List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
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This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Billboard began ranking dance music on the week ending October 26, 1974, and this is the standard music popularity chart in the United States
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  • All acts are listed alphabetically.
  • Solo artists are alphabetized by last name, groups by group name excluding "A," "An" and "The."
  • Each act's total of number one U.S. dance hits is shown after their name.
  • All artists who are mentioned in song credits are listed here; this includes one-time pairings of otherwise solo artists and those appearing as "featured".
  • Many dance artists and producers utilize aliases and pseudonym
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    s - this list shows whichever artist name was used on the record (for example, Size 9 gets one credit for "I'm Ready," instead of Josh Wink).
  • Artists associated with a group who reached number one, yet have their own solo page in Wikipedia
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     are not listed here, unless they hit number one as a solo artist.



A

  • ABBA
    ABBA
    ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...

     (1)
  • ABC
    ABC (band)
    ABC are an English band, that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. The band continues to tour and released a new album, Traffic, in 2008.-Formation:...

     (3)
  • Paula Abdul
    Paula Abdul
    Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R&B hits...

     (1)
  • Abigail
    Abigail (singer)
    Abigail is a Hi-NRG dance music singer born in England. She began her career with the song, "I Feel You", released in 1992...

     (2)
  • Colonel Abrams
    Colonel Abrams
    Colonel Abrams is a house and urban musician who was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in New York City, New York. He graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School currently known as Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics which is in East Harlem section of Manhattan, there he met a fellow...

     (4)
  • Ace of Base
    Ace of Base
    Ace of Base is a pop band based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its original lineup consisted of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg, and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren...

     (3)
  • Adeva
    Adeva
    Adeva is a female African American house-music and contemporary R&B artist from Paterson, New Jersey, United States, the youngest of six children...

     (2)
  • The Adventures of Stevie V
    The Adventures of Stevie V
    The Adventures Of Stevie V was a British dance music act from Bedfordshire, England, who, in the early 1990s, scored several hits on the UK Singles Chart, and the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.-Career:...

     (1)
  • Africanism/Africanism All Stars
    Africanism All Stars
    Africanism All Stars is a France based project consisting of some DJs and mixers in France, who collaborate with African-based artists and acts....

     (2)
  • Afro Medusa
    Afro Medusa
    Afro Medusa is a British dance music trio, consisting of the vocalist Isabel Fructuoso, Nick Bennett and Patrick Cole. They placed two songs on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, beginning with "Pasilda", which hit #1 in 2000...

     (1)
  • Agnes
    Agnes Carlsson
    Agnes Emilia Carlsson, also known mononymously as Agnes , is a Swedish recording artist. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series...

     (1)
  • Christina Aguilera
    Christina Aguilera
    Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

     (5)
  • Akon
    Akon
    Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, better known as simply Akon , is a Senegalese American R&B recording artist and songwriter.According to Forbes, Akon grossed $21 million in 2010, $20 million in 2009 and $12 million in 2008. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of "Locked Up", the first...

     (1)
  • Alana
    Alana (singer)
    Alana Simon is the featured female vocalist of the duo MK featuring Alana, which scored two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Always" in 1993 and "Love Changes" in 1994. She scored another hit in 1995 with the single "Burning," which was recorded with Marc Kinchen as...

     (2)
  • Nadia Ali
    Nadia Ali
    Nadia Ali is a Pakistani-American singer-songwriter, born in Libya and raised in Queens, New York. She gained attention as the frontwoman and songwriter of the band iiO, after their 2001 hit "Rapture" reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The song also charted across several countries in Europe...

     (1)
  • Alisha
    Alisha (singer)
    Alisha Ann Itkin is an American Freestyle, dance-pop singer from Brooklyn, New York who had several hits in the 1980s and 1990s.-Music career:...

     (1)
  • Lily Allen
    Lily Allen
    Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper , better known as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative...

     (2)
  • Herb Alpert
    Herb Alpert
    Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records...

     (1)
  • Alphaville
    Alphaville (band)
    Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold , Bernhard Lloyd , and Frank Mertens Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum,...

     (1)
  • Altar
    Altar (dance music band)
    Altar is a house music duo of Brazilian producers and DJs Macau and VMC. Formed in 2001, the duo began receiving recognition in nightclubs in 2003 after the release of their single "Sexercize". A collaboration with vocalist Jeanie Tracy, "Party People" became their first number-one hit on the U.S...

     (1)
  • Amber (5)
  • Tori Amos
    Tori Amos
    Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

     (3)
  • Amuka
    Amuka
    Amuka is the stage name used by singer/songwriter Sheila Brody. Originally from Detroit, she was discovered by funk musician George Clinton and became a member of the Brides Of Funkenstein, a P-Funk spin-off act.-Career:...

     (1)
  • Anastacia
    Anastacia
    Anastacia is an American singer-songwriter. Anastacia has been highly successful in Europe, Asia, South Africa and South America, but has had only minor success in her native United States...

     (2)
  • Anjulie
    Anjulie
    Anjulie is the stage of name of Anjulie Persaud, a Canadian singer/songwriter from Oakville, Ontario Canada, a suburb outside of Toronto. She was born and raised in Canada, and her parents are from Guyana of Indian descent. She is the youngest of four children. Anjulie is a self-described music...

     (1)
  • Marc Anthony
    Marc Anthony
    Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter, actor and producer. Anthony is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy and three-time Latin Grammy–winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads...

     (1)
  • Anthony and the Camp
    Anthony and the Camp
    Anthony and the Camp is a dance music group led by producer Anthony Malloy. The group also consists of Crawford Peterson, Henley Goddard and Linden Aaron...

     (1)
  • Arizona (1)
  • Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
    Don Armando
    Don Armando Bonilla formed the Second Avenue Rhumba Band with vocalist Fonda Rae and scored a #1 hit on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Deputy of Love" in 1979. Bonilla was also a percussionist with Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band...

     (1)
  • Arrested Development
    Arrested Development (hip hop group)
    Arrested Development is an American alternative hip hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s.-History:...

     (1)
  • Art of Noise (1)
  • Ashford & Simpson
    Ashford & Simpson
    Nickolas Ashford , and Valerie Simpson , were a husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists....

     (1)
  • A.S.K. M.E.
    A.S.K. M.E.
    A.S.K. M.E. are a female trio from Chicago Illinois. The members consists of April Allen, Sheree Hicks and Kera Trotter .In 1995 the trio teamed up with the C&C Music Factory to record "I'll Always Be Around" with Vic Black...

     (1)
  • Rick Astley
    Rick Astley
    Richard Paul "Rick" Astley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality. He is known for his 1987 song, "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was a #1 hit single in 25 countries...

     (2)
  • Aubrey
    Aubrey (producer)
    Aubrey is a techno and house music producer and DJ Allen Saei. Allen grew up in the suburbs of Portsmouth. When he moved to Cowplain, he had a red nose as a result of having a cold...

     (1)
  • Dave Audé
    Dave Audé
    Dave Audé is a Grammy nominated producer, house DJ, and remixer. He has done production for musicians such as KoЯn, t.A.T.u., DJ Keoki, Barenaked Ladies, Faith No More, Cause and Effect, Hilary Duff, Wanessa, Ashley Tisdale, The Pussycat Dolls, Lady Gaga, Lunascape, Madonna, Britney Spears, CeCe...

     (3)
  • Patti Austin
    Patti Austin
    -Life and career:Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents....

     (1)
  • Thea Austin (1)
  • Kevin Aviance
    Kevin Aviance
    Kevin Aviance is an American female impressionist, Club/Dance musician, and fashion designer and nightclub personality. He is a very popular personality in New York City's gay scene and has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He is a member of the House of Aviance, a local gay...

     (3)
  • Avicii
    Avicii
    Tim "The Phoenix" Bergling , known professionally as Avicii, Tim Berg, "Ashwin", "Yeshel", "Harshil" and Tom Hangs, is a Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer. His single "Bromance" has charted in the top 20 on the national single charts of Belgium, the Netherlands, and his native Sweden...

     (1)
  • Axwell
    Axwell
    Axwell is a DJ, remixer, record producer and record label owner from Sweden. He is part of a three person group dubbed the Swedish House Mafia along with Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello...

     (1)

B

  • Bad Yard Club
    Bad Yard Club
    The Bad Yard Club are an ensemble of performers put together by David Morales.The performers were producers Sly Dunbar and Handel Tucker, keyboardists Eric Kupper and Peter Daou, vocalists CeCe Rogers, Anastacia and Donna Giles, and dancehall/reggae rappers Delta, Papa San, Stanryck and Natural...

     (2)
  • Basstoy (1)
  • Becky Baeling
    Becky Baeling
    Becky Baeling is an American singer/recording artist, actress, producer and television host.- Early life :Baeling was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan, as Rebecca Diane Bahling, the daughter of Wanda and Garry Bahling, a Brigadier General F-16 fighter pilot in the Air National Guard and an...

     (1)
  • Bananarama
    Bananarama
    Bananarama are an English female pop duo who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Rather than relying on a two part harmony, the duo generally sings in unison, as do their background vocalists. Although there have been line-up changes, the group enjoyed their most popular...

     (1)
  • Barnes
    Micah Barnes
    Micah Barnes is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter. He has performed both as a solo artist and with the bands Loudboy and The Nylons....

     (1)
  • Claudja Barry
    Claudja Barry
    Claudja Barry, is a singer and actress who has performed in the European versions of the stage musicals Hair and Catch My Soul.-Early music career:...

     (1)
  • Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
    Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
    Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock are a hip-hop duo from Harlem, New York who are best known for their hit "It Takes Two." The duo consists of Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock .- Career :Their first U.S...

     (1)
  • Basement Jaxx
    Basement Jaxx
    Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

     (3)
  • Basia (1)
  • Kaci Battaglia (2)
  • Isabel Bayrakdarian
    Isabel Bayrakdarian
    Isabel Bayrakdarian is a Grammy Award-nominated Armenian Canadian opera singer.-Early life:Born in Lebanon in 1974, she moved to Canada as a teenager. Bayrakdarian graduated in 1997 from the University of Toronto with an honours B.A.Sc...

     (1)
  • Beats International
    Beats International
    Beats International was a British electronic music band, formed in the late 1980s by Norman Cook , after his departure from The Housemartins.-Career:...

     (1)
  • Daniel Bedingfield
    Daniel Bedingfield
    Daniel John Bedingfield is a British singer-songwriter. He is the brother of pop singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle.-Music career:...

     (1)
  • Natasha Bedingfield
    Natasha Bedingfield
    Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British pop singer and songwriter. Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle...

     (5)
  • Bee Gees
    Bee Gees
    The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...

     (1)
  • Benny Benassi
    Benny Benassi
    Marco Benassi , better known as Benny Benassi, is a Grammy Award winning Italian disc jockey and record producer of electro house music. He is best known for his 2002 summer club hit "Satisfaction"...

     (1)
  • Beyoncé
    Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...

     (16)
  • B. G., the Prince of Rap
    B. G., the Prince of Rap
    B.G., the Prince of Rap is the stage name used by Washington D.C. rapper and dance music artist Bernard Greene.Greene joined the United States Army after graduating from high school, and was posted to Germany in 1985....

     (1)
  • Big Ali
    Big Ali
    Big Ali is an American singer-songwriter, DJ, and rapper born in Queens, New York and based in Paris, France since 2001. He is signed to Up Music, a Warner Music label, and has released his debut album Louder in May 2009 on the record label. The album featuring numerous French and international...

     (1)
  • Big Pun
    Big Pun
    Christopher Lee Rios , better known by his stage name Big Pun , was an American rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s...

     (1)
  • Bimbo Jones
    Bimbo Jones
    Bimbo Jones is a UK dance music group comprising producers Lee Dagger and Marc JB and vocalist Katherine Ellis. Known for their remix work and white label releases, they produced a remix of Meck's 2006 UK number-one single "Thunder in My Heart Again"...

     (1)
  • Bingo Boys (1)
  • Bionic Boogie
    Gregg Diamond
    Gregg Diamond was a pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer who was active in the jazz and disco music scenes of the 1970s.-Career:...

     (1)
  • The Bird and the Bee
    The Bird and the Bee
    The Bird and the Bee is an American indie pop musical duo from Los Angeles, California, consisting of musicians Inara George and Greg Kurstin...

     (1)
  • Bizarre Inc (2)
  • Björk
    Björk
    Björk Guðmundsdóttir , known as Björk , is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres, such as rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk...

     (3)
  • Vic Black
    Vic Black
    Vic Black is a male vocalist from East Brooklyn, New York who was the co-lead singer with the female trio A.S.K. M.E. on the C&C Music Factory track "I'll Always Be Around". The track went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1995.-Background:Victor Latimer was born in...

     (1)
  • Black Box
    Black Box (band)
    Black Box was an Italian house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The members of the group included a trio made up of a club DJ , a classically trained clarinet teacher , and a keyboard and electronic music "wiz"...

     (3)
  • The Black Eyed Peas
    The Black Eyed Peas
    The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...

     (1)
  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep (hip hop group)
    Black Sheep is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York, composed of Andres "Dres" Titus and William "Mista Lawnge" McLean. The duo is from New York but met as teenagers in North Carolina, where both of their families relocated. The group was an affiliate of the Native Tongues, which...

     (1)
  • Blaze
    Blaze (band)
    Blaze is a house-music group formed in 1984 in New Jersey, USA.-Career:It was formed by Josh Milan, Kevin Hedge, and Chris Herbert, when Herbert introduced Milan, a member of his church choir, to Hedge, his childhood friend...

     (1)
  • Mary J. Blige
    Mary J. Blige
    Mary Jane Blige is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B. Blige has...

     (7)
  • Blondie
    Blondie (band)
    Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...

     (2)
  • Blue Mercedes
    Blue Mercedes
    Blue Mercedes were a pop music duo from London, England, comprising David Titlow and Duncan Millar. Titlow was known for wearing purple shorts onstage with the words "Funk Ass" printed on them, whilst Millar played a large portable synth with double keyboards — they dubbed their musical style...

     (1)
  • Blue Pearl
    Blue Pearl
    Blue Pearl was a techno and house music duo, consisting of American female singer Durga McBroom and British musician Youth . They charted two songs on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart....

     (1)
  • C.J. Bolland (1)
  • Bomb the Bass
    Bomb the Bass
    Bomb the Bass is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and producer, Tim Simenon. The band, which has evolved its style over the years, has been classed as electronic or dance....

     (1)
  • Betty Boo
    Betty Boo
    Alison Moira Clarkson better known as Betty Boo, is an English singer, songwriter and pop-rap artist...

     (1)
  • Book of Love (1)
  • Boomkat
    Boomkat
    Boomkat is an electronic and pop music duo, with brother-and-sister Kellin and Taryn Manning. The group released their debut album Boomkatalog.One in 2003, and their second album A Million Trillion Stars in 2009...

     (2)
  • David Bowie
    David Bowie
    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

     (1)
  • Brancaccio & Aisher
    Brancaccio & Aisher
    Brancaccio & Aisher are a duo of house music producers Luke Brancaccio and Bruce Aisher.As remixers they have a large catalog of hits. They hit #1 on both the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and the UK Dance Chart in 2002 with the track "It's Gonna Be...", it also reached the position #40 in...

     (1)
  • Brandy
    Brandy Norwood
    Brandy Rayana Norwood , known professionally as Brandy, is an American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and dancer. In 2009, she introduced her rap alter-ego Bran'Nu....

     (2)
  • Brass Construction
    Brass Construction
    Brass Construction was an American funk group formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1968. They were originally known as Dynamic Soul, and went on to record a string of hit singles and albums through to 1985.-Career:...

     (1)
  • Dhar Braxton
    Dhar Braxton
    Dhar Braxton , is a female house music singer. In 1986, she had a #1 hit single on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with the song, "Jump Back ." Braxton is not related to, nor a member of, The Braxtons singing group. She is the younger daughter of the late singer Byrdie Green...

     (1)
  • Toni Braxton
    Toni Braxton
    Toni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide...

     (4)
  • The Braxtons
    The Braxtons
    The Braxtons were an American R&B girl group consisting of sisters Toni Braxton, Traci Braxton, Towanda Braxton, Trina Braxton, and Tamar Braxton...

     (1)
  • Sarah Brightman
    Sarah Brightman
    Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves and singing in the whistle register...

     (1)
  • Suzan Brittan
    Suzan Brittan
    Suzan Brittan is a female actress and trained vocalist from Vestal, New York. She graduated from Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. She is well known as the lead singer on the Robbie Rivera/Axwell track "Burning", which went to number one on Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2004.Suzan...

     (1)
  • Bronski Beat
    Bronski Beat
    Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit "Smalltown Boy". All members of the group were openly homosexual and their songs reflected this, often containing political commentary on gay-related issues...

     (1)
  • Pattie Brooks
    Pattie Brooks
    Pattie Brooks is an American singer most frequently associated with the disco era. She was born in Fort Riley, Kansas to a military family. Her first break came in 1968 when she auditioned for the chorus on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". In the next decade she became a sought-after backing...

     (1)
  • Brothers in Rhythm
    Brothers in Rhythm
    Brothers In Rhythm is a house music duo consisting of producers / remixers and DJs Steve Anderson and Dave Seaman. As a duo and individually, they have remixed and/or produced tracks by Lulu, M People, Secret Life, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue, Garbage,...

     (1)
  • The Brothers Johnson (1)
  • Andrea Brown
    Andrea Brown
    Andrea Brown is an African American female singer from Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the cousin of singer Bobby Brown....

