Alexey Lebedinsky

Who has not at least once repeated the words of the swaggering hit “I will kill you, boatman!”, Wanting to joke or seriously deal with an imaginary or real enemy? The performer of the song with a low and hoarse timbre of voice is known - Aleksey Igorevich Lebedinsky, more familiar under the creative pseudonym Professor Lebedinsky.

Showman, singer, composer, arranger and photo artist found himself at the peak of popularity in the "dashing 90s". But in the 2000s, the artist's name seemed to get dusty and tarnished. Few people know that Lebedinsky left Russia and moved to America, citing the acute conflict with the country's authorities and lack of work as the reason for emigration.

Alexey Lebedinsky was born in May 1968 in Leningrad, on Vasilievsky Island. There were no artists in the Lebedinsky family: mother and father are indigenous Leningrad residents, intellectuals. Father is the country's chief pediatrician, professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, mother is a teacher and professor at the Department of Pediatric University.

From childhood, Alexey showed musical talent, which his parents noticed when his son was 3 years old: at this age Lebedinsky played the first chords on the piano. And at the age of 5, the boy composed his first compositions, imitating Johann Sebastian Bach.

Parents sent their son to a music school, choosing a piano class, and took him to an elite Leningrad gymnasium, where French was taught. The future showman studied there until grade 8. Mom and dad saw their son as a famous pianist: Alexey Lebedinsky played the piano so masterly that at the graduation concert he, as the best graduate, was entrusted to play in the Great Philharmonic Hall in front of Svyatoslav Richter. Svyatoslav Teofilovich recommended that the young musician continue to move in this direction, but the guy did not work out as a classical pianist.

After school, Alexey entered an electrical engineering university. As soon as the parents came to terms with the unexpected decision of their son, after the first year he went to the army. After serving in a musical platoon in Estonian Tartu, he again surprised his family: Lebedinsky did not return to the institute, but got a job as an illuminator at the Leningrad Youth Theater. But music did not leave the life of Alexei, occupying the main place in his biography.

Alexey Lebedinsky entered the Leningrad Institute of Culture and got a job at the Lenconcert. He was admitted to the "Collected Works" hard group, which gave concerts in military units. But two months later, the young musician saw an ad: the Secret group needed a keyboard player. The future Professor Lebedinsky worked with the team and its leader Maxim Leonidov until the group broke up.

In 1990, Alexey created the "Twins" collective. A year later, the group won the Prize-Clip competition, and two years later the Twins presented the northern capital at the White Nights in Venice festival.

Soon Professor Lebedinsky got a job as an arranger in the Union of Composers. During these years, the young composer wrote music and declared himself as a subtle connoisseur and musical expert. Lebedinsky was noticed and taken to Channel Five: he became the editor of Kirill Nabutov's Adam's Apple project.

At his home studio, Alexey recorded instrumental compositions and songs that he composed, created audio tracks for cartoons and commercials.

In the 90s, the musician came up with the creative pseudonym "Professor Lebedinsky". According to the showman, in those years it was difficult to call a taxi. In order to facilitate the task, the inventive musician introduced himself as Professor Lebedinsky, and a few minutes later the car was parked at the entrance.

Fame fell on the performer in the mid-1990s, when he composed and sang his debut compositions "I will kill you, boatman" and "I won't tell anyone", which became hits. These were the years of joint work with the "Russian Size" team. The first album, called "Come on, Come on", composed of ironic cover versions of famous hits, is a joint work of Professor Lebedinsky and the "Russian Size" collective. In addition to the song about the boatman, the album includes compositions "La-la-fa", "Run of the Year" and "Sleep, my little boy."

The performer and showman has gained popularity in the country and neighboring countries for a year. His new compositions rose to the top of the Russian charts on the country's radio stations, and thousands of stadiums gathered for the concerts of Professor Lebedinsky.

In the late 1990s, Russian Size and Professor Lebedinsky went on tour to Germany, and after a joint performance in the Oktyabrsky Hall with the duet YAKI-DA, Russian musicians went to the homeland of the duet, Sweden.

In 1997, Professor Lebedinsky presented to fans a solo album "Hello-Goodbye", which included the hit "Teach at School". The success of the album pushed the singer towards an independent career.

A year later, Professor Lebedinsky delighted music lovers with the album "Laugh or Cry", which included new incendiary hits "That's all love", "Daughter" and "Far away, near the metro." Video clips for the last two compositions appeared on TV screens.

