Ivan Oleksandrovich Dorn ( uk, Іван Олександрович Дорн), nee Ivan Aleksandrovich Eryomin (russian: Иван Александрович Ерёмин; born 17 October 1988) is a
Ukrainian
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* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
singer and actor. He is also active as a DJ, TV presenter and producer, and a former member of the band ''Para Normalnyh'' (''Пара Нормальных''). Since 2010 he has been a solo artist. His music combines elements of
house,
disco,
pop,
jazz
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,
funk,
UK garage
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,
hip-hop and
soul
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Etymology
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. He won an
MTV EMA
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in 2017.
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Biography
Ivan Dorn was born 17 October 1988 in Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...
, Russia
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, (before part of the Soviet Union
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). At the age of two, he and his family moved to the Ukrainian city of Slavutych
Slavutych ( uk, Славу́тич) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, purpose-built for the evacuated personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the 1986 disaster that occurred near the city of Pripyat. Geographically l ...
, Ukraine
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. Until second grade, he had the last name "Eremin” however his mother, Lidia Dorn, then changed it to be the same as her own. He began acting at the age of 6 years at the festival «Gold autumn of Slavutich».
Ivan actively engaged in sport, winning several prizes in curling
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and lacrosse
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. Ivan also received training in piano, winning several competitions including:
* The Moscow competition «Light your star» - 1st place
* «Pearl of Crimea» - the prize of spectator sympathies
* «The Black sea games» (2001 won 3rd place, 2005 won the 2nd prize)
* «Yurmala 2008»
Career
In 2006, he sang in a Moscow a cappella duo, but soon decided to return to Ukraine to join the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. In 2006, at a Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai () are an English funk and acid jazz band from London. Formed in 1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. They built on their acid jazz sound in th ...
concert, he met Anna Dobrydneva and together they created the duo «Para Normalnykh» ("A Pair of Normals").
From 2007 to 2010, he continued to sing with Anna but then in 2010 she began working with Ukrainian singer Artem Meh. In 2008, on invitation by the TV producer Oleksandr Asaulyuk Dorn began his TV career as the host of the program ''Guten Morgen'' on M1 channel.
He released his debut studio album "Co'N'Dorn" in 2012 which had made a huge impact on both Russian and Ukrainian scene and won many awards. Dorn was honoured as "an idol for a new generation."
In 2014, Dorn was a judge on the fifth season of ''X Factor
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'' Ukraine.
In the summer of 2014 Dorn took part in the New wave music
New wave is a loosely defined music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the late 1970s and the 1980s. It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself. La ...
festival in Jūrmala
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, where he performed the Ukrainian-language
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song of the Skryabin (band)
Skryabin ( uk, Скрябін, also transliterated as ''Scriabin'' or ''Skriabin'') is a Ukrainian rock, pop band formed in 1989 in Novoyavorivsk, Ukraine. Prominent Ukrainian musician Andriy "Kuzma" Kuzmenko ( uk, Андрій Кузьменко) ...
- 'Penguin Dance' dressed in a sweater with the image of the coat of arms of Ukraine
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. This act has received positive reviews in Ukraine. In Russia, because of this, the singer was suggested to be banned. But he wasn't banned and remains popular. In Ukraine on the other hand Dorn was criticized for continuing to performing in Russia following the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Re ...
. This criticism was somewhat relieved when it was reported that Dorn had secretly donated $10,000 to the Ukrainian army
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in 2014. However, Dorn denied this in an April 2017 interview with Yury Dud
Yury Aleksandrovich Dud (russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Дудь, ; born 11 October 1986) is a Russian journalist known primarily for his informational online videos distributed as a YouTuber. He has additionally been deputy d ...
. He claimed he had donated not to the military, but specifically to civilians who had been affected by shelling, but that the volunteer who was in charge of spending the money used part of it to buy army supplies, and publicly thanked Dorn for that, putting the singer in “an uncomfortable position.” Also in the online interview with Dud Dorn claimed that had worn the Ukrainian symbol at the 2014 New wave music festival “so that people wouldn’t make a stink,” apparently meaning that he wanted to avoid criticism from his compatriots, who, he recalls, criticized another Ukrainian performer for wearing a costume with the colors of the Russian flag at the same event.
In 2016, Dorn was a coach at '' The Voice Ukraine''.
