Ilya Igorevich Lagutenko (russian: Илья́ И́горевич Лагуте́нко; born 16 October 1968) is the founder and lead singer of the rock band

Mumiy Troll Mumiy Troll (russian: Му́мий Тро́лль ) is a Russian rock group, founded in 1983 in Vladivostok by vocalist and songwriter Ilya Lagutenko (). The band's name translates as "mummy troll" and is a pun on '' Mumintroll'', the children's ...

Career

He was born in

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. Soon after his birth his father died, and the family moved to

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. In school he became engrossed in studying

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. He sang with a children’s choir that took him to many Russian cities as they traveled through half of the country. Ilya formed his first psychedelic punk band named "Boney P" (ostensibly drawing on the name of the band

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, which was quite popular in the Soviet Union around that time) at the age of 11. In 1992, he graduated from the Far Eastern State University as a specialist in the Mandarin and Chinese Economy. He served in the Russian Air Navy. Ilya worked in

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and

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with a commercial consulting firm. In 1983, he founded the rock group Mumiy Troll. He was chosen a "Man of the Year 2005" for November by '' Glamour'' magazine and "Musician of the Year" by '' GQ'' many times. Ilya Lagutenko has changed not only the music but also the clothes, hairstyles and behaviour of Russian young people. Lagutenko starred as a vampire in the Russian

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The Night Watch ''Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq'', also known as ''The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch'', but commonly referred to as ''The Night Watch'' ( nl, De Nachtwacht), i ...

'' (''Ночной Дозор''). His face is on the cover of the American release. In 2009, Lagutenko co-wrote the music on track "Intentions" and guested as a vocalist on

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's second album, '' Automatons'', which was released in the U.S. and Japan, where it charted #100 in Billboard's Top Independent Albums. The album later won in several categories at the 10th Independent Music Awards in the United States. Lagutenko is a well-known supporter of

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conservation. He is a patron of AMUR, a British-Russian partnership to protect tigers and their habitat, and named a Mumiy Troll album ''Amba'', after an indigenous word for tigers in the Russian Far East. Mumiy Troll was the first to support the activities of PSI organization fighting AIDS in Russia.

References

External links

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Mumiy Troll official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lagutenko, Ilya 1968 births Living people 20th-century Russian male opera singers Russian people of Polish descent Singers from Moscow Russian people of Belarusian descent Far Eastern Federal University alumni Russian activists against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine