Biography of Bogdan Titomir
Bogdan Titomir is the first rap artist in Russia, the idol of youth of the nineties. His expression “people eats” is heard to this day, and the video for the song “Do as I do” has become a kind of motto for young performers starting their musical careers.
In the photo: Bogdan Titomir
Expression and brutality, cultivated by the artist at the peak of his popularity, have not lost their relevance today. Today Titomir is compared to Che Guevara on stage, and his eccentric actions, as well as the new format for performing songs, constantly cause a wave of interest and discussion.
Childhood and youth
Bogdan was born in the spring of 1967 into the family of Pyotr Titomir and Zinaida Titorenko. Parents - a construction engineer and an economist-programmer - moved from city to city in Ukraine: first they lived in Odessa, where their son was born, then they moved to Severodonetsk, then to Kharkov and Sumy. There the boy went to school No. 7. According to rumors, when Titomir became super popular, he returned to his native school and showered those who greeted him with dollars. My hero. Bogdan Titomir As a child, the boy was kept strictly, and so that he would not fall into bad company, Zinaida Vasilievna enrolled him in the swimming section. Over time, the young man reached the level of Master of Masters. Pyotr Ivanovich, who loved to sing with a guitar, taught his son to play the instrument, but there was one serious problem in the family, which Titomir admitted in an interview: After his parents’ divorce, Titomir did not give up his musical studies, deciding to master the piano. Possessing a naturally good voice, he expected to receive a conservatory education. After graduating from school, Bogdan went to Moscow and entered the Gnessin School, which he never graduated from, having studied there for only six months.
Creative path
After his expulsion, Bogdan was drafted into the army, where he was responsible for cultural work and organized an amateur ensemble, and after demobilization he began arranging songs at the studio of the famous “Tender May”. Soon he became a musician in Dmitry Malikov’s band, after which he collaborated with pop singer Vladimir Maltsev.
Bogdan Titomir in his youth
In his team, Titomir was a bass guitarist, and Sergei Lemokh played keyboards. Both young men were ambitious, talented and dreamed of making it to the big stage as soloists. One day, discussing their possibilities, they decided to create a duet “Car Man” in the “pop exotic” style.
Bogdan Titomir and Sergei Lemokh
Lemokh suggested performing in the style of heavy metal, but Bogdan convinced his colleague that, wearing leather jackets and fashionable boots, they would perform much more effectively in hip-hop, a musical genre about which in the USSR in 1989 there was a very vague idea.
Soon "Car Man" was filling stadiums across the country, singing "Chio-Chio-San", "London, Goodbye!", "This is San Francisco", "Paris, Paris", "Boy from Africa". The duo's dance expression complemented the compositions. Soon Titomir and Lemokh released their first joint album, “Around the World”. In 1990, the group received the Shlyager Award.
Car Man - London, Good Buy Incredible popularity led to disagreements between the performers about the leadership of the duet, and Titomir left Car Man at the stage of recording the second album "Car-Mania" for a solo project.
Lemokh, who retained the popular name of the group, rewrote the vocals of the finished compositions and released the album as his first solo disc. At the same time, Bogdan delighted fans with new songs, recording his solo album “High Energy”. The singer's producer was Sergei Lisovsky.
Bogdan Titomir - Do as I do Titomir's musical career progressed quickly. The songs “Do as I do” and “Nonsense” became the artist’s first videos and were shown in prime time on the popular channel “2x2” every day. Thanks to the efforts of the producer, a report was filmed about Titomir by the American channel CNN, and the famous TV presenter Leonid Parfenov called him a symbol of the nineties in his author’s project “Portrait against the Background.” Portrait against the background. Bogdan Titomir It was in his program that the guest musician first said: “People... the public... eats everything.” Subsequently, the phrase, shortened to two words, became a catchphrase in show business.
Bogdan Titomir in the 90s
In 1993, the artist’s second album, “High Energy-2,” was released, and in 1995, “The Biggest Love / X-Love.” The musician's stardom was off the charts. He was regularly invited to film television shows. So, in 1996, in the image of a vocational school graduate, he appeared in the first project of “Old Songs about the Main Thing,” and the next year he appeared before television viewers as Karabas-Barabas in the show “The Newest Adventures of Pinocchio.” Bogdan Titomir in the program “Theme” with Listyev (1993) It seemed that superstardom would be the artist’s constant companion, but, to the great amazement of his many fans, Bogdan suddenly left everything and went to the States, supposedly to study the club business system. He later said: He arrived in the USA as Oleg Titorenko and worked in nightclubs as DJ Bo. In the States, Titomir got into trouble with Interpol because of drugs, after which he decided to change his lifestyle. According to him, he got rid of addiction and took serious care of his health. Fascinated by the philosophy of Buddhism, he invented his own methods for overcoming bad habits and gave up eating meat. Stas Baretsky vs. Bogdan Titomir In the early 2000s, Bogdan Titomir returned to Russia with new ideas and became one of the founders of the Gazgolder youth club in Moscow. In addition to developing his own musical career, he became the producer of Oleg Gruz, the group “Malchishnik”, then the rapper Basta, whose work he discovered during a trip to Rostov-on-Don. With Masha Malinovskaya in 2008 he hosted the “Striptease Stars” program. According to Bogdan, when choosing a stage image, he was guided by Che Guevara, and he still feels very organically.
