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Maxim Leonidov

Maxim Leonidov is a Soviet and Russian musician, singer and actor, known as a founder of the beat-quartet Sekret and as a solo artist.

born 1962Co-founding the beat-quartet SekretLeading the band HippobandSolo music career

Born: 13 February 1962, Saint Petersburg
Occupation: actor, film actor, musician, singer
Education: Russian State Institute of Performing Arts

Maxim Leonidov was born in 1962 in Saint Petersburg

Maxim Leonidov was born in Saint Petersburg in 1962 to a family of actors of the Leningrad Academic Comedy Theater. His parents were Lyudmila Lyulko and the theater actor Leonid Leonidov.

He finished the Glinka Choral School in 1979. In 1983 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, where he studied under Arkady Katsman and Lev Dodin.

He served in the army in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Military District. In 1983 he co-founded the beat-quartet Sekret, and he left it in 1989 to begin a solo career.

In late 1990 he immigrated to Israel with his first wife, Irina Selezneva, and lived and worked in Tel Aviv until 1996. In Israel he released an album in Hebrew in 1992 and one in Russian in 1994. After returning to Saint Petersburg in 1996, he founded the group later called Hippoband.

He won the Golden Gramophone Award in 1997 and received a Mongolian award in 2015. In 2022 he opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and moved back to Israel.