Ираклий Пирцхалава

Was born on September 13, 1977 in Moscow. As a child, he changed 5 schools. He studied at a sports boarding school with a French bias. Despite the desire to be a football player, Irakli had to give up this profession and, at the insistence of his mother, enroll in a music school in the violin class. However, in 13 years the dream Pirtskhalava prevailed, and 2 years of his life he devoted to the game of football "team Lokomotiv ". In the second half of the 90s he was a member of the pop group "Tet-a-Tet". Then he hosted the author's program "Club Peppers" on the Hit-FM radio station , was the art director of the "Gallery" club. In 2003 he took part in the musical television project " Star Factory ". After graduation from the "Star Factory", the hit "Vova the Plague" appears. It was followed by the equally successful London-Paris and Vremya (10th and 3rd places in the Europe Plus chart, respectively). Russian actress Maria Gorban starred in the video for the song "Time" . At the end of 2004 he released his debut album entitled "London-Paris". In the middle of 2005 his new hit "Absinthe Drops" was released. By the beginning of 2009, the artist had already accumulated so much musical material that half of it remained outside the track list of the second album "Take a step". In 2004 he received the Golden Gramophone award for the 1st song "London-Paris", and in 2005 - for the 2nd song "Drops of Absinthe". In 2009 he took part in the show " Dancing with the Stars " together with Inna Svechnikova. In 2010 he graduated from the State University of Management with a degree in Management in the Music Industry. On July 18, 2012 he opened the VinoGrad restaurant in Moscow. The restaurant later closed. In 2013 he took part in the reality show "Island" on the NTV channel , took 3rd place. Took part in the 2nd season of the transformation show “ One to One! »On the Russia-1 TV channel , in which he tried on the images of Stas Mikhailov , Ilya Lagutenko , Shakira , Soso Pavliashvili , Lev Leshchenko , Ray Charles , Leonid Agutin , Alena Apina , Nikolai Rastorguev , John Bon Jovi , Basta , James Brown , Justin Timber and Igor Sarukhanov . Has Russian and Georgian citizenship. (From Wikipedia)