     (1)
  • Angie Brown
    Angie Brown
    Angie Brown born is a female singer/songwriter from Brixton, in South London.Brown, whose vocals have been featured on tracks of diverse acts ranging from Fatboy Slim to Lisa Stansfield & The Wah Brothers, is more famous as the featured vocalist on Bizarre Inc's two #1 Hot Dance Music/Club Play...

     (2)
  • Chris Brown (1)
  • Jocelyn Brown
    Jocelyn Brown
    Jocelyn Lorette Brown is an American R&B and dance music singer...

     (4)
  • Kathy Brown
    Kathy Brown
    Kathy Brown is an American R&B Dance/House singer from South Carolina.-Career:Brown began singing in her local Gospel choir. After joining the contemporary R&B group Sweet Cinnamon...

     (1)
  • O'Chi Brown
    O'Chi Brown
    O'chi Brown is a female dance music singer born in Tottenham, London England. She scored two hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, the most successful being "Whenever You Need Somebody," which hit #1 in 1986...

     (1)
  • Peter Brown
    Peter Brown (singer)
    Peter Brown is an artist, songwriter and record producer. He grew up in Palos Heights, another Chicago suburb. His mother, Virginia, was artistic and musically talented and gave Peter music lessons at a very young age. Peter’s father, Maurice, was an electronic engineer and unwittingly helped him...

     (1)
  • BT (2)
  • B.T. Express
    B.T. Express
    B.T. Express was an American funk/disco group, that had a number of successful songs during the 1970s.-Career:...

     (1)
  • The Bucketheads
    Masters At Work
    Masters at Work is the house/garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. They first worked together using the name, which had been given to them by mutual friend Todd Terry , in 1990...

     (2)
  • Jan Burton
    Jan Burton
    Jan Burton is a Welsh music producer best known for his work with ex-Fluke member Mike Tournier in their joint project, Syntax. He is currently engaged in musical activities in a group called Fatal and working on Syntax's second Album....

     (1)
  • Jenny Burton
    Jenny Burton
    Jenny Burton , is an American female R&B singer who had several hits on the US Billboard dance chart. She was lead singer of the dance music band C-Bank's 1983 Top 5 Hot Dance Music/Club Play single "One More Shot", notable for record producer John Robie's use of a "non-linear" approach to its...

     (1)
  • Busta Rhymes
    Busta Rhymes
    Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...

     (1)

C

  • C+C Music Factory/Clivilles & Cole
    C+C Music Factory
    C+C Music Factory is a dance-pop and hip hop group formed in 1989 by David Cole and Robert Clivillés which stopped recording 1996, following Cole's death...

     (8)
  • Victor Calderone
    Victor Calderone
    Victor Calderone is a house music producer, DJ and remixer.-History:Raised in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, Calderone was introduced into New York City's nightlife by his older brother, Cesar, who was very active in the club music business. Calderone began to dabble with turntables and...

     (2)
  • Donnie Calvin
    Donnie Calvin
    Donnie Calvin is a reggae musician and singer. He was involved in Arthur Baker's studio project Rockers Revenge, which on 18 September 1982 had a number one hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart called "Walking on Sunshine" with Calvin as featured artist. This also reached number 4 in the...

     (1)
  • Cameo
    Cameo (band)
    Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...

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  • Camouflage
    Camouflage (band)
    Camouflage is a German New Wave trio consisting of Marcus Meyn, Heiko Maile and Oliver Kreyssig. Their only Billboard Hot 100 hit was "The Great Commandment" which climbed to #59 in 1988, though it did spend three weeks at #1 on the US dance chart...

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  • Irene Cara
    Irene Cara
    Irene Cara is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling." She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and she also starred in the 1980 film Fame.She married Hollywood stuntman...

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  • Joi Cardwell
    Joi Cardwell
    Joi Cardwell is a female Biracial Club/Dance, House music and R&B music singer-songwriter.-Career:She has had major success on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where she placed eight songs in the top ten between 1995 to 2007...

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  • Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...

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  • Cassius
    Cassius (band)
    Cassius is a French house music duo, consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass.-History:...

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  • Celeda
    Celeda
    Celeda is an African American dance music singer and drag performer born in Chicago, Illinois. She began having hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in the late 1990s, beginning with "Music Is the Answer ," a collaboration with DJ and producer Danny Tenaglia that peaked at number 15 in 1998...

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  • Cerrone
    Cerrone
    Marc Cerrone is a French disco drummer, singer-songwriter and record producer.Marc Cerrone has sold over thirty million albums and has often performed in front of hundreds of thousands of people at huge concerts and events such as The 2005 Dance Party Live in Versailles and The 2000 Los Angeles...

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  • Chamonix
    Mantronix
    Mantronix was an influential 1980s hip hop and electro funk music group founded by DJ Kurtis Mantronik , and rapper MC Tee...

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  • Change
    Change (band)
    Change was an Italian-American post-disco group formed in Bologna, Italy in 1979 by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi...

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  • Charice
    Charice Pempengco
    Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco , popularly known by the mononym Charice, is a Filipino recording artist and actress who rose to popularity through YouTube. Dubbed by Oprah Winfrey as the Most Talented Girl in the World, she released her first international studio album Charice in 2010...

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  • Ray Charles
    Ray Charles
    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...

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  • Charlotte
    Charlotte (singer)
    Charlotte Kelly is a British R&B and dance singer and songwriter. She is of mixed English/Caribbean descent.-Career:Kelly was blind at birth. Kelly started her career as a singer in her teens. In the 1990s, she co-wrote with Mike Ward and Lisa Stansfield, before being signed to Big Life Records...

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  • Judy Cheeks
    Judy Cheeks
    Judy Cheeks is a female dance music singer born in Miami, Florida in 1954 and is the daughter of gospel singer and preacher Rev. Julius Cheeks. In 1978 she hit #10 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Mellow Lovin'," and then had a career resurgence in the 1990s, when she re-emerged with a...

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  • The Chemical Brothers
    The Chemical Brothers
    The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Originating in Manchester in 1991, along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture.- Background...

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  • Cher
    Cher
    Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...

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  • Chéri
    Chéri (band)
    Chéri is a female dance music duo from Montreal, consisting of American Rosalind Hunt and Canadian the Lyn Cullerier. In 1982 they had their only Hot 100 entry, "Murphy's Law," which hit #39...

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  • Cherie
    Cherie
    Cherie is a French pop and dance music singer whose 2004 hit "I'm Ready" hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.- Singles :*I'm Ready*Older Than My Years *Betcha Never-See also:...

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  • Neneh Cherry
    Neneh Cherry
    Neneh Mariann Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster...

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  • Cheyne
    Cheyne (singer)
    Cheyne is a female R&B singer who was still a teenager when her song "Call Me Mr. Telephone " hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1985.-See also:*List of number-one dance hits...

     (1)
  • Chic
    Chic (band)
    Chic was an African American disco and R&B band that was organized during 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. It is known best for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love" , "Good Times"...

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  • Chili Hi Fly
    Chili Hi Fly
    Chili Hi Fly are a collective of singers, musicians and producers from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, put together by Simon Lewicki and Noel Burgess. Their disco-inspired track, "Is It Love" went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2001...

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  • The Chimes (2)
  • Shawn Christopher
    Shawn Christopher
    Shawn Christopher is a female African American dance music singer from Chicago, Illinois.-Career:She was a touring backing vocalist for R&B singer Chaka Khan from 1982 to 1985. She is also a former member of the industrial dance band known as My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and sang with the...

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  • C.J. & Company (1)
  • Linda Clifford
    Linda Clifford
    Linda Clifford is an American R&B, disco and house music singer and actress, who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably "If My Friends Could See Me Now", "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Runaway Love" and "Red Light"....

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  • Angel Clivillés
    Angel Clivillés
    Angel Clivillés is the stage name used by Louise Angel Sabater, a Latina dance music singer of Puerto Rican descent. She was born in the Bronx, New York.-Music career:...

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  • Club Nouveau
    Club Nouveau
    Club Nouveau is a contemporary R&B-pop band that was formed by record producer/performer Jay King in 1986 in Sacramento, California, subsequent to the breakup of the Timex Social Club. Other members of Club Nouveau included original members Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy, Samuelle Prater, and...

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  • Club 69
    Peter Rauhofer
    Peter Rauhofer is a DJ, remixer and producer who formerly went under the moniker Club 69 as well as Size Queen. A native of Vienna, Austria, he is famous for his remixes of a number of Madonna's songs including "Nothing Really Matters", "American Life", "Nothing Fails, "Nobody Knows Me", "Get...

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  • Clubhouse (1)
  • Clubland (3)
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  • Coldplay
    Coldplay
    Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as a...

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  • Natalie Cole
    Natalie Cole
    Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...

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  • The Collaboration (credited as "Peter Rauhofer + Pet Shop Boys = The Collaboration") (1)
  • The Communards
    The Communards
    The Communards were a British pop duo active from 1985 to 1988. They are most famous for their cover of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' song, "Don't Leave Me This Way" as well as "Never Can Say Goodbye".-History:...

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  • Company B
    Company B (band)
    Company B was a Latin freestyle dance-pop/Hi-NRG trio formed in 1986 by Cuban-American producer Ish "Angel" Ledesma , featuring members Lori L. , Charlotte McKinnon and Susan Johnson. Before the groups self titled Album was released, Charlotte McKinnon left and was replaced by Lezlee Livrano...

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  • Consumer Rapport
    Consumer Rapport
    Consumer Rapport was a disco studio group from New York City. Vocal duties were handled by Frank Floyd, who was a pit singer in the Broadway musical The Wiz. "Ease On Down the Road", from that musical, hit number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1975.-See also:*List of number-one...

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  • Deborah Cooper
    Deborah Cooper
    Deborah Cooper is a female, part African American, professional dance music singer, award winning composer and entertainer, with several number one and top charting dance music and house music hits.-History:...

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  • Kim Cooper
    Kim Cooper
    Kim Cooper may refer to;*Kim Cooper , Australian softball player*Kim Cooper , contestant on Australian Idol*Kim Cooper , Coeur d'Alene, Idaho...

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  • Alec R. Costandinos & the Syncophonic Orchestra
    Alec R. Costandinos
    Alec R. Costandinos, is a French singer and artist of the 70's. He was also intimately involved as a writer, publisher and musician in the development of Aphrodite's Child with Vangelis and Greek-born pop singer, Demis Roussos...

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  • Patrick Cowley
    Patrick Cowley
    Patrick Joseph Cowley was an American disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist. He recorded in a style that has drawn comparisons to that of Giorgio Moroder and is often credited with pioneering electronic dance music.-Early life:Patrick Cowley was born in Buffalo, New York to...

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  • Carl Cox
    Carl Cox
    Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...

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  • Chris Cox
    Chris Cox (DJ)
    Chris Cox is a dance music producer, remixer, and DJ from USA and has worked on over 400 records. He has had a total of 40 Billboard dance chart number ones as part of the hitmaking remix team Thunderpuss, and others with Pusaka and as a solo artist. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2004 for his...

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  • Deborah Cox
    Deborah Cox
    Deborah Cox is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart , a record held for nearly eight years. She has achieved ten number-one hits on...

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  • Mia Cox
    Mia Cox
    Mia Cox is a female singer/songwriter from Newark, New Jersey. She was the featured vocalist on DJ Disciple's "Caught Up" , which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002.-See also:...

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  • Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...

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  • Crown Heights Affair
    Crown Heights Affair
    Crown Heights Affair was an American R&B / funk / disco group from New York, founded in the early 1970s.-Career:Originally known as Ben Iverson and the Nue Dey Express on Britne Records, founded by then bassist Donnie Linton, the group took their new name from a district of their native Brooklyn,...

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  • Taio Cruz
    Taio Cruz
    Taio Cruz is a British singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional rapper, and entrepreneur. In 2008, he released his debut album Departure, which Cruz wrote, arranged and produced himself. It achieved initial success in the UK and earned him a MOBO Award nomination...

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  • Crystal Method (1)
  • Culture Beat
    Culture Beat
    Culture Beat is a German Eurodance project formed in 1989 by Torsten Fenslau. The act has gone through a number of line-up changes over the years; they achieved the most success whilst fronted by singer Tania Evans and rapper Jay Supreme. Their 1993 single "Mr. Vain" was a No...

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  • Daft Punk
    Daft Punk
    Daft Punk are an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop...

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  • E.G. Daily
    Elizabeth Daily
    Elizabeth Ann Guttman , better known by her stage names of Elizabeth Daily and E.G. Daily, is an American voice actress, actress, singer-songwriter, and musician...

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  • Dajae
    Dajae
    Dajae is the stage name of Karen Gordon, a female R&B and dance music singer born in Chicago, Illinois. She sang in various soul bands for over a decade prior to joining house producer Cajmere. The duo released several hit singles, including "Brighter Days",which peaked at number two for two...

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  • Da Mob
    Da Mob
    Da Mob was an American house collaboration between producers and DJs Erick Morillo, José Nunez, and Carlos Sosa , featuring vocals by Jocelyn Brown...

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  • Steven Dante
    Steven Dante
    Steven Dante is a British soul singer and songwriter, who had several singles released in the late 1980s on the Cooltempo label. His only solo album, Find Out, was released on Chrysalis in 1988. It peaked at #87 in the UK Albums Chart in September 1988...

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  • Dany
    Double Dee
    Double Dee was an Italian dance music duo who scored one hit; "Found Love," which spent a week at #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1990. The single did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 but did reach #64 on the Airplay chart....

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  • The Daou
    The Daou
    The Daou was a New York-based dance music duo consisting of husband-and-wife Peter and Vanessa Daou. Their only album Head Music was released in 1992. The single "Surrender Yourself" went to number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. The pair subsequently performed under her name alone, and...

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  • Vanessa Daou
    Vanessa Daou
    Vanessa Daou is an American singer, songwriter, poet, visual artist and dancer. Most notably a musician, her work is known among electronica, nu jazz and trip hop circles for her trademark spoken word and aspirated singing style as well as its erotic and literary subtexts.-Formative years:Daou was...

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  • Daphne
    Daphne Rubin-Vega
    Daphne Rubin-Vega is a dancer, singer, and actress. She is best known for originating the role of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical Rent, and the role of Lucy, in the Off-Broadway play Jack Goes Boating.-Biography:Rubin-Vega was born in Panama City, Panama, the daughter of Daphine Vega, a...

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  • Dario G
    Dario G
    Dario G is the name of a dance music trio from Crewe, Cheshire, England. Despite popular belief the group are not named after the manager of Crewe Alexandra, Dario Gradi but changed their name from Dario to Dario G after being threatened with legal action from an artist of the same name...

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  • Dat Oven
    Dat Oven
    Dat Oven is a dance/electronica duo based in New York City. The act consists of Jeffery Gratton and Shunji Moriwaki .The act has had three entries on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart:...

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  • Zelma Davis (2)
  • Inaya Day
    Inaya Day
    Inaya Day is an American singer, best known for her vocal work on house music tracks such as "Horny" by Mousse T, and her cover version of "Nasty Girl" by Prince protege Vanity 6.-Early career:...

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  • Taylor Dayne
    Taylor Dayne
    Taylor Dayne was born Leslie Wunderman on March 7, 1962 before later adopting her current stage name. She is an American pop vocalist, songwriter, and dance artist. Overall, she has had eighteen individual hit songs reach the top ten in Billboard magazine...

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  • DB Boulevard
    DB Boulevard
    DB Boulevard is a pop and dance music group formed in Padua, Italy. Members include vocalist Moony , along with producers, Mauro Ferrucci, Tommy Vee, Diego Broggio....

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  • Darryl D'Bonneau
    Darryl D'Bonneau
    Darryl D'Bonneau is a Dance/House/R&B artist from Charleston, South Carolina. Although he calls New York City home, D'Bonneau mostly spends his time living and traveling across Europe, where he had more success. D'Bonneau's musical roots trace back to his days a child, singing in church choirs and...

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  • Dead or Alive
    Dead or Alive (band)
    Dead or Alive were a British New Wave band from Wirral, England, United Kingdom, Europe. The band rose to fame in the 1980s with their number one single on the UK Singles Chart, "You Spin Me Round ". They were the first group to have a number one single under the production team Stock Aitken Waterman...

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  • DeBarge
    DeBarge
    DeBarge was a sibling music group of American origin whose repertoire included R&B, soul, funk, and later gospel. Active as a professional recording group from 1979 and 1989, the group was one of the few recording acts to bring success to the Motown label during the 1980s.-Background:Hailing from...

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  • El DeBarge
    El DeBarge
    Eldra Patrick "El" DeBarge is an American R&B/pop falsetto singer and was the focal point and lead singer of the family group DeBarge throughout the early to mid-1980s....

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  • Deee-Lite
    Deee-Lite
    Deee-Lite was an American house and club/dance group, formed in New York City, United States. The group's best-known single was "Groove Is in the Heart", from their 1990 debut album, World Clique. However, Deee-Lite achieved longer lasting success on the U.S...

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  • Deep Dish
    Deep Dish
    Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle,...

     (2)
  • Definition of Sound
    Definition of Sound
    Definition of Sound was a London-based dance-music group, consisting of Kevin Clark and Don Weekes, working with musicians Rex Brough and latterly, Mike Spencer. Their second and fourth singles, "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" and "Moira Jane's Café" were in the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. The...

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  • De La Soul
    De La Soul
    De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York. The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres...

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  • Delerium
    Delerium
    Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...

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  • Kat DeLuna
    Kat DeLuna
    Kathleen Emperatriz "Kat" DeLuna is an American pop singer of Dominican heritage. DeLuna has a soprano vocal range. Her debut single, "Whine Up", reached the top ten in Belgium and France, peaked inside the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Her...

