Name
Viktor Tsoi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1962-06-21
Deathday
1990-08-15 (28 years old)
Place of Birth
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Biography
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 works, including ten albums. After Kino appeared and performed in the 1987 Soviet film Assa, the band's popularity sparked, 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 their high-profile concert at the 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 car collision.
He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Russian rock and is credited with popularizing the genre throughout the Soviet Union. He retains a devoted following in many ex-Soviet countries, such as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Lithuania, where he is known as one of the most influential and popular people in the history of Russian music. (Wikipedia)
Known For
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Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected del...
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Three young Soviet women encounter a French filmmaker who is planning the first erotic fil...
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Remix of the 1988 cult movie "The Needle": Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed...
- 2021 Rock Beyond as Self (archive footage)
- 1989 The Needle as Моro
- 2020 Tsoy as Self (archive footage)
- 1987 Assa as Музыкант
- 1990 Viktor Tsoi - Concert in Donetsk as Self
- 2006 You Just Want to Know as Self
- 2010 The Needle Remix as Moro (archive footage)
- 1990 Sex & Perestroika as Self
- 1986 Yahha
- 1986 The End of a Vacation
- 1992 Last Hero as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 Rock as Self
- 1990 Viktor Tsoi and the Kino group - concert at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex as Self
- 1996 Sunny Days as Self (archive footage)
- 1985 Rock Around the Kremlin as Self
- 1986 Dialogues as Self
- 2014 Timur Novikov: Zero Object as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 Виктор Цой. Вот такое «Кино» as Виктор Цой
- 2005 When Idols Were Gone ( 1 episode ) as Himself / archive footage
- 2002 Star Factory ( 1 episode ) as Self (Archive Footage)
- Soon Comrades ( 1 episode ) as Self
