Artist Biographies
On stage and off it: stories of the artists you listen to, plus the tracks that make you want to explore more.
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MARINICHEV
MARINICHEV is a Russian pop project / artist of the current digital wave. Wider attention came with hits “Moya zhelannaya,” “Makiyazh,” and “Murashki.” The catalogue is lyrical co
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Lida Lee
Lida Lee (Lidiia Skorubska) is a Ukrainian pop artist from Kyiv. Wider fame came through work with MONATIK (“Dobegi,” “Dostoprimechatelnost,” rytmoLOVE) and solo hits On Fire, “Z t
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Mister Disko
Mister Disco (Мистер Диско) is a Russian pop project with a dense catalogue of romantic singles from 2025–2026. The lineup includes “Ty u menya odna,” “Ne mogu tebya zabyt,” “Nasha
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Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert is an American pop/rock vocalist known for a powerful range and bold stage presence. Fame followed American Idol, and his commercial breakthrough was sealed by hits Wh
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Koles
Koles is a Russian pop artist, songwriter, and composer Nikolay Lapukhin. The project has released short, catchy singles since 2020 on the WHY Z MUSIC label — light Russian pop wit
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Simon Dominic
Simon Dominic (born Jung Ki-suck, 정기석) is a South Korean rapper from Busan. He started in the underground as K-OUTA, then adopted his stage name: «Simon» from Wesley Snipes’ charac
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Gruppa 888
Gruppa 888 is a music project by Russian singer-songwriter Alexander Vestov, known in the Russian chanson genre. The name marks a separate stage in his work: here chanson and pop b
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O X I O N
O X I O N (also listed as OXION) is a music project in dance pop, pop and club electronics with Ukrainian-language lyrics. In public sources it is presented as an author-driven pop
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Diaspora UA
Diaspora UA is a Ukrainian music project operating at the intersection of pop, EDM, and club sound. On streaming platforms, it is positioned as a home for modern versions of Ukrain
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Labrinth
Labrinth is the stage name of British singer, songwriter, composer, and producer Timothy McKenzie. Born on January 4, 1989, in Hackney, London, he began his career as a producer be
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MARGARITA SUHANKINA
Margarita Sukhonkina is a Soviet and Russian opera and pop singer — one of the most recognizable voices of the eurodisco and pop era of the 1980s and 1990s. She was born on April 1
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Mamarika
MamaRika is the stage name of Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and actress Anastasiia Oleksandrivna Sereda (née Kochetova). Born on April 13, 1989, in Chervonohrad (now Sheptytskyi),
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Iryna Fedyshyn
Irina Fedishin is a Ukrainian pop singer, songwriter, and one of the most recognizable artists from Lviv and western Ukraine. She was born on February 1, 1987, in Lviv into a creat
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DOROFEEVA
DOROFEEVA is the stage name of Nadiia Volodymyrivna Dorofeeva, one of Ukraine's most recognizable pop singers, songwriters, actresses and influencers. Born on April 21, 1990 in Sim
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ozhog
ozhog (ожог) is a Russian hip-hop artist and songwriter whose streaming name is usually stylized in lowercase. Rights credits list Ivan Evgenyevich Plyasov as the lyricist behind t
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KomyagiNA
KomyagiNA is a Russian-language streaming pop project with a deliberately “surname-like” spelling: an ordinary last name, but the final “NA” highlighted as a brand. There is no pub
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Feniks-Maryana Shuyskaya
Feniks — Maryana Shuyskaya is a Russian-language lyrical-pop artist: a voice for love on the edge, train stations, and the right to choose yourself. The name already carries the dr
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Ekaterina Yashnikova
Ekaterina Yashnikova is a Russian singer, songwriter, poet and video blogger. She was born on 20 December 1992 in Moscow. By training she is a psychologist (Lomonosov Moscow State
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Wellboy
Wellboy (Anton Oleksandrovych Velboy, born June 9, 2000, in Hrun, Sumy Oblast) is a Ukrainian singer, composer, and songwriter. He grew up in a family of village musicians and grad
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Iris Thorn
Iris Thorn (Айрис Торн) is a pop artist whose tracks are available on streaming platforms including Yandex Music. She works at the intersection of Russian- and English-language pop
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Bebe Rexha
Bebe Rexha is an American pop singer, songwriter, and one of the most recognizable stars of the global pop scene in the 2010s and 2020s. Born Bleta Rexha on August 30, 1989, in Bro
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Andrey Shumny
Andrey Shumny is a music project whose releases appear on digital platforms under a Russian-language stage name. In catalogs, it is often tagged as “soulful chanson” — a genre with
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Lizzo
Lizzo is the stage name of American singer, rapper, and flutist Melissa Viviane Jefferson. Born on April 27, 1988, in Detroit and raised in Houston, she has been connected to music
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Deshyovye Dramy
Deshevye Dramy is a Russian pop-core band from St. Petersburg that began as a street ensemble and grew into one of the city’s most recognizable street projects. The group formed in
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Vladimir Kuzmin
Vladimir Borisovich Kuzmin is a Soviet and Russian rock musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Born on May 31, 1955, in Moscow to a naval officer and a foreign-la
