Kris Kelmi (born Anatoli Arievich Kelmi, ; «Старый волк» Крис Кельми не промахнулся 21 April 1955 – 1 January 2019) was a Soviet and Russian rock and pop musician and composer. He was a member of the bands Leap Summer, Autograph, and .Slavic and East European Arts Some of his most well-known songs are Night Rendezvous, Closing the Ring,Лолита Милявская предложила почтить память Криса Кельми, исполнив его хит «Замыкая круг» // Komsomolskaya Pravda and Tired Taxi.Крис Кельми в проекте «МедиаМетрикс»На смерть Криса Кельми отреагировали коллеги Most online sources indicated that Kelmi was a pseudonym, and the musician's surname was Kalinkin. Kelmi denied this version.Крису Кельми уже 60 Kelmi believed that he most likely was Lithuanian on his father's side, explaining that there is a town in Lithuania called Kelmė, which is consonant with his last name. Kris took the nickname in 1972, after Dr. Kris Kelvin, the hero of Stanisław Lem's novel, Solaris.Крис Кельми: «Мы давно уже не муж и жена, а соседи по квартире» // 7Дней.ру
Kris Kelmi died on the evening of 1 January 2019 at his Moscow Oblast home from cardiac arrest caused by alcohol abuse.Певец Крис Кельми умер 1 января в возрасте 63 лет // Moskovskij Komsomolets. Retrieved 6 January 2019. References
External links
Official website
Крис Кельми (Рок-Ателье) — Ночное рандеву (1989)