Alekseev (singer)

Mykyta Volodymyrovych Alieksieiev[lower-alpha 1] (born 18 May 1993), better known by his stage name Alekseev, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He first began his career in 2014 after placing as a semifinalist on season four of The Voice of Ukraine. He subsequently released the single "Pyanoye solntse", which went on to become a number-one hit throughout the CIS and kickstarted his music career. He represented Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Portugal with his song "Forever".[1]

Alekseev
Alekseev in Lisbon, Portugal
Background information
Birth nameАлєксєєв Микита Володимирович
Born (1993-05-18) 18 May 1993
Kyiv, Ukraine
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active2014–present
LabelsZion Music • Sony Music

Early life

Born on 18 May 1993 in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv from a mixed Ukrainian-Russian family. When he was one and a half years old his family moved to Chita in Russia; two years later his family returned to Kyiv. Alekseev attended Kyiv Specialized School No. 106. Among his childhood music preferences, Alekseev notes the music of Queen, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, George Michael and Justin Timberlake. Alekseev graduated from university with a degree in Marketing.[2]

At the age of 12, Alekseev became very interested in music and singing and was taught by Konstantin Pona. He later started his own band called "Mova".

Career

The Voice

During The Voice blind auditions, Ani Lorak turned her chair for Alekseev, but he did not go beyond the 1st live broadcast. As a consolation prize, Ani Lorak helped Alekseev shoot the music video for his debut single "Everything is in Time". But he did not gain popularity until after he appeared on Voice of the County: Reload[3] where he covered Iryna Bilyk's "I'm Drowning" and shot a music video[4] for it.

Debut - 2017

In September 2015, Alekseev released Pyanoye solntse[5] (Drunken Sun), with lyrics by Vitaly Kurovsky and music by Rusland Quint. The next month, a music video directed by Alan Badoev in which Alekseev kills his alter ego after breaking up with a girl, was shot. In late May 2016, he received the RU.TV award for best song. He also received a Yuna Award for "Drunken Sun". The subsequent singles, "Shards of Dreams", "Became Oceans" and "Feeling Soul", had their music videos also directed by Alan Badoev. On June 29, 2016, he performed the song at Miss Ukraine Universe 2016.[6][7]

In June 2016, Alekseev won Breakthrough Artist of The Year at the Russian MUZ-TV Awards and Breakthrough Artist of The Year at the Ukrainian M1 Music Awards[8] in December 2016. In March 2017, the artist won ZD Awards[9] and Top Hit Music Awards[10] in several categories: "Breakthrough Artist of The Year", "Artist of The Year", "Take-Off of The Year", "Most Frequently Played on The Radio" for the track Drunken Sun and "Most Popular Radio Artist".

On 14 February 2017, Alekseev started his first Ukrainian Tour.[11] The final show took place on the artist's birthday, 18 May, at the Oktyabrsky Palace.[12]

Eurovision Song Contest

One week after applying for the Ukrainian contest Vidbir, it was revealed that Alekseev had revoked his bid. It was then later revealed that he entered into Belarus' contest instead.[13] There was controversy following Alekseev's entry. Eurovision rules state that the song performed is not allowed to have been performed before September 1 of the previous year. Alekseev, however, had been performing a Russian song named "Навсегда" at his concerts. He then shortened the song and translated the lyrics to English to get around this rule. On January 15, 2018, an article emerged[14] claiming that 11 other finalists in the Belarus contest were threatening to withdraw if Alekseev was allowed to qualify for the contests' final.

However, on February 16, 2018, Alekseev won the Belarus National Selection and represented the country at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal.

After Eurovision Song Contest

In November 2018, it became known that the artist began to cooperate with Sony Music Entertainment (Russia).

Discography

Studio albums
Title Details
Пьяное солнце
Drunken Sun
МОЯ ЗВЕЗДА
My Star
  • Release Date: 23 May 2019
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: Digital distribution

EPs
Title Details
Держи
Hold
Forever

Singles
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
RUS
[15]		 UKR
[15]
"Всё успеть" (Everything Is In Time) 2014 —— Hold
"Больно, как в раю" (It Hurts Like In Paradise) 2015 —— Drunken Sun
"А я плыву" (And I'm Swimming) 591
"Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun)[16] 21
"Снов осколки" (Broken of the Dreams) 2016 3713
"OMA" ——
"Океанами стали" (Became Oceans) 3939
"Чувствую душой" (I Feel My Soul) 2017 29—
"Навсегда" (Forever) 29— Forever
"Forever" 2018 2215
"Сберегу" (Saving) 29— My Star
"Февраль" (February) 495— Non-album single
"Как ты там" (How are you) 29— My Star
"Не мёд" (No honey) 2019 29—
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released.

Music videos
Title Year
"Всё успеть" (Everything Is In Time) 2014
"А я плыву" (And I'm Swimming) 2015
"Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun)
"OMA" 2016
"Снов осколки" (Broken of the Dreams)
"Океанами стали" (Became Oceans)
"Чувствую душой" (I Feel My Soul) 2017
"Forever"
"Сберегу" (I'll save you) 2018

Filmography
Year Title Ukrainian Title Role
2017 Mom for Snow Maiden Мама для Снігуроньки Cameo

Awards and Nominations
Year Award Category Result Ref.
2016 YUNA Awards Breakthrough of the Year Won
MUZ-TV Awards Breakthrough of the Year Won [17]
Song of the Year for "Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun) Nominated
RU.TV Awards Won [18]
Breakthrough of the Year Nominated
Golden Gramophone Awards For the Song "Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun) Won [19]
Top League Awards Song of the Year for "Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun) Won
M1 Music Awards Breakthrough of the Year Won
Song of the Year For the Song "Снов Осколки" (Broken of the Dreams) Won [20]
Sound Track MK Awards Breakthrough of the Year Won [21]
Artist of the Year Won
Top Hit Music Awards Take-Off of the Year Won
Most Popular Radio Artist Won
Most Frequently Played Track on the Radio for the Song "Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun) Won
OOPS! Video Awards Best Music Video for "Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun) Won
Russian National Music Awards Best Pop Solo Artist of the Year Nominated
Best Male Music Video for "Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun) Nominated
2017 MUZ-TV Awards Best Male Music Video for "Океанами Cтали" (Became Oceans) Nominated
Song of the Year For the Song "Океанами Cтали" (Became Oceans) Won
Artist of the Year Won
Top League Awards For the Song "Океанами Cтали" (Became Oceans) Won
Russian National Music Awards Best Pop Solo Artist of the Year Won
Award of the Magazine "OK!:"More than Stars» «New Face. Music» Won
Music Platform Awards For the Song "Чувствую Душой" (I Feel My Soul) Won
MUZ-TV Awards (Belarus) Artist of the Year Won
2018 YUNA Awards Album of the Year "Пьяное солнце" (Drunken Sun) Nominated
ZHARA Music Awards Best Singer of the Year Nominated
RU.TV Awards Best Fanclub Nominated
Best Singer of the Year Nominated
Award of the Magazine "Viva!: "The most beautiful people" "The Most Handsome Man of the Year" Nominated
National TV-Award "High Five!" «Favorite Singer» Nominated
MUZ-TV Awards Best Solo Artist of the Year Nominated
International Music Festival "Astana Dausy-2018"(Kazakhstan) Best Singer of Ukraine Won
M1 Music Awards: 4 Seasons Singer of the Spring Nominated
Singer of the Summer Won
Singer of the Year Nominated
Top League Awards For the Song "Навсегда" (Forever) Won
Music Platform Awards For the Song "Сберегу" (I'll Save You) Won
2019 Sound Track MK Awards Best performer "Pop" Won
"Sexy M" Won
ZHARA Music Awards Best Singer of the Year Nominated
Topical Style Awards "Stylish single" Won
MUZ-TV Awards Best male music video for "Навсегда" (Forever) Nominated
RU.TV Awards Best Singer of the Year Nominated
M1 Music Awards Singer of the Year Nominated
2020 YUNA Awards Best performer Nominated
Music Platform Awards For the Song "Ревность"(Jealousy) Won

Notes
  1. Ukrainian: Микита Володимирович Алєксєєв; Russian: Никита Владимирович Алексеев, romanized: Nikita Vladimirovich Alekseev; Belarusian: Мікіта Уладзіміравіч Аляксееў, romanized: Mikita Uladzimiravič Aliaksiejeŭ

References
  1. Alekseev представит Беларусь на Международном конкурсе песни "Евровидение-2018" /Сайт Белтелерадио, 16.02.2018/
  2. "Alekseev: "Я родился вопреки желанию своего отца"". viva.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  3. "Фіналіст "Голосу країни" знімає новий кліп з Аланом Бадоєвим". ТСН.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  4. ALEKSEEV (2015-04-06), ALEKSEEV - А я пливу [Official video], retrieved 2017-08-18
  5. "Фіналіст "Голосу країни" Alekseev презентував емоційну пісню про розставання". ТСН.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  6. "Final show of Miss Ukraine 2016 | Miss Ukraine". missukraine.ua. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
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  14. "Finalists threaten to withdraw if Alekseev is allowed in national final". wiwibloggs. 2018-01-15. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  15. "Alekseev - Снов осколки(послушать музыку, посмотреть видео клип)". www.tophit.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
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  18. "Премия RU.TV 2016". Википедия (in Russian). 2017-05-29.
  19. "Золотой граммофон". Википедия (in Russian). 2017-08-18.
  20. "Песня года". Википедия (in Russian). 2017-08-15.
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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Naviband
with "Historyja majho žyccia"		 Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest
2018		 Succeeded by
ZENA
with "Like It"
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