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Biography of Alexander Panayotov

Alexander Sergeevich Panayotov, according to many music critics, is one of the most gifted voices in Russian show business. He immersed himself in the world of musical creativity from early childhood, was a laureate of many regional festivals, and in the early 2000s he began to confidently build a professional career, entering the top ten finalists of the “Be a Star” show and winning second place in the “People’s Artist” project. In 2020, Panayotov joined Grigory Leps’ team on the vocal project “The Voice”.

Star of “People’s Artist” and the show “The Voice” Alexander Panayotov

Singer in the project “The Voice”

In 2020, the vocalist presented fans with two compositions - “Invincible”, the author of the words and music, which he personally became, and “Intravenous”. He caused a real shock among fans with his appearance on the show “The Voice”, where he chose Grigory Leps as his mentor and won second place. At the moment, Alexander is part of the Leps production center.

Panayotov and Leps

The childhood of Alexander Panayotov. First steps in creativity

Alexander was born in the Ukrainian Zaporozhye, into a simple family, in no way connected with music.
His mother is a cook, his father was involved in the construction industry. True, Panayotova’s older sister studied musical notation at a music school. When the boy was three years old, he showed a craving for musical creativity - in a local kindergarten, little Sasha gave concerts during quiet time, which were popular with his playmates. In a word, Panayotov dreamed of becoming a professional singer from early childhood, and with the same intensity with which many boys dream of surfing the expanses of space. And, being an independent and purposeful child beyond his years, he did everything to make his dream come true as soon as possible.

Alexander Panayotov in childhood

At the age of 7, Alexander went to first grade. He was sent to multidisciplinary lyceum No. 62, where the boy chose to study the humanities. He studied well, except that he was slightly behind in physics and chemistry, for which he did not have much love. And, paradoxically, his school certificate had a “B” in music.

At the age of 9, Panayotov made his debut on the school stage with the composition “Beautiful is Far Away.” His re-rendition of the famous song by Evgeny Krylatov created a sensation - the listeners were delighted with the boy’s gentle, sonorous voice. And in 1994, my mother took her son to music school No. 2. At the entrance exam, Sasha performed Mariah Carey’s song “Without You,” melting the hearts of the teachers, who vied with each other to claim that a cover version would give a hundred points ahead of the original.

Since childhood, Sasha Panayotov dreamed of singing on stage

June 1, 1997 is a significant date in the biography of Alexander Panayotov. On this day, he performed in the central square of Zaporozhye with the song “Z ranku do nochi” (“From morning to night”). After this, the talented young man was given an audition at the Yunost studio under the guidance of Vladimir Artemyev, who became Sasha’s first mentor. Needless to say, the casting was a success. Soon the guy began writing his own songs; The compositions “Summer Rain” and “Ringed Bird” belong to the early period of his work.

In those years, young Panayotov had to be torn between studying at the lyceum, a musical career (the guy dreamed of putting together his own band), communicating with friends and periodically earning money - together with his friends, he collected scrap metal from nearby landfills. It must be said that the money he received was even enough to buy simple recording equipment.

The first music competition with Panayotov’s participation was the Zaporozhye “Morning Star”, then the “Zorepad” festival in Gulyai-Polye, where the voice of Alexander Panayotov was awarded the Grand Prix.

Young Alexander Panayotov and one of his first prizes

From that moment on, Panayotov “went beyond” the musical life of the Zaporozhye region, demonstrating his talent, first on the scale of Ukraine, then in the neighboring countries. In 2000, he received the bronze prize of the famous “Slavic Bazaar” in Kyiv, as well as the first prize of the “Azov Sails”, as well as the Grand Prix of the Black Sea Games festival. The jury of the latter included the honored sound engineer Oleg Stupka, who later took Alexander under his wing.

The next year was no less victorious: first places in the competitions “Golden Hit” (Belarus), “Discovery” (Bulgaria), “Sea of ​​Friends” (Crimea). In the same year, his original song “Summer Rain” was included in the music collection “[email protected]”.

