Ruslan Tagiev

Russian musician. Vocalist and one of the founders of the Russian pop-rock group "Degrees". At the age of 9, Ruslan went to a music school to learn to play the drums. From that moment began his musical life. Throughout childhood and adolescence, Ruslan's musical tastes changed dramatically - he was a metalist, drummer in a trash-metal group, after some time he became a rapper and in 1994 created with his friend MC ILL (Kirill Vasilenko) Kittenbeat, which recorded several songs , the most famous of which is "Freedom." After graduation, Ruslan worked in a bakery, Bak$ - a professional baker, dough mixer 4 categories. At the same time, he continued to engage in creativity, write music and poetry. In 1998, Ruslan began working at the Provocation nightclub as an MS, where he became acquainted with DJ culture, after which the birth of DJ Bak$ a took place. In 1999, Ruslan moved to Moscow, where he began working as a DJ, mainly playing RnB & Mush Up. At that time, they could see him at the remote control opening with Busta Rhymes, at the J.Lo Russian party, as well as in the country's most fashionable clubs, such as Garage, Infiniti, Opera, Shambala, the Most. On his account, joint live shows: Punjabi MC (UK), DJ Nasty & Guru Da Beat (Germany), DJ Scream (Ibiza), DJ Melodee (Ireland) Mario Winans (USA), Gorillaz (UK), Coolio (USA) etc. Soon DJ DJ Bak$ becomes one of the leading DJ / MC in Moscow. Despite his active participation in the Degrees group, Ruslan Tagiev continues to give solo performances as DJ Bak $ today. In 2003, Ruslan entered the Litovchin Humanitarian Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting, the Faculty of Sound Engineering, which he successfully completed in 2009.