He subsequently released the single "Pyanoye solntse", which went on to become a number-one hit throughout the CIS and kickstarted his music career.

[1] Alekseev was born on 18 May 1993 in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv from a mixed Ukrainian-Russian family, with a root in Belarus too.

As a consolation prize, Ani Lorak helped Alekseev shoot the music video for his debut single "Everything is in Time".

But he did not gain popularity until after he appeared on Voice of the County: Reload[9] where he covered Iryna Bilyk's "I'm Drowning" and shot a music video[10] for it.

In September 2015, Alekseev released Pyanoye solntse[11] (Drunken Sun), with lyrics by Vitaly Kurovsky and music by Rusland Quint.

The next month, a music video directed by Alan Badoev in which Alekseev kills his alter ego after breaking up with a girl, was shot.

The subsequent singles, "Shards of Dreams", "Became Oceans" and "Feeling Soul", had their music videos also directed by Alan Badoev.

However, on 16 February 2018, Alekseev won the Belarus National Selection and represented the country at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal.