Kris Kelmi
Kris Kelmi (born Anatoli Arievich Kelmi; 21 April 1955 – 1 January 2019) was a Soviet and Russian rock and pop musician and composer. He was a member of the bands Leap Summer, Autograph, and Rock Atelier. Some of his most well-known songs are Night Rendezvous, Closing the Ring, and Tired Taxi.
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Kris Kelmi
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- Name
- Kris Kelmi
- Birth Name
- Anatoli Arievich Kelmi
- Born
- 21 April 1955
- Birthplace
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Died
- 2019
- Place of death
- Novoglagolevo, Naro-Fominsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
- Occupation
- * Singer
- Full name
- Анатолий Арьевич Кельми.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Fields
- pop music and rock music.
- Education
- Russian University of Transport and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Kris Kelmi (born Anatoli Arievich Kelmi; 21 April 1955 – 1 January 2019) was a Soviet and Russian rock and pop musician and composer. He was a member of the bands Leap Summer, Autograph, and Rock Atelier. Some of his most well-known songs are Night Rendezvous, Closing the Ring, and Tired Taxi.
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Most online sources indicated that Kelmi was a pseudonym, and the musician's surname was Kalinkin. Kelmi denied this version. Kelmi believed that he most likely was Lithuanian on his father's side, explaining that there is a town in Lithuania called Kelmė, which is consonant with his last name. Kris took the nickname in 1972, after Dr. Kris Kelvin, the hero of Stanisław Lem's novel, Solaris. Kelmi died on the evening of 1 January 2019 at his Moscow Oblast home from cardiac arrest caused by alcohol abuse.
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• Name — Kris Kelmi • Birth Name — Anatoli Arievich Kelmi • Born — 21 April 1955 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Died — 2019 • Place of death — Novoglagolevo, Naro-Fominsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia • Genre — * Pop • Russian music • rock music • Occupation — * Singer • songwriter • pianist • Instruments — * Vocals • guitar • keyboards • Years Active — 1972–2019 • Associated Acts — Olga Kormukhina Valeri Syutkin Alexandr Kutikov Arthur Berkut Pavel Smeyan
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Origins and background
The following is established of origins and background. Kelmi died in 2019 at Novoglagolevo. It is also recorded that kris Kelmi is recorded at birth as Анатолий Арьевич Кельми. Institutional cataloguing adds that kris Kelmi was born in 1955 at Moscow.
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- 1.«Старый волк» Крис Кельми не промахнулся
- 2.Propsevdo.ru.
- 3.Slavic and East European Arts
- 4.Лолита Милявская предложила почтить память Криса Кельми, исполнив его хит «Замыкая круг» // Komsomolskaya Pravda
- 5.Крис Кельми в проекте «МедиаМетрикс»
- 6.На смерть Криса Кельми отреагировали коллеги
- 7.Крису Кельми уже 60
- 8.Крис Кельми: «Мы давно уже не муж и жена, а соседи по квартире» // 7Дней.ру
- 9.Певец Крис Кельми умер 1 января в возрасте 63 лет // Moskovskij Komsomolets. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- 10.Regnum. Причиной смерти Криса Кельми стало хроническое заболевание — СМИ. 2019-01-05.
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