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Calva Louise

Calva Louise is a London rock trio formed in 2016 by Venezuelan singer-guitarist Jess Allanic, French bassist Alizon Taho, and New Zealand drummer Ben Parker; albums Rhinoceros (2019) through Edge of the Abyss (2025).

Calvados

Calvados is Normandy's AOC-protected apple and pear brandy, one of France's three great brandies with Cognac and Armagnac. Three appellations (Calvados, Pays d'Auge, Domfrontais), minimum 40% ABV, two years oak aging, about 6 million bottles yearly.

Calvary (2014 film)

Calvary (2014) is John Michael McDonagh's black comedy-drama starring Brendan Gleeson as Father James Lavelle, an Irish priest given a week to live by an abused parishioner; IFTA Best Film winner with 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes is Bill Watterson's comic strip (1985-1995, Universal Press Syndicate) about six-year-old Calvin and Hobbes, his stuffed tiger alive only to him; named for philosophers, refused all merchandising.

Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris (Adam Richard Wiles, born 1984, Dumfries, Scotland) is a Scottish DJ, producer and songwriter. His 2012 album 18 Months holds the UK record of 9 Top 10 singles from one album; he has 11 UK Number 1 singles, more than any other dance act.

Calvin Harris discography

Calvin Harris discography: six studio albums (I Created Disco 2007 through Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 2022) plus the 2024 compilation 96 Months by Scottish DJ Adam Wiles, holder of 11 UK Number 1 singles and the record nine Top 10s from one album, 18 Months.

Calvin Hayes

Calvin Hayes (Calvin G. Hayes, 1962–2026), English keyboardist, drummer and producer, co-founder of Johnny Hates Jazz and son of Mickie Most; played on and produced Turn Back the Clock (UK No. 1, 4 million sold). Not a DJ/electronic producer.

Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein, founded in New York in 1968 by designer Calvin Klein and Barry Schwartz, is an American fashion brand known for minimalist style, designer jeans, provocative ads, and logo-waistband underwear; owned by PVH since 2003, with about $9 billion in 2025 retail sales.

Calvin Lockhart

Calvin Lockhart (born Bert Cooper, 1934–2007) was a Bahamian-born actor of stage and film, known for Cotton Comes to Harlem, Uptown Saturday Night, Predator 2, and Royal Shakespeare Company work.

Calypso (comics)

Calypso (Calypso Ezili) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, a Haitian voodoo priestess and Spider-Man foe. Created by O'Neil and Weiss, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #209 (1980) as Kraven the Hunter's lover, famed for the 1990 Torment arc.

Calypso music

Originating in Trinidad and Tobago, calypso is an Afro-Caribbean music genre rooted in West African kaiso, used as the national folk song and a platform for social commentary.

Calypso tent

A calypso tent is a Carnival-season performance venue in Trinidad and Tobago where calypsonians premiere new songs nightly, a tradition formalized in 1921 that feeds the Calypso Monarch competition.

Cam (film)

Cam (2018) is a Blumhouse psychological horror film directed by Daniel Goldhaber, written by former camgirl Isa Mazzei, starring Madeline Brewer as Alice/Lola, a camgirl whose account is hijacked by an identical replica of herself; released on Netflix November 16, 2018.

Cam (singer)

Cam (Camaron Marvel Ochs, born 1984) is an American country singer-songwriter from California, known for "Burning House," the albums Untamed, The Otherside, and All Things Light, and co-writing five songs on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter.

Cam Avery

Cam Avery (Cameron Avery), born 1988 in Fremantle, Australia, is a rock musician: Tame Impala's bassist since 2013, former Pond drummer, The Growl frontman, and ANTI- solo artist behind Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams (2017).

Cam Clarke

Cam Clarke (Cameron Arthur Clarke, born 1957) is an American voice actor and vocalist, a King Family child performer best known as Leonardo in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Liquid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, and Kaneda in Akira.

Cam Gigandet

Cam Gigandet, also credited as Cam Joslin Gigandet, is an American actor born 1982 in Tacoma, Washington, known for Kevin Volchok on The O.C., Ryan McCarthy in Never Back Down, and James in Twilight.

Cảm hoài

Cảm hoài is a Vietnamese term for feelings stirred by recollection in classical poetry, best known from Đặng Dung's poem and the hoài cổ verse of Bà Huyện Thanh Quan.

Cam'ron

Cam'ron (Cameron Giles), Harlem rapper and Dipset leader, known for Confessions of Fire, the platinum Come Home with Me with "Oh Boy" and "Hey Ma", Purple Haze, and the sports show It Is What It Is with Mase.

Camara Laye

Camara Laye (1928–1980) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French, known for L'Enfant noir (1953) and Le Regard du roi (1954), seminal works of African fiction.

Câmbio Negro

Câmbio Negro is a Brazilian rap group formed in 1990 in Ceilândia, Brasília, led by rapper X, a pioneer of mixing rap with rock, funk, and soul.

Cambodian New Year (មហាសង្ក្រាន្ត)

Cambodian New Year (មហាសង្ក្រាន្ត, Maha Sangkranta; Choul Chnam Thmey) is Cambodia's three-day mid-April national holiday marking the harvest's end and rainy season, with temple rituals, folk games, water play, and a 2026 UNESCO nomination effort.

Cambrian Period (寒武纪)

Cambrian Period (寒武纪) is a 2017 Chinese suspense romance web drama on Youku, directed by Jiang Fenghong, starring Zhou Yutong, Hou Minghao, Mike He, and Qin Han; 24 episodes, over 1 billion views, Golden Budo award winner.

Cambric

Cambric, also known historically as batiste (named after a legendary Cambrai weaver), is a fine closely woven plain-weave fabric originally in linen from Cambrai, northern France; a 1530 record shows cambric bought for Henry VIII's shirts, and today it is a light calendered cotton of roughly 60–140 GSM used for shirts, handkerchiefs, linings and printed ethnic wear.

Cambridge Beer Festival

The Cambridge Beer Festival is a beer and cider festival held on Jesus Green in Cambridge, England, first held in 1974 and run by the Cambridge branch of CAMRA.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, known as the "Green and Yellows," is a Cambridge University Press series of Greek and Latin texts with commentaries for students.

Camcorder

Camcorder: a portable all-in-one video camera and recorder (camera + recorder), launched with Sony Betamovie (1983) and JVC VideoMovie (1984); known for long zooms, XLR audio, unlimited recording, and persistence after the smartphone decline.

Camel (band)

Camel are an English progressive rock band formed in 1971 in Guildford, Surrey, led by guitarist Andrew Latimer. Known for The Snow Goose, Moonmadness, and fourteen studio albums, they built a cult following with melodic, largely instrumental prog.

Camel milk

Camel milk, from the dromedary and Bactrian camel, is a staple of arid-region pastoralists, similar to cow milk but saltier, lacking β-lactoglobulin, richer in vitamin C, and increasingly commercially processed despite UHT and cheese-making difficulties.

Camellia (musician)

Camellia (かめりあ), legal name Masaya Ōya (大箭将也), also known as Cametek, is a Japanese electronic composer born 1992, known for BPM-200+ EDM, BEMANI and Beat Saber rhythm game tracks, and Vocaloid hits like Play-With-Fire.