Danila Vyacheslavovich Milokhin (); born 6 December 2001,

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, Russia), better known as Danya Milokhin () is a Russian

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er,

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, musician,

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ger and actor. In October 2020, the Russian version of ''Forbes'' placed Milokhin in sixth place on their inaugural list of highest paid TikTokers.

Personal life

Danila Milokhin was born in

on 6 December 2001. His childhood was not easy; his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was divorced. For three years, Danila and his older brother were in a

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, where the director was the adoptive mother of Yuri Shatunov and . When Danila was 13 years old, he and his brother Ilya was adopted by a foster family. At 16 years old he was addicted to

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s, but later managed to overcome the addiction. In October 2022, a former enforcer wrote a denunciation against Milokhin because he sang the Ukrainian anthem on a stream with a Ukrainian blogger. After which he flew to

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for a vacation, and then went to Los Angeles, US, but he denied rumors of his emigration to the United States, later (September 8, 2023) returning to Russia. On September 11, 2023, he left Russia for

again after

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demand to the Ministry of Defense to call Milokhin for compulsory service in the

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Career

In 2019, he opened an account on

, where he started to record and upload videos. During this time he lived in

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and worked as a

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, later deciding to move to Moscow. At this time he gained the attention of Yaroslav Andreev, the founder of the agency WildJam, and invited Milokhin to participate in sponsorship events. The agency took over the work with other advertisers. On 10 March 2020, he started a TikTok-team (commonly called TikTok house) under the name Dream Team House. On 17 September 2020 he released a music video for the song Дико тусим, which Milokhin wrote with Nikolay Baskov. On 21 April 2021, he released his debut album Бум, which came with eight songs. In 2021, he took part in Sber's advertising campaign, starring in a number of clips and commercials. On May 17, Milokhin's clip for Sber and Visa's advertising campaign was released. In 2021, he became one of the speakers of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, as well as its youth face. He was later criticized by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova for "clowning" at the forum. As of mid-July 2021, Danya Milokhin has more than 14 million subscribers on TikTok, over 3 million on

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. In 2022, he was a member of the ice show ''

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'' where he was paired with two time world champion

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, but after some time, they were featured only four times, and right before filming a new episode he left the show after a scandal on Channel One, having fought with Ilia Averbukh and Medvedeva.

Discography

Album

Singles

Ratings

* Highest paid TikTokers according to ''Forbes'' — 6th place * Most popular TikTokers in Russia according to

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— 10th place * Top-5 singing stars on

— 1st place * In 2022, he placed 7th in the ratings of influential blogger Romir Influence Ranking.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Milokhin, Danya 2001 births Living people Russian male singers Russian TikTokers People from Orenburg 21st-century Russian male rappers 21st-century Russian male singers Russian YouTubers