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Mehter
Mehter is the Ottoman military band tradition of the Janissary corps, known in the West as Janissary music, abolished in 1826 and revived in the 20th century.
Mei Semones
Mei Semones (メイ・シモネス), born 2000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a Brooklyn-based Japanese American guitarist and singer-songwriter blending jazz, bossa nova, and indie pop with bilingual English-Japanese lyrics; albums Animaru (2025, Bayonet) and Howl (2027, Verve/Interscope).
Mein Teil
Mein Teil is a 2004 Rammstein song and lead single from Reise, Reise, based on the Armin Meiwes cannibal case, with a controversial Zoran Bihać video and a 2006 Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance.
Meira Omar
Meira Omar (born 1993, Kabul) is a Swedish singer and dancer of Afghan background, known from Love Is Blind: Sverige and Melodifestivalen entries Hush Hush (2025, 10th) and Dooset Daram (2026, 9th).
Meistersang
Meistersang, also called Meistergesang, was the rule-bound civic song culture of German cities from the 14th to the 16th centuries, practiced almost exclusively by artisans, most famously Hans Sachs.
Meiway & Le Zo Gang
Meiway & Le Zo Gang is the Ivorian band of the singer Meiway, creator of zoblazo, a percussion-driven dance music he has led since the late 1980s.
Mekdes (singer)
Mekdes (Mekdes Vinholt Pedersen, born 1998 in Ethiopia) is a Danish-Ethiopian singer, songwriter and producer; P3 Talentet winner 2021, triple-platinum hit "Føles Godt" with URO, albums Greedy (2022) and The Boy I Am (2026).
Mel and Kim
Mel and Kim: English pop duo of sisters Melanie and Kim Appleby from Hackney, London. Signed to Supreme Records, produced by Stock Aitken Waterman; hits "Showing Out" (UK No. 3) and "Respectable" (UK No. 1, 1987). Mel died January 1990; Kim went solo on Parlophone.
Mel B
Mel B (Melanie Janine Brown, born 1975, Leeds), also Scary Spice, is an English singer and TV personality, a founding Spice Girls member; solo album Hot (2000), memoir Brutally Honest, domestic abuse campaigner.
Mel Tillis
Mel Tillis (Lonnie Melvin Tillis, 1932–2017), American country singer-songwriter and actor who wrote over 1,000 songs, won 1976 CMA Entertainer of the Year, and joined the Country Music Hall of Fame, Grand Ole Opry, and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame despite a lifelong stutter.
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé (1925-1999), the Velvet Fog, American jazz singer, composer, and drummer; child star at 4, writer of The Christmas Song, only top 40 hit Comin' Home Baby, Grammy-winning George Shearing collaborations.
Melanie (singer)
Melanie, the professional name of Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (1947–2024), was an American singer-songwriter who played the 1969 Woodstock festival solo and had 1970s hits including "Brand New Key" and "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".
Melanie Blatt
Melanie Blatt (born 1975, Camden, London) is an English singer, founding member of All Saints (1993), solo hit "TwentyFourSeven" with Artful Dodger, X Factor NZ judge, DJ, and burger-business owner.
Melanie C
Melanie C (Melanie Chisholm), Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls, is an English singer-songwriter with nine solo albums including Northern Star (1999) and Sweat (2026), two UK No. 1 singles, and her own label Red Girl Records.
Melanie Fiona
Melanie Fiona (Melanie Hallim, born 1983) is a Guyanese-Canadian R&B singer from Toronto; debut The Bridge (2009) with "It Kills Me," two Grammys for "Fool for You" with Cee Lo Green, Juno-winning 2025 EP Say Yes.
Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez (born 1995, Queens, NY) is an American alt-pop singer, songwriter, and director, aka the "Cry Baby" persona. The Voice 2012 contestant; albums Cry Baby (2015), K-12 (2019), PORTALS (2023), HADES (2026) with Elysium planned.
Melanie Thornton
Melanie Janene Thornton, American singer (1967-2001) based in Germany, lead vocalist of Eurodance duo La Bouche with Lane McCray on "Sweet Dreams" and "Be My Lover"; died in Crossair Flight 3597 crash near Zurich while promoting her solo album Ready to Fly.
Melba Moore
Melba Moore (born Beatrice Melba Smith, 1945) is an American R&B singer and actress, Tony winner for Purlie (1970), first Black actress to replace a white lead on Broadway in Hair, and 1980s R&B hitmaker with A Little Bit More and Falling.
Mele hula
Mele hula are Hawaiian chants performed to accompany hula dance, often with instruments like the pahu drum, in contrast with chant without dance, mele oli.
Mele Kalikimaka
Mele Kalikimaka is the Hawaiian loan phrase for "Merry Christmas" and a 1949 hapa haole song by R. Alex Anderson, first recorded by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950 on Decca.
Melhem Barakat
Melhem Barakat (ملحم بركات) was a Lebanese singer, songwriter, and composer, born in 1945, known for "Habibi Enta" and for singing only in colloquial Lebanese Arabic.
Melinda Ledbetter
Melinda Kae Ledbetter Wilson (1946–2024), American talent manager and second wife of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson; met him selling him a Cadillac in 1986, became his manager in 1999, helped end his dependence on Eugene Landy, encouraged completing Smile.
Meliora (album)
Meliora is the third studio album by Swedish band Ghost, released August 21, 2015 on Loma Vista. Produced by Klas Åhlund, themed on the absence of God, it reached number one in Sweden and won a Grammy for Cirice.
Melisma
Melisma (plural melismas, melismata) is singing several notes to one syllable, from Greek mélisma. Found in Gregorian chant's jubilus, coloratura, gospel, and R&B; popularized in pop by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston.
Melissa (music)
Melissa is the 1983 debut album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released by Roadrunner Records, known for occult lyrics and its influence on black metal.
Melissa (musician)
Melissa is a pop-rock and ballad singer born in Lima, Peru, who became a star of the Venezuelan music scene in the 1980s as the «Reina del Rock».
Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur (born 1972, Montreal) is a Canadian bassist and photographer, bassist for Hole (1994–1999) and the Smashing Pumpkins (1999–2000), solo albums Auf Der Maur (2004) and Bass Womb Room (2026), memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry.
Melissa Cross
Melissa Cross, the "Scream Queen," is a New York vocal coach who created The Zen of Screaming (2005), coined "fry screaming," and has trained over 250 rock and metal artists in safe distorted vocal technique.
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge, born 1961 in Leavenworth, Kansas, is an American heartland rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known for her raspy vocals, she broke through with Yes I Am (1993), won two Grammys and an Oscar for "I Need to Wake Up," and released Rise in 2026.
Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester (born 1951, Bronx) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, ex-Harlette for Bette Midler, known for "Midnight Blue" (No. 6, 1975), the 1983 Grammy-winning "You Should Hear How She Talks About You," and her 2024 album RE:VIEW.