Was born in Novorossiysk. In 1983 he moved to Leningrad. In the mid-80s he worked in the "New Artists" group founded by Timur Novikov. From 1986, he played the bass guitar in rock-group "Kino", created a decorations for "Kino" and "Pop-Mechanic" concerts.
One of the first Krisanov became a member of the “Club of Friends of V.V. Mayakovsky”. With artists Sergey Bugayev-Africa, Inal Savchenkov and S. Enkov he was a participant of the “Novorossiysk group”.
Andrei Krisanov designed the cover of the "Blood type" album of the "Kino" group (1988). He acted in some cult films of the 80s, incl. "ASSA" (dir. Sergey Soloviev, 1988) and "ROCK" (dir. Alexey Uchitel, 1987).