Stas Namin
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Anastas Mikoyan |
| Also known as | Stas Namin |
| Born | 8 November 1951 |
| Origin | Moscow, USSR |
| Genres | art rock, blues rock, ethno rock, progressive rock, pop rock, ethno jass, symphony, sympho rock |
| Occupation(s) | musician, composer, song writer, producer, artist, photographer, theatre and movie director and producer, promoter |
| Instruments | guitar, sitar, keyboards |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Website | www.stasnamin.com |
Stas Namin is a unique, multitalented individual, a true Renaissance man, one might say: a theater and movie director, a musician and composer, an artist and photographer, a discoverer and producer of stars, and the creator of an enormous number of innovative projects.— Moskovsky komsomolets, 21 April 2000
Stas Namin is a cult figure in Russia. He’s one of the founders of Russian rock music, the creator and leader of the legendary band The Flowers, which has sold more than 60 million records on the territory of the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries over its half-century of existence, and the author of many popular songs including “Summer Evening”, “Nostalgia for the Present” and “We Wish You Happiness!” He’s the organizer of the country’s first independent production company, (SNC), from which many Russian stars emerged; among them the rock band Gorky Park, which Namin created; the organizer of the country’s first pop and rock festivals, including the 1989 Peace Festival at Luzhniki Stadium with world-class headliners, the One World and Rock from the Kremlin festivals and others; the founder of the country’s first private enterprises (record labels, radio stations, TV networks, concert agencies, design studios and others), which broke the state monopoly and gave rise to the modern Russian show business; and the founder of Russia’s first non-governmental symphony orchestra, the country’s first Western-style musical theatre and other groups.
In the 2000s decade Namin has devoted himself mainly to personal creative projects.
Namin is both stage director and producer at the theater he created in 1999, whose first productions were the legendary American musical Hair and the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, both in continuous performance for eighteen years. One of his theater’s latest productions, a reconstruction of the 1913 avant-garde opera Victory Over the Sun, played in 2015 at three major international venues – the leading contemporary art expo Art Basel, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and the annual FIAC art fair in Paris — receiving high praise from critics and art historians.
With his group the Flowers he recorded and released two audio albums at Abbey Road Studios, Back to the USSR and Open the Window to Freedom, as well as three concert DVDs — The Flowers are 40, Homo Sapiens and Flower Power. Among Namin’s new songs are the compositions “Light and Joy”, an anthem for the unity of mankind, the song “Window to Freedom”, performed together with Russian rock stars as a message for our time, “Feast in a Time of Plague”, about the war in Ukraine, and world-acclaimed remakes of “Another Brick in the Wall” and “Give Peace a Chance”.
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