyricists Ted Koehler, Yip Harburg, and Johnny Mercer.
Harold Budd
Harold Budd (1936–2020), American composer and pianist, pioneered ambient music with Brian Eno on The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, collaborated with Cocteau Twins, and created the soft pedal piano style while rejecting the ambient label.
Harold Faltermeyer
Harold Faltermeyer (Hans Hugo Harold Faltermeier), German keyboardist and composer born 1952 in Munich, former right-hand man of Giorgio Moroder; created "Axel F" for Beverly Hills Cop and the Top Gun Anthem, winning two Grammys, and scored Top Gun: Maverick.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, a Philadelphia vocal group formed in 1954, scored 1970s Philly soul hits like "If You Don't Know Me by Now" and "The Love I Lost" with lead singer Teddy Pendergrass on Philadelphia International Records.
Harp
Harp: plucked string instrument with strings perpendicular to the soundboard and no bridge, known since third-millennium BCE Mesopotamia; modern concert pedal harp has 47 strings and Erard's 1810 double-action mechanism.
Harpa (concert hall)
Harpa is Reykjavík's concert hall and conference centre, opened 2011 at Austurbakka 2. Designed by Henning Larsen, Batteríið, and Olafur Eliasson, it houses Eldborg (up to 1,734 seats), the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and won the 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award.
Harpejji
Harpejji: fretted, tapped electric string instrument invented by Tim Meeks (Maryland, sold from 2007 by Marcodi), combining piano whole-tone string layout with guitar-like techniques; notable players include Stevie Wonder, A.R. Rahman, and Jacob Collier.
Harper Valley PTA
Harper Valley PTA is a 1968 Tom T. Hall country song about widow Stella Johnson confronting a hypocritical PTA; Jeannie C. Riley's recording hit #1 pop and country, won a Grammy and CMA Single of the Year, and spawned a 1978 film and 1981 TV series.
Harpsichord
The harpsichord is a stringed keyboard instrument on which each key raises a jack that plucks a string, so loudness cannot be varied by the player's touch.