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Quannnic

Quannnic (Nick Quan) is a Florida-born American musician blending shoegaze, digicore, lo-fi, and bedroom pop on deadAir Records; albums kenopsia (2022), Stepdream (2023), and Warbrained (2025), known for the viral "life imitates life."

Quantum Baby

Quantum Baby is Tinashe's seventh studio album, released August 16, 2024 on Nice Life; part two of the BB/ANG3L trilogy, eight tracks, featuring the viral Billboard Hot 100 hit "Nasty".

Quaranta (album)

Quaranta is Danny Brown's sixth album (Warp, November 17, 2023), also called Quaranta; Italian for 40, written during COVID lockdown, a somber, introspective spiritual sequel to XXX featuring MIKE, Bruiser Wolf, and Kassa Overall.

Quart Festival

Quart Festival (Quart-festivalen) was a rock music festival in Kristiansand, Norway, first held in 1991 as Quadradurmusivalen; Norway's largest rock festival before bankruptcy in 2008 and a failed 2009 revival.

Quarta330

Quarta330 is a Tokyo-based Japanese electronic producer, the alias of Toru Koda, who fuses Game Boy chiptune with dubstep and footwork on the UK label Hyperdub.

Quartal and quintal harmony

Quartal and quintal harmony are methods of building chords by stacking fourth or fifth intervals instead of the traditional third. This creates an open, undecided sound.

Quarter note

Quarter note (crotchet, German Viertelnote): a note value one quarter of a whole note, filled notehead with stem and no flag; beat unit in 4/4, 2/4, 3/4 and the standard metronome unit.

Quarter tone

Quarter tone: a 50-cent musical interval, half a semitone, forming the basis of 24-tone equal temperament (24-TET), used in Arabic maqam notation and by composers such as Hába, Ives, and Wyschnegradsky.

Quarterflash

Quarterflash (formerly stylized QuarterFlash), an American pop/rock band formed in 1980 in Portland, Oregon from Seafood Mama and Pilot, led by Rindy and Marv Ross; their 1981 debut hit No. 8 and went platinum on the strength of "Harden My Heart" (Hot 100 No. 3, Mainstream Rock No. 1).

Quartet

Quartet: a four-player ensemble or a work for four, one player per part. Best known as the string quartet (two violins, viola, cello), founded as a genre by Haydn's 68 quartets and Op. 33 (1781).

Quasimoto

Quasimoto, or Lord Quas, is the rap alter ego of Madlib. The character debuted in 2000 with the album The Unseen, known for its high-pitched, helium-like voice.

Quavo

Quavo (Quavious Keyate Marshall), Atlanta-area rapper and Migos leader with Takeoff and Offset; solo albums QUAVO HUNCHO, Rocket Power, and the 2026 Pharrell-executive-produced QRÖMELIFE; founded the Rocket Foundation after Takeoff's 2022 death.

Quayola

Quayola, born Davide Quayola in Rome in 1982, is an Italian digital artist who re-imagines classical art through custom software, winning Ars Electronica's Golden Nica in 2013.

Que DJ

Que DJ is the stage name of Thobani Quinton Mgobhozi, a South African gqom producer and DJ from KwaMashu, Durban, one half of Distruction Boyz.

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) is a 1956 song by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, sung by Doris Day in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much; it won the Best Original Song Oscar and topped the UK chart for six weeks.

Queen (band)

Queen (band), British rock band formed in London in 1970 from Smile; classic line-up Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon; 300 million albums, Bohemian Rhapsody, Live Aid 1985.

Queen (Nicki Minaj album)

Queen is Nicki Minaj's fourth studio album, released August 10, 2018 on Young Money/Cash Money/Republic. 19 tracks with Eminem, Ariana Grande, The Weeknd; debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 behind Astroworld, sparking a bundling controversy.

Queen (Queen album)

Queen (1973) is the British rock band Queen's self-titled debut album, recorded 1971-1972 at Trident and De Lane Lea Studios, released on EMI/Elektra, peaking at No. 83 US and No. 32 UK, gold in both markets; reissued remixed as Queen I in 2024.

Queen + Adam Lambert

Queen + Adam Lambert is a live collaboration pairing Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor with American vocalist Adam Lambert; their first full concert in 2012 drew over 350,000 people in Kyiv.

Queen + Paul Rodgers

Queen + Paul Rodgers was a rock collaboration from 2004 to 2009, pairing Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor with singer Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company.

Queen Bee (女王蜂) (band)

Queen Bee (女王蜂, Ziyoou-vachi) is a Japanese rock band formed in Kobe in 2009, fronted by vocalist Avu-chan, known for anime themes such as Mephisto, VIOLENCE, Kaen, and HALF, and for major label debut album Peacock (2011).

Queen discography

Queen discography: catalog of British rock band Queen, fifteen studio albums from Queen (1973) to Made in Heaven (1995), the Flash Gordon soundtrack, Greatest Hits (UK's best-selling album), and 2008's The Cosmos Rocks with Paul Rodgers.

Queen Forever

Queen Forever is a 2014 Queen compilation album of ballads and love songs, released 10 November on Virgin/Hollywood Records, featuring three unreleased Freddie Mercury tracks including the Michael Jackson duet There Must Be More to Life Than This.

Queen II

Queen II is Queen's second studio album, released 8 March 1974, recorded at Trident Studios with Roy Thomas Baker. Divided into Side White and Side Black, it peaked at UK No. 5, spawned the hit Seven Seas of Rhye, and is regarded as the band's heaviest album.

Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens, born 1970, Newark, NJ) is an American rapper, singer, and actress; Grammy winner for "U.N.I.T.Y.", Oscar-nominated for Chicago, first solo female rapper with a Gold album.

Queen Naija

Queen Naija (Queen Naija Bulls, born 1995) is an American contemporary R&B singer from Ypsilanti, Michigan, a former YouTube vlogger and American Idol contestant whose 2018 single "Medicine" hit number 45 on the Hot 100, leading to the Top Ten 2020 album missunderstood and the 2025 EP 30.

Queen's Hall

Queen's Hall (1893–1941) was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, home of the Proms from 1895 and base of the BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras, destroyed by incendiary bomb on 10 May 1941.

Queen's performance at Live Aid

Queen's performance at Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, London, 13 July 1985, was a roughly 20-minute six-song set that became one of rock's most celebrated live performances, voted greatest in a 2005 industry poll.

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA), American rock band formed in Seattle in 1996 by Josh Homme after Kyuss; known for Songs for the Deaf (2002) with Dave Grohl, rotating lineups, and the ninth album Perfecth due October 30, 2026.

Queens of the Stone Age (album)

Queens of the Stone Age (1998) is the American rock band's self-titled debut album, released on Loosegroove, co-produced by Josh Homme and Joe Barresi, featuring Regular John, Avon, and Mexicola.