Uma2rman (previously ''Umaturman'', ''Uma2rmaH'') is a Russian
pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, earl ...
band made up of two brothers, Sergei and Vladimir Kristovsky. They have been active since 2003, releasing their first album "V Gorode N" in 2004. Additional musicians have been hired for concerts such as Alexei Ernst - keyboard, Sergey Solodkin - drums, Alexei Kozhakov and Yuri Terletsky (current) - solo guitar. They were nominated in the 2004 Europe
MTV Music Awards for Best Russian Group, along with
t.A.T.u.
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and
Gorod 312
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but lost to
Dima Bilan
Dima Nikolayevich Bilan (russian: Ди́ма Никола́евич Била́н; born Viktor Nikolayevich Belan, russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Бела́н, links=no; 24 December 1981) is a Russian singer, songwriter and acto ...
.
The group has also contributed to the ''Romance'' soundtrack of the 2009 film ''Female Passenger'' (Passazhirka). A Russian clipper Dauntless is sailing from San Francisco to Hong Kong. The Russian consul asks the capitan to take a woman passenger on board. A woman on board is a well known sailor curse. This warning is ignored by the main movie characters who welcome the woman. The captain even offers her his own quarters as accommodation during the voyage. They find that they are rather unprepared for what follows.
On the album ''V gorode N'', the track "Nochnoi Dozor" featured as the theme tune to the original Russian cut of the film ''
Night Watch''. In addition the track "Uma Thurman" is a song about how Vladimir has fallen in love with the real
Uma Thurman
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. In the song Uma complains about how
Quentin Tarantino
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was drunk and that she had to reprimand him for his behaviour. Then she tells Vladimir how glad she is that he came. The two never met in real life, before the ''
Kill Bill: Volume 2'' premiere in Moscow.
The group consists of Dmitry Kozlov, Ruslan Semenov, Yuriy Terletskyy, Vladislav Cherednichenko, Alexey Kaplun, Sergey Solodkin, and Stanislav Veretenov.
In May 2022, Uma2rman participated in a concert organized in order to support the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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.
Discography
Studio albums
* 2004 — "V Gorode N" ''(В Городе N; In Unknown City)''
* 2005 — "A Mozhet, Eto Son?" ''(А Может Это Сон?; Maybe It's A Dream?)''
* 2008 — "Kuda Privodyat Mechty" ''(Куда Приводят Мечты?; Where To Do Dreams Lead?)''
* 2009 — "1825"
* 2011 — "V etom gorode vse sumasshedshiye" ''(В этом городе все сумасшедшие; Everyone Is Mad In This City)''
* 2016 — "Poy, vesna!" ''(Пой, весна!; Sing, Spring!)''
Singles
References
External links
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Uma Turman Unofficial SiteMSNBC: Russian rockers desperately seeking ThurmanUma2rman at the Forbes
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Musical groups established in 2003
Russian pop music groups