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Inuit throat singing

Inuit throat singing, known in Inuktitut as katajjaq, is a vocal game in which two Inuit women face each other and exchange rhythmic guttural patterns until one laughs.

Inva Mula

Inva Mula (Inva Mula-Tchako), Albanian lyric soprano born 1963 in Tirana; Operalia 1993 winner, voice of Diva Plavalaguna in The Fifth Element, Paris-based international opera career.

Invasion of Privacy (album)

Invasion of Privacy is Cardi B's debut studio album, released April 6, 2018 on Atlantic Records; 13 tracks, 48 minutes, it topped the Billboard 200 with 255,000 units and won the 2019 Grammy for Best Rap Album.

Inversion (music)

Inversion (music): a chord voicing with a non-root bass note (first, second, third inversion; figured bass 6, 6/4; slash chords), also melodic, interval, and contrapuntal inversion; basis of smooth voice leading and cadential 6/4.

Invincible (Michael Jackson album)

Invincible, Michael Jackson's tenth and final studio album (October 2001, Epic), 16 tracks including You Rock My World and Butterflies; recorded over four years with Rodney Jerkins, Teddy Riley, and Dr. Freeze, sold six million copies in three months amid the Sony promotion dispute.

Invisible

Invisible was an Argentine rock band founded in 1973 by Luis Alberto Spinetta with Machi Rufino and Pomo Lorenzo, remembered as the great cult band of his career.

Invisible (Duran Duran song)

Invisible is a 2021 Duran Duran single, first release from the album Future Past on BMG, with an AI-made music video by Huxley of Nested Minds; UK sales chart peak No. 45.

Invisible Circles

Invisible Circles: 2004 concept album, the third full-length by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever on Transmission Records, telling of a girl in a dysfunctional family; also a 2009 Margaret Dygas single on Perlon.

Invisible Touch

Invisible Touch: Genesis album (6 June 1986), recorded at The Farm, Surrey, by Phil Collins, Tony Banks, and Mike Rutherford; the band's biggest seller at over 15 million copies, with five US Top 5 singles and the title track as its only US No. 1 single.

INXS

INXS (formerly the Farriss Brothers), Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1977, fronted by Michael Hutchence; breakthrough album Kick (1987) sold over 10 million copies with four US Top Ten singles.

INZO

INZO, born Mike Inzano in 1994, is an American electronic music producer from Chicago, based in Denver, known for the 2018 single "Overthinker," which samples philosopher Alan Watts.

Iosif Kobzon

Iosif Kobzon (Иосиф Кобзон), also known as Joseph Kobzon, was a Soviet and Russian estrada baritone singer and State Duma deputy named People's Artist of the USSR in 1987.

Iotunn

Iotunn is a Danish/Faroese progressive metal band formed in Copenhagen in 2015, whose name is Old Norse for "Giant"; its albums include Access All Worlds (2021) and Kinship (2024).

Iowa (album)

Iowa is Slipknot's second album, released August 28, 2001 on Roadrunner Records. Produced by Ross Robinson with the band, it topped the UK chart with ~52,000 first-week sales, hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and was RIAA-certified platinum.

Iowa Falls, Iowa

Iowa Falls, Iowa: a city in Hardin County on the Iowa River, best known for the 1899 Metropolitan Opera House built by Eugene S. Ellsworth, a National Register-listed theater reopened in 2013.

IPod Touch (song)

"iPod Touch" is a 2025 electro-house single by Australian producer Ninajirachi (Nina Wilson) with Darcy Baylis on NLV Records, from I Love My Computer; about discovering a song online at twelve, later remixed by Madeon.

Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (Israel Gershvin, 1896-1983), American lyricist and older brother of composer George Gershwin; first lyricist to win a Pulitzer Prize (Of Thee I Sing, 1932), lyricist of Porgy and Bess, Lady Be Good, and I Got Rhythm.

Iraj Bastami

Iraj Bastami (ایرج بسطامی) was an Iranian classical vocalist from Bam who fused avaz singing with folk-inflected Persian song, dying in the 2003 Bam earthquake.

Irakere

Irakere is a Cuban band founded in Havana in 1973 by pianist Chucho Valdés, with Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval, fusing Afro-Cuban ritual drumming with jazz and funk.

Iraqi maqam

Iraqi maqam (المقام العراقي) is Iraq's predominant classical music tradition, a vocal repertoire performed by a qari with the chalgi ensemble, recognized by UNESCO in 2003.

Iration

Iration is an American reggae-rock band formed in 2004 in Isla Vista, California, by Hawaii-raised musicians, with four No. 1 albums on Billboard's Reggae chart.

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest: RTÉ's national entry record since 1965, seven wins including Johnny Logan's double and the 1992-1996 streak, six Dublin hostings, Riverdance's 1994 debut, and the 2026-2027 boycotts.

Irene (singer)

Irene (아이린, Bae Joo-hyun, born 1991 in Daegu) is the leader, main rapper, and center of SM Entertainment's Red Velvet, debuted 2014 with 'Happiness', leads the IRENE & SEULGI unit, and went solo with Like A Flower (2024) and Biggest Fan (2026).

Irie FM

Irie FM is a Jamaican all-reggae radio station in Ocho Rios, Saint Ann, owned by Grove Broadcasting and launched in 1990 as Jamaica's first 24-hour reggae station.

Irina Allegrova

Irina Allegrova (Ирина Аллегрова) is a Russian estrada pop singer, born in 1952, whose 1992 album «Странник мой» made her a first-rank star of 1990s Russian pop.

Irina Dubtsova

Irina Dubtsova (Ирина Дубцова) is a Russian singer-songwriter from Volgograd who won Fabrika Zvezd 4 in 2004 and has written songs for Kirkorov, Alsou, and Timati.

Irina Rimes

Irina Rimes is a Moldovan-born singer and songwriter who built her career in Romania, where her 2016 debut single "Visele" topped all Romanian charts for three months.

Iris (song)

"Iris" is a 1998 power ballad by the Goo Goo Dolls, written by John Rzeznik for the film City of Angels and released on Dizzy Up the Girl.

Iris DeMent

Iris DeMent (Iris Luella DeMent, born 1961) is an American folk, country, and gospel singer-songwriter, youngest of 14 children, whose 1992 debut Infamous Angel and albums My Life, The Way I Should, Sing the Delta, The Trackless Woods, and Workin' On A World define her career.

Iris Out

IRIS OUT (アイリスアウト) is a 2025 Kenshi Yonezu song, main theme of Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, released September 15, 2025; it set Oricon and Billboard Japan streaming records and reached No. 5 on the Billboard Global 200.