|
Evgeny Khavtan
Evgeny Lvovich Khavtan (Russian: Евге́ний Льво́вич Хавта́н, born 16 October 1961, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian musician, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the founder of the Russian rock band Bravo, which was formed in 1983, and Los Havtanos project, which was formed in 2018. Khavtan has released 18 studio albums with his bands. The record label ‘Melodiya’ sold 5 million copies of the band's debut album released in 1986. In 1999, seven Bravo songs were ranked on the list of "100 Best Russian Rock Songs of the 20th Century" according to listeners vote of the rock radio station in Russia, Nashe Radio. In 2011, their album "Fashion" (Russian: "Мода") was named as "Album of the Year" by NASHE radio. Bravo's musical career began 40 years ago in the USSR, and the band still tours and releases albums. Early years Evgeny Khavtan, the son of an engineer and an English and German teacher, was born in Moscow on 16 October 1961. His mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock N Roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, and jump blues, as well as from country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s,Peterson, Richard A. Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity' (1999), p. 9, . the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. According to the journalist Greg Kot, "rock and roll" refers to a style of popular music originating in the United States in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, rock and roll had developed into "the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known in many circles as rock and roll".Kot, Greg"Rock and roll", in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhanna Aguzarova
Zhanna Khasanovna Aguzarova (; born July 7, 1962) is a Soviet and Russian singer, former vocalist of the group Bravo, who made a solo career. Singer No. 3 of the Soviet Union after Sofia Rotaru and Alla Pugacheva in 1986–1988. For an extremely eccentric, on the verge of kitsch, style of clothing, journalists call Aguzarova the "goddess of shocking" and compare her to Lady Gaga. In her few interviews, she often talks about her extraterrestrial origin and "internal connections" with the Martians. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemy Troitsky
Artemy Kivovich Troitsky (; , born 16 June 1955 in Yaroslavl) is a Russian journalist, music critic, concert promoter, radio host, and academic who has lectured on music journalism at Moscow State University. In 1988, he was described in ''The New York Times'' as "the leading Soviet rock critic." In 1986, Troitsky was one of the organizers of the "Account No. 904" rock concert, modeled on Live Aid, to raise funds for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster, the first such concert in the Soviet Union. Currently, Troitsky is living in Tallinn, Estonia and works as a lecturer in Tallinn and Helsinki. Biography Artemy Troitsky was born on June 16, 1955, in Yaroslavl, into the family of political scientist and Latin American historian Kiva Lvovich Maidanik (). His mother was Rufina Nikolaevna Troitskaya. He spent his childhood in Prague, where his parents worked as employees of the journal Problems of World and Socialism (). From 1972 to 1974, he led discos in the main building of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghian Wright
Ghian Wright, known under the pseudonym G, is an American music producer, mixer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Los Angeles, California. Career He has worked on projects for Paul McCartney, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Colbie Caillat, The Raconteurs, Coldplay, Janet Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, Bravo, Vampire Weekend, and for the movies Walk the Line and Across the Universe. In 2010, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for best pop vocal album for engineering Colbie Caillat's second album, ''Breakththrough'', and in 2014, nominated for engineering Nine Inch Nails' ''Hesitation Marks''. In 2018, he made a cover of "All by Myself" by Eric Carmen, that was renamed to "I'm All Alone (Belter Version)", and was used in the science fiction television series ''The Expanse'', in the episode of season 3 "Delta-V". The lyrics of the song were rewritten in the mix of English and Belter Creole, a constructed language made for the TV series by Nick Farmer, that was used in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry in the United States, and thus the show is frequently called "music's biggest night". The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone, and the original idea was to call them the "Gramophone Awards". The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards with the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 67th Annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Браво
Bravo () is a rock and roll band founded in 1983 in Moscow, Russia, by guitarist Evgeny Khavtan. Biography Drawing heavy inspiration from 1950s western music, Bravo was a part of the Soviet rock and roll revival of the 1980s, along with Secret (Russian band), Secret. Their first album was made in 1983. Despite the fact that at that time rock and roll and beat music (except for The Beatles) were less popular among Soviet citizens than classic rock, the band was one of the most popular underground acts in Russia in the 1980s, until the departure of original lead singer Zhanna Aguzarova in 1988. Since then, Bravo has achieved success with several different singers, Valeriy Syutkin (1990–1994) and Robert Lenz (since 1996). In 2011, after a ten-year break from studio recordings, Bravo released an album, ''Fashion'' ('), which received highly positive reviews from critics and good attention from younger audiences. The band recorded the album using vintage instruments from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
