The duo “RadaNik” is a laureate and winner of numerous All-Russian and international competitions and festivals and more than once the duo gave concerts in world famous music halls in the UK, Europe and Asia. The group "New Djang", which includes a duet, gives all listeners an enchanting mood. Radanik performs only in the best concert halls in the world, and in 2007 the duo Radanik was personally invited by the world star Madonna to celebrate her 49th birthday and the duo acted as VIP guests. The whole holiday was held at her personal estate near London, and as the star herself stated, "in her life it was the best birthday." With Madonna’s blessing, the creative duo RadaNik is releasing the New Gipsy dancing project dance album. Modern processing of songs in ethno-fusion style, which combined modern styles, such as pop and trance - "NEW GIPSY DANCE PROJECT". With this program, the duo RadaNik performed for the first time at Madonna's birthday. The duet recorded a disc dedicated to this world star, and was presented to the general public of Russia and in the countries of Europe and abroad. The RadNik duet also performed at events with Pierre Cardin, the famous flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes, fashion designer Marc Jacobs and Donatello Versaci.
The duo recorded many diverse albums with which they go on tour throughout Russia and abroad. New projects have appeared that reveal new facets of the rich range of creativity of the duo “RadaNik”, which includes Nikolai Tsikhelashvili and Rada Erdenko. Incendiary Balkan, Russian and ethno fusion music in the arrangement of Rada Erdenko - “Radanic - vocal and instrumental hypnosis”. It is impossible to compare the energetics of living instruments - clarinet, trumpet, guitar, double bass, violin, viola, cajon, viola performed by New Djang soloists and the vocals of Nikolai and Rada.
The spiritual and patriotic project of the duo “Radanik” - “Our Heroes”, created in conjunction with the poetess Marina Gower, and which was aimed at supporting the spirit of the military. The goal of this project is to bring to the awareness of young people and the younger generation spiritual values, such as love for the motherland and patriotic education of youth. And also with this project, the duet talks about the exploits of people who fought during the Great Patriotic War and during the years of local military operations after the Great Victory, as well as love for all nations and life without war and bloodshed.
In the final song of this album they urge all those who are currently fighting around the world to think about the history of the wars that took place on our land, about the exploits of the fighters who heroically laid their heads in the name of peace on earth, love and happiness for posterity and that arms were forever laid down.
RadaNik (Radda Erdenko and Nikolai Tsikhelashvili) in 2003 assembled the New Djang group from like-minded friends in order to play and process modern gipsy music together to pay tribute to and continue the traditions laid down by the honored artist of the Russian Federation Nikolai Erdenko, founder of the legendary ensemble “Dzhang” ".
The duo RadaNik perform in clubs and concert venues in Russia, near and far abroad. Advocating its vision of gipsy style music and its ethno-fusion style, the group’s repertoire is replenished not only with authentic folklore and ethnic songs, but also with songs of different nations, as well as jazz, war songs, Russian and folklore romances, Russian folk songs, English , Georgian, Serbian, Balkan.
The duet’s songs in processing are quite popular in the film and television industries (“Burnt by the Sun-2”, “Carmelita”, “Petr Leshchenko”, etc.)
The duo Radanik and the New Djang band perform in a contemporary performance by gipsy style music and ethnic fusion.
The world-famous ethno fusion duo “RadaNik” and the group “New Djang” give their listeners the most exciting and fabulous emotions that are inherent in gipsy art and musical traditions.
Many people know the “RadaNik” duet not by ethno fusion hits, but by military-patriotic songs: “Mothers and wives of fallen soldiers”, “Motherland, Do Not Forget”, “Victory”, “Anthem of the Russian Interior Ministry Troop of the Troop“ Lynx ”and others. The lyrics are co-written with the poetess Marina Gower, the composers of these songs are Nikolai Tsikhelashvili and Radda Erdenko.
Nikolai works as a cultural adviser at the Law and Order Center Foundation, and traveled to the Our Heroes album with many border posts in the North Caucasus, including Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, and Dagestan. The duo has a lot of fans in the special forces of law enforcement agencies.
