Philipp Bedrosovich[5][6][7] Kirkorov PAR (Russian: Филипп Бедросович Киркоров; Bulgarian: Филип Бедросов Киркоров, romanized: Filip Bedrosov Kirkorov; born 30 April 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Russian pop singer. He is a five-time winner of the "Best Selling Russian Artist" title at the World Music Awards ceremonies.
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Born | Filip Bedrosov Kirkorov (1967-04-30) 30 April 1967 (age 55) Varna, People's Republic of Bulgaria |
Nationality | Bulgarian, Armenian |
Citizenship | Russia |
Occupation | Singer, Producer |
Years active | 1985–present |
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
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Children | 2[2][3] |
Parent(s) | Bedros Kirkorov (b. 1932) Victoria Likhacheva (1937—1994)[4] |
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Website | www.kirkorov.ru |
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Philipp Kirkorov was born on 30 April 1967 in Varna, Bulgaria. His father, Bedros Kirkorov, is a Bulgarian-born singer of Armenian descent.[8][9]
In 1990, Kirkorov won the Grand Prix in the competition "Shlyager-90" (Hit-90) in Leningrad with the song "Nebo i Zemlya" (Sky and Earth). In 1992, his music video to the song "Atlantida" was selected as "Music Video of the Year". His popularity began to spread outside of Russia and he toured in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Israel.
In 1994, he proposed to Alla Pugacheva and she accepted. On 13 January the couple announced their engagement in Moscow. On 15 March the marriage was registered in St. Petersburg by then-mayor Anatoly Sobchak. On 15 May the wedding of Kirkorov and Pugacheva took place in Jerusalem. Kirkorov represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 held in Dublin with the song "Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" ('Lullaby for the volcano') and finished in 17th place. He co-wrote the Belarusian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, "Work Your Magic" for Dmitry Koldun, wrote the 2008 Ukrainian entry "Shady Lady", performed by Ani Lorak, and also co-composed Moldova's Eurovision entry for the 2021 contest, "Sugar", which was performed by Natalia Gordienko. He was also a judge in the second season of Music Idol in Bulgaria. Kirkorov makes a cameo in Verka Serduchka's video "Do Re Mi". Other than his native Bulgarian, he is fluent in Russian, and is proficient in Spanish and English.[10]
In December 2012 he signed an open letter criticizing a St. Petersburg bill banning "homosexual propaganda", along with pop stars like Dima Bilan and Valery Syutkin.[11]
Kirkorov has maintained a "bad boy" public image for most of his career and has caused a number of media controversies.
The most notorious scandal followed an incident in Rostov-on-Don on 20 May 2004. At a press conference he insulted (using Russian obscene language) Irina Aroyan, a female journalist who had asked why so many of his songs were covers of American and European hits.[12] During the ensuing discussion, Kirkorov eventually told Aroyan that he was "tired of her pink blouse, her tits, and her microphone" and demanded that she leave the room immediately. When she eventually did, his bodyguards attacked her outside and destroyed her tape recorder. The incident led to a major response and discussions in the mass media. On 11 August 2004, Kirkorov was found guilty of insults (article 130 of the Russian penal code) and was fined 60,000 rubles (about 2000 US dollars at the time).[13]