Young Alexander Panayotov

In 2001, Panayotov received a honors diploma from a music school and a lyceum certificate, after which he entered the pop vocal department of the Kyiv College of Variety and Circus Arts. He continued to participate in numerous competitions and festivals, for example, “Songs of Vilnius”, where he again took first place, and soon decided to try his hand at Moscow. In this regard, he had to withdraw documents from college.

An excerpt characterizing Panayotov, Alexander Sergeevich

In the movement of the Russian army from Tarutino to Krasnoye, fifty thousand were left sick and backward, that is, a number equal to the population of a large provincial city. Half the people dropped out of the army without fighting. And about this period of the campaign, when troops without boots and fur coats, with incomplete provisions, without vodka, spend the night for months in the snow and at fifteen degrees below zero; when there are only seven and eight hours of the day, and the rest is night, during which there can be no influence of discipline; when, not like in a battle, for a few hours only people are introduced into the realm of death, where there is no longer discipline, but when people live for months, every minute struggling with death from hunger and cold; when half the army dies in a month - historians tell us about this and that period of the campaign, how Miloradovich was supposed to make a flank march this way, and Tormasov there that way, and how Chichagov was supposed to move there that way (move above his knees in the snow), and how he knocked over and cut off, etc., etc. The Russians, half dying, did everything that could be done and should have been done to achieve a goal worthy of the people, and are not to blame for the fact that other Russian people, sitting in warm rooms, they expected to do something that was impossible. All this strange, now incomprehensible contradiction of fact with the description of history occurs only because the historians who wrote about this event wrote the history of the wonderful feelings and words of various generals, and not the history of events. For them, the words of Miloradovich, the awards that this and that general received, and their assumptions seem very interesting; and the question of those fifty thousand who remained in hospitals and graves does not even interest them, because it is not subject to their study. Meanwhile, you just have to turn away from studying reports and general plans, and delve into the movement of those hundreds of thousands of people who took a direct, immediate part in the event, and all the questions that previously seemed insoluble suddenly, with extraordinary ease and simplicity, receive an undoubted solution. The goal of cutting off Napoleon and his army never existed except in the imagination of a dozen people. It could not exist because it was meaningless and achieving it was impossible. The people had one goal: to cleanse their land from invasion. This goal was achieved, firstly, by itself, since the French fled, and therefore it was only necessary not to stop this movement. Secondly, this goal was achieved by the actions of the people's war, which destroyed the French, and, thirdly, by the fact that a large Russian army followed the French, ready to use force if the French movement was stopped. The Russian army had to act like a whip on a running animal. And an experienced driver knew that it was most beneficial to hold the whip raised, threatening it, and not to whip a running animal on the head. When a person sees a dying animal, horror seizes him: what he himself is, his essence, is obviously destroyed in his eyes - ceases to be. But when the dying person is a person, and the loved one is felt, then, in addition to the horror of the destruction of life, one feels a gap and a spiritual wound, which, just like a physical wound, sometimes kills, sometimes heals, but always hurts and is afraid of an external irritating touch. After the death of Prince Andrei, Natasha and Princess Marya felt this equally. They, bent morally and closing their eyes from the menacing cloud of death hanging over them, did not dare to look life in the face. They carefully protected their open wounds from offensive, painful touches. Everything: a carriage driving quickly down the street, a reminder about lunch, a girl’s question about a dress that needs to be prepared; even worse, the word of insincere, weak sympathy painfully irritated the wound, seemed like an insult and violated that necessary silence in which they both tried to listen to the terrible, strict chorus that had not yet ceased in their imagination, and prevented them from peering into those mysterious endless distances that opened for a moment In front of them. Just the two of them, it wasn't offensive or painful. They spoke little to each other. If they talked, it was about the most insignificant subjects. Both of them equally avoided mentioning anything related to the future. To admit the possibility of a future seemed to them an insult to his memory. They were even more careful to avoid in their conversations everything that could be related to the deceased. It seemed to them that