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Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Bridgers (born 1994) is an American indie folk singer-songwriter from Los Angeles. Solo albums: Stranger in the Alps (2017), Punisher (2020), Lost Weekend (2026); bands boygenius and Better Oblivion Community Center; four Grammys at the 2024 ceremony.
Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Snow (Phoebe Ann Laub, 1950 or 1952-2011) was an American singer-songwriter whose gold 1974 debut and hit 'Poetry Man' showcased her elastic contralto across pop, jazz, and folk.
Phoenix Raceway
Phoenix Raceway, known as Phoenix International Raceway until 2018, is a one-mile doglegged oval in Avondale, Arizona, opened in 1964 and home of NASCAR Championship Weekend.
Phonat
Phonat is the stage name of Michele Balduzzi, born 1985, an Italian electronic music producer who began in rural Tuscany and built his career in London.
Phonk
Phonk: hip hop subgenre rooted in 1990s Memphis rap, named by SpaceGhostPurrp in the early 2010s; built on cowbell riffs, distorted 808s, and chopped vocals; drift phonk from Russia went viral on TikTok around 2020.
Phonograph-era recording industry trade associations
The phonograph-era recording industry trade associations were collective bodies of talking machine manufacturers, jobbers, and dealers, active from about 1890 into the 1920s to fight price cutting and set standards.
Photek
Photek is the alias of British producer Rupert Parkes of St Albans, a pioneer of intelligent drum & bass and jungle. Known for aliases like Studio Pressure and Aquarius, his 1997 debut Modus Operandi on Virgin's Science imprint defined precision drum programming.
Photograph (Ed Sheeran song)
Photograph, Ed Sheeran ballad from the 2014 album x, written with Johnny McDaid, Harrington and Leonard; produced by Jeff Bhasker; peaked at No 10 US, No 15 UK, subject of a settled $20m copyright suit.
Phrygian dominant scale
Phrygian dominant scale, also called Freygish, Ahava Rabbah, or Maqam Hijaz, is the fifth mode of harmonic minor: 1 ♭2 ♮3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7 with an augmented second, used in flamenco, klezmer, and Arabic music.
Phrygian mode
Phrygian mode: the diatonic scale from E to E on white keys, third mode of the major scale and natural minor with a lowered second. Distinct from the ancient Greek Phrygian harmonia; basis of Phrygian dominant, flamenco, and metal sounds.
Phum Viphurit
Phum Viphurit (ภูมิ) is the stage name of Viphurit Siritip, a Thai singer-songwriter of mellow indie pop, best known for the 2018 single 'Lover Boy'.
Phương Thanh
Phương Thanh, also known as Phuong Thanh, is a Vietnamese singer born in 1973 who became one of V-pop's leading female voices in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Phuture
Phuture is an American house-music group formed in Chicago in 1985 by DJ Pierre, Spanky, and Herb J, whose 1987 single "Acid Tracks" gave acid house its name.
Phuzekhemisi
Phuzekhemisi, born Zibokwakhe Johnstone Mnyandu in 1963, is a South African maskandi singer and guitarist from KwaZulu-Natal, acclaimed as the King of maskandi, whose 1992 album Imbizo sold over 100,000 copies.
PHXLIGHTS (festival)
PHXLIGHTS, also known as Phoenix Lights, is a spring electronic dance music festival in the Phoenix, Arizona, area, founded by Relentless Beats in 2015 and named for the 1997 Phoenix Lights UFO encounter.
Phyllis Boyens
Phyllis Boyens (Phyllis Workman Boyens Liptak, 1947-2009), Appalachian singer-songwriter and actress from Lobata, West Virginia; daughter of Nimrod Workman; recorded Passing Thru the Garden and I Really Care; played Loretta Lynn's mother in Coal Miner's Daughter.
Phyllis Dillon
Phyllis Dillon (1944–2004) was a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer known as the "Queen of Rocksteady", celebrated for "Don't Stay Away", "Perfidia", and "One Life To Live, One Love To Give".
Phyllis Hyman
Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), also Phyllis Linda Hyman, American soul, jazz, and R&B contralto singer and actress; hits "You Know How to Love Me," "Living All Alone," "Don't Wanna Change The World"; Tony-nominated for Sophisticated Ladies; died June 30, 1995.
Phyno
Phyno (Chibuzor Nelson Azubuike, born 1986, Enugu) is a Nigerian rapper, singer, and producer on Penthauze Records known for Igbo-language rap; debut album No Guts, No Glory (2014), hit "Ghost Mode" with Olamide, five studio albums through Full Time Job (2024).
Physical (Olivia Newton-John song)
"Physical" is a 1981 dance-pop single by Olivia Newton-John, written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick, produced by John Farrar. It spent 10 weeks at Billboard Hot 100 #1, was Billboard's 1982 #1 single, peaked at UK #7, and its aerobics video won a Video of the Year Grammy.
Physical Graffiti
Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin's sixth studio album, is a double LP released February 24, 1975. It was released on Swan Song Records and achieved No. 1 chart status.
Pi'erre Bourne
Pi'erre Bourne (Jordan Jenks, born 1993) is an American producer and rapper from Columbia, South Carolina, behind Playboi Carti's "Magnolia" and 6ix9ine's "Gummo", known for video-game-style trap melodies, his Jamie Foxx Show producer tag, and The Life of Pi'erre albums.
Pia Mia
Pia Mia is a Guam-born American singer whose 2015 single Do It Again became an international hit; she later founded Cherry Pie Records and released Anti Romantica in 2024.
Pia Toscano
Pia Toscano (born 1988) is an American singer from Queens, New York, who placed ninth on American Idol season 10 in 2011, signed with Interscope, and now tours with Bocelli, Foster, and Lopez.
Pianist
Pianist: a person who plays the piano, especially a skilled or professional performer; word first used 1817. Covers technique and biomechanics, playing-related injuries (over 60% report discomfort), performance traditions, and evaluation of pianists.
Piano
Piano: hammer-action stringed keyboard invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence around 1700 (gravicembalo col piano e forte). 88 keys standard since the 1890s; digital pianos now lead the market at 33.6% of retail value.
Piano Concerto (Grieg)
Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: his only piano concerto, written in Denmark in 1868, premiered in Copenhagen in 1869 by Edmund Neupert, and revised repeatedly until his 1907 death.
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 (Концерт для фортепиано с оркестром № 1), composed 1874–75, premiered by Hans von Bülow in Boston in 1875 after Nikolai Rubinstein rejected it; revised 1879 and 1889.
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (1900–01), also called the "Rachmaninoff Concerto": three movements, dedicated to Dr. Nikolai Dahl, premiered Moscow 1901, one of his most popular works.
Piano Concerto No. 20 (Mozart)
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 (KV 466), completed 10 February 1785 and premiered at Vienna's Mehlgrube the next day; one of only two minor-key Mozart piano concertos, with no Mozart cadenzas, Beethoven's WoO 58 cadenzas most used.