Alexander Valerievich Fadeyev (better known by his stage name Danko, born March 20, 1969) is a Russian singer, composer, songwriter, actor, businessman.

In 1995, at the Serge Lifar competition in San Francisco (USA), he received the Silver Award for the number staged by choreographer Sergei Bobrov.

After graduation, in 1988, he was invited to the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, where during the work he attended master classes from Asaf Messerer, Galina Ulanova, Marina Semyonova, Boris Akimov.

[1][2] In the 1990-2000's he participated in the main repertoire performances of the Bolshoi Theater: Spartacus, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Legend of Love, The Stone Flower, The Bayadere, Giselle, The Golden Age, Prince Igor, and many others.

In the late 1990s, on one of these author's evenings Alexander Fadeyev was noticed by producer and musician Leonid Gutkin, who invented the stage name Danko for him.

In the process of work, the idea arose to record a single with the soloist of the popular Swedish band Army of Lovers, known as La Camilla.

Alexander Fadeev accepted the offer of Yevgeny Slavutin, director of the Moscow State University "MOST" theater, to play a role in his performance, as a dramatic actor.