Chris Kelmi (Anatoly Kalinkin) is a popular Soviet and Russian performer and musician, author of more than 200 songs. Chris’s personal life has always been full of various, creative and scandalous events.
Biography
Anatoly Kalinkin was born on April 21, 1955, in a family of builders of tunnels in the Moscow metro. The Kelmi family lived in a removable truck, but in 1960, the company where the parents worked, allocated a separate apartment for them. Little Anatoly became interested in music when he was 4 years old, and when he was 8 years old, his parents gladly sent him to study at the piano school of music.
Parents carefully took care of the education of the boy, in addition, Chris went in for sports, visiting the sections on football and tennis. Thanks to the support of caring parents, Anatoly received many awards and became a candidate for master of sports in tennis.
After graduating from high school, Tolya enters the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineering on the recommendation of his parents and graduates with honors, later becoming a graduate student. Chris did not want to rest on his laurels and continued his development in culture; at the age of 27, Kelmi entered the famous Music Academy named after Gnesins, and masters the specialty of a pianist.
Artist career
In 1970, Chris Kelmi collects his first musical group - "Sadko", but it did not last long, after 2 years the group broke up. Chris later joined the Leap Summer. After some time, due to creative disagreements, the musician went to the Autograph group. In 1980, Kelmi created a new group, the Rock Atelier, which immediately gained popularity by performing at the Lenin Komsomol Theater.
For the first time, Chris Kelmi appears on the TV screen in 1982 on the popular program "Morning Post", where he performed his song "If the Snowstorm". At the beginning of the nineties, a well-known musician was invited to MTV, this was the first time that a Soviet artist was invited to the American channel. In 1993, MTV released Chris Kelme's video, "The Old Wolf."
