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Artist Biographies

On stage and off it: stories of the artists you listen to, plus the tracks that make you want to explore more.

  • Korol i Shut

    Korol i Shut is one of the most recognizable punk rock bands in Russia, born in Leningrad in the late 1980s. The group started as Kontrora before taking its legendary name in 1990.

  • Mikhail Krug

    Mikhail Krug is one of the defining figures of Russian chanson and an artist forever linked with the city of Tver. Born Mikhail Vorobyov, he later chose the stage name Krug — a wor

  • Enigma

    Enigma is one of the most mysterious and recognizable music projects of the late 20th century, founded in 1990 by composer and producer Michael Cretu. At first, it was a studio exp

  • Rammstein

    Rammstein is one of the most powerful and recognizable rock bands of the modern era, formed in Berlin in 1994. The lineup brings together six musicians with deep roots in the East

  • Gaza Strip

    Sektor Gaza is a cult rock band from Voronezh, founded in the late 1980s by Yuri Klinskykh, better known to fans as Yura Khoy. The name refers to a local industrial district — roug

  • ANNA ASTI

    ANNA ASTI (real name Anna Anatolyevna Dzyuba) is a Ukrainian and Russian singer. She was born on June 24, 1990 in Cherkasy. She dreamed of the stage from childhood, performing at s

  • Viktor Tsoi

    Viktor Tsoi is one of the defining symbols of Soviet rock and the voice of an entire generation. Born in Leningrad, he worked as a boiler stoker, painted, and played in several ama

  • TATITERA

    TATITERA — also known as Tatitera — is a music project built around modern Russian pop and the timeless power of classic poetry. Lines familiar from school anthologies are reshaped

  • Inna Valter

    Inna Valter is a Russian singer-songwriter working in estrada chanson. Born on August 21, 1994, in Barnaul, she is now associated with the St. Petersburg scene. She writes and perf

  • Gravitatsiya

    Gravitatsiya is a Russian romantic pop project whose 2026 releases come out via Studiya SOYUZ. On Apple Music and Spotify the name covers a run of albums and singles with lyrical s

  • Novaya muzyka

    Novaya muzyka is a music project whose releases appear on digital platforms under a single stage name. It is not a classic “live” band with a public biography, but a modern catalog

  • Chornyi Rytm

    Cherny Ritm is a Ukrainian reggae project that blends a smooth Caribbean groove with modern urban storytelling. The songs sound easy on the surface, yet they touch on sharp themes:

  • INSTASAMKA

    Instasamka (real name Darya Yevgenyevna Yeropkina, née Zoteyeva) is a Russian singer, rapper, blogger and TikToker. She was born on May 11, 2000 in Tobolsk, Tyumen Oblast. After he

  • LXE

    LXE is a Russian music project in the young boyband format, blending rap and hip-hop. The group was founded in 2017 by bloggers Richard Aleynik and Maxim Ovchinnikov, who first bui

  • LIZA LIZOK

    LIZA LIZOK is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter whose music blends hip-hop, electronic production, dance rhythms, and confessional lyrics. Behind the stage name is Elizaveta Khudne

  • DJ Rauff

    DJ Rauff is a DJ and music producer working across house, deep house, and tech house. He is known for a tight club sound, steady grooves, and atmospheric arrangements that work bot

  • DJ KAIFAR

    DJ KAIFAR, also known as Didzhey Kayfar, is a Ukrainian DJ and music producer working at the intersection of pop, disco, and dance electronics. His sound is built on bright beats,

  • Leningrad

    Leningrad is one of the most recognizable and provocative bands in modern Russia, founded by Sergey Shnurov in Saint Petersburg. The group’s official birthday is January 13, 1997.

  • Mihael Gudovskih

    Michael Gudovskikh is a Russian singer-songwriter working at the intersection of pop, chanson, and estrada. His music is often released under the “Pravilnaya Pop Muzyka” (“Proper P

  • SAYAN

    SAYAN is a Russian singer and songwriter whose real name is Armen Esayan. Born in Shusha, he moved with his family to Saratov at an early age and turned to music young — writing hi

  • GUT1K

    GUT1K is the stage name of Russian artist, songwriter, and producer Viktor Nikolaevich Kostyrev. Born on September 23, 1997, in Kursk, he built a recognizable style at the crossroa

  • karna.val

    karna.val is a Russian singer, blogger, and actress widely known as Valya Karnaval. Her real name is Valentina Karnaukhova. Born in Rostov-on-Don, she grew up in modest circumstanc

  • Anna Trincher

    Anna Trincher is a Ukrainian pop singer, actress, and blogger — one of the most recognizable young stars of the country’s music scene. Born on August 3, 2001, in Kyiv, she has been

  • Y.K. Music

    Y.K. Music (U.K. Music) is a Ukrainian musical project led by songwriter, composer, and producer Yuriy Kalan. Working at the intersection of pop and electronic music, the artist bl

  • Ariana Grande

    Ariana Grande (Ariana Grande-Butera) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress — one of the defining pop icons of the 2010s and 2020s. Born on June 26, 1993, in Boca Raton, Fl

