Ivan Dorn

Ivan Dorn
Background information
Birth name	Ivan Dorn
Born	(1988-10-17) 17 October 1988 (age 32) Cheliabinsk, Russian SFSR Soviet Union (now Russia)
Origin	Ukraine
Genres	Funk, Hip hop, pop rock, dance, indie pop
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Masterskaya[1]
Associated acts	Para Normalnyh
Website	ivandorn.com

Ivan Dorn (born 17 October 1988^[2]) is a Ukrainian singer. He is also active as a DJ, TV presenter and producer, and a former member of the band Para Normalnyh (Пара Нормальных).^[3] Since 2010 he has been a solo artist. His music combines elements of house, disco, pop, jazz, funk, UK garage, hip-hop and soul. In 2017 won MTV EMA.^[4]

Biography[]

Ivan Dorn was born 17 October 1988 in Chelyabinsk, Russia, (before part of the Soviet Union). At the age of two, he moved to the Ukrainian city of Slavutych, Ukraine. Until second grade, he had the last name "Eremin” however his mother, Lidia Dorn, then changed it to be the same as her own. He began acting at the age of 6 years at the festival «Gold autumn of Slavutich».

Ivan actively engaged in sport, winning several prizes in curling and lacrosse. Ivan also received training in piano, winning several competitions including:

• The Moscow competition «Light your star» - 1st place
• «Pearl of Crimea» - the prize of spectator sympathies
• «The Black sea games» (2001 won 3rd place, 2005 won the 2nd prize)
• «Yurmala 2008»

Career[]

In 2006, he sang in a Moscow a cappella duo, but soon decided to return to Ukraine to join the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. In 2006, at a Jamiroquai concert, he met Anna Dobrydneva and together they created the duo «Para Normalnykh» ("A Pair of Normals").

From 2007 to 2010, he continued to sing with Anna but then in 2010 she began working with Ukrainian singer Artem Meh. In 2008, on invitation by the TV producer Dorn began his TV career as the host of the program Guten Morgen on M1 channel.

He released his debut studio album "Co'N'Dorn"^[5] in 2012 which had made a huge impact on both Russian and Ukrainian scene and won many awards.^[6][7] Dorn was honoured as "an idol for a new generation."^[8]

In 2014, Dorn was a judge on the fifth season of X Factor Ukraine.^[9]

In the summer of 2014 Dorn took part in the New wave music festival in Jūrmala, where he performed the Ukrainian-language song of the Skryabin (band) - 'Penguin Dance' ^[10] dressed in a sweater with the image of the coat of arms of Ukraine. This act has received positive reviews in Ukraine. In Russia, because of this, the singer was suggested to be banned. But he wasn't banned and remains popular. In Ukraine on the other hand Dorn was criticized for continuing to performing in Russia following the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.^[11] This criticism was somewhat relieved when it was reported that Dorn had secretly donated $10,000 to the Ukrainian army in 2014.^[11] However, Dorn denied this in an April 2017 interview with Yury Dud.^[11] He claimed he had donated not to the military, but specifically to civilians who had been affected by shelling, but that the volunteer who was in charge of spending the money used part of it to buy army supplies, and publicly thanked Dorn for that, putting the singer in “an uncomfortable position.”^[11] Also in the online interview with Dud Dorn claimed that had worn the Ukrainian symbol at the 2014 New wave music festival “so that people wouldn’t make a stink,” apparently meaning that he wanted to avoid criticism from his compatriots, who, he recalls, criticized another Ukrainian performer for wearing a costume with the colors of the Russian flag at the same event.^[11]

In 2016, Dorn was a coach at The Voice Ukraine.^[12]

In 2016, Ivan started Masterskaya,^[1] an independent music label focused on bringing the exciting sound of Ukrainian underground to the main stage.^[13] Out of the blue, the 28-year-old artist moved to Los Angeles to start recording his first English-language album, and quickly found himself inspired by the ocean breeze and palm trees. His US debut album was premiered this spring by a Billboard, available for a listening everywhere now, and with feature a tight selection of tracks that, like Ivan, do not follow the rules.^[14][15]

In June 2016 Dorn, to appease activists in Lviv who threatened to cancel his concert there, put on his official Facebook page a map of Ukraine which included Crimea (Crimea is de jure, an autonomous republic of Ukraine, though it was unilaterally annexed by Russia in 2014^[16]), a fragment of the Ukrainian anthem and the words "We will win".^[17]

In February 2017, Dorn released his first live album "Jazzy Funky Dorn" which reflects his passion to funk music.

In April 2017 Dorn, in the online interview with Yury Dud, labeled the War in Donbass (which had already claimed more than 10,000 lives) a “quarrel” and made several other remarks that were criticized in Ukraine.^[11] Dorn was criticized for not being a patriot of Ukraine while seeking to please his Russian audience.^[11] In the same interview, Dorn also referred to Ukraine and Russia, as “younger and older brothers,” a description that is favored in Russia but disliked by many in Ukraine.^[11] Ukrainian Culture Minister Yevhen Nyshchuk was one of those who lashed out at Dorn, saying that it was Dorn’s choice whether to donate money to Ukrainian army or not, but “talking about a quarrel as if nothing is happening (in eastern Ukraine) is unworthy.”^[11]

Later in 2017, Ivan began working on his first English-language album in Los Angeles. The author of the lyrics of this album was famous former Ukrainian rock musician Sasha Chemerov.^[18]

In June 2017 Dorn cancelled a concert in Odessa after threats that it would get disrupted by Ukrainian nationalists who claimed Dorn "supported the war against Ukraine".^[19]

In 2017 won MTV EMA 2017 for "Best MTV Russia act".^[4] Dorn did not attend the ceremony, but showed in Instagram that he was happy for his victory.^[20]

In 2018 Ivan was traveling to Uganda to film a music video Afrika^[21][22] with Masaka Kids Africana dance crew and a documentary about them. Now this story grew in a strong charity project AFRIKA with a main goal to build a dancing school for Masaka Kids Africana in Uganda, where Ivan and the team are trying to help kids from Africa to follow their talents and dreams.^[23]

In the end of 2018 he released a track called "Right Wrong" featuring HER's Victor Solf^[24]

Discography[]

Albums[]

As a member of "Para Normalnyh"

• 2008 «Я придумаю Happy End» (I'll Devise a Happy End)
• 2010 «Скандал во время рекламы» (Scandal during an Ad)

Solo career

• 2012 "Co'N'Dorn"
• 2014 "Randorn"
• 2017 "Jazzy Funky Dorn" (Live Album)
• 2017 OTD (Open the Dorn)
• 2019 3 Хороших Песни [1]

Singles[]

Videography[]

Documentaries[]

Filmography[]

• "How to find the ideal?" (2008)
• "In Love with the Kyiv" (2011)
• "Hotel Transylvania" (Ukrainian dubbing) — Jonathan
• "12 months" (2013)
• "Funny guys" (2014)
• "Hotel Transylvania 2" (Ukrainian dubbing) — Jonathan

References[]

External links[]

• Official website