Valerian Shotayevich Meladze, known professionally as Valery Meladze, is a Georgian singer and a Meritorious Artist of Russia. Rarely do artists successfully keep their large fan base for such a long period of time, but with his personal magnetism he manages to attract more and more people to his music. In collaboration with his older brother Konstantin, the writer of all his songs, they created a special category of modern pop Russian music.