Andrey Viktorovich Gubin (russian: link=no, Андрей Викторович Губин; born 30 April 1974), born Andrey Valerevich Klementyev (russian: link=no, Андрей Валерьевич Клементьев) is a

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former pop-singer, poet, composer, and record producer.

Early years

Andrey Gubin was born on 30 April 1974 in

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. His family moved to

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in 1983, where they wandered about because of constant lack of money.

Musical career

Gubin's first album ''I Am A Hobo'' (russian: link=no, Я — бомж), released when he was 15, sold 200 copies. Gubin's second and third album ''Ave Maria'' and ''Prince and Princess'' (russian: link=no, Принц и принцесса) respectively were the start of his career. His first performance on stage with his first hit ''Stray Boy'' (russian: link=no, Мальчик-бродяга) was in 1994. In the late 2000s, Gubin left the stage due to serious health problems. In the mid-2000s, he was diagnosed with left-sided

trigeminal neuralgia Trigeminal neuralgia (TN or TGN), also called Fothergill disease, tic douloureux, or trifacial neuralgia is a long-term pain disorder that affects the trigeminal nerve, the nerve responsible for sensation in the face and motor functions such as ...

of the face, a disease of the

nervous system In Biology, biology, the nervous system is the Complex system, highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its Behavior, actions and Sense, sensory information by transmitting action potential, signals to and from different parts of its ...

that causes constant facial pain.

Discography

References

Andrey Gubin's site
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