Alexey Potapenko

Potap dreams of replenishing his collection of awards with a Grammy statuette, acquiring a "translator of a chaotic mental stream, which automatically combines motives and text with pictures sounding in his head and displays it all somewhere in electronic form", because the muse visits suddenly, when there is nothing at hand except for a napkin and a pencil.

It would also be nice to have a device that allows you to be in several places at the same time or to teleport super quickly. This would help the singer and producer with the current pace of life and touring geography.

Potap (the real name of the artist is Alexey Potapenko) was born on May 8, 1981 in the capital of Ukraine. The musician is popular both in Ukraine and in Russia. He does not comment on his nationality or belonging to a particular country in any way.

Alexey's mom is an athlete, world champion in scuba diving, his father is a serviceman. Parents taught their son to discipline and managed to form a strong character in him.

As a child, Potap showed interest in many areas of life. From a young age he went in for swimming and water polo and earned the title of Master of Sports. He wrote songs and poems. At the age of 13, he even tried to record the first compositions, only his parents considered this son's hobby not serious.

After graduating from school, Alexey became a student at the Kiev University of Physical Education, where he managed to combine study and play in the university KVN team. After high school, Potapenko had a career as a coach or physical education teacher, but his father insisted on continuing his education, and his son obeyed. This time the guy entered the Kiev Economic University and became a master of economic sciences.

However, Aleksey Potapenko chose neither one nor the other profession for his future life, deciding to link his fate with music.

In his student years, Potapenko devoted his free time to songwriting, participated in musical projects. At first, this activity did not bring income to Potap, but still he decided to devote himself to show business. Soon, considerable perseverance, a true love of music and a desire for fame yielded results.

In 1997, Potap organized the first group. He had not yet read rap, preferring hard rock. In 2003, Potapenko presented his first solo album entitled "On his own wave, or Ano kaneshno poomusho shozh".

The turning point in the creative biography of Potap was 2006. This is the year of birth of the Potap and Nastya project. Alexey, being a rather famous performer, decided to record a new song with a girl and started looking for a vocalist who could sing the chorus of his new composition.

An acquaintance recommended Potap to call Nastya Kamenskikh. Then no one thought that a one-off duet would turn into a very successful musical project.

A year has passed, and the performers became laureates at the New Songs about the Main Festival. The duo performed the hit "Not a Couple", which instantly became the leader of the charts. Performing this song, as well as the hit of Sofia Rotaru "Khutoryanka", the guys won the "5 stars" competition.

In 2008, their debut album "Not a Couple" was released, and in 2009, a second album called "Don't Love My Brains" was released, including the tracks "On the District" ("On the Rane"), "New Year", "Chips , chicks, lavender ". In the same 2009, a real explosion of popularity was caused by the fresh hit "Plague Spring". The song was played literally from everywhere.

The team moved to new heights and won award after award. After a couple of years of working together and releasing fresh hits, Potap and Kamenskikh collected all the musical awards in the post-Soviet space: "Golden Gramophone", "Song of the Year", "RU.TV", "Muz-TV Prize". The songs "If suddenly you are gone" and "We are canceling the end of the world" sounded in the series "Diary of Dr. Zaitseva."

In 2013, fans of the Potap and Kamenskikh duet saw the third album of their favorite performers, "All in bundle". The song of the same name received the "Golden Gramophone - 2014" award and for a long time stayed at the top of the music charts along with the new hit "Udi Udi".

In 2015, the duo attracted even more attention, presenting a joint track and video with the popular R'n'B singer Bianca "Doggy Style". Potap appeared in the form of a psychotherapist patient, who is hampered by unbridled visions and fantasies.

Soon Potap and Nastya Kamenskikh recorded a number of memorable compositions: songs "Poisonous Love" and "With Fingertips", which contrasted the track with Bianca with their romantic mood and some lyricism.

The clip "At Mom's" stood out noticeably against the background of other projects, light and with a sexual or humorous overtones. This video reflects the theme of the growing up of a child, emphasizes the importance of the home as a place where you can return at any time, come with happy or sad news.

The duet created by Potap was officially recognized as the most popular of the country's touring duets. The number of their concerts and invitations to perform is such that many famous artists envied the singers. The project set new records for visiting concert venues.

The unpronounceable or, on the contrary, emphatically simple, infantile, strange and funny names of songs, both invented by the musicians themselves and taken from slang vocabulary, became the visiting trick of Potap and Nastya: "Plague Spring", "Chundra-Chuchundra", "Bumdiggibai", " Udi Udi "," RuRuRu ". These titles, which are often a refrain of the song, give critics the opportunity to accuse the musicians and their work of being stupid and superficial. Fans admire the boldness of the singers and enjoy the catchy sound combinations.

In 2010 Potap opened his own production center "MOZGI Entertainment", which, in addition to the duet "Potap and Nastya", also represents the group "Time and Glass", the eccentric artist Arkady Laikin and the dance and musical male band "Mozgi". Potap is not only producer. Alexey also writes songs, scripts, acts as a video director and is an inexhaustible source of creativity for the MOZGI Entertainment team.

As a performer, Potap performs not only with the Kamenskys, but also with one of the participants in the "Mozgi" project. And with "Time and Glass" he recorded a joint single "Tear" and starred in the video of the same name. Cola Song was released in collaboration with Romanian singer INNA.

The company creates clips not only for Potapenko's production projects, but also for other popular artists, including Zara, Diana Gurtskaya, the 30.02 group, Sasha Kogan. Soon Potap, together with Vadim Lisitsa, founded the MOZGI / FOXX Studios. More than 100 hits have been created there and long-term collaboration with popular artists is maintained.

In 2014, Potap and Nastya voiced Tusk and Spring, the heroes of the German cartoon "The Seventh Dwarf", and also performed 2 soundtracks for the cartoon. One of them - the surprisingly positive single "Believe in Your Strength" - was liked by the listeners and was rotated on Russian radio stations.

Now Potap is busy building his own musical career, at the same time willingly sharing his knowledge and skills. In 2015, the singer became a mentor in the 2nd season of the Ukrainian show “Voice. Children". Tina Karol and Natalia Mogilevskaya competed for the musician. The ward Karol won that year.

The project partially repeats the format of the popular show "The Voice", but the competition program has been reduced due to the age of the participants. At the first stages of selection, "Blind auditions" take place. Many admit that this competition is really difficult for both the participants and the jury. Mentors have to explain why they didn't turn to failed musicians, but upset children from 7 to 14 years old.

Once the coaches have established a team, the elimination cycle begins. Unlike an adult TV show, here young performers sing one song together, not together. This was done on the recommendation of child psychologists, since it is much easier for a child to survive a loss in the company of a similar loser than alone.

Potap acts as a member of the jury not only on musical, but also on humorous shows. In the same 2015, the singer became a coach in the new humorous project "League of Laughter". The "League" is organized according to the principle similar to the "Voice" - first, the mentors choose their participants, according to the rules of this show, not singles, but entire teams, and then humorous elimination fights begin. In the 2nd season, Potap remained in the coaching chair. Then Alexei's team won the Winter Cup.

In 2016, Potap again became a mentor in the third season of the show “Voice. Children". The composition of the teachers has undergone changes: Natalia Mogilevskaya was replaced by Dmitry MONATIK. In 2016, Tina Karol's team also won.

In 2017, the musician participated in the third season of the League of Laughter as a permanent coach. Soon, the singer announced that the members of the Potap and Nastya duet had taken a break from their joint performances. The initiative came from Alexey:

The fears that friends would turn into competitors were not justified. Potap continued to patronize Nastya, performing under the name NK, as a producer and write songs for her.

Alexey took on a new stage name PTP. At parting, the artists released the video "Poisonous", at the end of the year Potap's solo album "Malibu" was released. At the music competition "Songs of the Sea", the artist presented a new group, with which he will continue to give concerts - "Potap and His Team". The singer changed his usual style. If families danced to the old compositions, the new ones received an age limit of 18+ due to the abundance of profanity.