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  • Cathy Dennis
    Cathy Dennis
    Cathy Dennis is a British dance-oriented pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress...

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  • Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

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  • Desert (1)
  • Desiya
    Desiya
    Desiya was a dance/house music project, fronted by the DJ/remixer/producer Matthew Parkhouse from New York, and featured Melissa Yiannakou on vocals. Its 1992 #1 hit on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, "Comin' on Strong," was released by Mute/Elektra Records, and featured remixes...

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  • Deskee
    Deskee
    Deskee is a male house music solo artist from Queens, New York. Deskee moved to Germany in 1984 with his mother, who was member of the Armed Forces. Deskee became the main DJ for the road show called The Body Snatchers Road Show , and they played in several night clubs throughout Germany...

     (2)
  • Destination (1)
  • Destiny's Child
    Destiny's Child
    Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final line-up comprised lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girl's Tyme...

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  • Dev
    Dev (singer)
    Devin Star Tailes , better known by her stage name Dev, is an American singer. She was discovered by The Cataracs via MySpace after her friend Shane Crislip, posted her singing to some beats...

     (1)
  • Dido
    Dido (singer)
    Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong , known as Dido, is an English singer-songwriter.Dido shot to worldwide success with her debut album, No Angel...

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  • Céline Dion
    Celine Dion
    Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

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  • Dirty Vegas
    Dirty Vegas
    Dirty Vegas is a Grammy Award-winning British house music trio made up of Ben Harris and Paul Harris on instruments and production and Steve Smith on vocals...

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  • Dizzee Rascal
    Dizzee Rascal
    Dylan Kwabena Mills , better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a Ghanaian British rapper, songwriter and record producer. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles...

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  • DJ Dan
    DJ Dan
    DJ Dan is an American electronic house music DJ and producer. Dan previously released works through the Moonshine label....

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  • DJ Disciple
    DJ Disciple
    DJ Disciple is an American DJ and house music producer from Brooklyn, New York.In 1994, his track, "On the Dancefloor", peaked at #67 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2002, he hit number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Caught Up." Vocals on the track were performed by Mia Cox...

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  • DJ Frank E
    DJ Frank E
    Justin Franks, also known as DJ Frank E, is an American DJ and record producer from Denver, Colorado. He began mixing records and later progressed to producing remixes in 2003....

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  • DJ Yaleidys (1)
  • D Mob
    D Mob
    D Mob is one of the stage names used by British house music producer Dancin' Danny D .The 1988 UK hit "We Call It Acieed" hit #3 in the UK Singles Chart, and was one of a wave of acid house singles to enjoy success that year. The video was directed by Marek Budzynski...

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  • Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
    Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
    Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was a big band and swing influenced disco band, formed in the Bronx, New York. They are best known for their #1 US dance hit, "Cherchez La Femme"/C'est si bon, from their self-titled debut album....

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  • Dollarman
    Dollarman
    Dollarman is a Caribbean singer, songwriter, producer and musician born in Grenada. Moving to Brooklyn, NY he continues to present hits with a Caribbean influence and reggae.-Career:...

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  • Double Dee
    Double Dee
    Double Dee was an Italian dance music duo who scored one hit; "Found Love," which spent a week at #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1990. The single did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 but did reach #64 on the Airplay chart....

     (1)
  • Carol Douglas
    Carol Douglas
    Carol Douglas is an American singer whose hit "Doctor's Orders" was a pioneer track in the disco genre.-Early life and acting career:...

     (1)
  • Al Downing
    Al Downing (musician)
    Al Downing , later known as Big Al Downing, was an entertainer, singer, songwriter, and pianist. He received the Billboard's New Artist of the Year and the Single of the Year Award in 1979. He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and was a frequent performer at the Grand Ole Opry...

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  • D:Ream
    D:Ream
    D:Ream was a UK pop and dance band of the 1990s. They had a UK Number One hit with "Things Can Only Get Better" in 1994 as well as eight more top 40 hits. They released two albums, both of which reached the top five...

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  • D. Train
    D. Train
    D. Train was an American R&B duo, who scored several significant hits on both the Billboard Dance and R&B charts during the first half of the 1980s.-Overview:...

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  • Dragonette
    Dragonette
    Dragonette is a Canadian electropop group active since 2005. Dragonette consists of singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz and drummer Joel Stouffer....

     (1)
  • Duck Sauce
    Duck Sauce (band)
    Duck Sauce is an American-Canadian DJ duo consisting of Armand Van Helden and A-Trak. The duo are signed to Fool's Gold Records.-History:The pair aim to produce disco house tracks that will appeal to club DJs....

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  • Hilary Duff
    Hilary Duff
    Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, she achieved fame playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. She also reprised her role in...

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  • Duke (1)
  • Duran Duran
    Duran Duran
    Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...

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  • Dutch
    The Scumfrog
    Jesse Houk is a DJ/remixer/producer/artist from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is better known by his pseudonym, The Scumfrog, under which he has remixed songs by artists as varied as Britney Spears, David Bowie, Dido, Enrique Iglesias, and J-Pop Superstar Utada Hikaru. His first release was a...

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  • Earons
    Earons
    The Earons are a self-described "astro-funk" band from "Earon Earth." They were inspired by the cosmic mythology of Sun Ra with a bit of Anthony Braxton's mathematica....

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  • Earth, Wind & Fire
    Earth, Wind & Fire
    Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of...

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  • Sheena Easton
    Sheena Easton
    Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...

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  • Steve Edwards
    Steve Edwards (singer)
    Steve Edwards is a male house music singer/songwriter from Sheffield, England. He has collaborated with several house music producers.-Career:...

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  • Eleanor
    Eleanor (singer)
    Eleanor is a dance music singer and producer. Her one and only chart appearance occurred in 1988 when her song "Adventure" went to number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the U.S.-See also:*List of number-one dance hits *List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart...

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  • Elephant Man (1)
  • Missy Elliott
    Missy Elliott
    Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott , is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actressA five-time Grammy Award winner, Elliott, with record sales of over seven million in the United States, is the only female rapper to have five albums certified platinum by the RIAA, including one...

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  • En Vogue
    En Vogue
    En Vogue is an American female R&B vocal group from Oakland, California assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy.The group has won more MTV Video Music Awards than any other female group in MTV history, a total of seven, along with four Soul Train Awards, six American Music...

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  • Kim English
    Kim English
    Kim English is an African American electronica, soul, gospel, and house music singer, born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.-Music career:...

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  • Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

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  • Jocelyn Enriquez
    Jocelyn Enriquez
    Jocelyn Enriquez is a Dance-pop singer from San Francisco. She is of Filipino descent: her parents are from the province of Pangasinan. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School in 1993.-Career:...

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  • Erasure
    Erasure
    Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...

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  • Gloria Estefan
    Gloria Estefan
    Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

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  • Estelle
    Estelle (musician)
    Estelle Fanta Swaray commonly known as Estelle, and formerly as Est'elle, is an English R&B singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer.-Early Life:Estelle was born 18 January 1980 in Hammersmith, London, England...

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  • Esthero
    Esthero
    Esthero ,born Jenny-Bea Englishman, is a Canadian singer-songwriter who currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney...

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  • Eurythmics
    Eurythmics
    Eurythmics were a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, currently disbanded, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A...

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  • Faith Evans
    Faith Evans
    Faith Renée Evans is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, record producer, actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles during 1993 for a career with the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B...

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  • Eve
    Eve (rapper)
    Eve Jihan Jeffers , is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer and actress. Her first three albums have reached a total of over 8 million albums sold worldwide. She has also achieved success in fashion as she started a clothing line titled "Fetish." She won a Grammy Award in 2002 for the...

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  • Everything but the Girl
    Everything but the Girl
    Everything but the Girl was a two-person English band, formed in Hull during 1981, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt . They are currently inactive although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may reform someday...

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  • Eyes Cream
    Eyes Cream
    Eyes Cream is a male/female dance music duo consisting of Agostino Carollo from Italy and New York-born Stephanie Haley. In 2000 they hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Fly Away ." They hit the dance chart Top 10 again in 2002 with "Open Up Your Mind," which peaked at #10.-See...

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  • Lara Fabian
    Lara Fabian
    Lara Fabian is a Belgian-Italian international singer who also holds Canadian citizenship. Multilingual, she sings in French, Italian and English....

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  • The Face
    David Morales
    David Morales is an internationally acclaimed Grammy-winning house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks...

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  • Faithless
    Faithless
    Faithless were a British electronica band consisting of Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo. The group is best known for their dance songs . Faithless recorded six albums. During their career they sold over 15 million records worldwide...

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  • Ralph Falcon (1)
  • Harold Faltermeyer
    Harold Faltermeyer
    Harold Faltermeyer is a German musician, keyboardist, composer and record producer.He is recognized as one of the composers/producers who best captured the zeitgeist of 1980s synth-pop in film scores...

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  • Fantasy
    Fantasy (group)
    Fantasy is a R&B vocal group based in New York who scored several hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including "You're Too Late", which hit number one in 1981. Group members include Ken Roebson, Tami Hunt, Rufus Jackson and Carolyn Edwards...

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  • Fast Eddie
    Fast Eddie
    Fast Eddie , is an American House producer from Chicago, Illinois.-Career:Prior to his entry into the realm of production, Fast Eddie was one of the premier DJs of the early Chicago House movement....

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  • Fat Joe
    Fat Joe
    Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad....

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  • Felix (1)
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  • Fever
    Fever (band)
    Fever was a disco studio group from Ohio who scored a number of hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart, the most successful being "Beat of the Night" / "Pump It Up," which hit #1. Group members included Clydene Jackson, Dale Reed, Joe Bomback and Dennis Waddington.Fever was a disco band from...

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  • Fierce Ruling Diva
    Fierce Ruling Diva
    Fierce Ruling Diva is a Dutch house music duo from Amsterdam consisting of producers Jeroen Flamman and Jeff Porter. In the early nineties they charted three songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, the most of successful of which was "You Gotta Believe," a #4 hit in 1992...

     (1)
  • Filter
    Filter (band)
    Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released five studio albums, the most recent being The Trouble with Angels, which was released on August 17, 2010....

     (1)
  • Fine Young Cannibals
    Fine Young Cannibals
    Fine Young Cannibals were a British band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984, by bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift...

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  • Fire Island (1)
  • Cevin Fisher/Cevin Fisher's Big Freak
    Cevin Fisher
    Cevin Fisher is an American house music record producer. He is best known for songs such as "The Freaks Come Out" and " Burning Up," the latter of which featured vocals by Loleatta Holloway...

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  • Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack
    Roberta Flack is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is notable for jazz, soul, R&B, and folk music...

     (2)
  • The Flirts
    The Flirts
    The Flirts were a female trio from New York City who had several dance hits and music videos on MTV in the early eighties when the channel was still in its infancy. The group was created and masterminded by American producer, Bobby Orlando aka 'Bobby O', an artist in his own right...

     (1)
  • 49ers
    49ers (band)
    49ers are an Italian house and Eurodance act, featuring producer and DJ Gianfranco Bortolotti and vocalist Ann-Marie Smith. They were named after the San Francisco 49ers American football team, as Smith was the 49th vocalist to audition....

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  • Livvi Franc
    Livvi Franc
    Olivia Charlotte Waithe , better known by her stage name Livvi Franc, is an Barbadian British singer-songwriter.- Life and career :Franc was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England to an English mother and a Bajan father...

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  • Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...

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  • Freeez
    Freeez
    Freeez were a United Kingdom dance music group from London, known initially as one of the UK's main jazz-funk bands of the early 1980s. Initiated by John Rocca, Freeez consisted of various musicians, originally with Rocca and others such as Andy Stennet Freeez were a United Kingdom dance music...

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  • Friburn & Urik
    Friburn & Urik
    Friburn & Urik is a house music duo of producers and remixers, consisting of Ronen "Friburn" Horin and Yuval Urik. In addition to their extensive remix work, they began having hits as artists on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1999...

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  • Friscia & Lamboy
    Friscia & Lamboy
    Friscia & Lamboy are an electronic music duo. In 2003, they did a remix for Cher's single "Love One Another", in 2004 they remixed Britney Spears's single "Outrageous" and in 2007 remixed Ashley Tisdale's single "He Said She Said"...

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  • Full Intention
    Full Intention
    Full Intention is a house music duo from England who are best known as prolific remixers, reworking songs for varied artists such as the Sugababes and Whitney Houston. Group members are Michael Gray and Jon Pearn....

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  • Funkstar De Luxe
    Funkstar De Luxe
    Funkstar De Luxe is a Danish House music producer and remixer.In 1999 and 2000 he had several hits. Remixes of two Bob Marley songs, "Sun Is Shining" and "Rainbow Country", peaked at numbers one and seven on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart...

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  • Funky Green Dogs
    Murk (band)
    Murk is a house music production team composed of Ralph Falcón and Oscar Gaetan). They formed in Miami in 1991...

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  • The Funky Worm
    The Funky Worm
    The Funky Worm was a British dance music studio project, assembled by a record producer, Mark Brydon. The group took its name from the hit Ohio Players song, "Funky Worm"....

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  • Nelly Furtado
    Nelly Furtado
    Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy...

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  • G Club (1)
  • Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel
    Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

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  • Gabriel & Dresden
    Gabriel & Dresden
    Gabriel & Dresden is the project name of the DJs and producers Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden from San Francisco. Their popularity and activities were centered in the United States. They won the WMC award as Best American DJ twice in 2007 and 2008, the same day the group split-up...

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  • Gabrielle
    Gabrielle (singer)
    Louisa Gabrielle Bobb is a multi-platinum selling, BRIT Award winning English singer, who records under the name Gabrielle. Gabrielle began her career temping during the day and singing for free in London clubs at night...

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  • Dave Gahan (1)
  • Gary's Gang
    Gary's Gang
    Gary's Gang was an American funk/soul/R&B/disco group who just missed having a U.S. Top 40 hit, when their lone Billboard Hot 100 entry, "Keep on Dancin'", reached #41 in 1978...

     (1)
  • Sean Garrett
    Sean Garrett
    Garrett Hamler, better known by his stage name Sean Garrett is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer. He has produced fifteen number one singles in only seven years of producing music. That number puts him in fifth place on the Billboard list of producers with the most number...

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  • Siedah Garrett
    Siedah Garrett
    Siedah Garrett is an American songwriter and singer.-Biography:She appeared as a contestant on Password Plus in 1980.She performed "One Man Woman" on Quincy Jones' Grammy-Award winning "Back on the Block."...

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  • Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....

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  • Gloria Gaynor
    Gloria Gaynor
    Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" , "Never Can Say Goodbye" , "Let Me Know " and "I Am What I Am" .-Early career:Gaynor was a singer with the Soul...

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  • General Public
    General Public
    General Public were a band formed by The Beat vocalists, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, and which included former members of Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Specials and The Clash...

     (1)
  • Georgie Porgie
    Georgie Porgie (producer)
    For other uses, see Georgy PorgyGeorgie Porgie is the stage name used by the American house music producer and musician, George Andros, from Chicago, Illinois...

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  • Georgio
    Georgio
    Georgio Allentini is an African-American funk and dance music singer/songwriter/keyboardist/guitarist from San Francisco, California. He goes by the stage name Georgio. In 1987 he had several songs chart on the Hot 100, although none climbed any higher than #58...

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  • Ghostface
    Ghostface Killah
    Dennis Coles , better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and prominent member of the Wu-Tang Clan. After the group achieved breakthrough success in the aftermath of Enter the Wu-Tang , the members went on to pursue solo careers to varying levels of success...

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  • Xaviera Gold
    Xaviera Gold
    Xaviera Gold is a female African American dance music singer who is a former DJ and mixer on Chicago's WBMX-FM. She hit in 1987 with Ralphi Rosario on the song "You Used To Hold Me" under the name Xavier Gold . With Masters At Work she went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1993...

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  • Goldfrapp
    Goldfrapp
    Goldfrapp are an English electronic music duo, formed in 1999 in London, England, that consists of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory ....

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  • Goldtrix
    Goldtrix
    Goldtrix is a British house music duo from London, England, consisting of producers Daniel Goldstein and Matrix. Goldtrix is a play on the artists names: Goldstein + Matrix....

     (1)
  • Selena Gomez & the Scene
    Selena Gomez & the Scene
    Selena Gomez & the Scene is an American pop band formed in Hollywood, California in 2009. Along with lead singer and founder Selena Gomez, the band consists of bassist Joey Clement, guitarist Ethan Roberts, drummist Greg Garman and keyboardist Dane Forrest. Selena Gomez & the Scene have released...

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  • Good Question
    Good Question
    Good Question was an R&B and dance music vocal duo from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, consisting of brothers Sean and Marc Douglas. Their only chart hit came in 1988 when they hit number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Got a New Love". The song also reached the R&B and pop charts in...

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  • Goon Squad
    Goon Squad
    A Goon squad is a group of thugs or mercenaries, commonly associated with anti-union or pro-union violence.Goon Squad may also refer to:* Goon Squad , a dance music group assembled by Arthur Baker in the mid-1980s...

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  • The Goodmen (1)
  • Lonnie Gordon
    Lonnie Gordon
    Lonnie Gordon is a female Hi-NRG, house and soul singer-songwriter from New York's Bronx, who has scored many chart hits during the 1990s and 2000s.-Early life and career:...

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  • Wynter Gordon
    Wynter Gordon
    Diana "Wynter" Gordon is an American pop/dance singer-songwriter. She began as a writer for other artists, later signing with Atlantic Records where she began working on an album while continuing to write songs for other acts and providing vocals on songs...

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  • Grace (1)
  • Jaki Graham
    Jaki Graham
    Jaki Graham is an English singer. Her biggest international success was reaching number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1994, with her cover version of Chaka Khan's hit, "Ain't Nobody"....

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  • Jennifer Green
    Jennifer Green
    Jennifer Green is a dance music artist from Miami, Florida whose Mike Rizzo-produced single "How Can I Be Falling" was major hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, going all the way to #1 in the April 2, 2005 issue.-See also:...

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  • Vivian Green
    Vivian Green
    Vivian Green is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter and pianist.-Early life:Green was born May 22, 1979 in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and took an interest in singing, playing the piano, and songwriting at a very young age. At the age of thirteen, she...

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  • Green Velvet (1)
  • David Guetta
    David Guetta
    Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...

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  • Gwen Guthrie
    Gwen Guthrie
    Gwen Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, and Madonna, among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King, and Roberta Flack....

     (1)
  • Gypsymen
    Todd Terry
    Todd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....

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  • Gary Haisman
    Gary Haisman
    Gary Haisman was a white male English singer/rapper who was one of three acts who scored a #1 chart topper on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart as a featured performer on D Mob's "A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit of That" album...

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  • Daryl Hall and John Oates
    Hall & Oates
    Hall & Oates are an American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates. They achieved their greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Both sing and play instruments. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul."...

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  • Erin Hamilton
    Erin Hamilton
    Erin Hamilton is an American electronic dance music singer. The daughter of actress Carol Burnett and TV Producer Joe Hamilton, she has scored several hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart...

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  • Zemya Hamilton (1)
  • Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock
    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

     (1)
  • Hani
    Hani (producer)
    Hani is an American producer and remixer from New York City, New York whose restructuring of hits ranging from Michael Jackson to Alicia Keys have gone on to become club classics...

     (1)
  • Happy Clappers
    Happy Clappers
    Happy Clappers were a house studio project from the UK, featuring Chris Scott, Graeme Ripley, Martin Knotts and Mark Topham, with Sandra Edwards on vocals....

     (1)
  • Happy Mondays
    Happy Mondays
    Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, keyboardist Paul Davis, and drummer Gary Whelan...

     (1)
  • Paul Hardcastle
    Paul Hardcastle
    Paul Hardcastle is an English composer and musician, specialising in the synthesizer.-Discography:In the early 1980s, Hardcastle played the keyboards on several singles on the Oval record label by the dance music groups Direct Drive and First Light, before going solo.He achieved some acclaim for...

     (1)
  • Duane Harden
    Duane Harden
    Duane Harden is a male African American dance music vocalist and songwriter who has sung on several big nightclub hits by various producers.Harden is particularly famous in the United Kingdom, having sung on two best selling dance singles in 1999: "U Don't Know Me" by Armand Van Helden and "I Got...

     (1)
  • Calvin Harris
    Calvin Harris
    Calvin Harris is a Scottish singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls"...

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  • Niki Haris
    Niki Haris
    Niki Haris is an American actress, dancer, and singer of pop, R&B, Dance music and jazz, perhaps best known for having been one of Madonna's backing vocalists from 1987 to 2001.-Early life and family:...

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  • Debbie Harry
    Debbie Harry
    Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...

     (1)
  • Dan Hartman
    Dan Hartman
    Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman was an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for such songs as: "Free Ride", "I Can Dream About You", "Instant Replay", "Love Sensation", and "Relight My Fire", all of which had world-wide success.-Career:Born in Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg,...

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  • Darren Hayes
    Darren Hayes
    Darren Stanley Hayes is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the front man and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States...

     (1)
  • Heather Headley
    Heather Headley
    Heather Headley is a Trinidadian-American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and one Grammy Award.-Personal life:...

     (1)
  • Pete Heller
    Pete Heller
    Pete Heller is an English electronic and house music producer. He is recognised in the dance community for his solo work, and his remixes with frequent collaborator Terry Farley. As a duo they have released popular tunes under the names Heller & Farley Project , Fire Island plus The Look and Feel...

     (1)
  • Patrick Hernandez
    Patrick Hernandez
    Patrick Hernandez is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979.-Biography:...

     (1)
  • Paris Hilton
    Paris Hilton
    Paris Whitney Hilton is an American businesswoman, heiress, and socialite. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton . Hilton is known for her controversial participation in a sex tape in 2003, and appearance on the television series The Simple Life alongside fellow socialite and childhood...

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  • Jennifer Holliday
    Jennifer Holliday
    Jennifer-Yvette Holliday is an African-American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist...

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  • Loleatta Holloway
    Loleatta Holloway
    Loleatta Holloway was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively.-Biography:...

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  • Adele Holness
    Adele Holness
    Adele Holness is a female dance/progressive house artist from England who was the lead vocalist on Ben Shaw's 2001 number one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play track "So Strong".-See also:*List of number-one dance hits...

     (1)
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  • Thelma Houston
    Thelma Houston
    Thelma Houston is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She scored a number-one hit in 1976 with her cover version of the song "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.-Early life & career:Houston is the daughter of a cotton picking mother...

     (1)
  • Whitney Houston
    Whitney Houston
    Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...

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  • Jennifer Hudson
    Jennifer Hudson
    Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol coming in seventh place...

     (1)
  • Rhetta Hughes
    Rhetta Hughes
    Rhetta Hughes is a R&B singer and actress. She starred in the Broadway musicals Dreamgirls, Don't Play Us Cheap, and Amen Corner, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award in the category Best Actress in a Musical in 1984...

     (1)
  • The Human League
    The Human League
    The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...

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  • Geraldine Hunt
    Geraldine Hunt
    Geraldine Hunt is an [United States|American]] R&B singer best known for the 1980 #1 Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit "Can't Fake the Feeling".-Life and career:...

     (1)

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  • Enrique Iglesias
    Enrique Iglesias
    Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...

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  • iio
    IiO
    iiO was a New York City-based house music act composed of singer-songwriter Nadia Ali and producer Markus Moser. The group gained prominence for its 2001 single "Rapture", which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Following the success of "Rapture",...

     (1)
  • Imagination
    Imagination (band)
    Imagination were a three piece British soul and funk band, who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They had chart hits in 28 countries, earning four platinum discs, nine gold discs and more than a dozen silver discs around the world between 1981 and 1983....

     (1)
  • India
    La India
    La India , known also as "La Princesa de la Salsa" , is a singer of salsa. She has been nominated for both Grammy and Latin Grammy awards.-Early years:...

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  • Information Society
    Information Society (band)
    Information Society is an American band originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, primarily consisting of Kurt Larson , Paul Robb, and James Cassidy; the latter two reconvened the band in 2006, initially with Christopher Anton as lead vocalist, then with Harland rejoining them as lead vocalist by...

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  • Instant Funk
    Instant Funk
    Instant Funk were a 1970s disco band, best known for their disco classic, "I Got My Mind Made Up ".-History:Instant Funk came out of New Jersey consisting of Raymond Earl, Scotty Miller and guitarist Kim Miller. The group was then called The Music Machine and they were very successful as a back-up...

     (1)
  • INXS
    INXS
    INXS are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on guitar/keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/sax...

     (1)
  • Iyaz
    Iyaz
    Keidran Jones , better known by his stage name Iyaz, is a singer signed with the record label Beluga Heights Records from the British Virgin Islands. His debut single "Replay", was released in 2009 and reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, number-one in the UK, Australia and the top ten...

     (1)

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  • Janet Jackson
    Janet Jackson
    Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...

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  • Jermaine Jackson
    Jermaine Jackson
    Jermaine La Jaune Jackson is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5, older brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and occasional film director...

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  • Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson
    Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

     (8)
  • The Jackson 5/The Jacksons
    The Jackson 5
    The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...

     (2)
  • Debbie Jacobs-Rock
    Debbie Jacobs
    Debbie Jacobs is a female Black American singer born in Baltimore, Maryland who had several Disco hits. Her biggest chart hit was "High on Your Love," which climbed to #70 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980. The song, along with "Hot Hot " went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart...

     (2)
  • Jam & Spoon
    Jam & Spoon
    Jam & Spoon was an electronic dance duo from Frankfurt, Germany, that consisted of composers and producers Rolf Ellmer and Markus Löffel . They also worked under the pseudonyms Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Storm and Big Room...

     (1)
  • Rick James
    Rick James
    James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...

     (2)
  • Samantha James
    Samantha James
    Samantha James is an American dance musician from Los Angeles. She released her debut album, Rise, in 2007 on Om Records, which features production work by Sebastian Arocha Morton . The title track from the album was released as a single and has reached #1 on the US Billboard Dance charts...

     (1)
  • Jamiroquai
    Jamiroquai
    Jamiroquai is a British jazz funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992. Jamiroquai were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the James Taylor Quartet, and the Brand New Heavies. Other Acid Jazz artists such as...

     (5)
  • Chas Jankel
    Chas Jankel
    Charles Jeremy Jankel professionally known as Chaz Jankel, is a musician best known as the keyboard player and guitarist with Ian Dury and the Blockheads...

     (1)
  • Erika Jayne
    Erika Jayne
    Erika Jayne is an American Dance/Electronica singer/dancer who currently lives in Los Angeles, California, but was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia....

     (5)
  • Jay-Z
    Jay-Z
    Shawn Corey Carter , better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010...

     (3)
  • Jaydee
    Jaydee
    Jaydee is a Dutch/Italian house music producer and DJ duo. The original name was Jei D, which Robin Albers changed to JayDee, after teaming up with Joseph D. a DJ and dance music producer from Rome Italy...

     (1)
  • Jeezy
    Young Jeezy
    Jay Wayne Jenkins , better known by his stage name Young Jeezy, is an American rapper. He is the member of the hip hop group United Streets Dopeboyz of America and a former member of BMF...

     (1)
  • Jellybean
    John Benitez
    John Benitez, better known as "Jellybean Benitez" is an American drummer, guitarist, songwriter, DJ, remixer and music producer of Puerto Rican descent...

     (3)
  • The Jets (1)
  • Jewel
    Jewel (singer)
    Jewel Kilcher , professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress and poet...

     (3)
  • J.M. Silk (1)
  • Elton John
    Elton John
    Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

     (1)
  • Howard Johnson
    Howard Johnson (singer)
    Howard Johnson is a R&B singer originally from Miami Florida. He charted two songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart during the eighties - the two biggest hits being "So Fine," which spent one week at #1 in 1982, and "Stand Up," which spent one week at #1 in 1985.-See also:* List of number-one...

     (1)
  • Paul Johnson
    Paul Johnson (producer)
    Paul Johnson is an American house DJ and producer.He first began DJing in Chicago in 1985, and started working as a producer in 1990, doing tracks for Chicago house labels Dance Mania, Relief, Cajual, Nite Life, Undaground Therapy, Defected, DJax Up Beats, Peacefrog, and Moody...

     (1)
  • France Joli
    France Joli
    France Joli is a Canadian singer, born 1963, who is best known for the disco classic "Come to Me."-Teen stardom:A native of Montreal, Quebec, Joli grew up in the Montreal suburb of Dorion...

     (1)
  • Jomanda
    Jomanda (group)
    Jomanda was an American female R&B/house vocal trio from New Jersey. Members included Joanne Thomas, Cheri Williams and Renee Washington. They had several hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart during the first half of the 1990s, including "Got a Love for You," which reached #1 in 1991...

     (2)
  • Grace Jones
    Grace Jones
    Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...

     (4)
  • Hannah Jones
    Hannah Jones
    Hannah Jones is a British female dance music vocalist, who scored Three Top 5 hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the late 1990s. Her first two songs hit #1 on that chart: "No One Can Love You More Than Me" in 1997 and "You Only Have To Say You Love Me" in 1998...

     (2)
  • Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones
    Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

     (2)
  • Alexis Jordan
    Alexis Jordan (singer)
    Alexis Jordan is an American recording artist and actress from Columbia, South Carolina. Jordan rose to fame as a contestant on the first season of America's Got Talent in 2006. After being eliminated from the show, she began to upload cover songs to YouTube, which received millions of views...

     (2)
  • Juliet
    Juliet Richardson
    Juliet Richardson is an American singer, known as Juliet, best known for her 2005 album Random Order and hit single "Avalon".-Early life:...

     (2)
  • Junior Jack
    Junior Jack
    Junior Jack is an Italian-Belgian house music producer and DJ.-Biography:...

     (2)

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  • Madleen Kane
    Madleen Kane
    Madleen Kane is a model and singer, born on 4 March 1958 in Malmö, Sweden, to a Swedish father and American mother. A former Elite fashion model , she worked since 17 y.o. to 19 above all for the German fashion magazine Burda Moden...

     (1)
  • Kane Gang
    Kane Gang
    Kane Gang were a Blues rock trio from North East England that had a few UK hits and two U.S. hits in the 1980s. Named after the movie, Citizen Kane, the trio recorded for the indie record label, Kitchenware, that was also home to Prefab Sprout.-Career:...

     (1)
  • Kaskade
    Kaskade
    Ryan Raddon , better known by his stage name Kaskade, is an American DJ and record producer. On October 20, 2011, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll, with Ultra Records Kaskade placed at #30...

     (1)
  • Tamra Keenan
    Tamra Keenan
    Tamra Keenan is a female artist and songwriter from Ireland. She has worked with dance music stars, and is the voice behind Kaskade's hit ‘Angel on my Shoulder,’ and David Morales' 2005 number one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play track "Here I Am"...

     (1)
  • Kelis
    Kelis
    Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers (born August 21, 1971 is an American musical artist. She is a BRIT Award, Q Award and NME Award winner and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has had nine top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart...

     (3)
  • Kellee
    Kellee
    Kellee Warren , or just simply known as Kellee, is a female electronica/house artist from Chicago, Illinois. She scored two hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "My Love," which peaked at #5 in 1995, and "This Man," which went all the way to #1 in 1997. She graduated from the...

     (1)
  • Roberta Kelly
    Roberta Kelly
    Roberta Kelly is an African American singer, who scored three hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart between 1976 and 1978...

     (1)
  • Johnny Kemp
    Johnny Kemp
    Johnny Kemp is a Bahamian R&B singer and dancer. He began singing in nightclubs in the Bahamas at 13. He moved to New York in 1979 with the band "Kinky Fox." His self-titled debut album came out in 1986 and he scored a minor hit with "Just Another Lover." True success came the following year,...

     (1)
  • Kenny G
    Kenny G
    Kenneth Bruce Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American, adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986...

     (1)
  • Kerli (1)
  • Kesha
    Kesha
    Kesha village is a small village nestled in the mountains of Yongshun County, northwestern Hunan province, China, located at latitude 29 05' 50", longitude 109 57' 9". The name is pronounced in Standard Chinese. The official language is Manderin Chinese....

     (1)
  • Alicia Keys
    Alicia Keys
    Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano...

     (1)
  • Chaka Khan
    Chaka Khan
    Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...

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  • Khia
    Khia
    Khia Shamone Chambers , better known just as Khia, is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, and record producer.-Early life:Khia was born on November 8, 1977 in Philadelphia and was raised in its Germantown neighborhood, and she moved to Tampa, Florida when she was 11. Khia attended Dowdell...

     (1)
  • Greg Kihn Band
    Greg Kihn
    Greg Kihn is an American rock musician, radio personality and novelist.-Music:Kihn is the front man for The Greg Kihn Band, which released several singles and albums that made the charts in the early 1980s...

     (1)
  • The Killers (2)
  • Evelyn King
    Evelyn King (singer)
    Evelyn "Champagne" King is an American R&B, disco and post-disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame", "Love Come Down," and "I'm in Love."-Biography:...

     (2)
  • Sean Kingston
    Sean Kingston
    Sean Kingston is a Jamaican-American singer. He pursued a music career and debuted in 2007 with the album Sean Kingston.-Early life:...

     (1)
  • The KLF
    The KLF
    The KLF were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....

     (1)
  • Frankie Knuckles
    Frankie Knuckles
    Frankie Knuckles is an American DJ, record producer and remix artist. He played an important role in developing house music as a Chicago DJ in the 1980s and he helped to popularize house music in the 1990s, with his work as a producer and remixer...

     (5)
  • Kool & the Gang
    Kool & the Gang
    Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...

     (2)
  • Kraftwerk
    Kraftwerk
    Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...

     (2)
  • George Kranz
    George Kranz
    George Kranz is a German dance music singer and percussionist. He is best known for his song "Trommeltanz", otherwise known as "Din Daa Daa". The song hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1984 and then returned to the chart in a new version in 1991, peaking at No. 8...

     (1)
  • Kristine W
    Kristine W
    Kristine W, born Kristine Weitz, is an American singer-songwriter. She has released seven albums, three of them through major labels, plus an early recording she sells to fans through her website...

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  • KTP
    Kissing the Pink
    Kissing the Pink are a British dance/synth pop group from London, England. Members included Nick Whitecross, John Hall, George Stewart, Josephine Wells, Pete Barnett, Sylvia Griffin, Steve Cusack, and Simon Aldridge.-Career:...

     (1)

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  • LaBelle
    Labelle
    Labelle is an American all female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia/Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing...

     (1)
  • Patti LaBelle
    Patti LaBelle
    Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...

     (3)
  • La Bouche
    La Bouche
    La Bouche was a Eurodance/Dance-pop duo formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1994, originally consisting of Melanie Thornton and Lane McCray, scoring two major worldwide hits in the mid-1990s with "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams"....

     (1)
  • La Roux
    La Roux
    La Roux are an English electropop duo made up of singer, keyboardist, co-writer and co-producer Eleanor Kate Jackson, and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their relationship as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also...

