Women's groups of the 90s. How to order a star for a holiday prices for an anniversary, birthday

The editors of PEOPLETALK again invite you to arrange a musical break. We keep indulging in nostalgia and digging up the best of the 90s. The turn has come to remember your favorite foreign hits. All day long, the entire editorial staff recalled the posters that were pasted over our rooms, and chose the 20 hottest hits. So, wherever you are, - down with the headphones, turn on all the volume! I promise I will do the same. May our forgive me Chief Editor, but the next half hour in the office will rattle hits from the 90s. Go!

La Bouche

La Bouche is a German duo formed in 1994. Be my lover became their second single and won the ASCAP award for the most song being performed America.

Michael Jackson- Remember The Time

It's hard to pick just one song from the great Michael Jackson (1958−2009), but I settled on Remember The Time. He starred in the video for this song with a multi-million dollar budget and computer special effects (53).

Britney Spears- Baby one more Time

Album Baby One More Time was released in 1999 and became the most successful for (33). Thanks to him, she won the hearts of millions of fans and gained immense popularity around the world.

Five - Everybody Get Up

As soon as these British guys hit the air, I fell in love at first sight. And the song Everybody Get Up from Five (1998) is still one of my favorites.

Spice Girls

it debut single Spice Girls, which became a real hit. The song was in rotation 502 times a week and spent seven weeks at the top of the British charts. She became the impetus for the group's global popularity, by the end of the year taking first place in the charts of 21 more countries.

Aqua-Barbie Girl

The Scandinavian band Aqua rose to fame thanks to the song Barbie Girl and became prominent representative eurodance genre. The song is about Barbie and Ken dolls and their lives. Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls, has filed a lawsuit against the performers for copyright infringement over the use of the Barbie image.

Ricky Martin- Livin' La Vida Loca

Ricky Martin (43) is an amazing Puerto Rican pop musician. I am sure that there is no person on earth who has not heard Livin "La Vida Loca, which became the biggest hit of his career.

Backstreet Boys

Backstreet Boys - they are one of the coolest boy pop groups, my whole room was plastered with their posters. Everybody is the first single from the Backstreet Boys' second studio album. The song is real calling card groups.

MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

MC Hammer is an American rapper, his real name is Stanley Kirk Berel (52). This track was recorded and mixed in a mobile studio on the bus during the tour and became a real hit.

Mr President - Coco jumbo

Mr. President - German a dancing group, their most famous composition was the song Coco jumbo. It reached the highest chart positions in the group's history.

Ace of Base

Ace of Base is a Swedish pop group, but they sang their songs in English. The Sign - one of the most famous tracks - instantly gained popularity not only in Europe, but also here, in Russia.

Tic Tac Toe – Warum

Tic Tac Toe is one of the most successful German pop bands. And the song Warum from the group's second platinum album lasted seven weeks at the top of the charts and thundered all over the world.

Enrique Iglesias

(39) - a Spanish handsome man who won our hearts with his incendiary songs. Bailamos has become incredibly successful and has reached number one in the US.

Scooter

Scooter is a German band that has conquered the whole world. The composition Five with the famous guitar solo became the soundtrack for the films "Mortal Kombat - 2: Annihilation" and "Hackers".

Antique - Opa Opa

Antique is a Greek pop duo. The track Opa Opa became a landmark and entered the top five of the Swedish hit parade.

Bad Boys Blue

These are very cool guys! They have released over 30 hits that have topped the charts in many countries. And the song You Are A Woman is their most famous and favorite track.

No Doubt - Don't Speak

No Doubt is a famous pop group led by the amazing Gwen Stefani (45). Their most successful album was Tragic Kingdom, and the coolest track Don't Speak took the lead in the charts. The album sold over 230,000 copies in its first week.

Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

Canadian rock musician Bryan Adams (55) captured our hearts with his lyrical ballad (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. I am sure that every woman dreams that her beloved person would say such words to her.

Roxette

Roxette is a Swedish rock band with only two members, Per Gessle (56) and Maria Fredrikssoon (56). These guys have a lot of hits, but How Do You Do is one of my favorites.

Madonna

The incomparable Queen of Pop completes our hit parade (56)! With her ballad Frozen, she took first place in the UK charts and got a rightful second place in the list of the 100 hottest tracks in the US.

A rather popular group with Eva Polna at the head, immediately won the wide love of the public with their good arrangements and quickly riveted a lot of catchy hits that girls tearfully sang in almost all discos of the vast Motherland. Songs such as "Dislike", "Run from me" and, of course, "Love me in French" became integral compositions in the playlist of any self-respecting bachelorette party of the 90s and 2000s.

2. Disco Crash

Even the most inveterate rapper and the most hardened metal worker, no, no, and even remember the incendiary motives of this group, well, “Drink beer - eat meat” sounded from every iron at one time. Disco Crash, having gone through the death of one of the participants, actually created a lot of very good different songs about love and friendship and aram-zam-zam there too. Crowned by their creativity New Year rushing towards us, everything will happen soon ”- known from the first chords and recognizable by absolutely everyone.

