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Minju

Minju (민주; birth name Park Min-ju) is a South Korean singer under Belift Lab, a member of the girl group ILLIT, which debuted in 2024.

Minnale (album)

Minnalae (மின்னலே) is the soundtrack album of the 2001 Tamil film Minnale, Harris Jayaraj's debut as composer, featuring nine songs including the chartbuster 'Vaseegara' sung by Bombay Jayashri.

Minnie (มินนี่) (singer)

Minnie (มินนี่, Nicha Yontararak), born 1997 in Bangkok, is a Thai singer-songwriter and main vocalist of K-pop group (G)I-DLE, now i-dle, under Cube Entertainment; debuted 2018, first Thai idol at Cube, solo EP HER 2025.

Minnie Riperton

Minnie Riperton (1947-1979), American soul singer from Chicago, famed for the five-octave voice and whistle register on the 1975 No. 1 hit "Lovin' You"; also Rotary Connection lead vocalist, Stevie Wonder protege, and breast cancer awareness advocate.

Minnie the Moocher

Minnie the Moocher, also "The Ho De Ho Song," is Cab Calloway and Irving Mills's 1931 jazz hit recorded March 3, 1931 on Brunswick 6074, famous for the scat "Hi-de-ho" call-and-response, drug slang lyrics, a million sales, and the 1932 Betty Boop cartoon.

Mino (송민호) (rapper)

Song Min-ho (송민호, Mino), born 1993, is a South Korean rapper in YG Entertainment's WINNER, Show Me the Money 4 runner-up, solo artist of XX and TO INFINITY., and painter; convicted in 2026 of 102 days of unauthorized absence from mandatory service, with a suspended one-year sentence.

Minor scale

Minor scale: natural, harmonic, and melodic minor forms, seven-note scales with a minor third above the tonic, also called the Aeolian mode; distinct from major scale and modal variants like Dorian.

Minor Threat

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C., active from 1980 to 1983, whose song "Straight Edge" named the drug-free straight edge lifestyle.

Minori Chihara

Minori Chihara (茅原実里), born 1980, is a Japanese voice actress and anison singer known for Yuki Nagato in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and 11 studio albums.

Minoru Niihara

Minoru Niihara (二井原実, born 1960 in Osaka) is a Japanese vocalist, lead singer of the heavy metal band LOUDNESS from 1981 to 1988 and again since its 2000 reunion.

Minstrel

Minstrel: a medieval entertainer, from Old French menestral and Late Latin ministerialis, employed by courts, nobles, and towns to play music, sing, and recite poetry; in America the word also names blackface minstrel-show performers.

Mint Club

Mint Club (MiNT Club) was a Leeds house and techno nightclub on Harrison Street. It opened in 1998 and was recognized for its success in major music polls.

Minuet

Minuet (menuet): a slow, stately French couple dance in 3/4 time popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, set to music by Lully, codified under Louis XIV, and later a standard minuet-trio-da capo movement of Classical symphonies.

Minuets in G major and G minor

Minuets in G major and G minor, BWV Anh. 114/115, are harpsichord minuets by Christian Petzold copied into Anna Magdalena Bach's 1725 notebook and long misattributed to J.S. Bach until Schulze's 1979 reattribution.

Minushuman

Minushuman is a French heavy metal band founded in 2007 in Bergerac, France, whose second album Bloodthrone was released on Season of Mist in 2011.

Minuta Slavy (Minute of Fame)

Minuta Slavy (Минута славы, "Minute of Fame") is a Russian talent competition on Channel One since 2007, where amateur performers compete for a 1,000,000-ruble prize.

Minutemen (band)

Minutemen were an American punk trio from San Pedro, California, active 1980–1985: D. Boon, Mike Watt, George Hurley. SST Records band famed for 'jamming econo' brevity and the 1984 double album Double Nickels on the Dime; ended when Boon died in December 1985.

Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album)

Minutes to Midnight is Linkin Park's third studio album, released May 2007 on Warner Bros. Co-produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda, it dropped nu metal for alternative rock, topped UK and US charts, and divided critics (Metacritic 56).

Minzy (공민지)

Minzy (공민지, Gong Minji), born 1994, is a South Korean singer and dancer who debuted in 2009 as 2NE1's main dancer, lead vocalist, and lead rapper, went solo in 2017 with MINZY WORK 01 UNO, and released the single CALLING in September 2026.

Mion Mukaichi

Mion Mukaichi (向井地美音), born 1998, is a Japanese singer and former child actress who spent about thirteen years with the idol group AKB48.

Mira (singer)

Mira (Maria Mirabela Cismaru, born 1995, Rovinari) is a Romanian pop singer, Vocea României 2012 contestant, DJ Project vocalist from 2017, and Mira Divina (2021) album artist.

Miracle Legion

Miracle Legion: American alternative rock band formed 1983 in New Haven, Connecticut, led by Mark Mulcahy and Ray Neal; college radio hit The Backyard EP, Rough Trade and Morgan Creek albums, Polaris side project, and 2016 and 2024 reunions.

Mirage (Fleetwood Mac album)

Mirage (1982) is Fleetwood Mac's thirteenth studio album, its first Billboard 200 No. 1 since Rumours, produced by Buckingham, Dashut, and Caillat, with singles Hold Me, Gypsy, Love in Store, and Oh Diane.

Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert, American country singer-songwriter from Lindale, Texas; three-time Grammy winner and most-awarded artist in ACM history (37 awards). Albums from Kerosene (2005) to the country-disco Crisco (2026, MCA); also Pistol Annies co-founder and Velvet Rodeo Las Vegas headliner.

Miranda!

Miranda! is an Argentine electropop duo formed in 2001 by Ale Sergi and Juliana Gattas, known for Don, Yo te diré, Hotel Miranda!, MTV and Gardel awards, and Spanish-language synth pop.

Mirchi Music Awards

The Mirchi Music Awards are annual awards presented by Radio Mirchi honoring artistic and technical excellence in Hindi film music, with jury and listener-voted categories.

Mireille Mathieu

Mireille Mathieu is a French popular singer born in 1946 in Avignon, known as the "Demoiselle d'Avignon", who has sold about 130 million albums in 11 languages.

Mirella (singer)

Mirella (Mirella Roininen, born 2005), Finnish pop singer from Vantaa, not the opera singer Mirella Freni. Broke through with the 2024 hit Timanttei, topped Finnish charts, released debut album Kunpa oisin kertonut, and won six Emma awards in 2025.

Mirella Freni

Mirella Freni (born Fregni, 1935–2020), Italian lyric soprano from Modena, lifelong partner of Pavarotti, famed Mimì in La bohème, Karajan collaborator, Met debut 1965, retired 2005.

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba, born Zenzile Miriam Makeba and known as "Mama Africa", was a South African singer and activist who spent 30 years in exile after her passport was revoked in 1960.