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POCHTISCHASTLIV
POCHTISCHASTLIV is a Belarusian music project in alternative rock and indie rock, based in Minsk. Behind the stage name is songwriter, vocalist, and composer Maxim Sergeevich Krugl
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Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo is an American singer, songwriter, and actress — one of the defining pop stars of Generation Z. Born on February 20, 2003, in Murrieta, California, she grew up in ne
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LeoniDъ
LeoniDъ is the stage name of poet and singer Leonid Shcherbina, born on March 18, 1986, in Kazakhstan, Karaganda Oblast. He now lives in Ekibastuz, Pavlodar Oblast, and works as a
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JONY
JONY is the stage name of Russian singer and songwriter Jahid Afrail oglu Huseynli, born on February 29, 1996, in Baku. He is of Azerbaijani descent. At age four, he moved with his
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KANIKULY
КАNИКУЛЫ is a Russian-language pop project whose name inserts a Latin “N,” while streaming pages usually list it simply as “Каникулы.” It is not the Yekaterinburg wedding cover ban
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SASHA TRAUTVEIN
SASHA TRAUTVEIN is the stage name of Alexander Sergeevich Trautvein, a Siberian from Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, first known as model and influencer sashadidntwakeup, later as a music
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TumaniYO
TumaniYO (Alexander Andreyevich Seleznyov; also Tuman, YO) is a Russian hip-hop / ragga artist on Hajime Records, born 22 June 1996 in Astrakhan. “Ordinary family, ordinary neighbo
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Endshpil
Endshpil (Soslan Burnatsev; also Andy Panda) is a Russian rapper from Vladikavkaz, Ossetian, born 2 October 1995. School No. 50, youth football for Spartak Vladikavkaz; trained as
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Tom Ford
TOM FORD is a Russian-language lyrical-pop project with a glossy borrowed name and very un-glossy content. This is not the fashion designer and not a runway soundtrack: behind the
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Onei
ONEY is a Russian-language digital-pop project that arrives with almost no classic biography — and a clear sonic silhouette. The sound is short, cold-bright, and cinematic: night s
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Anna Dal
Anna Dal is a Russian-language pop singer with a short but already gathered digital catalog from 2026. On streaming platforms the artist is listed as a separate profile: first the
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Nikita Kiosse
Nikita Kiosse is a Russian pop singer from Ryazan and a former vocalist of the boy band MBAND. Solo fame was sealed by hits “nevynosimaya,” “Taina,” and the duet “Zabivayu” with Lu
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Olya Kodeks
Olya Kodeks is a Russian streaming pop / hip-hop project with patriotic and “land” motifs. On Apple Music the act appears as Оля Кодекс; there’s little public bio — the focus is 20
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Irena Berti
Irena Berti is a pop artist with a Russian-language catalogue built at the meeting point of classic poetry and contemporary song. Not to be confused with Italian singer Orietta Ber
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Mykhailo Hrytskan
Mykhailo Hrytskan is a Ukrainian singer, musician, and Honored Artist of Ukraine. He was born on March 8, 1966, in the village of Terebleche in Chernivtsi region. He studied music
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Faina Stefa
Faina Stefa is a Ukrainian pop singer whose tracks have been actively released on streaming platforms since 2026. She should not be confused with FIЇNKA (Iryna Vykhovanets) — Faina
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Stop Kard
Stop Kard is a modern Russian show group known for ironic and provocative songs. The project focuses on bright presentation, memorable visuals, and topical themes that quickly reso
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K407
K407 is a Russian rock artist with pop and hip-hop elements in delivery. Little public biographical information is available — the music speaks through lyrics about the city, court
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Kile Qweed
Kile Qweed is a Russian pop artist whose real name is Maksim Aleksandrovich Zhilin. Born on 27 April 1992 in Bratsk, he now lives and works in Saint Petersburg. The stage name Kile
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Osman Altun
Osman Altun is a Turkish DJ, producer, and songwriter from Istanbul, born on 12 July 1991. He works in deep house, nu-disco, and melodic house, owns the TFB Records label, and coll
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Popil
POPIL is a Ukrainian indie-pop project by Odesa musician Andriy Chuyko. His music blends ambient, slowcore, acoustic textures, synth minimalism, and indie-rock melodies — intimate,
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Gromkie Stroki
Gromkie Stroki is a Russian hip-hop project whose name evokes the power of words and expressive lyricism. There is little public biographical information about its members, so the
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Toad Forge
Toad Forge is a Ukrainian music project operating at the intersection of pop, tech house, and atmospheric electronics. It is not a stage alias tied to a major media persona, but a
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Swozzy Boy
Svozi Boy is the stage name of Russian trap artist Giorgiy Zurabovich Djologua from Voronezh. He is also known as Swozzy boy, Swozzyboo, and Brudda Scale. He grew up within the loc
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Magicool
Medzhikul is a Russian band from Saint Petersburg blending funk, disco, neo-soul, and modern pop. The name is an invented word — MagiCool — reflecting the project's core idea: givi
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