Max Barskih

Mykola Mykolaiovych Bortnyk, better known by his stage name Max Barskih and alter-ego Mickolai, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He was raised in Kherson, Ukraine, and moved to Kyiv after his graduation. He has released six studio albums, one compilation album and one extended-play.

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Career

Max Barskih rose to fame in Ukraine and post-Soviet countries in 2008 as a participant of the Ukrainian talent show "Fabryka Zirok 2".
In 2010, Max Barskih won his first big prize with being awarded "Best Ukrainian Act" at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Max Barskih also had his acting debut in 2010, when he starred in Lara Fabian's musical feature film Mademoiselle Zhivago.
In 2012, Barskih entered the Eurovision Song Contest Auditions for Ukraine with the English version of his song "Dance", but narrowly lost to Gaitana who represented Ukraine in Baku with her song "Be My Guest".
Max Barskih has won numerous awards, including "Singer of the Year" Awards at the Baltic Music Awards 2011, the "Crystal Microphone" Awards 2011, the M1 Music Awards 2017, the GQ Men of the Year Awards 2018, the New Radio Awards 2019, the Love Radio Awards 2019 and at the Top Hit Music Awards 2020.
Forbes Magazine USA and Vogue Ukraine called Barskih "the internationally most successful Russian language singer".
Throughout his career, Barskih has worked closely with Alan Badoev, who is his producer and has also directed most of his music videos. Barskih's videos have gained popularity in the CIS nations. The director likes to use a variety of visual effects for many of his videos, such as in the music videos for "Теряю тебя" which was released in 3D format in the CIS nations.
Barskih composes the music and writes the lyrics of his songs himself, and partly also does the producing. Most of his songs are in Russian, but he has also sung in Ukrainian and in English and ).''
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Barskih joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In summer 2023, he started a world tour in support of Ukraine from Lisbon.

Other ventures

Songwriting

Barskih writes his songs himself and occasionally also works as a songwriter for other artists.

Acting

Barskih has starred as an actor in two musical feature films.

Discography

Studio albums

1:MAX BARSKIH
Z.Dance
По Фрейду
Туманы
7
''1990''

Compilation albums

''Words''

EPs

''Mickolai – EP''

Singles

2009: S.L.
2009: Пусто
2009: DVD
2010: Агония
2010: Сердце бьётся
2010: Студент
2011: Lost in Love | Теряю тебя
2011: Белый ворон
2011: Atoms | Глаза-убийцы
2011: Downtown
2011: Dance
2012: F**K OFF
2012: Higher
2012: Alive | Пылай
2012: I Wanna Run | Я болею тобой
2013: По Фрейду
2013: Какой была твоя любовь?
2013: Hero_in
2013: Небо
2014: Отпусти
2014: Всё серьёзно
2015: Хочу танцевать
2015: Подруга – Ночь
2016: Займёмся Любовью
2016: Последний летний день
2016: Туманы
2016: Неверная
2017: Моя любовь
2017: Февраль
2018: Берега
2019: Неслучайно
2019: Лей, не жалей
2020: Небо льёт дождем
2020: ПО СЕКРЕТY
2020: Silence
2021: Bestseller
2021: Tequila Sunrise
2022 Don't Fuck With Ukraine