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Refrain
Refrain: a repeated line, phrase, or musical passage recurring at set points in poems and songs; from Old French refrain; distinct from a chorus and central to rondeau, rondo, and verse-chorus forms.
Refused
Refused, Swedish hardcore punk band from Umeå formed in 1991, known for The Shape of Punk to Come (1998), the 2012 reunion, Freedom (2015), War Music (2019), and final show December 21, 2025.
Reg Lindsay
Reg Lindsay (Reginald John Lindsay OAM, 1929-2008), Australian country music singer, songwriter, and TV host; won the 1951 Tim McNamara talent quest, recorded "Armstrong", three Golden Guitars, first Australian at the Grand Ole Opry.
Regal86
Regal86 is a Mexican techno producer and DJ based in Monterrey, Nuevo León, whose hardgroove techno and Latin percussion earned a Resident Advisor feature and a 2024 Dekmantel slot.
Regan
Regan, also known as Regan Tacon or Regan Nano, is a South African-born psytrance DJ and producer who runs Nano Records and produces Origin Festival in Cape Town.
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber is a French sludge and post-black metal band from Nantes, formed in 2011, whose three albums grow steadily more extreme, culminating in Ascension (2020).
Reggae
Reggae: Jamaican popular music from the late 1960s, grown from ska and rocksteady, marked by offbeat accents, the skank, one-drop drums, Rastafari-linked lyrics, Bob Marley, and 2018 UNESCO heritage recognition.
Reggae on the River
Reggae on the River is a three-day reggae and camping festival held each summer on the Eel River in Humboldt County, California, first held in 1984.
Reggaeton
Reggaeton (reguetón) is a Spanish-language Caribbean genre fusing Jamaican dancehall's dembow rhythm, named for Shabba Ranks's 1990 "Dem Bow", with hip hop; it formed in Panama and Puerto Rico, broke commercially with "Gasolina" in 2004, and now leads global Latin music consumption.
Reggatta de Blanc
Reggatta de Blanc, The Police's second album (A&M, 2 October 1979), pseudo-French for 'white reggae'; UK number-one album whose singles 'Message in a Bottle' and 'Walking on the Moon' topped the UK chart, with the title track winning the 1981 Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Reggie and the Full Effect
Reggie and the Full Effect: solo emo/synth-pop project of James Dewees, Get Up Kids keyboardist and ex-Coalesce drummer, formed 1998 in Kansas City; seven albums from Greatest Hits 1984-1987 (1998) to 41 (2018), wrapped in a fictitious bluesman backstory.
Reggie Tsiboe
Reggie Tsiboe (Reginald Tsiboe), born 1950 in Kumasi, Ghana, is a singer, composer, and actor who replaced Bobby Farrell in Boney M. (1982–86, 1989–90), recording Jambo, Kalimba de Luna, and Happy Song, and later appeared in Doctor Who and Black Earth Rising.
Reggie Watts
Reggie Watts is an American comedian and musician known for fully improvised shows mixing beatboxing, keyboards, and monologue, and as bandleader on The Late Late Show from 2015 to 2023.
Regilaul
Regilaul, often called runosong in English scholarship, is the older Estonian folk song whose eight-syllable, alliterative regivärss verses are part of a Baltic-Finnic tradition perhaps 2,000 years old.
Regina
Regina is a pop-rock band formed in Sarajevo around 1990 that scored hits across former Yugoslavia and represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at Eurovision 2009, finishing ninth with 'Bistra voda'.
Regina Belle
Regina Belle (Regina Edna Belle), born in Englewood, New Jersey, is an American R&B, gospel, and jazz singer-songwriter known for "Baby Come to Me" and the Grammy-winning Aladdin duet "A Whole New World" with Peabo Bryson.
Regina Spektor (Регина Ильинична Спектор)
Regina Spektor (Регина Ильинична Спектор), Russian-American singer-songwriter and pianist born 1980 in Moscow, Bronx-raised anti-folk artist known for Soviet Kitsch, Begin to Hope, Far, and the Orange Is the New Black theme.
Régine Chassagne
Régine Chassagne (born 1976, Montreal) is a Haitian-Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and cofounder/co-leader of Arcade Fire, and cofounder of the KANPE foundation for rural Haitian communities.
Regine Velasquez
Regine Velasquez-Alcasid (born 1970, Tondo, Manila), called Asia's Songbird, is the Philippines' best-selling artist; won Ang Bagong Kampeon 1984 and the 1989 Asia-Pacific Song Contest, known for birit belting.
Regional at Best
Regional at Best is Twenty One Pilots' second studio album, self-released July 8, 2011; the band's first record with Josh Dun and last independent album before Fueled by Ramen, discontinued since 2012 with six tracks re-recorded for Vessel.
Regret (I've compilation album)
Regret is a 1999 compilation album by the Sapporo collective I've, the first I've GIRL's COMPILATION volume, collecting PC game theme songs including the Kanon themes.
Regulate (song)
"Regulate" is a 1994 hip-hop single by Warren G featuring Nate Dogg, sampling Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin'"; it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and defined g-funk.
Rehab (Amy Winehouse song)
"Rehab" is a 2006 song by Amy Winehouse, the first single from Back to Black, written about her refusal to enter rehabilitation for alcohol abuse.
Rehash (band)
Rehash (band) refers to several unrelated groups: a South Florida indie rock band formed 2023 by Renzo Valdez and Sebastian Gamez (albums Rehash, Mourning Star, mock), a Sheffield alternative band active from 2015, and Antwerp's Rehash Neu Klang.
Rei (直井 怜) (singer)
Rei (레이, 直井怜 Naoi Rei), born 2004 in Nagoya, is a Japanese singer and rapper in the K-pop girl group IVE under Starship Entertainment; debuted December 1, 2021 with ELEVEN, first Japanese Starship artist, nicknamed Kim Rei.
Rei Ami
Rei Ami (Sarah Yeeun Lee, Korean name Lee Yeeun/이예은, born 1995, Seoul) is a Korean-American alt-pop singer and rapper, debut single MAKE IT MINE (2019), album FOIL (2021), and the singing voice of Zoey in Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters, whose song Golden hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Rei Yasuda
Rei Yasuda (安田レイ), born Rachel Rhodes in North Carolina in 1993, is a Japanese singer who debuted solo in 2013 and sings anime theme songs.
Reign in Blood
Reign in Blood, Slayer's third studio album (Def Jam, October 7, 1986), produced by Rick Rubin: a ten-track, roughly 29-minute thrash landmark featuring "Angel of Death," released via Geffen after CBS refused, peaking at No. 94 on the Billboard 200.
Reik
Reik is a Mexican pop trio formed in 2003 in Mexicali, Baja California, with Jesús Navarro, Julio Ramírez, and Bibi Marín; known for "Yo Quisiera," urban collaborations, and the 2024 album Panorama.
Rein Me In
Rein Me In is a Sam Fender song from his 2025 album People Watching, reworked as a duet with Olivia Dean. It became the longest-running UK No.1 single ever with 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top, breaking Frankie Laine's 73-year-old record.