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Vivid BAD SQUAD
Vivid BAD SQUAD (ビビバス) is a four-member street-music unit in the mobile game Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku, formed to surpass the event RAD WEEKEND.
Vividh Bharati
Vividh Bharati (विविध भारती) is the entertainment channel of All India Radio, launched on 3 October 1957 to compete with Radio Ceylon, built around popular Hindi film music.
Vixen (band)
Vixen is an American all-female hard rock/glam metal band founded by guitarist Jan Kuehnemund of St. Paul, Minnesota. Known for 1988's Vixen album, "Edge of a Broken Heart" (#26) and "Cryin'" (#22), gold certification, and continued touring under later lineups.
VIXX (빅스)
VIXX (빅스, Voice Visual Value in Excelsis) is a South Korean boy band formed by Jellyfish Entertainment in 2012 via Mnet's MyDOL, known as concept kings for dark narrative comebacks such as Hyde, Voodoo Doll, and Error; now a three-member group (Ken, Leo, Hyuk).
Vladimir Horowitz (Владимир Самойлович Горовиц)
Vladimir Horowitz (Владимир Самойлович Горовиц, 1903–1989), Ukrainian-born American virtuoso pianist; left the USSR in 1925, debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1928, married Wanda Toscanini, withdrew four times from the stage, and returned to Moscow in 1986.
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.
Vladimir Vysotsky (Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий)
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий), 1938–1980, Soviet actor and singer-poet, Taganka Theatre lead; 500+ songs spread by magnitizdat tape copying; died 25 July 1980 during the Moscow Olympics.
Vlast
Vlast (블래스트) is a South Korean virtual entertainment company founded in January 2022 as a spin-off from broadcaster MBC, best known as the agency of the virtual boy group PLAVE.
Vocal and song festival
A vocal and song festival is a classical music event centered on art song, Lied, and oratorio, often combined with singing competitions such as the IVC in 's-Hertogenbosch.
Vocal group
A vocal group is a small group of singers, three or more, performing coordinated harmony parts as the main musical event, spanning pop, doo wop, gospel, and soul.
Vocal Group Hall of Fame
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame, founded by Tony Butala of The Lettermen, is a Sharon, Pennsylvania nonprofit that has inducted over 200 vocal groups and duos since 1998.
Vocal music
Vocal music is music performed by the human voice, solo or in combination, with or without accompaniment. Covers voice production physiology, song-versus-speech acoustics, genres from chant to throat-singing, Auto-Tune-era production, and singer vocal health.
Vocal range
Vocal range, also called extension, is the span from lowest to highest pitch a voice can produce, measured clinically as a voice range profile (phonetogram) in frequency and sound pressure level, and distinguished from tessitura and ambit.
Vocalion Records
Vocalion Records was an American record label founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Company, known for blues, jazz, and country recordings, including Robert Johnson's only sessions.
Vocaloid music
Vocaloid music, known in Japanese as ボカロ, is songs whose vocals are generated by singing-synthesis software, a Japanese internet scene shaped by Hatsune Miku's 2007 release.
Voces8
Voces8 (VOCES8) is a British eight-voice a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 2005 by brothers Barnaby and Paul Smith, known for Renaissance-to-pop repertoire, Decca and VOCES8 Records releases, a 2023 Grammy nomination, and the VOCES8 Foundation's education programs.
Vodka Cranberry (song)
"Vodka Cranberry" (no native form) is a 2025 pop song by Conan Gray, second single from Wishbone, written with producer Dan Nigro, with a Danica Kleinknecht video starring Corey Fogelmanis continuing the Wilson and Brando story.
Vogue (Madonna song)
"Vogue" is a 1990 house-influenced dance single by Madonna, written and produced with Shep Pettibone for I'm Breathless; three weeks at US No. 1, four in the UK, 1990's bestselling single, with a David Fincher video celebrating voguing.
Voice classification in non-classical music
Voice classification in non-classical music: applying classical voice-type labels to Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) singers in jazz, pop, rock, and theater. Sources agree labels work only loosely as pedagogical tools, not standardized classifications.
Voice of Punjab
Voice of Punjab is a Punjabi-language singing reality competition on PTC Punjabi, running since 2010, in which amateur singers compete for a title, cash prize, and recording opportunities.
Voice separation (music)
Voice separation is a computational method in music information retrieval that assigns the notes of a polyphonic piece, given as a score or MIDI, to individual melodic voices.
Voice type
A voice type, also called vocal classification, is a category for a singing voice, based on range, tessitura, and timbre, with six broad types in classical singing.
Voicemail (group)
Voicemail is a Jamaican dancehall group from Kingston, formed in 1999, best known for party anthems like "Weh Di Time", and now a duo after O'Neil Edwards died in 2010.
Voicenotes
Voicenotes is Charlie Puth's second studio album, released May 11, 2018 on Artist Partner Group/WEA (Atlantic-listed). Self-produced in his Los Angeles home studio, it mixes 1980s funk, disco, and R&B with guests Kehlani, Boyz II Men, and James Taylor.
VoicePlay
VoicePlay: American a cappella quintet from Orlando, Florida (also known earlier as 4:2:Five and 42Five); members Geoff Castellucci, Layne Stein, Eli Jacobson, Cesar De La Rosa, J.None; The Sing-Off Season 4 finalists known for a cappella cover music videos.
Voivod (band)
Voivod is a Canadian progressive thrash metal band formed in 1982 in Jonquière, Quebec, known for its science-fiction concept and albums including Killing Technology and Nothingface (1989).
Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, Jay-Z's third studio album (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam, September 29, 1998), topped the Billboard 200 for a month, won the 1999 Best Rap Album Grammy, and samples Annie's "It's a Hard Knock Life."
Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
Slipknot's third studio album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), released May 2004 on Roadrunner, produced by Rick Rubin at The Mansion, LA; hit No. 2 on Billboard, went Platinum, and won a 2006 Grammy.