| Volodymyr Dantes | |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Birth Name: | Volodymyr Ihorovych Hudkov |
| Birth Date: | 28 June 1988 |
| Birth Place: | Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR |
| Genre: | pop-music, pop-punk, power-pop |
| Occupation: | TV personality, radio personality, singer |
| Instrument: | vocal |
| Years Active: | 2008–present |
| Past Member Of: | DiO.filmy |
| Spouse: | Nadia Dorofeeva (married 2015–2022) |
| Partner: | Dasha Katsurina |
Volodymyr Ihorovych Hudkov (; born 28 June 1988), known professionally as Volodymyr Dantes, is a Ukrainian singer, TV and radio personality. He is currently a solo-singer under the name of Dantes and was a member of the band "DiO.filmy".[1]
He was born to a Jewish mother, and he has a Star of David tattoo.[2] His Christian father is a policeman.[3] Attended Kharkiv's school № 36. Graduated from a music school in Kharkiv and studied economics at the Kharkiv Polytechnic institute ("Financial management of business" faculty).[4]
In November of 2008 together with Vadym Oliinyk won in "Fabryka zirok-2", forming a duet "Dantes & Oliinyk". Borys Bronshtein and Natalia Mohylevska became their producers with the centre "Talant Group". On 4 March 2010 they released their debut album "Mne uzhe 20".
The band disbanded in April 2015, with Dantes choosing to continue as a TV and radio personality.
Dantes is a radio personailty of a Ukrainian radio station "Lux FM".[5]
Dantes often starred on various television programs on Ukrainian and a few Russian TV channels.Since October 2012, he has been hosting the "Blyzhche do tila" program together with Victoria Batui on the Novyi Kanal.[6] In 2014–2015 Dantes was the host of the culinary travel show "Yizha, ya lyublyu tebe" on the "Friday!" Russian TV channel.[7] Since 11 October 2015 Dantes was one of the coaches of the children's talent show "Malenki hihanty" on the 1+1 TV channel. He was a guest star in the fourth season of the show "Liga Smikhu" in 2018 and a coach-joker in the fifth season of the same show in 2019. In 2021 was a judge of the show "Masquerade" on "1+1",[8] and in 2022–2023 was host of the show "Ya lyublyu Ukrayinu" on the "TET" TV channel.[9]
In 2021 Dantes started his first YouTube show “Stand up 380”, in which he aims to introduce interesting Ukrainian stand-up comedians and to popularise Ukrainian stand-up among a wider audience.
Between 2020 and 2022 Dantes hosted the project "Mama, ya delayu bizness", the purpose of which was to talk about Ukrainian startups, introduce their founders, and show how Ukrainian local businesses develop.
In 2022-2023 Dantes was the host of the travel show "Mama ya haniayu tachky" the goal of which was to deliver cars from Europe to Ukraine to help the military. According to him, during the program, "people, businesses, programs, volunteer hubs that continue to do something cool for Ukraine" are filmed.
In 2023 Dantes started the "Budynok Kultury" project, which is filmed in the de-occupied territories. The goal of the project is to revive the Ukrainian culture and remind it to Ukrainians. In each episode, Volodymyr and an invited guest organize a concert, creating "revivals in the houses of culture".
In 2021 Dantes released his first solo-album "Tvoya lubimaya muzika".[10] Multiple Ukrainian musical artists Dorofeeva, Jerry Heil, Potap, Maxim Fadeev took part in the album.
In 2022 Dantes released singles "Obiimy", "Not a refugee" and "Tilky my".
In 2023 he released the single "Chuiesh" and the second solo album "KITY", which included the new tracks "Chuiesh", "Kyty", "My ne odyn narod", "Buty z toboyu", "Kolyskova" and the translation of the singles "Devochka Olya", "Sasha", "Grustnye tantsy".
In August 2024, he released a duet, "Huby u hubakh" with Ukrainian singer, Jerry Heil.[11] The song peaked at #14 on Ukraine's top 20 singles chart.[12]
On 8 July 2015 Dantes married Vryema i Steklo's member Nadiya Dorofeeva. They got divorced in 2022.[13] Since September 2022, he has been in a relationship with Dasha Katsurina.
| № | Name | Year | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | «Теперь Тебе 30» | 2019 | Leonid Kolossovskiy | |
| 2 | «Более или Менее» | 2020 | ||
| 3 | «Одноклассница» | |||
| 4 | «ЕСЛИ БЫ» | |||
| 5 | "Грустные танцы" | 2021 | ||
| 6 | "Обійми" | 2022 | ||
| 7 | "Not a refugee" | 2022 | ||
| 8 | "Чуєш" | 2023 | Yulia Paskal | |
| 9 | "Кити" | 2023 | ||
| 10 | "ГУБИ У ГУБАХ" with Jerry Heil | 2024 | Yura Katynsky | |
| 11 | "Pуда вода"[14] | 2024 | Pavel Buryak |