Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC): biography, interesting facts, photo

Ivan Alekseev is a Russian singer and composer who works under the pseudonym Noize MC. In his music he combines two styles - hip-hop and rock. The name of the group comes from the English word noise - "noise", it is this concept, according to Ivan, most accurately characterizes the style of his team.

Childhood

Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC) was born on March 9, 1985 in the small town of Yartsevo, located in the Smolensk region. The artist's father was associated with art, was engaged in music, and his mother worked in a chemical plant. At the age of nine, Ivan survived the divorce of his parents and wrote his first poems. The first musical hobbies appeared at the age of ten, then Ivan Alekseev enrolled in a local music school (classical guitar class). In 1997, together with his mother went to Belgorod. It was there that the performer received his first awards in the music field - in 1998 and 2000 at the competition of performers in the class of classical guitar.

Ivan made his first steps to create his own band at the age of 13, independently assembling a musical team. At the age of 15, the musician joins Rychigy Mashyn as a bass player and backing vocalist. According to Ivan himself, a huge influence on the style of his work was played by the popular Prodigy band in those years. Track Diesel Power pushed Noize MC to write a rap. Later, together with a classmate, Ivan Alekseev created a popular on the Internet space group Face2Face.

After graduation from the general school Ivan moved to Moscow and entered the RSUH. In connection with his move, the group Face2Face broke up.

Students. The first serious steps

Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC), whose biography is rich in interesting facts, lived in the university hostel and started solo performance. At the first courses the musician organized his group Protivo Gunz, playing in alternative directions, and it was then that most of the texts that were popular at the time were written. At the senior courses in the life of the singer was a lot of club hip-hop competitions with prize-winning places, the group of Ivan performed in the Moscow region on various venues.

At the age of 20, the musician became the lead singer of the project "Snickers Urbania". This right, he deserved victory over MS Young in the battles of hip-hop performers. The next two years, Ivan went with a new team touring all over Russia, and he was able to record his material in the studio for the money he earned. In 2006, in the summer, the label Respect Production concluded a contract with the musician as a solo artist.

In May of the same year Ivan Alekseev moved from a hostel to a rented apartment in the Old Arbat, arranging improvised concerts in the center of the city.

First video clip

In September 2006, the Respect Production group wins the All-Russian Urban Sound competition and, as a prize, gets the opportunity to shoot the first video clip. After long disputes, one of Ivan's early compositions was chosen - "Song for Radio". The clip ends up on the MUZ-TV channel and on the radio station DFM, where it will last for four months.

Six months later, on the decision of the channel, the video was photographed, and the director was Hindrek Maasik, who worked with the bands "Banderos" and "Disco Accident". In the clip frame throughout the song there are half-naked people, whose intimate places are covered with plates with the inscription "Noize MC", and this video reaches the fifth place in the top chart of the MUZ-TV channel.

Signing the contract, the first album

On a symbolic date, Friday 13, in 2007, Ivan Alekseev signed a contract with Respect Production and the Universal Group in Russia. Simultaneously, Noize MC won in the contest on the Internet portal Hip-Hop.ru, having bypassed about three thousand Russian-speaking performers from all over the world.

A few months later, in the summer of 2007, Ivan was invited to one of the main roles in the film "Drawing", where Vanya was supposed to play a young guy from the eleventh class, who was fond of music and moved to Moscow after the death of his parents. Also, Ivan was responsible for the soundtracks in this film.

Second video

The second clip Noize MC was filmed for the song "Behind the closed door". The track contains the motifs of the song CHIZH - "Eternal Youth", elements of black humor and characteristic for the performer of irony. In the story this is a story about a band playing in the rock direction and suddenly becoming popular. The clip was among the top ten songs of the MTV channel in 2007, and the song got into the rotation of such radio stations as "Next FM", "M-radio".

Union of Ivan Alekseev and Universal Group lasted slightly less than a year, in May 2008 Noize MC terminates the contract and begins to independently promote its label. A month later, the debut album "The Greatest Hits vol. 1 ", which the leading publications noted as" Album of the Year ".

Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC) and his wife met in 2008.

The artist did not leave his usual street performances and continues to perform at the Arbat. Also Noize MC performs with a tour around Russia.

Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC) photo with his wife carefully hides, only single pictures taken a few years before the birth of children hit the net.

