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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...

Вла́ди (настоящее имя — Владисла́в Вале́рьевич Лешке́вич) — российский рэп-исполнитель, участник группы «Каста». Родился 17 декабря 1978 года в Ростове-на-Дону. Вот что Влади говорит о начале своего увлечения рэпом: Припоминаю, что впервые рэп-музыку я услышал даже в 12 лет — на дне рождения приятеля с соседней улицы. Старшие ребята вскользь отреагировали: «а, это рэп, знаем». А я не знал, и даже само слово «рэп» не разобрал и не запомнил, но очень заинтересовался. В итоге я был абсолютно невероятно увлечен, я облазил все киоски звукозаписи, постоянно бубнил какие-то слова из песен, подбирал мелодии на гитаре, и был очень рад, когда находились...

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,...

Vital post-grunge/indie rock act from Krasnodar (somewhere in Russia). They cite Nirvana and the Manics among the influences, distrubute their album ("Chudnenko", 2008) for free and look very tough onstage in glitter make-up and with a blue boa. .

Rada Anchevsky (Рада Анчевская) is a russian folk-songs performer. The band she sings in is "Rada&Ternovnik". Their first album was released in 1993. http://rada.rinet.ru , users.livejournal.com/_rada_/ .