Max Barskikh personal life biography, photos, family and children

Childhood

Little Kolya was born into a simple working-class family during a difficult period for the country. The baby became the third child of his parents. The eldest was sister Oksana. Brother Maxim was not much ahead in years. Supporting a family during a time when everything was falling apart was not an easy task. Life became more and more difficult.

According to the old Slavic tradition, the head of the family found relief in a glass of vodka. The habit grew into passion and completely consumed Father Nikolai. Family conflicts, drunken scandals, and beatings of household members began. When Kolya turned 11 years old, his mother’s patience ran out. The marriage was dissolved, the family broke up.

The care of raising three children fell on fragile women's shoulders. At the age of 10, Kolya began studying at art school. No less attention was paid to music. The boy actively participated in singing competitions and tried his hand at writing songs.

He performed one of them for his sister Oksana. The girl offered to sing it at a family celebration. The first stormy applause gave Kolya the desire to make music his main occupation. To help his family, at the age of 13, the boy began earning his first money by distributing advertising products.

Note: A difficult childhood never put an end to personal development. Most famous people who have had difficult experiences from an early age note that difficulties build character. Without such hardening, the peaks achieved in adulthood would never have been conquered.

By the time I graduated from school, my desire to become an artist was fully formed. Mom wanted to see her son as a police officer, but Nikolai decided to study at a theater university. The choice fell on the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts. I managed to get in on the first try.

Kolya Bortnik appeared before the audience as “Max Barskikh”. The first songs performed, “Anomaly” and “Forget-Me-Not,” became chart leaders in Ukraine.

Fame

In 2008, freshman Nikolai Bortnik decided to take part in the Ukrainian project “Star Factory”. During the selection process, the competition jury was fascinated by the young man’s vocal abilities and plasticity. While participating in the project, Max-Nikolai met music video director Alan Badoev.

Perhaps the biography of Max Barskikh would have gone differently if not for the work under the leadership of Badoev, who became the producer of the young artist. In 2009, everyone started talking about Max Barskikh. The reason was not a creative breakthrough, but an eccentric act. While working on the project, Max met singer Svetlana Loboda twice.

The artists recorded a joint composition “For What”

Once again fate brought the artists together by chance on December 12, 2008 at the Arena club. Barsky began to pester the singer, tried to kiss him, but was sent away with the words: “Boy, stay away from me.” On December 14, a gala concert of “Star Factory-2” took place at the Ukraina Palace. Max began his speech with words about his love for a girl named Sveta.

After performing the song, the young artist began to cut the veins on his hand with glass from the bottles that made up the decoration of the act. The people who ran onto the stage did not allow us to continue what we started. The singer then raised his bloody hand, showing it to the audience.

True, the cuts were made not along the blood vessels and tendons, but along them. Most of the participants in “Star Factory-2” considered the act a PR move. Perhaps this is true. Scandal is the engine of show business. Loboda condemned the Barskys' act.

Both before and after the scandalous incident, Barskikh and Loboda participate in joint creative projects. This story did not stop them from subsequently recording the hit “Heart Beats” as a duet and going on a joint tour of the cities of Ukraine.

The performers organized a joint tour of the cities of Ukraine

The talented young man is not only a performer. Max tried himself as a film actor, playing a role in the musical film “Mademoiselle Zhivago”. Among the actors was French actress Lara Fabian. In 2011, the Barskys’ 3D video “Lost In Love”, directed by Alan Badoev, was the first to be released in the post-Soviet space.

Since 2012, the singer began releasing solo discs. The first was "Z. Dance." This was followed by “According to Freud” and “Mists”. The singer became a star. Already in 2020, he attracted tens of thousands of spectators to his concerts. In 2020, Barskikh began to successfully tour around the world.

Biography

Nikolai Nikolaevich Bortnik was born on March 8, 1990 in Kherson. In Kherson he graduated from KHTLI (Kherson Tauride Lyceum of Arts) with a degree in artist. Later he moved to Kyiv, where he entered the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts (specialization in pop vocals)[1].

"1: Max Barskih"

In 2008, a casting took place for the project “Star Factory-2”, produced by Natalya Mogilevskaya. At the casting, Max performs covers of the songs of R Kelly “I believe I can fly” and Britney Spears “Everybody”. On the project she performs the following songs “Dance with me” (ft. Timati), “I will never forget you” (ft. Masha Fokina & Vlad Darvin), “For what” (ft. Loboda), “It doesn’t happen like that” (ft. M. Savin & Irakli), “Anomaly”, “Stereoday” (ft. Vlad Darvin), “DVD” (ft. Natalya Mogilevskaya), “You Wanted” (ft. Vitaly Kozlovsky), “Stranger”, “Baritone” (ft. T. Piskareva). Leaves the project of his own free will.

On December 20, 2009, the presentation of the album “1: Max Barskih” took place at KAZ “Aviant”.

"5 minutes until dawn"

At the beginning of 2010, he took part in the “Factory” project. Superfinal”, where he presents the new composition “Student”. In May 2010, he auditioned for the musical film “Mademoiselle Zhivago” with the participation of Lara Fabian and Igor Krutoy. In one of the 11 short stories of the film, the singer plays the main male role - a Russian soldier in love with a beautiful French woman, played by Lara Fabian[2].

