Viktor Sheen

Viktor Sheen, real name Viktor Dundych, is a Czech rapper and singer, originally from Kazakhstan and living in Kladno.

At the beginning of his career, he was a member of the groups Crap Crew and Da Staffers and Blakkwood label. His debut solo project was the mixtape Under the Surface in 2010, followed by the mixtapes Sektor 5 and Winning. In 2014, he released the EP Level Up. In 2015, already under the pseudonym Viktor Sheen, he released a joint project with rapper Renn Dang, Project Asia. His last effort under Blakkwood Records was the album NSD, on which the melancholic track Ibalgin or the track Grail featuring rapper Jimmy Dickson.

After leaving the label, Viktor Sheen released his debut solo album in 2017 Jungler, and a year later, in 2018, a joint album with rapper Jickson came out, Grail. The album, which bears the same name as their first joint composition, brought 13 tracks, on which other members of the Milion+ label appeared on the feat, namely Yzomandias, Hasan or Nik Tendo.

This was followed by a highly successful solo record Černobílej svět (2019), which became the best-selling original Czech record of 2019 and the second best-selling of 2020. The album is led by the track Up to the Moon, which he participated in together with Calin, Hasan and Nik Tende and is one of his most listened to tracks on Spotify. In the following years, he followed up the success with the albums Colors (2020) and Stories and Dreams (2021). The album Příběhy a sny became the best-selling Czech record of 2022. The series is a kind of dealing with one's own past, but also the future. This trilogy captures the inner conflict between the roles that Viktor Sheen should fill. The battle between the desires of a young man and the arrival of his own offspring, all at the beginning of a successful rap career. The color motif in this series symbolizes that change in outlook on one's own life.

At the beginning of 2023, Viktor Sheen released a joint album with the rapper and singer Calin. The album Roadtrip remained at the top of the Czech album sales chart for almost half a year. The album also includes Safír, which has almost 37 million streams on Spotify. Thanks to its success, the project saw a tour and even a joint concert at the O2 arena, which took place on October 12, 2023. A recording of the live songs from the show is available at Spotify.

In October 2023, Viktor Sheen released another solo album, Planet of the Apes , which featured, for example, Yzomandias, PTK, or Annet X. The album has the same name as the song that was the opening track of the Jungler album.

In Viktor Sheen's work, there are several recurring motifs that he uses to describe reality. The most common of them is the motif of monkeys, which he uses to denote his friends, his fans, the people around him. The world in which he lives is then referred to as the jungle, or the planet of the apes. The album Jungler also featured the tracks Nescafé and < a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5hhi4vfiWW2dox1friQeLn">Tchibo, then in 2021 the single Lavazza, with which he concluded this imaginary "coffee" series.

In the Czech Nightingale 2021 poll, he won in the category The most streamed Czech song with the single Roželený světy. The albums Black and White World and Colors were nominated for the Anděl genre award. In December 2021, the Spotify streaming platform announced him as the most listened to Czech performer of the year. He repeated this success again in 2023.

In 2024, Viktor Sheen is going to the O2 arena. The solo concert will take place on December 7, 2024.