Bogdan Titomir performs at the club
He expanded his own discography with the album “Freedom” in 2006, the double album “Tender and Rough” in 2010 and the disc “Very Important Pepper” in 2011. The latter featured jazz and funk compositions interspersed with hip-hop. The title song of the same name from the album became the anthem of the Perets TV channel, headed by Dmitry Troitsky. He also co-produced Titomir's disc. The musician himself is sure that people are tired of the “stupid dance floor pounding”, and the aesthetic public misses his music.
The image of Bogdan Titomir now
At the end of 2021, Bogdan pleased his fans with his appearance in the show “Superstar. Return". Alisa Mon, Irina Shvedova, Nikolai Trubach also appeared in it.
Start
In the unbridled nineties, there were many bands that shocked listeners by emerging from under the Iron Curtain. One of them was the exotic pop duo Car-Man. Their “This is San Francisco,” “Ciao Bambino,” “Do as I Do” and many other songs filled stadiums. It all started with the ambitious plans of the boys, who had already managed to understand what fame is and how much it can give.
The history of "Kar-Man" began even before the creation of the group. The boy band choreographed each of their songs—this had never happened in the Soviet Union. Sergey Lemokh and Bogdan Titomir met at Vladimir Maltsev, the founder of the production house and its long-term leader. According to one version, Sergei and Bogdan worked as backup dancers for him, according to another, they played the role of musicians with the instruments turned off. It was Maltsev who at one time performed “Paris, Paris” - Lemokh’s song, which Kar-Man later took for herself. This moment can be considered the starting point in creating a group.
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Personal life of Bogdan Titomir
Titomir said more than once that he was an amorous person, and the young ladies at the peak of his popularity themselves offered intimacy to Bogdan.
But he truly fell in love only in the early 2000s, when he returned from the USA to Moscow. The girl was very young and lived with her strict mother. They dated for a year, until the singer realized that he needed his beloved like air, and invited her to live together. Titomir admitted that they had such a powerful mutual understanding and strong feelings that he seriously thought about family and children. They were vacationing in Sochi when he found out that his beloved was pregnant. But her sister also found out about this and told her mother about everything. The girl was almost escorted to Moscow by the police, where her parent forced her to have an abortion. For Bogdan that year, according to him, everything collapsed.
Bogdan Titomir and Rimma Agafoshina
For a long time, Titomir did not start a serious relationship, although there were many rumors and reports in the press about his novels. Thus, he was credited with a connection with the assistant of the “Field of Miracles” program Rimma Agafoshina and “Miss Russia 2009” Sofia Rudyeva, whom he met on the set of the “Bixy” video long before her rise to the rank of the country’s first beauty.
Sofia Rudyeva
In 2008, the musician proposed to the lead singer of the girl group “Velvet” Anna Igoshina, whom rapper Timati introduced him to. But the wedding of the two stars never took place, and Titomir once again became involved in a scandal: porn actress Angelina Doroshenkova, a former MGIMO student, accused him of rape and assault.
Bogdan Titomir and Anna Igoshina
Bogdan did not comment on these revelations, saying that he did not have time to comment on nonsense, but in one of his television broadcasts he confirmed his long-standing passionate affair with the blonde, beautiful actress Elena Kondulainen.
Currently, Titomir remains an enviable bachelor, but it seems that such a life is more than satisfactory for him.
Millennium
In the 2000s, Bogdan once again changed his profession. Now he decided to try himself as a DJ and actor. The roles played, however, were not very noticeable: Bo most often performed cameos. Working as a DJ brought Titomir more popularity: even in his own car, he made a remote control that allowed the musician to rush off somewhere to perform his next set at any time.
Sometimes he gave solo concerts, but he was more focused on television: for some time he even worked on the Russian MTV. The craving for producing also does not subside: as part of the “Guest Workers” project, Titomir is going to work with artists from abroad, helping them achieve fame.
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Bogdan Titomir now
At the beginning of 2021, the musician became the winner of the TV show “Superstar.
Return". True, he shared first place with Irina Shvedova, but this did not detract from his vocal merits and talented performances. Bogdan Titomr. Superstar. Return New compositions appeared in the singer’s repertoire, including “We will make you happy,” “Dog Eros,” and “Big Tennis.” Despite the fact that the main rapper of the nineties is over fifty, he never ceases to amaze his loyal fans with both his creativity and his shocking antics. For example, he took part in the YouTube show “What Happened Next?” together with Vasily Utkin, and during the show he insulted the presenters in every possible way and showed off in strange poses.
Bogdan T
Solo
Titomir later noted that his ex-group partner had stopped developing, firmly stuck to the “pseudo-rap” that they did in the nineties. Bogdan was not very interested in this genre of music, so he decided to start a solo career.
At first, everything was more than good: taking advantage of his popularity, Titomir released several dance albums, focusing more on hip-hop and techno than on the pop that was closer at the beginning of his career. There was more than enough money and fame, but Bo suddenly disappeared from the radar.
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