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Gene was born on 21 August 1963 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He started to train playing guitar at the age of 6.

The first guitar teacher was Vladimir Kuzakov — the jazz musician, clarinetist, and music theorist. His main predilection was the guitar and he devoted to it a lot of theoretical works.

At the age of 12 Gene was carried away by German philosophy. In this view he has found the difference between sensory perception of the world and the logical cognition. It lead him to Indian Vedanta and Neo-Vedanta.

Since 1976 Gene has been carried away by yoga. From that time music experiments occurred in his guitar training as well as increased Gene’s interest in music cultures of Russia, India, China, Spain and Scotland. Over 80 experimental musical compositions both for guitar and orchestra were written by him in this time.

Since 1981 Gene began to experiment with different groups. In the periods of 1983-90 and 1992–95 Gene created his own programs with more than 15 musical staffs. These experiments have not satisfied him as he had expected. In the same period he tried himself in playing contrabass, sitar and tar. Just in that very period Gene has found his unique technique of plucking, combining specificities of playing tar and sitar. Also 9 theme musical albums were written by Gene together with other authors in that period: “Piece” (1983), “Unidentified flying gentlemen” (1983), “Very bony fish” (1984), “Five-quarters of the red Spanish wine” (1984), “Particular case” (1986), “Pandava’s son” (1990), “The New World over Baghdad” (1993), “Backflip” (1993), “Gospel” (1994).

Ladoshkin decided to hold up public musical activity and delved deeply into research of “Theory of data exchange”. Proceeding research into music theory, Gene practiced in consulting of marketing management, also leading manufacturing, research and media companies.

In that period (1995–2011) Gene has written over 400 compositions and three theme albums: “The Fold”, “Hymn of Countryside” and “Strong Ascending Streams”. In the same time his musical preferences were specified and a new confluence of knowledge of philosophy and music has come.

I was lucky with the teachers and I liked to study. From the early childhood I learned to do several things at once. Perhaps just that very quality became the cause of the eclecticism in my pieces of music, where I always combine different styles and cultures. I am in love with guitar and the main thing for me is the process of learning of this instrument, discovering new qualities of guitar. Guitar is my interlocutor in the philosophical conversations, where improvisations certainly always occur. I think I can’t be named musical performer as it is, I am rather music researcher, who performs the results of his experiments in public sometimes.