Boris Grebenshhikov

Boris Grebenshchikov (BG) is a living legend, the founder of Russian rock, the idol of millions. The leader of the cult group "Aquarium" saw how the Russian musical community, priorities and authorities were changing, and for so many years has not lost his inspiration.

The singer easily answers questions with quotes from sages, makes friends with the Dalai Lama, and counters accusations of occultism with the statement that God is omnipresent and intermediaries between him and man are not needed.

On November 27, 1953, a boy appeared in the family of Petersburg intellectuals (an engineer and a lawyer), who years later was destined to become an entire era in the history of Russian music, a spiritual teacher and author of songs loved by millions. Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov grew up in Leningrad, went to school with a mathematical bias and from childhood was terribly passionate about music. A number of sources claim that the singer is Jewish by nationality, and his surname is by no means Grebenshchikov, but no evidence is given.

After school, he entered the Leningrad University at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics. But the main thing is that at the same time Grebenshchikov decided to create his own musical group - "Aquarium".

School friend Anatoly Gunitsky, who was nicknamed George for his amazing resemblance to Harrison, kept Boris company in his long creative searches and rehearsals in the university auditorium. According to eyewitnesses, the guys were gifted poets and could not imagine more joy in their lives than singing songs.

Raised on the classics of rock and roll, in love with Mark Bolan, Bob Dylan and The Beatles, the friends first wrote and sang in English. But soon a firm decision was made: to perform songs only in their native language.

The first album "Aquarium" was released by samizdat. The "Temptation of the Holy Aquarium" in 1973 was called by critics "the first attempt to create conceptual music in the USSR."

In 1974, two more people appeared in the group - M. Feinstein and A. Romanov. Young people expand their creative horizons and create a theater group at their home faculty. Feinstein writes absurd plays, and Romanov and Grebenshchikov play them with joy. Only one thing is bad - the guys are so keen on drama that they almost forget about music. They leave the group, at the same time they are forbidden to rehearse at the university, and the leader of the collective is generally threatened to be expelled.

Only one warrior remains in the "field" of the "Aquarium" - Grebenshchikov. But Boris does not become discouraged: the universe begins slowly but surely to bring him together with the musicians who will stay in the lineup for the next 15 years. The first sign was the cellist Vsevolod Gekkel. At the same time BG writes true hits, still sounding at concerts. There is absolutely nowhere to rehearse and record songs for the group during these years - everything is very expensive and not approved in the right rooms.

Nevertheless, in 1976 "Aquarium" published the album "On the other side of the mirror glass", and in 1978 in the open air he recorded the disc "All are brothers-sisters" in a duet with Mike Naumenko. Since 1981, things have gone a little more fun: Boris began to cooperate with the legendary studio of Andrei Tropilo. The records "Blue Album", "Triangle", "Acoustics", "Taboo", "Day of Silver" and "Children of December" were recorded there.

The 1986 album "Ten Arrows" is dedicated to the tragically deceased band member Alexander Kussul. The disc includes the visiting card of the band "Golden City", as well as "Platan" and "Tramway".

The musician did not stop recording songs, although during this period of problems he had "above the roof" - after performing at the Tbilisi rock festival in 1980, Boris was expelled from the Komsomol, fired from his post as a junior researcher and was officially banned from performing.

Grebenshchikov is not lost again and gets a job as a janitor so as not to become a "parasite". His concerts are turning into "apartment houses" - a format when musicians and listeners gather at home and quietly sing to the accompaniment of a guitar so that vigilant neighbors do not turn to the police. At the same time, the musician makes acquaintance with the Leningrad avant-garde artist Sergei Kuryokhin, with whose help he appears in the TV show "Merry Boys".

After this, invitations to television come to the singer more and more often. In 1981, Boris became a member of the Leningrad Rock Club, in 1982 he noticed and produced the first album of Viktor Tsoi and the Kino group.

After several disks and years Grebenshchikov recorded two English-language records in the USA at once - “Radio Silence” and “Radio London” were released in 1989. At the same time, the singer met foreign rock figures - Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Lou Reed.

In 1990, the Aquarium group officially ceased to exist. Grebenshchikov became the head of BG-Band, but he did not last long - in 1993, Aquarium resumed its activities.

With perestroika, the musician left the "underground" on quite decent stages of clubs, concert halls and stadiums. His albums are becoming more and more unusual in sound, his name is to write music for mainstream cinema. During the same period, he is seriously interested in Buddhism, becomes a student of Lama Ole Nydahl, and repeatedly visits the ashram of the Indian guru Sai Baba.

Grebenshchikov himself does not consider himself a convinced adherent of any of the religions, but he is reputed to be a propagandist of universal humanistic values.

Since the end of the 90s, the musician has been deservedly showered with awards: 1998 - Triumph Prize, 2000 - People of Our City, 2001 - Fuzz Magazine Prize, 2002 - OUR Radio Prize, Tsarskoselskaya art award, 2003 - the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree for a significant contribution to the development of musical art.