what they experienced and felt could not be expressed in words. It seemed to them that any mention in words of the details of his life violated the greatness and sacredness of the sacrament that had taken place in their eyes. Incessant abstinence of speech, constant diligent avoidance of everything that could lead to a word about him: these stops on different sides on the border of what could not be said, exposed even more purely and clearly before their imagination what they felt. But pure, complete sadness is just as impossible as pure and complete joy. Princess Marya, in her position as one independent mistress of her destiny, guardian and educator of her nephew, was the first to be called to life from the world of sadness in which she lived for the first two weeks. She received letters from relatives that had to be answered; the room in which Nikolenka was placed was damp, and he began to cough. Alpatych came to Yaroslavl with reports on affairs and with proposals and advice to move to Moscow to the Vzdvizhensky house, which remained intact and required only minor repairs. Life did not stop, and we had to live. No matter how hard it was for Princess Marya to leave the world of solitary contemplation in which she had lived until now, no matter how pitiful and as if she was ashamed to leave Natasha alone, the worries of life demanded her participation, and she involuntarily surrendered to them. She checked accounts with Alpatych, consulted with Desalles about her nephew, and made orders and preparations for her move to Moscow. Natasha remained alone and since Princess Marya began making preparations for her departure, she avoided her too. Princess Marya invited the Countess to let Natasha go with her to Moscow, and the mother and father joyfully agreed to this proposal, noticing every day the decline in their daughter’s physical strength and believing that both a change of place and the help of Moscow doctors would be useful for her. “I’m not going anywhere,” Natasha answered when this proposal was made to her, “just please leave me,” she said and ran out of the room, barely holding back tears not so much of grief as of frustration and anger. After she felt abandoned by Princess Marya and alone in her grief, Natasha most of the time, alone in her room, sat with her feet in the corner of the sofa, and, tearing or kneading something with her thin, tense fingers, looked with a persistent, motionless gaze to what the eyes rested on. This solitude exhausted and tormented her; but it was necessary for her. As soon as someone came in to see her, she quickly stood up, changed her position and expression, and took up a book or sewing, obviously impatiently awaiting the departure of the one who had disturbed her. It seemed to her that she would now understand, would penetrate, what her soulful gaze was directed at with a terrible question beyond her power. At the end of December, in a black woolen dress, with a braid carelessly tied in a bun, thin and pale, Natasha sat with her legs in the corner of the sofa, tensely crumpling and unraveling the ends of her belt, and looked at the corner of the door. She looked where he had gone, to the other side of life. And that side of life, which she had never thought about before, which had previously seemed so distant and incredible to her, was now closer and dearer to her, more understandable than this side of life, in which everything was either emptiness and destruction, or suffering and insult. She looked to where she knew he was; but she could not see him otherwise than as he was here. She saw him again the same as he was in Mytishchi, at Trinity, in Yaroslavl. She saw his face, heard his voice and repeated his words and her words spoken to him, and sometimes she came up with new words for herself and for him that could then be said. Here he lies on an armchair in his velvet fur coat, resting his head on his thin, pale hand. His chest is terribly low and his shoulders are raised. The lips are firmly compressed, the eyes shine, and a wrinkle jumps up and disappears on the pale forehead. One of his legs is trembling almost noticeably quickly. Natasha knows that he is struggling with excruciating pain. “What is this pain? Why pain? How does he feel? How it hurts!” - Natasha thinks. He noticed her attention, raised his eyes and, without smiling, began to speak. “One terrible thing,” he said, “is to bind yourself forever to a suffering person. This is eternal torment." And he looked at her with a searching look—Natasha now saw this look. Natasha, as always, answered then before she had time to think about what she was answering; she said: “This cannot go on like this, this will not happen, you will be healthy - completely.” She now saw him first and now experienced everything that she had felt then. She remembered his long, sad, stern look at these words and understood the meaning of the reproach and despair of this long look. “I agreed,” Natasha was now telling herself, “that it would be terrible if he remained always suffering. I said it that way only because it would have been terrible for him, but he understood it differently. He thought it would be terrible for me. He still wanted to live