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St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Famous after filming in the film by Alexei Balabanov “Brat-2” became famous. Lyov’s song “Nobody writes to the Colonel” entered the soundtrack to the picture. I recorded music for the reality show "The Last Hero". In the year he was recognized as a foreign agent in Russia. Mom, Natalya Fedorovna, a certified philologist; Father, Mikhail Vasilievich, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, taught thermodynamics and statistical physics at the faculty of radiophysics and electronics of the Belarusian State University.

When the father was invited to teach in Africa, one of the universities of the city of Congo, the family went with him. Once he brought the lion's fang to his little son, which he wore without taking off. Local children began to call him a lion, the name took root, and even the parents called the son Lyovushka. Lyova Bi-2 in childhood, the boy liked the music, was especially struck by his song about the cruiser Aurora, after which he stated that he himself would write songs.

In the year, Yegor came to the Minsk children's theater studio "Rond", where he met with the future friend and co-founder of the Bi-2 group Alexander Uman. According to Shura, their first meeting looked like this: a young guy came. I have been in the studio for six months. He came up to me and said: “Hello, my name is Leva. I have a friend here, he writes poems, and you could not, as a person who already has an idea of ​​some kind of poetry, tell me this is worthwhile or not?

I took them, read them, and then said to Levka: “Leva, I have a serious conversation for you. Naturally, of course, I understood everything. Leva, you do not be embarrassed if you write poetry or texts. You can say this openly. Alexander admitted that he showed them to uncle, and he said that there was potential in verses. Thus began their friendship and creative cooperation, although there was no question of music then - the young man has the mercy of the theater.

It was in the theater studio that Yegor’s understanding of what he wants to do in the future was formed. The usual school was “horror” for him. By the tenth grade, he began to protest against the system: to begin with, he grew a pigtail that was very annoyed by teachers. When his mother once again pressed her son, she cut off the pigtail while Leva was sleeping. The young man was in shock, in protest he cut a school suit and in such a “tuxedo” appeared for lessons.

Leva became interested in psychedelic music at school and in August, together with Shura, created the group “Brothers in Weapons”. At the festival of rock music in Minsk, they took first place. Inspired by the first success, the guys renamed their team into the “Bank of Truth” and began to tour in Belarus. You can read more about the early years of the group here. In the year, Leva and Shura reduced the name of the group to “Bi-2” and began to consider this year the year of the founding of the team.

Lyova Bi-2 and Shura Bi-2 in his youth for a year brought Bortnik serious changes in life. He and Shura recorded in Russia their first magneto -album “traitors of the Motherland”, which was never replicated. The Soviet Union broke up, music festivals ceased. Shura left for Israel, Leva arrived there a year later. Getting an Israeli passport, Bortnik saw that he was recorded by Igor.

So he got the third name. The Bi-2 group in X in Israel Leva got a job as a guard, then served in the army with a computer schedule. He and Shura were engaged in their music episodically, but managed to visit several Russian -speaking Israeli festivals. The apogee of their work was the composition of Barbara, which was successful with the local public. Bi-2-Barbara after Shura’s move to Australia in the year, Leva stopped making music, although at first he still tried with a friend to work on songs on the phone.

Only five years later, Leva moved to Uman to the Australian continent, where they revived Bi-2. Shura recalled: we first began to recall that we came up with Bobruisk, compose new songs and have already performed at festivals. In Australia, also four to five songs appeared first, for example, the same “Varvara”, “silver”, “heart”. For two months we completed the rest of the album, recorded it in the studio and began to play it too.

It's not about the realization that you will be a legendary musician, but in that we always knew specifically what we want. They knew and did it. The album was called "and the ship is floating." He was not published again, but the songs from it fell into constant rotation at Russian radio stations and became popular. The first program album "Bi-2" came out under the name "Surely and sad love." The guys saved on his record, working hard: Leva was a malarus, and Shura was a su-chef.

Much went not according to plan. For example, Leva could not record his parties, as he could not come to the studio - Shura performed them for him.

Leva Bi-2 and Shura Bi-2 in X then searched for a long time for a label that would help with the release of the album. Finally, the label was found in Germany. And the next day, default struck in Russia - and there was no question of any sale of disks and tour. As a result, the album “Surely and Sad Love” officially released only in the year.The great success for the artists was to participate in the film by Alexei Balabanov “Brat-2”, whose shooting took place in December the music “Bi-2” Balabanov was suggested by Misha Kozyrev in the register of foreign agents of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, whom the director invited for musical consultations.

The Bi-2 group on the filming of the film “Brat-2” and if the guys from “Bi-2” before the premiere of the film, having been living in Russia for several months and even breaking through to the radio and playing the concert at the invasion festival, did not feel any progress, the song “Colonel Nobody writes” has gained incredible popularity and changed everything. The group received the Golden Gramophone Award, and their composition was headed by the official album "Brother Music for the film." Bi-2-no one writes to the colonel in the year of Leva and Shura recorded their second album "Bi-2", and in the year the group began to act, accompanied by a symphony orchestra led by Felix Aranovsky.

Over the next decade, the group actively produced the albums of Musa Kiss Mi, Foreign Barks, Milk, Lunapark, and went on a joint tour with the Spleen group. Bi-2 feat. Spleen - Fellini in the year released the long -awaited album "The Horizon of Events", which received several well -deserved awards. In the "chart dozen" Leva was recognized as the best soloist of the year.

The soloist of Bi-2 told about work on the next disk: I would compare preparations for writing a new album with the filling of an empty vessel. The main thing is to understand what will happen in it. You need to decide what you want to say, and this is the most difficult supername. When you understand what you want to say, only then you begin to look for means of how to do it and how.

And now we just came to the point when we know what we want to say, and we are ready to write songs and write down. In the year, the group gave an incredible in beauty a large -scale show in the Olympic: with a voluminous sound, bewitching light and a special video. In the pandemic, like many musicians, Bi-2 laid out their songs on the network. A year later, Bi-2 recorded the single "I do not believe anyone." In the year, the couple had a son Fedor, and a year later they signed.

The musician was not an exemplary family man, at some point he had a new girlfriend. Bortnik divorced Irina, proceedings about alimony were drawn for several years. Now the ex -wife and son lives in Thailand, with Fedor Lyov periodically calling up. They met earlier than Leva married: both went on a train to the festival in Jurmala. Asya at that time was the tourist manager of the rock collection "Mumiy Troll".

Bortnik, he said, fell in love with the girl at first sight and stated that she would become his wife. But their paths parted for a while: Leva met Irina and their son was born. Then he again met his love at first sight, and began to meet Asya: first secretly, then not hiding. A year later, the couple played a wedding, and in the year the son of David appeared in the family.

At first, this union also did not work out, in particular, due to the problems of Leva with alcohol. But when he ceased to abuse, relations were getting better. The wife recommended that Leva change his hairstyle, he also lost weight. Bi-2 also said that the planned concert in Moscow was postponed for the summer of the year. The team did not give explanations on this subject, but promised that all previously purchased tickets would be valid.

On the VK page, Leva wrote: our music has always united people, and not vice versa - we want this to continue. We stay with you, but for now - without live concerts. All our concerts postponed will certainly take place. It should be noted that this is not the first abolition of concerts. So in April, Bi-2 said that their performance in Omsk was torn by the organizers, dismantling the decorations of the group.

The administration of the site, in turn, was indignant at the fact that the musicians closed a banner with a military symbol Z, in which the phrase “For Victory” was encrypted. Leva Bi-2 in the year colleagues of musicians reacted differently to what happened. Some advised the group to openly declare the real reasons for the cancellation of the performance and their political point of view, others stated that artists should work regardless of their views.

In July of the same year, the Bi-2 group performed at a football match at the main stadium of St. Petersburg.