Victor Smolski

Victor Dmitrievich Smolski (Russian: Ви́ктор Дми́триевич Смо́льский, Belarusian: Віктар Дзмітрыевіч Смольскі; born 1 February 1969) is a Belarusian musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was a constant member of the German heavy metal band Rage, from 1999 until 2015.

Biography

Son of professor Dmitry Smolski, a symphonic music composer, Victor was six years old when he began studying the piano, cello and later guitar. Smolski was awarded diplomas on playing rock and jazz guitar as well as on composing and arranging music. His first professional work was playing with the famous Belarusian folk band Pesniary when he was 14 years old.

In 1988 he founded the band Inspector and they toured over Germany for the first time. Frank Bornemann was very interested in the band and offered a contract to Inspector. Due to visa problems, the tour became complicated, but even then Inspector played many shows in Germany. In 1993 they released their CD, Russian Prayer (ARIS / ARIOLA).