Alex Angel

Alex Angel
Alex Angel in the club "Bochka". Kiev, 2012
Background information
Birth name	Alexei Nelep
Born	September 8, 1978 Kiev, Ukraine
Genres	Glam rock, hard rock, punk rock, heavy metal, Rock and roll
Occupation(s)	Music Artist, lawyer, producer, composer
Instruments	vocals, guitar
Years active	2001–present
Labels	Lavina music
Associated acts	Black Angels, Victoria Ahadova, Lady Gala, Vitaly Muzychuk, Natalia Oleynik
Website	https://www.reverbnation.com/BlackAngelsMetal

Alex Angel (or Lord Alex Angel) is a Ukrainian lawyer, producer, composer, singer, showman and English-speaking rock musician. He was born on September 8, 1978 in Kiev. In December 2001, he created a glam rock band called "Black Angels". During 20 years of activity, the band released 6 studio albums, 20 singles and music videos. The singer became the first in Ukraine whose videos appeared on the American MTV channel, Vevo, AllMusic and ELLO internet platforms. He has also become the author of the singles "Master of The Night" , "Carnivale of Love", "Easy Life", "Love Tonight", "Live on Eurosport! (Formula 1)" and "Woman's Fate" which were broadcast on Ukrainian "Radio RoKs" and TV channels OTV, Maxxi TV and "Central channel". In 2013 he became the winner of three metal charts in New York, Miami and Los Angeles according to the Reverbnation platform. And in December 2018, the singer's profile occupied Rank # 19. The casting participant of Eurovision 2016 (with the song "Live on Eurosport"), Eurovision 2017 (with the song "Running for Love") and Eurovision 2018 (with the song "Bitch"). Member of the Ukrainian TV shows "Hearts of the tree", "Halves", "X-factor (Ukraine)", "Everybody dance!", "Show Business jungle", "Let's talk about sex", "Truly", "Affects everyone", "I'm shy of my body", "Save our family!", "Durnev+1", "Cultural revolution" and "Candidate". Author of the project "Kissing show" on YouTube.

Biography

The debut album was released in 2004 and was called "Rocking Like In USA". Later, two videos were shot for "Caroline" and "Dancing in the Night".

The second album "Black Angels" was released in June 2006 and is the most popular album of the band. The videos were shot for "Love Tonight", "Rock'n'roll tonight", "Missing soldier", "Lucie" and Running For Love. With the song "Running For Love", Alex participated in the Eurovision-2017 cast.

The third album, "Welcome To The Black", was released in 2007 and includes singles "Easy Life", "Dangerous Toys", "City Of Love", "Bitch", "We Let You Know" "Master of The Night" and "Woman's Fate".

In 2013, the singer started filming videos, most of which were added to VEVO and broadcast on Maxxi TV, OTV, TRK and "Central channel". Since 2013, the songs have been played on the "Radio RoKs" audio station.

In 2014, the singer released three similar videos "Easy Life", "Woman's Fate", "Lucie", the main heroine of which was "Lady Gala".

Musical genre

The musician's repertoire has songs in the style of glam rock, hard rock, punk rock, rock and roll, heavy metal, and electronic music. The singer himself calls his genre "sex rock" and is considered the king of Ukrainian glam rock. The musician also became the founder of the idea of playing "lady-guitar" and wearing racer uniform while performing shows.

The lyrics and videos are dominated by themes of intimacy, glamor, love, suicide, and sports. In 2015, the album "Life Is Sport" and the video for "Live on Eurosport (Formula 1)" were released, containing pictures of racing contests from the 1990s, as well as images from the "Supreme" video by Robbie Williams.

Participation in television projects and scandals

For the first time, Alex appeared on big television in the show "Cultural revolution" on 112 TV-channel as a musical expert. For the second time, Alex appeared in the TV Show "Truly" in 2014 with the presentation of the song "Missing soldier" on the theme of Euromaidan in Ukraine.

In 2015, he participated in three projects simultaneously - "Hearts of Three", "X factor (Ukraine)" and "Halves" (or "Polovinki"). On the project "Polovinki", he met his future girlfriend - Victoria Akhadova, who became a member of his music videos.

At the end of 2015, he participated in Season 6 of "X Factor" with the performance "Dark Lady" (Lady Cat). But the judges spoke negatively about the performance. In 2016, the musician was invited to the casting of the seventh season of the X factor project, but later the channel management changed their mind without explaining the reasons. In response, Alex and his girlfriend Victoria Ahadova clashed with STB channel administration and called the police.

In the autumn of 2016, Alex and another Halves' participant "TANIA" decided to take part in the show "Everyone Dance!" to entertain the audience, and decided to sing while dancing on stage. But Judge Radu Poklitaru joked viciously and called the participants "full of shit". As it turned out later from the singer's words, the STB channel intentionally discriminated against his performance.

In 2017, Alex visited the project "I'm shy of my body" with a problem of similarity to Brad Pitt and Benicio Del Toro. Also, he talked about problems in relationships with girls because they put increased demands on him. But the presenter Ekaterina Bezversenko reacted aggressively and accused the singer of excessive thirst for glory.

In 2018, Ukrainian blogger CheAnD filmed two reviews for Alex Angel to make fun of his behavior in the shows.

In June 2018, Alex took part in the show "Candidate", giving a chance to simple citizens to become Deputies of the Supreme Council of Ukraine. But in August 2018, he published a video review telling about being deceived by 112 TV channel and Ukrainian deputies Vadim Rabinovich, Eugene Muraev and Nestor Shufrich.

Discography

Discography of the artist is presented on metal-archives.com, Itunes, BandCamp and Discogs websites

Studio Albums

Year	Title
2004	Rocking Like In USA (CD)
2006	Black Angels (CD)
2007	Welcome To The Black (CD)
2009	Rock Of 80's (CD)
2015	Life Is Sport (CD)
2018	Sex Rock (CD)
2019	Sex Pop (CD)
2020	Kill The Music (Acapella)
2021	Sex Metal
2022	Planet: SOS!
2022	Champions Of The World

EPs and demos

• Life Is like a Hell (demo, 2002)
• Rocking Blues For You (2005)
• "Medley in Black" (2007)

Singles and hits

• "Rocking Blues For You" (2005)
• "Rock'n'roll Tonight" (2006)
• "Running For Love" (2006)
• "Missing Soldier" (2006)
• "Song For Lovers" (2006)
• "Love Tonight" (2006)
• "Lucie" (2006)
• "Easy Life" (2007)
• "Woman's Fate" (2007)
• "Bitch (F*ck You)" (2007)
• "Master Of The Night" (2007)
• "City Of Love" (2007)
• "Moving To The Bound" (2009)
• "Rock Of Yesterday" (2009)
• "Dark Lady" (2009)
• "Carnivale of Love" (2009)
• "Lesbian Love" (2015)
• "Live on Eurosport! (Formula 1)" (2016)
• "Sex Pop" (2018)
• "Sex in Summer Night" (2018)
• "Sex is Not love" (2018)
• "Sex Machine" (2018)
• "Sex Machine 2" (2019)

Related pages

• Maxim Zeleniy

Other websites

• Black Angels on "Spirit of Metal"
• Korrespondent.net - Concert on singer's birthday
• Reverbnation rank of the singer
• Allmusic profile
• Rock encyclopedia - Alex Angel

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