Iliya Prusikin

Ilya Prusikin is a member of cult Internet projects that raise sensitive social issues, producer, blogger, actor and songwriter. The compositions are not only performed in English, but also seasoned with a fair amount of sarcasm. It is for this "cranberry" that Prusikin is not liked, it is not for nothing that the Little Big band he created was called the most disgusting in the Russian YouTube segment, and children are not advised to watch clips.

The future scandalous blogger was born in 1985, under the zodiac sign Aries, on the border of Russia and China - in Transbaikalia. As regards nationality, in one interview, Ilya said that it does not matter at all, but he is of Jewish-Polish origin. Unlike his mother, who believes in God, the singer is an agnostic.

With Yuri Muzychenko, the lead singer of the folk-rock group The Hatters, he is not connected by brotherhood, as the media write, but by strong friendship and place of residence - St. Petersburg. Plus The Hatters are part of the Little Big Family label.

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Prusikin moved to Sosnovy Bor, a suburb of then Leningrad, in early childhood. In addition to his love of shocking, the boy woke up to sports. Ilya played baseball as an outfielder and football, was engaged in an aircraft modeling circle, and at school he became interested in KVN.

In addition, the parents, seeing not a hefty creative potential in their son, sent him to a music school, to a piano class. It is known from the biography of the Internet star that he also has a higher education. Prusikin graduated from the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture with a degree in psychology.

Until 2016, nothing was reliably known about the personal life of "Ilyich" (the stage name of the singer).

The first romance lasted 10 years. The chosen one worked as a teacher in a kindergarten and practically supported the artist. Prusikin then broke up with "Tenkor" and "Konstruktor", tried to get a job as a seller or a pizza delivery man.

Mom tried to persuade me to remember my university specialty, they say, it’s worthless for a man at his age to engage in nonsense. Ilya refused and came up with Gaffi Gaf. For a long time, those close to him could not believe that he had become popular.

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In 2014, at the opening of the store, the young man met the vlogger Irina Smela. Over time, fans began to suspect that he had more than just a business relationship with the girl who appeared in the Clickklak project and on Prusikin's personal channel.

In addition, the frontman of the Little Big group is the mastermind behind the Tatarka musical project, in which Ira is a key character. Contrary to popular belief, the cloud rapper didn't come out of nowhere. The audience knew Brave before from DIY-programs "Fashion Trashon", "M / F" and vlogs called "Tatar weekdays". On a national scale, they started talking about the charismatic brunette at the end of 2016, after the viral clip "Altyn" appeared on the network.

Rumors circulating around media personalities were confirmed on July 6, 2016, when the wedding ceremony took place. Only friends and relatives were invited to the wedding. But young people have not forgotten about loyal fans either. On the YouTube channel, Ilya posted a minute video, where he and his wife were captured at the time of painting.

In November 2017, the son of Dobrynya was born in the family. The father said that it would be nice if the heir, in his youth, took the mother's surname. Dobrynya Ilyich Brave is quite in the spirit of an eccentric couple.

Spouses, keen on creativity, often part for a long time, but they consider it normal. The public has nothing to worry about - there is no talk of divorce. The husband, according to Irina, in life is not at all the same as on stage, but kind and caring.

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The artist's Instagram is full of photos of Dobrynya. True, Ilya's upbringing methods still cause criticism from followers. One part of them was outraged by the video in which the baby swears "obscenely". Another suggested that the child has not yet learned to pronounce words, and therefore it seems that he is swearing.

Prusikin is an outstanding person and adorns himself in an unusual way. After the first European tour, the musician's chest was decorated with a tattoo - the head of a bear from the album cover. He already has several images of the beast on his body, another year of birth, the symbol of the Little Big group, the phrase "Invincible strength of mind" are pinned.

Ilya's hairstyle received special attention: only bangs are preserved on the shaved head, the length and styling of which periodically change. And the singer has been wearing a mustache since he was 23 and believes that "this is pure punk."

The man is afraid of rodents, snakes, tries to avoid pain, for which he received the nickname Puska from friends.

In 2002 "Ilyich" became a member of the little-known emo-rock group "Tenkorr". The Russian audience liked the creativity of the guys so much that the enterprising young men released several records (EP "It Will Be Late" and "ROCK, baby!", LP "My Last Letter", "SEX POLICE). Also, the "YouTube hero" had experience working with the groups Like A Virgin, St. Bastards "and" Construktorr ".

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In 2011, the up-and-coming guy began collaborating with the Thank You Eva! Community, a subsidiary of My Duck's Vision. Prusikin's projects will bring great popularity to the channel. So, stylized as a children's show "The Gaffi Gough Show" with Giraffe-Rafik and "The Great Rap Battle", in which the powers of this world entered into confrontation with each other through recitative, will turn out to be the highest rated on the video group platform. In fact, both programs exposed the social ulcers of society and ridiculed the well-known vices of humanity.

