Ivan Alekseev is a Russian singer and composer working under the pseudonym Noize MC. He combines two styles in his music - hip-hop and rock. The name of the group comes from the English word noise - “noise”, this very concept, according to Ivan, most accurately characterizes the style of his team.
Childhood
Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC) was born on March 9, 1985 in the small town of Yartsevo, located in the Smolensk region. The father of the performer was associated with art, studied music, and his mother worked at a chemical enterprise. At the age of nine, Ivan survived the divorce of his parents and wrote his first poems. The first musical hobbies appeared at the age of ten, then Ivan Alekseev entered the local music school (classical guitar class). In 1997, he moved to Belgorod with his mother. It was there that the performer received his first awards in the musical sphere - in 1998 and 2000 at the competition of performers in the class of classical guitar.
Ivan took his first steps to create his own group at the age of 13, having independently assembled a musical group. At age 15, the musician joins Rychigy Mashyn as a bass player and backing vocalist. According to Ivan himself, the Prodigy group, popular in those years, had a huge influence on the style of his work. The Diesel Power track prompted Noize MC to write rap. Later, together with a classmate, Ivan Alekseev created the Face2Face group, popular on the Internet.
After graduating from secondary school, Ivan moved to Moscow and entered the RSUH. In connection with his move, Face2Face broke up.
The student body. First serious steps
Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC), whose biography is rich in interesting facts, lived in a university dormitory and engaged in solo performance. In the first years, the musician organized his own group, Protivo Gunz, playing in alternative directions, and it was then that most of the texts that are currently popular were written. In senior courses in the life of the singer, there were many club hip-hop competitions with prizes, Ivan's group performed in Moscow suburbs at various venues.
At age 20, the musician became the host of the Snickers Urbania project. He deserved this right by a victory over MS Molodoy in the battle of hip-hop performers. The next two years, Ivan traveled with a new team with tours throughout Russia, and for the amount earned he was able to record his material in the studio. In the summer of 2006, the Respect Production label signed a contract with the musician as a solo artist.
In May of the same year, Ivan Alekseev moved from the hostel to a rented apartment on Old Arbat, organizing improvised concerts in the city center.
First video clip
In September 2006, Respect Production won the All-Russian Urban Sound Competition and received the opportunity to shoot the first video clip as a prize. After much debate, one of Ivan’s early compositions, “Song for the Radio, ” was chosen. The clip gets to the MUZ-TV channel and to the DFM radio station, where it will last for four months.
Six months later, according to the decision of the channel, the clip was re-shot, and the director was Hindrek Maasik, who worked with the Banderos and Disco Accident teams. In the frame of the clip throughout the song there are half-naked people whose intimate places are covered with signs with the inscription “Noize MC”, and this video reaches fifth place on the top chart of the MUZ-TV channel.
Signing a contract, first album
On a symbolic date, Friday the 13th, in 2007 Ivan Alekseev signed a contract with Respect Production and the Universal Group in Russia. At the same time, Noize MC won the competition on the Internet portal Hip-Hop.ru, having beaten about three thousand Russian-speaking artists from around the world.
A few months later, in the summer of 2007, Ivan was invited to play a major role in the film "Raffle", where Vanya was supposed to play a young guy from the eleventh grade, fond of music and moved to Moscow after the death of his parents. Ivan was also responsible for the soundtracks in this picture.
Second video
The second clip of Noize MC was filmed for the song "Behind a Closed Door". The track contains the motives of the song CHIZH - “Eternal Youth”, elements of black humor and the irony characteristic of the performer. According to the plot, this is a story about a group playing in the rock direction and suddenly became popular. The clip fell into the top ten songs of the MTV channel of 2007, and the song fell into the rotation of such radio stations as “Next FM”, “M-radio”.
The union of Ivan Alekseev and Universal Group lasted a little less than a year, in May 2008 Noize MC terminates the contract and begins to independently promote its label. In a month the debut album “The Greatest Hits vol. 1 ", which the leading print media noted as" Album of the Year."
Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC) and his wife met in the same 2008.
