Siarhei Mikhalok (born January 19, 1972 in be, Сяргей Міхалок, russian: link=no, Серге́й Михалок, Sergey Mikhalok) is a Belarusian rock musician and actor. He was the frontman of the

ska punk Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music together. (sometimes spelled skacore) is a subgenre of ska punk that mixes ska with hardcore punk. Early ska punk mixed both 2 tone and ska with hard ...

band Lyapis Trubetskoy that he dissolved on September 1, 2014. He was the frontman of the band Brutto, now leads Drezden. Born into a family of a Soviet military man in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

, East Germany. The family was originally from

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

. He grew up in

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...

. He graduated from the

Belarusian State Academy of Arts The Belarusian State Academy of Arts ( Belarusian: Беларуская дзяржаўная акадэмія мастацтваў Russian: Белорусская государственная академия искусств) is a state-owned ...

. In 1990, he created the rock band Lyapis Trubetskoy. Siarhey Mikhalok also worked in a theatre and as art director of a

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...

club in

. In 2000, he became a member of the comic duo '' Sasha i Sirozha''. Since 2003 he has worked with Liavon Volski's music project Krambambula. Since May 2015, Mikhalok has been an official permanent resident of Ukraine. He had already lived in Ukraine since December 2014.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mikhalok, Siarhey 1972 births Living people People from Dresden Belarusian rock musicians Belarusian State Academy of Arts alumni 20th-century Belarusian male singers 21st-century Belarusian male singers Russian-language singers Belarusian expatriates in Ukraine Ukrainian rock musicians