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Toma Zdravković

Toma Zdravković (Тома Здравковић) was a Serbian folk singer-songwriter, born in 1938, who performed for decades in the kafanas of Yugoslavia and sold over a million records.

Toni Montano

Toni Montano, also printed as Tonny Montano and born Velibor Miljković, was a Serbian punk, rockabilly, and psychobilly singer from Belgrade, a Yugoslav psychobilly pioneer who died in 2024.

Tony Astarita

Tony Astarita (Antonio Astarita) was an Italian singer from Naples, twice winner of the Festival di Napoli, best known for his 1968 signature song "Core spezzato".

Tony Dallara

Tony Dallara, real name Antonio Lardera, was an Italian singer born in Campobasso who won the Sanremo Festival in 1960 with "Romantica" and recorded the hit "Come prima".

Tony Marshall

Tony Marshall, born Herbert Anton Bloeth in Baden-Baden in 1938, was a German Schlager singer whose 1971 hit "Schöne Maid" sold a million copies; he died in 2023.

Tony Renis

Tony Renis, born Elio Cesari, is an Italian singer, songwriter, and producer whose "Quando quando quando" became one of the most performed Italian songs worldwide.

Top Channel Albania

Top Channel is a national private television broadcaster headquartered in Tirana, Albania. Founded by Dritan Hoxha in 2001, it was Albania's largest television by revenue until 2017.

TOQUEL

TOQUEL is the stage name of Klaudjo Dhespo, a Greek rapper of Albanian descent, born in 1994 and raised in Heraklion, Crete, and a leading figure in Greek trap.

Toxi$

Toxi$ is the stage name of Andrei Smelyansky, a Russian rapper and singer in RANDOM CREW who won the Forbes 30 Under 30 music list in 2024.

Trauffer

Trauffer is the stage name of Marc A. Trauffer, a Swiss Mundart-pop singer from the Bernese Oberland who has topped the Swiss album charts since 2014.

Trio

Trio was a German minimal-pop band from Großenkneten, formed in 1979, whose 1982 single "Da da da" became a worldwide hit before they dissolved in 1986.

Tsentr

Tsentr (Центр) is a Russian hip-hop group from Moscow whose core members were Guf, Slim, and Ptaha, a flagship of Russian hip-hop in the late 2000s.

Tsifteteli

Tsifteteli (τσιφτετέλι) is a Greek belly dance and rhythm of Ottoman Anatolian origin, brought to Greece by 1922 refugees and danced at weddings and nightclubs.

Turbo-folk

Turbo-folk (турбо-фолк) is a Serbian pop-folk fusion genre that emerged in the early 1990s from newly composed folk music, blending folk melodies with techno, dance, and hip-hop beats.

Udo Lindenberg

Udo Lindenberg, born 1946 in Gronau, Westphalia, is a German rock singer and painter credited as the inventor of Deutschrock; his 2023 hit Komet spent 21 weeks at number 1.

Ukrainian pop (post-Soviet)

Ukrainian pop (post-Soviet) is the Ukrainian-language popular-music scene that took shape after independence in the 1990s, launched by the 1989 Chervona Ruta festival and defined by Ruslana's 2004 Eurovision win.

Ultimo

Ultimo, stage name of Niccolò Moriconi (born 1996 in Rome), is an Italian singer-songwriter who won Sanremo's newcomers' section in 2018 and became the youngest Italian act to sell out stadiums.

Uma2rman

Uma2rman (Уматурман, also styled Uma2rmaH) is a Russian pop-rock duo of brothers Vladimir and Sergey Kristovsky, formed in 2003 in Nizhny Novgorod and named after Uma Thurman.

Umberto Bindi

Umberto Bindi (1932–2002) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer from Bogliasco near Genoa, best known for 'Il nostro concerto' (1960) and remembered as a founder of the Genoese school of cantautori.

Una lacrima sul viso (song)

"Una lacrima sul viso" is a 1964 Italian pop ballad by Bobby Solo that hit number 1 in Italy despite being withdrawn from Sanremo over a playback scandal.

Universal Music Germany

Universal Music Germany is the German arm of Universal Music Group, headquartered in Berlin since 2002 and led by Frank Briegmann, operating labels including Polydor, Electrola, and Deutsche Grammophon.

Urban romance

City romance (городской романс), also called everyday romance, is a Russian urban folk song genre of the lower city classes, flourishing from the late 1800s into the 20th century.

Uzari & Maimuna

Uzari & Maimuna is a Belarusian musical duo pairing singer-composer Uzari (Yuri Navrotsky) with classical violinist Maimuna; after winning Eurofest 2015, they represented Belarus at Eurovision 2015 with "Time".

Vakhtang Kikabidze

Vakhtang Kikabidze (Вахтанг Кикабидзе), known as Buba, was a Georgian estrada singer and film actor, famous for the 1977 film Mimino and its song Chito-gvrito.

Vald

Vald, the stage name of Valentin Le Du, is a French rapper from Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris, known for absurdist humor and dense wordplay; his albums Agartha (2017) and Pandemonium (2025) both reached number one in France.

Valentina Tolkunova

Valentina Tolkunova (Валентина Толкунова; 1946–2010) was a Soviet and Russian estrada singer, named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1987, who performed more than 800 songs over 44 years.

Valeria

Valeria (Валерия), born Alla Perfilova in 1968, is a Russian estrada pop singer with nineteen studio albums, Golden Gramophone awards across three decades, and a 2025 Grammy long-list song.

Vali Vijelie

Vali Vijelie is the stage name of Valentin Rusu, a Romanian manele singer of Romani origin, born in Bucharest in 1970 and active since the 1990s.

Van Gogh (group)

Van Gogh (Serbian: Ван Гог) is a Serbian rock band formed in Belgrade in 1986 and fronted by guitarist and singer Zvonimir Đukić Đule, known for the hit "Neko te ima".

Vanessa Mai

Vanessa Mai, born 1992 in Baden-Württemberg, is a German schlager and pop singer who fronted Wolkenfrei, has released nine studio albums, and has sold more than 800,000 records.