# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasyl-popadiuk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:49:47.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasyl-popadiuk"
name: "Vasyl Popadiuk"
slug: "vasyl-popadiuk"
description: "Vasyl Vasylovych Popadyuk is a Ukrainian musician, known as the \"Ukrainian Paganini\", violinist, pianist, founder of the band \"PapaDuke\", with whom he travels the world, playing music in world music styles, Latino, gypsy, and jazz. He knows how to play 15 musical instruments, and each of the musicians in the band also plays various musical instruments. He is also a composer. He is an honored artist of Ukraine since 2009."
tagline: "Ukrainian musician (b. 1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vasyl_Popadiuk_GoldenLion_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-01-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.43
  momentum:             10.97560975609756
  historical:           5.940317333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.vasylpopadiuk.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/482f975e-5ae4-4581-bf8b-36980d5508d4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasyl_Popadiuk"
    title: "Vasyl Popadiuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasyl_Popadiuk"
    title: "Vasyl Popadiuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%98%D1%83%D0%BA"
    title: "Васил Попадјук"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8E%D0%BA_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Попадюк Василь Васильович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasil_Popadyuk"
    title: "Vasil Popadyuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8E%D0%BA_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12142306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump