Vladimir Levkin

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lyovkin (Russian: Владимир Александрович Лёвкин; June 6, 1967 in Moscow) is a popular Russian singer, former member of the Pop group Na Na. He was the main vocalist from the day of the band's foundation.

Biography

Early childhood he spent abroad, in Potsdam. From the age of 6 he entered the music school by bayan class, and only a year later went to general education. Then the family again returned to Moscow.

After school, he enters the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, but training is interrupted by a summons to the military commissariat. Lyovkin serves in the ship repair battalion near Murmansk. In the years of service, he plays guitar in an army ensemble.

Returning from the army, Vladimir enters Gnesinka.

As an experiment, decides to participate in the competition, organized by Bari Alibasov. So begins his career in the group Na Na. According to the recognition of Leuvkin himself, the fact that he was accepted was a big surprise even for himself, since on the qualifying rounds of the contest he sang songs of his own composition.

At the peak of popularity, in 1996, Lyovkin entered the directing department at GITIS and successfully completed it (in absentia). In 1997 he acted in the video of Yevgeny Osin — Do not, Do not Cry. At the same time he had a disease — a cancer of the lymphatic system. Treatment lasted 10 years.

In the summer of 1998 the contract with Na Na comes to an end, and Vladimir leaves the group.

In 2000, Vladimir Lyovkin received an invitation from Vyacheslav Kachin to the band Kedbl. Vladimir was the organizer, soloist, producer and manager of the group, but a serious illness forces the singer to leave the stage and permanently chained him to a hospital bed.

December 17, 2003, Vladimir is doing a complicated operation, as a result of which his health is on the mend. The singer returns to active stage and social life.

Since June 2006, Vladimir Lyovkin is engaged in social activities and is the director for culture of the public organization Union of Social Justice of Russia. Vladimir visits children's hospitals and medical centers, social shelters and orphanages.