Posted by OSLO, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - The music band of Pyotr Nalich (Peter Nalitch) representing Russia at the Eurovision 2010 contest on Wednesday passed to the final of the contest with the song “Lost and Forgotten.” The final will take place on May 29.
Pyotr Nalich (Peter Nalitch)
Television viewers and jury all over Europe thus determined the best 10 of 17 singers that performed in the first semi-final. Together with the Russian participants other finalists are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Greece, Portugal, Belarus, Serbia, Belgium, Albania and Iceland.
The second semi-final will be held on May 27 and also 17 countries will participate in it, 9 of them will go to the final. Besides, the organisers of the competition – Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France, as well as the country host of the jubilee 55th Eurovision contest Norway – pass to the final automatically.
Peter Nalitch has become famous in Russia after the publication in 2007 on YouTube of the clip of his song “Guitar” (where he makes fun of himself with broken English lyrics and dubious film editing qualities). In about a month, 70,000 persons had already watched it. The Russian users of LiveJournal were sending each other the link to the song, which became quickly famous. After that, interviews and articles were made about Peter in some Russian papers.
In 2007, Peter had already about 40 songs written down, all available on his website for free. Fans archived them and you can still find them on the web. It is with these songs that Peter gave his first concert, on November 9th 2007, in the club “Apshu” in Moscow.
After the success of this first concert (a lot of people had been unable to enter the first crowded venue), articles were written on blogs and in the newspapers. Peter then gathered a band of musicians, with whom he gave two more concerts during the winter of 2008 in the club “IKRA” in Moscow. Tickets had been sold out several months before the event.
The band took the name Peter Nalitch’s musical collective – Musical Collective of Peter Nalitch (MKPN).
During the following two years, in addition to the Muscovite venues, MKPN went on a tour, performing in Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and in other big Russian cities.
The band released his first album in 2008 – “Radost Prostykh Melody” – translated as “The Joy of Simple Melodies” on their website. They also released a DVD with the footage of a concert in Moscow – “MKPN at B1 Maximum” and an EP, “More” (“The Sea”). In 2009, the band was one of the headliners at the “Sfinks” festival of Antwerp (Belgium). Nalitch is self-produced.
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