Moth. Nationality and brief biography

Matvey Melnikov is a famous Russian rap singer, who took the stage name of Moth himself. The biography, nationality and personal life of this young man are of interest to many fans. A few years ago, the artist became one of the members of the label Black Star Inc. And began to gain increasing popularity.

Moth. Nationality

Judging by the surname and name, this artist, of course, is Russian. Yes, and he was born on March 2, 1990 in a small town of Krymsk, Krasnodar Territory. But the appearance of the rap artist is atypical for the Slavic guy, who is Matvei Melnikov, better known under the pseudonym Moth. His nationality is Russian, although he has brown eyes, dark skin and dark hair.

Childhood

The boy's parents tried to instill in their son a love for knowledge and art that they did well. As a child, Matvey had restlessness and a desire to stand out. Therefore, he directed his energy to sports and dances.

Five years later his family moved to Krasnodar, where Matvei lived until he was fifteen. In this city, Matvei started to dance, first ballroom, and later folk. A great achievement for the boy was the arrival in the dance group Alla Dukhova "Todes" in 2000, at that time he turned 10 years old.

As a child, he delivered a lot of trouble to his parents, loved spending a lot of time with friends and disappeared in their company for several days.

Moscow

At the age of fifteen, Matvey moved to Moscow, where he continued to go to school and dance. There the young man changed the choreographic direction, he was very attracted to hip-hop. He wanted and not bad succeeded not only to dance in this direction, but also to read his texts. Thus began the career of Matvei Melnikov as rapper.

Student years

Despite the restlessness and constant employment of dances, the young man managed to graduate from high school with a gold medal in 2007.

Matvei decided to apply at the Moscow State University to the Faculty of Economics, which he did without much difficulty. In 2012, the defense of the diplomacy was excellent, and Matvei decided to continue his studies at the postgraduate university. All this time the guy did not stop actively and persistently engage in hip-hop and rap.

Career

While still a pupil of the average Moscow school, Matvey composed the texts, but after a few months the boy felt that he wanted to professionally write down his songs. Thus, in 2006, cooperation began with the recording studio GLSS, which ended with the work of Matvei there as an artist on an official basis.

In 2009, the young artist took part in the competition "Battle for Respect" for the first time, where he became one of the top 40 of the thousand contestants. In the same year, Matvey changed his old pseudonym to the well-known now - Mot. The singer's nationality is Russian, but because of his thick dark beard and dark skin, many fans often assume that he is a native of the Caucasus. By the way, the guy is not the only Russian blood. Reper Moth, whose mother's nationality can be called Greek (because in her family were Greeks), even his wedding at first wanted to play in Greece.

In 2011, participation in the First International Hip Hop Summit was crowned with a brilliant performance for the artist. In the same year released the first album Mota called Remote, which contained 12 tracks. The song "Millions of Stars" was later filmed, and with the participation of Ilya Kireev, the song "Cats-Mice" was recorded.

The next year released the second album Mota - "Repair", he consists of 11 songs. One of the works titled "To the Shores" was very popular in 2012, this composition was used in a documentary called "Black Game: Hitchhiking". And also a clip was filmed for this song in the city of Krymsk.

In 2013, the rapper was invited to collaborate as a performer for Black Star Ins., As a result of the common work came out many popular songs, as well as the album "Devil".

In 2014 saw the solo album Azbuka Morze, in addition to Mota, Timati, Misha Krupin, Nel took part in the work on the album. And also this year, Moth proved himself as an actor. The actor starred in a short film by Timur Yunusov entitled "Capsule".

In 2015, Mot became the leader in the process of making a video for the song "Day and Night." In this adaptation, the popular Russian football player Dmitry Tarasov and his wife Olga Buzova, who is known as the host of the TV project "Dom-2", took part.

In recent years, Moth has been actively working on the creation of new tracks, he also collaborated with such popular performers as Bianca and the Via Gra group.

Currently, the artist continues to lead an active creative activity, goes on tour, releases clips and participates in TV projects.

What nationality is Moth and his wife?

More than half a year ago, Moth bound himself by marriage. Matvei Melnikov's wife, Maria Gural, was born in Lviv, later enrolled and moved to Kiev, where she met a rapper. Young people first communicated in social networks, then artist Mot, whose nationality is Russian, invited Maria to Moscow to participate in the filming of the video.

It was after the filming and began their novel, which ended in marriage. The wedding of young people was distinguished by modesty and romance (the couple was dressed in white jerseys and jeans, after the marriage they released a pair of white pigeons into the sky).

August 5, 2016 in one of the Moscow registry offices legalized their relationship Maria Gural and Matvei Melnikov, better known as rapper Mot. The nationality of his wife is Ukrainian, the girl is a model and was shot in his video several years ago.