Oxxxymiron

Miron Yanovich Fyodorov (Russian: Мирон Янович Фёдоров; born 31 January 1985), known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian rapper and former CEO of the Booking Machine booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record label Vagabund. He is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums The Wandering Jew and Gorgorod are considered by the community as the most important releases of Russian rap.

Biography

Miron Yanovich Fyodorov was born in 1985 in Leningrad, in a family of Russian Jews. His father is a theoretical physicist of the Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics in St. Petersburg and his mother is a librarian. In St. Petersburg, Miron attended secondary school No. 185. When Fyodorov was 9 years old, his family emigrated to Essen, Germany. During his studies in Maria Wächtler School, Miron had a 'tense relationship' with his classmates because of his social standing and poor German. At the age of 13, Fyodorov began to write lyrics and rap in German and Russian under the name MC Mif (from Miron Fyodorov). When he was 15, the Fyodorovs moved to Slough, England. In 2004, Miron Fyodorov began studying at the University of Oxford, Balliol College in the faculty of English. During his studies Fyodorov was the president of the Russian community of Oxford. In 2006 he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had to stop studying, however he managed to continue studying after a break. In June 2008 he graduated from the university with a degree in English literature.