Alexander Malinin | |
Native Name: | Александр Малинин |
Birth Name: | Aleksandr Nikolaevich Vyguzov |
Birth Date: | 16 November 1958 |
Birth Place: | Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union |
Occupation: | Singer |
Years Active: | 1981–present |
Genre: | Russian romance, Operatic pop, pop, soft rock |
Website: | www.malinin.ru |
Associated Acts: | Tsvety |
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Малинин, born Vyguzov, Russian: Выгузов; 16 November 1958) is a Russian singer who was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1997.
Malinin was born in Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) as Aleksandr Nikolaevich Vyguzov.[1]
At the end of the 1980s, he toured the United States and made a duet with David Pomeranz, becoming the first Soviet singer to collaborate with an American musician since the breakout of the Cold War.[2]
Between 1990 and 1996, he gave several sold-out concerts named Балы с Александром Малининым (Dances with Aleksandr Malinin), breaking attendance records.[3] The series of concerts were also broadcast on television. In 1994, he received the World Music Award as the best selling Russian artist.[3] [4]
Malinin is married and has four children.[5] His son named Anton (born in 1982) was educated in part in the UK, attending Haileybury & Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire.
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