Noize MC (Noise MC): biography, personal life, family, wife, children - photo. Singer Sasha Sokolova, partner of Noize MC in the clip "Jordan", died of cancer What happened in the family of noise

Ivan Aleksandrovich Alekseev is a Russian rapper, known under the pseudonym Noize MC, author of seven studio solo albums, four singles.

Ivan was born on March 9, 1985 in the city of Yartsevo, Smolensk region. The father of the newborn was engaged in music, the mother worked in the chemical industry. In 1994, the family broke up, and mother and son moved to Belgorod, where Vanya began to write poetry, and then music. In a new place, the boy went to study at a music school in the class of academic guitar. In 1998 and 2000, Ivan participated in the regional competition for young musicians and each time received first place.

In 1998, impressed by the work of the rock bands Nirvana and The Prodigy, the young man assembled the first musical group. Two years later, Alekseev got a place as a bass player and backing vocalist in the Levers of Machines ensemble. But more and more Ivan is fascinated by rap, and the young man tries to write his first compositions on his own.

In 2001, Alekseev graduated from a music school and became a member of the Belgorod hip-hop group V.I.P. together with a friend Arkady. For creativity, the young men take pseudonyms: they begin to recognize Ivan under the name Noize MC, a classmate chooses the nickname Adik 228. During the year, young people create a rap duet Face2Face, which includes performing at various venues in the region, and also travel to neighboring countries.

In 2002, Alekseev graduated from high school with a gold medal and entered the Faculty of Modern Technologies of the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. At the end of the first year, Ivan gathers the Protivo Gunz musical ensemble from the students of the RSUH dormitory.

In the early 2000s, the rapper performed solo at hip-hop festivals, competitions and freestyle battles, where he often won. In the spring of 2005, the circle of Noize MC fans expands after his victory over MC Molodoy in the Snickers Guru Klan street battle. At the Snickers Urbania festival, the musician has the honor of serving as a jury member and presenter.

After completing the 3rd year, Ivan Alekseev moved to the Old Arbat area. In a rented room, the rapper keeps all the equipment of the group and arranges street performances with Protivo Gunz musicians in his spare time, experimenting with genres and forms of musical compositions.

During the year, Ivan continues to travel around the country with concerts of the Protivo Gunz group and accumulates material for solo work, which allows the musician to sign a contract with the Respect Production label in mid-2006. Having won the Urban Sound competition, Ivan Alekseev gets the opportunity to shoot a video for the song "Song for Radio", which falls into the rotation of the MUZ-TV channel.

Music

In 2007, the musician signed a contract with Respect Production and the Russian division of Universal Music Group, which is regarded by fans of Russian rap as an unprecedented event. In the same year, Alekseev becomes the winner of a major Internet battle of Russian-speaking rappers. The song "Behind the Closed Door" entered the top ten of the "100 Best Songs of MTV-2007" rating.

In 2007, film director Andrey Kudinenko invites the charismatic leader of a rap group to play the lead role in the film Prank, a remake of the 1976 film. Ivan Alekseev coped with the acting task, and also wrote several musical compositions for the film: “Summer in the Capital”, “Money”, “It was rain”, “Exhale”, “What a pity”, “I can’t find you”. In 2008, the musician shot a video for the song "My Sea", which was broadcast on the A-ONE music channel.

In the late spring of 2008, Alekseev announced his departure from Universal Music and released his first album, The Greatest Hits vol. 1", which included 20 tracks, including "Behind the Closed Door", "From the Window", "Kantemirovskaya", "Skinhead Girl". In addition to solo performances, the rapper participates in joint recordings of songs with the singer, the Cockroaches! and Lyapis Trubetskoy. In 2009, Alekseev was awarded the A-One RAMP TV channel awards in the Runet Respect nomination and Stepnoy Volk in the Lyrics nomination.

In 2010, the musician creates the song "Mercedes S666", which drew attention to the high-profile case of an accident that occurred through the fault of Lukoil Vice President Anatoly Barkov. After the scandalous clip, the older generation of listeners also became interested in the artist's creative biography. The singer is beginning to be invited to the air of public programs "Echo of Moscow", radio "Freedom". At concerts, the musician often behaves provocatively, which ultimately leads to an arrest for 10 days for hooliganism.

At the end of May 2010, in the Moscow club "B1 Maximum", the presentation of the second disc of Noize MC "The Last Album" took place, which included the musical compositions "Arrange Destroy", "Singer and Actress", "It's Cool on Mars", "Red October". Fans were interested not only in the album, but also in the book of the same name, written by the band member Pasha Teterin, as well as the role-playing audio book "Underground", created on the plot of the drummer's work.

Noize MC receives awards from Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, Muz-TV channel, Silver Rain radio, InDaRnB.ru portal and another Stepnoy Volk award. In 2010, the singer ranked 41st in the Forbes rating of the "Stars and Money" section. According to analysts, the rapper earned $ 0.9 million in 2009.

In 2011, the musician is working on recording tracks for the next disc, and also shoots videos for the songs “Swearing Because of the Wall”, “Sam”, “Bryn-Bryn-Bryn”, “Pushkin Rap”, “ShlakvaShaklassika!” and "Hymn of the Coming Provincials". On March 30, the release of the "New Album" took place, which included tracks previously announced on music channels. In 2012, videos were shot for the songs "Pool" and "The Universe is Infinite".

In 2013, the Protivo Gunz group celebrated the 10th anniversary of their creative activity with the release of two albums - the disc of the same name, for the song from which the video clip was shot, and the disc Confusion. On April 13, 2013, the Noize MC team's anniversary concert took place in the Stadium Live Moscow concert hall, which was broadcast on the night of January 1, 2014 on the MTV channel.

In 2014, the discography of Noize MC is replenished with the sixth album "Hard Reboot", many tracks of which were created in collaboration with other artists: "Jordan" feat Atlantida project, "abv & eyuya" together with the poetess, "Ne2Da?" co-authored with Mewark. In addition, the album includes solo compositions by Noize MC "I'm Burning", "Talking Heads", "Master of the Forest", the authorship of which belonged to the musician Alexander Petrunin. In 2014, Ivan Alekseev played the role of a drug dealer in a 3D production of the musical Romeo and Juliet in the 22nd century.

2015 began for the artist with a performance at the Barents Spektakel international music festival in Norway. In mid-March, two solo concerts of the musician took place in the clubs A2 (St. Petersburg) and Stadium Live (Moscow), dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Noize MC. In April, the rapper presented the first Russian-language video "Yes Future!" on the YouTube channel, shot in the 360-degree technique. In November, the premiere of the single "Make some noise" accompanied by an orchestra took place at concert venues in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The musician participates not only in commercial projects. Ivan collaborates with the Sunflower Charitable Foundation, where he regularly transfers royalties from the sale of discs or singles on the Web. In April 2015, Noize MC was invited to be an announcer for the annual Total Dictation campaign. In October, the singer prepared the musical composition "Save My Speech", which was included in the biographical film about "Save My Speech Forever". In mid-November, Noize MC received the main Music Box 2015 award in the "Hip-Hop of the Year" nomination at the awards ceremony held at the State Kremlin Palace.

Personal life

In 2008, at one of the concerts, Ivan Alekseev met a girl, Anna, who soon became his wife.

In 2010, the first-born Vasily was born in the rapper's family, and two years later Anna gave Ivan the second son, Mikhail. Noize MC is kind to the household and tries to devote his free time to communicating with his children and his wife.

Noize MC now

In 2016, the artist presented the seventh album "King of the Hill", which included the tracks St. Petersburg Roofs, Nails, Acid Rain, Favorite Color. Video clips were created for the songs "Rake" and "Childfree" (feat Monetochka) in 2017. In the spring, a cover version of the song "The Last Hero" was released.

Now the singer is preparing the next album, writing new musical material. At the hip-hop festival held on May 1 in Luzhniki, Noize MC presented the song "Marathon".

