David Ashotovich Manukyan, better known by his stage name DAVA, is a Russian hip-hop and rap artist, host of "Dom-2" and a video blogger. At an early age he did ballroom dancing, then moved into professional sports. In 2011 he won the Russian championship and became a silver medalist at the world dance championship. After finishing school he entered the Siberian University of Management.

In 2017 he started a blog on Instagram. As of 2020 the number of followers is more than 13 million. He began his professional singing career in 2018, recording the song "Vnutri" together with Karina Lazaryants. Next came the track "XXX", for which a music video was later shot. In 2019 he recorded the song "BOOM".