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In the early group consisted of creative personalities as Hope Shvets - vocals, Andrew and Anna Lukashin - the authors of the texts and music, Vasily Sidorov - soundman. Andrey Lukashin was also a producer and presenter of concerts. Supported RBOO "Bible League" and the local church in 2000, Hope Shvets was able to release two albums "God loves you" and "Autumn". And in 2001 came the album "Hope". Time to make their own adjustments, the group gradually filled with new people. so in 2001 the group entered vocalist Dmitry Mishin, and a new sound engineer Ilya Hehoroshem. In 2003,...

Detsl (Russian: Децл [sometimes as ДеЦл], real name Kirill Tolmatskiy [Кирилл Толмацкий]; born July 22, 1983, son of the famous russian hip-hop/r'nb producer) is a Russian rapper and hip hop artist. He graduated in Switzerland and the British International School in Moscow. He made his first live appearance at the Adidas StreetBall Challenge in Moscow with the song "Friday" ("Пятница"). The first music video was made for the song "Tears" ("Слёзы"). In 2000, Detsl has made his debut in the largely underground and unknown Russian rap scene with the album "Who Are You" ("Кто ты?"). He also took part in...

A Russian technopop / pop band formed in March 1999. The band's current lineup is: Sasha Zvereva (vocals), Anna Zaytseva and Pavel Penyayev. The official website (Russian) is demo.msk.ru. .

Epidemia, a fantasy-themed power metal band from Moscow, Russia, was founded by Yuri "Juron" Melisov in the mid '90s. For many years they have been a quite succesful club-playing band, known only in the metal community. They became more widely known after the release of their fourth album - a metal opera "Elven Manuscript", starring vocalists from famous Russian metal bands such as Aria, Black Obelisk, Arida Vortex, Bony NEM, Master. That made Epidemia the one of most popular metal bands in Russia, and their next album "Living in Twilight" became one of the best-selling metal albums in Russia. In...

Andrey Lysikov (born 1971, Moscow), known under stage name Dolphin, is a Russian artist in experimental hip-hop, alternative rock and electronic genres. Dolphin began his solo-career in 1996 after his initial departure from the well-known Russian pop-hip-hop trio Мальчишник. On the first two albums, 1997’s Не в фокусе (‘Out Of Focus’) and 1999’s Глубина резкости (‘Depth Of Field’) he presents a kind of experimental hip-hop, being close to his previous band’s music, but, not alike that, the prevailing mood is depressive as the lyrics are dedicated to drugs and personal self-release troubles. Nonetheless, on more recent stuff rap fades into...