Discography

• "The Greatest Hits Vol. 1" - 2008
• "The Last Album" - 2010
• "New Album" - 2012
• "Protivo Gunz" - 2013
• "Confusion" - 2013
• "Hard Reboot" - 2014
• "King of the Hill" - 2016

Today, September 1, marks exactly three years since St. « Versus Battle » , and "Versus Battle" has thousands of fans and millions of views on the YouTube channel.

At first, neither the heroes nor the organizers of the project knew that the idea would turn into a real movement and become so popular, but in 2013 the “pendulum” was swung. Now this is, if not a new direction in the culture of rap music, then certainly a significant part of it. "Leningrad rap club" - that's what they called "Versus Battle" in one of the issues of "Evening Urgant".

Versus - the phenomenon is really St. Petersburg, takes place, as a rule, in the bar 1703, which is located near Ligovsky Prospekt. Two participants, three judges, three rounds and no beats or microphones. Everything is as simple as possible if you watch a video while sitting in a cozy home chair, but is it really so? One of the very first participants in the battle, a popular St. Petersburg rap artist and just a great guy, told NEVSKY NEWS about how it all began - Harry Topor (Igor Alexandrov).

THEN IT WAS NOT SOMETHING SPECIAL

Versus is three years old. What is it like to stand at the origins? Tell me how it all started. How much time was given to prepare for the battle then?

It's very cool to stand at the origins, then it was not something special yet. That is, it was some kind of strange and muddy movement. A guy who is unfamiliar to me, nicknamed "Restaurateur", invited me to participate in it. He said: “There will be some battle without music with prepared lyrics, where popular artists will face each other. I thought that this was a strange idea and, they say, who might be interested in it at all, because in Russia it is not at all popular. Then I looked at foreign analogues and decided, why not try? Initially, my opponent was supposed to be a member of the Black Economy group, but in the end something didn’t work out for him.

Then I flew to Serbia and right before the plane I found out that they had found another opponent for me and it would be St1m in my new image of Billy Milligan. At that time, no one knew how to battle and did not know exactly how to do it. None of the audience, in fact, also did not know how to behave.

I wrote the text in Serbia. It took about two weeks to prepare. As soon as the first issue ended, and I came home, I saw that the news was talking about the appearance in St. Petersburg of a new kind of closed rapper battle. Everyone became very interested in what kind of event it was.

HISTORY OF SUCCESS

At the very beginning of Versus's life, did anyone expect such popularity? Anyone thought that the rollers onYoutube will collect millions of views?

Of course not. That's why we went to the first performance with an indulgent mood in the style of "Well, we'll see what happens there." Then rap, in fact, was different, only a few performers could boast of good fees at concerts.

But already after the first battle, Tony Raut and I were signed to one of the largest booking agencies in Russia. Then we signed a contract and skated six big tours in three years.

Now Versus is visited by 200-300 people, and then they invited only their own or some “elite”: the participants were given only a couple of pluses ( ed. note: invitation cards), so there were a maximum of 30 people in the audience. At the very beginning, only famous people came, as well as those who were close to them: famous rappers, poets, musicians, directors of cool stores. The audience that rotated among the friends of the organizers. It was absolutely impossible to get the penetrations. It was impossible for an outsider to buy tickets even for money. As far as I remember, the speakers had the opportunity to bring five people with them, and everyone else - one at a time.

At first there were problems with filming, with sound and light: the operators did not cut out pauses when the participants forgot the text, so the entertainment was not so cool, but then everything began to develop. First of all, because it is new and unusual for our country. This has never happened before, but people want bread and circuses, they want dirt. If you look at my battle with Noise, then he seemed mega-dirty and immoral. Now it's not like that. If you look at some recent releases, then he will be almost virgin.

NOW THERE ARE TOO MANY WEAK AND BORING PARTICIPANTS

What emotions did you get from the battle with Noise? Was there any disappointment from the fact that everything ended that way, because, for sure, you wanted something global?

