Agatha Christie (band)
Agatha Christie (Russian: Агата Кристи) was a Soviet and Russian rock band, one of the most popular in the country in the middle and in the secend half of the 1990s. Founded in 1988 in Sverdlovsk.[1]
Officially, however, the history of the group is counted from the concert February 20, 1988.[1]
After the collapse of Agatha Christie in 2010, the former lead singer Gleb Samoylov, together with keyboardist Konstantin Bekrev and drummer Dmitry Khakimov created the group The Matrixx.
Gleb Samoylov, 2011
Vladislav Surkov, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was credited with penning some of the lyrics for Agatha Christie's songs.[2]
Honors and awards
- 1991: Grand Prix at the Festival of young European bands Open du Rock (Burgundy, France) [3]
- 1996, 1997, 2001: Ovation
- 1997: Golden Gramophone Award
- 1998 - World Music Awards in the nomination Successfully selling foreign artist (Monte Carlo)[1]
- 2004: Komsomolskaya Pravda, according to a survey of readers, called Agatha Christie the fourth most influential group in the history of the national rock.[4]
Vadim Samoylov
Concert in Donetsk, 2015
Concert in Donetsk, 2015
References
- 1 2 3 Этапы большого пути
- ↑ Shuster, Simon (September 2, 2016). "Exclusive: Putin Aide Vladislav Surkov Defied E.U. Sanctions to Make Pilgrimage to Greece". Time.
- ↑ Агата Кристи. Pусский poк
- ↑ Группы, которыe измeнили наш мир
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