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Hilly Kristal
Hilly Kristal (Hillel Kristal, 1931-2007), American club owner and musician, founder of CBGB at 315 Bowery, New York, opened December 1973 as a country-bluegrass-blues bar that became the birthplace of American punk via his original-music-only booking policy.
Hilton Valentine
Hilton Valentine (Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine) was the English founding guitarist of the Animals, creator of the arpeggiated A-minor intro to "The House of the Rising Sun" (1964), a UK and US No. 1, and later a skiffle musician as Skiffledog.
HIM (Finnish band)
HIM (His Infernal Majesty), Finnish gothic rock band from Helsinki founded 1991 by Ville Valo; pioneered self-styled 'love metal'; hits 'Join Me in Death' and Dark Light, first Finnish RIAA gold album; disbanded 2017.
Himesh Reshammiya (हिमेश रेशमिया)
Himesh Reshammiya (हिमेश रेशमिया), born 1973 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, is an Indian music director, playback singer and actor. Debuted with Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya (1998), broke through with Tere Naam, won Filmfare Best Playback Singer for Aashiq Banaya Aapne, and turned actor with Aap Kaa Surroor (2007).
Himno Nacional Mexicano
Himno Nacional Mexicano, the national anthem of Mexico, lyrics by Francisco González Bocanegra (1853) and music by Jaime Nunó (1854); official four-stanza version decreed by Ávila Camacho on 20 October 1943.
Himnusz
Himnusz is the national anthem of Hungary, a poem by Ferenc Kölcsey completed in 1823 and set to music by Ferenc Erkel, winning a competition in 1844.
Hinatazaka46
Hinatazaka46 (日向坂46) is a Japanese idol group in the Sakamichi series that formed in 2016 as Hiragana Keyaki, debuted independently in 2019 with キュン, and has topped the Oricon weekly chart with every single.
Hind's Hall
Hind's Hall is a 2024 protest song by Macklemore, also known as HIND'S HALL, named for Columbia's Hamilton Hall, renamed by protesters for Hind Rajab. It samples Fairuz, criticizes US policy on Gaza and Biden, and its proceeds went to UNRWA.
Hinder
Hinder: Oklahoma City rock band formed 2001 (Hanson, Garvey, Winkler). Debut Extreme Behavior (2005) went 3x Platinum; "Lips of an Angel" hit number one. Winkler left 2013; Marshal Dutton fronts since 2015.
Hindi film song
A Hindi film song is a song written and first released as part of a Hindi-language Indian feature film, the dominant popular music of Bollywood since sound film arrived in 1931.
Hindia (singer)
Hindia is the solo indie-pop project of Indonesian singer-songwriter Daniel Baskara Putra (born 1994, Jakarta), also vocalist of .Feast and member of Lomba Sihir; debut album Menari dengan Bayangan (2019) passed one billion Spotify streams.
Hindley Street Country Club
Hindley Street Country Club is an Australian cover band formed in Adelaide in 2017, known for weekly one-take re-recordings of 1970s to 1990s hits on YouTube.
Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music (Hindustani Shastriya Sangeet), the North Indian classical tradition spanning India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: raga, tala, khayal and dhrupad, gharanas, sitar and tabla, and its divergence from Carnatic music.
Hip hop dance
Hip hop dance covers street dance styles like breaking, locking, popping, and house that arose in US hip hop culture from the late 1960s, originating in 1970s Bronx parties and now spanning battles, syllabi, and Olympic breaking.
Hip Hop Is Dead
Hip Hop Is Dead is Nas's eighth studio album, released December 19, 2006 on Def Jam. Inspired by De La Soul Is Dead, it sparked a lasting debate about commercialism in hip-hop and earned a Metacritic score of 79.
Hipgnosis
Hipgnosis: British album-cover design studio founded 1968 in London by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell; made surreal photodesigns for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and 10cc until 1983; unrelated to Hipgnosis Songs Fund.
Hiphop Tamizha (ஹிப்ஹாப் தமிழா)
Hiphop Tamizha (ஹிப்ஹாப் தமிழா), also styled Hip Hop Tamizhan, is the Chennai hip hop duo of Adhi and R Jeeva, whose 2012 debut Hip Hop Tamizhan was the first Tamil hip hop album by Indian musicians; they later scored Thani Oruvan and Meesaya Murukku.
HiPipo Music Awards
The HiPipo Music Awards are annual music prizes organized by Uganda's HiPipo company, decided entirely by public vote, first held in Kampala in 2012 and running annually since.
Hipódromo de las Américas
Hipódromo de las Américas is a horse-racing track and large-format concert ground in Mexico City, opened in 1943, the only hippodrome in Mexico, known for the Derby México and major EDM events.
Hippo Campus
Hippo Campus: Minnesota indie rock band formed 2013 in St. Paul by Jake Luppen, Nathan Stocker, Zach Sutton, and Whistler Allen; albums Landmark, Bambi, LP3, and Flood (2024, Psychic Hotline), over a billion streams.
Hips Don't Lie
"Hips Don't Lie" is a 2005 Shakira song featuring Wyclef Jean on Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, reworking Jean's "Dance Like This" with a Jerry Rivera "Amores Como El Nuestro" brass sample; it was Shakira's first and only US Hot 100 number one.
Hipster (1940s subculture)
The hipster of the 1940s was a member of the jazz counterculture built around bebop, defined by distinctive slang, dress, and a stance apart from mainstream white America.
Hiro Yamamoto
Hiro Yamamoto (born 1961) is the founding bassist of Soundgarden (1984–1989), later of Truly and Stereo Donkey, a physical chemist, and a 2022 Asian Hall of Fame and 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Hiroko Moriguchi
Hiroko Moriguchi (森口博子) is a Japanese singer from Fukuoka Prefecture who debuted in 1985 with the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam opening theme and later hit "ETERNAL WIND".
Hiroko Shimabukuro
Hiroko Shimabukuro (島袋寛子) is a Japanese singer from Okinawa, a founding vocalist of the girl group Speed who began a solo career as hiro in 1998.
Hiroko Yakushimaru
Hiroko Yakushimaru (薬師丸ひろ子) is a Japanese actress and singer, born in Tokyo in 1964, whose 1981 debut single "Sailor Fuku to Kikanjū" was the 1980s' best-selling female idol single.
Hiromi Go
Hiromi Go (郷ひろみ), born Haratake Hiromi in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1955, is a Japanese pop singer who debuted in 1972 and was one of the 1970s Shin Gosanke male idols.
Hiromi Uehara (上原ひろみ)
Hiromi Uehara (上原ひろみ), born 1979 in Hamamatsu, is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer; Berklee-trained, Ahmad Jamal-mentored, Grammy winner with Stanley Clarke, leader of the Trio Project and Sonicwonder.
HIROMITSU KITAYAMA
Hiromitsu Kitayama (北山宏光, born 1985) is a Japanese singer and former Kis-My-Ft2 member who left Johnny & Associates in 2023, joined TOBE, and debuted solo that November.
Hiroshi Kamayatsu
Hiroshi Kamayatsu (かまやつひろし, Monsieur Kamayatsu) was a Japanese singer, songwriter, and guitarist, active from the late 1950s until his death in 2017 and best known as a member of The Spiders.