The Hatters are a Russian gypsy- folk-rock band formed in

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in St. Petersburg. The members of the group are Yuri Yurievich Muzychenko, Pavel Lichadeev, Alexander "Kikir" Anisimov, Dmitry Vecherinin and Anna Muzychenko.

History

The group was formed on February 23, 2016, by publishing their first song "Russian Style" on their

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channel. On 22 September 2016, the band published the video "I'm Not Easy Buddy" on their YouTube channel. On 17 September and 19 November of the same year, the band gave joint concerts with Little Big and Tatarka in large venues in St. Petersburg and Moscow. On 7 November, they performed with the

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and Goran Bregovich On 10 November 2016, the music video for "Russian Style" was published. On 28 December, the group released their first EP "Stay True". In February 2017, the band performed at Krestovsky Stadium as part of the ''Radio Zenit'' festival. On 21 April 2017, the group released their first album "Full Hat". On 26 April, the group performed the song "I'm Not Easy Buddy" on the Russian TV channel " Channel One". On 30 October 2017, they presented a song from their new album "Forever Young, Forever Drunk". The album released on 1 December 2017. Leader of the band Yuri Muzychenko, was the backing vocals in the Russian Eurovision 2020 song " UNO" by Little Big. The album "Golden Hits" was released on 3 December 2021.

Musical style

The band calls themself a "Russian-Gypsy street folk alcoholic hardcore on spiritual instruments".

Band composition

Current composition

*Yuri – vocals,

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

(since 2016) *Pavel "Pash-Milash" Lichadeev – vocals,

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

(since 2016) *Alexander "Kikir" Anisimov – bass (since 2016) *Anna Muzychenko – backing vocals,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(since 2016) *Dmitry "Milash 2.0" Vecherinin –

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...

s (since 2016) *Daniil Mustaev – Director (since 2016)

Former members

*Anna Lichadeeva (2016–2020) – backing vocals, percussion *Vadim Rulev (2016–2020) –

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

*Altair Kozhakhmetov (2018–2020) –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

Discography

Albums and EPs

Singles

Features

Videography

Music videos

Cameos in other music videos

Awards and nominations

References

External links

YouTube

Spotify

Apple Music

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