Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Is a Greek folk singer specializing in Greek folk songs about lost love. His trademark is his promin

Is a Greek folk singer specializing in Greek folk songs about lost love. His trademark is his prominent heavy voice and his unique singing style, which made him a very popular Greek folk singer.

A Greek singer known mostly for his work in Greek rock.[1][2] Most of his songs have gained consider

A Greek singer known mostly for his work in Greek rock.[1][2] Most of his songs have gained considerable popularity, mainly in Greece and Cyprus.His first musical encounter was with Mikis Theodorakis in the summer of 1974, in Paris - their collaboration c

Is a famous singer and one of the most important representatives of Greek rock.[1][2] Most of his so

Is a famous singer and one of the most important representatives of Greek rock.[1][2] Most of his songs have gained considerable popularity, mainly in Greece and Cyprus.

Was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom u

Was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexander Pushkin and paintings called The Lace Maker and The Go

Was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.

Was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.

Was a Russian painter and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist p

Was a Russian painter and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist painters.he was transferred to the Alexander Stupin art school also located in Arzamas. In 1853 he was admitted to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he learned from several renowned artists.In 1856 he was awarded with a minor silver medal for his sketch of a boy's head, presented to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Later the Academy awarded him many other awards: in 1857 a major silver medal for Commissary of Rural Police Investigating, a minor golden medal for the Scene on a Grave and the Son of a dyak promoted to first rank, in 1861 a major golden medal for Sermon in a Village.

Was a Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.Safonov, or Safonoff as he was known in the W

Was a Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.Safonov, or Safonoff as he was known in the West during his lifetime, was born at Itschory, Russian Caucasus, the son of a Russian officer of Cossacks. He was educated at the Lycee Imperial Alexandra, Saint Petersburg, and at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory of Music 1881-1885. He graduated as Bachelor of Laws, and won the gold medal as a pianist of the Conservatory. He was also a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky and Nikolai Zaremba.

Was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects. His major pieces are among the

Was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects. His major pieces are among the best-known paintings in Russia.

Was a Russian painter and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist p

Was a Russian painter and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist painters.

Was one of the most famous Russian battle painters and one of the first Russian artists to be widely

Was one of the most famous Russian battle painters and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led many of them to never be printed or exhibited.

Was a leading folk singer from Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia. She started her career as a

Was a leading folk singer from Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia. She started her career as a dancer and singer in the State Ensemble Tanec in the early 1950s. Her style of singing and the songs she sang brought her wide popularity throughout Maced

Is a notable artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locat

Is a notable artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.

A Greek singer with a long international career. She is the daughter of singer, musician and compose

A Greek singer with a long international career. She is the daughter of singer, musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou (known as Leo Leandros – composer pseudonym Mario Panas). She achieved worldwide fame after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in

Was a Greek singer and songwriter. He became one of the leading composers and singers of rebetiko mu

Was a Greek singer and songwriter. He became one of the leading composers and singers of rebetiko music, which was banned in Greece during its early years, and on the later laika style.

Was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, and master of applied art and decor

Was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, and master of applied art and decorative art. He was the brother of Ukrainian painter Fedir Krychevsky. Vasyl Krychevsky was born in the village of Vorozhba, near Lebedyn, to the family of a

Was a female singer who gained popularity in the 1920s, earning the sobriquets "The Original Radio G

Was a female singer who gained popularity in the 1920s, earning the sobriquets "The Original Radio Girl" and "First Lady of Radio." She was an early exponent of a restrained style of singing known as crooning. One of her hit songs, "Are You Lonesome Tonig

A Canadian singer-songwriter.Veda Hille was born in 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She

A Canadian singer-songwriter.Veda Hille was born in 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She started playing piano when she was 6 at her own insistence. Her family moved around a lot, from the city to the country and back again. Veda ran around in the woods and the streets, practiced piano, read books and used her Junior Scientist Microscope.

Was along with Adam Kraft and Peter Vischer the most important sculptors of the late Gothic sculptur

Was along with Adam Kraft and Peter Vischer the most important sculptors of the late Gothic sculpture in Germany.[1] Veit Stoss was one of the first artists from Northern Europe who could be compared with Italian Renaissance artists. The power of expression of the gestures of his characters, compounded by the folds in their garments, give his sculptures a dramatic aspect.Veit Stoss, besides being a sculptor, was also a productive engraver and painter. Through his engravings he could circulate his works on a generous scale. But even in the two-dimensional space of his engravings, he always expressed himself as a sculptor.

Was a leading Bavarian (though he was born in Swabia) sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered

Was a leading Bavarian (though he was born in Swabia) sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance. His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery; it has been called "late Gothic Baroque".[1] He had a large workshop and in addition to his own works there are a number by pupils. He is best known for the altarpiece in St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland.

A Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his "mini-melodramas

A Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his "mini-melodramas in song" were precursors of Yiddish theater. Born in Zbarj, Galicia, he moved to Romania in 1845. According to Sol Liptzin, this move was occasioned by the

Is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens and New York. Venia Bechrakis has presented her wor

Is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens and New York. Venia Bechrakis has presented her work in solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad: Strange Weathers, Melenia Art Gallery, Bucharest (2009), Urban Dwellings”, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki (2008), “Within-Without, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens (2006), Real Art Ways, Connecticut, granted by the National Endowment for the Arts (2003).

A Norwegian singer.She debuted in 2003 with the single "Panic", followed by her first album Scared a

A Norwegian singer.She debuted in 2003 with the single "Panic", followed by her first album Scared and the singles "Scared" and "Kiss".Venke Knutson was born in southern Norway, in the little town of Birkeland to a musical family. She was the youngest of three sisters, and she got inspired to sing by her elder sisters.Her career didn’t start before she joined the school choir. Inspired by two older sisters, she applied for music at the Vågsbygd skole (Vågsbygd school), when the family was about to go back home to Norway.

Was a notable Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and actress during the early years of the twentie

Was a notable Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and actress during the early years of the twentieth century.

A Ukrainian and Russian pop-singer and television presenter.She was raised in an ordinary family. He

A Ukrainian and Russian pop-singer and television presenter.She was raised in an ordinary family. Her father, Viktor, worked in a chemical factory located by the Dnieper River. Her mother, Tamara, who had graduated from a medical school, worked in the same place. Vera has got 3 sisters - one older (Galina) and two younger (Nastya and Vika, twins). Currently she has gained a new flat for her parents in Borispol, nearby Kiev. The father of Vera's daughter (Sonia) is Vitaliy Voychenko, to whom Vera was married for a few years (after a civil wedding). She graduated from the Rail Engineering Instutute of Dnipropetrovsk as an economist.

Was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired fo

Was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and tremendous power.Vera Bradford was born in Melbourne to a musical family. Her mother Edith was a pianist, and her father Frederick and brother Cec were violinists. She started learning the piano at the age of seven, and she graduated from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium in 1927, with the highest honours. In 1928 she took up a scholarship with Percy Grainger in Chicago. (Grainger and his wife Ella became close friends of Vera’s, and Ella always stayed with Vera on Percy's visits to Australia.) She also studied at the Chicago Musical College with Rudolph Ganz and Alexander Raab. It was Raab who introduced her to the technique that made her famous, the 'arm weight' technique of the Russian teacher Theodor Leschetizky, which she had first experienced when seeing Benno Moiseiwitsch perform in Melbourne in the 1920s. It was this which developed the big tone and control that became a feature of her performances of the works of Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Liszt. Raab insisted she not play the piano for a year, so that she could unlearn her previous techniques, and practise with the piano lid down.