Matvey Melnikov is a famous Russian rap artist who took on his stage name Mot. The biography, nationality and personal life of this young man are of interest to many fans. A few years ago, the artist became one of the members of the label Black Star Inc. and began to gain more and more popularity.
Mot. Nationality
Judging by the surname and name, this artist, of course, is Russian. And he was born on March 2, 1990 in the small city of Krymsk in the Krasnodar Territory. But the appearance of the rap artist is atypical for the Slavic guy, who is Matvey Melnikov, better known under the pseudonym Mot. His nationality is Russian, although the artist has brown eyes, dark skin and dark hair.
Childhood
The boy’s parents tried to instill in his son a love of knowledge and art, which they did well. As a child, Matvey had restlessness and a desire to stand out. Therefore, he directed his energy into sports and dancing.
Five years later, his family moved to Krasnodar, where Matvey lived until the age of fifteen. In this city, Matvey began to dance, first ballroom, and later folk. A great achievement for the boy was joining Alla Dukhova’s dance group “Todes” in 2000, at that time he was 10 years old.
In childhood, he delivered a lot of trouble to his parents, liked to spend a lot of time with friends and disappeared into their company for several days.
Moscow
Already at the age of fifteen, Matvey moved to Moscow, where he continued to go to school and dance. There, the young man changed his choreographic direction, he was very attracted to hip-hop. He wanted and managed well not only to dance to this direction, but also to read his texts. Thus began the career of Matvey Melnikov as a rapper.
Student years
Despite the restless nature and constant preoccupation with dancing, the young man managed to graduate from high school with a gold medal in 2007.
Matvey decided to enter the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Economics, which he did without much difficulty. In 2012, the defense of the diploma was excellent, and Matvey decided to continue his studies in graduate school of the university. All this time, the guy did not stop actively and persistently engaged in hip-hop and rap.
Career
While still a student at a high school in Moscow, Matvey composed texts, but a few months later the guy felt that he wanted to professionally record his songs. Thus, in 2006, cooperation began with the recording studio GLSS, which ended with Matvey working there as an artist on an official basis.
In 2009, the young artist took part in the Battle for Respect competition for the first time, where he became one of the 40 best out of a thousand contestants. In the same year, Matvey changed his old pseudonym to the now well-known - Mot. The singer's nationality is Russian, but due to the thick dark beard and dark skin, many fans often assume that he is a native of the Caucasus. By the way, the guy has not only Russian blood flowing. Reper Mot, whose mother’s nationality can be called Greek (after all, there were Greeks in her family), at first he even wanted to play his own wedding in Greece.
In 2011, participation in the First International Hip-Hop Summit resulted in a brilliant performance for the artist. In the same year, Mota's first album, Remote, was released, which contained 12 tracks. The video “Millions of Stars” was later filmed, and with the participation of Ilya Kireev, the song “Cats and Mice” was recorded.
The following year, Mota's second album, Repair, was released; it consists of 11 songs. One of the works entitled “To the Shores” was very popular in 2012, this composition was used in a documentary called “The Black Game: Hitchhiking”. And also a video was shot for this song in the city of Krymsk.
In 2013, the rapper was invited to collaborate as a performer of Black Star Ins., As a result of the joint work, many popular songs were released, as well as the album “Dash”.
In 2014, the solo album Azbuka Morze saw the light, except Mota, Timati, Misha Krupin, Nel took part in the work on the album. And also this year, Mot proved to be an actor. The actor starred in a short film by Timur Yunusov called "Capsule."
In 2015, Mot became the leader in the process of filming the video for the song "Day and Night." The popular Russian footballer Dmitry Tarasov and his wife Olga Buzova, who is known as the host of the Dom-2 television project, took part in this film adaptation.
In recent years, Mot has been actively working on the creation of new tracks, he also collaborated with such popular artists as Bianca and the Via Gra group.
Currently, the artist continues to conduct active creative activity, goes on tour, releases videos and participates in television projects.
What nationality is Mot and his wife?
Already more than six months ago, Mot tied the knot. The wife of Matvey Melnikov - Maria Gural - was born in Lviv, later she went to study and moved to Kiev, where she met the rapper. Young people first talked on social networks, then artist Mot, whose nationality is Russian, invited Maria to Moscow to participate in the filming of the video.
It was after filming that their romance began, which ended in marriage. The wedding of young people was modest and romantic (the couple was dressed in white T-shirts and jeans, after registering the marriage, they released a pair of white doves into the sky).
On August 5, 2016, Maria Gural and Matvey Melnikov, better known as rapper Mot, legalized their relations in one of the Moscow registry offices. The nationality of his wife is Ukrainian, a girl a fashion model and starred in his video a few years ago.