Slepakov was born on August 23, 1979, in
Pyatigorsk,
Stavropol Krai and raised in a Jewish family. He graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Pyatigorsk State University with specialization in Translation from French. In 2003, he obtained the degree of
Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 2005, he moved to in
Moscow. He moved to
Israel in October 2022 and was threatened with arrest by Russian authorities for releasing a song critical of the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. == Filmography ==