Noise said that we would fight in 50 days, which is almost two months. As a result, he did not prepare, read the text from the mobile, freestyled. Usually participants prepare for two weeks.

Certainly there was a disappointment. Everyone was preparing for the fact that this would be some kind of epoch-making battle, because Noyz is a very famous performer who won the battle, who has big tours, and defeating him "by one gate" is simply not interesting.

As for the Versus of the present and the Versus of the past. Is there a difference in performance level?

There is no specific answer here, because someone has become much cooler, having understood what exactly needs to be shown in the speech and how. But, on the other hand, now there are too many frankly weak and boring participants.

Isn't there a qualifying round for participants?

There is a selection, but the result is never completely clear, it cannot be predicted. Let's take a photographer as an example. He may have great shots in his portfolio, but when I call him to an event, he may give me a bad result. And I couldn't predict it. We can understand the level of the performer only by trial and error.

How often do participants improvise at all? Or absolutely all the jokes are prepared?

The main part is, of course, the workpiece. At a performance, you can joke in response to some kind of punch, but it's usually a little more than a couple of lines.

Yes, there is nothing secret, it's just that the performance turned out to be not very spectacular due to a few forgotten lines, long pauses and a dull crowd in the background .

And before the battle, do the organizers discuss topics that cannot be touched upon?

There is no censorship inside the battle. If there is some kind of hardcore, then at the editing this piece will probably just be cut out and that's it.

EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT VERSUS - FROM DEPUTY MIRONOV TO VANI URGANT

How do you feel about censorship when jokes about politics, religion, etc. are silenced on the video?

I am positive. After all, no one wants that after the next release of Versus, people in jackets come to the Restaurateur and close the project. In our country, this is how it is done: they will imprison two or three people, so that it would be disrespectful to others. And then we will think “in hindsight”: “It was necessary to censor!”

Of course, it's good that there is censorship, because for such topics slippery, sooner or later they can close the shop. Everyone knows about Versus - from deputy Mironov to Vanya Urgant. And all these people can ask a fair question about why some person in the whole country, without embarrassment in expressions, says this and that.

On the set of "Evening Urgant", , worried? What about Versus?

Hell yes! Urgant is impossible not to worry - there is no room for error. But if a person is worried, then he cares.

And on Versus, since we're talking about him, the members are also worried. Participants may pretend they don't care, but they still care. On Versus, as well as on Urgant, there are no reshoots. If I make a reservation, then this reservation will go on the air. Plus, everyone wants to win.

You can not influence the composition of the judges, but if you agreed to participate, please respect their decision. If there was a person who frankly treats me badly, I would probably ask him to change, explaining the reason to the Restaurateur. Although in the battle against Tipsy Tip, which took place on the roof, the judge was Ruslan Munnibaev, the concert director of Casta, sort of, and the editor of the The-Flow website. He never hid that he did not like my music, and my participation in this duel was risky. But, in spite of everything, then Ruslan gave his vote for me.

And what about the battleST and Oksimiron? People felt that the decision of the judges was unfair.

I will not comment on this, because both Oxy and ST are not strangers to me.

But I will say this: the opinion of the judges is very important. Regardless of what the people say, the bottom line is that one person won and the other lost.

WHEN IT WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ME

Do you plan to fight with anyone else in the future?

I haven't participated in a year and a half. I have other priorities now - recording new material, concert tours. If I returned to Versus, I would do it, I will quote: "when it will be beneficial for ME" ( editor's note: a line written by Oksimiron from Oksimiron's battle against Joniboy). That is, the opponent must be very famous and in demand. After Noise and ST, it's not worth lowering the bar. Moreover, you no longer want to go against someone to whom there is a strong positive, and not hostility.

Do you have any wishes for Versus?

Hold on. If, as the Restaurateur says, censorship has already been introduced, and there are some warnings, then Versus is under the hood. And let there be more quality battles!

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Meanwhile, the organizers Versus make new releases, the popularity of which steadily continues to grow.

