Ukrainian singer, musician, songwriter, producer, DJ, actor and TV presenter of Russian origin. Founder and director of the House of Culture and Music Publishing House Masterskaya. Former member of the group "Para normalykh". After the beginning of the Russian war against Ukraine, he continued to speak in Russia, in February 2022 he spoke against the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.
Biography
At the age of two, he moved to the Ukrainian city of Slavutych in connection with his father's work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. At birth, his father's surname was Yeromin. After the divorce of his parents, he changed his surname to his mother's.
As a child, he was actively involved in sports (tennis, checkers, chess, football, swimming, athletics), ballroom dancing, singing and piano. At the age of six, he first appeared on stage at the "Golden Autumn of Slavutych" festival.
Career
Childhood and youth
He started singing at school. He first appeared on stage at the age of 6 at the "Golden Autumn of Slavutych" festival. Ivan has a brother Pavlo Dorn (born December 2, 1992).
Engaged in sports, became the owner of many sports titles: master of sports (sailing), candidate for master of sports in ballroom dancing, 2nd division in swimming, 3rd adult in athletics. He played a lot of tennis, chess and football.
He received a musical education in the piano class, became a laureate and winner of numerous music competitions, including: "Ignite your star" - 1st place, "Pearl of Crimea" - audience sympathy prize; "Black Sea Games": 2001 - won the 3rd prize place, 2005 - won the 2nd prize place; "Jurmala 2008".
"A couple of normal"
In 2007, Ivan met Anna Dobridneva and together with her created the Russian-language duo "Normal couple". On October 4, 2008, the duo released their debut album "I'll invent a happy end".
On April 1, 2008, he became the host of the Guten Morgen program on the M1 channel. In the summer of 2008, he became the host of the "Kitchen Respect" program. Since 2010, he has been a presenter at "1+1". In the summer of 2010, Ivan Dorn left the band and his place was taken by Artem Meh.
Solo career
Dorn as part of the group "Para normalykh" at a performance during a rally organized by Yanukovych. Dnipro, December 25, 2009
Ivan Dorn at the MRPL City 2017 festival in Mariupol
In 2010, Dorn began a solo career, releasing his own songs, including "Stytsamen", "Bygudy", "Northern Shine", "Tem Bolye", etc. Together with Apollo Monkeys, Ivan releases the song "Blue, Yellow, Red".
On May 25 in Kyiv and on May 26, 2012 in Moscow, he presented his first solo album "CO'N'DORN". At the Russian MuzTV-2012 award, he was nominated in the "Breakthrough of the Year" category, as well as in the following categories: "Debut", "Video" ("Stytsamen") and "Design" (official website), at the "Steppe Wolf" 2012 award. in June 2012, Billboard Russia magazine put Ivan Dorn on the cover as "the main hero of young musicians".
In 2013, Ivan Dorn received the largest number of nominations among other artists at the Ukrainian national music award YUNA. According to YUNA 2013, the CO'N'DORN album receives the "Best Album" award, and Ivan himself wins the "Best Artist" nomination (2013, 2014, 2015).
In the fall of 2012, he recorded the soundtrack for the reality show of the U channel "Top Model in Russian", taking as the basis of the musical theme the chorus from his song "Hairballs", as well as the version of "The holiday is coming to us" for the Coca-Cola commercial.
In November 2014, the studio album RANDORN was released, it was preceded by the singles "Nevospitanny", "Mishka vinoven", "Number 23", etc.
In 2014, he was a judge in the fifth season of the show "X-Factor", and in 2016 - in the sixth season of the show "The Voice". After mentoring in vocal shows, Ivan realizes that his mission is to develop authentic Ukrainian talents. Creates a house of culture and music publishing house Masterskaya in the heart of Kyiv - a space for original Ukrainian musicians, where they can show their creativity and get help to be heard by the audience. Masterskaya discovered such talents as Yuko, the band, Tonka and Yuyu. With the beginning of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Masterskaya was transformed into a volunteer center providing humanitarian and medical needs of Ukraine.
In No. 10 for October 2015, Forbes Ukraine magazine published the "30 to 30" rating, which included Ivan Dorn. Regarding this, Dorn said that he would like to be included in the textbook on the musical revolution in Ukraine. Maybe even beyond it.
