Alexander Malinin
Александр Малинин
Background information
Birth nameAleksandr Nikolaevich Vyguzov
Born (1958-11-16) November 16, 1958
Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union
GenresRussian romance, Operatic pop, pop, soft rock
Occupation(s)Singer
Years active1981-present
Websitewww.malinin.ru

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.

Career

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.

Malinin (middle) with the ensemble Gruppa Stasa Namina in 1986

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Александр Николаевич Малинин - биография [Aleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin - biography]. taina.ru. Archived from the original on 2011-10-17. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "David Pomeranz Biography". Archived from the original on 29 July 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  3. 1 2 Malnyin biography in Russian
  4. ↑ Billboard 1994. 21 May 1994. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  5. ↑ "Моя семья — настоящий дар судьбы!". Friedmann's Revu. 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
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