TNMK is a one of the most prominent, successful and prolific bands in Ukraine today who have performed to millions of fans in live concerts, are heard and watched by listeners and viewers on Ukrainian TV and radio across the country as well as in the rest of Central and Eastern Europe at numerous festivals they play.

Their hit «Zroby Meni Hip-Hop» («Do Me a Hip-Hop») became an anthem of a generation in a way no other song has. Just about every Ukrainian aged 15 to30 knows the catchy chorus and the pounding rhythm of the song. This song alone turned TNMK from just another band into an institution which is loved and respected.

In the decade they?ve been performing TNMK released four studio LPs, all of which became best-selling and long-selling. They have also released two albums of remixes, a live album of jazz versions of their songs, dozens of singles, maxi-singles, videos and documentaries. The band?s chronicle «ShoPopaloShow» (TheWhatEvaShow«) is being completed as their career progresses.

Their latest album «Syla» («Power») went Golden soon after its release at the end of 2006. They have won numerous music awards with the album.

«Syla» coincided with lengthy celebrations of TNMK?s 10th season and the release of the «French Chronicles» — a FixFilm account of the band?s adventures while on tour in France.

Their hit «Viva Ukraino» was the Ukrainian national football team unofficial anthem at the 2006 World Cup chanted by the fans across the world and rotated by Ukrainian FM radio stations.

Last summer TNMK opened for their colleague rapper, the American 50 Cent when he played his first ever Kyiv concert in the downtown Arena complex.

TNMK featured in a Russian thriller «Nenasytnye»(«The Insatiable») along with their hit «Vidryvaisia» («Let It Go») — a clip from the film was premiered on Ukrainian TV last August and became a popular video. TNMK?s other songs were picked for the film?s soundtrack.

Keeping up with the newest technologies the band shot one of its video entirely on mobile phone (several handsets, as it happened!) in a promotion project for Nokia.

Paying tribute to the traditional Ukrainian music the band has worked in the recording studios with famous Ukrainian female singers. They did a version of the 1970s classic «Chervona Ruta» with the Ukrainian «Madonna» Sofia Rotaru and recorded a number of songs with a folk singer Nina Matvienko.

TNMK?s 9th season was marked by a video «Granyly» (Grains«) being shot in St. Petersburg at an exclusive location in an Imperial Russian aristocratic mansion. The video was scripted and directed by a well-known Russian director Aleksandr Igudin. It then became somewhat of a coup in Ukraine aired for weeks on several TV channels.

Renowned for sticking to Ukrainian (even though the band originally comes from predominantly Russian-speaking eastern city of Kharkiv) the band had a go at singing in French and English. «Voda» («Water/L?Eau») and «Voseny» («In Autumn/En Automne») were recorded in their 8th season.

Season 7 was most memorable for the album «Jazzy Live» recorded and produced with jazz performers Turbo-B (Snap) and Skhid-Side.

And briefly — how it all started:
1997 — TNMK win «Dance Music» award at the Chervona Ruta festival — with the soon-to-become-legendary «Zroby Meni Hip-Hop» («Do Me A Hip-Hop»).
1998 — Debut album «Zroby meni hip-hop» becomes second top-selling album in Ukraine.
1999 — «Zachekai» («Wait») video is made by the Ukrainian music video guru Viktor Priduvalov. It is soon proclaimed the video of the year by most Ukrainian music publications.
2000 — TNMK tours Russia and takes part in Anthropology TV show (NTV Russia)
2001 — «Neformat» album is released to critics acclaim.
2002 — Mr. Priduvalov shoots another music video for the band — «Voseny». It becomes the best Ukrainian music video of all times.
2004 — «Pozhezhi Mista Vavilon» («Fires of Babylon City») album is released to become a new benchmark for the Ukrainian music.