[1][2] Born Konstantin Evgenievich Panfilov in Moscow, Soviet Union, he took his grandfather's surname for his stage name Kostya Kinchev.

The band's lineup was finally completed in December 1984, when new vocalist Kostya Kinchev and guitarist Petr Samoylov joined.

Their debut album Energia was released by state publishing monopoly Melodiya and sold more than a million copies.

Alisa's next album was titled Article 206 part 2, a chapter ("Hooliganism") of the Soviet Union Procedural Code, alluding to this process.

Kinchev's fairly conservative religious-patriotic shift was viewed unfavourably by some old fans that liked Alisa for their original "rock" message.

On 21 April 1993, 4 days before the referendum on confidence in the President of Russia, Kinchev and Alisa performed on Vasilyevsky Spusk at a rally-concert in support of Boris Yeltsin.

"[11] In 2011, answering questions from the Kommersant website, Kinchev said that "Putin, at a certain stage of his reign, was useful to the country, but his time, in my opinion, is over.

Having said that in the last few days he had already interviewed probably a hundred people, but had never heard a positive answer, he then asked the question to the audience: "Is there anyone who voted for the "party of power"?