Further successes Noize MC

Ivan's second album was released two years after the first, in May 2010. It is called "The Last Album", a song from which Noize MC performed in eleven cities across the country.

According to the Russian version of Forbes magazine, Ivan's annual income for 2009 was $ 0.9 million, and along with the number of search requests in Yandex, this put him on line 41 on the "Stars and Money" chart.

Popularity among older people brought socially-directed songs, such as the "Mercedes S666". The track was written on the subject of an accident that killed two people, and the musician presented Andrei Barkov as an "angel in the flesh", which the people groundlessly found guilty of the incident.

Peak of popularity

The next album of the artist - "New Album", was released on March 31, 2012.

In the winter of 2012 Noize MC announced the release of two records at once next year - in honor of the 10th anniversary of Protivo Gunz with re-release of old tracks and an album with rap tracks. On April 10, the video clip "Pool" was released, and the next day the albums were available on iTunes.

April 2013 was filled with a concert tour. On the 6th and 7th there were two concerts in Minsk, 25th in Kiev, followed by concerts in Russia - in Krasnodar, Moscow, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Abakan and Kazan.

The fourth album, "Confusion", was released one day before the official date - October 28. On the Internet, songs from the album became available for download four days earlier - on October 24.

In November 2013, Ivan was a special guest in the freestyle duel "Word".

At the end of 2013, on New Year's night, the MTV channel showed a forty-minute interval from the concert dedicated to the decade of Noize MC.

In September 2014, Ivan Alekseev released the sixth album in the account. It is called "Hard Reboot" and includes tracks performed in conjunction with the American singer Astronautalis.

In the autumn of 2014, the MTV channel introduced Ivan Alekseev into the top five nominated for the title of the best Russian performer.

In November of the same year, Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC), whose personal life remains a mystery, played in the musical "Juliet and Romeo" based on the novel of the same name. The performer got the role of a drug dealer who sold a magical elixir that brings happiness to the person who drinks it. Despite the fact that Ivan does not have an acting education, the director of the musical noted his acting data, having visited the concert Noize MC.

2015

In January 2015, a new video for the song "Tearing the Leash" was released. This track was recorded as a soundtrack for the movie "Shaggy Christmas tree". All the money collected from the sales of this track on the Internet, was sent to the charity fund "Sunflower".

March 9, 2015, Ivan was 30 years old. He celebrated his birthday with two big concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The next day after the birthday came out a video for the track "Robots".

On March 20, a new reissued album was released, which included such songs as "Jordan" and "Tearing the Lead". The album also included several new mixes and copied old songs.

In April, Ivan Alekseev took part in the total dictation, where he acted as a speaker. The dictation was held at the native institute of the performer.

In June 2015 a new clip for the track "Speaking Heads" was released. The video was filmed in an unusual place - in the "House-Perevertyshhe" at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. The premiere took place on A-One.

In August, Noize MC showed a new format for the performance. The concert took place in Moscow, in the "Museon" Art Park, in the open air. In September, the team again supported the charity fund "Sunflower", having performed with a concert, which was broadcast on the site afisha.ru.

In October, the film "Save my speech forever", which tells about the life of the poet Osip Mandelstam. The main soundtrack to the film was Ivan's song "Keep my speech", combining poetry verses and text Noize MC.

In November in St. Petersburg and Moscow premiere of the concert program "Make Noys himself", the main single of which was the same track.

On November 13, a new collection of "Bush" was released, consisting of selected songs in acoustic performance. To select songs, the fans of the group were attracted, who within a month voted in social networks for their favorite songs Noize MC. Together with the selected songs, the first single "Merin" was released for the first time.

November 14, 2015 Noize MC made an opening speech at Limp Bizkit in the city of Orenburg. On November 19, Noize MC won the "Hip-Hop of the Year" nomination. Awarding took place within the framework of Music Box 2015 on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace.

Personal life

Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC) and his family try not to cover their personal lives. It is known that Ivan met his wife Anna Alekseeva in 2008 at a concert. Two years later, the couple played a wedding. In 2010 the first son Vasily was born, the second son, Ivan, in two years. About the wife there is no information, except that she is engaged in home and raising children. A woman tries not to fall under the sights of photografs.

Undoubtedly, Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC) and his family, whose photo the artist so carefully conceals, spend all their free time together. Artist knows firsthand what it's like to live without a father, so he tries not to deprive his sons of attention with all his might.