Alexander Malinin

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin is a Russian singer who was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1997.

Career

Malinin was born in Yekaterinburg as Aleksandr Nikolaevich Vyguzov.
At the end of the 1980s, he toured the United States and made a duet with David Pomeranz, becoming the first Soviet singer to collaborate with an American musician since the breakout of the Cold War.
Between 1990 and 1996, he gave several sold-out concerts named Балы с Александром Малининым, breaking attendance records. The series of concerts were also broadcast on television. In 1994, he received the World Music Award as the best selling Russian artist.
Malinin is married and has four children. His son named Anton was educated in part in the UK, attending Haileybury & Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire.

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