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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Tetyana Ilyenko
Tetiana Ilienko on the card is a Ukrainian songwriter, Ukrainian only, filed as pop. There is no passport in open sources, no city, no husband or children listed under this name: s
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Qanat Umbetov
Qanat Umbetov on the card is Қанат Үмбетов, a Kazakh estrada singer, Kazakh only, filed as pop. He was born on 17 October 1988 in Zhetysay (some accounts say Shymkent), the third c
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Roza Alqoja
Roza Alqoja is Kazakh estrada, not the legendary Roza Rymbaeva and not “another Roza with a dombra”: the card reads Latin Roza Alqoja; the passport is Rozа Abdrazakovna Alkhodzhaye
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Khadn dadn
Hadn Dadn grew out of a childhood nonsense phrase of Varvara Kraminova: in Moscow she used “hadn dadn” for anything and everything, and in 2016 it became a band name. She was born
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TONYM
TONYM arrived on streaming as a stamp, not a biography: Latin letters, no interview, no hometown in public sources. The Ukrainian store treats the catalog as local, the copyright r
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Evgeniya Onegina
Evgeniya Vladimirovna Onegina was born in Bryansk and that is her legal surname — a Pushkin tail, not a gag that she is “Tatyana.” She is not Tchaikovsky’s opera, not the male chan
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Dj Bashkirofff
Dj Bashkirofff is an electronic producer and DJ who folds club impact into a Ukrainian folk grain. Real name, birth date, and hometown are not published: the project lives in relea
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Akva Vita
Аква Віта (Aqua Vita — Latin for “living water”) is a Ukrainian eurodance/pop act founded in 1993 by nineteen-year-old Ihor Balan from Mala Vyska (childhood in Smoline, Kirovohrad
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Dom na Gromkosti
Dom na Gromkosti (“House at Full Volume”) is a Russian-language rock project whose name already sets the scene: not a quiet living room, but walls turned up loud, where the persona
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Vishnevyi Zakat
Vishnevy Zakat (Вишневый Закат, “Cherry Sunset”) is a Russian music project whose name sets the mood at once: warm color, short summer days, and light melancholy at the edge of eve
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Shkred
Shkred (Egor Shkred, real name Egor Bogdanovich; also Egoryk) is a Belarusian blogger and pop/hip-hop artist, born 7 August 1996 in Vitebsk. Childhood in a dorm outside the city, m
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Alan Walker
Alan Walker (Alan Olav Walker, born 24 August 1997 in Northampton) is a British-Norwegian DJ and producer based in Bergen. He grew up on YouTube tutorials, gaming culture, and cine
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NOT BAND!
NOT BAND! is a St. Petersburg vocal project with an ironic name: not a classic guitar “band,” but a choir and studio collective. A resident of the Brusnitsyn cultural quarter (Kozh
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Trident
TRiDENT is a Japanese girls rock trio: ASAKA (vocals, guitar), SERINA (bass, backing vocals) and NAGISA (drums). They began in a high-school light-music club as Girls Rock Band Rev
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Ded Zakhar
Ded Zakhar (listed on streaming as DED ZAKHAR) is a Russian-language pop project with a short digital start in 2026. The key release is the album SVOI: seven tracks where modern pr
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Ensemble Khmel
Ensemble Khmel is a Russian folk-song group founded in 2006. On streaming platforms it is listed as Ansambl “Khmel”: the repertoire centers on traditional songs in modern arrangeme
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Ані Лорак
Ani Lorak (born Karolina Kuek) is a Ukrainian and Russian pop singer, composer and TV host. She was born on 27 September 1978 in Kitsman, Chernivtsi region. Her stage name is “Karo
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Match
Match is a Russian-language pop project with a very short digital start. On streaming platforms the artist is listed as a separate profile, and the key release is the single Noch (
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YARina
YaRina is a Russian-language ethno-pop project with a styled name (Cyrillic “Ya” + Latin “R”). On storefronts, don’t confuse her with Ecuadorian Yarina, Ukrainian Yaryna Kvasniy, t
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DINARA
Dinara (on platforms — DINARA) is a Russian pop singer from Kazan. Wider attention came with hits “Ona vostok” (with MONA), “Dusha” (with ELMAN), and “More lyubvi.” The catalogue
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VORSKIY
VORSKIY is a Russian pop artist with a catalogue of 2026 digital singles. Solo highlights include “Ya za ney khot v ad,” “Zhena,” “Tvoi glaza,” “Kobra,” and “Vishnya”; with GG brod
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Kamelii Merlina
Kamelii Merlina is a Ukrainian streaming pop project with lyrical tracks in Ukrainian. On Apple Music the act appears under the Latin spelling Kamelii Merlina; there’s little publi
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Gosha Axe
Gosha Axe is a Russian DJ, rapper, songwriter, and poet based in Moscow (Solnechnogorsk also shows up in his writing). Not to be confused with actor Gosha Kutsenko or designer Gosh
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blondinka TASHA
blondinka TASHA is a Russian pop artist with a bold female persona and a dense run of 2026 singles. On streaming she delivers Russian-language pop about age, attitude, love, and a
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ANTONIO-V
ANTONIO-V (listed on Apple Music as Antonio V) is a Hip-Hop/Rap artist with a compact streaming catalogue. Not to be confused with DJ Antonio, Marco Antonio Solís, or classical com