  • Nochnoy Marshrut

    Nochnoy Marshrut is a music project in pop with electronic and modern club-influenced production. The name reflects the core atmosphere: a night city, neon lights, the road home, a

  • MALA SARA

    Mala Sara (MALA SARA) is a Ukrainian pop artist whose music quickly reaches listeners through social media, streaming platforms, and digital music sites. She works primarily in Ukr

  • Lanita

    Lanita (Ланита) is a Russian pop artist of the 2020s whose project grew around songs by Irina Korabelnikova: lyrics about love, freedom, and female “inconvenience,” melodies short

  • snova Eva

    snova Eva is a Russian pop / electronic project with emotional tracks about love, fights, and breakups. The sound is light, danceable, and streaming-friendly: short hooks, direct l

  • SMVK

    SMVK is a Russian electronic producer and songwriter working across EDM, dance, slap house, and hypertechno. The project actively releases singles and EPs on streaming platforms, c

  • LUNARA

    Lunara is a Russian music project working in modern pop with club and dance influences. Its sound combines a driving beat, expressive vocals, and short, catchy hooks — a format tha

  • d.brusnitsyn

    D.Brusnitsyn is the stage name of a Ukrainian pop artist also credited as D. Brusnitsyn. His music pairs contemporary production with an expressive vocal delivery and lyrics in Ukr

  • Kiber balabol

    Kiber Balabol is a music project whose releases appear on digital platforms under a vivid internet-stage name. The title combines “kiber” — a digital, online aesthetic — with “bala

  • Runa

    RUNA is a Russian-language pop singer on AURORA Music / Gamma Music (not the Celtic band Runa, the ethno project Runa Project, or the rock band Louna). The name nods to a “rune”; t

  • Mira Puls

    Mira Puls is a Russian pop/chanson singer actively releasing music on streaming platforms. She should not be confused with singer Mira (Anna Avvakumova) or artist Ira Pauls — this

  • Smak Klubnyak

    Smak Klubnyak is a Russian dance project performing under a playful stage name that evokes the “taste of strawberry.” It is not a solo artist with a public biography but a musical

  • MAYOT

    Mayot is a Russian rapper and singer born Artyom Gennadievich Nikitin on February 2, 1999, in Tyumen. He is one of the most prominent voices of a new generation in Russian hip-hop

  • YAKTAK

    YAKTAK is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter born Yaroslav Mykolaievich Karpuk on May 4, 2005, in Stara Vyzhivka, Volyn Oblast. He launched his solo project in Kyiv in February 2022

  • R3phase

    R3Phase is a Ukrainian artist and producer working in dance-pop. He releases short, catchy tracks with club energy and light melodies — music that moves quickly into playlists, Tik

  • ZVUCAR

    Zvukar is the stage identity of Ukrainian artist ZVUCAR, whose music has been gaining momentum across streaming platforms and social media. He works in modern pop, blending melodic

  • Kostyreva

    KOSTYREVA is a Russian-language pop artist with a short digital catalog from 2026. On streaming platforms the profile is listed in caps: first collaborations with GUT1K and ZippO,

  • Green Kolobok

    Green Kolobok is a pop/rap music project by Andrey Grigorievich Kachashev, born on March 4, 1987, in the village of Aktash, Ulagansky District, Altai Republic. The project name is

  • Bryanskaya

    Bryanskaya is a Russian hip-hop / pop-rap vocalist; streaming services list her under Hip-Hop, female voice, stage name that sounds like a place. Almost no public bio: no birth dat

  • Utrom pasmurno

    Utrom Pasmurno is a Russian music project working in pop and electronica with a melancholic lyrical tone. It should not be confused with the indie band passmurny from Cheboksar or

  • Tatiana Bulanova

    Tatyana Ivanovna Bulanova is a Russian estrada singer and actress, one of the main female voices of 1990s pop. Born on 6 March 1969 in Leningrad. Her path ran through music hall an

  • Ruki Vverh

    Ruki Vverkh! is a Russian pop / dance group that became a symbol of late-1990s and early-2000s eurodance. Founded by Sergey Zhukov and Alexey Potekhin after they met in 1993 at Eur

  • Grigory Leps

    Grigory Leps (born Lepsveridze) is a Soviet and Russian singer, musician, composer, and producer. He was born on July 16, 1962, in Sochi, into a working-class family. From childhoo

  • Volkanov

    Volkanov is the stage name of Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and composer Dmytro Volkanov. Born on July 6, 2001, in Berdyansk, he grew up surrounded by music — his grandfather, a we

  • NVDIINE

    NVDIINE is a Russian-language pop artist from digital catalogs; the name reads like a stylized Nadine. There is no public biography, interview trail, or birth date: the project arr

  • EmoTix

    EmoTix is a Ukrainian hip-hop artist with a catalogue of Ukrainian-language singles from 2025–2026. Standout tracks include “Ne dzvony,” “Mosty,” “VDOMA,” “Bez tebe,” “NE KLYCH,” “