Russian ticktocker, rap artist, musician and video blogger. In October 2020, the Russian Forbes placed Milokhin on the 6th place of its first-ever list of the highest-paid ticktockers.
Biography
Danila Milokhin was born in Orenburg on December 6, 2001. The boy's childhood was not easy: his father, who suffered from alcoholism, and his mother divorced, and at the age of three, Danila, along with his older brother, ended up in an orphanage, where the director was the adoptive mother of Yuri Shatunov — Valentina Tazekenova.
When Danila turned 13, he and his brother Ilya were adopted by a foster family.
Unlike Ilya, who became a candidate for the master of sports in chess in the orphanage (because of his desire to continue playing sports, he did not want to leave the orphanage when this opportunity appeared), Danila showed no interest in studying or in sports.
After school, he followed his brother to a local school, which he did not graduate from. During this period, he lived in a hostel or on the street. Sometimes he didn't have money for food.
At the age of 16, he became addicted to drugs, later he managed to overcome addiction.
In 2021, he became a participant in the Ice Age show paired with two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva.
In 2022, Milokhin was not allowed to rest in Ukraine. The border guards explained this by the fact that he could not convince them of the purpose of his trip
Career
In 2019, he opened an account in TikTok, where he began posting videos. At that time, he lived in Anapa and worked as a waiter, then decided to move to Moscow. At the same time, Yaroslav Andreev, the founder of WildJam agency, drew attention to him and offered Milokhin to participate in integrations for sponsors. The agency took over the work with advertisers.
On March 10, 2020, he founded a tiktok team (the so-called "tiktok house" or "house of tiktokers") called Dream Team House.
Having decided to try himself in music, he composed and published the song "I'm at home", the content of which is associated with being in self-isolation due to the spread of the coronavirus. In TikTok, the track became very popular, many thousands of videos were shot for it. In addition, on May 6, a clip was presented on YouTube, which quickly gathered millions of views.
There was no experience. It became interesting for me to try myself in something that I had not tried before. I've been wanting to record a track for a long time, and quarantine just helped me in this. We wrote the single "I'm Home" together with our team, and it took less than a day. It turned out to be a cannon.
On June 10, 2020, the song "Havchik" was released — a joint work of Milokhin with Timati and Dzhigan. At the end of the same month, he released another solo song — "I'm a scumbag".
On September 6, 2020, he released the single "Love". A music video was released on September 30.
On September 17, 2020, the music video for the song "Wildly Hanging Out" was released, which Milokhin recorded together with Nikolai Baskov.
On April 21, 2021, he released his debut album "Boom", which included eight tracks.
In 2021, he took part in the advertising campaign "Sbera", starring in a number of clips and commercials. On May 17, Milokhin's clip was released for the "Sbera" and Visa advertising campaign.
In 2021, he became one of the speakers of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, as well as its youth face. Later, he was criticized by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova for "clowning" at the forum.
As of mid-July 2021, Dani Milokhin has more than 14 million subscribers on TikTok], more than 3 million on Instagram.
In October 2020, Russian Forbes ranked Milokhin 6th in their first ever list of the highest paid tiktokers.
