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Bomba (Puerto Rico)

Bomba (Puerto Rico): Afro-Puerto Rican barrel-drum music, song, and dance created by enslaved Africans on 17th-century sugar plantations; distinguished by dancer-led rhythm dialogue with the primo drum, ~16 rhythms, and the batey.

Bomba Estéreo

Bomba Estéreo is a Colombian band formed in Bogotá in 2005 that blends cumbia and tropical rhythms with electronic music, fronted by Li Saumet and Simón Mejía.

Bombay (பம்பாய்)

Bombay (பம்பாய்) is Mani Ratnam's 1995 Tamil romantic drama starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala, with music by A. R. Rahman, about a Hindu-Muslim couple caught in the 1992–93 Bombay riots; censored, protested, and banned in Singapore and Malaysia, yet a record-breaking hit.

Bombay Begums

Bombay Begums (बॉम्बे बेगम्स) is a 2021 Hindi Netflix drama series by Alankrita Shrivastava and Bornila Chatterjee, starring Pooja Bhatt, about five women in Mumbai; it premiered March 8, 2021 and drew an NCPCR notice over its portrayal of children.

Bombay Bicycle Club

Bombay Bicycle Club: English indie rock band formed in Crouch End, London in 2005 (Steadman, MacColl, Nash, de Saram). Six albums 2009-2023; So Long, See You Tomorrow hit UK number one in 2014 and was Mercury Prize-nominated; hiatus 2016-2019.

Bombay Jayashri

Bombay Jayashri (Jayashri Ramnath, born 1964, Kolkata) is a Carnatic vocalist, composer, and playback singer trained by Lalgudi Jayaraman; Oscar-nominated for 'Pi's Lullaby' in Life of Pi, Padma Shri 2021, Sangita Kalanidhi 2023.

Bombay Lokal

Bombay Lokal is a politically charged hip-hop collective from Vasai-Nalasopara-Virar in Mumbai's northern suburbs, founded by Shaikhspeare, whose members rap, beatbox, breakdance, paint graffiti, and DJ, and appeared in Gully Boy (2019).

Bombay Sapphire

Bombay Sapphire is a Bacardi-owned London dry gin launched in 1987 by IDV, sold in a blue bottle, made by vapour infusion of ten botanicals at Laverstoke Mill, Hampshire; about 4.3 million cases sold in 2025.

Bombay School of Indian English poetry

The Bombay School of Indian English poetry was a group of poets, led by Nissim Ezekiel, who dominated Indian poetry in English from Bombay from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Bombay Talkies (film)

Bombay Talkies is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language anthology film directed by Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, and Anurag Kashyap, made to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema.

Bombay Velvet (बॉम्बे वेलवेट)

Bombay Velvet (बॉम्बे वेलवेट) is Anurag Kashyap's 2015 Hindi period crime drama set in 1960s Bombay, adapted from Gyan Prakash's Mumbai Fables, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, and Karan Johar; it underperformed critically and commercially.

Bomberman Jetters (ボンバーマンジェッターズ)

Bomberman Jetters (ボンバーマンジェッターズ) is a 52-episode TV Tokyo anime (2002–2003) by Studio Deen based on Hudson's Bomberman, following apprentice Bomberman Shirobon of the Jetters against the Hige-Hige Band, with GBA and console game adaptations.

Bombers

Bombers is a 2019 ZEE5 Original Hindi sports drama web series about Chandannagar football club Bombers FC, starring Varun Mitra, Ranvir Shorey, Aahana Kumra, and Anup Soni; not the 1998 History documentary on bomber aircraft.

Bombshell (2019 film)

Bombshell (2019) is a Jay Roach drama, written by Charles Randolph, starring Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, and John Lithgow as Roger Ailes, dramatizing the Fox News harassment scandal; Metascore 64, Oscar-winning makeup.

Bomfunk MC's

Bomfunk MC's, also written Bomfunk MCs, is a Finnish breakbeat and hip-hop group of Raymond Ebanks, DJ Gismo, and producer JS16, best known for the 1999 single Freestyler, Europe's best-selling single of 2000, and the albums In Stereo and Burnin' Sneakers.

Bommarillu (బొమ్మరిల్లు)

Bommarillu (బొమ్మరిల్లు) is a 2006 Telugu family drama directed by Bhaskar, produced by Dil Raju, starring Siddharth, Genelia D'Souza, and Prakash Raj; released 9 August 2006, remade in Tamil, Bengali, and Oriya.

Bon Appétit

Bon Appétit is an American food magazine founded in 1956, owned by Condé Nast since 1993, known for its test kitchen recipes, its 2020 workplace controversy, and a print schedule of at least six seasonal issues a year.

Bon Appétit (song)

Bon Appétit is a 2017 Katy Perry song featuring Migos, the second single from Witness, produced by Max Martin, Shellback, and Oscar Holter; it peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Bon Appétit, Your Majesty (폭군의 셰프)

Bon Appétit, Your Majesty (폭군의 셰프, Tyrant's Chef) is a 2025 tvN time-slip fantasy rom-com adapted from Park Kuk-jae's web novel, starring Lim Yoon-a and Lee Chae-min; it peaked at 17.1% Nielsen and topped Netflix's non-English chart for two weeks.

Bon Iver

Bon Iver is Justin Vernon's Eau Claire, Wisconsin indie folk project, founded 2006 after DeYarmond Edison broke up. Debut For Emma, Forever Ago (2008, Jagjaguwar) was cabin-recorded on one SM57; later albums include Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011 Grammys), 22 A Million, i,i, and SABLE, fABLE.

Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi: American rock band formed 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey, fronted by Jon Bon Jovi. Breakthrough album Slippery When Wet (1986), 130 million albums sold, Rock Hall 2018, Forever Tour 2026-2027.

Bon Jovi (album)

Bon Jovi (1984) is the American hard rock band Bon Jovi's self-titled debut album on Mercury, produced by Tony Bongiovi and Lance Quinn at the Power Station, with the Top 40 hit Runaway.

Bon Jovi discography

The Bon Jovi discography catalogs the 16 studio albums of Bon Jovi, the American rock band formed in New Jersey in 1983, with 130 million records sold.

Bon Scott

Bon Scott, born Ronald Belford Scott (1946–1980), was a Scottish-born Australian singer and lyricist who fronted AC/DC from 1974 until his death, co-writing "Highway to Hell".

Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown

Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) is a 1980 animated film, the fourth Peanuts theatrical feature, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman, in which Charlie Brown and friends travel as exchange students to a mysterious French château inspired by Schulz's 1944 wartime stay.

Bona (김지연) (singer)

Bona (보나, Kim Ji-yeon, born 1995, Daegu) is a South Korean singer and actress, center and main dancer of WJSN (Cosmic Girls), WJSN THE BLACK member, and award-winning actress known for Twenty-Five Twenty-One, Homemade Love Story, and The Haunted Palace.

Bonampak murals

The Bonampak murals are extensive Maya wall paintings of about 790 CE in Structure 1 at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico, recording court life, warfare, sacrifice, and royal succession.

Bonang Matheba

Bonang Dorothy Matheba, known as Queen B, is a South African TV presenter, radio host, author, and businesswoman famous for co-hosting SABC1's Live (2007-2012), Revlon's first South African ambassador, and founder of the House of BNG sparkling wine brand.

Bonanza

Bonanza is an American Western series that ran on NBC from 1959 to 1973. It was the first full-hour Western color film series starring Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker.

Bond girl

Bond girl: female love-interest or significant supporting character in James Bond novels, films, and games. First film example Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress, Dr. No, 1962); over 75 characters; typologies, Craig-era reworking, and feminist criticism.