Михаил Круг
(Mikhail Krug)
Mikhail Krug was a famous Russian singer, an unofficial King of Russian chanson.
His most successful song «Владимирский централ» (‘Vladimir Central’) is
considered a kind of standard for the genre of ‘prison romance’. Mikhail
Vorobyov (real name of the singer), who was born in 1962 in Tver, played guitar
but never had a music education. In 1987, he became a winner of a local music
competition as a singer-songwriter. Two years later, Vorobyov changed his
surname to Krug and released his first album Тверские улицы (Streets of Tver).
But the true popularity came with the album Жиган...