In February 2017, the live album Jazzy Funky Dorn was released. In July of the same year, Ivan Dorn performed at the first MRPL City 2017 festival in Mariupol. He was the headliner of the festival and closed its entire program.
On April 14, 2017, the new studio album OTD (Open the Dorn), recorded in America, was released.
The single "Collaba" from the album OTD becomes one of the key hits of Ukraine in the first half of 2017, along with the compositions "Taet Led" by the band "Hryby" and "Vite nado vyzhdy" by Estradarada.
In 2018, Ivan Dorn actively engaged in charity work. Launched a project to raise funds and build a dance school for Masaka Kids Africana, in Uganda. The project was covered by Billboard, Complex and other major publicationsand In the fall of 2018, together with Courage Bazaar, he also launched a fundraiser to help Ukrainian music schools in need of musical instruments.
In the winter of 2021, Ivan announced the premiere of the fourth studio album DORNDOM for the spring of 2022. The premiere has been postponed indefinitely.
In February 2022, he spoke out against a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. In March 2022, the Dorna label Masterskaya closed the music catalog for the Russian Federation and Belarus.
In January 2023, the premiere of the track Te la passe took place, which Dorn recorded together with the French rapper Essoh.
Scandals
Criticism in Russia
"Normal couple" with Dorn at a concert organized by Yanukovych (December 28, 2009, Dnipro)
In the summer of 2014, Dorn took part in the "New Wave" festival in Jurmala, where he performed the Ukrainian-language song of the band Scriabin - Dance of the Penguin, wearing a sweater with the image of a Ukrainian trident. This act received favorable reviews in Ukraine. In Russia, because of this, the singer was proposed to be banned. Later, in April 2017, in an interview with the Russian publication vDud, when asked about his pro-Ukrainian speech in Jurmala in 2014, he stated that "... this speech is called "not to jump into trouble". I thought that it is necessary to go with a Ukrainian song in order to carry the culture, it is necessary to go out with a trident so that no one stinks because of the costume."
Civic position
Despite the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine, he continued to perform in Russia.
In 2014, TV presenter Serhiy Prytula claimed that he used Dorn's money to buy a jeep, optics and helmets for the ATO armed forces, but in an interview with the Russian publication VDud Dorn stated that this was not true, and that he allegedly donated the money to victims in Mariupol after the shelling in 2015 .
In January 2017, during Ivan Dorn's performance in Lviv, the singer declared that he was a Ukrainian artist, even abroad. Despite these statements and regardless of the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine, he continued to speak in Russia after 2014. In November 2016, he performed with the Kharkiv singer SunSay (former leader of the 5Nizza band) in the "Evening Urgant" program on the First Channel of Russia.
On April 7, 2017, information appeared that Ivan Dorn took a selfie with Russian artists Prigozhyn and Valeria, banned in Ukraine. In a comment to a journalist of the Russian publication "KP in Ukraine", he joked that he "forgot that they are prohibited."
Subsequently, on April 11, 2017, during his interview with the Russian newspaper vDud, he stated that he considers Ukrainians and Russians "brothers", that "between Ukrainians and Russians there is nothing but friendship", and called the war in eastern Ukraine "a quarrel between the elder and younger brother (ed. Russia and Ukraine)" and explained that soon "everyone will reconcile".
Speech in Ufa (Russian Federation), March 13, 2016
The statements regarding Ukraine that Dorn made in an April interview with the Russian publication vDudy caused a stir in Ukrainian society. In particular, the Ukrainian writer Sashko Lirnyk summed up Dorn's statements by noting that not all artists who publicly show their alleged love for Ukraine are its patriots.
On February 24, 2023, he planned to publish an album where one of the remixes was created by Russian DJ Philipp Gorbachev. After criticism, Ivan stated that he did not know about the author of this track and postponed the release of the single.
Art
In March 2017, he released the English-language clip "Collaba", shot in Los Angeles. The work received mixed reviews from critics. In addition, the video has a lot in common with the work "The Prodigy - Firestarter", and the image of Ivan Dorn in the video is with the author of the original track Keith Flint.
Discography
Year Album Tracks
2012 CO'N'DORN Oue pahatam
curlers
All the more so
I hate
School window
Northern lights
So much
Screaming
Stytsamen
Blue, Yellow, Red (feat. Apollo Monkeys)
Idol
Backyard
style
Stytsamix
Stytsamen (SkyOffice Remix)
2015 RANDORN Sports
3000
The mouse is guilty
Where is the wine?
Bezmat
Teleport
Actress
Number 23
Spring
You are always in the plus
Dam
Flock
Penguin dance
uneducated
Accidental
The river changes course
2017 OTD OTD
Groovy Shit
Collaba
Goodbye
Wasted
Afrika
Such a Bad Surprise
Beverly
Preach
Hardbeat
YWFM
Trapped
2022 DORNDOM (premiere postponed)
EPs
Year EP Tracks
2019 Passion / In a dream / Wake up
(feat. Vakula)
Passion
In a dream
come to your senses
2019 Three good songs
(feat. Roman Bestseller)
Picturesque bridge
Fast gangster
Renaissance
2020 Numbers
(feat. Seven Davis Jr.)
Numbers
Poisoned
Heart Jail
Ivan's Favorite
2020 Face to Face
(feat. Mario Basanov)
Face to Face
Face to Face (Runemark Remark)
10 Years
Singles
Rick Single
2013 Kiss the second
2014 Penetrated by me (feat. DJ INSAMA, Kravts)
2015 Song about Christmas tree
2016 Lemonade (Live)
2017 Closely
2017 Workshop light (feat. YUKO, band; Constantine)
2018 Kaida (feat. Moldanazar)
2018 Remember (feat. Vakula)
2018 Right Wrong (feat. Victor Solf)
2019 Game
2020 Wasted (Remastered 2020)
2020 Chicks
2020 Love Could Be (feat. Top, Amine Edge & DANCE & Funky)
2021 Except for you
2021 Callus (feat. Constantine)
2021 you are not here today
Clips
Year Clip Director Album
2011 Dmytro Stytsamen and Yevhen Mysyura CO'N'DORN
So much
Northern lights
2012 Blue, yellow, red
Idown
2013 Uneducated RANDORN
2014 Phil Lee's Dance of the Penguin
Sports Ivan Dorn
The mouse is to blame Oleksandr Koreshkov, Dmytro Lisenbart
2015 Number 23 Ivan Dorn
Dam of Phil Lee
Teleport Ivan Dorn
2016 You are always in a plus Maria Unzhakova
Bezmato Gena Trunov
2017 OTD Aysultan Seitov OTD
2017 Collaba Ivan Dorn, Aysultan Seitov OTD
2017 Beverly Annegret von Feiertag OTD
2017 Stytsamen (Found version)
2017 Workshop light (feat. YUKO, band; Constantine) Pavlo Bekezyn
2018 Remember Mitty Mysyura
2018 Afrika Ivan Dorn, Aysultan Seitov OTD
2018 Preach Misha Koroteev OTD
2019 In a dream (feat. Vakula) Max Shishkin
2019 Game
2020 Renaissance (feat. Vakula) Mitty Mysyura
2020 Wasted Denys Shchukin
2021 Callus (feat. Constantine) Taras Golubkov
2021 you are gone today Julie Paskal
2021 New Year's greetings (feat. Constantine, YuYu, Tonka) Taras Golubkov
Filmography
"How to find the ideal?" (2008)
"Lovers in Kyiv"
"The Secret of the Third Planet" (Ukrainian dubbing)
"Alice's Birthday" (Ukrainian dubbing)
"Monsters on vacation" (Ukrainian dubbing) - Jonathan
"12 months" (2013)
"Funny guys" (2014)
"Monsters on vacation 2" (Ukrainian dubbing) - Jonathan
Awards
"Black Sea Games" (2001 — third prize place, 2005 — second prize place)
"Jurmala 2008"
"Star+Star" (together with Vasilisa Frolova, 2010)
"Song of the year 2014"
"YUNA" Award in the nomination "Best Performer" (2013, 2014, 2015)
"YUNA" Award in the nomination "Best Album" (2013)
M1 Music Awards in the "Alternative" category (2015)
Family
His wife is a classmate of Anastasia Novikova (2013).
Daughter Vasilisa (born in June 2014)
Son Ivan (born in 2015).
