Aleksandr Tsekalo
Biography
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Tsekalo[a] (born 22 March 1961) is a Soviet and Russian musician, actor, radio and TV host. Founder of the production company Sreda, he has been active in television since 1986. Tsekalo was the host of Minute of Fame and Big Difference.
In 2000, Tsekalo played the main role in Tigran Keosayan's film "Silver Lily of the Valley", for which he wrote and performed the song "Istoriya". In 2007, this song was performed by Filipp Kirkorov and was included in his album For You.
Until February 2003 he was the executive producer of the musical Nord-Ost, and then became the general producer of the company "Russian Musical", and the director of the musical "12 Chairs".
In 2008 he founded Sreda, which has become one of the most significant television production companies in Russia.
In 2014, he made his debut as a journalist, interviewing the director of the directorate of the cinema channel "Channel One" Sergei Titinkov, and the general producer of TNT Alexander Dulerain for the magazine GQ[20] and with his sister-in-law Vera Brezhneva for the magazine Interview.
Together with Ivan Urgant, Tsekalo owns the restaurant "The Sad" in Moscow on the Yakimanskaya Embankment, and also in late 2010, together with Alexei Bokov and Alexander Orlov, opened the restaurant "Chichibio".
