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Pussy Riot (Пусси Райот)
Pussy Riot (Пусси Райот) is a Russian feminist protest and performance-art collective formed in Moscow in 2011, famous for the 2012 'punk prayer' at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, two-year prison sentences, anti-war actions, and a 2025 extremist designation banning it in Russia.
Pussycat (band)
Pussycat was a Dutch country-pop band from Brunssum, South Limburg, fronted by sisters Toni, Betty, and Marianne; their 1975 hit "Mississippi" was the first Dutch number 1 in the UK.
Putri Ariani
Putri Ariani (Ariani Nisma Putri, born 2005, Bangkinang, Riau) is a blind Indonesian pop singer-songwriter and pianist who won Indonesia's Got Talent 2014, earned Simon Cowell's Golden Buzzer and fourth place on America's Got Talent 2023, and released the album Evolve.
Putthipong Assaratanakul
Putthipong Assaratanakul (พุฒิพงศ์ อัสสรัตนกุล), known as Billkin, is a Thai actor and singer who rose to fame in the 2020 series I Told Sunset About You.
Puttin' On the Ritz
"Puttin' On the Ritz" (Put on the Ritz) is an Irving Berlin song written in 1927, introduced by Harry Richman and made famous by the 1930 film of the same name.
Putumayo World Music
Putumayo World Music, a world music compilation label founded by Dan Storper in 1993 out of his New York handicraft shop, known for Nicola Heindl covers, 35 million albums sold, Putumayo Kids, and its 2025 shift to digital-only releases.
Puya
Puya is the stage name of Dragoș Gărdescu, a Romanian rapper born in Bucharest in 1979 who co-founded La Familia in 1996 and has released solo material since 2004.
Pvris
Pvris (pronounced Paris), American rock project formed 2012 in Lowell, Massachusetts, led by Lynn Gunnulfsen; albums White Noise, All We Know of Heaven, Use Me, Evergreen; formerly a band, now Gunn's solo project.
Pwr Bttm
PWR BTTM was an American queer punk duo of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce, formed 2013 at Bard College; albums Ugly Cherries (2015) and Pageant (2017); disbanded after May 2017 assault allegations.
Pyarelal (Laxmikant-Pyarelal)
Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma is an Indian violinist and film composer who formed one half of the duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal, scoring Hindi cinema from 1963 to 1998.
Pye Records
Pye Records, British record label formed 1955 from Nixa and Polygon under Pye of Cambridge; home of Donegan, Clark, the Kinks; renamed PRT in 1980; relaunched 2023 from the Isle of Lismore by Tony Currie.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский), 1840–1893, Russian composer of Swan Lake, Eugene Onegin, and the Pathétique Symphony; conservatory-trained, Moscow professor, von Meck patronage, not one of the Mighty Handful.
Pyromania (album)
Pyromania is Def Leppard's third studio album, released January 20, 1983, produced by Mutt Lange. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, sold over 10 million US copies, and launched the hits Photograph, Rock of Ages, and Foolin'.
Pythagorean tuning
Pythagorean tuning, also called Pythagorean temperament or Three-limit tuning, is a tuning system deriving all intervals from pure perfect fifths, dominant in Western music until about 1500.
Pz'
Pz' (Papayusupha Goree Njie, born 2003) is an Atlanta rapper and Wilhelmina-signed model of Gambian-Senegalese descent, member of the ØWay collective, breakout via "Hedis Bussin'" and Playboi Carti's #freepz co-sign, debut mixtape No Turning Back (June 2026).
Q Chief
Q Chief, born Abubakar Shaaban Katwila and once known as Q Chillah, is a Tanzanian Bongo Flava singer-songwriter identified as one of the genre's pioneers.
Q Lazzarus
Q Lazzarus was the stage name of American singer Diane Luckey (1960-2022), whose William Garvey-written song "Goodbye Horses" appeared in Married to the Mob and The Silence of the Lambs; she vanished in the mid-1990s and was rediscovered in 2019.
Q-dance
Q-dance is a Dutch event organizer and promoter of harder dance styles, above all hardstyle, founded in 1999, credited with coining the term "hardstyle", and best known for Defqon.1 and Qlimax.
Q-Tip (musician)
Q-Tip (Jonathan Davis, later Kamaal Ibn John Fareed; born 1970, New York) is the rapper-producer who led A Tribe Called Quest, pioneered jazz-sampled hip-hop in the Native Tongues collective, and later released Amplified and The Renaissance.
Qassaman
Qassaman (قَسَمًا, "we pledge"; also spelled Kassaman) is the national anthem of Algeria. Poet Moufdi Zakaria wrote it in prison, and it was adopted at independence on July 5, 1962.
Qatar National Convention Centre
The Qatar National Convention Centre (مركز قطر الوطني للمؤتمرات, QNCC) is a convention, exhibition, and concert venue on the Qatar Foundation campus in Doha, opened in 2011.
Qaumi Taranah
Qaumi Taranah (Pāk Sarzamīn), the national anthem of Pakistan: lyrics by Hafeez Jalandhari (1952), music by Ahmed G. Chagla (1949), adopted August 1954, first broadcast 13 August 1954 on Radio Pakistan, about 80 seconds long.
Qawwal Bahauddin Khan
Qawwal Bahauddin Khan, also known as Ustad Bahauddin Khan Qawwal or Qawwal Bahauddin, was a Pakistani qawwali musician, 1934–2006, who left Hyderabad for Karachi in 1956 and later led Bahauddin Qutbuddin Qawwal.
Qawwali (قوالی)
Qawwali (قوالی) is the Sufi devotional music of the Chishti order of South Asia, attributed to Amir Khusrau (1253–1325) in 13th-century Delhi. A harmonium, tabla, dholak, and hand-clapping ensemble performs mystical poetry at dargahs to induce spiritual ecstasy (wajd); made world-famous by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Qazi Touqeer
Qazi Touqeer (Qazi Ahmad Tauqeer), Indian singer-actor from Srinagar, Kashmir, won Sony TV's Fame Gurukul 2005 with Ruprekha Banerjee, beating Arijit Singh (sixth place); returned on Bigg Boss 20 (2026).
QBO
QBO is a Mexican alternative rock power trio from Mexico City, formed around 2002 by Tonio Ruiz, Lu Salinas, and Tarro Martínez, with five albums since 2003.
Qlimax
Qlimax was an annual single-night indoor hardstyle event organized by the Dutch company Q-dance, first held in 2000 and mostly staged at the GelreDome in Arnhem.
Quadrophenia
Quadrophenia is The Who's sixth studio album, a 1973 double rock opera written by Pete Townshend about mod Jimmy, whose split personality mirrors the four band members; it reached No. 2 in the UK and US and inspired the 1979 film.
Quality Control Music
Quality Control Music: Atlanta hip-hop label and management company founded March 2013 by Kevin "Coach K" Lee and Pierre "P" Thomas; home of Migos, Lil Baby, City Girls; acquired by HYBE America in 2023 for about $300 million.
Quando Rondo
Quando Rondo (Tyquian Terrel Bowman, born 1999) is an American rapper from Savannah, Georgia, signed to YoungBoy's Never Broke Again label; known for QPac, the King Von shooting, and a 33-month federal sentence.