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Vadim Botnaruk
Vadim Markovich Botnaruk (April 10, 1953 – January 19, 2008) was a Soviet Moldavian-born Ukrainian and Russian musician, media manager, music producer (member of Dialog project) and one of the founders of TopHit scene monitoring project. He also served as Director General of the Russian Phonographic Association (RPA) since 2004 to 2008. Education, activities and death Vadim Botnaruk was born in the town of Bălți in Moldavian SSR. He grew up and educated in Mykolayiv (Ukrainian SSR / Ukraine). In 1976 he graduated from Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding (then ''Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute''). Since 1975 he played in a local student music band called ''Gaudeamus''. Since early 1980s he moved to another group called ''Orbita''. Since 1997 until 2008 he lived and worked in Moscow, Russia. On January 19, 2008, he died in a hospital in Moscow after being assaulted on January 15 by unknown criminals near house where he lived. His colleagues and mass media wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bălți
Bălți (; russian: Бельцы, , uk, Бєльці, , yi, בעלץ ) is a city in Moldova. It is the second largest city in terms of population, area and economic importance, after Chișinău. The city is one of the five Moldovan municipalities. Sometimes also called "the northern capital", it is a major industrial, cultural and commercial centre and transportation hub in the north of the country. It is situated north of the capital Chișinău, and is located on the river Răut, a tributary of the Dniester, on a hilly landscape in the Bălți steppe. Name The word "''bălți''" (pl. of Romanian sing. "''baltă''") in direct translation means "puddle". It is believed that the city had been named thus because it was founded on a hill dominating the wetland formed where the creek Răuțel ("Little Răut") falls into the river Răut. In addition to the official name ''Bălți'' and the Russian name ('), between 1940 and 1989 in Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet, and after 1989 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Meladze
Valerian Shotayevich Meladze, ka, ვალერიან შოთას ძე მელაძე (born 23 June 1965), known professionally as Valery Meladze , is a Georgian singer and a Meritorious Artist of Russia. He is the brother of composer and producer Konstantin Meladze, who writes songs for him. Biography Early life Valeriy Meladze was born on 23 June 1965 in Batumi in the family of Shota and Nelly Meladze, who were engineers. Valeriy has a brother, Konstantin (1963), and a sister, Liana (1968). He was an impatient and disobedient child, while his brother was very quiet. He went to music school and learned to play the piano. In school he did not study well. Since his parents, his grandmother and his grandfather were engineers, he decided to enter the Engineering Institute. Meladze entered the Nikolayev Shipbuilding Institute in Ukraine to study mechanical engineering of ship power plants. In 1985, Valeriy's brother started playing keyboard in the group "April". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A'Studio
A-Studio, stylized as a'studio, is a Russian-based Kazakhstani pop music group originally consisting of Baigali Serkebayev (keyboard), Vladimir Mikloshich (bass), Baglan Sadvakasov (solo guitar) and frontman Batyrkhan Shukenov (vocal and sax). The band was created in 1982 in Almaty, then called Alma-Ata, hence called "Alma-Ata Studio". Later, the name was changed to "A-Studio". Currently the group's members are Georgian frontwoman Keti Topuria, Baigali Serkebayev and Vladimir Mikloshich. In 1989, the A-Studio song "Julia" ("Джулия") caught the attention of Russian singers Philipp Kirkorov and Alla Pugacheva. Pugacheva invited them to her annual "Christmas Meeting" in 1990 and introduced them as the best band in the country (at that time, the USSR). The song, as well as the band, immediately became popular across the USSR. In 2000, Shukenov left the band to pursue a solo career, while A-Studio introduced a new vocalist, Polina Griffith. The band released several single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danko (singer)
Alexander Valerievich Fadeyev (better known by his stage name Danko, born March 20, 1969) is a Russian singer, composer, songwriter, actor, businessman. Danko is the pseudonym of the singer, coined by producer Leonid Gutkin. Biography Alexander Valerievich Fadeyev was born on March 20, 1969, in Moscow. His mother Elena Ilinskaya is a vocal teacher, father Valery Fadeyev, a physicist. At the age of five he performed as a soloist in the choir of the Loktev Pioneers Palace. In ten years he entered the Choreography School at the Bolshoi Theatre. In 1995, at the Serge Lifar competition in San Francisco (USA), he received the Silver Award for the number staged by choreographer Sergei Bobrov. After graduation, in 1988, he was invited to the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, where during the work he attended master classes from Asaf Messerer, Galina Ulanova, Marina Semyonova, Boris Akimov. In the 1990-2000's he participated in the main repertoire performances of the Bolshoi Theater: Sparta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premyer-Ministr
Premyer-Ministr (russian: Премьер-министр, lit. ''Prime minister'') is a Russian musical group. The idea behind the band was to form a boy band, though not especially for teenagers. Four men came together to form Premier Ministr in 1997. Their first real success came in 2000 with the remake of a very popular Russian tune, "Oriental Song". It became a huge hit in Russia. In 2001 one of the members, Dmitry Lanskoy, left the group for a solo career and was replaced. Premyer-Ministr was composed of Jean Grigoriev-Milimerov (Moscow, December 5, 1979), Peter Jason (Moscow, September 9, 1976), Vyacheslav Bodolika (Ungeny, Moldova, June 18, 1977) and Marat Chanyshev (Moscow, March 25, 1975). In 2002, Russian television invited the group to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeriya
Valeriya (russian: Валерия) is a stage name of Alla Yurievna Perfilova (russian: Алла Юрьевна Перфилова, born April 17, 1968 in Atkarsk), a Russian singer and fashion model. Valeriya, who is a recipient of the titles People's Artist of Russia (2013) and People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (2016), has also won numerous awards, including Golden Gramophone (thirteen), Pesnya goda (thirteen), Muz-TV (four: Best Performer in 2004, 2010 and 2015, Best Video, 2014), and MTV Russia Music Awards (two, Best Performer, 2004, Best Song, 2005). She has been a member of the Council for Culture and Art under the President of the Russian Federation since 2012. Biography Valeriya was born on April 17, 1968 in a town of Atkarsk in the Saratov Oblast. Career In 1985 Valeriya enrolled in the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow which she graduated 1990. In 1989 Valeriya recorded two albums. Her first English-language disc, ''The Taiga Symphony'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VIA Gra
VIA Gra ( uk, ВИА Гра), known outside of Ukraine and other nearby countries as Nu Virgos, is a Ukrainian girl group. The name VIA Gra is a triple wordplay; it is an allusion to the drug Viagra, the first three letters "ВИА" ("VIA") also stand for " vocal-instrumental ensemble" in Ukrainian, and "Гра" ("hra") means "game" or "play" in Ukrainian, and is also a kind of signature of the surnames of the two first girls of the group, VI-nnytsk-A and GR-anovsk-A, the originally used maiden name of Nadia Meiher. Nu Virgos rose to prominence when they hit the charts in Ukraine and Russia in September 2000, with their first single "''Popytka No. 5''" ("Attempt No. 5"). Their first success outside the Russian language area was in May 2004, with the single "Stop! Stop! Stop!", an English version of their 2002 Russian song. The group is known for their frequent lineup changes, with 13 different individuals having at one time been in the group. The group was co-crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diskoteka Avariya
Diskoteka "Avaria" (russian: Дискотека "Авария" - ''Disco "Accident"'') are a Russian band from Ivanovo, Russia. The trio consists of Anna Khokhlova (Анна Хохлова), Aleksey Borisovich Serov (Алексей Борисович Серов) and Aleksey Olegovich Ryzhov (Алексей Олегович Рыжов). Its former members include vocalist Nikolay Stagoranovich Timofeev (Николай Стагоранович Тимофеев), who left in July 2012, and rapper Oleg Yevgenyevich Zhukov (Олег Евгеньевич Жуков), who died on February 9, 2002 of cancer. Although "Avaria" knew only moderate success in Russia during the 1990s, they are considered to be pioneers of house music in that country, as the genre only started to appear there around 2000. Following Zhukov's death in 2002, the trio slowly lost original popularity and oriented themselves into a mainstream electropop movement. History The origins Towards the end of the eighti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Moiseev
Boris Mikhailovich Moiseev (russian: link=no, Бори́с Миха́йлович Моисе́ев; 4 March 1954 – 27 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer, actor, head of a dance group, and author of popular shows in Russia. He was a Merited Artist of Russia (2006). Early life Boris Moiseev was born in prison in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union, his mother was being held as a disenfranchised element during the communist regime. He spent his childhood and teenage years among his Lithuanian Jewish aunts in Mogilev. To strengthen his health, Boris was sent to a dancing school. Since then dancing took over all his interests and turned into a lifetime passion. He dropped out of the school, packed his bags and ran away to Minsk. There Boris got accepted to a choreography school and became a professional classical dancer. Career beginning Boris had all the skills to succeed as a classical dancer on the stage but he preferred modern da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dima Bilan
Dima Nikolayevich Bilan (russian: Ди́ма Никола́евич Била́н; born Viktor Nikolayevich Belan, russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Бела́н, links=no; 24 December 1981) is a Russian singer, songwriter and actor. He represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with " Never Let You Go", finishing second, and he won the contest in 2008 in Belgrade, with the song "Believe". He has had several Russian number one hit records. He is sometimes referred to as "Russia's Iglesias" due to his similarity to the Spanish singer. Early life Dima Bilan was born as Viktor Belan in Ust-Dzheguta in the autonomous republic Karachay-Cherkessia in a mixed family of Tatar, Karachay and Russian heritage. Bilan's father was born in Kabardino-Balkaria and his mother in Tatarstan. After having briefly lived in Tatarstan as a child, Bilan's family relocated to Maysky in Kabardino-Balkaria. Bilan started playing bayan in the fifth class of school and particip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Shatunov
Yuriy Vasilevich Shatunov (russian: Юрий Васильевич Шатунов; September 6, 1973 – June 23, 2022) was a Russian singer, best known as being the frontman of the Russian 1980's band Laskoviy Mai (Ласковый май). Name Commonly spelled "Yuri Shatunov" in English, his official website, Shatunov.com, lists his name as "Yuriy" (which is the most precise transliteration of Russian), "Yury," and "Yuri." The English pronunciation of all three is identical. Yuri took his mother, Vera Shatunova's surname at a young age due to the lack of a relationship with his father, Vasiliy Klimenko. Personal life Shatunov was born on 6 September 1973 in the city of Kumertau, Bashkir ASSR, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the former Soviet Union. His father ''Vasiliy Vladimirovich Klimenko'' was half Russian and half Ukrainian. At the age of three he was abandoned by his father and was raised by his mother. When he was eleven, his mother died of heart dise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruki Vverh!
Ruki Vverh! (russian: Руки Вверх, meaning "Hands Up!") is the name of Russian pop and dance musician Sergey Zhukov. They were originally a duo which consisted of Zhukov and Aleksey Potekhin. The duo came to prominence in the 1990s.Сергей Жуков. Перегонка на выживание - журнал Rolling Stone Discography Covers and sampling *" Pesenka" has been covered or heavily sampled by other acts that went on to have international hits with them, including A Touch of Class's "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
