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Allure (musician)

Allure is a trance project that began as an alias of the Dutch DJ Tiësto (Tijs Verwest), first releasing in 1998 and best known for 'The Loves We Lost'.

Ally Brooke

Ally Brooke (Allyson Brooke Hernandez, born 1993, San Antonio) is an American pop and Latin singer, Fifth Harmony member 2012–2018, later a solo Atlantic/Duars/Snafu artist known for "Low Key," DWTS season 28 third place, and the memoir Finding Your Harmony.

Ally the Piper

Ally the Piper, real name Ally Crowley-Duncan, is an American bagpiper from Schenectady, New York, famous for viral rock covers like Free Bird (100M+ views), EUSPBA Grade 1 piping credentials, Mia x Ally tours, and the 2025 album The Session.

Alma (Finnish singer)

Alma (Alma-Sofia Miettinen, born 1996, Kuopio) is a Finnish pop singer-songwriter behind "Karma", "Dye My Hair", and "Chasing Highs", albums Have U Seen Her? and Time Machine, and cowrites for Miley Cyrus; distinct from Alma Alanko and Alma Pöysti.

Alma Cogan

Alma Cogan (Alma Angela Cohen, 1932-1966), British pop singer of the 1950s, 'girl with the laugh in her voice'; 18 UK chart entries, No. 1 with Dreamboat (1955), own BBC TV show, later subject of Gordon Burn's novel Alma.

Alma Deutscher

Alma Deutscher is a British composer and violinist known for her classical-romantic style. She won the European Culture Prize in 2019 and wrote the opera Cinderella.

Alma Mahler

Alma Mahler (1879-1964), born Alma Schindler, Viennese composer of songs and wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel; known for her 17 published lieder, her memoirs shaping the Alma Problem, and later reassessment as a composer.

Almighty So 2

Almighty So 2 is Chief Keef's fifth studio album, released May 10, 2024 via 43B/RBC Records; a 16-track, largely self-produced sequel to his 2013 mixtape Almighty So, debuting at number 30 on the Billboard 200.

Alo Wala

Alo Wala is the music project of Shivani Ahlowalia, a Chicago-born Punjabi-American vocalist and MC, formed with Danish producers Copia Doble Systema; its debut EP, Cityboy, came out in 2014.

Aloe Blacc

Aloe Blacc, born Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (1979), is an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter from Orange County, California, of Panamanian descent, known for "I Need a Dollar," "The Man," and co-writing Avicii's "Wake Me Up."

Aloha ʻOe

Aloha ʻOe (Farewell to Thee), Hawaiian song composed in 1878 by Queen Liliʻuokalani at Maunawili, published 1884; a love song often read as a farewell to the kingdom, recorded by the Hawaiian Quintette (1913, National Recording Registry) and Elvis Presley.

Alok (DJ)

Alok (Alok Achkar Peres Petrillo, born 1991, Goiânia) is a Brazilian DJ, pioneer of Brazilian bass, and "Hear Me Now" hitmaker; DJ Mag No. 4 in 2021, Free Fire character, Alok Institute founder.

Alone (music)

"Alone" is a 2016 future bass single by the masked American producer Marshmello, released on Monstercat as his breakout hit and Monstercat's first RIAA-certified platinum record.

Alone (The Cure song)

"Alone" is a 2024 song by English rock band The Cure, its first new song in 16 years and the opening track and lead single of the album Songs of a Lost World, released 26 September 2024 with lyrics based on Ernest Dowson's poem Dregs.

Alone Again (Naturally)

"Alone Again (Naturally)" is a 1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan soft-rock ballad, also credited to Raymond O'Sullivan: six weeks at US No. 1, Canada No. 1, UK No. 3, No. 2 song of 1972, written about a fictional suicide narrative, not autobiography.

Alone in the Universe

Alone in the Universe: 2015 Jeff Lynne's ELO comeback album on Columbia, first new ELO album since Zoom; also John Gribbin's 2011 astrobiology book, a Seussical song, and a 2015 film.

Alors on danse

Alors on danse, 2009 electro-hip-hop single by Belgian artist Stromae (Paul Van Haver) from the album Cheese; saxophone-loop dance track about work, debt and escapism that hit No. 1 across Europe and passed one billion Spotify streams.

Alouette (song)

Alouette, gentille alouette: French-Canadian cumulative folk song about plucking a lark, first printed in a McGill College song book in Montreal in 1879; a voyageur paddling song, unofficial anthem of French Canada, and a common tool for teaching French body parts, distinct from Gilles Dreu's 1968 hit of the same name.

Alpha Blondy

Alpha Blondy, stage name of Seydou Kone (born 1953, Dimbokro), is an Ivorian reggae singer and UN Messenger of Peace known for Jah Glory, Jerusalem, Masada, and multilingual African reggae.

Alpha Drive One

Alpha Drive One (알파드라이브원, ALD1) is an eight-member multinational K-pop boy group formed on Mnet's BOYS II PLANET with about 26 million votes; debuted January 12, 2026 under WAKEONE with EP EUPHORIA and FREAK ALARM, selling 1.44 million first-week copies.

Alphaville (band)

Alphaville is a German synth-pop band from Münster, formed in 1981 by Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd, known for "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody", and "Forever Young".

Alphorn

Alphorn: long wooden Swiss Alpine natural horn (3-4 m, conical, valveless) playing only harmonic-series notes; herding and signaling instrument, revived from the 1808 Unspunnen festival into Switzerland's national instrument.

Alright (Kendrick Lamar song)

Alright is a 2015 Kendrick Lamar song from To Pimp a Butterfly, produced by Pharrell Williams and Sounwave. Its chorus became a Black Lives Matter protest chant, and it won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance at the 2016 Grammys.

Also sprach Zarathustra

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, is Richard Strauss's 1896 tone poem "freely after" Nietzsche's book, premiered in Frankfurt on 27 November 1896, famous for its sunrise fanfare used in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Alsou

Alsou (Алсу), Alsou Ralifovna Abramova (née Safina), Russian pop singer born 1983 in Bugulma, Tatarstan. Eurovision 2000 runner-up with "Solo" (155 points), hosted Eurovision 2009, records in Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, and English.

Alstake

Alstake (アルステイク) is a three-piece Japanese rock band from Okayama, formed in 2017, whose members are Hidaka Yoshiaki, Non, and Amu, releasing on Orange Owl Records.

Alstroemeria Records

Alstroemeria Records (アルストロメリアレコーズ) is a Japanese doujin music circle and label, owned by Masayoshi Minoshima, best known for the 2007 track "Bad Apple!! feat. nomico."

Alt-J

Alt-J (∆) is an English indie rock band formed in 2007 at the University of Leeds by Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton, Thom Sonny Green, and later-departed Gwil Sainsbury; their debut An Awesome Wave won the 2012 Mercury Prize, and This Is All Yours reached UK No. 1.

Altaf Raja

Altaf Raja, born 1967 in Nagpur, is an Indian singer trained in qawwali whose 1997 album Tum To Thehre Pardesi sold millions of cassettes and made him a household name.

Altamont Free Concert

Altamont Free Concert: December 6, 1969 free rock festival at Altamont Speedway near Tracy, California, headlined by the Rolling Stones; about 300,000 attended, four died, including Meredith Hunter, stabbed by a Hells Angel. Called "Woodstock West" and filmed in Gimme Shelter.