The singer was awarded the prestigious award.

Sergey Shnurov

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Guests gathered at the ceremony of awarding the prize “person of the year” by the magazine GQ was waiting for a big surprise. Unconditional victory in the main category was won by Sergey Shnurov! By the way, the controversial singer was also able to earn the title of “musician of the year, it managed to bypass even Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who was the leader of group “Leningrad” in the same category. The cords in his characteristic manner of speech, warmly thanked the organizers for the award. From the scene admitted that he is very happy, although she looked a little confused.

But the past year has been for Sergei is really very productive. His team came several incredibly successful projects. Among them stand out the songs “Exhibit” and “In St. Petersburg to drink”, which its Creator a sustainable source of income. Speaking of earnings: some time ago, Forbes summed up the past year and published a list of persons of show business, earned over the past year. Cords, with revenue of 11 million dollars was taken in this ranking the second place, losing only to Maria Sharapova.

Most recently, Sergei became a TV presenter on the state channel. And also recorded a song for the Intro of the transmission — “good night, kids”. And not so long ago his speech, he made a splash on the music festival “New wave”.