In 2011, Max Barskikh presented the first one in the CIS [ source not specified 80 days

] 3D video for the song “Lost In Love | I'm losing you". The video was directed by the artist’s producer, music video director Alan Badoev.

On July 3, the premiere of the new single “Atoms | Killer Eyes" on ELLO. The filming of the video took place in Moscow, on Red Square.

On August 16, the premiere of the video for the song “Killer Eyes” took place, filming of which took place in Moscow.

"Z.Dance"

On February 18, 2012, he participated in the Eurovision 2012 selection from Ukraine, scored 38 points and took 2nd place. The winner was Gaitana, who scored 41 points.

The project's producer and director Alan Badoev invited his colleague Sergei Solodky to work on “Z.Dance,” whose budget was $300,000. Together they came up with a world in which the main characters of the project, Max Barskikh and his partner, ex-participant of the reality show “10 Desires” Kristina Mezhinskaya, are immersed. The choreographer of the project is Miguel, familiar to Ukrainian viewers from “Show No. 1” on the Inter TV channel.

On May 3, 2012, the second album entitled “Z.Dance” was released. The tracks on the album are mainly in English.

As part of the III International Action Film Festival "ASTANA" from July 1 to July 3, 2012, organized by the famous director Timur Bekmambetov, a presentation of the horror musical Z.Dance took place.

In July 2012, the Barskys’ DJ set was held for the first time in the Moscow club “Barry Bar”. “I was very worried. Not only is this a completely new direction for me, but for the first time I performed not in front of my fans, but in front of a completely unfamiliar audience,” says Max.

In 2012 he took part in the project “Factory. Ukraine - Russia", where he spoke on the side of Ukraine. On the project he performed: “Dance”, “Weary Sun”, “Love Will Save the World” (in a duet with Vera Brezhneva), “Supermassive Black Hole” (a cover of a song by the group Muse).

Max was nominated in the “Creative of the Year” category at the RU.TV Awards, which took place on September 29, 2012, but lost to the “Singing Cowards” group.

On November 17, 2012, the singles “I Wanna Run” and “I’m rooting for you” premiered on Max Barskikh’s YouTube channel.

In the fall of 2012, a re-release of the album “Z.Dance” was released in Ukraine, containing 3 new singles - “Don’t believe me (ft. Misha Romanova)”, “I wanna run” and “I’m rooting for you”.

"According to Freud"

On March 8, 2013, the single “According to Freud” was announced on the ELLO YouTube channel, and its premiere took place on March 15. The video for this song was released on May 25.

The premiere of the single “Hero_in” took place on July 14 on the ELLO YouTube channel.

The “According to Freud” tour started on September 20 in Lutsk at the “Opera” club. On November 3, the fourth single “Sky” and its video were released.

On February 14, 2014, a digital version of the album “According to Freud” was released[3]. Also on this day, the album premiered on the Lux FM radio station: every hour, starting at seven in the morning, one track from the artist’s third studio album was played on the radio station’s waves.

Nikolai Fandeev noted that despite the singer’s amazing musical advancement, when listening to the album, “you get the impression that you are listening to one long song. Moreover, it’s quite boring, because the vast majority of the tracks on the disc are slow. To top it all off, the painful mood of listening to the album is further aggravated by the lyrics. It seems that all of Max Barskikh’s songs are about love, but for some reason they contain a terrifyingly huge number of “suicidal” and “sado-maso” themes and images! Fandeyev named the songs “Sky” and “Lullaby”, performed in Ukrainian, as creative successes of Max Barskikh. According to the critic, the artist can sing in Ukrainian “much better” and should continue to move in this direction[4].

In addition to the album, on February 14, 2014, a video for the single “Let Go” was released.

In March, at the Yuna Award, he performed the Ukrainian-language song “Lullaby.”

On April 26, the video for the single “Everything is Serious” premiered.

On May 21, the single “Here and Now” (English version of “Freedom to live”) was announced.

Personal life

The personal life of Max Barskikh is decorated with communication with many beautiful women. The artist, who belongs to the category of eligible bachelors, is in no hurry to tie himself with the knot of Hymen. The artist’s mother is more worried about this than others.

In one of the interviews, the star singer told how his mother’s desire to see a girl with the status of “Max Barskikh’s wife” is cooling down. Max asks if his mother likes that her son is often shown on TV.

Max's mother has been demanding grandchildren from him for many years

Having received an affirmative answer, he explains that after starting a family, he will not raise children at a distance, traveling on tour. He will not be able to devote much time to his creativity and self-realization. “There will definitely be a family. But later! After these words, mom postpones the conversation about marriage for a short time “for later.”

Note: The ability to concentrate on the main goal and the ability to plan for the future allowed Max to achieve success in his favorite field.

Today the singer speaks about himself like this: “I don’t want to force things and start a relationship with just anyone. But I’m not trying to run away from anyone.” Max Barskikh does not hide his good relationship with Natalya Vladimirovna Mogilenets. The girl is better known under the name Misha Romanova. The artist is the singer’s compatriot.

