Biography
"Kis-Kis" is a Russian group that critics are counted to the genre of Mamba rock, that is, guitar music with an admixture of hip-hop. The creativeness of the team is devoted to relations, including same-sex, domestic violence and feminism, sometimes matters in the texts.The history of creation and composition
"Kis-Kis" appeared at the end of 2018 in St. Petersburg, when 19-year-old Alina Oleshev and Sophia Somusev, which was 22 years old. Participants met in the rehearsal studio, where they demonstrated their musical skills and realized that they could make a joint project.
Alina Evgeny's father in the early years of his biography played the keyboards from Maxim Leonidov, with whom he was engaged in the choral school, her brother went to a music school from 3 years old. The girl graduated from 9 classes, was engaged in modeling, playing the drums and recorded solo parties. An example for the imitation of Oleshev considered Trevis Barker from Blink-182 and Alexey Meshcheryakov from the Splin group. She studied at the Music College, but did not graduate from the institution.
Sophia received a diploma of the St. Petersburg State University, in his spare time participated in student concerts, performed in the competition of choral and vocal music "Weremunky". Accordingly, in "Kis-Kiss" she took over the performance of the songs.
The composition also included two guys who provided musical accompaniment, but masks were put on concerts and did not show people. Thus emphasized that the female floor leads in the team. Despite this, the musicians received their share of glory and queues from the fans, thirsting for a personal meeting, near the tour.
The bassist Sergey Ivanov, in addition to the main duties, was also engaged in SMM, poured the tracks into the necessary publics in Vkontakte and knew what kind of releases need for releases to attract listeners. Guitarist Yuri Znockov answered arrangements. So it turned out an effective team, where everyone played his role and worked for a common cause, thanks to which she managed to succeed in a few months.
Music
The group's fame began with the fact that Oleshev asked to post her photo for the drum installation of the bass player "Fly Molly" Dmitry Goncharenko on his page in "Instagram", and this attracted the first listeners. Then the first song appeared in social networks, which was called "Fuck." According to Olesoye and Somuseva, the parents of both were at first were shocked by provocative texts and did not participate in the history of the project.The style of "Kis-Kis" influenced punk and pop performers like Avril Lavin, as well as the Russian group "Beasts". Musicians arrived competently from a commercial point of view: the release of the first album prepared a photo session and removed the video for 4 thousand rubles. The disk was called "adultery in the style of punk", there were the tracks "Former", "Rapper", "Lichka", "Zhiz" and others. On April 11, 2019, the premiere of the video on the song "Girlfriend", written in support of the LGBT community and dedicated to the love of two girls.
In the same year, Kis-Kis was performed at the "invasion" festival in the Tver region, although the coin, "Sharal Molly", "porn films" and other performers refused to participate in the event, arguing this cooperation with the Organizers with the Ministry of Defense of Russia. But Oleshev and Somuseva objected that in this case it is impossible to go, for example, on Steleoleto, because the sponsor is "Tinkoff Bank".
In September 2019, Kis-Kis's discography was replenished with a mini-album "Store for adult toys" with songs "LBTD", "Tuesday", "Boy" and "Dura". The guys were becoming increasingly popular and already played concerts in the stadiums.
In December 2020, the Group received 6 nominations of the Chartow Dress Prize: "Album", "Joint Work", "Soloist", "Online Concert", "Hacking" and "Video Clip". Also, the musicians appeared on the transfer of the "Evening Urgant", where the track "Milestones". And on the "New Year apartment NTV at Margulis" sang with Andrei Knyazev "Tell, Snow Maiden" from the cartoon "Well, wait!".
"Kis-Kis" now
On April 16, 2021, the premiere of the song "Do not" took place. For the first time, the text wrote the drummer Alina Olesheva, and he was devoted to violence over women. The lyrical heroine, "crucified on the wall of the entrance", was afraid to admit the mother in what they were abused, and vinyl in everything.
On June 20, 2021, "Kis-Kis" performed at the festival "Wild Mint" together with the "Cinema", Garica Sukachev, Ivan Dorne, Auktsyon, Alena Shvets, Sansara and other performers. On June 22, they again appeared with the music number on the air "Evening Urgant", which Yury Shevchuk also became a guest.
Discography
Albums:- 2019 - "Punk style youth"
- 2019 - "Store toys for adults"
- 2020 - "Pier during plague"
Maxi Singles:
- 2020 - "Friends"
- 2020 - "Trifle"
- 2021 - "Cell"
Clips
- 2018 - "Fuck"
- 2018 - "Farm"
- 2019 - "Cyril"
- 2019 - "Girlfriend"
- 2019 - "Tinder"
- 2019 - "Harakiri"
- 2019 - "LBTD"
- 2019 - "Silent"
- 2020 - "Spring"
- 2020 - "Trifle"
- 2020 - "Do not teach"
- 2021 - "Cell"