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  Kino | Russian Rock and Underground Music - Guide to Russia Culture
Viktor Tsoi was also involved in many film projects as both an actor and a music composer.
Unfortunately, Tsoi was not as musically talented as others in the music business and, when he eventually got to the big stage, his shortcomings became obvious.
Viktor Tsoi was buried in St. Petersburg in Bogoslovskoye Cemetery.
www.guidetorussia.org /new/russian-culture/kino.html   (630 words)

  
 Victor Tsoi
Victor Tsoi is a well-known Russian musician who is also a poet, a singer and an artist.
The phenomenon of Victor Tsoi can only be compared with that of Kurt Cobain, except for Victor became perhaps the most influential musician in the last twenty years.
You can find some of Tsoi's music at CD Express which has some of the digitally remastered CD's by Kino that have been released recently.
members.tripod.com /~josephb/etsoi.htm   (472 words)

  
  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Виктор Робертович Цой; June 21, 1962–August 15, 1990) was a famous Soviet artist and leader of the rock group Kino.
Victor Tsoi was born in Leningrad in 1962.
Tsoi said that he enjoyed the work and he also needed the money to support the band, as they still received no government support and their albums were copied and passed around the nation free of charge.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Viktor_Tsoi   (1760 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - Legendary Rockers Suing for Royalties
Tsoi died in a car accident in 1990 at the age of 29.
But the Tsoi estate has for the past 11 years refused to disburse any royalties collected on re-releases of Kino's works, something that the remaining band members say disregards their creative input into the music that started the Soviet rock revolution.
After Tsoi's death, his widow, Marianna Tsoi struck a deal with Moscow-based Moroz Records to re-release Kino's back catalogue albums and various compilations of the band's material.
www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=4434   (961 words)

  
 Actors - Viktor Tsoi
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Виктор Робертович Цой) was a famous Russian rock artist and leader of the rock group Kino.
Tsoi was born to a Korean father and Russian mother on June 21, 1962 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia).
At the age of 18 Tsoi was expelled from the Serov Artistic Academy which he was attending.
listing-index.ebay.com /actors/Viktor_Tsoi.html   (948 words)

  
 CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
In a new tribute film, the late rock star Viktor Tsoi is pictured dancing on the streets of St. Petersburg alongside animated cats, to the sound of a song by his band, Kino.
Tsoi's widow, Maryana, who died of cancer in 2005, asked him to produce the film when she was already seriously ill, saying, "There is not a single film about Vitya," he recalled.
When Tsoi sings "That sweet word 'Kamchatka' / But on this earth I don't see you," the film shows snow-topped mountains at the end of a city street.
context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2006/11/24/104.html   (651 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - kino honored in tribute album
Viktor Tsoi Tribute" (Screen Tests) is being released in two volumes - the first appeared on Oct. 17, and the second is due on Nov. 15.
Recorded by popular and fledgling rock acts from the former Soviet Union, the releases are supported by stadium shows featuring the bands which took part in the recordings - in the fashion of the Brat 2 soundtrack concerts which were organized by the same label last month.
Viktor Tsoi Tribute" in concert at the Ice Palace Nov. 19.
www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=13209   (668 words)

  
 Music In Russia
Viktor Tsoi died in 1990 in a car crash at the height of the group's creativity.
The last few albums that they had released had been increasingly well crafted and professional, and they would probably have made many more, but for Tsoi's untimely death.
He and the group remain popular to this day and for this reason there are a great many sites dedicated to the band.
www.musicinrussia.com /musicpages/kino.htm   (147 words)

  
 Kino (band) Information
The bands first real hit was the album Noch (Russian for Night) released in 1986; the six songs from the album were included in the Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the USSR compilation disc released in the U.S. in 1986.
Due to the beginning of the Perestroika era the band came out of the underground, and the 1988 album Gruppa krovi (Russian for Blood Type) together with the movie Igla (Russian for The Needle) starring Viktor Tsoi brought the band to the pinnacle of popularity.
During the next two years the band released another album and did shows abroad and in the USSR, attracting enormous audiences, until August 15, 1990, when Viktor Tsoi died tragically in a car accident near Riga.
www.bookrags.com /Kino_%28band%29   (599 words)

  
 YouTube - Viktor Tsoi Memorial wall Виктор Цой
It's good to know you hear what you feel you hear, but that's Viktor, isn't it....
a short movie of the victor tsoi memorial in arbat street moscow russia
victor tsoi kino arbat moscow rock singer ussr Виктор Цой pachka cigaret Пачка сигарет (more) (less)
www.youtube.com /watch?v=5W70Tzal_Eo&mode=related&search=   (269 words)