3. Ivanushki International

The epic boy band of our country, where the members of the group have already become practically grandfathers, still continues to sing songs about unhappy girlish love. In the turbulent nineties, there was Poplar Fluff, and Bullfinches, Clouds, Dolls - it was on these hits that the all-Russian popularity of one redhead and two non-redheads was won.

4. Lyceum

A cute girl group that changed soloists like gloves. Well, and whoever didn’t do this, you can remember, for example, such a crazy group as Strelki, where there were about 20 different girls on vocals and backup dancers, replacing each other regularly once a month. “Lyceum” against their background with the permanent Anastasia Makarevich was just a model of stability, and their “Autumn-autumn, the years have cooled down and shed their leaves” and “And I am a winter girl” have firmly and permanently ingrained in the brain of all our compatriots.

5. Mirage

The mastodons of this list, who started back in the USSR. A large number of squads and girls who grew up into independent stars such as Vetlitskaya, Ovsienko or Saltykova, who traveled around the country in the 90s and collected entire stadiums. It was they who massively brought electronic music to the country, and I still remember very well how my parents lit up under "Music connected us"

6. Hands Up

Another epic and most popular mega-project named after Sergey Zhukov. If the progressive youth listened already to the Western clubbing, then the Russian youth in the outback came off to the frantic rhythms of the Hands Up. “Ai-yay-yay girl”, “I’m already 18” and others, still rattles at all sorts of discos of the 90s and regularly gathers halls.

7.Tattoo

Our "European breakthrough", lesbian image and incredible drive, of course, did their job and "tattoo" became popular not only in Russia. At first everything went well, really strong albums and hits - "They won't catch up with us", and at concerts they were laid out every time like the last one. Then the rehashing of Western hits began, songs in English, and the Russian audience began to slowly leave, and with it, popularity also waned.

8. Technology

The Technologiya group at one time claimed the laurels of the most advanced electronic disco group in young democratic Russia. Copying the then insanely popular Depeche Mode, the group with their hit "Press the button - you get the result", managed to break through to fame and popularity and gathered at the Luzhniki arena, which at that time were rented to anyone and anything, a record 70 thousand Man, those were the times.

9.On-on

Perhaps the first sane boy band brought to our country four smiling guys who sang cute, meaningless songs about “Hat Fell, Fell to the Floor” and gained immense popularity among young and not so girls. They say that the group is still alive, and this is almost 20 years old, and still performs on tour somewhere abroad.

10. Inveterate scammers

Reckless and hooligan recitatives from Amoralov and the company, of course, remember all the "clear boys" of that time. The first bright hoodies, saggy pants and glasses of unimaginable shapes, as well as uncomplicated texts about how to glue a girl, don’t worry and score on studies and ancestors, of course, found their way into the minds of young people after the direct, like a stick, doctrines of the Soviet Union. Such was the time - every innovation was accepted with a bang, and each, even the weakest and most obscure of their albums, had some success.

There were many popular singers and bands in the 90s. Many of them are still performing today, they are no less popular than then. A striking example such a group - "A-Studio". Some Russian singers of the 90s (list below) are not so popular anymore, but they continue to perform at corporate parties and small concert stages in the provinces. However, there are those that no one remembers today, and they have disappeared from the public eye.

Let's remember what the Russian singers of the 90s were like. Many artists are listed in alphabetical order. What is happening to them today, how did their destinies turn out?

Singers of the 90s - list. Russian stars - women

Now these names are almost unknown to listeners. But once these people were very popular.

Alena Apina

What were the popular singers of the 90s like? Russian listeners often start the list with Alena Apina. Many knew her as a member of the Combination group. But since 1991, the girl began to perform solo, recording the hit songs "Ksyusha" and "Accountant" in a separate performance from the "Combination" group. She was popular until the end of 1998, but after that she began to slowly fade away. Then she flickered more on television as a host of various programs and released clips less and less. In 2001, she gave birth to a daughter and plunged into the family. Now she rarely appears on television.

Today, Alena Apina can only be seen at a disco in the 90s.

Alena Sviridova

What else were famous singers 90s, Russians? The list continues Alena Sviridova. Popularity came to Alena in 1993 with the song “The Winter Just Ended”, and the artist consolidated her success in 1994 with the song “Pink Flamingo”. Alena's star began to fade in 2001-2002. Now she still releases little-known albums, spends anniversary concerts performs by invitation at various events.

Alice Mon

"Singers of the 90s Russian" - a list that includes Alice Mon. For the first time, the artist felt the popularity back in 1986, writing the hit "Plantain Grass". After that, she stopped her activities on stage, but resumed it in 1997 with the song "Diamond", which brought success. After Alice disappeared again and forgot about her. Today, Alice Mon can only be seen in clubs, but she performs very rarely.

