Biography
This year Russia picked an artist who became famous over night on YouTube
to represent them. It's Peter Nalitch with Yura Kostenko, Sergey Sokolov,
Kostya Shvetsov, Dima Simonov and Denis Marinkin who will take the stage
in Oslo with a new style of music, called Jolly Babury.
Peter Nalitch has become famous after he published a music video on
YouTube which he made himself for the song Guitar. In about a month after
he did it, 70,000 persons had already watched it. The Russian users of
LiveJournal were sending each other the link to the song and the number
of views was increasing by thousand every day. That brought him into fame
all over Russia.
After his first very popular concert, Peter gathered a grouped of musicians
with whom he gave two more concerts in the winter of 2008 and took the
name MKPN.
In the following summer they went to support the Russian sport teams at
the UEFA European Cup and the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing. That was
followed by releasing an album and also the DVD of their Moscow concerts,
making them established artists.
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