Dima Bilan

Dima Bilan, whose true name is Viktor Belan, was probably one of the most successful Russian pop performers from the mid-2000s. From the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, Dima Bilan completed music college in Kabardino-Balkaria and completed his research at the well-known Gnesins Musical University in Moscow. A good-looking graduate using a sugary voice, he seduced the interest of a booming manufacturer, Yury Aizenshpis, popular for his use Kino, Technologia, Vlad Stashevsky, and several various other Russian pop groupings and performers. With an natural understand of potential opportunities in the Russian pop music marketplace, Aizenshpis created a graphic for Bilan that was intimate, rowdy, solid, courageous, and sensitive at exactly the same time. Dima Bilan debuted on the 2002 New Influx International Melody Competition in Latvia and had taken 4th place, and his initial albums, Nochnoi Khuligan (Evening Hooligan) and Na Beregu Neba (Over the Heaven’s Shoreline), released in 2003 and 2004, respectively, obtained wide open public admiration. During 2005 Bilan gained several pop music honours. His music and image had been comparable to Vlad Stashevsky’s, but since Stashevsky acquired ended musical activity in 1999 and acquired thus been generally forgotten by everyone, this comparison do little to have an effect on Bilan’s career. Basic melodious music of love, in conjunction with Bilan’s pleasurable tone of voice and appearance, allowed him to climb to the very best of the graphs — despite his occasionally vulnerable vocals and basic lyrics and melodies. After Yury Aizenshpis’ unexpected death in Sept 2005, his successors made a decision to end their support for Bilan — even so, Bilan’s previous large commercial achievement helped him to get the interest of young manufacturer Yana Rudkovskaya. In 2006 Dima Bilan gained second place on the Eurovision Melody Contest and released his third record, Vremya Reka (Period River), even though he and manufacturer Rudkovskaya were put through court challenges relating to their usage of the Dima Bilan “brand.”