Artik (singer)

Artyom Igorevich Umrikhin (Артём Игоревич Умрихин; Артем Ігорович Умріхін; better known as Artik, born 9 December 1985, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR ), is a Ukrainian singer, director, producer, and composer. He is the recipient of "Pesnya goda 2011", as well as "Golden Gramophone 2011" for the music to the song "Отпусти" by GeeGun & Yulia Savicheva.

Biography
Umrikhin wrote many compositions, including "Над землей" (T-Killah & Nastya Kochetkova), "Отпусти" (GeeGun & Yulia Savicheva), "Ты рядом" (GeeGun & Jeanna Friske), and "Домой" (Ivan Dorn). He's also worked with Dima Bilan, Anna Sedokova, DJ Smash, Leonid Rudenko, and Evgeny Milkovsky (Nervy).

Musical career
In 2005 the group was nominated "best RnB/HipHop group" by the Ukrainian music award "ShowBiz AWARD".

Artik and Asti
In 2010 Artik listened to the work of an unknown vocalist at the time, Asti. He launched the project «Artik & Asti», continuing his creative activity. The team gained popularity with the release of the single «Моя последняя надежда». The video for the song went on YouTube and in a few months garnered about one and a half million views.

In January 2023 Artem Umrikhin emigrated from Russia to the United Arab Emirates.

Personal life
Artik's wife, Ramina Umrikhina (Ezdovska), is of Romani descent. His son, Itan, was born in 2017 in Miami and, therefore, has United States citizenship. On 9 August 2019 his daughter Naomi was born.

Discography

 * 2007 — "Копий нет» with the group "Караты"
 * 2009 — "Основы" with the group "Караты"
 * 2010 — "Не альбом" as ARTIK
 * 2013 — "#РайОдинНаДвоих" with ARTIK & ASTI
 * 2015 (February) — "Здесь и сейчас" with ARTIK & ASTI
 * 2017 (April) — "Номер 1" with ARTIK & ASTI
 * 2019 (March) — "7 (Part 1)" with ARTIK & ASTI
 * 2020 (February) — «7 (Part 2)» with ARTIK & ASTI
 * 2021 (March) — "Миллениум" with ARTIK & ASTI
 * 2021 (July) — "Миллениум Х" with ARTIK & ASTI