There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) IOWA (Russian: Айова, Belarusian: Аёва), is a Belarusian music group formed in 2009. 2) Iowa is an Australian rock band. 1) IOWA (Russian: Айова, Belarusian: Аёва), is a Belarusian music group named after the album Iowa by the band Slipknot. In 2008, vocalist Ekaterina Ivanchikova sang in the musical The Prophet by Ilya Oleynikov. IOWA was formed in 2009 in Mogilev. In 2010, after a series of concerts in St.