The artist and producer had a professional career more successful than Potap's personal life. Alexey was married. The ex-wife Irina Gorovaya is a financier by profession and works as a commercial director of the production center "MOZGI Entertainment". For Irina, this is the second marriage. From her first marriage, she left a daughter, Natalya, whom they raised together.

In 2008, Ira Gorovaya gave birth to a son. In the Potap family, there is a custom to call boys by the names Andrey or Alexey. The couple decided to name their son Andrey.

In 2014, Alexey and Irina filed for divorce. Potap admitted to the press that this is not a momentary decision, the spouses have not lived together for several years, the singer and his wife have had a personal life outside the family for a long time. The musician even hoped that the new chosen ones would get along with each other after they met. The ex-spouses communicate, the separation did not affect the business relationship of the couple. The producer and commercial director continued to work together to promote the groups.

The divorce announcement gave rise to many rumors about the musician's new lover. And the first candidate for the role of the girl with whom the musician had met so long and secretly was his constant colleague. Often the co-host of Potap at social events was Nastya Kamenskikh, because the musicians constantly appeared together. The artists looked harmonious: miniature Nastya and tall Potap (the singer's height is 195 cm).

The words of Alexei's mother, who called Anastasia the muse of her son, added fuel to the fire. As another indisputable proof, the followers cited numerous photos of the couple posted by the musician on Instagram. Potap in these frames hugs his partner, the couple grimaces in joint funny pictures, photographs each other and in every possible way demonstrates warm relations. The artists even lost weight together. As it was later written in articles dedicated to the duet, now Nastya and Potap look better than in their youth, at the beginning of their careers.

Fans believed that the musicians' stellar wedding was planned for the summer of 2016, but was canceled due to force majeure. Then Nastya unsuccessfully jumped with a parachute, which led to an injury - the singer broke her leg. According to media reports, the bride's reluctance to go to her own celebration in a cast led to the cancellation of the wedding.

On May 23, 2019, Potap and Nastya officially confirmed their relationship, admitting that it was on this day that they had a wedding date. On such an exciting day, Nastya confessed her feelings, and Potap presented a new video for the song "Constant", in which for the first time he sincerely spoke about his love for Anastasia.

In 2018, the popular rapper presented the result of a collaboration with the equally popular performer Oleg Vinnik. The song "Nice Day" became the soundtrack for the film "Crazy Wedding" ("Crazy Wedding"), Potap himself played the role of a priest in the film. The clip of the same name was not long in coming.

Cinematography is not new to the singer. Together with Laima Vaikule, Ani Lorak, Timati and a number of colleagues, Alexei starred in the musical "Little Red Riding Hood", with Fedor Dobronravov, Anatoly Vasilyev and Lyudmila Artemyeva - in "New Year's Matchmakers".

In the same 2018, the singer released a children's book "Pan Yjak". Alexey wrote the first literary opus in Ukrainian.

The musician wrote the song LOMALA for Kamensky, and also accompanied the girl at the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony. In addition, the couple published pictures from their vacation in Miami, and the fans were already convinced that the meeting of the former members of the duo in one place was by no means an accident.

Potap changed his image - got rid of the beard, which he had previously painted in acid colors. Fans greeted the transformation of the idol with delight, felt that the artist looks younger and looks like Hollywood celebrities.

Potap again took up the search for young talents in the "Voice of the Country" show. He said without false modesty that the creators of the program, inviting him as a mentor, receive not just a Ukrainian star, but an international producer. The artist's ward in the 7th season Ingred Kostenko took 2nd place and participated in the national selection for Eurovision. In 2019, the 9th season of the show started, Potap's team competed with the students of Tina Karol, Monatik and Dan Balan.

2004 - "On my own wave or ano, then, after all, shozh" 2006 - "On a different wave or ano, after all, afterward" 2017 - "Malibu"

As part of the duet "Potap and Nastya"

2008 - "Not a couple" 2009 - "Don't love my brains" 2013 - "Everything in a bunch" 2015 - "Shield and Ball"

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