At a pro-Viktor Yanukovych candidacy concert during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election Kirkorov's father, Bulgarian singer Bedros Kirkorov, mistakenly called on Ukrainians to vote for the opposing candidate Viktor Yushchenko – to wild cheers from the audience.[14]
There was also an incident where Kirkorov sent his guards to attack the Russian rock singer and DDT band frontman Yuri Shevchuk after their emotional skirmish in a public place (as known, Shevchuk keeps no guards of his own). The reason for the argument reportedly were Shevchuk's offensive statements against Kirkorov, his wife, and his alleged lip-synching.[15][16]
On 15 May 2009 Kirkorov resigned as head of the Russian jury at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, which has a 50% say in who will be national Russian Eurovision representative, after having been seen posing for cameras with Greek entry Sakis Rouvas and having dinner with Norwegian entry Alexander Rybak.[17] Furthermore, Kirkorov admitted that he and Rouvas had been personal friends for years. Since the integrity of the jury was deemed damaged, Kirkorov had little option but to resign once these stories had been made public.[18]
On 3 September 2009 Philipp Kirkorov, clad in his (in)famous 2008 Music Awards 'gold' suit was caught on camera while 'confiscating' the camera belonging to journalist Veronica Kozlova. Since the act could have been interpreted according to the law as a robbery, some reports said the singer was facing 2 to 7 years' imprisonment and a heavy fine. All charges were dropped, however, and Kirkorov stated that his actions were 'provoked' by the journalist. Kozlova was immediately dubbed 'Pink Blouse the Second' by her colleagues and other journalists.[19]
Another incident occurred on 4 December 2010, when he allegedly slapped a female assistant because he was unhappy with the lighting at a concert venue. The woman, later identified as Marina Yablokova, threatened to sue Kirkorov. As a result, Kirkorov fled to Israel[20] and had himself interned at a psychiatric hospital.[21] On 7 December 2010 the singer publicly admitted that he had psychological problems on his official website and apologized to his latest victim.[22]
Russian actor Nikita Dzhigurda during a talk show hinted on non-hetero sexual orientations of several prominent Russian pop stars, including Kirkorov. Dzhigurda concluded with the warning: "Come out! Come out from below ground, before it's too late!"[23]
On 29 November 2016, Russian media reported that Didier Marouani has been detained in Moscow by Russian police on charges of extortion and defamation. The charges were based on a complaint by Kirkorov with whom Marouani had a disagreement regarding a copyright infringement case.[24][25][26]
In April 2022, Kirkorov criticized RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan for questioning the sexual orientation of Russian comedian and television presenter Maxim Galkin, who fled Russia in protest of the war in Ukraine.[27]
Due to his public support of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, Lithuania has blacklisted Kirkorov starting from 19 January 2021, meaning the performer will not be able to enter the country for five years.[28] Several of his concerts had been scheduled in Lithuanian cities that year. On 23 June 2021 Kirkorov was included in the list of "persons who pose a threat to Ukraine's national security" and was thus banned from entering Ukraine for speaking in support of Russia's annexation of Crimea.[29]
