Kris Kelmi
Birth name Anatoli Arievich Kelmi
Born 21 April 1955
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died 1 January 2019 (aged 63)
Naro-Fominsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Genres Pop, Russian music, Rock music
Occupation(s) singer, songwriter, pianist
Instruments vocals, guitar, keyboards
Kris Kelmi (real name Anatoli Arievich Kelmi (Russian: Анатолий Арьевич Кельми; 21 April 1955 – 1 January 2019) was a Soviet and Russian rock and pop musician, composer. Member of bands Leap Summer, Autograph, Rock Atelier. The most well-known songs: Night Rendezvous, Closing the Ring, Tired Taxi, and many others. Most online sources indicated that Kelmi a pseudonym, but a real musician’s surname Kalinkin. Kelmi denies this version. Was it seems to him, he most likely has Lithuanian origin on the part of his father (he explained his assumption by the fact that in Lithuania there is a town Kelmė, which is consonant with his last name. Kris took the nickname in 1972, in deference to the hero of Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris Dr. Kris Kelvin.
Kris Kelmi died on the evening of January 1, 2019 in his home in the Moscow Oblast. The cause of death is cardiac arrest caused by alcohol abuse.
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