Alika Smekhova

Alika Smekhova is mostly an actress, she deserves a place in the list of "Popular Russian Singers". The list of the 90s would be incomplete without her, although she got there by accident. In 1997, she released the song "Do not interrupt", for which she shot a video. The song brought the actress additional success as a singer, since she was already widely known as an actress at that time. Alika has only 5 recorded songs, but they are little known. After the popularity of the song "Do not interrupt" passed, everyone forgot about Alik as a singer. Today she rarely sings, more and more preferring cinema and theater.

Alena Ivantsova

Alena Ivantsova is known for the only song "Rain Man", which was written by Leonid Agutin and sung by the singer in 1995. But Alena fled under the auspices of M. Shufutinsky, with whom she lost 2 years as part of the failed Taste of Honey group. After 2 years, she left M. Shufutinsky and released her debut album, Rain Man. But since the main hit of the album had already outlived its popularity, the disc went unnoticed. Since 2008, Alena has become a little-known performer who performs in small nightclubs.

Andrey Gubin

Andrey Gubin became popular singer in 1995, when he released his first album, Tramp Boy, which included a major hit with the same name. The song "Vagabond Boy" was born back in 1986, but only in 1995, with the support of Leonid Agutin, it was recorded at the studio.

In 1998, A. Gubin released the second hit album "Only You", and in 2000 - the last successful album called "It was, but passed."

In 2001, 2002, Gubin released 2 more collections of songs, but they are already less popular than the previous ones.

Today, the singer can only be seen as a jury member or songwriter for other performers.

Andrey Derzhavin

Andrei Derzhavin gained great popularity in 1990 by writing the song "Don't Cry, Alice". Since at that time Andrei was still part of the Stalker musical group, the hit was recorded on the album in 1991 as a joint song with the group. However, in 1992 the group ceased to exist and A. Derzhavin continued to sing this song, only solo. In 1993, he released 2 more hits: "First Flowers" and "Someone else's wedding."

In 1996, the musician recorded the song "Cranes".

Until 1998, many more hits were written, such as "Katya-Katerina", "Natasha" and many others.

In 1998, he wrote another song and shot a video, participated in "Song of the Year". In 1999, Derzhavin shot a video for the song "The One That Leaves."

Realizing that his former popularity had passed, Andrei Derzhavin left solo swimming and joined the Time Machine, becoming an ordinary keyboardist. He combines this with individual activity as a composer. Derzhavin writes a lot of music and songs for different films and serials.

Arkady Ukupnik

Glory to Ukupnik came in 1993 with the song and album "The East is a delicate matter, Petruha." Since then, he has been a regular participant in the New Year's program "Alla Pugacheva's Christmas Meetings." Now Arkady has his own recording studio, he is engaged in producing, writing music and poetry.

Bogdan Titomir

Bogdan Titomir began his career in 1989 as part of the Kar-Men group.
Since 1991 he has been performing solo. Bogdan Titomir was remembered for 3 events in the 90s:
1. The song "Do as I do."
2. Having once said in an interview the phrase “people hawala”, which has become winged in show business.
3. With their outrageous costumes and behavior.

What Bogdan is doing today is unknown.

Vika Tsyganova

The main success for Vika Tsyganova came in 1991, when the album Walk, Anarchy was released. Until 2000, Vika had many more hits, including in the new image of a Russian and romance singer. In the 2000s, oddly enough, Victoria did not become less popular and won herself a new audience of chanson fans. Together with Mikhail Krug, she recorded 8 successful songs that fans listen to to this day.

Today Vika still sings, records albums, but they are already less popular than her previous ones.

She began to devote more time to her once hobby, which has grown into a serious business. Vika creates designer clothes under the TSIGANOVA brand.

Forgotten names

Many more interesting singers It was in the 90s, which had so different fates. Below are the singers of the 90s. Russian men. The list is in alphabetical order. It included names that thundered very bright hits at one time:

• Vlad Stashevsky;
• Vladimir Shurochkin;
• Danko;
• Dolphin;
• Decl;
• DJ Groove;
• Evgeny Osin.

Each of us can easily name several popular musical groups and solo artists of the 90s, whose songs everyone then listened to. Since then, many years have passed, only a few remained on the stage, and then we offer to learn about how fate turned out famous bands those years.

spice girls. The English female pop group was formed in London in 1994, and two years later their debut single "Wannabe" conquered the charts. In our country, as well as around the world, the girls were simply crazy about the five singers.

After several attempts at reunion, the girls went their separate ways, but many became successful in new roles.

Ace of Base. The band's album "Happy Nation / The Sign" is the best-selling debut album in history. Thousands of discos in our country danced to the rhythms and tunes of the collective.

In 2009, lead singer Jenny Berggren left the band. The remaining participants created a new musical project, but three years later the new team broke up.

Scooter. Deutsch Music band, focused on dance and energetic music, in the 90s only the lazy did not ask “How much is the fish” along with the frontman.

