Dima Bilan told Muzyka Pervogo about the film “Hero”

Dima Bilan

Dima Nikolaevich Bilan (name at birth and until June 2008 - Viktor Nikolaevich Belan).
Born on December 24, 1981 in the village. Moskovsky (part of the city of Ust-Dzheguta, Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Okrug). Russian singer, film actor. Honored Artist of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (2006). Honored Artist of the Chechen Republic (2007). Honored Artist of the Republic of Ingushetia (2007). People's Artist of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (2008). Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2018). Vitya Belan was born on December 24, 1981 in the city of Ust-Dzheguta (Karachay-Cherkess Republic).

Father - Nikolai Mikhailovich Belan - worked as a mechanic and design engineer.

Mother - Nina Dmitrievna Belan - worked in greenhouses, then in the social sphere.

The older sister, Elena Belan-Zimina (born 1980), is a fashion designer, worked as a waitress, and married law student Gennady Zimin in 2006.

Younger sister - Anna Belan (born 1994).

When he was one year old, the family moved to Naberezhnye Chelny, and after another 5 years - to the city of Maisky (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), where Vitya studies in school number two until the 9th grade, and completes his secondary education in school number 14.

In the fifth grade he entered a music school, from which he graduated with an accordion class.

Participated in various music competitions and festivals. Took first place in the “Young Voices of the Caucasus” competition.

In 1999, he comes to Moscow to participate in the Chunga-Changa festival, dedicated to children's creativity and the thirtieth anniversary of the joint activity of Yuri Entin and David Tukhmanov. Vitya Belan receives a diploma from the hands of Joseph Kobzon himself.

In 2000-2003 he studied at the Gnessin State Music College. Specialty - Classical vocals.

In 2001-2002 became a laureate of the Festos festival.

In 2003-2005 studied at GITIS (entered straight into the 2nd year).

In 2000, the first video clip of Dima Bilan, shot with the money of his first producer Elena Kan, was included in the rotation of the MTV Russia channel. The video for the song “Autumn” was filmed on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. The song is considered one of Dima Bilan's first studio songs.

While still a student, Dima Bilan met his future producer Yuri Aizenshpis, who immediately recognized his talent and began working with him.

In 2002, Dima Bilan made his debut on the stage of the Russian festival in Jurmala - “New Wave”, where he presented his composition “Boom” and took fourth place. After the competition, the shooting of a video for this song followed, and then also for the compositions “I am a night hooligan”, “You, only you” and “I was wrong, I got caught”. The video for the song “I love you so much” featured the daughter of Igor Krutoy. During the period of work with Aizenshpis, Dima Bilan imitated Danko in many ways.

At the end of October 2003, their debut album entitled “I am a night hooligan” was released. In 2004, a re-release of the album ("Night Hooligan+") was released, including 19 songs: 15 songs from the original edition of the album "I am a Night Hooligan" and 4 new songs ("Heartless", "For the Last Time", "Stop the Music", "Dark night").

Dima Bilan - Heartless

In 2004, Dima Bilan's second studio album, entitled “On the Shore of the Sky,” was released. In the same year, recording of Dima Bilan's first English-language album began. Diane Warren and Shaun Escoffery took part in the production of the album.

In February 2005, Dima Bilan participated in the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Not That Simple”, taking second place. After this, a re-release of the album “On the Shore of the Sky” was released, which included English versions of the songs “As I Wanted,” “On the Shore of the Sky” and “You Should Be Nearby.”

In 2005, the official collection of videos “You, Only You” was also released, which, in addition to official video clips, included concert video presentations of the albums “I am a night hooligan” and “On the shore of the sky.” The collection also included additional compositions not included in these albums: the song “I won’t forget” and a cover version of the famous melody “Caruso” (presentation “I am a night hooligan”), the track “Seven Days” (presentation “On the Shore of the Sky”) .

At the end of 2005, the single “New Year from a New Line” was released containing the original version and a remix of the song “New Year from a New Line”, as well as an English version of the hit “On the Shore of the Sky” called “Between the Sky and Heaven”.