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Preceded by 1995 Dmitry Malikov |
Best-Selling Russian Artist 1996,1999 Philipp Kirkorov |
Succeeded by 2000 Kristina Orbakaite |
World Music Awards | ||
Preceded by | Best-Selling Russian Artist 2004,2005 Philipp Kirkorov |
Succeeded by 2006 Dima Bilan |
World Music Awards | ||
Preceded by 2007 Serebro |
Best-Selling Russian Artist 2008 Philipp Kirkorov |
Succeeded by 2014 Grigory Leps |
Philipp Kirkorov has covered a few songs which appeared in the Eurovision Song Contest and its national finals, as well as entering a song in his own right. Songs include:
Year | Title | Director | Album |
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1988 | "Carmen" | Galina Malyschitskaya | "Philip" |
1988 | "You Don't Look at the Clock" | Viktor Cherkasov | "Philip" |
1988 | "Sinbad the Sailor" | Vyacheslav Pronin | "Philip" |
1989 | "Mona Lisa" | Vadim Korotkov | "Sinbad the Sailor" |
1989 | "Twist, Hey!" | Mikhail Libin | "Philip" |
1989 | "Plus and Minus" | Larisa Masluyk | "Philip" |
1989 | "Christmas Night" | Vyacheslav Brovkin | "Philip" |
1990 | "Look Into My Eyes" | Galina Malyschitskaya | "Heaven and Earth" |
1990 | "For a Few Warm Days" | Yury Rakshin | "You, you, you" |
1990 | "Jealousy" | Natalya Primak | "Heaven and Earth" |
1990 | "Atlantis" | Mikhail Makarenkov | "So-and-so" |
1990 | "Magdalena" | Natalya Bakhturina | "So-and-so" |
1990 | "You, you, you" | Mikhail Makarenkov | "You, you, you" |
1991 | "You, you, you" (2 version) | Mikhail Makarenkov | "You, you, you" |
1991 | "Heaven and Earth" | Svetlana Anapolskaya | "Heaven and Earth" |
1992 | "So-and-so" | Larisa Mikulskaya | "So-and-so" |
1992 | "Roses in the Snow" | Mikhail Khleborodov | "So-and-so" |
1992 | "Gold Mine" | Aleksey Berkovich | "Julia" |
1993 | "You Tell Me, Cherry" | Mikhail Khleborodov | "I Don Rafael" |
1993 | "Marina" | Aleksandr Fayfman | "I Don Rafael" |
1993 | "Between Summer and Winter" | Alla Pugacheva | "I Don Rafael" |
1994 | "Diva" | Alla Pugacheva | "I Don Rafael" |
1994 | "I Raise My Glass" | Roman Rodin, Lina Arifulina | "I Don Rafael" |
1994 | "Who is Philip" | Roman Rodin | "I Don Rafael" |
1994 | "My Birdie" | Sergey Kalvarskiy | "I Don Rafael" |
1994 | "Sweetheart" | Oleg Gusev | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1995 | "Sweetheart" (2 version) | Oleg Gusev | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1995 | "Look What Summer" | Sergey Kalvarskiy | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1995 | "Island" | Roman Rodin | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1995 | "Whether that Be!" | Roman Rodin | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1995 | "Lullaby Volcano" | Igor Pesotskiy | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1995 | "I Met a Girl" | Dmitriy Fiks | "With Love to the Only" |
1996 | "My Bunny" | Oleg Gusev | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1996 | "I Am Guilty, Guilty" | Oleg Gusev | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1996 | "Carnival" | Yevgeny Ginzburg | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1996 | "Let's Make Up" | Sergey Kalvarsky | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1996 | "Running On Waves" | Sergey Kalvarsky | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1996 | "Delilah" | Janik Fayziyev | "With Love to the Only" |
1997 | "Little" | Oleg Gusev | "With Love to the Only" |