The band's manager and frontman H. P. Baxter are the only ones left from the original line-up. Scooter is still touring and releasing albums.

No Doubt. American ska punk band formed in 1986 in Anaheim, California, USA. She became most famous after the release of the album Tragic Kingdom in 1995, the hit from which “Don’t speak” sounded on every radio station.

The group still exists, although its members have become more stylish, and vocalist Gwen Stefani has completely built successful career fashion designer.

Roxette. Swedish pop rock band, whose leaders are Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson in the late 80s and early 90s literally conquered the musical Olympus of the whole world with their romantic ballads.

In 2000, the vocalist was diagnosed with brain cancer and operated on. The work of the team was suspended, but the participants recorded solo records.

In 2013-2016, the musicians actively toured the planet, the last performance took place on February 8, 2016 at the Grand Arena in Cape Town, South Africa, after which the doctors recommended Marie to stop her concert activity.

Pet Shop Boys. British synthpop duo formed in 1981 in London.

Is one of the most commercially successful and fruitful bands in the UK, recording dance music: over the past thirty years they have released more than forty singles (of which 20 hit the top ten of the British charts). Until now, they perform and record albums.

take that. Another English pop-rock band that differed from other "boy" bands of the 1990s in that the members composed their own songs. Already in 1996, the group broke up.

successful solo career managed to build only Robbie Williams. In 2010, the team reunited and even released an album a little later, but in the end, only a trio remained from the original line-up.

La Bouche. The project of the famous German producer Frank Farian, whose second single, Be My Lover, was in the top ten in 14 countries, and in first place in Germany.

Vocalist Melanie Thornton died on November 24, 2001 in a plane crash. Albums La Bouche and solo recordings of the singer are still popular, regularly reissued and remixed.

Bad Boy Blue. During its history, the Eurodisco group has released about 30 hit singles that have hit the charts in many countries of the world, including the USA.

Currently, the Bad Boys Blue group is John McInerney, who quarreled with other members, and two backing vocalists - Sylvia McInerney, John's wife, and Edith Miracle. The group performs at many shows in countries such as Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Finland, Israel, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey, USA and others.

Mr. president. German Eurodance dance group, whose most famous composition "Coco Jamboo" was heard by everyone in the mid-90s.

Release new material the group stopped back in the late 90s, now active creative life only its vocalist Lay Zee.Mo-Do leads.

Mo Do. Fabio Frittelli - italian singer and a disc jockey, whose most famous single was "Eins, Zwei, Polizei", which sounded at all discos in Europe and Russia.

On February 6, 2013, Fabio Frittelli was found lifeless at his home in Udine. At the time of his death he was 46 years old. The cause of death is suicide.

Doc. Alban is a Swedish Eurodance musician of Nigerian origin. Perhaps his most famous work was the composition "It's My Life", which practically became the hallmark of Dr. Alban

Alban created his record label Dr. Records, under whose label all Dr. Alban, starting with "Born In Africa". Continues to release albums and singles.

Aqua. Musical dance-pop group, consisting of one Norwegian girl Lene and three Danish men, who gained worldwide fame in the 90s thanks to the songs "Barbie Girl", "Roses are Red", "Doctor Jones", " Turn Back Time", "Lollipop (Candyman)", "My Oh My", etc.

The group disbanded in the early 2000s and reunited in 2007, and in 2013 even released new album. After that, the group again scattered and gathered, now the team with a changed composition occasionally tours retro festivals.

Europe. The Swedish rock band, founded by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum, achieved notoriety with the hit "Final countdown".

In 1992, the band broke up and reunited only in 2004. On March 2, 2015, their tenth studio album War of Kings was released, which hit the Swedish charts at number two.

Backstreet Boys. The American boy band was formed on April 20, 1993, and since the debut album of the same name in 1996, they have sold about 130 million copies of their records.

Since then, the group has scattered and reassembled, its members being treated for drug and alcohol addiction, but occasionally even released albums.

'N Sync. The “boy” group was formed in 1995, and the teenage hysteria around it reached its climax in March 2000.

Since 2002, the band's frontman - Justin Timberlake - has been engaged in solo career, resulting in the band not releasing new records. On August 25, 2013, the group held a two-minute reunion on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards.

"Lyceum". The main hit of the pop group, "Autumn", sounded in 1995. In addition to her, the history of "Lyceum" has dozens of songs that conquered the top lines in music ratings.

Anastasia Makarevich has been the only permanent member of the team since its foundation in 1991. The group still exists and records new songs.

"Red mold". Russian-Ukrainian group created by musician Pavel Yatsyna, who single-handedly recorded the first four albums. The team is known for performing songs using profanity, as well as verses, ditties, fairy tales, musical parodies, poems and anecdotes.

Now the team still exists and is touring for the eighth line-up. By the way, Pavel Yatsyna was the first to make an electric guitar out of a shovel, which he later patented and performed with it at concerts.

