Juris Kulakovs

Juris Kulakovs (born May 20, 1958) is a Latvian musician and composer, best known as the lead singer and main composer of the bands Menuets and Pērkons.

He is a multi-instrumentalist, and he is self-taught on the great majority of musical instruments that he plays.
As of 1978, he has been playing in the group Menuets. In 1981, he founded the rock group Pērkons, who became of the most beloved groups of the youth, and one of the most loathed groups by the Soviet cultural bureaucracy.