People's Artist (TV series)

People's Artist
Created bySimon Fuller
Country of originRussia
No. of seasons3
Original release
NetworkRossiya
Release2003 (2003) –
2006 (2006)

People's Artist (Russian: Народный Артист, romanized: Narodny Artist) was a Russian music competition television series, based on the popular British reality television series Pop Idol. It was produced by RTR in association with FBI Music and FremantleMedia. Season 1 and 2 were hosted by Fyokla Tolstaya and Ivan Urgant.

People's Artist remains today the only Idol series to feature miming in their "best of" show (Финальный Концерт final'niy kontsert) where none of the contestants sang live.

Season 1

Aleksey Goman won season one, with Aleksandr Panayotov coming in second.

Finalists

(ages stated at time of contest)

Contestant Age Hometown Voted Off Liveshow Theme
Aleksey Goman 20 Winner Grand Finale
Aleksandr Panayotov 19 19 December 2003
Aleksey Chumakov 22 5 December 2003 Songs by Alla Pugacheva/Filipp Kirkorov
Mariya Zaytseva 20 28 November 2003 Songs by Igor Krutoy
Oksana Kazakova 21 21 November 2003 Contestant's Choice
Anna Alina 22 14 November 2003 Songs by Igor Nikolaev
Natalya Pavolotskaya 19 6 November 2003 Film Songs
Irina Toporez 22 31 October 2003 Songs by David Tukhmanov
Yuliya Valeeva 25 24 October 2003 Rhythm and Melody
Irina Chernishova 20 Saint Petersburg 17 October 2003 Old Songs

Season 2

Kyiv, Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus were included in the auditions this season which resulted in almost all finalists from that season coming from one of the two countries and no auditions outside of Russia being held in the next season.

Finalists

(ages stated at time of contest)

Contestant Age Hometown Voted Off Liveshow Theme
Ruslan Alehno 22 Minsk Winner Grand Finale
Paulina Dmitrenko 20 Kharkiv 19 December 2004
Yury Ignatov 26 Tyumen 11 December 2004
Yuliya Vdovenko 20 Kyiv 4 December 2004
Evgeniy Anishko 20 Kyiv 20 November 2004
Vera Karetnikova 20 Minsk 13 November 2004
Dilyara Vagapova 19 Kazan 6 November 2004
Vladislav Shlykov 24 Pavlohrad 30 October 2004
Tatyana Kazyuchits 18 Minsk 23 October 2004
Darya Urizchenko 25 Minsk 16 October 2004

Season 3

This season had auditions in Moscow, Voronezh, Saratov, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Saint Petersburg, Irkutsk and Chelyabinsk. The 125 chosen candidates (35 males and 90 females) advanced to Moscow in the theatre round where they were reduced to 10 finalists to perform live on television. Season three was hosted by Olga Shelest and Oskar Kuchera. On 3 June 2006 Amarkhuu Borkhuu won with 61.7% of the vote over Marina Devyatova.

The jury this season was:

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