Maycry, Russian мэйкрай, real name Eugen S, (born June 17, 1992 in Ekaterinburg, Russia, is a Russian-German musician, entrepreneur, artist and producer German-Russian descent. He is the founder and owner of the Maycry Records label. Maycry also works as a journalist, mainly dealing with the subject of crime.
Biography[]
Maycry grew up in Russia in the Urals region. Despite being in a rather criminal environment, he received a good education, got good grades in school, and began to enjoy reading and the arts. Already at a young age he dealt with writing poetry. In 2002 he moved to Germany. Once in the FRG, integration was difficult. The young Eugene has a strong connection to his homeland and Russian culture and sees this as a big part of his identity. The attempts to assimilate him into German society and the compulsion to learn the German language with the simultaneous ban on speaking Russian create an aversion to German culture. At school he is rather introverted and has almost no contact with German classmates. He writes down his thoughts in the form of poems and lyrics and records his first tracks in grade 7. In the period from 2006 to 2010, around 50 countries were recorded, and these are still distributed on the Internet today. The then 15-year-old advertises his tracks in Russian hip-hop forums and at first comes across harsh criticism and trolling, but his critics also manage it very quickly to convince that this is a talented artist.
Criminal Background and Imprisonment[]
Maycry was arrested in April 2011. He was sentenced to 4J.6M imprisonment for particularly serious predatory extortion in unity with deprivation of liberty and serious bodily harm. sentenced. [1] It was virtually impossible to do music and art while in detention. Depressive states and apatia had a negative effect on the artistic activity, numerous texts were written, but there was no possibility of recording the songs in prison. It was only towards the end of his imprisonment that he had the opportunity to visit a music group, where he played bass in a band and was able to perform his songs live.</nowiki>
Artistic activity after discharge[]
After the release, several songs that were written in jail were recorded. On November 18, 2016 there was an interview at Radio Galaxy in Kempten, where 4 new songs were presented
On August 17th, 2020 the single Оковы was released