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Key facts
- Also known as
- VIA Gra
- Origin
- Kyiv , Ukraine
- Genres
- Dance-pop Europop
- Years active
- 2000–2022 2025
- Labels
- Sony Music Russia (2001—2005) Velvet Music (2012—2017) Meladze Music (2017—2022)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- musical group
- Genre
- Eurodance
- Country of origin
- Ukraine
- Record label
- Moon Records Ukraine
- Discography
- Nu Virgos discography
- Image
- Группа «ВИА Гра» (2019).jpg
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- has characteristic
- girl group
- Commons category
- VIA Gra
- topic's main category
- Category:Nu Virgos
- inception
- 2000-01-01
- location of formation
- Kyiv
- start of work period
- 2000-00-00
- different from
- sildenafil
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- end of work period
- 2025-00-00
- topic has template
- Template:Nu Virgos
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Encyclopedic overview
VIA Gra (Ukrainian: ВІА Гра), known outside of Ukraine and other nearby countries as Nu Virgos, was a Ukrainian girl group. The name VIA Gra is a triple wordplay; it is an allusion to the drug Viagra, the first three letters "ВИА" ("VIA") also stand for "vocal-instrumental ensemble" in Ukrainian, and "Гра" ("hra") means "game" or "play" in Ukrainian, and is also a kind of signature of the surnames of the two first girls of the group, VI-nnytsk-A and GR-anovsk-A, the originally used maiden name of Nadia Meiher. Nu Virgos rose to prominence when they hit the charts in the countries of CIS in September 2000, with their debut single "Popytka No. 5" ("Attempt No. 5").
Their first success outside the Russian language area was in May 2004, with the single "Stop! Stop! Stop!", an English version of their 2002 Russian song. The group is known for their frequent lineup changes, with 13 different individuals having at one time been in the group. The group was co-created by Dmitriy Kostyuk and Konstantin Meladze. Kostyuk is the manager of the group and the co-producer of the group's albums. Meladze is the writer of the group's songs and the co-producer of the group's albums.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nu Virgos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.