Mayot (singer)

Artyom Gennadievich Nikitin (Артём Геннадьевич Никитин; born 2 February 1999, Tyumen), better known as Mayot, is a Russian rapper and singer and member of the record association Melon Music.

Biography
Artyom Gennadievich Nikitin was born on 2 February 1999 in Tyumen.

According to Artyom's words, he became interested in music as a child because his father played guitar for him. His dad worked as a physical education teacher and prioritized sports. The boy went to gymnastics, taekwondo, and also practiced boxing, he did not think about musical creativity.

During elementary school, in the second grade, he began to practice playing the guitar. Later he learned about rock, which opened for him the musical world in a new way: everything he heard was at variance with the usual knowledge about music, which he had received earlier — "solfeggio, musical notation". So he started to learn on his own using tutorials on YouTube.

In 8th grade, he began to take up guitar less as he began a period of constant partying.

Ratings
At the end of 2021 Spotify named Mayot one of the most listened to singers of 2021 in Russia.