then - he was afraid of death. And I told him so rudely and stupidly. I didn't think that. I thought something completely different. If I had said what I thought, I would have said: even if he were dying, dying all the time before my eyes, I would be happy compared to what I am now. Now... Nothing, no one. Did he know this? No. Didn't know and never will. And now it will never, never be possible to correct this.” And again he spoke to her the same words, but now in her imagination Natasha answered him differently. She stopped him and said: “Terrible for you, but not for me. You know that I have nothing in life without you, and suffering with you is the best happiness for me.” And he took her hand and pressed it as he had pressed it on that terrible evening, four days before his death. And in her imagination she told him other tender, loving speeches that she could have said then, which she said now. “I love you... you... I love you, I love you...” she said, convulsively squeezing her hands, gritting her teeth with fierce effort. And sweet grief overwhelmed her, and tears were already welling up in her eyes, but suddenly she asked herself: to whom is she telling this? Where is he and who is he now? And again everything was clouded with dry, hard bewilderment, and again, with intense knitting of her eyebrows, she peered at where he was. And now, it seemed to her, she was penetrating the secret... But at that moment, just as something incomprehensible was opening up to her, the loud knock of the door lock handle painfully struck her ears. Quickly and carelessly, with a frightened, uninterested expression on her face, the maid Dunyasha entered the room. “Come to daddy, quickly,” said Dunyasha with a special and animated expression. “It’s a misfortune, about Pyotr Ilyich... a letter,” she said, sobbing. In addition to the general feeling of alienation from all people, Natasha at this time experienced a special feeling of alienation from her family. All her own: father, mother, Sonya, were so close to her, familiar, so everyday that all their words and feelings seemed to her an insult to the world in which she had lived lately, and she was not only indifferent, but looked at them with hostility . She heard Dunyasha’s words about Pyotr Ilyich, about misfortune, but did not understand them. “What kind of misfortune do they have there, what kind of misfortune can there be? Everything they have is old, familiar and calm,” Natasha mentally said to herself. When she entered the hall, the father was quickly leaving the countess's room. His face was wrinkled and wet with tears. He apparently ran out of that room to give vent to the sobs that were crushing him. Seeing Natasha, he desperately waved his hands and burst into painful, convulsive sobs that distorted his round, soft face. - Pe... Petya... Come, come, she... she... is calling... - And he, sobbing like a child, quickly mincing with weakened legs, walked up to the chair and fell almost on it, covering his face with his hands. Suddenly, like an electric current ran through Natasha’s entire being. Something hit her terribly painfully in the heart. She felt terrible pain; It seemed to her that something was being torn away from her and that she was dying. But following the pain, she felt an instant release from the ban on life that lay on her. Seeing her father and hearing her mother’s terrible, rude cry from behind the door, she instantly forgot herself and her grief. She ran up to her father, but he, helplessly waving his hand, pointed to her mother’s door. Princess Marya, pale, with a trembling lower jaw, came out of the door and took Natasha by the hand, saying something to her. Natasha didn’t see or hear her. She entered the door with quick steps, stopped for a moment, as if in a struggle with herself, and ran up to her mother. The Countess lay on an armchair, stretching out strangely awkwardly, and banging her head against the wall. Sonya and the girls held her hands. “Natasha, Natasha!..” shouted the countess. - It’s not true, it’s not true... He’s lying... Natasha! – she screamed, pushing those around her away. - Go away, everyone, it’s not true! Killed!.. ha ha ha ha!.. not true! Natasha knelt on the chair, bent over her mother, hugged her, lifted her with unexpected strength, turned her face towards her and pressed herself against her. - Mama!.. darling!.. I’m here, my friend. “Mama,” she whispered to her, without stopping for a second. She did not let her mother go, gently struggled with her, demanded a pillow, water, unbuttoned and tore her mother’s dress. “My friend, my dear... mamma, darling,” she whispered incessantly, kissing her head, hands, face and feeling how uncontrollably her tears flowed in streams, tickling her nose and cheeks. The Countess squeezed her daughter's hand, closed her eyes and fell silent for a moment. Suddenly she stood up with unusual speed, looked around senselessly and, seeing Natasha, began squeezing her head with all her might. Then she turned her face, wrinkled in pain, towards her and peered at it for a long time. “Natasha, you love me,” she said in a quiet, trusting whisper. - Natasha, won’t you deceive me? Will you tell me the whole truth?

