Various Artists is a term used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. The record industry is the part of the Music industry that sells Sound recordings of Music. A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a
Sometimes shorthands like V. A. , VV. AA. and V/A are used.
Some Various Artists single releases have their profits go to charity and, usually in high-profile cases, are sometimes known by a group name. The definition of charitable organization, and of charity varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates Examples include Band Aid with their releases of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and USA for Africa with "We Are the World". Band Aid was a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money " Do They Know It's Christmas? " is a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 specifically to raise money for relief of 1984–1985 famine USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa was the name under which forty-five predominantly U " We Are the World " is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy Jones and recorded
Album releases under the name of "Various Artists" are often compilation albums from a particular year or musical genre official soundtracks of motion pictures and video games. A compilation album is an Album ( Music or Spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple Recording artists, often culled from a variety of A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.
"Various Artists" is also the alias of minimal techno artist Torsten Pröfrock. Minimal techno is a form of Electronic dance music (EDM that is considered a minimalist sub- Genre of Techno. Monolake is an Electronic music act based in Berlin. Originally consisting of members Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke Monolake is now perpetuated by Henke while