Peter Andreyevich Nalitch (Пётр Андре́евич На́лич, also spelled as Petr Nalich or Pyotr Nalich, is a Russian singer and composer who represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo. In the final on May 29, he came 11th with his song "Lost and Forgotten".
Personal Info
Peter Nalitch was born on 30 April 1981 in Moscow, Russia. His grandfather Zahid Nalić, was a Bosnianopera singer from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Peter graduated from the Moscow University of Architecture and studied music at Orfei Studio directed by Irina Mukhina. He has worked for two years as an architect. He has a son from his first marriage and a daughter from the second.
"Gitar"
Peter Nalitch has become famous in Russia after the publication in 2007 on YouTube of the clip of his song "Gitar". In about three years, more than 4,000,000 people had watched it. Interviews and articles about Peter followed in some Russian papers. The song "Gitar" is most popular in Greece, Germany and Slovakia.
Peter Nalitch and Friends
Beginnings
In 2007, Peter already had about 40 songs written down, all available on his website for free. Fans archived them, they can still be found on the web. It is with these songs that Peter gave his first concert, on November 9, 2007, in the club "Apshu" in Moscow. After the success of this first concert, articles were written on blogs and in newspapers. Peter then gathered a band of musicians, with whom he gave two more concerts during the winter of 2008 in the club "IKRA", in Moscow. Tickets were sold out several months before the event. The band took the name Peter Nalitch's Musical Collective - "Muzykalny kollektiv Petra Nalitcha" or more simply "MKPN".
Success
Over the following two years, in addition to the Moscow venues, MKPN went on tour, performing in Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and other large Russian cities. The band released their first album in 2008 - "Radost Prostykh Melody". They also released a DVD of the footage of a concert in Moscow – "MKPN v B1 Maximum" and an EP, "More". In 2009, the band was one of the headliners at the "Sfinks" festival in Antwerp. Nalitch is self-produced.
Peter Nalitch sings in Russian, English, Italian, French and Baburi, an invented language. The lyrics of his songs are often humorous and can sometimes be compared to child songs. MKPN also did covers of Russian romances and Cossack songs. All albums and songs are available for free on the band's official website, with the mention "Pay what you will", even though the album and the EP have been released. Peter Nalitch had declared in an interview that they were not really making money from album sales, only from the concerts given in Russia. In the wake of this idea of self-promotion on the web, the band has given, on September 17, 2009, an acoustic concert from their own flat, broadcast live on RuTube. On October 30, 2009, they broadcast another show live on RuTube, this time a real concert in Moscow.