In 2016, Dorn started Masterskaya,[Masterskaya on Soundcloud](_blank)
/ref> an independent music label focused on bringing the exciting sound of Ukrainian underground to the main stage. Out of the blue, the 28-year-old artist moved to Los Angeles
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to start recording his first English-language album, and quickly found himself inspired by the ocean breeze and palm trees. His US debut album was premiered this spring by a Billboard, available for a listening everywhere now, and with feature a tight selection of tracks that, like Ivan, do not follow the rules.
In June 2016 Dorn, to appease activists in Lviv
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who threatened to cancel his concert there, put on his official Facebook
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page a map of Ukraine which included Crimea
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(Crimea is ''de jure
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'', an autonomous republic of Ukraine
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, though it was unilaterally annexed by Russia
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in 2014), a fragment of the Ukrainian anthem
"" ( uk, Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля, , lit=The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished), also known by its official title of "State Anthem of Ukraine" (, ') or by its shortened form "" (, ), is the ...
and the words "We will win".
In February 2017, Dorn released his first live album "Jazzy Funky Dorn" which reflects his passion to funk music.
In April 2017 Dorn, in the online interview with Yury Dud, labeled the War in Donbass
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(which had already claimed more than 10,000 lives) a “quarrel” and made several other remarks that were criticized in Ukraine. Dorn was criticized for not being a patriot of Ukraine while seeking to please his Russian audience. In the same interview, Dorn also referred to Ukraine and Russia, as “younger and older brothers,” a description that is favored in Russia but disliked by many in Ukraine. Ukrainian Culture Minister Yevhen Nyshchuk was one of those who lashed out at Dorn, saying that it was Dorn's choice whether to donate money to Ukrainian army or not, but “talking about a quarrel as if nothing is happening (in eastern Ukraine
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) is unworthy.”[Top Ukrainian singer in trouble after controversial interview in Russia](_blank)
Kyiv Post
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History
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(April 13, 2017)
Later in 2017, Dorn began working on his first English-language album in Los Angeles. The author of the lyrics of this album was famous former Ukrainian rock musician Sasha Chemerov.
In June 2017 Dorn cancelled a concert in Odessa after threats that it would get disrupted by Ukrainian nationalists
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who claimed Dorn "supported the war against Ukraine".
In 2017 won MTV EMA
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2017 for "Best MTV Russia
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act". Dorn did not attend the ceremony, but showed in Instagram that he was happy for his victory.
In 2018 Dorn was traveling to Uganda to film a music video Afrika with Masaka Kids Africana dance crew and a documentary about them. Now this story grew in a strong charity project AFRIKA with a main goal to build a dancing school for Masaka Kids Africana in Uganda, where Dorn and the team are trying to help kids from Africa to follow their talents and dreams.
In the end of 2018 he released a track called "Right Wrong" featuring HER's Victor Solf
Dorn starred in his first film, Petrov's Flu, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival
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in July 2021. According to the director, Kirill Serebrennikov, Dorn was a "wonderful dramatic artist" with "an interest in the paradoxical, energy, control of his tools, an ability to exactly recreate the image he wanted to impress on his audience, and a very deliberate approach to art." Dorn announced that with this film he would end his musical career and begin his acting career.
In February 2022, Dorn condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
. After that, he was included in the list of artists who are banned from performing in Russia.Опубликован список артистов, которые запрещены в РФ за поддержку Украины
/ref> In March 2022, Dorn's label Masterskaya closed its music catalogue for users from Russia and Belarus.
Discography
Albums
;As a member of "Para Normalnyh"
* 2008 «Я придумаю Happy End» (I'll Devise a Happy End)
* 2010 «Скандал во время рекламы» (Scandal during an Ad)
;Solo career
* 2012 "Co'N'Dorn"
* 2014 "Randorn"
* 2017 "Jazzy Funky Dorn" (Live Album)
* 2017 ''OTD'' (Open the Dorn)
*2019 3 Хороших Песн
Singles
Videography
Documentaries
Filmography
* "How to find the ideal?" (2008)
* "In Love with the Kyiv" (2011)
* " Hotel Transylvania (film), Hotel Transylvania" (Ukrainian dubbing) — Jonathan
* "12 months" (2013)
* "Funny guys" (2014)
* "Hotel Transylvania 2
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" (Ukrainian dubbing) — Jonathan
* Petrov's Flu— Sergei
References
External links
Official website
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Russian-language singers
English-language singers from Ukraine
1988 births
Living people
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University alumni
Ukrainian television presenters
Musicians from Chelyabinsk
Ukrainian people of Russian descent
Ukrainian people of German descent
21st-century Ukrainian male singers
Russian activists against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
TikTokers