In 1999, Aleksey Igorevich presented the album "Dances-Shmantsy, Knysh and Currants", which included the compositions "Yellow Leaves", "Besame Mucho" and "Lashate mi kantare". In the same year, Professor Lebedinsky, together with the Petersburg showman Roman Trakhtenberg, recorded clips for the songs Dubak-January and Tired Toys Sleep. The singer's low baritone sounded on the radio, TV channels and from every open window.

With the advent of the Internet, Professor Lebedinsky's hits have gained millions of views on YouTube.

In the early 2000s, the singer and showman recalled himself with a parody of Valeria's song "Chasiki", singing his composition "Droplets". Together with the actors of the theater "Litsedei" Professor Lebedinsky shot the video, which was the leader in the MTV program "12 angry viewers".

In 2004, the arranger, together with "Russian Size" and Dmitry Nagiyev, recorded a parody "I am her hoi" for the song Dragostea din tei of the pop group from Moldova O-Zone, which is also known as "I am dancing drunk on the table." The parody stayed on the first lines of the charts for six months.

In 2005, the artist celebrated the 10th anniversary of his musical activity in the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, and for the New Year holidays 2005-2006 Professor Lebedinsky, together with Natasha Vlasova, recorded the composition and the video "Fir-tree, burn!"

In the fall of 2007, the singer presented a new album "Hello again", the song from which "Vovkina now" got into the TOP-10 of radio "Chanson" and the rotation of "Road radio". Critics named the composition the best author's song of Professor Lebedinsky. In the same year, Alexei became the TV presenter of the Vremechko program on the TV Center channel.

With the beginning of the new decade of the 2000s, the style of the songs of the popular artist has changed: the compositions have become more lyrical. In 2013, Professor Lebedinsky presented the audience with a song and video "If not love". In the same year a vinyl record "Lyrics" appeared, which included unexpectedly lyrical compositions. For 2017, this is the artist's last album.

In addition to his musical activities, Alexei Lebedinsky is known as a professional photo artist. His father instilled in him a love for the art of artistic photography in childhood. In 2002, without interrupting his music lessons, the artist opened his first personal photo exhibition, calling it "Professor Lebedinsky's Focus". The photographs of the photographer were published in Russian and foreign magazines and full-color newspapers. Advertising, genre and portrait photos were especially popular. The last exhibition-opening day of Professor Lebedinsky in Russia came out in 2012 and was called "Transcripts".

Alexey Igorevich is known as an advertiser. His advertising screensavers hit the prime time on central TV channels. From 2009 to 2011, Lebedinsky worked as a PR adviser at Rosneft.

The artist and showman is a fierce critic of the authorities and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. In the spring of 2014, Lebedinsky emigrated to America, motivating the move for political reasons and disagreement with the actions of the Russian authorities. He announced that he would return to the country when "this chaos is over."

In 2015, Professor Lebedinsky recorded the song and video "Vatniki", which scored 966 thousand views on YouTube.

The clip contains footage of famous TV news broadcasts and top officials of the state and church. The fans of Lebedinsky received the video clip ambiguously.

At the peak of popularity in the 1990s, Professor Lebedinsky got married. His wife's name was Catherine. In a marriage with a difference of one year, two daughters were born - Polina and Veronica. But Alexei's married life did not work out: after parting, Polina stayed with her mother, and one-year-old Veronica with her father. The song "Daughter" is dedicated to Veronica. Professor Lebedinsky emigrated to the USA with his daughter.

Alexey Igorevich never married, but women appeared in his personal life. Many of them did not like their daughter, and some of them became attached to Nika. When her daughter grew up, her father sent her to England, where she studies to be a doctor, continuing the dynasty of doctors - the famous grandparents.

Alexey Lebedinsky believes that the only one he will marry will appear in his life. The artist does not exclude that Polina and Veronica will have a brother or sister. Lebedinsky told the reporters of the REN TV channel about this in the documentary project "Lonely Father Wants to Meet".

At the end of 2016, the artist announced concerts in a number of Ukrainian cities, promising to sing familiar hits of the 90s. But the concerts did not take place.

Lebedinsky admitted that the tour of four Ukrainian cities was disrupted due to a fraudulent organizer who collected money for sold tickets and disappeared in an unknown direction.

1996 - "Come on, Come on!" 1997 - "Halloween Goodbye" 1998 - "Laugh or Cry" 1999 - "Dances-Shmantsy, Knysh and Currant" 2005 - "New and Best" 2007 - "Hello Again" 2013 - "Lyrics"

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