Alexander Panayotov – “People’s Artist”

In 2002, the Rossiya channel launched the show “Become a Star” - one of the pioneers in the genre of musical reality projects.
Unlike the Star Factory, which started around the same time, the program demonstrated all the qualifying stages held throughout Russia. After a series of performances in “Become a Star,” Alexander Panayotov entered the top ten finalists, but never made it into the “Other Rules” group. Perhaps it was for the better - having barely released their debut album, “Other Rules” disappeared from the musical radar, and Panayotov did not give up trying to break into the musical Olympus. For some time he had to return to Kyiv, where the young man continued his studies at the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts, and also created the Alliance group, which quickly became a favorite of the public in Kyiv nightclubs.

Gala concert “Become a Star”: Alexander Panayotov – “Maple” Having gained irreplaceable experience, the young man began to work hard on himself, including on his appearance. It must be said that 20-year-old Alexander was a fairly plump young man (106 kg). Seeing himself on the TV screen (although previously he was quite happy with his figure), Panayotov realized that he could fully realize himself on stage only by getting in shape. He became friends with sports, began to control his eating habits, which was not easy for the son of an excellent cook, and eventually lost about 30 kilograms in just 4 months.

By the beginning of “People’s Artist,” Panayotov had completely changed his image

At the end of 2003, Panayotov returned to Moscow to take part in the People's Artist show. This experience brought Alexander not only second place (Alexey Goman took first) and a contract with FBI Music. He met Larisa Dolina, who had been his idol since childhood, and even appeared on the same stage with her (duet “Moon Melody”), became friends with another young talented performer, Alexei Chumakov, and also began collaborating with producer Kim Breitburg and poets- songwriters Evgeny Fridland and Karen Kavaleryan. A large tour followed, during which the sincere, open singer won the hearts of thousands of residents of the Russian outback. Alexander Panayotov and Larisa Dolina - “Moon Melody” In 2006, Alexander Panayotov released his debut album called “Lady of the Rain”. The track list includes 13 songs, including two duets with Larisa Dolina (“Flowers under the Snow”, “Moon Melody”), as well as a joint recording with Ruslan Alekhno and Alexey Chumakov (“Unusual”).

In the photo: Ruslan Alekhno, Alexey Chumakov and Alexander Panayotov

The second record, “Formula of Love,” was released only 4 years later. Alas, the songs from this album did not get into wide rotation, but most listeners well received Panayotov’s transition to a new genre of dance music for him, noting the musical design that had grown professionally.

Alexander Panayotov, 2010 model

In December 2013, the release of Alexander Panayotov’s third album, “Alpha and Omega,” took place. And although the album included only 10 compositions, the singer’s fans were in seventh heaven - as usual, he pleased them with excellent, high-quality material.

After 2013, Panayotov practically “disappeared from the radar”

After this, the artist, as he himself put it, went into a kind of media vacuum, which was broken by the release of the single “I Promise,” recorded in 2014 with video blogger Sasha Spielberg, and the compositions “SAMI” and “Telephone,” presented to the public in 2020. Alexander Panayotov and Sasha Spielberg – “I Promise”

Panayotov's diet

Many viewers, seeing Panayotov on the screen, did not immediately recognize the singer. He lost a lot of weight, losing 20 kilograms. There were even rumors that Alexander was ill. But everything turned out to be simpler. “I used to think that if I had talent, then being overweight wasn’t that important. But when I looked at one of my last photo shoots, I realized that I urgently needed to take care of myself,” he later told reporters.

Panayotov took the matter seriously. It was quite difficult - Alexander, over the years of living away from home, learned to cook well and was not used to limiting himself, “he ate with baking sheets.” I had to change my habits. Every day, Alexander ran eight kilometers and swam for an hour and a half and adhered to a diet, eating only chicken and broccoli (later this method of eating was replicated by fashion magazines).

Gradually this way of life became a habit. Now the singer’s brilliant form is threatened only by visits from his mother, who wants to feed her son tastier food. But judging by Alexander’s appearance, problems with overeating can be successfully avoided. “I made a promise to myself that I would never let myself down like that again,” says the singer.

Alexander Panayotov at Eurovision

In 2005, Alexander Panayotov took part in the selection for the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time. Together with Chumakov, he performed the song “Balalaika”, but his friends took only second place, and Natalya Podolskaya went to represent Russia, who ultimately suffered, in her own words, a fiasco (15th place).

