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Ленинград is a fourteen-piece ska band from Saint Petersburg, Russia formed in 1997. The band's frontman is Сергей Шнуров (Sergey Shnurov). In 2005, its music was featured in the film Everything Is Illuminated, starring Elijah Wood. The band, and especially its leader, Shnurov, has long been famous for its catchy beats and irrepressibly bad language, somehow managing to be one of the top bands in Russia despite almost never being clean enough to earn radio play and despite its live concerts being banned in Moscow. In 2008 Leningrad disbanded. Its former members run Рубль and Spitfire. The band reunited in...

ДДТ (DDT) is a popular Russian rock band founded by its permanent lead singer, Yuri Shevchuk (Юрий Шевчук), in Ufa in 1980. The original band comprises: * Yuri Shevchuk — vocals, guitar * Vladimir Sigachyov — keyboard * Rustem Asanbayev — guitar * Gennady Rodin — bass * Rustam Karimov — percussion History In 1982, Komsomolskaya Pravda declared a competition for young music performers called Zolotoy Kamerton (Golden Tuning Fork). DDT sent three compositions, "Inoplanetyane" (Aliens), "Chyornoye solntse" (Black sun), and "Ne strelyai" (Don't shoot). During the long-running competition, the group published their first album (on tape), Svinya na raduge...

Dima Bilan is a Russian pop singer, born in Caucasus. He was runner-up in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, and was the winner of the 2008 contest with the song 'Believe'. Now he enjoys wide success and released his first english album after 3 multiplatinum Russian albums and his great success in Eurovision. Biography: Dima Bilan (real name Viktor Belan) was born on 24 December, 1981 in Karachay-Cherkessia. When he was one, his family moved to his grandmother’s place in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan. When he was six years old, his family moved to Kabardino-Balkaria where he...

Denis Grigoriev (born March 10, 1981 in Novocheboksarsk) better know by his stage name Карандаш is russian rapper, producer and arranger. Карандаш was member of the group "Партия" Later "Партия" together with group "Некондиция" and they formed new group "Район Моей Мечты". In 2003 Карандаш left due to creative differences - while other members focused on the club dance rap, Карандаш wrote more traditional music with the problem, polemical texts. Карандаш has released four studio albums Уценка 99%, БезИМЯнный альбом, Американщина and Бедные тоже смеются. .