Singer and actor Sergey Lazarev started his career when he was younger than 10 years old, singing in Lokteus children choir. From this point on, music has never stopped being the most importand thing in his life. When he was 14 he was already receiving first musical awards, won several childrens songs contests, and ended up in a very popular Neposedi, same band where Julia and Lena of Tatu met each other. In 2000 Sergey entered Moscows famous MKHAT theatre school and graduated in 2004 as professional actor. Being a student, Sergey started playing main in Pushkinski Theatres Romeo and Juliet and Karamazov Brothers. At the same time, together with his childhood friend Vlad Topalov, Sergey started a boy-duet SMASH!! that shortly after was singed by Universal Music Russia and became one of brightes Russian pop-wonders in 2002-2003, 5..1 hits, numerous awards and millions of copies sold in Russia, CIS and South East Asia, was a result of a short duets career the boys split up in 2004 only one week after release of their second album. Sergey began to record his solo album in 2005, also coming back to theatre scene which he left in 2003 because of bands packed schedule. Together with British producer Brain Rawling, Segey recorded most of songs for his debut Dont Be Fake that was released in November 2005 and sold instantly more than 300 000 copies in Russia alone. As for theatre life, his pard in Broadway-style musical comedy Borrow a Tenor brought him 5 professional theatre awards, making the play biggest siccess of 2005 theatre season. Also in May 2006 Sergey received Russian National Music TV Channels MUZ TV Award as Best new act, and 4th single from the album, title song FAKE ws released to club in the UK, debuting on July 30th at ..28 in Commercial Music Club Chart in Music Week. 6-9 years went in for artistic gymnastics; 9-11 years a solist in the Lockteu choir; 11-12 years a singer in the Pokrovsky theatre, played main part in many plays; in 1995, at the age of 12, Sergey entered the Fidgets band; the same year he won the TV contest of childrens songs Gold Key; as a part of the Fidgest group Sergey tok part in famous Russian TV programs and contsests, such as Guess the Tune, Grasp Me, The Morning Star, Look Out, The Blue Light, and The Slavonic Bazaar; in September, 1996 Sergey won the 1st prize at teh contsest Bravo Bravissimo in Italy; the same year he sang with the Presidents orchestra led by P.Ousyannikov; in 1997 he won the All-Russian contest The Morning Star; the same year he took part in the Jumble (Yeralash), the so-called TV journal for children, and he recorded the soundtrack for this TV program; in 1999 Sergey entered the Russian leading dramatic institute, the School-Studio MHAT, and graduated from in with honors in 2003; in 2001 sergey entered a musical project of the label Universal Music Russia, the duet SMASH!!; in January 2002 the duet shot their first clip song Should Have Loved You More; in August 2002 SMASH!! won the contest New Wave in Jurmala, Latvia; in October 2002 they released the first sigle Balle; the clip of the song stayed at top list of the Musical Channel MTV Russia for 6 month and entered the list of top 20 clips of the past five years; the same year the Pushkin theatre started the play Romeo and Juliet where Sergey played the part of Romeo. Every performance with Sergey attracted the full house; in February 2003 the band released the long-expected first album Freeway, that practically at once obtained the status of a gold record. Over a million of licensed discs were sold, and each single of the album was on a top of hit parades both in Russian and in other CIS countries; in March 2003 SMASH!! shot the third clip for song Talk To Me; in April 2003 the duet started on a concert tour to promote the album Freeway; in September 2003 SMASH!! shot the forth clip for the song Freeway; on November 11-12, 2003 SMASH!! held their first solo concert in Moscow. in 2003 SMASH!! received many awards as best band, namely the MUZ TV award Discovery of the Year, The award Euro-hit of the Europe-plus radio station, and awards Gold Gramophone, Weighty Hit, LOVE RADIO, and Sound-Track; in 2003 Sergey Lazarev played the part of Aleksey Karamazov in the play Few Days Of Alesha Karamazovs Life in the A. Chehov MHAT; the same year he was nominated for the dramatic award Seagull for The Best love scene in the play Romeo and Juliet and for the dramatic award Debut, therefore he was listed among ten most successful young Moscow actors; in 2004 the SMASH!! duet began to record their second album; in May 2004 SMASH!! in cooperation with Italian band EARPHONES recorded the song Obsession. When the song entered the radio rotation, it immediately gained the top of hit paredes and became the top summer hit 2004; simultaneously, the bands first album Freeway was released in the South-Easten Asia (inKorea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, hong Kong, Malayasia, Singapore, Indonesia, India, and on the Phiippines). The album at once occupied the top lines of musical hit parades; the release of the album was followed by the promotion tour in the South-Eastern Asia, during which the band shot a clip for the cover-version of George Michaels song Faith; in September, 2004 the songle Obsession was released in India; in 2004 SMASH!! received the award of the MTV RMA 2004 as The-Pop-Project of the Year, and the award of the Sound-Track as The Band of the Year; on December 1, 2004 SMASH!! released the second album called 2nite.
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