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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.

  • Braaheim

    Braaheim is a Norwegian DJ and party-house producer from Trysil. The name fuses Braaten and Åsheim: Martin Bråten and Christopher Åsheim (aka Chrit Leaf); earlier they were Braaten

  • Stray Kids

    Stray Kids (SKZ) is a South Korean boy band under JYP Entertainment, formed through the 2017 reality show of the same name and debuting on 25–26 March 2018 (I am NOT / “District 9”

  • Lana Del Rey

    Lana Del Rey (Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, born 21 June 1985 in Manhattan) is an American singer-songwriter of cinematic / baroque pop. Raised in Lake Placid and a Fordham philosophy

  • Gio Pika

    Gio Pika (Georgiy Vladimirovich Dzhioev) is a Russian rapper of Ossetian origin, born on 8 May 1978 in Tbilisi. Childhood meant moves through North Ossetia to Moscow, a musical fam

  • Aiden Skye

    Aiden Skye (often listed as Aiden Sky) is an English-language digital-pop project with “sky” in the name and ground-level heartbreak in the lyrics. There is almost no public biogra

  • Stellar

    Stellar is the stage name of American pop artist Siddhant (Sid) Banerjee. He was born on 16 August 2000 in Lowell, Massachusetts; Indian-American roots, now based in Los Angeles. T

  • Sanaria

    Sanaria is a Ukrainian pop singer of the new digital wave. On storefronts, don’t confuse the name with Sublime’s “Santeria,” Brazilian Sanária, or other near-matches: her catalog i

  • Adelya Zagrebina

    Adeliya Zagrebina (often searched as “Adelya”) is a Russian singer from Nizhny Novgorod and the winner of season 9 of The Voice Kids. Born on 3 December 2013 and named after Adele,

  • Dmytro Kod

    Dmytro Kod (Dmytro Kozlitin) is a Kropyvnytskyi sound producer and indie-pop artist: the solo project of someone previously known from the duo morgendie. This is not a TV star — it

  • Aelita Mayskaya

    Aelita Mayskaya (Аэлита Майская) is a Russian pop artist with a catalogue of romantic and dance singles from 2026. Solo highlights include “Bez tebya ne zhivu,” “Bokal vina,” “Ya b

  • YowLevite

    YowLevite (real name Keron Young) is a Jamaican Grammy-nominated dancehall / reggae producer, engineer, and composer who has stepped forward as an artist. A UWI graduate, he left c

  • Ripe

    Ripe is an American alt-pop / funk band: formed in Boston, now based in Los Angeles. They started in 2011 as Berklee College of Music students; frontman Robbie Wulfsohn is joined b

  • Derrick Sound

    Derrick Sound is a Swiss reggae / dancehall duo from Geneva: DJs, producers, and MCs Mr. Nico and Inspecta Derrick. They started in the early 2000s at K-Bar and Piment Rouge, inspi

  • Eesah

    Eesah is a Kingston-based Jamaican reggae / dancehall artist. His name comes from the patois phrase “dat bad eesah” — praise for a killer riddim; he formerly performed as Jahkime.

  • Eteria

    Eteria is a Ukrainian folk ensemble from Lviv — singers and musicians who collect and record rare traditional songs. Not to be confused with other projects using the same name in r

  • Beroz Papito

    Beroz Papito is a singer, songwriter, and topliner with Iranian roots, raised in Norway (Oslo). Active on streaming since 2019, he debuted with Classics and also directs and produc

  • Sila Roda

    Sila Roda is a Russian music project at the crossroads of folk, folk-rock and modern pop. The focus is ethno motifs, fairy-tale imagery and melodic singles about the forest, Rus an

  • Jesko

    Jesko is a German singer-songwriter from Hannover, performing under the stage name jesko. Behind the project is Neele Wohler — an artist with an expressive voice and atmospheric po

  • Omar Duro

    Omar Duro is a Dutch DJ and producer from Amsterdam, working at the crossroads of dance, Afro house, moombahton and trap. His tracks are built on powerful basslines, infectious rhy

  • It's Different

    It's Different is a Romanian electronic producer known for blending trap, future bass and club energy. The project started as a duo and is now the solo work of Andrei Iacoban (Iaco

  • Ismat

    Ismat is a Russian pop artist with a lyrical sound and contemporary delivery. Little public biographical information is available — the music speaks through lyrics about love, part

  • McLaren

    McLaren is British musician, producer, and impresario Malcolm McLaren, born on 22 January 1946 in London, died on 8 April 2010. He is best known as manager of the Sex Pistols and c

  • Stereosophie

    Stereosophie is a Ukrainian artist from Kyiv working at the intersection of hyperpop, electronic pop, and hip-hop. Under this stage name she builds a distinct digital identity: no

  • Julia Volkova

    Yulia Olegovna Volkova (born 20 February 1985 in Moscow) is a Russian singer and former t.A.T.u. member. Piano from seven, Neposedy from nine — where she met Lena Katina; at 14 she

  • Chernilnoe nebo

    Chernilnoe Nebo is a Russian lyric-pop project from the orbit of Sergey Kuznetsov’s studio (founder of Laskoviy May). Its roots are in Chernila dlya Pyatogo Klassa in the early ’90

  • LEKHA GUD

    Lyokha Good (Alexey Gennadyevich Gudoshnikov, born 22 October 1999 in Khabarovsk) is a Far East Russian rapper. He has written since 2015 and been online since the late 2010s; the

  • Gela Zozulya

    Gelya Zozulya (real name Angelina) is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter from the Zhytomyr region. The stage name: “Gelya” is her grandmother Halya’s home nickname; “Zozulya” is a folk

  • Norma Tale

    Norma Tale is a Moscow multi-genre project by Boris Ramon (Boris Alexeyevich Kurakin, born 6 August 1999). It started around 2018–2019 as “NORMA” and grew into a fairy-tale myth un

  • Ursaru

    Ursaru (also Ursarinho / “El Hitano”) is a new-wave Romanian singer-rapper; catalogs list him as Chiriac Emanuel Ursaru. From the “8.0.5.3.0.0” area, he sings in Romanian and Roman

  • Gheboasa

    Gheboasă (Gabriel Gavriș, born 11 February 2003 in Târgoviște) is a Romanian trapanele artist: trap + manele. He grew up in the Șerpărie neighborhood — orphanage, foster family, Ro

  • Dj Bestixxx

    Dj Bestixxx (Anatolijs / Anatoly Bestikovs, born 22 July 1987 in Riga) is a Latvian DJ, producer, rapper, and poet. Ziepniekkalns district, later Olaine; active on PromoDJ and gues

  • Busy Signal

    Busy Signal (Reanno Devon Gordon, born 24 January 1979 in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica) is one of the key voices of contemporary dancehall and reggae. He grew up between West/East Kin

  • Burna Boy

    Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, born 2 July 1991 in Port Harcourt) is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer who calls his sound Afro-fusion: afrobeats, dancehall, reggae, h

  • Anda Adam

    Anda Adam (Anda Angelica Adam, born 27 April 1980 in Bucharest) is a Romanian pop, dance and R&B singer, model, and a defining radio voice of the 2000s–2010s. Her career started in

  • Маша Гончарук

    Masha Goncharuk (Mariya Yuryevna Goncharuk) is a Ukrainian pop singer and model, born on 14 May 1990 in the village of Popudnia, Cherkasy region. Piano, classical vocals in Kharkiv

  • ВариАция

    VariAtsiya is a Russian-language pop-rock project that appeared in digital catalogs in March–April 2026 with the short singles Ne Toropis and Tvoy Mir. The capital A in the middle

  • TATREY

    TATREY is a Russian-language pop project with a short digital catalog from spring 2026. On streaming platforms the artist is listed as a separate Latin-letter profile: five singles

  • Stephen Sanchez

    Stephen Sanchez is a Mexican-American pop/singer-songwriter from California, based around Nashville. His global breakthrough was the viral hit Until I Found You — a retro ballad wi

  • Mushtavinski

    Mushtavinski is a Belarusian hip-hop artist with a Russian-language catalogue of 2026 singles. Tracks include “Poka ya ne gotov,” “Ya Belorus,” “Uznik vremeni,” “Doroga,” “Bereg,”

  • Freya Ridings

    Freya Ridings is a British pop/singer-songwriter from London, known for piano ballads and a powerful vocal. Her breakthrough came with Lost Without You and the international hit Ca

  • BLVKES

    BLVKES is a Russian alternative/dark R&B project with atmospheric electropop and hypnotic beats. Standout tracks include Sailor Moon, Deja Vu, Nobody Else, C'est la vie, Count to F

  • Ama Lenz

    Ama Lenz is a Russian pop artist with a short catalogue of 2026 digital singles. The lineup includes “Dorogo,” “Na vole ya,” and “Tupo vlyubitsya.” The sound leans on contemporary

  • MACAN

    MACAN (Andrey Kosolapov) is a Russian hip-hop/rap artist from Moscow. Wider fame came through melodic rap and viral tracks such as ASPHALT 8, “Kino,” IVL, “Se la vi,” “GIRI,” and “

  • Sergey Lazarev

    Sergey Lazarev is a Russian pop artist, showman, and one of the defining voices of Russian estrada from the 2000s–2020s. Fame followed his solo career after the duo Smash!! and the