Maria Melnikova, better known as Gural, is a fashion model who has achieved popularity and success through the social network Instagram. However, many people know her thanks to her husband. Maria's husband is the rap artist Matvey Melnikov, who performs under the pseudonym Mot.
Childhood and adolescence of a popular rapper
Matvey Melnikov was born on March 2, 1990. He is a native of a city called Krymsk, which is located in the Krasnodar Territory. And although the singer was born in Russia, partly there are Greek roots in him, since his maternal grandfather was Greek.
Mot lived in his hometown for a relatively short time. In 1995, when he was 5 years old, the family moved to Krasnodar. But the Melnikovs did not stay there either. At the end of the 9th grade, Matvey, together with his parents, moved to Moscow, where he graduated from high school, and with excellent results - upon graduation, the guy was awarded a gold medal. After school, Matvey became a student at the Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University. The rapper defended his diploma, after which he entered graduate school. Melnikov also successfully graduated from the military department.
Always in creativity
Parents from an early age instilled in Matvey not only the desire for knowledge, but also a love of creativity. From childhood, the boy walked hand in hand with creativity. At the age of 5 he was sent to dance. He attended folk, ballroom, and Latin American dances. And at the age of ten, Matvey was lucky enough to get into a dance studio called Todes. At that time, each parent strove for his child to study under the guidance of the famous choreographer Alla Dukhova.
The future singer became interested in music after moving to Moscow. It was in the 10th grade that he began to compose his first texts. According to Mot, the songs of the Russian band Casta and the American underground hip-hop group Cunninlinguists had a significant influence on his style. The singles of these groups impressed the guy with the deep meaning and quality of the music, as a result of which he recorded the first tracks in 2006 at the GLSS studio. At that time, Matvey had not yet thought to engage in rap seriously, for him he was just a favorite hobby.
Matvey Melnikov's truly career began at the age of 19, when he took part in the popular project "Battle for Respect 2". He got into the "TOP 40", which was an incredible success for the guy. By the way, during the audition, Andrey Menshikov, known under the pseudonym Legalize, drew attention to the aspiring rapper. He gave the singer good advice - to change BthaMoT2bdabot to a simpler and more sonorous pseudonym. Matvey did not fail to take advantage of Legalize's advice, and turned simply into Mota.
The next step in Mota's career was performing at a concert in Luzhniki. In the same year, in 2011, he recorded his first album, Remote, thanks to which he had his first fans. Then the guy released his second album "Repair". In 2013, Mot received an invitation from Black Star Inc. It was thanks to this that Matvey decided to devote his future to music.
Family life
The rap artist's personal life, as well as his career, was also successful. In the summer of 2016, or rather on August 5, Mot married the model Maria Gural. The couple met on Instagram. At first, the young people only corresponded, and then they decided to meet in Moscow. After a short time, Maria and Matvey realized that they had found kindred spirits. Then Maria again left for Kiev, but this did not cool the couple's feelings. After graduating from university, the girl moved to Moscow to live with her lover.
Matvey Melnikov made Maria a marriage proposal in a very unusual way. This happened when the couple was vacationing on Old New Year in Thailand. Half an hour before the departure on the way back, Mot told the girl that she needed to dive into the water. At first she hesitated, but nevertheless agreed, and when she surfaced, the young man was waiting for her to confess her love and give a ring. Matvey and Maria first registered their relationship with the registry office, and then after 6 months they played a real wedding and even got married.
In January 2018, the couple had their firstborn son Solomon. According to the rapper, children are the main components of family happiness. Mot values and loves his wife very much, and dreams of having several children in their family.
