Fontanka.ru has come into possession of a list of musical performers whose performances in Russia were allegedly considered undesirable. According to our information, the document has been circulated among promoters.
Some of the musicians on the list have, in fact, had difficulties organizing concerts since the start of the special military operation (due to their public stance on it), while others have simply left the country. The list was provided to us by one of the musicians who found themselves on the stop list.
Fontanka.ru contacted a number of concert organizers. Although they admitted having heard about the list, most of them refused to continue the conversation. One of our sources, however, confirmed that the list was authentic. But he clarified that the list was amended and supplemented daily. However, even without it, “all producers know perfectly well” which musicians they can work with and which they cannot.
We publish the list in the form (including peculiarities of spelling) in which it was submitted to us:
- rap artist Noize MC (Ivan Alexeyev)
- rap artist Oxxxymiron (Miron Fyodorov)
- DDT (soloist Yuri Shevchuk)
- Time Machine (soloist Andrei Makarevich)
- Aquarium (soloist Boris Grebenshchikov)
- Kasta (soloists Vladislav Leshkevich, Mikhail Epifantsev, Andrei Pasechny)
- B2 (soloists Alexander Uman, Yegor Bortnik)
- Accident (soloist Alexei Kortnev)
- singer Zemfira (Zemfira Ramazanova)
- singer Valery Meladze
- Dmitry Spirin (ex-soloist of the band Cockroaches)
- Anacondaz (soloists Artem Khorev, Sergei Karamushkin)
- Louna (soloist Lusine Gevorkyan)
- Pornofilms (soloist Vladimir Kotlyarov)
- Nogu Svelo (soloist Maxim Pokrovsky)
- Krovostok (soloist Anton Chernyak)
- Elysium (soloist Dmitry Kuznetsov)
- 2MASHI (soloist Maria Zaitseva)
- singer Manizha (Manizha Sangin)
- singer Monetochka (Yelizaveta Girdymova)
- singer Grechka (Anastasia Ivanova)
- rap artist Face (Ivan Dremin)*
- rap artist Morgenshtern (Alisher Morgenshtern)*
- IC3PEAK (soloists Nikolai Kostylev, Anastasia Kreslina)
- Little Big (Ilya Prusikin, Sofia Tayurskaya)
- singer Vasya Oblomov (Vasily Goncharov)
- rap artist Ligalize (Andrei Menshikov)
- singer Dora (Daria Shikhanova)
- Aloe Vera (soloist Vera Musaelyan)
- singer Musya Totibadze (Maria Totibadze)
* Deemed a “foreign agent” in Russia.
Source: Fontanka.ru, 7 July 2022. Thanks to Marina Varchenko for the heads-up. Photo, above, courtesy of Then24. Translated by the Russian Reader
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