The relationship between Eurovision and Panayotov never worked out

In 2007, together with Alexey Chumakov, the artist took second place in the selection. The singers sang the song “Balalaika”. Two years later, they again presented the composition (“Not Mine”) and again were awarded only a silver place - only a couple of points were missing. Panayotov could have gone to Eurovision 2008 if the jury had not liked Dima Bilan’s song “Believe” more than Alexander’s “Crescent and Cross”.

Alas, the 2009 attempt was also unsuccessful, although this time the singer submitted applications from both Russia and Ukraine. He did not make it to the final of the Russian selection, but in the Ukrainian he again took second place with the song “Superhero”.

Selection for Eurovision: Alexander Panayotov - “Maya Showtime” In 2010, he presented the composition “Maya Showtime” to the jury, but this time it was not he who went to represent Russia, but Petr Nalich.

Alexander Panayotov in cinema

Russian television viewers saw Alexander Panayotov with a cameo in the series “Don’t Be Born Beautiful.” During the filming of the concert scene, which lasted about two days, he performed his composition “Arividerchi” about a hundred times.

In “Don’t Be Born Beautiful,” Panayotov played himself

In 2007, the artist performed the song “So Close” for the Russian translation of the musical film “Enchanted”. Well, in 2011, Panayotov voiced a character named Fred in the comedy “Riot of the Eared Ones.”

Personal life of Alexander Panayotov

Sasha first fell in love in kindergarten. A year later, the girl transferred to another preschool institution - the artist’s heart was broken. The singer also said that in the tenth grade he was seriously in love with his school friend and a kiss with her became the most wonderful gift in his life.

Does Alexander Panayotov have a girlfriend? Secret.

The young man is not married and has no children. In general, Alexander is not a very public person and prefers not to talk about his amorous affairs. In general, photographs with girls often appear on his Instagram, but the name of his chosen one, and the very fact of her existence, is not known to anyone. Interview with Alexander Panayotov In 2020, Panayotov had an accident while returning from Yulia Nachalova’s birthday party. The cars were crushed, as they say, “into trash,” but Alexander miraculously survived.

Personal life

The artist jokingly talks about his first love in kindergarten. Then, like his peers, he began romantic relationships in high school.

The personal life of Alexander Panayotov has long been of interest to his army of fans and paparazzi. But the singer so carefully hid everything that he did not consider intended for prying eyes that there was absolutely nothing to report about his private life.

Nevertheless, fans noted the fact that the artist had changed significantly throughout his musical career. Before losing weight, his weight with a height of 189 cm was 106 kg. The singer adjusted his diet, began going to the gym, and conducting detox programs, so he soon pleased his fans with a toned figure. His weight after losing weight was 86 kg. The result of the image change was not long in coming.

In 2013, Sasha posted an intriguing photo on his Instagram page, where the young singer Eva Koroleva was captured next to the musician. Panayotov congratulated the girl on her birthday. But it seems that if this affair happened, then there were no further consequences in the form of a wedding.

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Alexander Panayotov and wife Ekaterina Koreneva
The fans came to the conclusion that Alexander was ready to start a family later. Panayotov wrote a laconic message on his Twitter - “I want a son!”, and gave a detailed interview in which he expressed his desire to start a large family, with at least five children.

In 2020, during the presentation of a video for the lyrical composition “Names,” Panayotov admitted that he starred in it with his wife. The singer said that by the time of filming he had already been married to Ekaterina Koreneva for 2 years.

The girl works as a director of a musician and often appeared at creative events with him as his manager. They kept the intrigue and did not reveal their secret to the performer’s fans ahead of time.

Unlike the plot of the video, in which the characters are going through a breakup, everything is fine in the life of the artist and his wife. The spouses have plans to expand the family in accordance with the wishes that Alexander once mentioned.

Alexander Panayotov now. "The Voice" and other projects

In 2020, Alexander Panayotov presented new songs to the public: “Invincible” and “Intravenous”. But the young man made a real splash in September of the same year after participating in the fifth season of the vocal show “The Voice”.

