LEONID AGUTIN
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk • Russia

Leonid Nikolayevich Agutin (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Агутин; b. July 16, 1968) is a Russian pop musician and songwriter, Meritorious Artist of Russia (2008).He has been active since the 1990s. He has released ten albums and three compilation albums. Agutin was born in Moscow in July 16, 1968. His father was Nikolai Petrovich Agutin, a musician, and his mother was Lyudmila Leonidovna Shkol'nikova, an elementary school teacher. His father was a singer in the Soviet band VIA "Golubiye Gitary" (Blue Guitars) and worked as a manager for the popular Soviet musical groups "Veseliye Rebyata" (Happy Kids), "Poyuschiye Serdtsa" (Singing Hearts), and "Pesniary" (Songsters). Along with receiving a regular school education, the young Agutin also completed a course of musical study on the piano at the Moscow Jazz school "Moskvorechie". He later served in the army on the Russia–Finland border. In 1991, Agutin began to tour former Soviet republics as an opening act for read more...