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Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was born on 21 June 1962, in a maternity hospital on Kuznetsovskaya Street in Leningrad.He was the only child of Valentina Vasilyevna Tsoi (née Guseva), a Russian schoolteacher, and Robert Maximovich Tsoi, a Soviet Korean engineer from Kyzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan, where his Korean parents had been exiled after Stalin's 1937 deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union.
Kino (Russian: Кино, lit. 'cinema, film', pronounced) is a Russian rock band formed in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in 1981.The band was co-founded and headed by Viktor Tsoi, who wrote the music and lyrics for almost all of the band's songs, until his death in 1990.
According to film director Sergei Lysenko who worked with the band closely while producing his short film "The End of Vacation", the song came about when frontman and lyricist Viktor Tsoi shifted his songwriting style from the "lyrical" songs on prior albums like 45 and Eto ne lyubov... to more socially conscious songs. The song was initially ...
Kino was a Soviet rock band formed in Leningrad, Soviet Union.The original band, known as "Garin i Giperboloidy" (Garin & The Hyperboloids), after Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's novel The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, was formed in 1981 by Viktor Tsoi, along with Aleksei Rybin and Oleg Valinskiy.
One of Kino's most popular songs. It was written in 1988, when Viktor Tsoi was filmed in The Needle. It was originally planned that the new album would be called "Pachka Sigaret" because of this song, but the renaming happened after Tsoi decided to introduce "Zvezda po imeni Solntse" on the last day of recording.
Most of the music and lyrics were written by Viktor Tsoi, and the guitar solo was written by Yuri Kasparyan. The song was fully rehearsed and presented at the Leningrad Rock Club Festival in 1986, but was first released on the album Gruppa krovi (Russian: Группа крови [ˈɡrupːə ˈkrovʲɪ], lit. ' blood type ' /'blood group') in 1988.
The Needle (Russian: Игла, romanized: Igla) is a 1988 Soviet thriller film.It stars rock musicians Viktor Tsoi (of Kino) and Pyotr Mamonov (of Zvuki Mu).The film premiered on 16 September 1988 in Almaty and in February 1989 in Moscow.
Kino and their lead singer Viktor Tsoi had previously been part of the underground rock movement in the Soviet Union. In 1987, Tsoi starred in the official Soviet government film Assa . The film, which became a cult classic , promoted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev 's Glasnost and Perestroika political, social and economic reforms.