Chaliapin first became known as a finalist on the sixth season of the Russian musical reality programme Fabrika Zvyozd.

[9] He was the only child of Andrei Ivanovich Zakharenkov and Elena Ivanovna Kletskina, who was eighteen at the birth of her son.

[10] In many interviews, Chaliapin acknowledged that he endured a challenging childhood due to his father's problems with alcoholism and schizophrenia.

[4] At the age of 15, Chaliapin auditioned to enter the State Music and Pedagogical Institute named after M. Ippolitov-Ivanov at the department of "Folk singing".

[20] From 1991 to 1996, Chaliapin was known as a child singer and as one of the soloists of the vocal show group "Jam", where he sang along with Irina Dubtsova, Tanya Zaikina (Monokini) and Sofia Taih.

In 2005, at the contest "Star Chance", held in New York, he sang the song "Odna kalyna" by Sofia Rotaru in Ukrainian and took the third place.

[2] For his frivolous behaviour and one-liners, Chaliapin quickly became an audience favourite and a widely discussed participant.

He also attracted negative attention by posing as the descendant of the famous opera singer Feodor Chaliapin.

[35] In 2019, Chaliapin performed at the festive concert dedicated to second anniversary of the complete destruction of chemical weapons in Russia.

During this concert in Volgograd, Chaliapin held a short speech in which he said he wished for a peaceful world without war.

After Fabrika Zvyozd, Chaliapin first appeared in a broadcast of Live on Air in 2012, where he and his then girlfriend discussed their relationship in an unconventional manner.

[38] In 2013, Chaliapin appeared in a broadcast in which he announced that he would marry 57-year-old business woman and media personality Larisa Kopenkina.

[42][43] Instead, Chaliapin announced that he had a child with another woman, model Anna Kalashnikova, which was born to the couple in March 2015.

[45] In 2018, Chaliapin again became a popular topic in the yellow press after appearing alongside Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, the former wife of famous actor Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.

In a broadcast of New Russian Sensations in June 2019, a discussion between Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya and her lawyer escalated to fisticuffs, also involving Chaliapin, who tried to de-escalate the situation.

[47] He returned on Let Them Talk in August 2021 to discuss his new marriage and featured in an unusual one-to-one interview with Andrey Malakhov on Live on Air in October 2021 after the passing of his wife.

[49] Chaliapin first married at the age of 18 to a classmate six years his senior, Inna Shevchenko from Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

[50][51] On December 3, 2013, 30-year-old Prokhor Chaliapin married 58-year-old entrepreneur Larisa Kopenkina,[52][53][54] whom he met in early 2013 while on holiday in Jamaica.

[60] In a release dated April 20, 2016, the results of a DNA test showed that their common child[61][62] is not the biological son of Chaliapin.

[64] On 31 July 2021, Chaliapin married his third wife Tanya Davies, a 46-year-old[48] Canadian citizen,[65][66] in a secret and private ceremony in Las Vegas.

[48][69][70][71] After rumours circled around his sexuality in 2014, Chaliapin acknowledged that he "loves all people" and that he thinks that the LGBT community should be protected.

[82][83] He wrote that he previously thought that Russia had invaded Ukraine, but that his opinion changed after consuming state media.