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AN
AN (listed on Apple Music as An) is a Russian-language hip-hop and pop artist with a compact streaming catalogue. Not to be confused with the many other projects sharing the name:
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Monoir
Monoir is the stage name of Romanian DJ, producer, and songwriter Cristian Nicolae Tarcea. Born on 17 April 1993 in Constanța, he studied music from childhood (piano, drums), began
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FADEEVA
FADEEVA is the stage name of Anastasia Fadeeva, a Russian pop-rock singer-songwriter from Kemerovo, born on 2 November 1998. Not to be confused with producer Maxim Fadeev — this is
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CHURSANOV
CHURSANOV is a Ukrainian artist, sound producer, and songwriter based in Kharkiv. He started behind the boards — writing, mixing, and mastering — before stepping forward as a perfo
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KVADRAT
KVADRAT is a Russian pop artist leaning into indie-pop, disco and summer dance sound. The focus is short singles about the city, night, the beach and light melancholy. Do not confu
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EVSTA
EVSTA is a Ukrainian pop artist working with lyrical Ukrainian-language singles. The focus is love, family and warm messages to people close to the heart — from romantic tracks to
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LNGSHOT
LNGSHOT (롱샷, pronounced “long shot”) is a South Korean K-pop boy band formed in 2025 under MORE VISION, the label founded by Jay Park. The group should not be confused with The Lon
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Jay Park
Jay Park (Park Jae-beom, 박재범) is a Korean-American singer, rapper, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. He was born on April 25, 1987, in Edmonds, Washington, grew up in the Sea
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Kody vody
Kody Vody (Codes of Water) is a Russian music project whose releases appeared on streaming platforms in 2026. The sound is described as cyber-ethno or cyber-folk: Slavic motifs, fa
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Jinyoung
Jinyoung is the stage name of South Korean singer, actor, and songwriter Park Jinyoung (박진영), born on September 22, 1994, in Jinhae-gu, Changwon. He dreamed of the stage from child
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NOVAH
Nova (노바) is the stage name of Russian singer, rapper, and dancer Maria Pavlovna Emelyanova, born on October 10, 2002, in Moscow. She practiced dance sports from age four, then bec
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Igor Balan
Igor Volodymyrovych Balan is a Ukrainian singer, composer, arranger and songwriter. He was born on February 19, 1972 in Mala Vyska, Kirovohrad Oblast. He studied at music school fr
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TOMAS BLACK
Tomas Black (TØMAS BLACK) is a Russian DJ, music producer and arranger from Krasnodar. The stage name of Yevgeny Roshchin. He has been active in electronic music since 2013: perfor
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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
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Maxim Borodin
Maksym Leonidovych Borodin is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He was born on September 7, 1985 in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. He graduated from the P. I. Maiboroda Zaporizhz
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MONATIK
MONATIK (Dmytro Monatik) is a Ukrainian pop singer, dancer, choreographer, and songwriter from Lutsk. His breakthrough was sealed by hits “Kruzhit,” “Vitamin D,” and “LOVE IT rhyth
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Diadia Zhora
Dyadya Zhora is the stage name of Ukrainian showman, comedian, host, producer, and singer Vadym Rostyslavovych Mychkovskyi. He was born on September 22, 1975, in Khmelnytskyi. The
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Olya Polyakova
Olya Polyakova (full name Olha Yuriivna Polyakova) is a Ukrainian singer, actress, TV host, and entertainer. She was born on January 17, 1979, in Vinnytsia. She studied music from
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Parfeniuk
Parfeniuk (real name Ilya Andriyovych Parfenyuk) is a Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and influencer. He was born on November 13, 2001, in Kaniv, Cherkasy region. He loved music from
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Niletto
Niletto is the stage name of Russian singer, musician, and dancer Danil Sergeevich Prytkov. He was born on October 1, 1991, in Tyumen and lived in Yekaterinburg from age seven. He
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Егор Крид
Egor Kreed (born Yegor Nikolayevich Bulatkin, previously performing as KReeD) is a Russian singer, rapper, songwriter, actor, blogger, and TV host. He was born on June 25, 1994, in
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Sonya
Sonya is contemporary R&B with no passport. The card has no surname, no city, no birth date, and no country. The name is too common to borrow other biographies: this is not Sonya K
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DIMAi_Music
DIMAi_Music is a Russian digital project with a Latin handle, an underscore in the name and no passport biography in the press: no city, no age, no interviews, no face on a poster.
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Nina Fokina
Nina Fokina is a Russian pop singer from Severodvinsk in Arkhangelsk Oblast: the White Sea town stayed in her voice after she moved to Moscow. After ninth grade she tried medical c
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Tantsevalnyi Kolian
Tantsevalnyy Kolyan on the card is a Russian pop project, Russian only, filed as pop, and since summer 2026 also as dance. There is no passport, no city, no wife at the registry of
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