Erik Kurmangaliev (2 January 1959 – 13 November 2007) was a Russian-Kazakh opera singer, actor and a leading public figure in Russia's perestroika music scene.

[1][2] Kurmangaliev was born in Kazakhstan, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union.

[1] His career reached his peak when he teamed up with director Roman Viktyuk in the early 1990s, when he appeared in the Russian language version of David Hwang's M.

[1] At one time, Kurmangaliev acted under nickname Erik Salim-Meruert, which are the combined names of his father and mother.

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