Viktor Tsoi
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Viktor Tsoi was a Soviet rock musician who became a cultural icon during the 1980s before his death in a car accident in 1990. He is remembered as an influential figure in Soviet rock music, though the specific details of his artistic impact and legacy would require additional context to fully explain.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1962
- Died
- 1990
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Zvezda po imeni Tsoi
- Posledniĭ geroĭ
- My zhdëm peremen
- Pesni
- Viktor T︠S︡oĭ
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Film & TV
Acting · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Ви́ктор Ро́бертович Цой; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet and Russian singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music. Born and raised in Leningrad, Tsoi started writing songs as a teenager. Throughout his career, Tsoi contributed a plethora of musical and artistic…
Known for
- Rock Beyond — self (archive)2021
- Tsoi — (archive footage)2020
- The Needle Remix — Moro (archive footage)2010
- You Just Want to Know — Self2006
- When Idols Were Gone — Himself / archive footage2005
- Star Factory — Self (Archive Footage)
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Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Виктор Робертович Цой, IPA: [ˈvʲiktər ˈrobʲɪrtəvʲɪtɕ ˈtsoj]; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet singer-songwriter and actor who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and influential bands in the history of Russian music.
Born and raised in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) to a Russian mother and Koryo-saram father, Tsoi started writing songs as a teenager. Throughout his career, Tsoi contributed a plethora of musical and artistic works, including ten albums. After Kino appeared and performed in the 1987 Soviet film Assa, the band's popularity surged, triggering a period referred to as "Kinomania", and leading to Tsoi's leading role in the 1988 Kazakh new wave art film The Needle. In 1990, after a high-profile concert at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, Tsoi briefly relocated to Latvia with bandmate Yuri Kasparyan to work on the band's next album. Two months after the concert, Tsoi died in a traffic collision.