Petr mamonov biography

Pyotr Nikolaevich Mamonov was born on 14 April to an engineer and a Norwegian translator. During his childhood, he lived on Bolshoi Karetny Lane. As a teen, he would dress as a stilyaga and often got into fights, with one such incident resulting in a scar across his stomach which can be seen in the film Igla, which he starred in over 20 years later.

Mamonov's parents separated in the mid s and his mother began a relationship with Nikolai Bortnichuk, also an engineer. This relationship resulted in the birth of Mamonov's half-brother, Aleksei Bortnichuk, on 13 July During the s, he suffered from depression and worked various jobs, including as a boiler operator and Norwegian translator he learned the language from his mother.

Pyotr Mamonov, the charismatic frontman of the acclaimed band "Zvuki Mu," enjoyed immense popularity during the band's heydey.

He lived with the artist Olga Gorokhova between and Gorokhova stated that Mamonov would listen to a lot of Weather Report during this period. In , he began Zvuki Mu. The name originates from a series of affectionate names beginning with the syllable mu that Mamonov and Gorokhova would call each other, though the earliest occurrence of the name Zvuki Mu occurs in some of Mamonov's poetry from the late s.

Mamonov was one of the few rock musicians from the former USSR who managed to achieve recognition abroad, through his collaboration with Brian Eno in the late s. Around the same period he started acting in films, and over the next decade wrote, produced and acted in several one-man theatrical performances, establishing himself as a cult figure in Russia.

Pyotr Nikolayevich Mamonov was a Russian rock musician and the frontman of the Moscow band Zvuki Mu, as well as a stage and film actor.

Zvuki Mu initially performed between and , after which Mamonov started a new band called Mamonov and Aleksei with his half-brother Aleksei Bortnichuk. The new band performed music of a similar style to Zvuki Mu, using backing tracks instead of live drums, but in , they acquired a live drummer and developed a new, back-to-basics hard rock sound, with Mamonov rewriting some older Zvuki Mu songs to fit in with this style.

They released one album in and were recording a second one when Mamonov decided to rename the group to Zvuki Mu, resulting in the release of Zvuki Mu's Gruby zakat album in In , after disagreements between Mamonov and the other Zvuki Mu members, the band broke up again, with Zvuki Mu becoming just a pseudonym for Mamonov's solo work.

He switched to using his own name for music in , but in , he formed a new band, Sovershenno novye Zvuki Mu Brand New Zvuki Mu with musicians from the indie band Stoneberry.