Kirill Turichenko | |
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Birth name | Kirill Turichenko |
Born |
Odessa, Ukrainian SSR |
January 13, 1983
Genres | Pop, pop-rock, dance |
Occupation(s) | Singer, musician, actor |
Website | www.KirillTurichenko.com, Facebook official |
Kirill Turichenko (Russian: Кирилл Туриченко) or Kyrylo Turychenko (Ukrainian: Кирило Туриченко) was born January 13, 1983 in Odessa, Ukraine. He is a Ukrainian musician, singer and actor. A member of the Russian boy band Ivanushki International since 2013.
Kirill Turichenko was born on January 13, 1983 in Ukraine, Odessa. In 1989–1997 he studied at high school № 82, and in 1997–2000 at high school № 37 drama class in Odessa under the direction of Olga Kashneva. In 1997 he finished a musical school where he learned to play piano. In 2004 he finished the South Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky, the faculty of music and art.
As a child he was in love with music. From his early years he took part in Odessa show-team «Star Hour», which has participated in many festivals and contests.
1994. Kirill took part in popular TV contests «Morning star», «Small stars» and «5 + 20». In 1995 as the participant of "Star Hour" he played a leading part in the musical «The Magic Aladdin's lamp».
Later the art director of show-team Svetlana Vetryak had created a vocal quartet «KA2U», in which Kirill became a soloist. In 1999 this quartet has won the first award of the Second All-Ukrainian Charitable festival «Black Sea games». As a result young musicians were able to perform at the «Tavria Games» festival – a popular music festival of Ukraine.
Kirill Turichenko as a part of «KA2U» co-operated for a long time with the largest and popular concert clubs of Odessa, where public gathers specially for their performances 5 days a week.
After studying in the drama school Kirill came to grips with a theatre artist’s career. On May 7, 8, 2002 at the Odessa Music Comedy theatre a premiere of the rock-opera «Romeo and Juliet» took place, where Kirill has played a leading part. The «Romeo and Juliet» is in the repertoire of the Odessa academical Music Comedy theatre and now. It had been played over 300 times. Kirill became laureate of the International Competition of Actors of Operetta and Musical.