Stas Namin
Stas Namin is a Soviet and Russian musician, composer and producer.
He was born in Moscow in 1951. His mother was Nami Artemyevna Mikoyan, and Stas took his stage name from her first name. His paternal grandfather, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, was a prominent Soviet statesman whose responsibilities included relations with Cuba.
He was born in Moscow in 1951. His mother was Nami Artemyevna Mikoyan, and Stas took his stage name from her first name. His paternal grandfather, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, was a prominent Soviet statesman whose responsibilities included relations with Cuba.
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Inspired by the hippie “flower children” movement, Stas Namin founded the band Tsvety (“Flowers”) in 1969. When Tsvety was banned, its members renamed it the Stas Namin Group. The band returned as Tsvety only in 1986, when the famous perestroika began. Stas has written many popular songs, including “Too Early to Say Goodbye,” “Summer Evening,” “Nostalgia for the Present,” “Light and Joy” and “We Wish You Happiness.”
As new freedoms opened up in Russia, Namin founded an independent radio station, a TV company, a record label, a magazine and much more. He organized many landmark events: the first national pop-rock festival in the USSR, in Yerevan in 1981; the Moscow Music Peace Festival at Luzhniki in 1989; the One World series of ethnic music festivals; and the Peace to Karabakh benefit concert at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in 1989. Also in 1989, he founded the non-governmental Children of Armenia Fund to help victims of the Spitak earthquake.
Stas Namin created the non-governmental Stas Namin Center at the Green Theater in Gorky Park. He brought together young, talented musicians and new bands (Gorky Park, Moral Code, Kalinov Most, Splean), as well as poets, artists and designers. It was, in effect, the first producer center in Russia.
In 1989, Namin founded the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, which has recorded more than eighty CDs of music for feature films, animated films, computer games and more.
In the 1990s, Namin was named on the first list of the most influential people in Russian show business.
In the 2000s, he largely withdrew from active public life. His interests returned to his own creative work: rock and symphonic music, painting, theater, photography and film production.
As a film director and producer, Namin made a series of documentary travel films — “Real Cuba,” “Northern India” and “Ancient Temples of Armenia” — as well as an interview film with Ernst Neizvestny. He produced the film “Free to Rock” (USA).
Alongside his creative projects, since 2008 Namin has taught as a professor and artistic director of a course at the Faculty of Cultural Studies and Musical Arts of Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, and as a professor and artistic director of a musical theater course at the Faculty of Musical Theater of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
Website: stasnamin.ru
As new freedoms opened up in Russia, Namin founded an independent radio station, a TV company, a record label, a magazine and much more. He organized many landmark events: the first national pop-rock festival in the USSR, in Yerevan in 1981; the Moscow Music Peace Festival at Luzhniki in 1989; the One World series of ethnic music festivals; and the Peace to Karabakh benefit concert at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in 1989. Also in 1989, he founded the non-governmental Children of Armenia Fund to help victims of the Spitak earthquake.
Stas Namin created the non-governmental Stas Namin Center at the Green Theater in Gorky Park. He brought together young, talented musicians and new bands (Gorky Park, Moral Code, Kalinov Most, Splean), as well as poets, artists and designers. It was, in effect, the first producer center in Russia.
In 1989, Namin founded the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, which has recorded more than eighty CDs of music for feature films, animated films, computer games and more.
In the 1990s, Namin was named on the first list of the most influential people in Russian show business.
In the 2000s, he largely withdrew from active public life. His interests returned to his own creative work: rock and symphonic music, painting, theater, photography and film production.
As a film director and producer, Namin made a series of documentary travel films — “Real Cuba,” “Northern India” and “Ancient Temples of Armenia” — as well as an interview film with Ernst Neizvestny. He produced the film “Free to Rock” (USA).
Alongside his creative projects, since 2008 Namin has taught as a professor and artistic director of a course at the Faculty of Cultural Studies and Musical Arts of Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, and as a professor and artistic director of a musical theater course at the Faculty of Musical Theater of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
Website: stasnamin.ru
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