Farewell ceremony for ex-soloist of "Na-Na" Levkin began in Moscow

A farewell ceremony for former Na-Na lead singer Vladimir Levkin, who died at the age of 57, has begun in the large funeral hall of Troekurovsky Cemetery in Moscow.

Attendance at the farewell ceremony is open to all comers until 13:00.

Relatives, friends, fans and colleagues came to say goodbye to the artist, including journalist Ernest Matskevicius, singer Yuta, soloist of the Operetta Theater Leonid Batalin, plastic surgeon Igor Korotsky, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Kai Metov, member of the band "Roots" Alexander Berdnikov, musician "Group 312" Dmitry Pritula, singer Julia Beretta and others.

Vladimir Levkin, singer. Biography

The former lead singer of the group "Na-Na" Vladimir Levkin died at the 58th year of life. As specified the source of "Izvestia", the man was sick with leukemia and died in intensive care.

Earlier, on November 17, singer Marina Devyatova said that Levkin loved life very much and appreciated it. She called the artist an incredibly kind and decent person, and also pointed out that he was absolutely unapologetic.

Levkin was born on June 6, 1967 in Moscow. At the age of six he entered a music school in the class of accordion, he also played guitar. His career in the group "Na-Na" began after participating in a competition organized by producer Bari Alibasov. At the qualifying rounds of the contest Levkin performed songs of his own composition. The singer performed in the group until 1998.

Levkin was a graduate of Gnesinka and the directing faculty of GITIS. He starred in TV series, wrote a poetry collection and performed solo, as well as in the band Kedbl.