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Vanilla Beans (group)
Vanilla Beans (バニラビーンズ) were a Japanese idol girl duo of Rena and Lisa, formed in Tokyo in 2007 and disbanded in 2018, pioneers of the song-craft idol style.
Vanilla Fudge
Vanilla Fudge, American psychedelic rock band formed 1965–66 in the New York area (Stein, Martell, Bogert, Appice), known for slowed-down heavy covers; 'You Keep Me Hangin' On' and debut album both hit #6; proto-metal influence on Deep Purple and others.
Vanilla Ice
Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle, born 1967) is the American rapper whose "Ice Ice Baby" became the first rap song to top the Billboard Hot 100; his album To the Extreme sold over seven million copies before a backlash over a fabricated biography.
Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
Vanisher, Horizon Scraper is Quadeca's fourth album, a folktronica and art-pop concept album released July 25, 2025 on X8 Music, about a sailor sailing alone to his death, with Danny Brown and Maruja guests.
Vanity (singer)
Vanity, stage name of Denise Katrina Matthews (1959-2016), Canadian singer and actress who fronted Prince's trio Vanity 6, scored with "Nasty Girl," recorded two Motown solo albums, and later became an evangelist.
Vanity 6
Vanity 6, also known as the Hookers project, was a Prince-assembled Minneapolis female trio (Vanity, Brenda Bennett, Susan Moonsie) whose 1982 Warner Bros. album and single "Nasty Girl" hit No. 1 on the Billboard dance chart before becoming Apollonia 6.
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.
Vanness Wu (吴建豪)
Vanness Wu (吳建豪, Wu Chien-hao), born 1978 in Santa Monica, is a Taiwanese-American singer-actor, F4 member from Meteor Garden, solo artist (Take a Ride), Kangta & Vanness duo member, and 2026 F Forever reunion tour participant.
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.
Vaporwave
Vaporwave is an internet-born electronic microgenre of the early 2010s, sampling and slowing 1980s-1990s muzak, smooth jazz, and city pop; founded by Vektroid, Ferraro, and Lopatin, defined by Floral Shoppe, and tied to consumerist nostalgia aesthetics.
Varg Vikernes
Varg Vikernes (Louis Cachet), aka Count Grishnackh, Norwegian black metal musician behind one-man project Burzum, born 1973; convicted in 1994 of murdering Euronymous and church arsons, 21-year sentence; later neo-Nazi writer arrested in France in 2013.
Vargas de Tecalitlán
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, Mexican mariachi ensemble founded in Tecalitlán, Jalisco, by Gaspar Vargas in 1897 or 1898; led later by Silvestre Vargas, Rubén Fuentes, and Pepe Martínez; famed for El son de la Negra and La Bikina.
Varijashree Venugopal
Varijashree Venugopal (born 1991, Bengaluru) is a Carnatic-trained singer, flautist, and composer known for Carnatic scat singing, her 2024 debut album Vari produced by Michael League, and a 2024 Grammy nomination for Jacob Collier's "A Rock Somewhere".
Varkari kirtan
Varkari kirtan (वारकरी कीर्तन) is the devotional musical discourse tradition of the Varkari sampradaya of Maharashtra, founded by Sant Namdev, in which a kirtankar sings and explains the saints' abhangs.
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.
Varry Brava
Varry Brava is a Spanish indie-pop trio from Orihuela, formed in 2009 by Aarón Sáez, Óscar Ferrer, and Vicente Illescas, known for danceable synth-pop and the hit "Raffaella".
Varsha Bhosle (वर्षा भोसले)
Varsha Bhosle (वर्षा भोसले), daughter of singer Asha Bhosle, was an Indian journalist and right-of-center political columnist for rediff.com (1997-2003), Sunday Observer, and MiD-DAY; she died by suicide in Mumbai on 8 October 2012, aged 56.
Varun Grover (Indian lyricist)
Varun Grover is an Indian lyricist, screenwriter, stand-up comedian, and film director who won the 2016 National Film Award for Best Lyrics for "Moh moh ke dhaagey" from Dum Laga Ke Haisha.
Vasco
Vasco (바스코) is the former stage name of South Korean rapper Shin Dong-yeol, a first-generation Seoul underground hip hop artist now performing as Bill Stax.
Vasco Rossi
Vasco Rossi, also known as Blasco (born 1952, Zocca, Modena), is Italy's most successful rock singer-songwriter since the 1980s, from free-radio pioneer to stadium headliner, with records including Bollicine (1983) and the 225,000-spectator Modena Park 2017 concert.
Vashti Bunyan
Vashti Bunyan (Jennifer Vashti Bunyan, born 1945), English folk singer-songwriter of Just Another Diamond Day (1970); quit music after its failure, returned with Lookaftering (2005) and Heartleap (2014).
Vasuki Vaibhav
Vasuki Vaibhav is an Indian film music composer, lyricist, and playback singer who works primarily in Kannada cinema, known for Rama Rama Re and Badava Rascal.
Vasundhara Das
Vasundhara Das (born 1977, Bengaluru) is an Indian actor, Hindustani-trained playback singer, composer, and entrepreneur, known for Hey Ram, Monsoon Wedding, and Drumjam, and distinct from unrelated Vasundhara real-estate projects.
Vasyl Barvinsky
Vasyl Barvinsky (Василь Барвінський, 1888 to 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and first director of the Lviv Conservatory whose manuscripts were destroyed after his 1948 Soviet arrest.
Vasyl Yemets
Vasyl Yemets (Василь Ємець), also spelled Vasyl Yemetz, was a Ukrainian virtuoso bandurist, bandura maker, historian, and teacher who founded the first bandura chapel in Kyiv in 1918.
Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe
Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe is Coheed and Cambria's eleventh studio album, released March 14, 2025; third of five Vaxis acts in The Amory Wars saga, with the four-part suite The Continuum.
VE/RA
VE/RA (Vera van de Kerkhof, born 1999) is a Dutch techno DJ and producer whose track "Love & Peace" topped the Beatport Hype Charts in 2023.
Vector (musician)
Vector tha Viper, born Olanrewaju Ogunmefun, is a Nigerian rapper from Lagos, known for the 2015 Headies hit "King Kong" and his 2019 feud with M.I Abaga.
Vedan (rapper)
Vedan (വേടൻ), stage name of Hirandas Murali, is a Dalit anti-caste Malayalam rapper from Thrissur, Kerala. Known for "Voice of the Voiceless" (2020) and "Vaa" (2021), film songs like "Kuthanthram", a Kerala State Film Award, Calicut University syllabus inclusion, and 2025 sexual assault, drug, and wildlife cases.
Vee Mampeezy
Vee Mampeezy is the stage name of Odirile Sento, a Botswana kwaito-kwasa singer and entrepreneur born in 1983 in Hukuntsi, active since the early 2000s.