Background
Vladislav M. Topalov was born on 25 October in 1985 in Moscow, Russia. His parents are Mikhail Genrikhovich Topalov and Tatyana Anatolievna Topalova. Alina Topalova is a sister.
Evolution - 2005
Odinokaya Zvezda/Одинокая звезда (Lonely Star)- 2006
Pust' Serdtse Reshaet/Пусть сердце решает (Let heart decide)-2008
I Will Give It All To You-2008
New ( 2009- 2010)
2nNite-2004
Vladislav M. Topalov was born on 25 October in 1985 in Moscow, Russia. His parents are Mikhail Genrikhovich Topalov and Tatyana Anatolievna Topalova. Alina Topalova is a sister.
Vlad Topalov was a student of the Russian State University for the Humanities in 2002.
Since childhood, studied music and graduated from music school, violin class. Topalov's family interest in music was hereditary. Vlad's father - Michael Genrikhovich Topalov (1960) - also graduated from the School of Music and the College of Arts in piano, Vlad was a schoolboy playing in rock bands in Rostov-on-Don, Moscow, St. Petersburg. In 1990, Vlad and his younger sister, Alina (1988 p.) Were given to parents in children's musical group "Fidget" under the direction of Elena Pindzhoyan. Vlad was then five and a half years. His constant partner of the duo became Julia Malinovskaya - Leading the future of children's musical television contest "Morning Star". The same team performed the soloist and the future of "Tattoo" - Elena Katina and Yulia Volkova. For ten years the group "Fidget" Vlad appeared on concert stages, not only Russia but all over the world, has successfully participated in music festivals in Italy, Bulgaria, Japan, Norway and won the children's musical competitions such as "Morning Star" "Bravo Bravissimo".
He is famous for his career when he rose to fame as the blond-haired member of the group Smash. The group broke up in 2006. since then Topalov has pursued a solo career. In 2001 Sergey Lazarev and Vlad Topalov started the boy band Smash!!.
Shortly after they were signed by Universal Music Records in Russia and were one of the biggest Russian pop groups in 2002–2003. The duo had five No. 1 hits, numerous awards and sold millions of records in Russia, CIS and East Asia (including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand) during their brief career as a group. At the beginning of 2002, the duo shot their first video clip for the song "Should Have Loved You More".
That August Smash!! released their first single "Belle". The video for "Belle" topped MTV Russia's chart for 6 months and entered the list of top 20 clips of the past five years. The story behind this song tells about the formation of the duo Smash!!, apparently Vlad and Sergey rehearsed the song as a birthday present to Vlad's father, but after he heard the song he immediately told all his friends and ended up on the radio as one of his friends started playing at a local station.
In February 2003 the band finally released their debut album, Freeway. Over a million discs were sold in Russia and other nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Smash!! subsequently toured Russia throughout 2003.
The following year Freeway was released in East Asian countries including. Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines. The release of the album was followed by the promotional tour in South-Eastern Asia, during which the band shot a video clip for the cover-version of George Michael's song "Faith" in Shanghai.
In May 2004 Smash!! in cooperation with the Italian band Earphones recorded the song "Obsession". When the song entered the radio rotation, it immediately gained the top of hit parades and became the top summer hit 2004. That year Smash!! received the award of the MTV Russian Music Awards (RMA in short) 2004 as the pop-project of the year, and the award of the sound-track as the band of the year.
On 1 December 2004 Smash!! released the second album, 2Nite. The band split up only one week after the release, Vlad Topalov released one more album, Evolution, under the band's name, with seven musicians, due to the band's contractual obligations with Universal Music. After that, Vlad followed Sergey's footsteps and also went solo, which led to the formal discontinuation of the band.
Smash!! reunited for a short performance in RMA 2006, where Sergey and Vlad sang Belle. In 2008 Topalov claimed that he was a regular user of cocaine and ecstasy pills and his drug use was a reason in the breakup of the band. Studio Solo.
Vlad married to Ksenia Danilina in 2015 but in 2017 they divorced.