Mot. Nationality and short biography

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Matvey Melnikov is a famous Russian rap artist who took the stage name Mot. 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 Black Star Inc. label. and began to gain more and more popularity.

Mot. Nationality

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

Childhood

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

Five years later, his family moved to Krasnodar, where Matvey lived until the age of fifteen. In this city, Matvey began to dance, firstballroom, and later folk. A great achievement for the boy was admission to Alla Dukhova's dance group "Todes" in 2000, at that time he was 10 years old.

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

Moscow

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

Student years

Despite his restless nature and the constant employment of dancing, the young man managed to graduate from high school with a gold medal in 2007.

Matvey decided to enter the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Economics, which he did without much difficulty. In 2012, the defense of the diploma was excellent, and Matvey decided to continue his studies at the university's graduate school. All this time, the guy did not stop actively and persistently engaged in hip-hop and rap.

Career

While still a student at a Moscow secondary school, Matvey composed lyrics, but after a few months the guy felt that he wanted to professionally record his songs. Thus, in 2006, cooperation with the GLSS recording studio began, which ended with the work of Matvey there as an artist on the officialbasis.

In 2009, the young artist took part in the Battle for Respect competition for the first time, where he became one of the top 40 out of a thousand contestants. In the same year, Matvey changed his old pseudonym to the well-known now - Mot. The singer's nationality is Russian, but due to his thick dark beard and dark skin, many fans often assume that he is a native of the Caucasus. By the way, the guy has not only Russian blood. Rapper Mot, whose mother's nationality can be called Greek (after all, there were Greeks in her family), at first even wanted to play her wedding 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, Mot's first album, called Remote, was released, which contained 12 tracks. A video was later shot for the song "Millions of Stars", and the song "Cats and Mice" was recorded with the participation of Ilya Kireev.

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

In 2013, the rapper was invited to collaborate as a Black Star Ins. artist, as a result of common work, many popular songs were released, as well as the album "Dash".

In 2014, Azbuka Morze's solo album was released, except for Mot, Timati, Misha Krupin, Nel took part in the work on the album. And also this year, Mot proved himself as an actor. The artist starred inshort film by Timur Yunusov called "Capsule".

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

In recent years, Mot has been actively working on creating new tracks, he also collaborated with such popular artists as Bianca and the Via Gra band.

Currently, the artist continues to be active in creative activities, goes on tour, releases videos and participates in television projects.

What is the nationality of Mot and his wife?

Mot has tied the knot for more than half a year now. Matvey Melnikov's wife, Maria Gural, was born in Lviv, later went to study and moved to Kyiv, where she met the rapper. Young people first communicated on social networks, then the artist Mot, whose nationality is Russian, invited Maria to Moscow to participate in the filming of the video.

It was after the filming that their romance began, which ended in marriage. The wedding of young people was distinguished by modesty and romance (the couple was dressed in white T-shirts and jeans, after registering the marriage, they released a pair of white doves into the sky).

On August 5, 2016, in one of the Moscow registry offices, Maria Gural and Matvey Melnikov, better known as rapper Mot, legalized their relationship. The nationality of his wife is Ukrainian, a model girl and starred inhis music video a few years ago.