User:Felikss

[[Rock musician of the new generation - Felikss began his musical career at the age of 16 with founding his first band "Katapults" in Liepāja. In after years Felikss, being a real leader and having flair of writing songs, founded the popular bands of the time "Tumsa" and "M.Princese", the latest of which made its immensely successful debut at the greatest Latvian rock festival "Liepājas Dzintars".

After winning at this festival Felikss was noticed by the most influential Latvian recording company "Microphone Records" and offered to sign a contract for the debut album. In the same year Felikss with his band released their first album "Viens", which gained the public's affection and appreciation. Due to the melodic and at the same time rough songs written by Felikss, "M.Princese" becomes one of the most successful rock bands, and its name has become a value. In 1998 was released second album "Kā būt". After two successful albums with "M.Princese", in a year 2002 Felikss decided to take up the solo career, managing in between to record the album "Rudens Vēju Muzikants" in remembrance of his father, legendary guitarist and songwriter of rock group "Līvi", Ēriks Ķiģelis, and the album "Atmiņas".

Felikss's first solo album "Rīts lēni nāk" gained the obvious appreciation from the public, critics and members of the music industry, and was nominated for the Best Rock Album at the prestige Latvian Music Award. The songs "Vējā", "Lietus sašuj", "Pulksteņu ezers" and others have already become a sort of national folklore.

Due to the inherited gift of writing songs, Felikss is justly said to be one of the best rock musicians of the time in the Latvia. He has played concerts in Baltic States including Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as well as in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Poland, where he was welcomed with a real ovation. Felikss has taken part in countless projects and collaborated with many popular Latvian musicians while recording the memorial album of his father, as well as played a guitar in the musical "Dāmu paradīze" by maestro Raimonds Pauls. Felikss is the author of a song "Cerību laiks", which has become a visiting-card of Igo, and has written a hymn for Latvian hockey team "Liepājas Metalurgs".

In the end of 2004 Felikss released his new album "Samts" under the label of Platforma Records. The album contains songs written by Felikss and recorded in Astia Studio in Finland in order to achieve the sound quality, equal to any of the world' s best albums.

All singles from the album have achieved giddy success. According to the data of Latvian Radio 2, "Es tev lūdzu" has been the third most played song of 2003 and got “Best Rock” prize in LNT Music Video show. "Bezmiegs" was the absolute leader of Latvian Airplay Top 40 in the first half of 2004 and together with latest single "Tev ir viss ko es vēlos" was claimed to be the Latvian Radio Hit 2004 and Best Rock Song in 2004 at the Latvian Music Award 2004.

In the May of 2005, to mark the 50th birthday of his father, Felikss has released a second album “Rudens Vēju Muzikants 2” which follow up to the 1999 album “Rudens Vēju Muzikants” and saw Felikss honoring the memory of his father who died 20 years ago in a car accident.