The concept of "unknown artist" for each person can be his own. For someone who has little knowledge of music, it can be a pretty hyped composition, just listening to it does not know the name of the singer or the name of the group. For another, an unknown artist is a tune rarely heard at the box office, therefore, to find out who plays it and who is the author, you need to search the Internet for specialized sites.
But there are works that are really not clear who were invented. Most often, an unknown artist in this case is a representative of an author's song and rap culture. Moreover, among such compositions there are, indeed, worthy of a large stage and multi-million dollar rental. They just came up with in order to please friends, relatives, beloved. Or an unknown artist tried to try his hand at musical art. For the sake of interest, he took a guitar, composed a poem, picked up a melody - and a rather interesting composition came out, which after many years forced someone to pay attention to it. Today, on the Internet you can find songs by unknown artists recorded back in Soviet times on a reel tape recorder. For example, a group of friends gathered somewhere in the courtyard in the vast expanses of our Motherland, sat on a bench with girls, and one of them, to surprise the opposite sex and impress the ladies, took and sang a song with a guitar. And one of his friends for the sake of a joke recorded it on tape.
Many years have passed, the guys have grown up long ago, now they have their own children who like to experiment with electronic devices. Well, maybe it turned out that the recording was not demagnetized yet (sometimes they listened to it for a joke). But since the film is a short-lived thing, they digitized the recording and threw the songs of unknown artists into the network - to listen to friends. And they went for a walk through the virtual expanses. It’s now practically impossible to find out who and when it sang, well, or there’s a very small probability.
And the unknown artist, in fact, composed a unique composition, because he sang it for the soul and with all his heart, and this melody became popular on social networks. Of course, someone can say that it is his melody and his poems, but will it be true? It may just turn out that this someone wants to unfairly swim in the rays of glory. But is it so important who invented the composition many years ago? After all, if a song is good, people like it regardless of who composed it. By analogy, one can recall Russian folk songs and tales. They, too, were first invented by some unknown performers, but in history there were no traces of them. The works themselves began to live for centuries. So with this song that someone invented in Soviet times, the same thing can happen. She will continue to live in the virtual space, in the MP3 players and mobile phones of her fans and will turn into a national, common.
Moreover, with a high degree of probability there will be producers or performers who want to remix it and present the listeners in an updated form in the hope that it will also win their hearts.