The artist did not leave his usual street performances and continues to perform on the Arbat. Noize MC also performs with a tour of Russian cities.
Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC) carefully conceals the photo with his wife, only a few pictures taken several years ago before the birth of the children got into the network.
Further Successes of Noize MC
Ivan’s second album was released two years after the first, in May 2010. It is called “The Last Album”, the songs from which Noize MC performed in eleven cities across the country.
According to the Russian version of Forbes magazine, Ivan’s annual income for 2009 amounted to $ 0.9 million, and together with the number of search queries on Yandex, this put him on line 41 on the Stars and Money chart.
Fame among older people brought socially-oriented songs, such as "Mercedes S666". The track was written on the topic of an accident that claimed the lives of two people, and the musician presented Andrei Barkov as “an angel in the flesh, ” whom the people unjustifiably found guilty of the incident.
Peak of popularity
The artist’s next album, “New Album, ” was released March 31, 2012.
In the winter of 2012, Noize MC announced the release of two records at once next year - in honor of the 10th anniversary of Protivo Gunz with re-release of old tracks and an album with rap tracks. On April 10, the Pool video was released into rotation, and the next day the albums were available on iTunes.
April 2013 was filled with a concert tour. On the 6th and 7th, two concerts took place in Minsk, the 25th in Kiev, then there were concerts in Russia - in Krasnodar, Moscow, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Abakan and Kazan.
The fourth album - "Confusion", was released the day before the official date - October 28. On the Internet, songs from the album became available for download four days earlier - October 24.
In November 2013, Ivan was a special guest in the Slovo freestyle duel.
At the end of 2013, on New Year's Eve, MTV showed a forty-minute segment from a concert dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Noize MC.
In September 2014, Ivan Alekseev released the sixth album in a row. It is called "Hard Reboot" and includes tracks performed in conjunction with the American artist Astronautalis.
In the fall of 2014, MTV introduced Ivan Alekseev into the top five nominated for the best Russian artist.
In November of the same year, Ivan Alekseev (Noize MC), whose personal life remains a mystery, played in the musical Juliet and Romeo based on the novel of the same name. The performer got the role of a drug dealer who sold a magic elixir that brings happiness to the person who drinks it. Despite the fact that Ivan does not have an acting education, the director of the musical noted his acting data, having attended a Noize MC concert.
2015 year
In January 2015, a new video for the song “Tearing the Leash” was released. This track was recorded as the soundtrack for the movie "Shaggy Christmas Trees." All the money collected from the sales of this track on the Internet was sent to the Sunflower charity foundation.
March 9, 2015, Ivan turned 30 years old. He celebrated his birthday with two big concerts in St. Petersburg and in Moscow. The day after the birthday, the video for the track “Robots” was released.
On March 20, a new reissued album was released, which included songs such as Jordan and Tearing the Leash. The album also included several new mixes and rewritten old songs.
In April, Ivan Alekseev took part in a total dictation, where he acted as an announcer. The dictation took place in the native institute of the performer.
In June 2015, a new clip for the track “Talking Heads” was released. The video was shot in an unusual place - in the “Changeling House” at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. The premiere screening took place on A-One.
In August, Noize MC showed a new format of performance. The concert was held in Moscow, in the Muzeon art park, in the open. In September, the team again supported the Sunflower charity foundation, giving a concert, which was broadcast on afisha.ru.
In October, the film “Save My Speech Forever” was released, which tells about the life of the poet Osip Mandelstam. The main soundtrack to the film was Ivan's song “Save My Speech”, combining the poetry of the poet and the text Noize MC.
In November in St. Petersburg and Moscow, the premiere of the concert program “Make Noise Himself” took place, the main single of which was the eponymous track.
On November 13, a new collection “Bush” was released, consisting of selected songs in acoustic performance. To select songs, fans of the group were involved, who for a month voted on social networks for their favorite Noize MC songs. Together with the selected songs, the single “Merin” was first released.
On November 14, 2015, Noize MC acted as the opening act for Limp Bizkit in Orenburg. On November 19, Noize MC won the Hip Hop of the Year nomination. The award ceremony took place as part of the Music Box 2015 on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace.
