Singer Kalyanov Alexander Biography
Alexander Kalyanov - Biography, News, Personal Life Age: 77 Since the birth of death: 73 years old Alexander Ivanovich Kalyanov. Soviet and Russian sound engineer, pop singer, actor, composer, arranger, producer. Alexander Kalyanov was born on August 26 in Utych of the Bryansk region in a family of teachers. Mother is a teacher. Has an older sister. He studied at the school in which his parents taught.
He was a successful student - he graduated from a school with a silver medal. From an early age, he was fond of music. He also loved to mess with technology. After school, he entered the Taganrog Radio Engineering Institute, after which he worked as an engineer at the Bryansk plant of semiconductor devices. He worked as a radio engineer for musical instruments, has several inventions in this area.
He worked with a sound engineer at the Sports Palace in Kazan as part of the group “Six Young”. According to Kalyanov, he had a huge impact on him by Vladimir Vysotsky, who took place during the concerts of the actor and the bard in Kazan. He recalled how he was a sound engineer at Vysotsky: “My tape recorders were connected to my remote control - the collectors recorded every concert.
Of course, I asked: “Vladimir Semenovich, can I? He said: “I love too. I will be in a share! He poured half a glass of strong tea plus half a glass of cognac. In this way I drank a couple of bottles, but it was sober, completely sober - amazing! Many years later, Kalyanov spent an evening in the Moscow complex, dedicated to the lady of Vladimir Vysotsky. There, dozens of musicians sang Vysotsky's songs.
All records of the covers were made at his studios for free, then a double CD was released. Kalyanov worked as a sound engineer and in other groups - “Red Macs”, “Phoenix”, as well as with Alexander Barykin and Alla Pugacheva. Since that time, Kalyanov also worked as a sound producer: many Russian pop and foreign artists recorded their songs in his studios. In the year, he made his debut as a singer at the “Christmas meetings” by Alla Pugacheva with the song “Old Cafe”.
Then he began to tour. About the beginning of his career as a singer, he said that his first album was written by Igor Nikolaev. He said: "Igor Nikolaev and Alla Pugacheva are my creative" dad "and" mom. " Alla convinced me that I had to go on stage and sing, which I was very opposed, if not for her, I would never have become an artist. I was not going to be them. If I sang, then at the request of Igor Nikolaev.
He said: "You have an interesting timbre, let's try to write you down." And when we recorded the album, this album was dispersed on the cassettes with a pirate way, even under the Soviet regime. But it can take me to the stage, the complexes interfered. And there was no special desire, to be honest. But I liked that these songs like people. "The song repertoire of Alexander Kalyanov is made up with other authors.
As he said, this is a kind of official Russian chanson. Each song was carefully selected by him. Tour the CIS countries and performed for the Russian -speaking public. Laureate of the" Chanson of the Year "of the year, and threas for compositions. “Old Cafe”, “Return, Friends” and “Beautiful Woman”, respectively, in the year, Alexander Kalyanov received the status of the legend of the Russian chanson, speaking in the project of the same name, which took place in the capital of the Middle Urals.
I have five cassettes with works of unrecognized geniuses, a bunch of poems. By the way, my most famous song, “Old Cafe”, was written by the little -known author Vyacheslav Gorbatov. I sing what I like, but I cannot consider myself a singer. I am a storyteller. Having my studio, I could fill up the country with albums, releasing them two or three a year, but I am not interested and not needed.
It’s not a matter of number, ”said Kalyanov. Friends called his hookah Ivanych. The first was the first to record Vika Tsyganov in his studio, who later became a famous singer. Kalyanov invented a device for singing under a phonogram, the essence of which is the opportunity to sing alive and automatically inclusion of a phonogram in which the artist did not fall. Alexander Ivanovich said that Alexander Ivanovich said that The device was primarily for the “living” artists with the aim of securing their unforeseen diseases of the throat, a breakdown of the voice, etc., in particular, played Papa Carlo in the musical tape “The latest adventures of Buratino”.
The wife's name is Alexander. They have been together for many years. The couple has a son, who was also called Alexander. He followed in the footsteps of his father - he became a sound engineer, worked at the Ton Studio. Alexander Kalyanov with his wife and son, the Filmography of Alexander Kalyanov’s extreme filming: - The latest adventures of Pinocchio - Papa Carlo - Brathana -2 - Camo is not in the credits - fall in love with a person.
Igor Nikolaev Documentary discography of Alexander Kalyanov:.