     (2)
  • La Trec (1)
  • Lady Gaga
    Lady GaGa
    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...

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  • Lady Sovereign
    Lady Sovereign
    Louise Amanda Harman , better known by the stage name Lady Sovereign, is an English rapper & grime artist. She is noted for her professional success in performing styles of music generally dominated by males...

     (1)
  • Laid Back
    Laid Back
    Laid Back is a Danish Post-punk group formed in Copenhagen by John Guldberg and Tim Stahl in 1979...

     (1)
  • Lamya
    Lamya
    Lamya Al-Mugheiry , better known as her mononym Layma was a Kenyan-born British female R&B and dance music singer, She was born in Kenya and was of Omani descent and raised in Sheffield, United Kingdom...

     (1)
  • Suzi Lane
    Suzi Lane
    Suzi Lane is an American female singer who had a number-one track on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979 with the Giorgio Moroder-produced tracks, "Harmony"/"Ooh, La, La"...

     (1)
  • k.d. lang
    K.D. Lang
    Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...

     (2)
  • The Latin Project
    The Latin Project
    The Latin Project is the brainchild of Jez Colin and Matt Cooper, a pair of British DJs/remixers/producers who collaborate with various artists from the world of Latin music...

     (1)
  • Stacy Lattisaw
    Stacy Lattisaw
    Stacy Lattisaw is an American R&B, dance, and gospel singer. Since the 1990s, she has exclusively sung gospel music, as a callback to her Christian roots.-Career:...

     (1)
  • LaTour
    LaTour
    William LaTour, better known by his stage name LaTour and also known as "Bud" Latour, is an American singer, songwriter, and voice over artist...

     (1)
  • Cyndi Lauper
    Cyndi Lauper
    Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

     (3)
  • Doug Lazy
    Doug Lazy
    Doug Lazy is an American hip hop and dance music producer and DJ from Washington, D.C. Lazy scored a number of hip house hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including three #1s: "Let It Roll", "Let the Rhythm Pump", and "H.O.U.S.E." In 1990, Ben E...

     (3)
  • Lea-Lorien
    Lea-Lorien
    Lea-Lorién is an American female singer/songwriter from New York City, New York who is the daughter of guitarist Carlos Alomar and singer/actress Robin Clark...

     (1)
  • Carol Leeming
    Carol Leeming
    Carol Leeming is a British female singer/songwriter who lives in Leicester England. She also goes by the alias KYO and works with other acts, mostly as a featured vocalist...

     (2)
  • Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...

     (5)
  • Blake Lewis
    Blake Lewis
    Blake Colin Lewis is an American singer-songwriter and beatboxer who was the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol. His major label debut album A.D.D. was released on December 4, 2007 through 19 Recordings/Arista Records. On October 30, 2007, his first single "Break Anotha" was released....

     (1)
  • Donna Lewis
    Donna Lewis
    Donna Lewis is a Welsh singer-songwriter and record producer, best known for the 1996 pop hit single "I Love You Always Forever", and the adult contemporary chart-topper "At the Beginning" with Richard Marx. After releasing her second LP Blue Planet, Lewis left Atlantic Records and independently...

     (1)
  • Huey Lewis and the News
    Huey Lewis and the News
    Huey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts...

     (1)
  • Leona Lewis
    Leona Lewis
    Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor....

     (1)
  • Yvonne John Lewis
    Yvonne John Lewis
    Yvonne John Lewis is a female lead and backing singer from England.Known for her immense musical and vocal range, her sound reminds listeners of Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins...

     (1)
  • Lil Louis
    Lil Louis
    Lil Louis is the stage name used by Chicago-born house-music producer and DJ Louis Sims. He scored a number of hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1980s and 1990s, three of which hit #1....

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  • Lil' Mo' Yin Yang
    Lil' Mo' Yin Yang
    Lil' Mo' Yin Yang is a collaborative house-music act of producers and DJs Erick Morillo and Masters At Work's Little Louie Vega. Its only song, "Reach," released in 1995 on Strictly Rhythm records, hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart at the end of the year.-See also:*List of number-one...

     (1)
  • Lil Wayne
    Lil Wayne
    Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included...

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  • Lime
    Lime (band)
    Lime was a synth-pop group from Montréal, Canada, during the 1980s. The group was composed of husband and wife Denis and Denyse LePage, although two younger and more attractive singers, Joy Dorris and Chris Marsh, were chosen to tour and appear as the act. They are most noted for their songs "Angel...

     (1)
  • Lipps Inc. (1)
  • Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
    Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
    Lisa Lisa and her band Cult Jam were an urban contemporary band and one of first freestyle music groups to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist/bassist Alex "Spanador" Moseley, and drummer/keyboardist Mike Hughes...

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  • Livin' Joy
    Livin' Joy
    Livin' Joy was a house music group from Italy who released two successful dance hits in the 1990s, "Dreamer" and "Don't Stop Movin'". The group consisted of Italian brothers Paolo and Gianni Visnadi and singer Tameka Starr....

     (1)
  • LMFAO
    LMFAO (group)
    LMFAO is an American electro pop duo consisting of rappers, producers, dancers, and DJs Redfoo and SkyBlu . The group formed in 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Redfoo is SkyBlu's uncle. Redfoo is also the son of music mogul Berry Gordy, SkyBlu a grandson...

     (2)
  • Kimberley Locke
    Kimberley Locke
    Kimberley Dawn Locke is an American singer-songwriter and model. She has recorded in the dance, pop and adult contemporary music genres....

     (3)
  • Lindsay Lohan
    Lindsay Lohan
    Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11...

     (1)
  • Londonbeat
    Londonbeat
    Londonbeat was originally a UK and American R&B and Dance band who scored a number of pop and dance hits in the early 1990s.-History:Londonbeat's career started in the Netherlands where "There's a Beat Going On" reached the Top 10, and then "9 A.M " which subsequently became a modest success in the...

     (2)
  • Jennifer Lopez
    Jennifer Lopez
    Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...

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  • Monie Love
    Monie Love
    Simone Riscoe , better known by her stage name Monie Love, is an English emcee and former radio personality in the United States...

     (1)
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  • Love & Kisses
    Love & Kisses
    Love & Kisses was a 1970s disco group assembled by European producer Alec Costandinos, with a variety of male/female singers.After collaborating on Cerrone's debut album Love In C Minor , Costandinos assembled Love & Kisses in early 1977, and shortly after the group released their first album,...

     (2)
  • Love De-Luxe
    Love De-Luxe
    Love De-Luxe was a disco studio group assembled by British producer Alan Hawkshaw . They had one chart entry: "Here Comes That Sound Again", which spent a week at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979...

     (1)
  • Love Tribe
    Love Tribe
    Love Tribe is a house music studio group assembled by producers Dewey Bullock, Latanza Waters and Victor Mitchell. Their biggest success came in 1996 when their track "Stand Up" reached #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. It reached #23 in the UK Singles Chart in July that year...

     (1)
  • Love Unlimited Orchestra (1)
  • Kimara Lovelace
    Kimara Lovelace
    Kimara Lovelace is a female dance music vocalist who placed three songs in the Top 10 of the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the late nineties. "Circles" spent a week at #1 in 1998...

     (1)
  • LRS (1)
  • Luciana (2)
  • Ludacris
    Ludacris
    Christopher Brian Bridges , better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings...

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  • M People
    M People
    M People are a British house music act from Manchester, who formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s. The name M People is from the initials of Mike Pickering, who formed the group.-Career:...

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  • Timo Maas
    Timo Maas
    Timo Maas is an electronic music DJ/producer and remixer.-Career:Maas bought his first set of turntables at the age of 17, and played his very first DJ set in 1982 at a party in his friend's home...

     (1)
  • Madison Avenue
    Madison Avenue (band)
    Madison Avenue was an Australian house music duo consisting of writer-producer Andy Van Dorsselaer and singer-lyricist Cheyne Coates. Madison Avenue is best known for the song "Don't Call Me Baby", which peaked at number two on the Australian singles charts in 1999.- History :Before joining Madison...

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  • Madonna
    Madonna (entertainer)
    Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

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  • Malaika
    Malaika (singer)
    Malaika also known under name Malaika Sallard Johnson, is a female African American dance singer from Seattle, Washington...

     (1)
  • Herbie Mann
    Herbie Mann
    Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...

     (1)
  • Kurtis Mantronik (1)
  • Bob Marley
    Bob Marley
    Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...

     (1)
  • Maroon 5
    Maroon 5
    Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. While they were in high school, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Adam Levine, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, bass guitarist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick formed a garage band called Kara's Flowers and released one album...

     (1)
  • M/A/R/R/S (1)
  • Billie Ray Martin
    Billie Ray Martin
    -Career:Billie Ray Martin has had dance and pop hits in various collaborations and as a solo artist. Initially a guest singer for S'Express , she went on to work with the electronic/pop/house-music group Electribe 101. The group's only album was Electribal Memories because it disbanded...

     (1)
  • Mary Jane Girls
    Mary Jane Girls
    The Mary Jane Girls were an American R&B, soul, funk and disco group in the 1980s. They were protégées of singer Rick James. They are known for their hit songs "All Night Long", "Candyman" and "In My House".-Formation:...

     (1)
  • Mary Mary
    Mary Mary
    Mary Mary is an American gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell and Tina Atkins-Campbell . The duo are often credited along with Kirk Franklin for broadening the fan base of urban contemporary gospel in the 2000s by introducing elements of soul music, hip hop, funk and jazz...

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  • Pepper Mashay
    Pepper Mashay
    Pepper MaShay is an Urban/Soul music, House music and Club/Dance singer-songwriter who has had success as a touring and studio performer.-Personal life:...

     (1)
  • Masters at Work/MAW
    Masters At Work
    Masters at Work is the house/garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. They first worked together using the name, which had been given to them by mutual friend Todd Terry , in 1990...

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  • Maurice
    Maurice Joshua
    Maurice Joshua, also known just as Maurice, born in Chicago, Illinois, is a record producer who is most known for his laid back and soulful House music style remixes.-Career:...

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  • MC Chickaboo
    MC Chickaboo
    MC Chickaboo is a female drum and bass DJ/rapper/mixer from London, England. In 2002 her profile got larger when her collaboration on Timo Maas' "Shifter" went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.- References :...

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  • Jesse McCartney
    Jesse McCartney
    Jesse McCartney is an American singer-songwriter, actor and voice actor. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career...

     (1)
  • Travie McCoy
    Travie McCoy
    Travie Lazarus McCoy is an American singer and rapper. He is the lead vocalist of the alternative hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes. He released his debut solo album Lazarus on June 8, 2010....

     (1)
  • Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

     (1)
  • Malcolm McLaren
    Malcolm McLaren
    Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls...

     (1)
  • Meechie
    Meechie
    Meechie is a female African American dance music singer, born in Chicago, Illinois. She placed two songs on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1990s, including "You Bring Me Joy", which spent a week at #1 in 1994...

     (1)
  • Mel and Kim
    Mel and Kim
    Mel and Kim were a British pop duo, comprising sisters Melanie and Kim Appleby. They achieved success between 1986 and 1988 before Melanie succumbed to cancer.-Biography:...

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  • Melanie C.
    Melanie Chisholm
    Melanie Jayne Chisholm is an English singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman professionally known simply as Melanie C . She is best known as one of the five members of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed "Sporty Spice"...

     (1)
  • Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
    Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
    Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco...

     (1)
  • Men Without Hats
    Men Without Hats
    Men Without Hats is a Canadian New Wave group from Montreal, Quebec. Their music was characterized by the distinctive baritone voice of their lead singer Ivan Doroschuk as well as their elaborate use of synthesizers and electronic processing...

     (1)
  • George Michael
    George Michael
    George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...

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  • Lisa Michaelis
    Lisa Michaelis
    Lisa Michaelis is a female actress/singer/musician/children's performer who was born in New York City and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is the founder of Laughing Pizza Productions, a children's record and video label....

     (1)
  • Midi Rain
    John Rocca
    John Rocca became known first as a dance music performer, remixer and record producer. During the early 1980s, John Rocca formed, played with, wrote for, produced and managed his first musical band, Freeez, with success...

     (1)
  • Bette Midler
    Bette Midler
    Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...

     (1)
  • Mighty Clouds of Joy
    Mighty Clouds of Joy
    The Mighty Clouds of Joy is an American gospel quartet.-Career:The Mighty Clouds of Joy were formed in 1960 and started out in a tradition-based style. Eventually they added soul, R&B, and rock flourishes into their musical mix without diluting the essential religious essence of their material...

     (1)
  • Robert Miles
    Robert Miles
    Robert Miles is an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ in electronica and alternative music.-Biography:...

     (3)
  • Christina Milian
    Christina Milian
    Christine Flores , better known by her stage name Christina Milian , is an American singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, and model....

     (1)
  • Milk & Sugar
    Milk & Sugar
    Milk & Sugar are German housemusic producers and record label owners Mike Milk and Steven Sugar...

     (1)
  • Stephanie Mills
    Stephanie Mills
    Stephanie Dorthea Mills is an American R&B and soul singer, and a former Broadway star.-Career:Mills began her career appearing in her first play at the age of nine. Two years later, Mills won Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater a record six times...

     (1)
  • mink
    Mink (singer)
    mink is a female Korean pop singer active in Japan. Upon traveling to Japan in her early teens to continue her education, she was discovered after she submitted a demo to Avex Trax, one of Japan’s leading J-pop labels...

     (1)
  • Kylie Minogue
    Kylie Minogue
    Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

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  • Mr. Fingers
    Larry Heard
    Larry Heard is a Memphis, Tennessee-based musician widely known for the Chicago-based house music he produced during the mid-1980s and continues to produce today. He was leader of the influential group Fingers Inc. and has recorded solo under various names, most notably Mr...

     (1)
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  • Vernessa Mitchell
    Vernessa Mitchell
    Vernessa Mitchell is an R&B/soul/gospel/house music artist from Pasadena, California. She was the lead singer of the Motown recording act High Inergy before gaining success as gospel artist.-Career:...

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  • Moby
    Moby
    Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

     (4)
  • Modjo
    Modjo
    Modjo was a French house/pop musical duo made up of producer Romain Tranchart and vocalist Yann Destagnol . It had major success with its hit single "Lady ".-Biography:...

     (1)
  • Moné
    Moné
    Ramona DeSouza, more popularly known as Moné, is an American music recording artist and songwriter. She scored three hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "We Can Make It" , "Movin'" and "Partay Feeling"...

     (1)
  • Monica (2)
  • Michael Moog
    Michael Moog
    Michael Moog is a moniker for producer/arranger/remixer Phillip Damien from New York City. He scored a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2000 with "That Sound," which sampled The Spinners' "I'll Be Around." "That Sound" also reached #32 in the UK Singles Chart.In 2001 Moog...

     (1)
  • Erick Moore
    Erick Morillo
    Erick Morillo is a Colombian-American DJ, music producer and record label owner. Having produced under a number of pseudonyms, including Ministers De la Funk, The Dronez, RAW, Smooth Touch, RBM, Deep Soul, Club Ultimate and Li'l Mo Ying Yang, Morillo is best known for his international work in...

     (1)
  • Jackie Moore (1)
  • David Morales
    David Morales
    David Morales is an internationally acclaimed Grammy-winning house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks...

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  • Tony Moran
    Tony Moran
    Anthony "Tony" Moran is a remixer/producer and DJ known for remixing popular songs. In 2007, he hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Walk Away" featuring Kristine W.-Career:...

     (2)
  • Meli'sa Morgan
    Meli'sa Morgan
    Meli'sa Morgan is an African American R&B singer born in Queens, New York who had a string of urban contemporary and house music hits in the 1980s and 1990s. She got her start in the music industry whilst singing with a church gospel choir called the Starlets of Corona...

     (1)
  • Giorgio Moroder
    Giorgio Moroder
    Hansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records...

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  • The Movement (1)
  • Murk
    Murk (band)
    Murk is a house music production team composed of Ralph Falcón and Oscar Gaetan). They formed in Miami in 1991...

     (4)
  • Brittany Murphy
    Brittany Murphy
    Brittany Anne Murphy-Monjack , known professionally as Brittany Murphy, was an American actress and singer. She starred in films such as Clueless, Just Married, Girl Interrupted, Spun, 8 Mile, Uptown Girls, Sin City, Happy Feet, and Riding in Cars with Boys...

     (1)
  • Musique
    Musique (Patrick Adams)
    Musique was a studio project by Patrick Adams, best known for the song, "In the Bush". It consisted of five singers, Christine Wiltshire, Angela Howell, Gina Taylor Pickens, Mary Seymour Williams and Jocelyn Brown.-Career:...

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  • Narada
    Narada Michael Walden
    Narada Michael Walden is an American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards...

     (1)
  • Narcotic Thrust
    Narcotic Thrust
    Narcotic Thrust is an electronic and house music duo from the UK consisting of producers Stuart Crichton and Andy Morris. The name Narcotic Thrust is an anagram of "Stuart Crichton"....

     (1)
  • Ultra Naté
    Ultra Naté
    Ultra Naté is an American house music, Dance-pop and sometimes R&B musician who has achieved a respectable amount of success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free" and "If You Could Read My Mind" as part of Stars on 54....

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  • Me'shell Ndegeocello
    Me'shell Ndegeocello
    Meshell Ndegeocello is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, R&B, rock, and jazz. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, and has had ten career Grammy...

     (2)
  • Joey Negro
    Joey Negro
    Dave Lee is a British DJ and house music producer, also known by the stage name Joey Negro. Lee was born on the Isle of Wight. He has released music under a variety of pseudonyms, including the name Jakatta...