Six months younger. Before going on maternity leave, she sang in the VIAgra group. Relationships between young people developed cyclically. There was a period when they rented housing together. There were breakups. But communication never reached a new qualitative stage. Whether this relationship has a future, time will tell.

Max talks about himself on social networks. 430 thousand people follow his life on VKontakte. The artist has 1.1 million followers on Instagram. 42 thousand fans on Twitter and several hundred on Odnoklassniki. The singer demonstrates his creativity on the YouTube channel - 568 thousand subscribers.

The artists maintain good relationships and meet periodically

Interesting Facts

The artist attaches great importance to the symbols of tattoos. A tattoo applied to the chest, a man with the head of an eagle and wings behind his back is the Egyptian forest of the Sun Ra. The image represents strength and warmth, a kind of forward movement. The tattoo on the right hand symbolizes the divine principle that created the world. A kiss of two elements - an angel and a man, earth and wind. Max treats his skin as a canvas on which he reflects the main milestones of life.
Max Barskikh appeared on the pages of Forbes magazine. Not as a multimillionaire yet. In 2020, the singer made his first world tour. A correspondent from the magazine “about moneybags” came to the concert. The performance made an impression. On the pages of the publication, the singer was named the musical ambassador of Ukraine in the world.

Max Barskikh now

In 2020, Max Barskikh pleased fans with the new singles “February” and “My Love”. At a joint performance with Svetlana Loboda, which took place at the Muz-TV awards ceremony, Max Barskikh surprised both the audience and his colleague. During the performance, the young man passionately kissed the singer, which was recorded by photos and video cameras. The photographs show how the girl was sincerely surprised by Max’s action.

The year was a fruitful one for music awards for the artist. Max received nine awards and two nominations. Thus, “Mists” brought the artist the “Golden Gramophone” award, and the video for the song “My Love” was recognized as the best at the “Love Radio Awards”.

In 2020, Barskikh already became a laureate of the “Top Hit Music Awards” as the best performer and again for the song “Mists”.

2018 began for the artist with a tour of the United States, which was called the Tumany World Tour. The concert schedule included seven American cities, as well as one in Canada. Before performances in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Toronto, Max was worried, but noted the friendliness of the audience. Returning to his homeland, Barskikh recorded a track and a video for it, “Make It Louder.” Later, the musician created a second version of the hit, for which he invited Russian rapper L'ONE to perform. The musician from Russia was blacklisted by the SBU, but the duet took place.

The popularity of the single was so great that the management of the Viber messenger decided to release a themed sticker pack, which was made in a bright yellow color scheme. Now Internet users will be able to use stickers in conjunction with the messages “turn it up,” “on your wavelength,” “I want to dance,” “dance until the morning,” and others. Also, a community of fans of the singer has appeared on Viber, who will be able to quickly learn the latest news from the artist’s creative life.

Lately, Max Barskikh has been preparing for a solo concert, which took place in Moscow at the end of May 2020 at the Megasport Sports Palace. The artist announced the performance on his personal Instagram account.

Frequently asked questions about Max Barskikh

Many Max fans are interested in the size of his earnings. The first million came from the successful album “Mists”. On average, an artist earns about $3 million per year. A significant part of the income is “working capital” and goes to finance creativity. The cost of filming the video “Lei, don’t be sorry” amounted to 180 thousand dollars. The artist has a philosophical attitude towards money and says that millions are calculated not in pieces of paper, but in possibilities.
Admirers of the singer’s work are tormented by the question of whether Barsky is the father of little Martin, the son of Misha Romanova. Interest was fueled by numerous joint photographs on social networks and the lack of comments about the birth of the child. The ex-soloist of “VIAgra” gave the answer to the question in an interview with the host of the Ukrainian TV channel “1+1” on the eve of 2020. Misha said that the father of the child was a young director, whose name she is not going to reveal. The reason is a break in the relationship and a possible negative reaction on his part. The birth of a child created a number of problems. Parents and Max Barskikh were the people who provided the greatest help at this stage in the singer’s life. And no more.

Now the artist performs under the pseudonym MICKOLAI

Max Barskikh and Svetlana Loboda - Heart beats

CLICK HERE, YOUR TICKET IS WAITING FOR YOU | ⤵️ NEZEMNAYA WORLD TOUR 2020 link.maxbarskih.com/NEZEMNAYA_… __________________________________________________________ Available on iTunes: goo.gl/2miWsN Max Barskikh and Svetlana Loboda - The Heart Beats Author of music and lyrics: Max Barskikh ________________________________________________________________ Max Barskikh is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. Winner of the Best Ukrainian Performer award according to the MTV Europe Music Awards 2010 and MUZ-TV in the category “Breakthrough of the Year” (2012), the most rotated artist on Ukrainian radio in 2011. Max Barskikh's debut on the big stage took place in 2008. Thanks to his first hits, the whole of Ukraine learned about him, and already in 2010, the artist’s popularity reached the borders of Russia, Kazakhstan and the Baltic states.