A little later, in 2012, the young man will become a producer and part-time actor of the analogue of the series "Real Boys" - the Internet sitcom "Police Weekdays". The most prominent representatives of “YouTube” were filmed in the film of the “blogging” production: the pioneer in the field of streaming Ilya Maddison, members of the rap group “Bread”, “General of the Pajama Army” Sam Nickel and many others. Despite such an abundance of youth idols per square meter, the film did not find a response in the hearts of the audience, and after 3 episodes, the unpromising project was closed.

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A year later, with a friend, Eldar Dzharakhov, on the YouTube video hosting site, the man creates a Clickklak-union. According to the creators, the audience of "Clicklack" is guys and girls with an active lifestyle and a good sense of humor. The channel's page publishes such shows as Give Bream, Children's Thrash Games, Whatever You Say, Shocking Karaoke and Experiment Destroyers.

For four months Prusikin worked as the creative director of the mobile retailer Svyaznoy, 25% of which belongs to Megafon, controlled by the oligarch Alisher Usmanov. In this position, the leader of Little Big starred in an advertisement for Coca-Cola Energy. Leaving the post of art director, Ilya got the first entry in his life in his work book and left behind sketches of uniforms for store employees and a plan to promote the "Swipe" campaign.

Despite the abundance of bands, the rave team "Little Big" brought the world fame to "Ilyich". In the name, a chip was played - the participants were undersized. Prusikina, who is 174 cm tall, sang along with short girls Anna Kast and Olympia Ivleva. Now the team includes Sophia Tayurskaya, Sergey Makarov and Anton Lissov. The frontman with Makarov write music, and the author of the lyrics is Sergei Rachmaninov.

On April 1, 2013, Prusikin and his friends joked the clip “Every Day I'm Drinking”, which instantly divided the country into two camps. The first believed that the group denigrates a great power, exposing all the worst that exists in Russia, the second saw pure satire in the work of the collective.

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The band members themselves publicly declared: "Little Big" is a musical reflection of society. In their songs, the guys openly ridicule the national stereotypes of the behavior and life of a Russian person.

According to "Ilyich", the scandalous band could not have existed at all, if in July 2013 they had not been invited to warm up to the famous South African group "Die Antwoord". At that time, Little Big's repertoire consisted of one song. Hardworking young people wrote six more during the month and shot videos, which sold like hot cakes.

In 2015, the album "Funeral Rave" of 11 songs was released. Only "Polyushko Pole" is recorded in Russian. The group basically sings in English in order to be understandable to a foreign listener. And just as fundamentally does not strive for television, since the Internet has a much larger coverage and there is no censorship.

On May 21, 2016, the videos for the songs "Give Me Your Money" and "Big Dick" became laureates of the Berlin Music Video Awards. Big Dick took first place in the Most Trashy category, and Give Me Your Money took third place in the Best Performer category.

The viral project has taken root not only in Russia, but also abroad. So, in France and Holland, the art group with balalaikas and vodka gained immense popularity. And in England, a fan substituted her own bust for Ilya's autograph.

The satirical collaboration of the rave group Little Big has won the hearts of listeners around the world thanks to the hit Skibidi from the album With Russia From Love. Elijah Wood, Andrey Malakhov, Olga Buzova took part in the general dance flash mob to the composition.

In the tour that followed, only once did Prusikin take a break - his health failed. The reasons why the singer ended up in the hospital were not announced.

At home, the musicians were invited to their programs by Regina Todorenko, Yuri Dud, Sergei Grim. Ilya sang the song of the Lyube group - "Horse" in the studio of "Evening Urgant", admired Philip Kirkorov in the program "Visk" and spoke with the host of the show "Beware, Sobchak!", Where he denied rumors that he was a dollar millionaire. Although Forbes calculated that Prusikin earned $ 1 million in 2019.

In April 2017, Ilya and his comrades on the VKontakte social network presented a new show called Clicklack in Prison. Two years later, his filmography was replenished with the comedy "Tourist Police" with Anastasia Ivleeva in the title role and a video for the soundtrack "Dimkino body".

In the spring of 2020, the frontman of "Little Big" was faced with the task of adequately representing Russia at Eurovision 2020. The news that Channel One made a choice in favor of outrageous freaks was not appreciated by everyone, because the team's reputation is ambiguous. But, apparently, the frenzied popularity of artists and hundreds of millions of views of clips on the Internet affected.

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Ilya admitted that at first he was delighted with the news, but then he got scared - such expectations must be justified! He stressed that the group is not going to cave in to the format of the competition, where it is customary to sing about universal human values ​​and not be insolent and ironic.

Unfortunately, such a thorough preparation turned out to be in vain: on March 18, it became known that due to the coronavirus pandemic, the long-awaited competition was canceled. Recall: the Little Big group planned to go to Rotterdam in an expanded composition. The band's musicians were to be supported by Yuri Muzychenko and Florida Chanturia (soloist of the Leningrad team), as well as the dancer Dmitry Krasilov, who was beloved by the audience.

2014 – «Little Big»: With Russia From Love» 2015 – «Funeral Rave» 2018 – «Antipositive»

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