Nikolai Noskov
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Nikolai Noskov, 2009
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nikolai Ivanovich Noskov |
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12 January 1956 Gzhatsk, Russian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Genres | glam rock, glam metal, hard rock, new wave, symphonic rock, progressive rock, pop music, art rock, pop-folk, synthpop, dance-rock, blue-eyed soul |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, producer, filanpop, multi-instrumentalist |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, drums |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Labels | NOX Music, Misteriya Zvuka |
| Associated acts | Moscow, Grand Prix, Gorky Park, Niklolai |
| Website | nnoskov |
Nikolai Ivanovich Noskov (Russian: Николай Иванович Носков) is a Russian singer and former vocalist of the hard rock band Gorky Park (between 1987–1990). Five-time winner of the Golden Gramophone. He was also a member of Москва (Moscow) ensemble in the early 1980s, in band Гран-при (Grand Prix) in 1988 just before joining Gorky Park, and much later in the 1990s in band Николай (Nikolai). Starting 1998 Noskov had a solo career releasing six solo albums. In 2015 he was jury in second season of reality TV series Glavnaya Stsena
Born on January 12, 1956, in Gzhatsk, now renamed Gagarin, Nikolai Noskov comes from a "simple working" family, to invoke an old Soviet cliché. His father Ivan worked at a meat-processing factory, and his mother Yekaterina tried herself in the capacities of milkmaid and construction site worker. Kolya’s boyhood gave him his first musical impressions that were mostly folk music, played on traditional Russian instruments or sung by his mother at times. At the age of eight Kolya and his family moved to a bigger city – Cherepovets. There Nikolai finished school and afterwards served his term for the army.
Curious to explore, Kolya tried to play bayan, but as he was growing up, his attention shifted more and more firmly to singing; first in the school choir, then as a solo performer, winning one of his first awards at a local singing contest at the age of fourteen. The lead singer of the school band, he performed the hits of the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival and other western rock bands, bending to the wave of rock’n’roll music, then surgent amid the Soviet youth. Posters depicting the members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd came to relieve Shalyapin’s portrait hung over Nikolai’s bed. His English was then undeveloped, and Nikolai simply transcribed what he heard on the original recording, transcribed it in Cyrillic letters. But later on the circumstances of his life invited him to pay more attention to the language of rock’n’roll.
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