Mathew van Vooght, known professionally as Mathew V, is a Canadian pop singer from Delta, British Columbia. After high school, he moved to London, England, to study classical music at the European Institute of Contemporary Music but dropped out after several months, instead working in the city’s live music scene before returning to Vancouver a year later. He signed with 604 Records and released his debut EP Sounds in 2016. In 2017, he released the single "Tell Me Smooth," a preview of his 2018 full-length album The Fifth. The song spent fourteen weeks on the Canadian hot adult contemporary radio charts in Billboard. After unexpectedly seeing drag queen Ilona Verley perform "Tell Me Smooth" as a lip-sync number at a Vancouver drag show, he cast Verley in the video for his 2018 single "Broken." He followed up with the album Two Faced in 2020 and the EP The Outer Circle in 2021, which was nominated for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022.
