Spotlight: Russia Got the Blues
Sergey Voronov, Blues musician and Leader of the CROSSROADZ blues band 1961 - Born in Moscow 1983 - Graduates, Maurice Thorez Foreign Languages Institute 1986 - Joins the "Stas Namin group" Soviet band 1987 - Forms the Blues League with his friend, Nikolay Arutyunov 1990 - Forms Crossroadz 1992 - Tours France with Crossroadz and changes the band's name to X-roudz 1993 - Releases first official recording, Paris 1995 - Releases album Between, Russia 1996 - Performs as a special guest with ZZ top and Nazareth, also jams with Sting in Moscow 1996 - Featured performance with Dan Akroyd and the Blues Brothers band at the opening of the House of Blues, Chicago 1997 - X-roudz signs with the Rise Music Russian record label 1997 - Performs with Noel Redding from the Jimi Hendrix Experience 1998 - Releases album Iron Blues-Conversations 1999 - X-roudz becomes the first blues band in history to tour China 2000 - X-roudz changes back to Crossroadz 2004 - Crossroadz hea...