On September 20, 2005, Bilan’s producer, Yuri Aizenshpis, died. Immediately after this, Dima was nominated for the World Music Awards as “Best Russian Artist”.

After Aizenshpis's death, many producers offered Bilan contracts. In 2006, he broke the contract with Aizenshpis’s company, which after his death was headed by his wife Elena Lvovna Kovrigina. After this, the company demanded that Bilan change his name, since “Dima Bilan” is a pseudonym that belongs to the company. But together with a new team, headed by Yana Rudkovskaya, Bilan resolved the conflict and since 2008 took a pseudonym as his official name.

In December 2005, he received two Golden Gramophone awards for the song “You Should Be Nearby” in St. Petersburg and Alma-Ata. On the project “New Songs about the Main Thing,” the singer received the Channel One prize from the professional jury. Dima became the man of the year in show business, since the majority of voters cast their votes for him, according to the Rambler search engine. In December 2005, a video for the lyrical composition “I Remember You” was shot in the Botanical Garden.

In 2006, he took part in the “Golden Sharmanka”, “International Music Awards” in Kyiv, where he received the “Singer of the Year” award. The song "Never Let You Go" was performed there for the first time.

Dima Bilan represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song “Never Let You Go” and took second place.

In the summer of 2007, Dima becomes an honorary guest of the New Wave 2007 festival in Jurmala, and also sits on the jury of the project “STS Ignites a Superstar”.

On October 4, the annual music ceremony MTV Russia Music Awards 2007 took place. Dima Bilan received 3 nesting dolls that evening, winning in the categories: “Best Composition” (“Impossible-Possible”), “Best Performer”, and the main award “Artist of the Year”. An equally important event was the performance of Dima and Sebastian (Timbaland’s brother), who specially flew to Moscow for the RMA MTV ceremony; together with Dima he performed the hit “Number One Fan” in a new arrangement. There was also an exclusive premiere of the new song “Amnesia”.

On January 15, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) presented data on who Russians consider “Favorite Citizen of Russia in 2007.” The first place in the “Singer of the Year” rating, as in 2006, was taken by Dima Bilan.

In 2007, a reality show on MTV called “Live with Bilan” . It became popular and gained a lot of fans. That is why a continuation of this show was aired at the beginning of 2008.

Also in 2007, Dima Bilan was included in the top three most expensive and popular people in Russia according to Forbes magazine: 3rd place in terms of press attention and audience interests and 12th place in terms of income.

Dima Bilan represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song “Believe” and took first place, becoming the first Russian artist to win the Eurovision Song Contest.

Eurovision 2008: Dima Bilan – Believe

On May 16, the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was held in Moscow at the Olimpiysky sports complex. Dima Bilan opened the competition with his performance, since it was thanks to his victory at Eurovision 2008 that Russia received the honorable right to host Europe's main music competition in Moscow.

In the same year, on May 18, Dima Bilan became the Ambassador of Sochi-2014.

In 2012, Dima Bilan, in a duet with Yulia Volkova, performed in the national selection of the Eurovision song contest with the song “Back to Her Future”, where together they took 2nd place.

In 2012, Dima Bilan created an electronic project in the synth-pop style, initially taking his native name Vitya Belan as a new pseudonym, but after sound producer Alexey Cherny joined him, the project changed its name to Alien24.

In December 2014, the band released their first studio album, Alien, which included the song “Fairy World,” which they originally released under the name Vitya Belan, as well as the singles “Music Is in My Soul” and “Wally,” for which video clips were shot.

In 2012-2014 and 2016-2017 - mentor of the “Voice” project.

In 2014-2017 - mentor of the “Voice” project. Children".

In 2020, he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation - for his services to the development of national culture and art, and many years of fruitful activity.

In the village of Moskovsky in Ust-Dzhegut, a music school is named after Dima Bilan.

Socio-political position of Dima Bilan

In 2005, he was a candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in the elections to the Belgorod Regional Duma. For several years he was a member of the party. In parallel with this, he took part in the events of United Russia and A Just Russia.

