Alexander Malinin

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin (Александр Николаевич Малинин, born Vyguzov, Выгузов; 16 November 1958) is a Russian singer who was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1997.

Career
Malinin was born in Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) as Aleksandr Nikolaevich Vyguzov.

At the end of the 1980s, he toured the United States and made a duet with David Pomeranz, becoming the first Soviet singer to collaborate with an American musician since the breakout of the Cold War.

Between 1990 and 1996, he gave several sold-out concerts named Балы с Александром Малининым (Dances with Aleksandr Malinin), breaking attendance records. The series of concerts were also broadcast on television. In 1994, he received the World Music Award as the best selling Russian artist.

Malinin is married and has four children. His son named Anton (born in 1982) was educated in part in the UK, attending Haileybury & Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire.

Popular Songs

 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV6CIiScglY Berega]" ("Берега")
 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=efqPpgcOgBY Belyj Kon]" ("Белый конь")
 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=93aKNnoFH6w Naprasnie slova]" ("Напрасные слова")
 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0uN3miBcKU Molba]" ("Мольба")
 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgmXH2_F6Us Zabava]" ("Забава")
 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEnneglotl8 I Lyubov' i razluka]" ("Любовь и разлука")
 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw5T2HP1g0E Dai bog]" ("Дай, Бог")
 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VqJMD4UfW8 Nado zhit]" ("Надо жить")
 * "[//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjqBz-wau4 Ty Takaya Krasivaya]" ("Ты такая красивая")

Awards
! colspan="3" style="background: cyan;" | World Music Awards