Panayotov on the show “The Voice”
Initially, he went there without thoughts of winning - he just wanted to sing well. At the so-called “blind auditions”, he performed the song “All By Myself” by Eric Carmen (and later Celine Dion). It must be said that all four jury members turned to Panayotov: Grigory Leps, Dima Bilan, Polina Gagarina and Leonid Agutin. The whole hall gave a standing ovation. “When I heard my friend sing, I, sitting in the kitchen, pressed the borscht and turned around,” Ivan Urgant joked on this topic. There is no doubt that Alexander Panayotov will impress the audience of “The Voice” more than once again. Blind auditions, “The Voice”: Alexander Panayotov (2016) Panayotov reached the finals of “The Voice”, where he performed the composition “I Listened to the Rain” in a duet with Leps, as well as the song “Confession” to the music of Alexey Garnizov. The highlight of the program was the hit of George Michael, who passed away a few days before the broadcast, “Last Christmas”, performed magnificently by Panayotov. According to the results of the final concert, Agutin’s student Daria Antonyuk became the winner of the fifth season. Panayotov took second place. And soon it became known that he could go to represent Russia at Eurovision 2017.

Biography

Childhood

Born on July 1, 1984 (1984-07-01) in the city of Zaporozhye[2]. At the age of 7 he entered the humanitarian class of multidisciplinary school No. 62 in Zaporozhye, at the age of 9 he first appeared on the school stage with the song “Beautiful Far Away” by E. Krylatov.

At the age of 10, he entered children's music school No. 2 in the city of Zaporozhye ZDMSh-No. 2. He studied at the youth vocal studio of popular music “Youth” under the guidance of Honored Cultural Worker Vladimir Artemyev[3].

Alexander Panayotov's first public performance took place on June 1, 1997 at a concert dedicated to World Children's Day on the Central City Square of Zaporozhye. He performed a song from the repertoire of the Ukrainian singer Alexander Ponomarev “Z ranku do nochi” (“From morning to night”)[2].

At the age of 15 he performed with his own repertoire at various competitions. The most famous songs are “Ringed Bird” and “Letniy Doshch” (“Summer Rain”). The authors of these songs also studied in the Yunost studio.

Kyiv

After graduating from secondary and music schools (with honors) he entered the Kiev State College of Variety and Circus Arts in the pop vocal department, but did not graduate because he actively participated in various music competitions[2].

In 2002, he went to Moscow to try his hand at a television project - “Become a Star”, where he reached the final[2].

Returning to Kyiv, he entered the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts and in the same year created the group “Alliance”, in which four more musicians participated.[2].

Moscow

In 2003, he participated in the television competition “People’s Artist (reality show)”, held on the Rossiya TV channel. In the finals of the competition he took second place and signed a seven-year contract with producers Evgeny Fridland and Kim Breitburg[4].

In the company of the finalists of the competition, he went on an all-Russian tour. As part of his collaboration with FBI Music, he recorded two albums: “Rain Lady” (2006) and “Formula of Love” (2010).

Since March 2011, at the end of a seven-year contract with FBI Music, he became an independent artist[5].

Lives and works in Russia, tours in Russian regions, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, Israel, USA, Spain, Germany, France and other EU countries[5].

On August 31, 2011, the single “Till Tomorrow” premiered, and a video clip was released on October 20[5].

On November 7, 2011, the song “To Sade” was released, dedicated to the singer Sade and her arrival in Russia[5].

On February 14, 2012, the premiere of the song “Unreal” took place. In this video, Alexander Panayotov performed in many guises at once: he owns the music, words, idea and concept. In addition, he acted as a director for the first time. The singer also selected the entire film crew himself. The video was shot by talented cameraman Kirill Zotkin[5].

On July 5, 2012, the author's solo program, written after the end of the contract, was released. In December 2012, the official DVD release of the concert was released[5].

On September 11, 2013, as part of the “Jazz Parking” project, Panayotov performed a new solo program at the Moscow club “Gipsy”[5].

On October 11, 2013, the single “Where are you?” premiered; on October 22, a video clip was released - music and lyrics: Alexander Panayotov[5].

On December 3, 2013, the premiere of the single and video “Beyond the Horizon” took place - music and lyrics: Alexander Panayotov[5].