"Ladybug". In 1994, the group rode the wave of success with a version of the Soviet song "Granite Pebble". Clothing, shoes and accessories became the hallmark of the group: boots, jackets and umbrellas stylized as a ladybug.

Vocalist Vladimir Volenko survived a difficult operation, after which, together with his wife, he began to record songs on religious topics. The group also records regular albums, and also gives regular concerts.

Balagan Limited. Hit group "What do you want?" only the lazy did not hear. The band has appeared on TV, recorded three successful albums, and toured extensively.

In 1999, the producer of the group secretly registered the trade name "Balagan Limited" and dialed new composition. Old musicians after a whole year failed attempts to defend the name began to be called by his first hit - "What do you want?".

"Arrows". The pop group was created by the Soyuz studio in 1997 and was considered as "our answer" to the "Spice Gilrs". The group became especially popular in 1999 after the release of the song and the video "You left me", in which the popular actor Ivar Kalninsh starred.

In the early 2000s, due to frequent line-up changes, the group's popularity began to decline. Information about the breakup of the group varies. Some call 2004, others - 2009. Some girls managed to build solo careers.

"Bachelor party". The Russian hip-hop trio was formed in 1991 by producer Alexei Adamov. The very first albums of "Bachelor Party" "Sex without interruption" and "Let's talk about sex", released by the studio "Soyuz" in 1991 and 1992, brought the boy band incredible popularity throughout the country.

Having successfully worked together until 1996, the musicians closed the "Bachelor Party" project. Dolphin began a solo career, and Dan and Mutobor created the Barbitura group, the focus of which was Electonic music.

"Shao? Bao!" The Ukrainian group in 1997 recorded the song "Kupyl konyk's mother (and the konyk without a leg)", which became the hallmark of a trio of young musicians from Dnepropetrovsk.

The group changed line-ups, but, alas, "konyk" remained their only hit.

"Lyceum", "Kar-man", "White Eagle", "Gas Sector", "Red Mold" and other groups that shone on stage in the 90s.

"White Eagle"

In the history of domestic hits, "White Eagle" fit in with the crunch of a French roll in the song "How delightful evenings are in Russia." It is still sung, as is the composition “Because it’s impossible” (to be beautiful like that). Meanwhile, the founder of the group - businessman (he is also the first hit performer) Vladimir Zhechkov - admitted: “No one liked how I sang, even my wife. People do a lot because of their complexes. "White Eagle" became my whim. I wanted to sing - I sang, I wanted to fall in love - I fell in love, I wanted to draw - I painted.

At first, few people guessed that the pop group was created by a serious businessman, who in 1991, together with Sergei Lisovsky, organized the Premier SV advertising agency, which was engaged in the development of the media business. He himself promoted the group: beautiful clips, loud advertising company and at the same time intrigue: no one knew the performers by sight - they were only heard.

In 1999, when the popularity of the "White Eagle" went through the roof, Zhechkov finally appeared on the TV screen during New Year's concert on the ORT channel. And soon he announced the tour of the team in the cities of Russia. Over the years, the group has changed several soloists, compositions. The popularity of the group has declined over the years, but the group still exists and, along with new songs, sings “How delightful evenings are in Russia.”
Zhechkov left singing after a family tragedy in 2002, when his daughter Nadezhda died in a car accident. "My husband always wore pectoral cross- remembers him ex-wife Natalia Talasbaeva. - When I left the identification, I pulled him from the neck as if the chain was choking him. He threw it into the bushes with the words: “I don’t believe anymore” - and sobbed ... ". With great difficulty, she dissuaded Vladimir from committing suicide.

After the death of his daughter, the couple broke up, Vladimir, having lost interest in the group, went to live abroad. “I envy Zhechkov, he can say that his life was divided into “before” and “after” the death of Nadia. There was no "after" for me. No, I live on Rublyovka in a beautiful house ... I live in memories, ”Natalya Talasbaeva admitted in exclusive interview magazine "Caravan of stories"

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The main hit of the pop-rock group "Lyceum" - "Autumn" - sounded in 1995. It was written for his adopted daughter Alexei Makarevich (ex-soloist of the rock band "Resurrection", cousin of Andrei Makarevich - Approx. ed.). After listening to Nastya's speech in Children's theater stage, the musician decided that the girl had every chance of becoming a professional singer.

In September of the same year, the Lyceum trio, consisting of Nastya Makarevich, Lena Perova and Izolda Ishkhanishvili, made their debut in the TV show “ morning Star". The song "One of us" from the repertoire of the ABBA group brought fame to young Russian performers. Alexey Makarevich became the producer, stylist, costume designer and author of many of the group's songs. It was he who wrote "Autumn", with which other songs of the group could not withstand comparison for several more years. And only in 2002, when Lyceum performed "You will become an adult", it became clear that a new hit had appeared.

