Макс Барских
Max Barskikh was born on March 8, 1990. From year to year, celebrating your birth on this day is an ordeal if you manage to be born a man. Perhaps, it is to this joke of fate that Barskikh owes his expressiveness, rebellious soul, seeking nature and boiling blood.
He became famous first of all for the fact that, unable to endure the indifference of the singer Svetlana Loboda, whom he passionately and with loud publicity he was in love with, he opened his veins right on stage, after performing a song dedicated to his beloved. It happened at the gala concert of the Ukrainian "Star Factory - 2" in December 2009. At the end of the song, shouting "Sveta, can you hear me ?!", Max slashed through the vein with something sharp, after which he was taken away from the stage with great difficulty.
After this episode, the production company "TALANT" (head - People's Artist of Ukraine Natalia Mogilevskaya), with which Barskikh worked, terminated all relations with him, branded him as a dangerous and unreliable character. Just then, Max left the Star Factory, and his career was in jeopardy. To maintain his reputation, he even had to once arrange a concert in the subway passage: no musicians, only a speaker, microphone and charisma. It ended with the fact that the police had to snatch the singer out of the lustful clutches of the distraught female fans.
As a result, the extraordinary performer (it is worth noting that he writes his own songs) was noticed by Russian television, Barskikh again began to flicker on the screens, Natalya Mogilevskaya realized that she was losing profit, announced an amnesty to Max and renewed the contract with him. As a result, in 2009 his long-awaited debut album "Bitch-Love" was released.
Barskikh's music and image will inevitably remind you of Justin Timberlake and Dima Bilan. Especially Bilan. The same hysterical lyrical themes, nervous movements and tragic facial expressions. And the same music. Although Barskikh's voice is lower, and the arrangements are more fashionable - sometimes hard hip-hop and rather aggressive breakbeats are heard there. But this, however, is just a skillful stylization - other songs evoke associations only with the stage of the 90s. Although in general, I think, over time, Max Barskikh may well say a new word in contemporary East European pop music.