  
 A Star named Sun: Verse, songs, memoirs
This book is devoted to the memory of the Russian poet and musician Viktor Tsoi (1962-1990).
From 1980, Viktor Tsoi and his rock-group "Kino" was one of the most popular with Russian youth.
Discography of the group Kino and of Viktor Tsoi
www.panrus.com /books/details.php?langID=1&bookID=4162   (127 words)

  
 Viktor Tsoi - Slider
Viktor Tsoi was a famous Russian rock artist and leader of the rock group Kino.
He was born Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Виктор Робертович Цой) to a Korean father and Russian mother on June 21, 1962 in Leningrad, USSR (now St.
On August 14th 1990, Tsoi finished recording the vocals for Kino's next album in Latvia, he was supposed to travel back to Leningrad so that his band mates could record its musical score.
enc.slider.com /Enc/Viktor_Tsoi   (1511 words)

  
 Viktor Tsoi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Виктор Робертович Цой) was a famous Soviet artist and leader of the rock group Kino.
In 1974, Victor Tsoi went to the Serov Artistic Academy, but was was expelled from there at the age of 18.
She was a source of support and family for Tsoi, giving birth to their son Alexander (Sasha) on Aug. 26, 1985.
en.askmore.net /Viktor_Tsoi.htm   (1854 words)

  
 El Último Heroe- Historia de Kino y Viktor Tsoi
Viktor es expulsado de la escuela por su escaso rendimiento.
Verano: Viktor Tsoi y Yuri Kasparyan viajan a Estados Unidos para ver a Joanna Stingray.
Viktor viajaba con la maqueta definitiva de un nuevo disco, publicado tras su muerte, y que quedó sin nombre oficial, pasando a ser conocido como "Chiorniy Albom" ("El Disco Negro"), ya que la portada es negra, con "Kino" escrito en letras pequeñas.
personal.telefonica.terra.es /web/jlmartinmas/elultimoheroe/historia.html   (629 words)

  
 Viktor Tsoi - meaning of word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Viktor Tsoi was a famous Russian rock artist and leader of the rock group Kino (rock group).
He was born Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Виктор Робертович Цой) to a Korean father and Russian mother on June 21, 1962 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Tsoi is the last hero of rock.'' Remarkably the only thing to survive the crash was a tape which contained the only recording of Tsoi's vocals for the next album.
www.wordsonline.org /Viktor_Tsoi   (1579 words)

  
 Viktor Tsoi. Russian 1980's Rock Star
Fifteen years ago, on August 15, 1990, Viktor Tsoi, leader of Kino dies in a car accident.
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was a famous Russian rock artist and leader of the rock group Kino.
Tsoi was born to a Korean father and Russian mother on June 21, 1962 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia).
www.russiancarolina.net /content/view/107/2/lang,en   (1340 words)

  
 AznLover.com | Viktor Tsoi
I had no idea who he was but a quick search revealed him to be the lead singer of the Russian rock band Kino, the son of a Korean father and Russian mother, and the legendary "last hero" Russian rock.
Tsoi means more to the young people of our nation than any politician, celebrity or writer.
Tsoi is the only rocker who has no difference between his image and his real life, he lived the way he sang...
www.aznlover.com /index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=93&blogId=1   (189 words)

  
 The Bodhisattvas of Babylon: Resources
Viktor Tsoi is just right object to this purpose; He has a curiosity-arousing foreign name, he sings with strange voice and exotic language on a hard-to-find cd, he is young, sexy and dead.
Behind the memorial, on and against the cages of Viktor's neighbors there were lots of presents these angels and their pals had brought there; for example, a big white canvas with Viktor's face drawn on it with charcoal and lotsa talent.
No, his face was had became too degenerated to wend its way up to the walls of teenage angels, and on the other hand we were not seeking this kind of worship which is practiced in countless beer joints and boozeterias familiar from the Kaurismaki-movies.
www.dharmafish.org /s1012/sources_show.htm?content_id=6178   (2068 words)

  
 Viktor Tsoi - Definition, explanation
In his song "The Metro Train" he discussed a man stuck in a train that was taking him where he didn't wish to go, this was clearly a metaphor for life in the Soviet Union and the band was quickly banned from performing this song live.
The song's popularity was fuelled by the ongoing Afghan War which was claiming the lives of thousands of young Soviet citizens.
While in Latvia, on August 14th 1990, Tsoi finished recording the vocals for Kino's next album.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/v/vi/viktor_tsoi.php   (1551 words)

  
 Viktor Tsoy - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Victor Tsoi is a well-known Russian musician who is also a poet,...
I took them from a book called "Viktor Tsoi: stikhi, documenty, vospominaniya".
Viktor Tsoy - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Viktor Tsoy Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/viktor-tsoy/114427/main   (81 words)

