Violeta Riaubiškytė-Tarasovienė
Singer and television presenter
Lithuania
Violeta Riaubiškytė-Tarasovienė is a well-known Lithuanian singer, lyricist, and television presenter. She began her career at seventeen with the group "Belmondo" and embarked on her solo career in 2003. In 2004, she released her first album, Daisy the White (Lithuanian: Ramunę Baltąją). Her second album, With Love (Lithuanian: Su Meile), followed in 2006, and in 2007, she released I Will Be Close (Lithuanian: Aš būsiu šalia). That same year, she married renowned Lithuanian singer Vilius Tarasovas, and since then, they have performed as a duo.
She has worked at the radio station M1 and co-hosted the show Orbit (Lithuanian: Orbita) with A. Ramanauskas. Alongside Edmundas Kučinskas, she hosted the TV show Friday Music Show (Lithuanian: Penktadienio muzikos šou). She also co-hosted the show Let's Sing! (Lithuanian: Padainuokim!) with her husband, Vilius Tarasovas. In January and February 2010, she participated in the LNK musical project Duos of the Stars 4 (Lithuanian: Žvaigždžių duetai 4) with actor Gintaras Mikalauskas and served as a judge on the LNK show 2 Minutes of Glory (Lithuanian: 2 minutės šlovės).