     (2)
  • Phyllis Nelson
    Phyllis Nelson
    Phyllis Nelson was an American singer, most famous for her UK chart-topping recording, "Move Closer". Her son is the R&B singer and record producer, Marc Nelson.-Career:...

     (1)
  • Ann Nesby
    Ann Nesby
    Ann Nesby is an American R&B, gospel, and dance music singer and actress. She is the former lead singer of Sounds of Blackness; a songwriter with credits including hits sung by Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight; plus she co-starred in the 2003 romance musical The Fighting Temptations with Cuba...

     (1)
  • Robbie Nevil
    Robbie Nevil
    Robert S. "Robbie" Nevil is an American pop singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist. He is best known for his 1986 Billboard Hot 100 #2 hit, "C'est La Vie".-Life and career:...

     (1)
  • New Order
    New Order
    New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...

     (6)
  • Ne-Yo
    Ne-Yo
    Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr. , better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. Beginning his career as a songwriter, Ne-Yo penned the hit "Let Me Love You" for singer Mario...

     (2)
  • Stevie Nicks
    Stevie Nicks
    Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums...

     (1)
  • Nightcrawlers
    Nightcrawlers
    Nightcrawlers are a form of earthworm. Prized primarily for use as fishing bait, nightcrawlers are generally known as either Canadian or European...

     (1)
  • N-Joi
    N-Joi
    N-Joi is a house music and techno production duo from Southend, Essex, England, consisting of Nigel Champion and Mark Franklin, with sometime vocalist/front person Saffron. Champion went to Framlingham College and Franklin to Felsted School but met up again after school in 1987.Between 1991 and...

     (2)
  • No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...

     (1)
  • No Mercy
    No Mercy (band)
    No Mercy is an American pop and dance music group formed by Frank Farian in Florida in 1995, consisting of Marty Cintron , and twin brothers, Ariel and Gabriel Hernández , from Miami, Florida.-Career:In 1996, No Mercy released their debut album titled No Mercy, later re-released in Europe retitled My...

     (1)
  • Noel (2)
  • Noferini & Marini (1)
  • Nomad
    Nomad (band)
    Nomad was a house music duo from England, who had several hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, as well as some similar successes in the UK Singles Chart. Group members were Damon Rochefort , Steve McCutcheon and Sharon D. Clarke.In 1991 they hit #1 on the U.S...

     (1)
  • Debi Nova
    Debi Nova
    Deborah Nowalski Kader, better known by her stage name Debi Nova, is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter and dancer from Escazú, Costa Rica who resides in Los Angeles, California....

     (1)
  • Nu Shooz
    Nu Shooz
    Nu Shooz is an American Freestyle-R&B-Dance group fronted by husband-and-wife team of John Smith and Valerie Day, based in Portland, Oregon. The Shooz released four albums in the U.S...

     (2)
  • Nuance (1)
  • José Nunez
    José Nunez
    José Nunez is an American electronica and house music producer. In 1998, he appeared in the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice, first hitting #1 with "In My Life." It peaked at #56 in the UK Singles Chart in September that year. The follow-up "Hold On" peaked at #9 US Dance later...

     (1)
  • Nuyorican Soul
    Masters At Work
    Masters at Work is the house/garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. They first worked together using the name, which had been given to them by mutual friend Todd Terry , in 1990...

     (1)

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  • Oakenfold
    Paul Oakenfold
    Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...

     (1)
  • Billy Ocean
    Billy Ocean
    Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...

     (2)
  • Oceana
    Oceana (singer)
    Oceana Mahlmann is a German singer of both ethnic German and Afro-Martiniquais descent. She has musical roots in soul, reggae, hip-hop and funk. In March 2010, she finished sixth in the Polish version of Dancing with the Stars, with dance partner Przemyslaw Juszkiewicz. In May 2010, she hosted the...

     (1)
  • Octahvia
    Octahvia
    Octahvia, is a female singer from New York City. While she would later have several hits as a featured vocalist for other artists, she is perhaps best known under her own name for the 1986 R&B/dance hit, "2 the Limit."-Early career:Born Octavia Lambertis, Octavia first rose to prominence in the...

     (1)
  • Oezlem (1)
  • The O'Jays
    The O'Jays
    The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1963 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert , Walter Williams , William Powell , Bobby Massey and Bill Isles. The O'Jays were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005...

     (1)
  • Olive
    Olive (band)
    Olive was a breakbeat/trip hop group from the North of England. The founding membership consisted of producer, instrumentalist and songwriter Tim Kellett, producer and keyboard programmer Robin Taylor-Firth, and singer Ruth-Ann Boyle...

     (1)
  • Ollie & Jerry
    Ollie & Jerry
    Ollie & Jerry was an American dance-pop duo active in the 1980s, consisting of drummer Ollie E. Brown and R&B singer Jerry Knight.Despite releasing no studio albums under their own name, they are still widely known for their hit single "Breakin'.....

     (1)
  • Ono
    Yoko Ono
    is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

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  • Opus III
    Opus III
    Opus III were a techno and house music group from England who had success on the UK Singles Chart and on the U.S. Dance charts. The group consisted of vocalist Kirsty Hawkshaw and producers/musicians Kevin 'The Fly' Dodds, Ian Munro and Nigel 'Spider' Walton...

     (2)
  • The Originals
    The Originals
    The Originals were a successful Motown R&B and soul group during the late 1960s and the 1970s, most notable for the hits "Baby I'm For Real", "The Bells" and the disco classic, "Down to Love Town"...

     (1)
  • Kelly Osbourne
    Kelly Osbourne
    Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne...

     (1)
  • Oscar G and Ralph Falcon
    Murk (band)
    Murk is a house music production team composed of Ralph Falcón and Oscar Gaetan). They formed in Miami in 1991...

     (1)
  • Robert Owens
    Robert Owens (musician)
    Robert Owens is an American contemporary R&B and house-music vocalist best known for his work with the Chicago house group Fingers Inc. in the mid-1980s...

     (2)

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  • Suzanne Palmer
    Suzanne Palmer
    Suzanne Palmer is a female Progressive Trance, Club/Dance and House music singer, songwriter, pianist and producer born in Chicago, Illinois. She is best known as the lead vocalist on Peter Rauhofer's Club 69 project, most specifically the hits Much Better , "Alright" and a remake of the Michael...

     (1)
  • Paul Parker
    Paul Parker (singer)
    Paul Parker is a Hi-NRG and dance singer born in San Francisco, California. His biggest success came in the eighties, when he reached #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice: "Right on Target" in 1982, which was written and produced by Patrick Cowley, who also produced Parker's 1983 debut...

     (2)
  • Patra
    Patra (singer)
    Patra is a reggae singer. In her beginnings as a Female Dancehall deejay in the late 1980s, she used the stage name, Lady Patra...

     (1)
  • Lizzy Pattinson
    Lizzy Pattinson
    - Career :Lizzy has performed with the UK dance act Aurora and German duo Milk & Sugar, for which she was lead vocalist on the latter's No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play track "Let The Sun Shine". She has had three Top 20 hits in the UK....

     (1)
  • Laura Pausini
    Laura Pausini
    Laura Pausini, is a Grammy Award-winning Italian soul singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian...

     (2)
  • Nia Peeples
    Nia Peeples
    Virenia Gwendolyn "Nia" Peeples is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Nicole Chapman on Fame...

     (1)
  • CeCe Peniston
    CeCe Peniston
    CeCe Peniston is an African American recording artist and former beauty queen. At the beginning of the nineties, she was considered to be one of the most successful dance club artists in the history of the U.S...

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  • Perpetuous Dreamer
    Perpetuous Dreamer
    Perpetuous Dreamer is a trance group created by Armin van Buuren, which is known for the songs "Future Fun-Land", "The Sound of Goodbye", "Dust.wav", and "Dub.wav". These songs have also been produced in various remixes....

     (1)
  • Katy Perry
    Katy Perry
    Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...

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  • The Perry Twins (1)
  • Pet Shop Boys
    Pet Shop Boys
    Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

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  • Photek
    Photek
    Photek is Rupert Parkes , a Los Angeles-based British record producer and DJ. He joined the drum and bass scene relatively early , and is still one of its most respected players...

     (1)
  • Phunky Phantom
    Phunky Phantom
    Phunky Phantom is electronic and dance music producer Lawrence Nelson, who was born in Brooklyn, New York. His one U.S. chart entry came in 1997, when he hit #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart with the song "Get Up, Stand Up." The same track reached #27 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1998.-See...

     (1)
  • Mark Picchiotti
    Mark Picchiotti
    Mark Picchiotti is a club DJ, producer and songwriter based out of Chicago, Illinois.Picchiotti has been active in the dance music scene for over 20 years, establishing his reputation as a house, electronica and pop music DJ at Chicago clubs such as Shelter and Crobar. He has remixed songs by a...

     (1)
  • Gary Pine
    Gary Pine
    Gary Pine is a Jamaican singer best known for the vocals on several Bob Sinclar songs, including "Love Generation", "Shining from Heaven", "Miss Me", "Give a Lil' Love", and "Sound of Freedom"....

     (1)
  • Pink (1)
  • Pitbull
    Pitbull (rapper)
    Armando Christian Pérez , better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records...

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  • Plumb
    Plumb (singer)
    Tiffany Arbuckle Lee is a Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter who uses the stage name Plumb...

     (1)
  • Pocket Size
    Pocket Size
    Pocket Size is the name of a house music duo from England, featuring producer Darren Pearson and singer Liz Overs. In 1999 they hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Walking" on Atlantic Records....

     (1)
  • Poe
    Ann Danielewski
    Anne "Annie" Decatur Danielewski , professionally known as Poe, is an American singer and songwriter. She first hit the modern rock charts in the mid-1990s. Poe is the daughter of Polish film director Tad Danielewski and his second wife, Priscilla Machold. She is the sister of author Mark Z....

     (1)
  • Pointer Sisters
    Pointer Sisters
    The Pointer Sisters are an American pop/R&B recording act from Oakland, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock.The...

     (1)
  • Powerhouse (1)
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  • Pretty Poison
    Pretty Poison
    Pretty Poison is a Dance group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Group members are Jade Starling ; Whey Cooler ; and Kaya Pryor .-History:...

     (1)
  • Kelly Price
    Kelly Price
    Kelly Price is an American R&B and soul singer, formerly on the Def Soul label.-Life and music career:Kelly Cherelle Price was born in Queens, New York. She was first discovered by Mariah Carey in February 1992 and subsequently introduced to Sony Columbia's then CEO Tommy Mottola...

     (1)
  • Prince
    Prince (musician)
    Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...

     (7) and the Revolution
    The Revolution (band)
    The Revolution was an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979 by Prince. Although widely associated with rock music, the band's sound incorporated heavy metal, pop, funk, R&B and hard rock elements. Before their official break-up, The Revolution had released one studio album,...

     (2) / and the New Power Generation
    New Power Generation
    The New Power Generation, also known as The NPG, is the current backing group of musician Prince.-History:The phrase "Welcome to the New Power Generation" was mentioned on the opening track of 1988's Lovesexy...

     (1)
  • Princessa
    Princessa (singer)
    Princessa is an African American female house music rapper/singer from New York City. She was the featured artist on two singles by the Austrian house music band, Bingoboys: the first was the song "How to Dance", which hit number one on the U.S...

     (1)
  • Jamie Principle
    Jamie Principle
    Jamie Principle is a house music artist and producer born in Chicago, Illinois.He is one of the early pioneers of house music when the genre first began in Chicago during the early 1980s...

     (1)
  • Pulse (1)
  • Pump Friction
    Pump Friction
    Pump Friction is the studio project of DJ/producer Lewis Dene from London. He scored a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1997 with "That Sound." He also hit #40 that same year with "Vicious" .Dene is also one half of the duo Solitaire , which scored a top ten hit in 2004 on...

     (1)
  • Puretone (1)
  • Pusaka
    Pusaka
    Pusaka is a Sanskrit word meaning treasure or heirloom.In Javanese Kejawen culture and the Austronesian cultures affected by it, known as the Malays, but most specifically the inhabitants of modern day Indonesia and Malaysia; , Balinese Bataks, Bugis, Manado, Minang, Moro, Pampangan, Taglog and...

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  • Pussycat Dolls
    Pussycat Dolls
    The Pussycat Dolls are an American pop girl group and dance ensemble based in Los Angeles; currently consisting of Lauren Bennett, Vanessa Curry, Kristal "Lyndriette" Smith, Tiffany "Taz" Zavala, Kia Hampton and Paula Van Oppen. The Pussycat Dolls were founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995...

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  • Qkumba Zoo
    Qkumba Zoo
    Qkumba Zoo is a dance music trio from Johannesburg, South Africa, consisting of vocalist Levannah, dancer/sculptor Tziki and musician/producer Owl. The band was originally formed by Owl and Levannah as a duo called "Ocean Road".-BIG:...

     (1)
  • Quartz (1)
  • The Quick
    The Quick (dance band)
    The Quick was a dance pop duo from England that consisted of vocalist Colin "Col" Campsie and bassist/keyboardist George McFarlane. Their greatest success in US came in 1981 when their song "Zulu" spent two weeks at #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.McFarlane and Campsie originally met...

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  • Q-Unique
    Q-Unique
    Anthony Quiles, better known by his stage name Q-Unique is an Puerto rican-American rapper, record producer and a member of rap group Arsonists and the hard rock band StillWell...

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    Karen Ramirez
    Karen Ramírez is a female dance music singer . At age 6, she moved to Trinidad and Tobago and lived there for some time, before returning to London and entering university. In 1998 she had a nº1 hit single on the U.S...

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  • Peter Rauhofer
    Peter Rauhofer
    Peter Rauhofer is a DJ, remixer and producer who formerly went under the moniker Club 69 as well as Size Queen. A native of Vienna, Austria, he is famous for his remixes of a number of Madonna's songs including "Nothing Really Matters", "American Life", "Nothing Fails, "Nobody Knows Me", "Get...

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  • Raw Stylus
    Raw Stylus
    Raw Stylus was a London-based dance music outfit whose core members were Donna Gardier, Jules Brookes and Ron Aslan. In 1995 they released the single, "Believe In Me", which reached #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. It was a minor success in the United Kingdom reaching #66 on the UK...

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  • Raze
    Raze (house music group)
    Raze was an American electronic dance music group, assembled by the multi-instrumentalist and producer, Vaughan Mason. Mason had previously released the hit single, "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll", for Brunswick Records in 1979. Raze also contained the vocalist, Keith Thompson...

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  • Ready for the World
    Ready for the World
    Ready for the World is an American R&B band from Flint, Michigan who scored several moderate pop, soul, and dance hits in the mid to late 1980s...

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  • Real McCoy
    Real McCoy (band)
    Real McCoy, originally known as M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy, is a German band, best known for their 1993/1994 singles "Another Night" and "Run Away", which were both Top 10 hits in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.-Formation:...

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    Sharon Redd
    Sharon Redd was an American singer from New York. She was the half sister of R&B singer Pennye Ford.-Biography and career:...

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  • Reel 2 Real
    Reel 2 Real
    Reel 2 Real is a house music and reggae-influenced duo which had seven Top 10 hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1990s.-Biography:...

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  • Regina
    Regina Richards
    Regina Richards , better known by her stage name Regina, is an American dance music singer born in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her hit "Baby Love," which reached Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986. It peaked in the UK Singles Chart at #50 the same year...

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    Rihanna
    Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...

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  • LeAnn Rimes
    LeAnn Rimes
    LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...

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  • The Ritchie Family
    The Ritchie Family
    The Ritchie Family was the name of an American vocal group, based in Philadelphia, who achieved several hits during the disco era.-Career:...

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    Masters At Work
    Masters at Work is the house/garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. They first worked together using the name, which had been given to them by mutual friend Todd Terry , in 1990...

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  • Robbie Rivera
    Robbie Rivera
    Roberto "Robbie" Rivera is a prolific house music producer and DJ born in Puerto Rico. He has an extensive catalog of original productions and remixes to his credit, ranging from Tribal to Progressive House, as well as incorporating Garage and Latin elements. He and his wife Monica Olabarrieta...

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    Juliet Roberts
    Juliet Roberts is a British jazz, rock and house music singer of Grenadian descent.-Career:She originally recorded as Julie Roberts in 1982, and performed on the 1983 Top 10 hit single, "It's Over" by the Funkmasters...

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  • Robin S.
    Robin S.
    Robin S. is an American singer-songwriter, who scored success in the 1990s with such hit singles as "Show Me Love" and "Luv 4 Luv". She has had three number ones on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.-Career:Robin S...

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  • Hannah Robinson
    Hannah Robinson
    Hannah Robinson is a British songwriter. Her best known compositions include the "Some Girls", a UK #2 for British pop star Rachel Stevens and Ladyhawke's "My Delirium". She also a vocalist and in 2006 achieved a #1 on the U.S...

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  • Vicki Sue Robinson
    Vicki Sue Robinson
    Vicki Sue Robinson was an American theatre and film actress and singer, closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around."-Early life and career:...

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  • Robyn
    Robyn
    Robin Miriam Carlsson , better known by her stage name Robyn, is a Swedish recording artist, singer, and songwriter. Robyn became known in the late nineties for her worldwide dance-pop hit "Do You Know " from her debut album Robyn Is Here . She co-wrote the song "Du gör mig hel igen" for...

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  • John Rocca
    John Rocca
    John Rocca became known first as a dance music performer, remixer and record producer. During the early 1980s, John Rocca formed, played with, wrote for, produced and managed his first musical band, Freeez, with success...

     (1)
  • Rockers Revenge
    Rockers Revenge
    Rockers Revenge was a studio musical project, assembled by producer Arthur Baker. Its initial entry on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, "Walking on Sunshine" hit #1 on the U.S. dance chart in 1982. The track reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1982...

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  • The Romantics
    The Romantics
    The Romantics is an American New Wave band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1977. The band adopted the name "The Romantics" because they formed on Valentine's Day, 1977. The Romantics achieved popularity in the United Kingdom, The U.S...

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    Ralphi Rosario
    Ralphi Rosario was a founding member of the influential Chicago DJ group, The Hot Mix 5. When this group formed in 1981 on radio station WBMX, Rosario, the youngest member of the group, was still in high school...

     (1)
  • Rosko
    Rosko
    Paul Eric Bosko, also known as Rosko, is an American singer, songwriter, musician and producer. He is perhaps best known as a recording artist for his 2005 single "Love Is A Drug" which reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Dance Chart, and was produced by John Creamer & Stephane K...

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  • Diana Ross
    Diana Ross
    Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...

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  • Kelly Rowland
    Kelly Rowland
    Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child...

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  • Barbara Roy
    Barbara Roy
    Barbara Roy was born in Kinston, North Carolina and is a dance music singer. She scored several big hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart during the 1970s as the lead vocalist for Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, then went on to have more success as a solo artist.In 1986, Roy hit number...

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  • Rozalla
    Rozalla
    Rozalla is a dance music performer, born to a Zambian mother and a Zimbabwean father...

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  • Ruffneck
    Ruffneck (band)
    Ruffneck is an American house music group from New Jersey, United States, consisting of record producers Dwayne Richardson, Derek Jenkins and Shaheer Williams. They placed three singles on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, including "Everybody Be Somebody," which was based on a sample from...

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  • RuPaul
    RuPaul
    RuPaul Andre Charles , best known as simply RuPaul, is an American actor, drag queen, model, author, and singer-songwriter, who first became widely known in the 1990s when he appeared in a wide variety of television programs, films, and musical albums. Previously, he was a fixture on the Atlanta...

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  • Saint Etienne
    Saint Etienne (band)
    Saint Etienne are an English Pop group comprising Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named after the French football team AS Saint-Étienne.-History:Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists...

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  • Roger Sanchez
    Roger Sanchez
    Roger Sanchez, also known as Roger S. and The S Man, is a Grammy award-winning American House music DJ who has scored many hits in the European and World Charts...

     (1)
  • Sandy B
    Sandy B
    Sandra Barber is a House music and dance music singer from New York who uses the stage name Sandy B.-Music career:She is primarily known for two of her solo records which reached #1 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart, "Make the World Go Round" and "Ain't No Need To Hide" in 1996 and 1997,...

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  • Sash!
    Sash!
    SASH! is a German DJ / producer team, fronted by Sascha Lappessen , who works in the recording studio with Ralf Kappmeier and Thomas "Alisson" Lüdke. They have sold over 18 million albums worldwide and earned more than 65 Gold and Platinum awards.-History:Sascha Lappessen, Thomas "Alisson" Lüdke,...

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  • Carlos Santana
    Carlos Santana
    Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...

     (1)
  • Nicole Scherzinger
    Nicole Scherzinger
    Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, model, and actress. Scherzinger is perhaps best known for being the lead vocalist of the Pussycat Dolls....

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  • Scissor Sisters
    Scissor Sisters
    Scissor Sisters are an American band "spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York" who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism...

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  • Seduction
    Seduction (band)
    Seduction was a female dance-pop, urban contemporary, house music, and freestyle trio from New York assembled and produced by Robert Clivillés and David Cole , consisting of members April Harris , Michelle Visage , and Idalis DeLeon .Originally intended as a studio project, and prior to any...

     (1)
  • Seal
    Seal (musician)
    Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...

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  • S'Express
    S'Express
    S'Express were a British dance music act from the late 1980s, who had one of the earliest commercial successes in the acid house genre."Theme from S'Express", based on Rose Royce's "Is It Love You're After", was also one of the earliest recordings to capitalize on a resurgence of sampling culture...

     (1)
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  • Shakira
    Shakira
    Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

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  • Shalamar
    Shalamar
    Shalamar was an American music group, primarily of the 1970s and 1980s, that was originally a disco-driven vehicle created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey and show creator Don Cornelius. They went on to be an influential dance trio, masterminded by Soul Train producer Don Cornelius...

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  • The Shamen
    The Shamen
    The Shamen were an experimental electronic music band, from 1985–1999, initially formed in Aberdeen, Scotland, as a psychedelic-influenced indie rock act. The founding members are Colin Angus , Derek McKenzie and Keith McKenzie...

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  • Shannon
    Shannon (singer)
    Shannon is an American singer. She is best known for her 1983 million-selling record, "Let the Music Play". The record re-defined the electro funk sound that would eventually be called freestyle music.-Biography:...

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  • Shape: UK
    Shapeshifters (band)
    The Shapeshifters are Simon Marlin and Max Reich, a house music production duo based in London, England. They have a recording contract with Defected Records, and were previously signed to Positiva...

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  • Dee Dee Sharp-Gamble
    Dee Dee Sharp
    Dee Dee Sharp is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961.-Career:...

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  • Ben Shaw
    Ben Shaw
    Ben Shaw is a British house music producer, remixer and DJ, who has released records under his own name, as well as the monikers Sunscape and Gradient...

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  • Kierra "KiKi" Sheard
    Kierra Sheard
    Kierra "Kiki" Sheard is an American gospel recording artist. She is the daughter of gospel singer Karen Clark Sheard and the granddaughter of gospel choral director Mattie Moss Clark.-Early life:Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in the suburb of West Bloomfield, Sheard spent her formative years...

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  • Duncan Sheik
    Duncan Sheik
    Duncan Scott Sheik is an American singer-songwriter and composer. Sheik initially found success as a singer, most notably for his 1996 debut single "Barely Breathing". He later expanded his work to include compositions for motion pictures and the Broadway stage, leading him to involvement in the...

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  • Sheila E.
    Sheila E.
    Sheila Escovedo , known by her stage name Sheila E., is an American drummer and percussionist, perhaps best known for her work with Prince, George Duke and Ringo Starr.-Early life and Prince period:...

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  • Shirley & Company
    Shirley & Company
    Shirley & Company was an American disco group, consisting of Shirley Goodman , Jesus Alvarez, Walter Morris, Bernadette Randle, Seldon Powell, Jonathan Williams and Clarence Oliver....

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  • Shontelle
    Shontelle
    Shontelle Layne , known professionally as Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer, and songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in November 2008. Her sophomore album, No Gravity, was released in September 2010...

     (1)
  • Silver Convention
    Silver Convention
    Silver Convention was a German euro disco recording act of the 1970s. The group was originally named Silver Bird Convention, or Silver Bird.-Career:...

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  • Simply Red
    Simply Red
    Simply Red were a British soul band that sold more than 50 million albums over a 25-year career. Their style drew influences from blue-eyed soul, new romantic, rock, reggae and jazz...

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  • Jessica Simpson
    Jessica Simpson
    Jessica Ann Simpson is an American recording artist, actress, television personality, and fashion designer whose rise to fame began in 1999. Since that time, Simpson has achieved many recording milestones, starred in several television shows, movies, and commercials, launched a line of hair and...

     (1)
  • Bob Sinclar
    Bob Sinclar
    Bob Sinclar, originally spelled "Sinclair" - , is a French record producer, House music DJ, remixer and owner of the label Yellow Productions.- Career history :...

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  • Sinnamon
    Sinnamon
    Sinnamon is an American female R&B and dance music vocal trio, consisting of Barbara Fowler and Marsha Carter from Connecticut, and Melissa Bell from New York. Bell is currently a writer, living in New York City.-History:...

     (1)
  • Sisaundra
    Sisaundra
    Sisaundra is a female singer/songwriter/producer from Orlando, Florida whose extensive resume includes working with such artists as Peabo Bryson and Celiné Dion to doing voiceover/jingle work in TV commercials. On September 10, 2005 she scored her first number-one U.S...

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  • Sister Sledge
    Sister Sledge
    Sister Sledge is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 1972 and consisting of four sisters: Kim Sledge Debbie Sledge , Joni Sledge , and Kathy Sledge . They are granddaughters of the former opera singer Viola Williams. The sisters used to perform under the name of "Mrs...

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  • Size 9
    Josh Wink
    Josh Wink is an electronic music DJ, label owner, producer, remixer, and artist. He is a native of Philadelphia, United States. A pioneering DJ in the American rave scene during the early 1990s, Wink was the most prominent exponent of the tribal forms of techno and house in the U.S...

     (1)
  • Skipworth & Turner
    Skipworth & Turner
    Skipworth & Turner are a male R&B duo, consisting of Rodney Skipworth and Phil Turner . Their biggest hit came in 1985, when they went to #1 on the U.S...

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  • Kathy Sledge
    Kathy Sledge
    Kathy Sledge , the youngest of five sisters, Carol,Debra,Joni and Kim. She is an American singer who has had several hits on the International Pop and Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including "Take Me Back To Love Again," which hit #1 in 1992. She is the granddaughter of former opera singer...

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  • Slim Thug
    Slim Thug
    Stayve Jerome Thomas , better known as Slim Thug, Boss Hogg or Thug Boss, is an American rapper. He gained mainstream attention for his contribution to the popular single from rapper Mike Jones, "Still Tippin'"....

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  • Slingshot
    Slingshot (band)
    Slingshot is a disco/dance music band from Detroit, Michigan. Members include Jack Tann, Greg Sawton, David Van DePitte and John Lewis.Their one and only chart entry was a medley of Steely Dan's song "Do It Again" and Michael Jackson's #1 hit single "Billie Jean"...

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  • SM-Trax
    SM-Trax
    SM-Trax is an electronic duo from Germany consisting of producers Stefan Grunwald and Mirko von Schlieffen. In mid-1999 they went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Got the Groove," released on Groovilicious Records....

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  • Robert Smith
    Robert Smith (musician)
    Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...

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  • Smooth Touch
    Smooth Touch
    Smooth Touch is an American dance music duo of producers and DJs Erick Morillo and Kenny Lewis. In 1993 they hit #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, with the song "House Of Love ." The track peaked at #58 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1994.-See also:*List of number-one dance hits...

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  • Snap!
    Snap!
    Snap! is a German Eurodance project formed in 1989 by Frankfurt-based producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has been through a number of line-up changes over the years, but was most successful when fronted by rapper Turbo B, who performed on the UK number 1 singles "The Power" and...

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  • Snoop Dogg
    Snoop Dogg
    Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...

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  • Gino Soccio
    Gino Soccio
    Gino Soccio is a Canadian disco record producer. His heritage is Italian. His only US Billboard Hot 100 entry was the #48 hit single "Dancer" in 1979, but he did hit #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice...

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  • Solange
    Solange Knowles
    Solange Piaget Knowles , who performs under the mononym Solange, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, model, dancer, and DJ. Knowles was born and raised in Houston, Texas along with her older sister singer Beyoncé, a former member of R&B group Destiny's Child...

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  • Martin Solveig
    Martin Solveig
    Martin Picandet, better known under his stage name Martin Solveig is a French electronic music DJ and producer from Paris. He also hosts a weekly radio show called "C'est La Vie" on stations worldwide including FG DJ Radio in his homeland...

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  • Jimmy Somerville
    Jimmy Somerville
    James William Somerville is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter. He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a successful solo career. He is known in particular for his falsetto singing voice...

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  • Sonique
    Sonique (artist)
    Sonia Clarke , known more commonly by her stage name Sonique, is a British singer, musician and disc jockey. She is well known for her successful career in dance music. She was the lead vocalist on two S'Express singles. She won the 2001 BRIT Award for British female solo artist...

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  • Sono
    Sono (band)
    SONO is a band from Hamburg, Germany and was started in 2001 by Lennart A. Salomon Florian Sikorski and Martin Weiland ....

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  • The SOS Band
    The SOS Band
    The SOS Band is an American musical ensemble, founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1977. Originally known as Santa Monica, the 'SOS' initialism in the band's name stands for Sounds of Success.-History:...

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  • The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.
    The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.
    The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. was an American 1990s R&B and dance music group, assembled by Robert Clivillés and David Cole of C&C Music Factory. The group featured lead vocals by Michelle Visage, who was formerly a member of another Clivilles & Cole group, Seduction...

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  • Soul II Soul
    Soul II Soul
    Soul II Soul are a British group that was created in London in 1988. They are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and U.S. Top 5 hit, "Back to Life ".-Career:...

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  • Sound Factory
    Sound Factory
    Sound Factory is a dance music duo from Sweden consisting of producers Kenyan born St.James as well as Emil Hellman and produced by Stonebridge. They had three entries on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the mid-nineties: "Understand This Groove" in '92, "2 the Rhythm" in '93 and "Good Time"...

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  • Sounds of Blackness
    Sounds of Blackness
    Sounds of Blackness is a Grammy Award-winning vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz. The group scored several hits on the Billboard R&B chart and Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play...

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  • South Shore Commission
    South Shore Commission
    South Shore Commission was an R&B/funk band that briefly topped the Billboard magazine dance chart in 1975. The band formed out of The X-Citers Band in Washington D.C...

     (1)
  • Jordin Sparks
    Jordin Sparks
    Jordin Brianna Sparks is an American pop / R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She hails from Glendale, Arizona who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol. Sparks won when she was 17 years old, making her the youngest winner in Idol history...

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  • Britney Spears
    Britney Spears
    Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

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  • Dusty Springfield
    Dusty Springfield
    Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

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  • Lisa Stansfield
    Lisa Stansfield
    Lisa Stansfield is an English singer and songwriter.-Early years:Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982...

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  • Stardust
    Stardust (band)
    Stardust was a one-time musical collaborative effort consisting of producers Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe, and vocalist Benjamin Diamond.-History:The project released the popular club track titled "Music Sounds Better with You" in 1998...

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  • Edwin Starr
    Edwin Starr
    Edwin Starr was an American soul music singer. Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield produced singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit "War".-Biography:...

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  • Static Revenger
    Static revenger
    Dennis White, better known as his stage name Static Revenger, is an American record producer, video director, and DJ based in Los Angeles. He is best known for the worldwide club hits "I Like That", "Happy People", and "Everything is Beautiful"...

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  • Staxx of Joy
    Staxx of Joy
    Staxx Of Joy is a house music studio project assembled by producers Simon Thorne and Tommy Jones. In the mid 1990s they had four Top 10 hits on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, two of which reached #1: "Joy" and "You". Both of these tracks, including a third single "Shout" featured vocals...

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  • Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani is the lead vocalist for the rock and ska band No Doubt. Stefani recorded her first solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004. The album was inspired by music of the 1980s, and was a success with sales of over...

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    Rod Stewart
    Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....

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  • Byron Stingily
    Byron Stingily
    Byron Stingily is an African American R&B and house-music singer born in Chicago, Illinois, known for his falsetto voice. He is now a principal at a school in Chicago.-Career:...

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  • "Stomp" (cast of)
    Stomp (dance troupe)
    Stomp is a percussion group that uses the body and ordinary objects to create a physical theatre performance.-History and performances:...

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  • Angie Stone
    Angie Stone
    Angie Stone is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Award. She is more successful on the charts R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, forms including a number one album and 10 singles on the R&B chart,...

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  • Nick Straker Band
    Nick Straker Band
    The Nick Straker Band, from London, England, was a fusion pop music group, led by musician and vocalist Nick Straker, who had a handful of hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. The group also consisted several members of the band New Musik. Their most successful song in the U.S., "A Little...

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  • Casey Stratton
    Casey Stratton
    Casey Stratton is a male Pop/Rock singer/songwriter/musician.-Background:Casey Stratton was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1976. He has lived in Los Angeles, California, Chicago, Illinois and New York City, New York...

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  • Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...

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  • Sugababes
    Sugababes
    The Sugababes are an English pop girl group based in London, consisting of members Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen. The Sugababes were formed in 1998 with founding members Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan. Their debut album, One Touch, was released in 2000 under London...

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  • The Sugarcubes
    The Sugarcubes
    The Sugarcubes were an Icelandic alternative rock band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992. They received critical and popular acclaim internationally.-History:...

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  • Donna Summer
    Donna Summer
    LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

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  • Sun
    Ho Yeow Sun
    Ho Yeow Sun, better known as Sun Ho, is a Singaporean pop music singer. She studied at Anglican High School and Victoria Junior College. Ho is one of the co-founders of City Harvest Church and its community services and is married to Kong Hee Sun started her Mandarin pop singing career in 2002 and...

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  • Sundance
    Sundance (rapper)
    Sundance- born Ericka PaTrice Campbell April 4, 1972 is a rapper and radio personality.From the westside of Chicago, she attended Melody Elementary School but graduated from Maria Regina Catholic School in Gardena, California...

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  • Sunshine
    Sunshine (band)
    Sunshine is a disco act whose members include the real-life sisters of singer Donna Summer . Their 1978 number one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit "Take It to the Zoo," which was featured on the "Thank God It's Friday" film and soundtrack, was co-written by Summer , who also sings...

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  • Sunscreem
    Sunscreem
    Sunscreem is a techno/house band from Essex, England, who scored a number of hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century. Sunscreem also has the rare reputation as a techno-based band that successfully performs concerts...

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  • Supertramp
    Supertramp
    Supertramp are a British rock band formed in 1969 under the name Daddy before renaming to Supertramp in early 1970. Though their music was initially categorised as progressive rock, they have since incorporated a combination of traditional rock and art rock into their music...