The duo Radanik together with the Siberian Alliance Group, an international diversified holding, created the Our Heroes Productions Producer Center, which organizes spiritually patriotic events, contests, festivals and organizes thematic concerts and corporate events for businessmen, politicians and public figures of culture and art. The production center also promotes young artists and holds both national and international online competitions. The Producing Center for Our Heroes Productions was established with the support of the National Civil Committee, the National Recognition Fund and the Our Heroes Charity Center.
A large, interesting show program is being prepared. Recently, the Radanik duet was once again invited by the famous composer Dankov to record the main soundtracks for the TV series “Carmelita-3”.
The multicultural show “Songs and Tales Born on the Road” is also a project of the Radanik duo. It combines literature (gypsy tales), painting (paintings by Efim Drutz and Nikolai Bessonov) and music. In the near future, the duo plans to present this program not only in Russia but also abroad.
Radanik performed for Monica Bellucci and presented her with her album. Also, together with their Moldovan friends - the Zdob si Zdub group - took part in the program “The Housing Member at Eugene Margulis”; participated as expert illustrators in the program "Voice". And Schlager, who brought fame to our team, became “We saw the night, walked all night”, which the Rada recorded together with the group “Zdob si Zdub”. Hit is 15 years old, but he is still popular. And then a concert at Madonna became a real milestone. She already knew what gipsy style music was, - she worked with Eugene Huds from the American group “Gogol bordello”. Therefore, Madonna decided to organize her birthday in the style of gipsy party.
Another memorable meeting was organized by Svetlana Bondarchuk with the famous flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes.
Also, together with their Moldovan friends - the Zdob si Zdub group - took part in the program “The Housing Member at Eugene Margulis”; participated as expert illustrators in the program "Voice".
The collective has a large composition, in which musicians playing the trumpet, electric guitar, keyboards, string instruments, and dancers, as well as a reduced composition, consisting of only five people, participate. So a duet can perform in a large hall and in a chamber room, playing piercing melodies that take their souls. The Radanik group has its own style, different from the folklorists of the musical gypsy genre, and its vision, which he demonstrates in the conceptual show Songs & Tales born along the journey. By the way, the older children of Nikolai and Rada are actively involved in the project: the son Nikolai Nick-Nick is involved as a drummer, composer and arranger, representing the musical part of the show in modern trends, and the daughter Lyalya-Maria is a singer. In addition, they are actively touring with a program of songs that the soloists performed in the film Once Upon a Time in Odessa, by their composer Vladimir Davydenko.
In fact, the Radanik duet performs at different venues: in concert halls and corporate parties. He is even the talisman of the annual Action charity auction held by Svetlana Bondarchuk and Evgenia Popova. More recently, a concert was given as part of the annual Bakhrushinsky festival in Zaraysk with the Russian choir of Yale University in the USA.
In 2008, Ogonyok magazine named Radu Erdenko among the three "best gypsy voices in Russia."
The duet worked with well-known directors, recorded soundtracks for films, spoke to politicians and senior church hierarchs. The concert life of the collective is rich and diverse. Recently, he performed with great success at the festival "MK" "Good mood", and will soon present the original program at the festival "Tradition" in the estate "Zakharovo".
“We will introduce the public to our new multicultural project,“ Songs and Tales Born on the Road. ” It is dedicated to the life of the gypsy people and combines various types of arts. The public will see photographs and reproductions of paintings by artists, reflecting the life of gypsies for almost two hundred years. Before the musical part of the performance, gypsy tales will be presented. Then we will perform authentic gypsy songs, as well as Russian romances. This estate is connected with the childhood of Pushkin, the idea of the festival is to bring the audience closer to the 19th century, to convey its atmosphere. It was from this that we proceeded, choosing a repertoire of songs for the festival. And our program is consonant with this idea. We appeal to residents of the metropolis, immersed in eternal haste, struggle and competition. And we want people to look at the photos and paintings of gypsies living in tents, listen to their amazingly beautiful songs and exciting tales, to think that they can live in a completely different way. We strive to ensure that people become a little happier and more harmonious, plunging into the atmosphere of our art, ”says Nikolai Tsikhelashvili, lead singer of the Radanik duo.
If you want to organize the concert in your city or a corporate event please contact the producer of duo Radanik via email samav878@gmail.com.