Slava Koran

Slava Koran ( _be. Слава Корань, IPA2|'sɫava 'koranʲ; born on December 16th 1955) is a Belarusian rock musician.

He was born in Pskov; his mother was a teacher of history, his father was a doctor. Finished School No.30 of Minsk, then the faculty of automation and computer engineering of Radio-Technical Institute (Minsk) receiving a diploma in "Automated Systems of Management".

Learned to play piano in Music school No.1 of Minsk(1962-1969), but then decided to switch to guitar. In 1968 started playing in a school band, then continued his music experiments in RTI. In 1981 founded "Lift" music band, which played in Minsk cafe "Metidian" under the supervision of organization "Orientir". At this time there were only 3 cafes in which live music was played: "Meridian", "Suzorje" and cafe of Belarusian Polytechnic Institute. In 1982 started to play guitar in band "Studio 7" - band of Belarusian Theater and Arts Institute, which in 1984 was renamed into "BONDA".

He left BONDA in 1988 with Siarhei Krauchanka, Valery Tsinitski and together with them, as well as with Felix Aksentsev, Kirill Shevando and Andrey Patrey created the rock-band ULIS, in which he continues playing now. He was the author of the music of the most of songs ULIS ever played.

In 1993 ULIS splitted, and almost all initial musicians left the band - with the exception of Slava Koran. After that he became a lead-singer and author of texts of ULIS songs. This opinion of the community was divided about this fact. ULIS invited new musicians, and their composition has changed several times.

Married: one son. Calls himseld a "happy person"

External links

* [http://strider-first.livejournal.com/ Blog of Slava Koran']
* [http://ulis.by/ Official webpage of ULIS]