In December 2013, the album Alpha and Omega

[5]. On February 14, 2014, the video “Alpha and Omega” was released. The authors of the music and lyrics are Alexander Panayotov and Lada Valeeva, the director is Alexander Panayotov[5].

On July 5, 2014, a solo program dedicated to the 30th anniversary was presented on the stage of the Mir concert hall. The official DVD release of the concert was released in October[5].

July 5, 2014. Solo concert at the Mir Concert Hall

On May 6, 2020, Panayotov performed accompanied by the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra in New York in the hall of the UN General Assembly, where a concert was held following the ceremonial meeting of the UN General Assembly dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II[5].

On June 1, 2020, the single premiered and the video clip “Sami” was presented[5]. On July 24, 2020, the premiere of the “I Promise” video took place[5]. On September 25, 2020, the premiere of the track and video “Telephone”[5] took place. Alexander Panayotov is the author of the music and lyrics of these 3 compositions

On April 8, 2020, the premiere of the track and video “Invincible” took place. The author of the music and text was Alexander Panayotov himself[5].

On August 19, 2020, the dance track “Intravenous” was released. The author of the music was Panayotov himself, the text was written in tandem with the vocalist and author of the lead singer of the group NAOMI Arina Rits and the lyricist from Novosibirsk Evgeny Bochkarev[5].

On September 23, 2020, he appeared on the air of the 5th season of the music show “The Voice”. All the mentors turned to him, Panayotov made a choice in favor of Grigory Leps and became a finalist in Leps’ team.

On December 30, 2020, he took second place in the show, losing to Daria Antonyuk in the final. After the end of the show, he continued to collaborate with his mentor and his production center - he signed a partnership agreement with Grigory Leps for a period of 5 years[5].

On March 8, 2020, he gave his first big solo concert at Crocus City Hall with the “Invincible” program, and then went on a tour of Russia and neighboring countries with this program[5].

On May 25, 2020, the premiere of the track and the presentation of the video clip “Feeling You”[5] took place.

On July 14, 2020, the premiere of the video for the track “Why do you need me” took place[5].

On October 5, 2020, at the State Kremlin Palace, at a festive concert for Teacher’s Day, he presented a new song “We are close”![5].

On October 15, 2020, he performed at the opening ceremony of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi, where he performed the composition “Reach out your hand if you heard a quiet call”[5]

On March 1, 2020, the premiere of the track “Black Threads” took place[5].

On March 8, 2020, at Crocus City Hall he presented the concert program “Feeling You”, where the premieres of the tracks “Heaven”, “Names”, “Mom, I fly in my dreams” took place[5].

On June 1, 2020, the premiere of the track “Night on the Clouds,” created by Mikhail Gutseriev and Sergei Revtov, took place. This is the first collaboration between Panayotov and Gutseriev. On September 20, 2020, the premiere of the video for this song took place[5]

On November 23, 2020, the track premiered and the video clip “Names” was presented [5] On December 1, 2020, he received a diploma from the “Song of the Year” festival for the song “Night in the Clouds.”

On February 28, 2020, he received a special award “High Note” according to the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” at the “ZD AWARDS-2019”[5].

On March 8, 2020, at Crocus City Hall, together with Grigory Leps and Emin Agalarov, he took part in the concert program “ Women Like Me”

“”, where the premieres of the tracks “I’m Walking Through the Walls” and “Be My Wife” took place[5].

In February 2020, he became a participant in the Channel One project “Main Role” and became a semi-finalist in the show[5].

In May 2020, at the Heat festival in Dubai, he presented two new songs, “Vibes” and “She’s Drunk”[5].

On August 27, 2020, the premiere of the track took place: Alexander Panayotov and NAZIMA - “Unbearable”[5].

On September 20, 2020, he presented a new track - “Exclusively yours.” On December 16, 2020, the premiere of the video for this song took place[5].

SkyOffice

SkyOffice is a project by Alexander Panayotov, which is based on instrumental chill-out music written and arranged by the singer himself. SkyOffice also specializes in the production of lounge remixes. So, in 2012, a remix of Ivan Dorn’s song “Stytsamen” and Sade’s song “Cherish the day” appeared, which was performed by Panayotov himself.