From 2005 to the present day Boris Borisovich has been conducting the author's program "Aerostat" on Radio Russia. The program is always popular among the broad masses of the population - in it the leader of "Aquarium" in a free form raises questions of interest to him, talks about little-known foreign groups and puts on the best, in his opinion, music. In 2006, Boris met a neo-Hinduist guru, Sri Chinmoy, who named the singer Purushottama. A new acquaintance helped in organizing Grebenshchikov's concerts in London, at the Albert Hall. In 2007, the musician played a recital at the UN.

In 2013, there was a persistent rumor that "Aquarium" would finally cease to exist. The rumor turned out to be a newspaper "duck" - the group only once again renewed its line-up and turned into "Aquarium International", having taken the Irish flutist Brian Finnigan into the collective.

Grebenshchikov's work is distinguished by the breadth of genres, styles and trends, as well as the use of unusual and sometimes exotic instruments. In one interview, Boris said that he would write lyrics exclusively on Celtic motives, like “Glasses” (“Come on, swords, glasses on the table”), because this music is beautiful and lively, which cannot be said about Russian.

Since 1981 BG has been acting in theatrical productions and films. Among them - "Thirst", "Long Way Home", "Black Rose - the emblem of sadness, red rose - the emblem of love", "Red on red", "Two captains - 2", "Tender age".

In even more films, the music of the Aquarium group sounds: Assa, House under the Starry Sky, Azazel, Peter FM, Rainy Season, Nightingale the Robber.

In 2014, a musical based on Grebenshchikov's songs, Music of the Silver Spokes, was staged.

Grebenshchikov created several works in prose: the story "The Forest" and the story "Ivan and Danilo." In 2009 he took part in the writing of the book "The book for the sake of which the writers united, which cannot be united." He is the author of translations of several Buddhist and Hindu treatises, including the Bhagavad-gita.

Published books of the musician: “Works in 2 volumes:“ Songs ”,“ Non-songs ”,“ Book of Songs ”,“ Two verses about apartment number six ”,“ Aerostat. Currents and Lands "," Aerostat. Aeronautics and artifacts "," Aerostat. Parallels and Meridians "," Aerostat. Variations on the Theme of Adam and Eve "," Grebenshchikov B. B. Tramontana: Author's Collection ".

Now Boris is working on the guidebook "The Sacred Geography of India" and is preparing - he himself does not remember exactly which one - translation of the work of Hindu philosophy "Bhagavad Gita".

Anatoly George Gunitskiy also became interested in writing and published the book “Caution! "Aquarium!" Is playing, which contains interviews and memoirs of musicians and previously unreleased photographs, including the leader of the band in his youth.

In 1976, Boris married Natalia Kozlovskaya. After 4 years, the couple divorced, leaving a daughter from the marriage - the now demanded Russian actress Alisa Grebenshchikova. She also hosts the author's musical program "Svoya Studio" on Radio-1, and the video version is broadcast on Youtube.

The second time by marriage, the singer was combined in 1980 with the artist Lyudmila Shulgina - before that the former common-law wife of Vsevolod Gekkel. On December 14, 1984, a boy was born in the family - Gleb, today known as DJ Gebe.

The finale of living together with Lyudmila was another divorce and another marriage.

In 1991, Boris went down the aisle with Irina Titova, the ex-wife of the bass-guitarist of "Aquarium" Alexander Titov. From a previous marriage, Irina has two children - Mark and Vasilisa, who became the adopted daughter of Grebenshchikov. Mark Titov plays in several bands, writes electronic music under the pseudonym Bio C. Vasilisa Grebenshchikova is an artist.

In the fall of 2018 BG celebrated its anniversary. The media erupted about this with all kinds of publications. Television played clips on Grebenshchikov's compositions, and Channel One again showed the studio concert "Fire of Babylon". Boris Borisovich sang the familiar "March of the Sacred Cows", "Yellow Moon", "Ivanova" and other songs.

In the same year, a new album "Time N" was released, in the recording of which Brian Eno and musicians of the King Crimson group participated. The disc turned out to be tough, with the presence of profanity. The Meduza portal presented a video for the song "Terrible Revenge" by Sergei Shnurov performed by "Aquarium". The song was included in the soundtracks for the horror film “Gogol. Terrible revenge. "

In the halls of the Yusupov Palace in St. Petersburg, an exhibition of paintings made by Grebenshchikov himself in the technique of easel painting was held. There are also photos showing moments of the creative biography and personal life of the cult artist and his closest circle.

For true connoisseurs of Aquarium's creativity, who love traditional sound, the Solyd records and Bomba Music studios have released the band's albums on vinyl. Giant discs are sold in online stores.

In 2019, Aquarium and Boris Grebenshchikov are planning to perform with the BG 65 program. A specific set is not prescribed, the main thing is unpredictability, so that one concert does not resemble another. In January, the singer is expected in St. Petersburg, in February the team travels to Kirov, Ufa, Chelyabinsk and a dozen more cities in central Russia.

1976 - "On the other side of the mirror glass" 1981 - "Triangle" 1984 - "Day of Silver" 1989 - Radio Silence 1993 - "Library of Babylon" 1996 - "Snow Lion" 1999 - "Songs of Bulat Okudzhava" 2003 - "Songs of a Fisherman" 2010 - "Our life from the point of view of trees" 2012 - "The secret history of beekeeping" 2014 - "Salt" 2018 - "Time N"

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