Real name: Марина Сергеевна Абросимова

Effective period / Period of releases: 2006 - 2018

Marina Sergeevna Abrosimova known by her stage name МакSим is an Russian singer, author, performer and music producer.
Born June 10th, 1983 in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR

Early in her career her name was pronounced as Maxi-M, now MakSim. Her stage name originates from her childhood nickname Максим (Maxim), which she received because of spending many time in a company of her elder brother Максим Абросимов. Also her mother's maiden name was Максимова (Maximova).

Her first 2 albums have done extremely well, reaching 6 x Platinum (1.2 million+ copies) for Трудный Возраст, and 3 x Platinum (600,000+ copies) for Мой Рай, from just the total countings mid-2008. Despite having no actual singles released, at least 9 of the tracks and remixes from her albums have hit #1 on the TopHit 100 radio charts for multiple weeks in a row in Russia; several others have reached the 100 as well, and stayed there for extended durations.