At the moment, the third season is underway with the participation of young rap artists. The tryouts go on, the rounds get tougher, so: "Let's make some noise, please" (Editor's note: before the start of each battle, the Restaurateur says this phrase, but instead of "please" he uses an obscene word).

Fans, as well as those who want to get to know the work of Harry Topor, we inform you that this year Harry Ax and Tony Raut bigtour .

As part of the tour in St. Petersburg on November 13 on the stage of the concert hall AURORA the guys will present Tony's new solo album, but they promise that they will not forget about the old popular tracks either. Tickets can be purchased from ticket operators, as well as at the box office of the club.

Noise MC, like many other rappers, is known not only for his creativity, but also for his slightly scandalous behavior. However, as is often the case with creative people in public professions, such behavior is largely part of the stage image, and in ordinary life such people are quite respectable family men. In any case, regarding noize mc, this is indirectly evidenced by the fact that, in spite of everything, this outrageous musician has a wonderful wife and two wonderful children.

Little is known about the rapper's wife, Anna Alekseeva. In particular, there is practically no information about what she does, except for maintaining a family hearth and raising children. However, one thing can be said with certainty - she and her husband have a happy marriage, and they love each other. Even when, at the birth of her second child, the popular husband was in prison, where he spent ten days for insulting the police, she took it quite normally and with understanding. Most likely, this was again part of his professional image, which had nothing to do with the everyday behavior of a musician and, therefore, had no effect on their personal lives. So to speak, the costs of the profession.

Anna herself tries to avoid public life and, as far as is known, tries to spend more time with her children. Noise himself strives for the same. Despite his rather busy concert schedule, he tries to spend with his family. The fact is that he himself grew up virtually without a father and does not want the same for his sons. And now he has two. The eldest, Vasily, was born in 2010, and the youngest, Ivan, two years later. By the way, the fact that the young family decided to have a second child is another confirmation that everything is going well for Noise and Anna.

Many fans of the rap artist's songs know that sometimes the musician describes in the lyrics of his songs some of the nuances of his own life, and, therefore, it is possible that someday, perhaps, some information about his beloved wife will appear in his work. benchmark.

In the meantime, it remains to be content with those bits of information that we have and believe that Noise and Anna Alekseeva are an almost perfect married couple. Of course, every family life has its own underwater reefs, but loving people are always able to get around them. Moreover, they have two such wonderful navigators as Vasily and Mikhail.

Childhood Noize MC

Vanya was born in the Smolensk region. The boy's mother was a chemist by profession, and his father was a musician. When he was nine, his parents separated. Around this period, he began to write his first poems, and a year later he "got sick" with the guitar. Moreover, he went to a music school in the middle of the year and was accepted. Ivan began to study and made progress in playing the classical guitar.

In 1997, together with his mother, he left for Belgorod, where he continued to study. There Vanya twice participated in the regional competition of performers. In 1998, he managed to take first place, and in 2000 - second. Since 2000, the aspiring musician has tried his hand at various musical groups in the city, including the Levers of Machines group. He himself first assembled a rock band at the age of thirteen.

The beginning of Noize MC's career

Vanya was fond of both the work of Nirvana and the work of The Prodigy. Soon he began to try to write rap, but he did not stop playing in a rock group. At school, the young musician studied with Arkady, who also performed in musical groups under the name "Adik". For some time, classmates played together in the V.I.P band, which was very famous within the city due to frequent performances.

Ivan took the pseudonym MC Noize, but later changed it a bit and became known as Noize MC. After a while, classmates created their own group and gave it the name "Face2Face". They began to participate in regional festivals, perform at concerts, and took part in competitions. Face2Face also tried its hand at the international festival, which was held in Kharkov, where it was a success. Ivan Alekseev graduated from the music school in 2001, and a year later he graduated from the secondary school.