In 2011, he spoke positively about opposition protests.

In the presidential elections of 2012 and 2020, he participated in campaigning for Vladimir Putin.

He spoke out against the ban on the gay pride parade in Moscow. However, in 2013, he condemned foreign performers who raised the topic of LGBT rights in Russia and declared a negative attitude towards the so-called “propaganda of homosexuality,” but noted that it was necessary to distinguish it from “artistic intent.”

He condemned the action of the Pussy Riot group, but spoke out against imprisonment for the participants, proposing to limit himself to “exemplary flogging.”

In 2020, he performed at the “We Are Together” concert-meeting, dedicated to the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to Russia.

Dima Bilan's height: 182 centimeters.

Personal life of Dima Bilan:

For four years, the singer maintained a relationship with model Lena Kuletskaya, even promising to marry her if he won the Eurovision Song Contest. Then he broke up with Kuletskaya, saying that he had been leading fans and the press by the nose for all four years: this relationship was an ordinary PR.

Dima Bilan and Lena Kuletskaya

After breaking up with Kuletskaya, he got another model and aspiring singer, Yuliana Krylova, who starred in his Safety video.

Dima Bilan and Yuliana Krylova

Then he had Adelina Sharipova.

Dima Bilan and Adeline Sharipova

There were rumors about an affair with his producer Yana Rudkovskaya. It was long believed that this could be a journalistic canard. But in May 2019, this fact was confirmed by Yana Rudkovskaya: “I can say with whom I had an affair. I had an affair with Dima Bilan. Seriously. If Plushenko weren’t next to me, I would have Dima Bilan. He suits me in everything. This is a very important point. He’s handsome, talented, and earns very well.”

Dima Bilan and Yana Rudkovskaya

Bilan also actively advertised his romance with former member of the Tatu group Yulia Volkova. The couple demonstratively kissed and hugged under the gun of photo and video cameras. It looked like another PR stunt on the part of the singer and his producer.

Dima Bilan and Yulia Volkova

Also, the topic of the artist’s non-traditional sexual orientation has been raised in the media and the Internet for a long time.

Who starred in the “Lightning” video

Popular Russian singer Dima Bilan released a video for the song “Molniya”.
The video was shot by director Georgy Klimov. On the day of its premiere on YouTube, the clip immediately became a trend. The winner of the show “The Bachelor”, Daria Klyukina, was lucky enough to star in the film together with the famous performer.

While participating in the project, Daria had a serious rival - Victoria Korotkova. Both girls competed for the bachelor's attention.

The same situation occurs in the video. The fact is that Victoria was also involved in the filming of D. Bilan’s new musical project.

Dima Bilan

The life of the famous Russian performer Dima Bilan is an example of how a person with talent can achieve great heights, despite his place of birth.

Future star Dima Bilan (real name Viktor Nikolaevich Belan) was born on December 24, 1981 in the small town of Ust-Dzhegut, in Karachay-Cherkessia. His parents are simple people who do not have creative professions. Dima's mom is a social worker, dad is an engineer.

The young singer’s singing career began to develop successfully after he met the famous producer Yuri Aizenshpis. By the way, it was the producer who came up with the pseudonym for the aspiring singer.

At the very beginning of the collaboration, Aizenshpis tries, together with his new ward, to conquer the “New Wave” competition. The attempt can be called successful, since the little-known performer managed to climb to the 4th “step” of the music competition in Jurmala.

Bilan made a huge leap upward in his creative career in connection with his victory at Eurovision 2008. Participation in the competition was not easy for the young performer.

The performance that Dima’s team prepared was very impressive. Together with him, the outstanding musician Edvin Marton and Olympic champion in figure skating Evgeni Plushenko appeared on stage.

The song “Believe”, performed by Bilan, won the hearts of many spectators who followed the events of the competition. As a result, the artist brought his country first place in such a famous competition. For Russia, as well as for the singer himself, this was the first victory of such a scale.