Anatoly Kelmi

Chris Kelmi - Soviet and Russian rock musician, founder and leader of the Rock-Atelier group, popular in the 80s, participated in the creation of the legendary performances of the Lenkom theater "Juno and Avos" and "The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta", collaborated with Alla Pugacheva's Song Theater. Fans of the artist's talent remember him for his hits "Closing the Circle", "Tired Taxi", "Night Rendezvous".

Anatoly Kalinkin (Chris Kelmi) was born in Moscow into a family of metro builders. He became the second child. The elder brother's name is Valentine, he is 10 years older. For a long time, a family with children lived in a truck trailer removed from the wheels, and only when Tolya was 5 years old, the Metrostroy enterprise allocated them a separate apartment near the Airport metro station.

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After a while, father Ariy Mikhailovich Kelmi leaves his wife. In the new family, Kelmi Sr. has another son, Anatoly's half-brother, Yevgeny, who will later become the musician's administrator.

In addition to the secondary school, Anatoly also graduated from the Dunaevsky music school in the piano class. Before obtaining a passport, he changes his mother's surname Kalinkin to his father's own surname - Kelmi. At the same time he created his first amateur group "Sadko".

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This team did not have a permanent staff and existed for 2 years, after which it merged with another crumbling group "Airport", which was led by Alexander Sitkovetsky. This union turned out to be more successful - the new group "Leap Summer" performed at the "Pevcheskoe Pole" festival in 1977 and even released 3 magnetic albums.

Anatoly Kelmi received his higher education at the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers (now the University of Railways). I spent another 3 years on postgraduate studies at the same university. In 1983 he entered the Gnessin Music School at the pop department. Kelmi's teacher was Igor Bril, and his classmate was the famous musician Vladimir Kuzmin.

Feeling the taste of the scene with the Leap Summer collective, Kelmi finally chooses music as his professional activity and takes the stage name Chris in honor of his beloved literary hero from Stanislav Lem's book Solaris. Under the name Chris Kelmi, he joins the Autograph group, the first Soviet collective to play progressive rock.

In 1980, all-Union fame came to the group after a successful performance at a festival in Tbilisi. Recordings at the Melodiya studio and touring activities under the patronage of Rosconcert begin. But in the fall of 1980, Kelmi left Autograph to create his own team.

At the Lenin Komsomol Theater, Chris Kelmi organizes the Rock-Atelier group. A mini-disc with the songs "Open the Window" and "I Sang When I Flew" is released at the Melodiya company, and the collective itself actively participates in theater performances such as "Juno and Avos", "The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta", " People and Birds ”,“ Autograd XXI ”,“ Til ”. The musicians are also the authors of songs for the animated films "Dog in Boots" and "Paradoxes in Rock Style".

In 1982, "Rock Atelier" made its debut in the television program "Morning Mail" with the song "If a Blizzard" by Chris Kelmi. Poems for her were written by the songwriter Margarita Pushkina, who fruitfully worked with the group.

In 1987, Chris Kelme gathered a choir of famous musicians and singers in the amount of 27 people to record the song "Closing the Circle", which became incredibly popular in a short time. Another significant success for Kelmi and "Rock-Atelier" is the song "Night Rendezvous", which in Soviet times sounded like a real foreign motive.

Later, Kelmi again records songs with the participation of several vocalists - "I Believe" in 1990 and "Russia is Risen!" in 1994. But they failed to repeat the success of the hit “Closing the Circle”.

Also in the early 90s, Chris Kelmi received an invitation from the famous American MTV and went to Atlanta. He becomes the first Soviet musician whose performance was shown on an American music channel. In 1993, MTV shoots and shows a video for Chris Kelme's song "The Old Wolf", which has had some success in the United States.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, a period of stagnation begins in the artist's creative biography. New hits no longer appear in Kelmi's repertoire, and in 2003 he published the last collection of his popular songs "Tired Taxi". The musician performs mainly at concerts dedicated to the music of the 80-90s, his photos appear less and less in the media.

In 2002, Chris becomes a member of the "The Last Hero - 3" reality project. The program was created on an uninhabited archipelago in the Caribbean, near Haiti. The musician was accompanied by Marina Aleksandrova, Tatiana Ovsienko, Olga Orlova and others.

In 2006, Oleg Nesterov's author's program "In the wake of my memory: Chris Kelmi" was released, the guest of which was the legendary musician. A year later, the artist appeared on the air of the TV show "Main Hero". During the recording of the release of the program, he performed the popular hit "Closing the Circle" with some of the singers who took part in its creation in 1987.

Over the years, the musician began to experience more and more problems with alcohol. The artist had a bad habit in his youth. The fall in popularity influenced the state of Kelme. On several occasions he was detained by the patrol service for drunk driving. In 2017, on the advice of Andrey Malakhov, Chris decided on rehabilitation. The musician was accompanied by his colleague Yevgeny Osin and TV presenter Dana Borisova. The artists visited Thailand, where they underwent addiction treatment.

Back in Russia, Chris planned to resume the Rock Atelier project as the band leader and songwriter. At his home recording studio, he prepared extensive material for future performances. Among other things, Kelmi composed the anthem for the 25th anniversary of the Kremlin Cup in tennis and the music for the fanfare for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The only wife of the musician is Lyudmila Vasilievna Kelmi, with whom he lived for over 30 years. In 1988, a son was born in the family, who was named after the famous pseudonym of his father - Christian. For a long time, the Kelmi couple were considered one of the most ideal star couples, but in recent years, due to Chris's addiction to alcohol, the relationship of the spouses went wrong.

The singer settled outside the city, his wife was in Moscow. For his son Christian, who graduated from the Academy of Law and Management, his father bought a 2-room apartment in the capital. He is married, enjoys diving, due to his parent's pernicious passion for drinking, over time, he moved away from him.

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The personal life of Chris Kelmi was at one time associated with a girl named Polina Belova. The musician's beloved did not live with him all the time. According to Polina, their romance began back in 2012. The lovers even wanted to get married, but the official spouse did not give Kelmi a divorce. In 2017, Chris decided to improve relations with his wife, and Lyudmila often stayed at his mansion. But it was not possible to resume close communication.

The musician regularly played his favorite tennis, and was also a member of the Starko amateur football team, made up of show business stars.

On January 1, 2019, at the age of 64, Chris Kelmi died in his own home in the Moscow region. The cause of death is cardiac arrest due to alcohol abuse. The singer's director Evgeny Suslov said that the musician's health had "aroused suspicion" the day before. Ambulance doctors who arrived on call failed to prevent death.

The relatives held a closed funeral, which was attended only by close people. The musician's body was cremated, the grave is at the Nikolskoye cemetery in Moscow.

1981 - "Open the Window" 1982 - "Fresh Wind" 1987 - "Takeoff" 1987 - "Mirage" 1987 - "Closing the Circle" 1988 - "We Know" 1990 - "Open Your Sesame" 1991 - "Lady Blues" 1994 - " Don't regret anything "1998 -" Wind of December "2001 -" Name in the Sand "2003 -" Tired Taxi "

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