Ilya Vladimirovich Prusikin is a Russian video blogger, musician, founder of the "Little Big" music group.
Before career
Ilya Prusikin was born on April 8, 1985 in a small Russian village called Ust-Borzi, which is located in Transbaikalia. In his native village, Ilya did not live long. After his birth, the family moved to St. Petersburg. Moving to the second capital of Russia in the future opened up great opportunities for Ilya.
Prusikin grew up as a mischievous and agile child. During his school years, he was very fond of sports, played baseball as an outfielder, played football well and studied aircraft modeling at a special academy. Sports did not prevent the future artist from getting involved in music. Parents send their son to a music school, to a piano class.
Despite his huge range of interests, Prusikin still decides to get a higher education at the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, moreover, at the Faculty of Psychology and Education. The future video blogger does it, he graduates from the university and gets an education. However, Ilya Prusikin did not want to work in his specialty. The future artist wished to connect his life with creativity.
Thanks, Eva
In 2011, the artist begins to cooperate with the label company "Thank you, Eva!" The project existed and continued its activities on the YouTube platform. On the official YouTube channel "Thank you, Eva!" many projects of Ilya were released. The most successful of these are "The Gaffi Guff Show" and "The Great Rap Battle". The video blogger is gaining popularity in the vastness of the network and takes on the omnonym "Ilyich". Together with him, the currently popular bloggers Danila Poperechny and Ruslan Usachev worked on the project.
The bulk of the videos ridiculed social stereotypes and were satirical in nature. Due to its originality, the project was gaining popularity with huge strides and the audience liked it so much.
It was soon proved that the videos of the project contained political propaganda in the form of mentioning the names of political figures, regardless of the context of the video. Bloggers, who did not know anything about this before, left the project. Later, in an interview, Danila Poperechny admitted that he and his colleagues, including Prusikin, really did not know anything about this and did not even guess.
Musician career
In 2012, the KLIKKLAK project was created, created for the release of humorous videos on the YouTube channel. Ilya Prusikin takes part in many sections of this project, but his main activity is his own musical group "Little Big", created in 2010.
"Little Big" releases not only Russian-language compositions, but also English-language ones, which allows it to attract the attention of viewers from other continents. English-language songs are not the only feature of the group. Ilya Prusikin and his colleagues are releasing video clips for the songs created with rather unusual content. The clips, as a rule, contain satire, loved by the audience.
On April 1, 2013, a comic video with the song "Every Day I'm Drinking" was released, which caused a public outcry among users. Someone believed that the purpose of the video was to denigrate the country, its stereotypes. Someone just laughed at the unusual satire.
The unusual presentation attracted more and more viewers. And the compositions "Big Dick" and "Give Me Your Money" completely explode the trends on video hosting. Satirical compositions are becoming popular among English-speaking and Russian-speaking audiences. At the moment, the video clips have already gained more than 75 million views in total. Both videos have won the Berlin Music Video Awards 2016.
The creation of the group called "LollyBomb", which scored 41 million views, did not remain without the attention of the audience. The video made fun of the totalitarian regime in North Korea and the political situations associated with this country
On October 5, 2018, a video for the song "SKIBIDI" was released, which gained more than 35 million views in two weeks. Many parodies of this funny clip have been released on YouTube. The host of the show "Evening Urgant" Ivan Urgant, who released a video called "SKIBIDI CHALLENGE" on his YouTube channel, did not stand aside either.
Personal life
Since January 2013, Ilya Prusikin has been running his own YouTube channel called "iLichShow", where he uploads videos from the filming of new clips or simply shares his thoughts, and sometimes shares information about himself on it. He did not talk about his personal life until 2016.
The audience guessed about the relationship between Ilya and Ira Smelykh, who often appeared on his personal channel, on the channel of the KLIKKLAK project. Already on July 6, 2016, this information was confirmed. The couple got married, and after a while Ira Bold declared that she was pregnant.
In November, the couple had a son, whom they named Dobrynya.
Ilyich also maintains his profiles on Instagram and Twitter. Both accounts have not been verified, but this does not prevent them from collecting a huge number of subscribers. More than a million subscribers have subscribed to Ilya's Instagram, where the artist posts photos from various trips and with his family. To the Twitter account on which the musician publishes comic tweets and important events - more than 100 thousand subscribers.
