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Paléo Festival

Paléo Festival (Paléo Festival Nyon), Switzerland's largest open-air music festival, held in July at Nyon's Plaine de l'Asse. Founded 1976 as a folk festival by Daniel Rossellat; capacity 250,000, eight million visitors since founding, 50th edition 2027.

Palette

Palette (팔레트) is the fourth studio album by South Korean singer-songwriter IU, released in April 2017; it topped Korean charts and won the 2017 Melon Music Awards Daesang.

Palghat Mani Iyer

Palghat Mani Iyer, also known as Palakkad Mani Iyer, was an Indian Carnatic mridangam player, one of the 'Holy Trinity of Mridangam', and the first mridangist to receive the Sangita Kalanidhi.

Palladium (Köln)

The Palladium Köln, or Palladium Cologne, is a concert and event hall in the Mülheim district of Cologne, Germany, holding up to 4,000 people in a listed 1899 factory hall.

Palladium Ballroom (music)

The Palladium Ballroom was a second-floor ballroom at 1698 Broadway and 53rd Street in Manhattan, known from 1947 to 1966 as the home of the mambo, where Machito, Tito Puente, and Tito Rodríguez played.

Palm muting

Palm muting is a guitar technique in which the picking hand damps the strings near the bridge, producing the tight chugging tone of heavy metal riffs.

Palm Tree Music Festival Montecito

Palm Tree Music Festival Montecito is a music festival at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club in Carpinteria, California, founded by Kygo's Palm Tree Crew, debuting in 2025.

Palmbomen II

Palmbomen II is the solo electronic project of Dutch producer Kai Hugo, launched in 2015 with a self-titled album on Beats In Space, centered on the fictional character Cindy Savalas.

Palmesus 2026

Palmesus 2026 was the 2026 edition of Palmesus, a beach music festival on Bystranda in Kristiansand, Norway, with about 35 artists including headliners Alesso, Macklemore, and Broiler.

Palmy

Palmy (ปาล์มมี่), the stage name of Eve Pancharoen, is a Thai-Belgian pop singer whose self-titled 2001 debut album sold one million copies, Thailand's top seller that year.

Paloma Faith

Paloma Faith (Paloma Faith Blomfield, born 1981, Hackney, London) is an English retro-soul singer, songwriter and actress; Brit Award winner, six albums, UK No. 1 single 'Changing', No. 1 album The Architect.

Paloma Mami

Paloma Mami (Paloma Rocío Castillo Astorga, born 1999, Manhattan) is a Chilean American singer-songwriter of bilingual R&B, trap, and reggaeton. Signed to Sony Music Latin in 2018; albums Sueños de Dalí (2021) and Códigos de Muñeka (2025).

Pam Tillis

Pam Tillis (Pamela Yvonne Tillis, born 1957), American country singer-songwriter, daughter of Mel Tillis; 1994 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Grand Ole Opry member since 2000, and 1999 Grammy winner for "Same Old Train."

Pamela Chopra

Pamela Chopra (1948/1949-2023), Indian playback singer, writer, and producer, wife of Yash Chopra; sang in YRF films from Kabhi Kabhie (1976), wrote Kabhi Kabhie's story, produced Aaina (1993).

Pamela Courson

Pamela Susan Courson (1946-1974), Jim Morrison's longtime partner and "cosmic mate," owner of the Themis boutique, sole heir of his will, who found his body in Paris and died of a heroin overdose at 27.

Pamela Des Barres

Pamela Des Barres, born Pamela Ann Miller, is an American author and former rock groupie, a founding member of the GTOs known as the Queen of the Groupies.

Pammi Bai

Pammi Bai (ਪੱਮੀ ਬਾਈ), born Paramjit Singh Sidhu, is a Punjabi folk singer and bhangra dancer from Sangrur, Punjab, known for the song "Nee Main Pani Bharenian".

Pan flute

Pan flute (panpipes, syrinx): an end-blown wind instrument of graduated tubes bound as a raft or bundle, known from Neolithic Ukraine, ancient Greece, China's paixiao, Andean antara, and the Romanian nai popularized by Gheorghe Zamfir.

Panama (music)

Panama is a nightclub and event venue in a former power station on the IJ waterfront in Amsterdam, open since the early 2000s and a regular Amsterdam Dance Event venue.

Panama (song)

"Panama" is a 1984 hard rock song by Van Halen, third single from the album 1984, peaking at #13 on the Hot 100. Written by all four band members, it is about a car, not the country, and features Eddie Van Halen's Lamborghini Miura S engine revving in the bridge.

Pancho and Lefty

Pancho and Lefty: Townes Van Zandt's 1972 outlaw ballad, covered by Emmylou Harris (1977) and made a Billboard country No. 1 by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard in 1983.

Panda (song)

Panda (song): 2015/2016 debut single by Brooklyn rapper Desiigner, produced by Menace; basis of Kanye West's Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 2; two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016.

Panda Bear (musician)

Panda Bear is the stage name of Noah Lennox, Baltimore-born co-founder of Animal Collective and solo artist since 1999, known for Person Pitch (2007), Tomboy, Sinister Grift (2025), and albums with Sonic Boom.

Pandavani

Pandavani (पंडवानी) is a solo narrative singing tradition of Chhattisgarh, India, in which one performer sings and acts out Mahabharata episodes, most famously its leading exponent Teejan Bai.

Pandit Ram Narayan

Pandit Ram Narayan (1927–2024) was an Indian Hindustani musician who won the sarangi solo concert standing, played on film scores including Mughal-e-Azam and Pakeezah, and received the Padma Vibhushan.

Pandora (singer)

Pandora, stage name of Swedish singer Anneli Magnusson (born 1970, Västerås), a eurodance/techno artist whose 1993 debut "Trust Me" topped Swedish year-end sales; 12 albums, 6 million records, best-selling international artist for Universal Japan; distinct from the US streaming service Pandora.

Panic! at the Disco

Panic! at the Disco, also styled Panic! At The Disco, was a Las Vegas pop-rock band formed in 2004, later the solo vehicle of Brendon Urie, known for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies," two No. 1 albums, and its 2023 disbandment.

Panini (song)

"Panini" is a 2019 song by American rapper Lil Nas X, the second single from his debut EP 7, which reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Panjabi MC

Panjabi MC (Rajinder Singh Rai, born 1970, Coventry) is a British bhangra producer and DJ whose Knight Rider-sampling 1998 hit "Mundian To Bach Ke" and 2003 Jay-Z remix "Beware of the Boys" took Punjabi music global.

Pankaj Udhas (पंकज उधस)

Pankaj Udhas (पंकज उधस), 1951-2024, Indian ghazal and playback singer known as the Velvet Voice of India; breakthrough "Chitthi Aayi Hai" in Naam (1986); over 50 albums; Padma Shri 2006, posthumous Padma Bhushan 2025.