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Kino and their lead singer Viktor Tsoi had previously been part of the underground rock movement in the Soviet Union. In 1987, Tsoi starred in the official Soviet government film Assa . The film, which became a cult classic , promoted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev 's Glasnost and Perestroika political, social and economic reforms.
Most of the music and lyrics were written by Viktor Tsoi, and the guitar solo was written by Yuri Kasparyan. The song was fully rehearsed and presented at the Leningrad Rock Club Festival in 1986, but was first released on the album Gruppa krovi (Russian: Группа крови [ˈɡrupːə ˈkrovʲɪ], lit. ' blood type ' /'blood group') in 1988.
Kino (Russian: Кино, lit. 'cinema, film', pronounced) is a Russian rock band formed in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in 1981.The band was co-founded and headed by Viktor Tsoi, who wrote the music and lyrics for almost all of the band's songs, until his death in 1990.
One of Kino's most popular songs. It was written in 1988, when Viktor Tsoi was filmed in the Needle. It was originally planned that the new album would be called "Pachka Sigaret" because of this song, but the renaming happened after Tsoi decided to introduce "Zvezda po imeni Solntse" on the last day of recording.
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was born on 21 June 1962, in a maternity hospital on Kuznetsovskaya Street in Leningrad.He was the only child of Valentina Vasilyevna Tsoi (née Guseva), a Russian schoolteacher, and Robert Maximovich Tsoi, a Soviet Korean engineer from Kyzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan, where his Korean parents had been exiled after Stalin's 1937 deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union.
The author of the lyrics and music is Viktor Tsoi. The keyboard solo for the recording was played by pianist Andrey Sigle. At concerts, the song was performed in a simplified version without the keyboard solo. The song earned 58th place among the top hundred Russian rock songs of the 20th century, according to Nashe Radio.
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Viktor Tsoi " Zvezda po imeni Solntse " ( Russian : «Звезда по имени Солнце» , lit. 'A star called the Sun') is a song by the Soviet rock band Kino from the album of the same name released in 1988.