1997 | "Sweetie baranochki" | Janik Fayziyev | "With Love to the Only" |
1997 | "The Only" | Oleg Gusev | "With Love to the Only" |
1997 | "Left Summer" | Vasily Pichul | "With Love to the Only" |
1997 | "Combination" | Din Makhamatdinov | "Latest the Adventures of Pinocchio" |
1998 | "Wedding Night" | Filipp Yankovsky | "Tell the Sun: "Yes!"" |
1998 | "Nurse" | Oleg Gusev | "With Love to the Only" |
1998 | "Sailor" | Oleg Ryaskov | "Wartime Romance" |
1998 | "Salma" | Blednov Brothers | "Oh, Mom, Chic Ladies!" |
1998 | "Here's What We" | Blednov Brothers | "Oh, Mom, Chic Ladies!" |
1998 | "Oh, Mom, Chic Ladies!" | Blednov Brothers | "Oh, Mom, Chic Ladies!" |
1998 | "Diva" | Oleg Gusev | "Oh, Mom, Chic Ladies!" |
1998 | "Naive" (with Balagan Limited) |
Studio "Fly" | "Duets" |
1999 | "If Only You Were Waiting For Me" | Oleg Gusev | "With Love to the Only" |
1999 | "Go" | Oleg Gusev | TBA |
1999 | "Mouse" | Oleg Gusev | "Magico Amor" |
1999 | "Bat" | Oleg Gusev | "Magico Amor" |
1999 | "Bat" | Oleg Gusev | "Mouse" |
1999 | "Maria" | Oleg Gusev | "Oh, Mom, Chic Ladies!" |
1999 | "Silk Thread" | Alla Pugacheva | "Oh, Mom, Chic Ladies!" |
1999 | "Until We Meet Again" | Alla Pugacheva | "Christmas Meeting" |
1999 | "I Promise to Love" | Alla Pugacheva | "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and..." |
2000 | "Fire and Water" | Sergey Kalvarskiy | "Cinofilia" |
2000 | "Rose Red" | Oleg Gusev | "Fire and Water" |
2000 | "Sha-La-La" | Roman Rodin | "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and..." |
2000 | "Chile-chacha" | Brother Blednov | "Kilimanjaro" |
2000 | "Dreamer" (with Lou Bega) |
Roman Rodin | "Duets" |
2000 | "Kilimanjaro" | Sergey Kalvarskiy | "Kilimanjaro" |
2000 | "Livin' la Vida Loca" | Oleg Gusev | "Old Songs. PostScript" |
2001 | "Pum! Ya me ha dado!" | Oleg Gusev | "Magico Amor" |
2001 | "Will You Believe" | Oleg Gusev | "In Love and Incredibly Lonely" |
2001 | "I'd Die For You" | Oleg Gusev | "In Love and Incredibly Lonely" |
2001 | "I'd Die For You" (Remix) | Oleg Gusev | "I'd Die For You" |
2001 | "(I Would) Die For You" | Oleg Gusev | "I'd Die For You" |
2001 | "(I Would) Die For You" (Remix) | Oleg Gusev | "I'd Die For You" |
2001 | "The Hell Song" | Semyon Gorov | "In Love and Incredibly Lonely" |
2002 | "Give Me Freedom" | Andrey Novoselov | "In Love and Incredibly Lonely" |
2002 | "Megamix" | Studio "Fly" | "Megamix" |
2002 | "Babe" (with Unesyonnye vetrom) |
Dmitriy Chijov | "In Love and Incredibly Lonely" |
2002 | "Maria-Magdalena" | Oleg Gusev | "In Love and Incredibly Lonely" |
2002 | "With Glamor" | Fedor Bondarchuk | "Neznakomka" |
2002 | "Cruel Love" | Oleg Gusev | "Neznakomka" |
2002 | "Glass" | Semyon Gorov | "Cinderella" |
2003 | "Rose Tea" (with Masha Rasputina) |
Oleg Gusev | "Neznakomka" |
2003 | "Radio-Baby" | Andrey Novoselov | "Neznakomka" |
2003 | "Dream" (with Masha Rasputina) |
Irina Mironova | "Neznakomka" |
2003 | "A Little Sorry" | Oleg Gusev | "Neznakomka" |
2003 | "Anyway" | Semyon Gorov | "The Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro" |
2003 | "Well Why Not" (with Lolita Milyavskaya and Nikolay Gusev) |
Semyon Gorov | "Duets" |
2003 | "Love-Carrot" (with Anastasiya Stotskaya, Lolita Milyavskaya and Boris Khvoshnyanskiy) |
Semyon Gorov | "Duets" |
2003 | "Hide and Seek" | Maksim Papernik | "After Two Hares" |
2003 | "White Fluff" | Maksim Papernik | "The Snow Queen" |
2003 | "Magic Night" | Tina Barkalaya | TBA |
2004 | "And You Say" (with Anastasiya Stotskaya) |
