On March 16, 1967, Oleg Petrovich Titarenko was born in Odessa. "People hawala" him under the name Bogdan Titomir. That is how the artist indicated his attitude towards fans in the program of Sergei Parfenov "Portrait on the Background."
Childhood
From Odessa, the family of the future star moved to Severodonetsk, then to Sumy. There, the boy graduated from high school and additionally received a sports and music education. Swimming team or piano? Bogdan chooses Gnesinka, and he is elected by the Ministry of Defense. After the service, he did not return to study.
First success
Returning from the army, Bogdan works as an arranger in the studio "Tender May" and performs in the collective of singer Vladimir Maltsev. Maltsev plays keyboards Sergey Lemokh. In 1989, Titomir and Lemoh recorded the only joint album of the exotic pop group Kar-man. The project becomes the opening of the year, receives the Ovation Award. Discos and stadiums of the country have been dancing to these songs for two generations. In 1991, during the recording of the group’s second album, the musicians decide to leave. Lemokh rewrote all arrangements of his songs on solo, and the shocking Titomir left the band to producer Sergei Lisovsky.
Solo career
Lisovsky promotes the aggressive sexual image of Titomir. In support of their solo album, they come up with and actively advertise the High Energy youth movement. CNN reporters are invited to Moscow to film a report on Russia's first hip-hoper. Just then, to Parfyonov’s question: “What do you sing all kinds of garbage?”, Titomir will say: “So what? - people hawl!” At that time, Titomir recorded three albums. In the wake of success, Bogdan strikes hard. He begins to use and sell drugs, makes enemies in a criminal environment. In the end, finding no other way out of the problems, he disappears from the scene for several years, leaves the country and becomes a US citizen.
Return
In 2007, Bogdan Titomir announces his return with concerts in Kiev and Moscow. Over the years of emigration, he independently got rid of drug addiction, became a vegetarian and a Buddhist, studied new trends of rap music and club movement. Eugene Antimony invites Bogdan to be a DJ (DJ Bo) at his club "Gas Holder", helps him with money and connections. Titomir releases a remake of his song “Do As I Do” and three solo albums of new and old songs. Bogdan is not limited only to the career of a singer and a DJ. He plays in music films on TV. Records duets with Timati, Vaikule, Sofia Rudieva, and other stars. He is broadcasting "Stars of a strip tease". In the artist’s creative plans to make a porn film and techno opera.
Love
According to Titomir, he has no wife and children. There was only one love in his life. Once, after a concert, a young fan broke into the dressing room of Bogdan and remained in his life for five years. Having lived in a civil marriage, Titomir and his chosen one announced their desire to get married and have children. The girl’s parents intervened in the situation and forcibly took her daughter home. Bogdan constantly appears in public in the company of young beautiful girls. Sofia Rudyeva (Miss Russia 2009), Rimma Agafoshina (L. Yakubovich’s assistant on the “Field of Miracles”), Anna Igoshina (the lead singer of the Velvet group) do not hide their past relations with Bogdan. But he never became a husband.