Moving Ivan Alekseev to Moscow

In 2002, Vanya went to Moscow, where he began to study at the State University for the Humanities. He had to leave the group in Belgorod. Like many nonresident students of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Ivan settled in a hostel. He decided to take up solo work. A year later, from the same students as him, the young man created the group "Protivo Gunz". The musician constantly became a participant in various metropolitan hip-hop competitions and freestyle battles, where he successfully performed and often ended up among the winners.

Together with "Protivo Gunz" Ivan traveled to many cities in the Moscow region, giving concerts. From time to time, he introduced the residents of the capital to his work, going out onto the city streets. The first popularity came to Noize MC after he began to post his tracks on the Internet, which he recorded during his student years.

The come popularity of Noize MC

In the summer of 2005 and 2006, the musician traveled around the country, where the Snickers Urbania street festival team and Ivan gave joint concerts. The proceeds Noize MC collected for the recording of the first album. "Respect Production" is the name of the rap label with which he signed a contract. Around the same period, the group with "Protivo Gunz" became a participant in the Russian competition "Urban Sound", where they won. The prize was the opportunity to record a video, although the budget was very small. This was the reason that the guys recorded a video for their old track, the name of which is "Song for the Radio". The clip was recognized as provocative, but it still entered the rotation. A year later, it was decided to change the plot of the clip, which made it more provocative.

Noize MC Freestyle on the train

In the spring of 2007, participating in the seventh Battle of Hip-Hop.Ru, the talented musician became the winner, which was another success in his career. Then he signed a contract with Universal Music Group, which in itself was already a significant event.

Pavel Lungin invited Ivan to his film "Joke", where he got his first experience in filming a movie. He also became the author of the soundtrack for the film. His hero's name was Igor Glushko. He was a high school student, an aspiring musician who moved to the capital after the death of his parents.

"Behind the Closed Door" is the name of the second clip of the hip-hoper. The video was filled with black humor and Noize MC's trademark irony. This work was in the 2007th year in tenth place among the hundred best songs of MTV-2007. Recent achievements in creativity

Noize MC -- Freestyle at Moscow State University

A year has passed, and the hip-hoper decided to terminate the contract with Universal Music Group. And soon admirers of his work saw the first debut album. Its title is "The Greatest Hits vol.1". The golden collection of new Russian rock included many of the singles from this record. In 2010, the second album of the musician was released. Its title is "The Last Album".

Noize MC today

The next album was released in 2011. In parallel, many clips were shot, but the year 2011 was the record for the shot clips. In the spring of 2012, an album called "New Album" appeared.

In 2013, the group "Protivo Gunz" celebrated its tenth anniversary with an anniversary concert. It is known that in 2014 the release of a full-length film is expected, in which the group will be filmed in full force.

Noize MC's personal life

The hip-hoper is not particularly willing to talk about his personal life, believing that it is personal, so as not to be public property. However, in one of his interviews, he spoke about a beautiful wife and two beautiful children.

Ivan and Anna met in 2008 at a concert. Their views on life were similar, in addition, Anya really liked the work of the musician. He made every effort, and after a while she agreed to become his wife. In 2010, Vasily was born to them, and in 2012 Mikhail appeared. Despite being busy, Ivan always strives to be with his family more.

Hip-hop artist Ivan Alekseev, better known as Noize MC, rarely talks about his personal life and even more so shows his children to the press. Therefore, when the other day the musician and his sons Vasily and Mikhail became guests of the Mission Mars virtual reality attraction, which opened at Artplay, we decided to get a better look at the guys.

Noize MC with sons Vasily and Mikhail

Ivan did not mind - he posed for photographers with his sons with pleasure, talked about how he spends time with children.

The new virtual reality attraction "Mission Mars" operates within the Solaris interactive space. In order to feel like the first person on Mars, you just need to put on special glasses. Showiness is added by the fact that the space on "Mars" allows you to explore it - to wander, to consider the details.

We liked the planet with high gravity and the mirror corridor the most, - Noize MC shared his impressions. - And, of course, a planet where you can create your own animals. I drew them together with the children and could not tear myself away. But I didn't dare to fall into the 18-meter hole in the Mission Mars attraction.