Andrey Kovalev

Andrey Kovalev is called a universal, a person whose activity does not fit into the usual framework and patterns. He is an author and performer of songs, a successful radio and TV presenter, frontman of the "Pilgrim" group. And also - the organizer of rock festivals, producer, entrepreneur, public figure and member of the United Russia party.

The versatile development and spread of interests of Andrey Kovalev become clear after getting acquainted with his biography. Muscovite, born in the summer of 1957, has musical talents from his mother, an opera singer who appeared on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. A tenacious and practical mind inherited from his father, a soldier who retired with the rank of colonel.

The boy's hearing was discovered at the age of 4, which was immediately noted by his mother. The woman did not hesitate - soon her son performed simple pieces on the piano. To develop his talent, Andrey was taken to a music school, where he studied for 4 hours a day. Soon, the son pleased his parents by playing the violin, cello and double bass.

After graduating from music school, the teenager set his sights on entering the school at the Moscow Conservatory. But to the military dad, such predilections seemed "unmanly", and he made his "contribution" - he bought his son a motorcycle. The calculation turned out to be correct: having received a school certificate, the guy entered a road university.

However, the creative streak again reminded of itself: Kovalev was carried away by sculpture. So much so that he left the institute and became a student at the Stroganov Art School.

During his studies, Andrei Kovalev switched back to music. Having previously mastered the bass guitar, he gathered like-minded peers and created a musical group. Soon it received the name "Pilgrim".

A difficult time - the 1980s - distracted Andrey Kovalev from creativity. I had to look for an occupation that brought income, to get on my feet. The young man plunged into the world of business. At the end of the 1980s, he founded a furniture manufacturing company. Soon Kovalev became deputy head of the Forestry Department, then a place was found for him in the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy.

The turbulent 1990s were an ordeal for state-owned enterprises, which were closing in the hundreds in the capital. Andrei Kovalev did not drown in the murky waves of economic chaos and found use for the closing factories. He reconstructed enterprises and created business centers on their basis.

In the summer of 2007, a successful businessman acquired the First Pasta Company, which was going through hard times. It consisted of 3 unprofitable factories - in the capital, St. Petersburg and Smolensk. The purchase cost Andrei Kovalev $ 55 million.

Having made the factories profitable, the entrepreneur sold them to Italian businessmen, turning his attention to other industries. In 2008, with the light hand of Kovalev, who never forgot about his main love - music, the 1Rock media holding appeared. It consisted of a satellite television channel, a radio station, the main direction of which was rock, a magazine and a rock club, which received the name of the holding. A small "rock empire" existed until 2010.

In 2011, Forbes magazine compiled a list of the largest rentiers in Russia, in which it gave the companies of a Moscow businessman the 23rd place. Andrey Kovalev managed to make a fortune of $ 55 million by renting out real estate objects.

After 2 years, Kovalev shared in an interview that he had gone into "pure creativity": he composes poems for which songs appear. Business affairs were taken up by his ex-wife.

Andrey Kovalev really did not forget about music. At the beginning of 2005, remembering his student years, he founded a rock group, which he gave the same name - "Pilgrim". The musicians took songs in the genre of heavy metal into the repertoire, the theme of the compositions was patriotic motives and lyrical ballads.

The frontman and musician of the group, Kovalev, attracts show business stars, and not only domestic ones, to cooperation. Pamela Anderson came to Moscow to shoot a video clip for the rock ballad "The Roar of Motors". The star played the bride of an oligarch who was stolen from under the aisle by a biker. Andrey Kovalev took this role for himself.

The Pilgrim collective starred in the action-packed film by Hollywood star Dolph Lundgren, which was released under the title Dangerous Tour, and recorded a soundtrack for it.

The rock group cooperates with foreign fellow rockers. In the second album of "Pilgrim", called "There is no choice", there was a place for a joint composition recorded by a Russian ensemble and a quartet of cellists from Finland "Apocalyptic". A spectacular video appeared for the song.

In the spring of 2010, the frontman presented the fans with the album “7.62”, “coding” the caliber of small arms in the name. After 6 months, music lovers, loyal fans of "Pilgrim", received a new present - a double album "Marta".

In 2011, Andrei Kovalev recorded a lyrical solo album, calling it "My Woman". The presentation of the album took place in April 2012 on the stage of the Moscow Variety Theater, and in October of the same year, the singer and composer celebrated his anniversary on this stage - the 10th anniversary of his creative activity. The show was attended by Katya Lel, Diana Gurtskaya, the Reflex group, Irakli, Alena Sviridova.

Today, the musician remains faithful to his creativity and gives fans 3-5 new compositions annually. From 2011 to 2015, viewers saw clips of Andrei Kovalev's songs, in which show business stars shone, on Russian music TV channels.

Alexey Panin and Vladimir Gostyukhin starred in the video for the song "Road", and Anastasia Panina appeared in the video for the song "Airports". Later, videos appeared for Kovalev's hits, in which Agata Muceniece, Elena Korikova, Olesya Sudzilovskaya and Nastasya Samburskaya participated.

Andrey Kovalev showed himself as a radio and TV presenter. He is also the author of 4 collections of poetry. The last one, titled "Only Love Can Save", was released in the spring of 2017. The poet and musician is working on the 5th book.

Andrey Kovalev also has critics. Viktor Shenderovich “walked” with devastating articles on his work and the Pilgrim group, reproaching the musician and his team for being vulgar and indulging the tastes of the “foolish public”. Shenderovich's special rage was caused by Kovalev's remake of Viktor Tsoi's revolutionary hit “Change”.

A wealthy and talented artist is not deficient in female attention. In the first marriage with a girl named Tatiana in 1990, a daughter, Julia, was born. And although Andrei Kovalev got married, being far from a young man - at the age of 30, the marriage broke up for unknown reasons.

The man did not remain lonely for long and soon met love - the Odessa beauty Maria Bulgakova, who is much younger than him. In 2014, Masha gave her husband a son, Nikita, but the couple is in no hurry to register a marriage.

Andrei Kovalev's desire to become the official guardian of Anna Kalashnikova's son has caused rumors and speculation. There were those who explained such a desire by the fatherhood of the musician.

But friends of Kovalev and Kalashnikova claim that Andrei is the boy's godfather, so he does not want the godson to grow up without a parent.

In the spring of 2018, it became known that the composer and singer had acquired the Grebnevo estate in the Moscow region. The complex, founded in the 16th century and completed in the 18th-19th centuries, has historical and architectural value. It was once the residence of the Trubetskoy, Bibikov and Golitsyn princes

A private investor and the authorities of the Moscow region announced their intention to restore the estate, organize a private museum here, and hold festivals on its basis.

The singer is a frequent guest on the air of talk shows and television projects. In March 2018, he became a guest of the Word for Word show on the Mir TV channel, where psychic Fatima Khadueva, actor Vitaly Abdulov, singer and composer Django, model Emilia Vishnevskaya were with him.

Kovalev is active on social media. He has a personal website and pages on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

2004 - "Salt, tequila ..." 2005 - "Blue Sky" 2007 - "Nine Months" 2007 - "Ice and Fire" 2007 - "Man and Woman" 2008 - "Author's Song" 2008 - "The Best Songs of Andrey Kovalev" 2008 - "Romances" 2012 - "My Woman" 2013 - "The Ocean of Your Eyes" 2013 - "Revolvers and Dolls" 2014 - "Songs of Love" 2014 - "Marta"

2007 - "Glory to Russia" 2008 - "No Choice" 2008 - "Concert in the Rain" (DVD) 2009 - "Trezi $" 2010 - "7.62" 2010 - "March" 2015 - "Kill the Dragon"

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Andrey Kovalev Net Worth 2021

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