Nikolai Ivanovich Noskov is a Russian singer and former vocalist of the hard rock band Gorky Park.
10 Facts About Nikolai Noskov
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Nikolai Noskov is a five-time winner of the Golden Gramophone.
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Nikolai Noskov's English was then undeveloped, and Nikolai simply transcribed what he heard on the original recording, transcribed it in Cyrillic letters.
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Nikolai Noskov even played the trumpet while in the army.
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Nikolai Noskov never got an official vocal education for a curious twist of fate, although he applied at the Gnesinykh state musical college.
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At one of the turning points in his life invited to Moscow by an entrepreneur for audition, Nikolai Noskov participated in several Moscow-based musical bands, then routinely dubbed "VIA", but none of those early engagements held him for long.
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In 1980 Nikolai Noskov met a composer then considered by many to be one of the most progressive in Soviet Union.
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In 1987 Nikolai Noskov sang a few songs for musical film Island of Lost Ships.
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English was dropped after the first solo album Mother Russia, and Nikolai Noskov started singing in Russian for Russian audience with no "foreign bloke" pretences.
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In 2017, Nikolai Noskov was hospitalized with a thrombus in the cervical section, because of illness he suffered concerts.