The press reported the death of the legendary singer Chris Kelmi. What caused her? Why did the singer spend his last months in seclusion and almost did not communicate with colleagues, friends, or journalists?
Chris Kelmi is a legend of the Soviet stage, the songs of which sounded in every house or, as they said at that time, "even from an iron." In recent years, he was remembered only in scandalous shows where they talked about his problems with alcohol, and at the beginning of 2019, the news appeared in the press that the musician had died in his country house near Moscow. What really happened? What did Chris Kelmi die from?
Chris Kelmee biography and personal life
Anatoly A. Kelmi, whom everyone knows as Chris Kelmi, was born in Moscow at the end of April 1955. The boy’s parents were employees of Gidrospetsstroy, an organization that was involved in the construction of the metro in the capital.
Chris graduated from a regular Moscow school, from the age of 4 he learned to play the piano with a tutor, and at the age of 8 he entered the Dunaevsky Music School. Parents tried to take the boy "to the fullest" and in parallel with general and musical education Chris was involved in sports - tennis, football. In the first sport, he was even the best in the city in his age category.
After graduation, Kelmi entered the university, which his parents chose - the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineering, graduated with honors, and entered graduate school. But music attracted him more, and Chris Kelmi in 1983, at the age of 27, entered the Gnesinka, where he mastered the profession of pianist.
Chris Kelmi - With Music For Life
Chris Kelmi created his own musical collective back in that period of his life, when he studied at a technical university, but the brainchild did not last long. After the collapse of Sadko, Kelmi performed for a while as a member of the Leap Summer group, then moved to Autograph.
In 1980, Kelmi again made an attempt to create his own musical collective, and it turns out to be more successful. The Rock Atelier group performs on the stage of the Lenin Komsomol Theater, releases its own mini-records, and then a full-fledged album, the songs of which become hits.
All-Russian fame came to Chris Kelmi in 1982, when he debuted on television, in the program "Morning Post" with the song "If a Blizzard".
Chris Kelmi is fundamentally different from the crowd of Soviet vocalists, he is perceived as a foreign performer, someone because of an unusual pseudonym, someone because of the original music and performance. The songs of Chris and his group are heard in every house, but such popularity has a flip side.
