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Zao (group)

Zao is an American metalcore band formed in 1993 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and later based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, known for the 1998 album Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest.

Zap Tharwat

Zap Tharwat (زاب ثروت), born Ahmed Tharwat Zaki in 1987, is an Egyptian rapper and songwriter in Cairo who rose with his 2011 revolution songs.

Zapateado

Zapateado is a percussive dance step and rhythm in Mexican traditional music, in which dancers strike a resonant wooden tarima to serve as the percussion of sones, huapangos, and fandangos.

Zara (musician)

Zara, born Neşe Yılmaz in Istanbul in 1976, is a Turkish folk-music vocalist and actress, a contracted TRT folk voice artist since 1996, whose 1998 album Avuntu made her nationally known.

Zara Larsson

Zara Larsson, Swedish pop singer born 1997 in Stockholm, won Talang at age 10; known for "Lush Life", "Symphony", albums So Good, Poster Girl, Venus, Midnight Sun, and owning her masters.

Zarah Leander

Zarah Leander (Sara Stina Hedberg, 1907–1981) was a Swedish alto singer and actress, Nazi Germany's biggest film star at Ufa 1937–42 (Die große Liebe, 27 million viewers), later a cult gay icon and postwar diva.

Zartmann

Zartmann is a German singer-songwriter from Berlin whose single "Tau mich auf" topped the German chart in 2025 and became the country's most-streamed song of the year.

Zayn Malik

Zayn Malik (Zain Javadd Malik, born 1993, Bradford) is an English singer, ex-One Direction member who left in 2015, then built a solo R&B-pop career with Mind of Mine, Icarus Falls, Nobody Is Listening, Room Under the Stairs, and KONNAKOL.

Zaytoven

Zaytoven (Xavier Lamar Dotson, born 1980, Frankfurt) is an Atlanta-based, Grammy-winning record producer, a central architect of trap known for church-rooted piano and organ melodies over 808 drums on defining Gucci Mane, Future, and Migos records.

Zaz (singer)

Zaz (Isabelle Geffroy, born 1980) is a French singer of jazz, chanson, soul, and acoustic music, known for "Je veux" (2010), albums including Paris (2014) and Sains et saufs (2025), and major international success.

Zazie

Zazie, born Isabelle de Truchis de Varennes in 1964, is a French singer-songwriter who has won five Victoires de la musique and four The Voice titles as a coach.

ZD Awards

The ZD Awards (Zvukovaya Dorozhka, "Sound Track") are the annual reader-voted music prize of the Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets, with its first ceremony held in 2003.

Zdenka Kovačiček

Zdenka Kovačiček is a Croatian singer of pop, rock, blues, and jazz, born in Zagreb in 1944, called the "first lady" of Croatian jazz and a rock pioneer.

ZDF Fernsehgarten

ZDF Fernsehgarten is a live open-air Sunday entertainment show ZDF has staged in Mainz every summer since 1986, mixing Schlager and rock with games, hosted by Andrea Kiewel.

Zé Neto e Cristiano

Zé Neto e Cristiano are a Brazilian sertanejo duo formed in 2011 by childhood friends from São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, who broke out nationally in 2018.

ZE:A (제국의 아이들)

ZE:A (제국의 아이들, Children of Empire) is a nine-member South Korean second-generation boy group under Star Empire Entertainment, debuted January 7, 2010 with "Mazeltov", on hiatus since 2017 but never officially disbanded.

Zeb Bangash

Zeb Bangash (زیب بنگش) is a Pakistani singer and songwriter from Lahore, best known as one half of Zeb and Haniya, described as Pakistan's first all-female music band.

Zebrahead

Zebrahead: Orange County, California punk-rap band formed 1996 in La Habra, also called zebra rock. Known for rap verses over pop-punk choruses, nine studio albums, an Oricon foreign-chart No. 1, and eight Summer Sonic appearances.

Zedbazi

Zedbazi (زدبازی) is an Iranian hip-hop group formed in Tehran in 2002, credited as the pioneer of gangsta rap in Iran with its 2007 hit "Tabestoon Kootahe".

Zedd

Zedd (Anton Zaslavski, born 1989) is a Russian-born, German-raised electronic producer and DJ; debut album Clarity (2012) won the 2014 Grammy for Best Dance Recording, followed by hits Stay and The Middle and the 2024 album Telos.

Zeds Dead

Zeds Dead is a Canadian electronic music duo from Toronto, formed in 2009 by producers Dylan Mamid and Zachary Rapp-Rovan, known for dubstep and running the Deadbeats label.

Zee Nxumalo

Zee Nxumalo, born Zandile Nxumalo in 2003 in ESwatini, is a Swazi-South African amapiano and afro-pop singer-songwriter raised in Alexandra, Johannesburg; known for the multi-platinum 2023 hit Funk 55, the KwaNxumalo EP, and as 2025's most streamed female artist in South Africa.

Zee Pruk Panich

Zee Pruk Panich, born 1992, is a Thai actor and singer under Domundi TV known for Cutie Pie, The Next Prince, and solo singles under DMD Music.

Zee Punjabi

Zee Punjabi is a Punjabi-language general entertainment channel in India, launched by Zee Entertainment Enterprises on Lohri, 13 January 2020, and the top Punjabi channel within three months.

Zeitgeist (The Smashing Pumpkins album)

Zeitgeist (2007), by The Smashing Pumpkins, first album after the 2000 breakup, on Martha's Music/Reprise; only Corgan and Chamberlin of the original lineup; debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 145,000 copies.

Željko Joksimović

Željko Joksimović (Жељко Јоксимовић) is a Serbian singer, composer, and producer born in Belgrade in 1972, best known for finishing second at Eurovision 2004 with "Lane moje".

Zema

Zema (ዜማ) is the liturgical chant of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, sung in Ge'ez, attributed to Saint Yared, and organized into three modes: Ge'ez, Ezel, and Araray.

Zena Emad

Zena Emad (زينه عماد) is a Saudi Khaleeji pop singer, born in 1998, who rose from Instagram covers and represented Saudi Arabia at its inaugural Intervision 2025 contest in Moscow.

Zenglen

Zenglen is a Haitian kompa band formed in the late 1980s by Jean Brutus Derissaint, Gary Didier Perez, and Patrick Martineau, known for Easy Konpa and 5 Etwal.

Zenker Brothers

Zenker Brothers is a Munich-based techno duo of brothers Dario and Marco Zenker, founders of the Ilian Tape label, formed in 2008 and known for back-to-back DJ sets.