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Vanna
Vanna is the stage name of Ivana Ranilović, a Croatian pop singer born in 1970 who represented Croatia at Eurovision 2001 and later won multiple Porin awards.
Vanya Dmitrienko
Vanya Dmitrienko (Ваня Дмитриенко), born 2005 in Krasnoyarsk, is a Russian pop singer whose 2020 hit «Венера-Юпитер» topped the charts and whose 2025 rock-influenced singles made him Russia's main pop artist.
Varna Summer International Music Festival
The Varna Summer International Music Festival is Bulgaria's first and oldest classical music festival, held in Varna since 1926 and revived under its current name in 1957.
Velvet Music
Velvet Music is a Moscow-based independent artist management and production company founded in 2004 by Alena Mikhailova and Liana Meladze, known for developing acts including Yolka, Uma2rman, and Polina Gagarina.
Verdammt, ich lieb dich
"Verdammt, ich lieb dich" ("Damn, I love you") is Matthias Reim's 1990 debut single, which spent a record 16 weeks at number 1 on the German chart.
Vesyolye Rebyata
Vesyolye Rebyata (Весёлые ребята), known abroad as Jolly Fellows, is a Soviet and Russian vocal-instrumental ensemble founded in Moscow in 1966 by Pavel Slobodkin, a launch pad for Alla Pugacheva and Alexander Gradsky.
VIA (vocal-instrumental ensemble)
A VIA (Russian: ВИА, вокально-инструментальный ансамбль, vocal-instrumental ensemble) was an officially registered Soviet popular-music group of the 1960s to 1980s, the state-sanctioned substitute for "rock" or "band".
Vice Vukov
Vice Vukov, born Vinko Vukov, was a Croatian singer who represented Yugoslavia at Eurovision in 1963 and 1965 and became one of 1960s Yugoslavia's most popular singers.
Victoria Daineko
Victoria Daineko, also known as Vika Daineko (Виктория Дайнеко), is a Russian pop singer born in 1987 who won the fifth season of the talent show Fabrika Zvyozd in 2004.
Vincent Delerm
Vincent Delerm is a French singer-songwriter born in Évreux in 1976, a leading figure of the nouvelle chanson française whose eight albums appear on Tôt ou tard.
Vitebsk Summer Amphitheatre
The Vitebsk Summer Amphitheatre (Летний амфитеатр) is an open-air concert hall in Vitebsk, Belarus, built in 1988 and the main stage of the Slavianski Bazaar festival.
Vladimir Kiselyov
Vladimir Kiselyov, also known as Vladimir Kiselev (Владимир Киселёв), born 1952, is a Soviet and Russian drummer turned producer who created Zemlyane and owns Russkoe Radio.
Vladimir Kuzmin
Vladimir Kuzmin (Владимир Кузьмин), born 1955 in Moscow, is a Soviet and Russian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, a leading figure of Russian rock-pop since the late 1970s.
Vladimir Mulyavin
Vladimir Mulyavin (Владимир Мулявин, 1941–2003) was a Belarusian singer, guitarist, and composer who founded and led the folk ensemble Pesnyary, becoming a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991.
Volker Lechtenbrink
Volker Lechtenbrink (1944–2021) was a German actor, singer, and songwriter from Hamburg whose biggest hit was "Der Macher" in 1976; he also dubbed Kris Kristofferson.
Volkstümliche Musik
Volkstümliche Musik is a folk-tinged light-music genre of the German-speaking world, kept deliberately close to traditional Alpine Volksmusik but conceived commercially for mass audiences, its career made by television from the early 1980s.
Von Wegen Lisbeth
Von Wegen Lisbeth is a German-language indie-pop band from Berlin, founded in 2006, known for witty lyrics about everyday life and its breakthrough song "Sushi".
Vremya i Steklo
Vremya i Steklo (Time and Glass) is a Ukrainian pop duo formed in Kyiv in 2010, featuring Nadya Dorofeeva and Positive, known for the hit «Имя 505».
Waldbühne (Berlin open-air)
The Waldbühne is an open-air amphitheatre in a wooded hollow near Berlin's Olympiastadion, built for the 1936 Olympics and seating about 22,000. It is Germany's largest natural theater.
Wanda (Austrian band)
Wanda is a German-language pop and rock band from Vienna, founded in 2012, whose 2015 hit "Bologna" made them the most-awarded band in Amadeus Austrian Music Awards history.
Warner Music Russia
Warner Music Russia was the Moscow-based Russian branch of Warner Music Group, established in 2013 through the acquisition of Gala Records, with operations suspended in 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine.
Who See (group)
Who See, also known as Who See Klapa, is a Montenegrin hip-hop duo from Kotor formed in the early 2000s, known for "Regeton Montenegro" and Eurovision 2013.
Wild Mint Festival
Wild Mint Festival (Дикая Мята) is Russia's largest independent multi-format music and arts festival, founded by Andrei Klyukin in 2008 and held near Bunyrevo in Tula Oblast since 2015.
Wolfgang Ambros
Wolfgang Ambros, born 1952 in Wolfsgraben, Austria, is a Viennese-dialect singer-songwriter and pioneer of Austropop, known for 'Schifoan', 'Da Hofa', and 'Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof'.
Worlds Apart (group)
Worlds Apart is a Franco-British boy band formed in London in 1992 whose bilingual hit Je te donne and album Everybody made it a star act in France.
WUK
WUK, short for Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus, is a self-managed cultural center and concert venue in Vienna, housed in a former locomotive factory occupied by activists and opened in 1981.
Xolidayboy
Xolidayboy, known as Ivan Rzhevsky (Иван Ржевский), is a Russian pop singer from Sevastopol whose TikTok-viral songs made him one of Russia's most in-demand artists by 2024.
Yakov Zak
Yakov Zak was a Soviet pianist and teacher, born in Odessa, who won first prize at the 1937 Chopin Competition in Warsaw and taught for four decades at the Moscow Conservatory.
Yaroslav Sumishevsky
Yaroslav Sumishevsky (Ярослав Сумишевский) is a Russian estrada and shanson singer, born in 1983 on Sakhalin, founder of the internet project «Народный Махор» and a performer on Channel One's «Три Аккорда».
Yin-Yang (group)
Yin-Yang (Инь-Ян) is a Russian pop group created in 2007 by producer Konstantin Meladze from Fabrika Zvyozd 7 participants, known for the songs 'Камикадзе' and 'Oh Yeah'.