- Pyotr Mamonov
Pyotr Mamonov ( _ru. Петр Николаевич Мамонов) (born
April 14 ,1951 ) is a formerRussia n rock musician and songwriter, former frontman of theMoscow band "Zvuki Mu ".Mamonov was one of the few rock musicians from former
USSR who managed to achieve recognition abroad, through his collaboration withBrian Eno in the late 1980s. Around the same period he started acting in film, and over the next decade wrote, produced and acted in several one-man theatrical performances establishing himself as acult figure inRussia .Mamonov's best-known film appearance was in the leading role in
Pavel Lungin 's 1988 "Taxi Blues" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100757/] . His works for theatre include "Is There Life on Mars?", an absurdist take onAnton Chekhov 'sA Marriage Proposal , and "Chocolate Pushkin", which makes a comical reference to (but doesn't cite) the Russian national poetAlexander Pushkin Piotr explains the name for the album as his own comparison to a popular DJ who calls himself "Black Elvis" and also describes the genre on this record as "lit-hop" (literature hip-hop).In the 1990s, Mamonov converted to Orthodox Christianity, left the capital, and settled in a village. He returned to play the lead role in
Pavel Lungin 's religious film "The Island" (Russian "Остров"), which closed the 2006Venice Film Festival . His acting in the film was praised byAlexis II , Patriarch of Moscow, and won him a Best ActorNika Award .External links
* [http://www.ostrov-film.ru/ Official website (in Russian) for 'The Island' film]
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