The history of "Lyceum" has dozens of songs that occupied the top lines in music ratings, no matter how the composition of the group changed. Lena Perova was fired - Anya Pletneva appeared instead of her, then Elena Iksanova. Izolda left - Svetlana Belyaeva came, then Sonya Taikh, Anastasia Berezovskaya, Anna Shchegoleva ... Only Nastya Makarevich was constantly present in the group. She reasoned like this: “There are more pluses in the arrival of a new person. Because with new faces a second wind opens up.

Not everyone knows that the hit "Autumn", which made "Lyceum" mega-popular, ruined the relationship between Nastya's mother and Alexei Makarevich. “From the song “Autumn” and in our relationship with Lesha, autumn began, which turned into a cold winter,” Valeria Makarevich recalled sadly in 2010. - Together we went through fire and water, but the test copper pipes did not survive.

Alexey took too seriously the popularity that hit both the group and him as a producer ... It seemed to Alexei that I had ceased to correspond to him: I don’t look like that, I don’t say that, I’m not dressed like that ... ". For several years, the couple lived their own lives - in different rooms, practically ceasing to talk. And then they got divorced. The fate of Valeria was happy. At 50, she met new love. Alexei died of a heart attack in 2014.

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The name of the singer Vladimir Maltsev, who in the late 1980s sang the song to no one famous Sergey Ogurtsov's "Paris, Paris" is remembered today only because he had the author of the composition Sergey Ogurtsov, aka Sergey Lemokh, and Oleg Titorenko, aka Bogdan Titomir, as backup dancers. Very soon, the guys began to perform on their own, creating an exotic pop duet "Kar-men" - CarMan.

The incendiary rhythms of their songs captivated the audience. On January 1, 1990, they signed a three-year contract with one of the best recording studios in the country. Their debut album "Around the World", which included "Paris, Paris", "London, Goodbye", "Cio-Cio-San", scattered instantly. The duet collected full stadiums. And at the end of the year, CarMan took the popular music award in the nominations "Group of the Year" and "Discovery of the Year".

And in April 1991, the duet ... disappeared. As it turned out, in the midst of work on the second album, Titomir left the group for a solo career. Lemokh alone re-recorded all the songs and released the album "Karmania", which is on long years became the hallmark of Kar-Man. Few people, dancing in discos, did not sing "This is San Francisco - a city in the style of disco" ...

Almost all the compositions of this disc ("Bad Russians", "Everything is calm in Baghdad", "San Francisco", "Robin Hood", "Carribbean Girl", etc.) became hits of that time. After "Carmania" there were 13 more albums and collections, many of the compositions of which became very popular.

Bogdan Titomir, meanwhile, promoted the hip-hop style in Russia. He traveled all over the world, lived in America for several years ... Leonid Parfyonov devoted an entire program to him in his documentary project "Portrait against the background." It was in this program that Titomir uttered the phrase "People hawala", which, with his filing, became winged. And Ilya Oleinikov and Yuri Stoyanov in the Gorodok program composed a joke about Bogdan: “It’s sad for us to live without rap, where are you, where are you, Titomir is the head of the washstands and the commander of the washcloths.”

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The cult Russian-Ukrainian punk band "Red mold" appeared in 1989 in the city of Yalta. It was created by the musician Pavel Yatsyna, who, after serving in the army, learned to be a radio master, and this knowledge was enough for him to record the first four albums, which contained ditties, poems, anecdotes, feuilletons and jokes containing profanity.

Since 1994, Yatsyn began to invite musicians and parodists to record compositions, then he recruited a permanent staff - eight people: vocalists, parodist, lyricist, artist and guitarist. And already in full force, Red Mold released seven albums, which brought immense popularity. Since 1997, the team began to record compositions on professional equipment.

Over the entire period of creativity, which peaked in the 1990s, the group recorded more than 55 albums. During this time, five line-ups have changed in Krasnaya Mold, whose founder and vocalist Pavel Yatsyna has always remained a constant member.

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Few people remember that the debut album of the local group "Ladybug" entitled "The Beginning of the Sixth Signal", released in 1989 by composer-arranger Vladimir Volenko, failed. Hardly experiencing failure, Volenko, at that time better known under the stage names "Volesha" and "Uncle", began to perform as part of another group, and abandoned his project until the mid-1990s.

In 1994, Vladimir revived the pop-rock group "Ladybug", performing the song "Granite Stone" on the air of the Star Rain program, and it instantly became a hit. On the wave of success, the composer released the disc of the same name and a video clip in which he starred in a red jacket with black peas - a la "Ladybug". The second bright hit of the group was the composition "And the motor ship up the Volga", released in 1999. In the late 1990s, popular directors Sergei Izotov, Oleg Pogodin, Andrey Pastushny shot videos for the band's songs.

In 2000, Volenko's career was crucial moment: a young singer from Irkutsk region Natalya Poleshchuk, who took the pseudonym Shokoladkina for performances. She was destined to become the wife of Vladimir Volenko. It was she who prayed for the artist when trouble happened to him. Volenko had long suffered from atrial fibrillation, but rarely went to the doctors. But Natasha insisted on an examination, and the doctors found that the arrhythmia was just a consequence. Two dense blood clots were found in the musician's heart vessels, which threatened his life at any moment.

Here's a granite stone in your chest ... Vladimir had a hard time undergoing the most difficult operation to remove blood clots. Was on the verge of life and death. Natalya at that time prayed for her beloved in front of the icons. Vladimir recalled this time as miraculous healing. When he came to his senses and returned to work, it became clear that there would be no more hits of the past. Spouses found new meaning in life. They had songs "King Jesus", "Jesus Is Coming". From the old ladybug' there was no trace left.

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The ensemble "What do you need?", which is considered to be the first composition of the Balagan Limited group, was created in May 1996 in Rybinsk. It included musicians Elena Gromova, Olga Gileva, Svetlana Makhova, Vitaly Gilev and Viktor Dmitriev. In December of the same year, the team announced itself to the whole country, taking first place in the competition of Moscow radio stations among Russians. folk songs with the composition of the same name "What do you need?".

Soon the artists entered into an agreement with music studio"Union" and independently recorded three very successful albums. The success of the Balagan Limited team, which, in addition to filming on TV and recording songs, began to tour a lot, was constantly increasing. By the end of the 1990s, the group reached the peak of popularity, but in 1999 there was a completely unexpected turn.

According to the members of the team, their producer secretly registered the trade name Balagan Limited and recruited a new group, which included Svetlana Smirnova, Elena Selikhova, Alena Morugina and Dmitry Filin. June 1, 1999 was the date of birth of the new Balagan Limited. The old line-up of the group, after a whole year of unsuccessful attempts to defend the name, began to be called by its first hit - “What do you need?”.

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The finest hour of the Russian techno-pop group Tekhnologiya struck in 1991 and continued for the next two years. It was at this time that the team shot clips for their songs “Press the Button” and “Strange Dances”, which brought all-Union popularity to the musicians Leonid Velichkovsky, Andrey Kokhaev and Roman Ryabtsev.

Technologiya Group was founded by three former members musical ensemble"Bioconstructor" in 1990 in Moscow. Soon, vocalist Vladimir Nechitailo joined Velichkovsky, Kokhaev and Ryabtsev, and the quartet began recording a demo album, while simultaneously shooting low-budget clips.

In 1991, Technologiya released their debut album, Everything You Want!!!, which included 10 songs. This record made the group incredibly popular in the USSR. Soon, at one of the concerts, producer Yuri Aizenshpis approached the artists and offered cooperation. After a year of working together, the path of the group and music producer dispersed, in 1993, at the peak of popularity, "Technology" left vocalist and guitarist Roman Ryabtsev, as well as drummer and drummer Andrey Kokhaev.

After the departure of the main members, the group's popularity began to decline. In the 2000s, the musicians of "Technology" of different years reunited for a short time, but they could not repeat the success and glory. In 2010, the team members starred in the film "For Rent Cheap", playing secret agents hunting down maniacs and undercover terrorists. musical group"Technology".

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The Strelki pop group was created by the Soyuz studio in 1997 and was considered as “our answer” to the English band Spice Gilrs. More than four thousand applicants participated in the casting, of which the group's producers Igor Seliverstov and Leonid Velichkovsky selected seven.

The original composition of the "Shooter" included: Yulia "Yu-Yu" Dolgasheva, Svetlana "Hera" Bobkina, Maria "Margo" Korneeva, Ekaterina "Radio operator Kat" Kravtsova, Maria "Mouse" Solovyeva, Anastasia "Stasya" Rodina and Liya Bykova. Initially, the producers were going to name the pop group "Seliverstov and the Seven Girls", "Alyonushki", "Snow White" or "Nuns". However, in the end, they decided to settle on the name Strelka, which was suggested by the choreographer Lyubov Solovyova.

In the same year, the team began recording songs, but the Soyuz studio unexpectedly stopped funding the project, citing a style that was unsuitable for the company. A new stage in the development of "Shooter" came only when British producers saw the recording of their performance and reported on promising group colleagues from Gala Records in Russia. They immediately contacted the producers of the group and signed a three-year contract with her.

Strelka became especially popular in 1999 after the release of the song and the video “You abandoned me”, in which the popular actor Ivar Kalninsh starred. There were problems with the video: it was banned due to the propaganda of drugs, weapons and casinos. I had to reshoot everything against a more innocent background. However, this did not prevent Strelka from winning with this song in the nomination "100-pood hit" in music competition popular songs of 1999.

In the early 2000s, due to frequent line-up changes, the group's popularity began to decline. Information about the breakup of the group varies. Some call 2004, others - 2009, and still others claim that the Strelka group exists in its original composition at the present time.

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The Russian hip-hop trio "Bachelor Party" was formed in 1991 by producer Alexei Adamov. It included Moscow musicians Andrey "Dolphin" Lysikov, Pavel "Mutabor" Galkin and Andrey "Dan" Kotov. The artists took North American rap as the basis of their creativity, supplementing it with numerous details of intimate life.

The very first albums of the "Bachelor Party" "Sex without interruption" and "Let's talk about sex", released by the Soyuz studio in 1991 and 1992, brought the boy band incredible popularity throughout the country. successful group invited to speak at the opening summer festival popular music in Tallinn, where more than 40 thousand spectators gathered. Frank and rather vulgar lyrics for the Russian listener of the early 1990s were new. They started talking about the team - and it very quickly reached the peak of popularity.

However, due to the abundance of sexual overtones in the songs, the group began to have problems with censorship on television, radio stations and in the press. The guys re-recorded some of the songs in a softer style - for example, the song "Dancing". On the wave of success, "Bachelor Party" released the third album "Miss Big Breasts", songs from which also became hits.

Having successfully worked together until 1996, the musicians closed the Bachelor Party project. Dolphin began a solo career, and Dan and Mutobor created the Barbitura group, whose focus was electronic music. In 2000, Pavel Galkin and Andrey Kotov tried to resurrect the group, recorded several albums, but the time for the "Bachelor Party" had already passed. In 2006, the group ceased to exist.

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Ukrainian group "Shao? Bao! in 1997, she sang “Kupyl Mama Konyka” (and Konyk without a leg), shown on one of the music TV channels in Russia - and the song became the hallmark of a trio of young musicians from Dnepropetrovsk.

The debut video for the song "Kupyla Konyka's Mom" ​​got into rotation on the Russian channel quite by accident. The video was shot on cheap black and white film by director Semyon Gorov and sent to Moscow on Russian MTV along with a bucket of strawberries. But after the first show, the audience fell in love with the video and brought it to the Dnepropetrovsk group “Shao? Bao! all-Russian glory.

In 1998, in the wake of the success of his playful song “Shao? Bao! released an album of the same name in Ukrainian and moved to Moscow, where they started working on a new project. Two years later, they released the Russian-language disc "Made for Export", but the success of the previous disc could not be repeated.

The team began to experiment with line-up changes. However, alas. “Kupyla Konyka’s Mom” remained the only hit of the group in the second half of the 90s.

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In the spring of 1991, a dead girl was found in one of the Moscow courtyards - a copy of one of the soloists popular group"Combination". As the investigation later found out, the girl who suffered at the hands of an unknown killer, using what looks like popular singer, recruited friends, created a fake "Combination" and began to earn money under other people's phonograms. A successfully launched scam was stopped by a fan of the real band.

The Saratov group, founded by producer and director Alexander Shishinin and composer Vitaly Okorokov, conquered the country in 1989 with their first song - "Russian girls". Her first soloists were schoolgirl Tanya Ivanova and student of the conservatory Alena Apina (Levochkina). In addition to them, the first part of the group included Svetlana Kostyko, Olya Akhunova, Marina Balakina, Tanya Dolganova and Yulia Kozyulkova.

The very first concert of "Combinations" was a resounding success. The girls began releasing discs, starred with Dmitry Kharatyan in the 1990 film "Muzzle" - fame followed on their heels. The group moved to Moscow, gave 60 concerts a month! They toured not only in their own country: they went to Germany, to the USA ... The third album of "Combinations" called "Moscow Registration", released in 1991, is considered the most successful. The songs "Ksyusha", "American boy" and "Accountant" topped the charts of most Russian radio stations.

On this wave of success in 1991, Alena Apina left the group. She met her future husband, producer Alexander Iratov, and began a very bright solo career. Fans did not grieve for long. The group recorded a new hit - "Two Pieces of Sausage" - and it became clear that everything remains the same.

Two years later, in 1993, Alexander Shishinin, producer and author of the texts of "Combination", was killed in the entrance of his house. Customers and performers have not been found. After his death, the pop group, which continues to this day musical activity, headed by producer Alexander Tolmatsky.

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Few people know that the name of the group "Nancy" was chosen by its founder, a musician from Donetsk region Anatoly Bondarenko with the help of a psychic - and in honor of him school love. The story is mystical: back in 1983, the schoolboy Tolya Bondarenko, who composed music and lyrics, created the Hobby group. Together with fellow musicians, he recorded the first album "Crystal Love". They sang for eight years, and in 1991 Bondarenko decided to conquer Moscow. Picked up a new team.

The musicians were found quickly. But the name could not be decided for a long time. The artist went around all the record stores known at that time, selected several foreign names and went for advice to a familiar psychic. She performed the ritual and chose the name Nancy. Anatoly was shocked: that was the name of the girl he was in love with in the pioneer camp.

In 1993 a new group recorded the album Smoke of Menthol Cigarettes at the Soyuz studio. The song that gave the name to the disc immediately made the group famous. And the hit was registered on the air of the most popular Russian radio stations, as well as "I painted you" and dozens of others - in 20 albums and collections.

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