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Lusya Chebotina (Людмила Андреевна Чеботина)
Lusya Chebotina (Lyudmila Andreevna Chebotina, Люся Чеботина), Russian pop singer born 1997 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; breakthrough 2021 hit "Solntse Monako"; albums Bezlimitnaya lyubov and The End.
Lute
The European lute (from Arabic al-‘ud) is a plucked string instrument with a ribbed pear-shaped body, paired string courses, and tied gut frets, used from the Middle Ages to the Baroque for solo music and basso continuo; distinguishable from the fretless oud and from the double-necked theorbo.
Luther (song)
Luther (song): 2024 duet by Kendrick Lamar with SZA from GNX, sampling Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn's "If This World Were Mine" (1982). Spent 13 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Record of the Year at the 2026 Grammys.
Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross (1951–2005), American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer; debut Never Too Much (1981), 11 consecutive platinum albums, eight Grammys, Dance With My Father; 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Luthier
Luthier: craftsperson who builds, repairs, and restores plucked and bowed string instruments (luthier, lutherie, from French luth). Covers etymology, Cremonese golden age, training paths, tonewoods, tools, and the French trade's roughly 1,200 makers.
Luv Is Rage 2
Luv Is Rage 2 is the 2017 debut studio album by Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert (Generation Now/Atlantic), 16 tracks featuring Pharrell and The Weeknd; it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and carries the hit "XO Tour Llif3".
Lux (Rosalía album)
Lux (Latin for "light") is the fourth studio album by Rosalía, released November 7, 2025 on Columbia Records: a four-movement orchestral song cycle inspired by female saints, sung in 13 languages with Björk, Carminho, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Lux Interior
Lux Interior (Erick Lee Purkhiser, 1946-2009) was the American singer who co-founded the horror-punk band the Cramps with his wife Poison Ivy in New York in 1976, pioneering psychobilly.
Lux Tour
LUX TOUR 2026 is Rosalía's arena world tour supporting her album LUX, announced December 2025 by Live Nation: 42-plus shows in 17 countries, opening March 16, 2026 in Lyon, closing in Miami in September 2026. Distinct from the unrelated BMW/Réseau LUX photography tour.
Luz Casal
Luz Casal, stage name of María de la Luz Casal Paz, is a Spanish pop singer from Galicia known for "Piensa en mí" in Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos.
Lyane Hegemann
Lyane Hegemann is a German pop singer, songwriter, and producer who fronted the 1990s Eurodance act E-Rotic and now records pop-Schlager on her own label, 3H Records.
Lycia (band)
Lycia is an American darkwave and ethereal wave band formed in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona by Mike VanPortfleet. Key albums include Ionia, The Burning Circle and Then Dust, and Cold on Projekt Records; Peter Steele was a noted fan.
Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch, 1959) is an American no wave musician, spoken-word artist, writer, and filmmaker; founder of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, solo debut Queen of Siam, label Widowspeak Productions.
Lydia Night
Lydia Night (Lydia Victoria Night), born 2000 in New Orleans, is an American singer-songwriter, former frontwoman of the Regrettes (Feel Your Feelings Fool!, How Do You Love?, Further Joy), and solo pop artist whose 2025 debut album is Parody of Pleasure.
Lydian mode
Lydian mode: the fourth mode of the major scale, a major scale with a raised fourth degree (F Lydian: F G A B C D E F). Brightest diatonic mode; used in Beethoven's Op. 132, George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept, modal jazz, and film music.
Lydian Nadhaswaram
Lydian Nadhaswaram, Chennai-born pianist, drummer, and composer who won CBS's The World's Best in 2019 with a $1 million prize, later created Chromatic Grammatic, The Thirukkural 1330, and Symphony No. 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Lyfe Jennings
Lyfe Jennings (Chester Jermaine Jennings), Toledo, Ohio-born R&B and soul singer-songwriter and producer; served about ten years for arson, won Amateur Night at the Apollo five times, and released Lyfe 268-192 (2004), the gold-certified The Phoenix (2006), and 777 (2019).
Lyfestyle
Lyfestyle is the fifth studio album by American rapper Yeat, released on October 18, 2024, returning to trap and rage sound and becoming his first Billboard 200 number one.
Lykke Li
Lykke Li (Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, born 1986, Ystad, Sweden) is a Swedish singer-songwriter of melancholic indie and electro-pop. Albums: Youth Novels (2008) through The Afterparty (2026); known for I Follow Rivers and open-wound songwriting.
LYKN
LYKN (ไลแคน, "lycan") is a five-member Thai T-pop boy group under GMMTV's RISER MUSIC label, formed via the survival show Project Alpha; members William, Lego, Tui, Hong, and Nut debuted May 5, 2023 with "May I?" and released the album DUSK & DAWN.
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett (Lyle Pearce Lovett), American singer-songwriter from Klein, Texas, blending country, Western swing, jazz, and folk; four Grammy wins from 18 nominations, leader of the Large Band, actor in Altman films, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.
Lyn
Lyn (린, born Lee Se-jin in 1981) is a South Korean ballad and soundtrack singer nicknamed the "OST queen", known for "My Destiny" from My Love from the Star (2013).
Lynn Anderson
Lynn René Anderson was an American country singer whose 1970 crossover hit "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden" won her a Grammy Award in 1971.
Lynsey de Paul
Lynsey de Paul (Lynsey Monckton Rubin, 1948–2014), English singer-songwriter and pianist; hits "Sugar Me" (UK No. 5), "Won't Somebody Dance With Me"; first woman to win an Ivor Novello Award; UK Eurovision 1977 entrant.
Lynx Entertainment
Lynx Entertainment is a Ghanaian music company founded in 2006 by Richie Mensah, best known as the label that developed KiDi, Kuami Eugene, and MzVee.
Lynx Eyes
Lynx Eyes (リンクスアイズ) is a two-member DJ unit in D4DJ, Bushiroad's DJ-themed media-mix project, pairing the characters Himegami Shano and Takao Touka, voiced by Raychell and Umemura Hinako.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd, also styled Leonard Skinnerd or Lynard Skynard, is a Jacksonville, Florida Southern rock band formed in 1964, known for "Free Bird" and "Sweet Home Alabama," the fatal 1977 plane crash, its 1987 reunion under Johnny Van Zant, and 2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Lyodra Ginting
Lyodra Ginting is an Indonesian singer and actress from Medan who won Indonesian Idol in 2020 at 16, its youngest champion, known for the hit "Pesan Terakhir".
Lyor Cohen
Lyor Cohen, born 1959, is an American music executive: Def Jam president from 1988, Island Def Jam chief, Warner Music U.S. chairman 2004-2012, 300 Entertainment co-founder, and Global Head of Music at YouTube and Google since 2016.
Lyre
Lyre: ancient and traditional stringed chordophone with two arms and a crossbar (yoke), strings running from tailpiece to yoke over the soundbox; distinct from harp and zither, known since 3000 BC Mesopotamia.