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  • Jessica Sutta
    Jessica Sutta
    Jessica Lynn Sutta is an American dancer, showgirl, singer, recording artist, model, and actress. She is best known as a member of the American pop girl group and dance ensemble, the Pussycat Dolls. She left the group in January 2010 to embark her solo career. She is currently finishing up her...

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  • Swedish House Mafia
    Swedish House Mafia
    Swedish House Mafia is a Swedish House Music group consisting of the three disc jockeys and producers; Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso. The group officially formed in late 2008....

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  • Sweet Sensation
    Sweet Sensation
    Sweet Sensation was a Puerto Rican female freestyle-dance music trio from The Bronx, New York.-History:Formed in 1986, In The Bronx . The original group members were Betty LeBron and sisters Margie and Mari Fernandez. Originally on Next Plateau Records, in 1988 they were picked up by Atco and...

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  • Sylvester
    Sylvester James
    -Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:* Mighty Real UK #62* 12 By 12 * Immortal -Singles:-Additional recordings:*Lights Out San Francisco...

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  • Taka Boom
    Taka Boom
    Taka Boom is a female R&B and dance music singer and is the younger sister of Chaka Khan and Mark Stevens of Aurra. She sang background vocals for several Parliament albums in the 1970s...

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  • Talk Talk
    Talk Talk
    Talk Talk were an English musical group, active from 1981 to 1991. The group had a string of international hit singles including "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in Another World"....

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  • Tamia
    Tamia
    Tamia Hill , and known professionally as Tamia, is a four-time Grammy-nominated Canadian R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, model, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an occasional actress.She is best known for her 2000 hit "Stranger In My House" and Fabolous' 2003...

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  • A Taste of Honey
    A Taste of Honey (band)
    A Taste of Honey was the name of an American recording act, formed in 1971 by associates Perry Kibble and Donald Ray Johnson. In 1978 they had one of the best known chart-toppers of the disco era, "Boogie Oogie Oogie"...

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  • t.A.T.u.
    T.A.T.u.
    t.A.T.u. was a duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consisted of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova.Their debut single "Ya Soshla S Uma" was released in December 2000. The single had a huge success in Russia and Eastern Europe...

     (1)
  • Tavares
    Tavares (band)
    Tavares are a successful American R&B, funk and soul music group, composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers from New Bedford, Massachusetts.-Band members:...

     (1)
  • T-Connection
    T-Connection
    T-Connection was a funk and disco group from Nassau, the Bahamas, who scored two hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1977 and 1979. They did better on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where they had five Top 10 hits, including "Do What You Wanna Do", which reached #1, and "Everything Is...

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  • Tears for Fears
    Tears for Fears
    Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

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  • Technotronic
    Technotronic
    Technotronic is a Belgian studio-based music project formed in 1988 by Jo Bogaert , who had already made his musical mark in the beginning of the 1980s as a part of a cover band and as a solo artist under various New Beat projects, including The Acts of Madmen and Nux Nemo...

     (1)
  • Tinie Tempah
    Tinie Tempah
    Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu , better known by his stage name Tinie Tempah, is a British rapper. He made his first mixtape in 2007 with 28 songs, freestyles and remixes, the album features Mz Bratt, Chipmunk and G-Unit...

     (1)
  • Temper
    Temper (band)
    Temper is a dance music group that was led by Anthony Malloy. Their only chart entry was with the song "No Favors", which hit number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1984. The song peaked on the U.S...

     (1)
  • Ten City
    Ten City
    Ten City was a Chicago, Illinois-based R&B and house-music act that enjoyed a number of club hits and Urban radio hits in the late Eighties and early Nineties and was one of the first exponents of deep house...

     (1)
  • Danny Tenaglia
    Danny Tenaglia
    Danny Tenaglia is a New York-based DJ and Grammy nominated record producer.-Early life:At the age of ten, Tenaglia first started to collect records. In 1979 he began going to nightclub Paradise Garage, where DJ Larry Levan's genre-less blend of music appealed to him...

     (2)
  • Todd Terry/Todd Terry Project
    Todd Terry
    Todd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....

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  • Evelyn Thomas
    Evelyn Thomas
    Evelyn Thomas is an American singer from Chicago, Illinois, best known for the dance hits "High Energy", "Masquerade", "Standing At The Crossroads", "Reflections", and "WeakSpot"....

     (1)
  • Rob Thomas
    Rob Thomas (musician)
    Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist...

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  • Sheleen Thomas
    Sheleen Thomas
    Sheleen Thomas is an American female singer from New York City who was the featured vocalist on So Pure!'s 1999 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart topper, "Changes."-See also:*List of number-one dance hits...

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  • Thompson Twins
    Thompson Twins
    The Thompson Twins were a British pop group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid 1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Kingdom, the United States and around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives...

     (3)
  • Thunderpuss
    Thunderpuss
    Thunderpuss was the remix/productionteam of music producers Barry Harris and Chris Cox. Harris had previously worked as part of several music groups including Kon Kan, Top Kat, Killer Bunnies and Outta Control and had also released several singles himself...

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  • T.I.
    T.I.
    Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. , better known by his stage name T.I., is an American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author. He is also the founder and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....

     (1)
  • Timbaland
    Timbaland
    Timothy Zachery Mosley , better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American record producer, songwriter and rapper....

     (1)
  • Justin Timberlake
    Justin Timberlake
    Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...

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  • Timex Social Club
    Timex Social Club
    The Timex Social Club was an American R&B/Hip hop group, formed in 1982 by students of Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California. They are perhaps best known for their 1986 hit single, "Rumors" and for being major forerunners to the soon-incipient new jack swing movement.-History:Originally...

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  • The Ting Tings
    The Ting Tings
    The Ting Tings are an English music duo comprising Jules de Martino and Katie White . They formed in December 2007 while based at Islington Mill Studios in Salford...

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  • Tom Tom Club
    Tom Tom Club
    Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, both also known for being bandmembers of Talking Heads.-Biography:...

     (1)
  • Tone Loc
    Tone Loc
    Anthony Terrell Smith , better known by his stage name Tone Lōc, is an American rapper and actor.-Early life and career:...

     (1)
  • Tony! Toni! Tone!
    Tony! Toni! Toné!
    Tony! Toni! Toné! is an American Soul/R&B group from Oakland, California, popular during the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. During the band's heyday, it was composed of D'wayne Wiggins on lead vocals and guitar, his brother Raphael Saadiq on lead vocals and bass, and their cousin Timothy...

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  • Total Contrast
    Total Contrast
    Total Contrast was a male duo from England, specialising in soul and electro music. Group members were Robin Achampong and Delroy Murray.-Career:...

     (1)
  • Jeanie Tracy
    Jeanie Tracy
    Jeanie Tracy is a female African American R&B, Dance-pop, Hi-NRG and house singer-songwriter and actress, born in Houston, Texas and raised in Fresno, California.-Career:Growing up Tracy sang in a church choir in addition to studying opera and piano...

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  • The Trammps
    The Trammps
    The Trammps were an American disco band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. The band's first major success was with their 1972 cover version of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart". The first disco track they released was "Love Epidemic" in 1973...

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  • Sisely Treasure
    Sisely Treasure
    Sisely Treasure is a singer, songwriter, dancer and actress, notable for the song "All Around the World" released by Dreamworks Records in July 2003 and appearing in Billboard Magazine's Top 40 Dance charts the same year. "Morning Star", another song off the Punk Debutante album, made top ten on...

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  • Barbara Tucker
    Barbara Tucker
    Barbara Tucker , is an African American house, R&B and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer. Her impact on the mainstream music scene has been felt more in Europe, than in her home country....

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  • Kreesha Turner
    Kreesha Turner
    Kreesha Turner , is a Canadian R&B/pPop recording artist. She cites as her inspirations R&B acts such as Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and D'Angelo, hip-hop acts including A Tribe Called Quest, Andre 3000 and Common and rock acts like the Foo Fighters and Our Lady Peace.-Early life:The oldest of three...

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  • Tina Turner
    Tina Turner
    Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

     (1)
  • 2 in a Room
    2 In A Room
    2 In A Room was a Dominican hip hop, freestyle music and hip house duo, from Washington Heights, New York, which includes rapper Rafael "Dose" Vargas and producer/remixer Roger "Rog Nice" Pauletta. They are best known for their 1990 hit single "Wiggle It"...

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  • U.D.A.U.F.L.
    U.D.A.U.F.L.
    U.D.A.U.F.L. is the acronym for Underground Dance Artists United For Life, a collaboration of Dance music acts put together by the producer duo known as Blaze....

     (1)
  • Urban Soul
    Urban Soul
    Urban Soul was a UK/US house music studio project assembled by producer, songwriter and vocalist Roland Clark. Urban Soul hit the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart seven times through the 1990s, including hitting #1 in 1997 with the track "Show Me." Other Urban Soul tracks featured vocals by...

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  • USA European Connection
    USA European Connection
    USA European Connection was a female disco group consisting of Leza Holmes, Renne Johnson and Sharon Williams. In 1978 they hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with the Come Into My Heart album....

     (1)
  • Usher
    Usher (entertainer)
    Usher Terry Raymond IV , who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer-songwriter, and actor. He is considered around the world to be the reigning King of R&B. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100...

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  • Utada
    Utada Hikaru
    , known by her stage name Utada in America and Europe, is a Japanese-American singer, song writer, arranger, and producer. Since the release of her Japanese debut album First Love, which went on to become the best-selling album in Oricon history, Utada has had three of her Japanese studio albums...

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  • U2
    U2
    U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

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  • Vanity 6
    Vanity 6
    Vanity 6 was a female vocal trio assembled by Prince in the early 1980s.They released one studio album, which blended the sounds of pop, New Wave, dance music, R&B, and funk.-Formation:...

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  • Little Louie Vega
    Little Louie Vega
    Luis Fernando Vager , better known as "Little" Louie Vega, is an American musician and one half of the Masters At Work musical production team...

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  • Vengaboys
    Vengaboys
    Vengaboys are a Eurodance pop group based in Amsterdam. The brainchild of two Dutch producers Wessel van Diepen and Dennis van den Driesschen , they enjoyed commercial success in the late 1990s. They are best known for their two UK number one singles, "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" and "We're Going...

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  • Veronica
    Veronica (singer)
    Veronica is a dance music singer and theatrical actress. Along with singers Ultra Nate, Deborah Cox, she is considered to be one of the divas of the 1990s club music scene...

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  • Village People
    Village People
    Village People is a concept disco group that formed in the United States in 1977, well known for their on-stage costumes depicting American cultural stereotypes, as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics....

     (1)
  • Michelle Visage
    Michelle Visage
    Michelle Visage is a singer and TV/radio host.-Career:Michelle was discovered in 1989 when she was asked to join Seduction, an R&B and dance vocal trio assembled by Robert Clivilles and David Cole of C&C Music Factory fame...

     (1)
  • Anna Vissi
    Anna Vissi
    Anna Vissi , known as Anna Vishy in Cypriot Greek, is a Greek-Cypriot recording artist and actress...

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  • Richard "Humpty" Vission
    Richard Vission
    Richard "Humpty" Vission is a house music producer, remixer and DJ born Richard Gonzalez in Toronto, Ontario. He was raised in the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles, California....

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  • Voggue
    Voggue
    Voggue was a female disco vocal duo from Canada composed of Chantal Condor and Angela Songui.In 1980, the duo released its first self-titled album, which contains the singles "Love Buzz", "Here We Are" and their most successful single, "Dancin' the Night Away". In 1983, a second album was released...

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  • Voyage
    Voyage (band)
    Voyage was a European eurodisco group consisting of lead vocalist Sylvia Mason-James, along with Slim Pezin , Marc Chantereau , Sauveur Mallia and Pierre-Alain Dahan ....

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  • Wang Chung
    Wang Chung (band)
    Wang Chung are an English New Wave musical group.The group found their greatest success in America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1983 and 1987, including "Dance Hall Days" , "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and "Let's Go!" .-Pre-history: The Intellektuals and 57 Men :Jeremy...

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  • Anita Ward
    Anita Ward
    Anita Ward is an American singer and musician. She is best known for her 1979 million selling chart-topper, "Ring My Bell".-Career:Before signing a recording contract, Ward obtained a degree in psychology from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and had become a schoolteacher...

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  • Was (Not Was)
    Was (Not Was)
    -Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Contributions:* A Christmas Record - "Christmas Time In The Motor City"* That's The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk - "Ba-Lue-Bolivar-Ba-Lues-Are"...

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  • Martha Wash
    Martha Wash
    Martha Wash is an American R&B, Pop, Soul, House singer/songwriter known for her distinctive and powerful voice.-Early career:...

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  • Waterlillies
    Waterlillies
    Waterlillies is a male-female electronica–pop–trip hop duo that released a pair of albums on Sire/Reprise/Warner Bros. Records in the 1990s. Group members are instrumentalist and producer Ray Carroll, with vocalist Jill Alikas-St. Thomas...

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  • Crystal Waters
    Crystal Waters
    Crystal Waters is an American dance music singer and songwriter.-Childhood and young adult life:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Waters is the daughter of Betty and Junior Waters, a famed jazz musician; her great aunt, Ethel Waters, was one of the first African-American vocalists to appear in...

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  • Latanza Waters
    Latanza Waters
    Latanza Waters is a female house music singer who has been featured on several big club hits by various producers and remixers. She is the featured artist on two tracks by Eric Miller: "Deja Vu" and "Insatiable"...

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  • Michael Watford
    Michael Watford
    Michael Watford is an African American dance music singer, who was born in Virginia and raised in New Jersey. He is best known for his gospel-influenced vocals on house records through the 1990s and 2000s. Four of his singles charted on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the mid-1990s,...

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  • Jody Watley
    Jody Watley
    Jody Vanessa Watley is an American, singer, songwriter, record producer, and founder of Avitone Records whose music crosses genres from Pop, R&B, Jazz, Dance and Electronic Soul....

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  • Weekend Players
    Weekend Players
    Weekend Players was an electronic music duo from England. The musicians were vocalist Rachel Foster, who has provided vocals and songwriting on Bent's Ariels album, and producer Andy Cato, one half of Groove Armada....

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  • Caron Wheeler
    Caron Wheeler
    Caron Wheeler is a two-time Grammy Award winning British R&B/soul singer, who gained fame by writing and singing the lead vocals on the two biggest hits for Soul II Soul Caron Wheeler (19 January 1963) is a two-time Grammy Award winning British R&B/soul singer, who gained fame by writing and...

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  • When in Rome
    When in Rome (band)
    When in Rome are an English New Wave trio, originally consisting of vocalists Clive Farrington and Andrew Mann, and keyboards player Michael Floreale. They are best known for their 1988 single, "The Promise".-History:...

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  • The Whispers
    The Whispers
    The Whispers are a long-established R&B-dance vocal group from Los Angeles, California, with a consistent track record of hit records dating back to the late 1960s.-Career:...

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  • Karyn White
    Karyn White
    Karyn White was a new jack swing singer who became popular during the late 1980s.-Biography:White was born in Los Angeles,to the parentage of Vivian and Clarence White. She is the youngest of five children...

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  • Widelife
    Widelife
    Widelife is a Canadian dance music songwriting and production team consisting of Ian J. Nieman and Rachid Wehbi.-Success:Widelife first came to prominence when their debut single "I Don't Want You" reached the top of Billboard magazine's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in October 2002...

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  • Will to Power
    Will to Power (band)
    Will to Power is the name of an American dance-pop group that originated in southern Florida in the mid-1980s. The group recorded a number of hit singles on the Billboard dance and pop charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley", a medley of 1970s...

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  • Deniece Williams
    Deniece Williams
    June Deniece Chandler known by her stage name Deniece Williams is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s...

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  • Freedom Williams
    Freedom Williams
    Frederick Brandon Williams , better known by his stage name Freedom Williams is an American hip hop and dance music performer, who gained fame as the lead vocalist on C+C Music Factory's biggest hits.-Career:...

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  • Michelle Williams
    Michelle Williams (singer)
    Tenitra Michelle Williams , commonly known as Michelle Williams, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress...

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  • Saundra Williams
    Saundra Williams
    Saundra Williams is a female jazz/R&B/dance music vocalist from New York City who scored a couple of hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "I Want It, I Need It" and "Unconditionally" .-See also:...

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  • Vanessa Williams
    Vanessa L. Williams
    Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, actress and showgirl. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal generated by her having posed for nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine...

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  • Chris Willis
    Chris Willis
    Christopher "Chris" Willis is an American singer-songwriter and producer. Although initially a gospel singer, he later received international attention for his collaborations with house music artist David Guetta, including on the songs "Just a Little More Love", "Love Don't Let Me Go , "Love Is...

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  • Stevie Wonder
    Stevie Wonder
    Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

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  • Yazoo
    Yazoo (band)
    Yazoo are a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex. They had a number of Top 10 hits in the UK charts in the early 1980s...

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  • Yello
    Yello
    Yello is a Swiss electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their singles "The Race" and "Oh Yeah", which feature a mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals, as does most of their music....

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  • Karen Young
    Karen Young (American singer)
    Karen Young was an American disco-era singer best known for her hit, "Hot Shot".-Biography:Young grew up in a Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania rowhouse. Before becoming an international recording star with "Hot Shot," she recorded jingles and background vocals for the Philadelphia based...

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  • Val Young
    Val Young
    Val Young , is an Urban/Dance-pop artist from Detroit, Michigan, who achieved success during the 1980s. She is now based in Los Angeles.- Career :...

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