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Russia in 2002
Prime minister
Song
Northern girl
Karen Kavaleryan, Evgene Fridlyand, Irina Antonyan
Composer(s)
Kim Breitburg
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Biography
Prime Minister came together in 1999 and were seen as Russiaīs answer to Western groups like Take That and Boyzone. They have already released three best selling albums in Russia, though Northern Girl will be their first song in English.
Almost all the members of the large Gypsy family of Jean Grigoriev-Milimerov (born December 5, 1979 in Moscow) were artists. Thanks to this, Jeanīs first stage experience goes back to the age of five. It happened during one of his parents tours. Later his parents sent him to music school (class of violin). Today Jean has no trouble singing any song, be it form repertoire of Michael Jackson, Brian McNight, Stevie Wonder or any other black kings of soul music. Beside being a singer and song writer, Jean is the "psychoterapist" of the group. He is the soothsayer and the troubleshooter and spirit lifter in the group. He likes night life and discos.
For Peter Jason ( born September 9, 1979 Moscow), his elder brother "had a colossal influence". The boys parents (father-a professional geologist from Kenya and mother-a Russian interpreter from English) were not artists, but respected their sons interest in music. Both went to music shool to study the piano. And already at the age of 8 the younger brother, Peter, would play serious classical compositions in the Small Hall of the Bolshoi Theater. Yet, Peteīs musical talent was fully revealed only in the Moscow Boys Choir, where the future premier was sharpening his vocal skills by singing classics from Bach to Mozart. At the beginning of the 90s, Peterīs elder brother founded his own group, Russian Blacks. Beside himself and Peter, it included two girls. The exotic black group was rather popular and often toured Russia, but further development needed financing, absence of which "buried" the group. Peter spent the next two years trying to write songs "to cure boredom", as he puts it. The cure resulted in a solo album A thousand nights, which as Pete admits, "was not wildly popular". He likes to stay at home and devotes all his free time to music; he is putting together a home studio. He writes songs, but he says, they do not fit the project, so he puts them away until he is ready to do a solo album.
Vyacheslav Bodolika (born June, in the town of Ungeny, Moldavia) joined the group when the first songs were being recorded. He comes from the family of musicians (his parents and elder sister play instrument and sing well) thus Slava had no choice but to became a musician. Upon graduation from the music school (class of violin), Bodolika went on to music college and graduated with honors (classes of jazz singing and violin). While at college, the musician started a jazz-rock group Intro. In his first year at the Kishinev Conservatory he was unexpectedly offered join Prime Minister. When the musician came to the first recording session, he brought along two of his songs which became the groupīs first hits: Atomic Sense of Love and Dirty Dances. Vyatcheslav Bodoliko is the most productive author of the four group members; he is also the most serious, a family man, the only father in the group.
The last to became Prime Minister was Marat Chanyshev (born March 25, 1975, in Moscow). First, Eugene Fridlyand liked his song Two Diamonds, but as he came to know the author better, he invited him to join the group. Marat has no professional vocal education. Like Jean, he studied by singing alone with CDs, with album by Freddy Mercury playing an important part. He learned to play the clarinet during his five years at music school. By now he has graduated from Moscow Institute of Culture, has had some valuable experience working on Russian TV. By the age of 25 Marat has played at the funerals, studied Greek-Roman style of fighting, had served in the Army and had come to a firm conviction that it was time to start his own group by the name of Day and Night. Nobody knows how Maratīs fate turned out had Eugene Fridlyand not come across his songs.
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All Participations for Russia
| Year | Artist | Song | Points | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Dima Bilan | Believe | 0 | 7 |
| 2007 | Serebro | Song # 1 | 207 | 3 |
| 2006 | Dima Bilan | Never let you go | 217 | 3 |
| 2006 | Dima Bilan | Never let you go | 248 | 2 |
| 2005 | Natalia Podolskaya | Nobody hurt no one | 57 | 15 |
| 2004 | Julia Savicheva | Believe me | 67 | 11 |
| 2003 | t.A.T.u. | Ne ver, ne boisia | 164 | 3 |
| 2002 | Prime minister | Northern girl | 55 | 10 |
| 2001 | Mumiy troll | Lady alpine blue | 37 | 12 |
| 2000 | Alsou | Solo | 155 | 2 |
| 1997 | Alla Pugachova | Primadonna | 33 | 15 |
| 1995 | Philipp Kirkorov | Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana | 17 | 17 |
| 1994 | Youddiph | Vechni stranik | 70 | 9 |