  
 Kino - Viktor Tsoi elulugu
sünnib Leningradis (Peterburis) Robert ja Valentina Tsoile poeg Viktor.
ajakiri Sovetski Ekran valib Tsoi aasta parimaks näitlejaks.
Peterburis käinud tuttav kohtas seal aega surnuks lüües noori tänavamuusikuid, kes väitsid, et Tsoi suri mitte autoõnnetuses vaid laval...
www.hot.ee /tsoiandkino/Tsoi.htm   (200 words)

  
 Viktor Tsoi mounted :: Russia-InfoCentre
Viktor Tsoi, Russian rock legend, the poet of changes, leader of the Kino band, might get a new lease of life near the Moscow State University.
Mounted on a bike with the headlight broken, the artist will be seen by some 10,000 students camped and studying at the university.
These concerns were one of the reasons why it is not Arbat, with its Tsoi's wailing wall, to host the monument craftily performed by Aleksei Blagovestnov and backed up by Sergey Solovyov, who shot the ASSA movie, featuring Tsoi and his famous song Changes.
www.russia-ic.com /news/show/1121   (164 words)

  
 Political Humor - Johnson's Russia List 10-31-02
Viktor Tikhomorov, a member of the Mitki artistic group, attributed the decline of political jokes to the rise in the average Russian citizen's satisfaction with his lot in life.
When [Viktor] Tsoi sang, 'Our hearts demand change,' he was expressing what less talented people expressed in their jokes....
Others participating in the panel were less convinced that the Soviet period was an exceptional one for humor.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6524-12.cfm   (1760 words)

  
 Viktor Tsoi - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
Viktor Tsoi, One of the Soviet Union's greatest rock legend
He was like really popular in the 80's and died in like 1990 and used to be in a band called Kino and like once he died 65 adolescents commited suicide across the Soviet Union.
Kino had great, but short-lived success, due to Tsoi's untimely death in a 1990 car crash.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=75906   (424 words)

  
 Assa (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Love story of 2 young people is stuck between the old norms of Soviet union and the new rising power of organized mafia, two ingredients which will affect the collapse of the 70 years socialist power.
The young generation demand changes, and immediately but it's being suffocated by both sides of the old order, and the movie ends with legendary Viktor Tsoi's song "Changes" which became an anthem after Tsoi's tragic death in a car accident.
A Parallel story in the movie is the murder of Russia's emperor on 12th March of 1801 which is probably a metaphor of constant corruption in Russia.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0094683/combined   (323 words)

  
 Igor Talkov at AllExperts
His music and beliefs were very reminiscent of the career of another Russian singer and songwriter of that time, Viktor Tsoi, who, according to Talkov's diaries, was one of his best friends.
Igor Talkov's passion, openness, and talent has eventually built him a cult following throughout the whole Soviet Union, eventually even surpassing popularity of Viktor Tsoi and Mashina Vremeni, two of the most renown bands from the Soviet era.
Thus, when he was fatally shot backstage at the Yubileiny concert hall in St.
en.allexperts.com /e/i/ig/igor_talkov.htm   (675 words)

  
 : German Gothic Board : - Russischer Rocksänger "Viktor Tsoi"
Wollte mal fragen, ob hier irgendwer den russischen Rocksänger Viktor Tsoi kennt und seine Musik hört?
Aber ich bin der Ansicht, dass Tsoi nach seinem Tod nur noch zunehmend zu einer Legende gesteigert wird.
Aber von Viktor kenne ich leider nur den Namen - ich hörte dann eher Tatu.
www.nachtwelten.de /vB/showthread.php?threadid=44349&goto=nextnewest   (637 words)

  
 RusFilm-2002: The Needle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
With Viktor Tsoi, Marina Smirnova, Petr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov
Moro, the central character of the film, played by the Soviet rock-and-roll star Viktor Tsoi, returns to Alma-Ata from Moscow to collect money owed to him.
While visiting his former girlfriend, Dina (played by Marina Smirnova), it quickly becomes clear that she has become addicted to morphine.
www.rusfilm.pitt.edu /2002/ga1/needle-program-notes.html   (381 words)

  
 Russian Culture: Russian Rock and underground music
Each of these movies had something to do with rock music, but it wasn't always blatantly apparent.
But the poetic lyrics he wrote were respected and relatable to everyone, his music wasn't too complicated, his way of expressing himself was straightforward and brave, which resulted in his immense popularity amongst rock fans.
In 2001 under the inspiration and protection of Maryana Tsoi, a big musical project named "Kinoprobi" was released.
guidetorussia.org /culture/russian-rock_alisa.shtml   (2581 words)

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