Actor
Viktor Tsoi
June 21, 1962 · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Ви́ктор Ро́бертович Цой; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet and Russian singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music.
Born and raised in Leningrad, Tsoi started writing songs as a teenager. Throughout his career, Tsoi contributed a plethora of musical and artistic works, including ten albums. After Kino appeared and performed in the 1987 Soviet film Assa, the band's popularity sparked, triggering a period referred to as "Kinomania", and leading to Tsoi's leading role in the 1988 Kazakh new wave art film The Needle. In 1990, after their high-profile concert at the Luzhniki Stadium, Tsoi briefly relocated to Latvia with bandmate Yuri Kasparyan to work on the band's next album. Two months after the concert, Tsoi died in a car collision.
Often works with
Georgi Guryanov
4 titles together
Assa, The Needle Remix, Yahha
Aleksandr Bashirov
3 titles together
The Needle, Assa, The Needle Remix
Yuri Kasparyan
3 titles together
Assa, Yahha, The End of a Vacation
Marina Smirnova
2 titles together
The Needle, The Needle Remix
Pyotr Mamonov
2 titles together
The Needle, The Needle Remix
Archimed Iskakov
2 titles together
The Needle, The Needle Remix