Oleg Gusev | "Duets" |
2004 | "Like Crazy I" (with Sakis Rouvas) |
Oleg Gusev | "Like Crazy I" |
2004 | "Se Thelo San Trelos" (with Sakis Rouvas) |
Oleg Gusev | "Like Crazy I" |
2004 | "The Master and Margarita" | Viktor Priduvalov | "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" |
2004 | "We Have to Say Goodbye" | Semyon Gorov | "Sorochinskaya Fair" |
2005 | "Metro" | Maksim Papernik | "The Twelve Chairs" |
2005 | "The Bar" (with Masha Rasputina) |
Irina Mironova | "Duets" |
2005 | "Wow!" (with Natalya Mogilevskaya) |
Ekaterina Tsarik | "Otpravila Message" |
2005 | "The Usual Story" | Semyon Gorov | "For You" |
2005 | "Mow Alowyn Eye" | Tina Barkalaya | "The Three Musketeers" |
2006 | "The Anthem of the Olympic Games in Sochi" | Aleksey Rozenberg | TBA |
2006 | "Flew" | Oleg Gusev | "For You" |
2006 | "High" | Semyon Gorov | "For You" |
2007 | "Love is Always Right" (with Chelsea) |
Oleg Gusev | "Point of Age" |
2008 | "Wanderer" | Oleg Vakulin | |
2009 | "V sadu Edemovom" | Sarik Andreasyan | |
2009 | "Gibnu Ya" | Andriy Novoselov | |
2009 | "Love" (with Pavel Volya) | Sarik Andreasyan | |
2009 | "It is your illusion" | Rumi Shuazimov | |
2009 | "Just give" | Evgeniy Mitrofanov | |
2009 | "Strings" | Sarik Andreasyan | |
2009 | "Tale of Love" | ||
2010 | "Diskopartizany" | Evgeniy Bedarov | |
2010 | "Voice" (with Anna Netrebko) | Oleg Gusev | |
2010 | "We are so absurd dispersed" | Alan Badoev | |
2011 | "Playing with fire" (with Kamaliya) | Endy Soup | |
2011 | "Snow" | Alan Badoev | |
2011 | "I do not feel sorry for you" | Alan Badoev | |
2012 | "I let you go" | Aslan Ahmadov | |
2013 | "My joy" | Oleg Gusev | |
2014 | "Idol" | Maxim Pasyk | |
2015 | "Indigo" | Oleg Gusev | |
2016 | "About love" | Oleg Gusev | Soundtrack to film Flight Crew |
2016 | "Forgetting" (with Lyubov Uspenskaya) | Oleg Gusev | |
2016 | "Bright I" (with Diskoteka Avariya) | Oleg Gusev | |
2017 | "Love or Deception?" | Slava Sirbu | |
2017 | "The Last Spring" (with Timati) | ||
2017 | "Chimera" | Oleg Gusev |
Year | Country | Song | Artist | Songwriters | Final | Points | Semi | Points |
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1995 | Russia | "Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" | Philipp Kirkorov | Ilya Bershadskiy, Ilya Reznik | 17 | 17 | No semi-finals | |
2007 | Belarus | "Work Your Magic" | Dmitry Koldun | Philipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos, Karen Kavaleryan | 6 | 145 | 4 | 176 |
2008 | Ukraine | "Shady Lady" | Ani Lorak | Philipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos, Karen Kavaleryan | 2 | 230 | 1 | 152 |
2014 | Russia | "Shine" | Tolmachevy Sisters | Philipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos, John Ballard, Ralph Charlie, Gerard James Borg | 7 | 89 | 6 | 63 |
2016 | Russia | "You Are the Only One" | Sergey Lazarev | Philipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos, John Ballard, Ralph Charlie | 3 | 491 | 1 | 342 |
2018 | Moldova | "My Lucky Day" | DoReDoS | Philipp Kirkorov, John Ballard | 10 | 209 | 3 | 235 |
2019 | Russia | "Scream" | Sergey Lazarev | Philipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos, Sharon Vaughn | 3 | 370 | 6 | 217 |
2020 | Moldova | "Prison" | Natalia Gordienko | Dimitris Kontopoulos, Philipp Kirkorov, Sharon Vaughn | Contest cancelled | |||
2021 | Moldova | "Sugar" | Natalia Gordienko | Dimitris Kontopoulos, Phillipp Kirkorov, Mikhail Gutseriyev, Sharon Vaughn | 13 | 115 | 7 | 179 |
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