Igor Grigoriev

Igor Grigoriev is a musician, journalist and creative figure who was at the forefront of Russian show business. Largely thanks to him, the country learned about what glossy magazines are and why they are needed. Almost 2 decades after the beginning of his creative activity, Igor declared himself as a singer and gained success in this field.

Igor Pavlovich Grigoriev was born on October 21, 1966 in Taganrog. His mother, a 17-year-old girl, left the child in the hospital and ran away, and after 2 weeks the boy was taken away by his adoptive parents. Igor was taken to the village of Lacedaemonovka in the Rostov region. Later, the boy found out that his biological mother was possibly a gypsy, and his father was an aircraft tester.

The adoptive parents were peasants and the boy was not told the truth about the origin - he learned all this himself. At first I listened to the gossip of the village grandmothers, then I found in the closet old newspaper clippings telling about the adoption procedure. He finally learned the truth before leaving for the army, and it was not his mother who told the young man, but the teacher.

Igor served in the Air Defense Forces, in secrecy mode - part of them were accompanied by letter-type airplanes performing flights of high importance. In an interview with Natalya Sindeeva in March 2018, the musician admitted that for 2 years he had neither a name nor a surname and his name was Okleyshchik-44.

After the army, Igor thought to continue his military biography and went to enter the Kiev General Military School - he wanted to become a scout. However, the cadets' life before the entrance exams made the young man disappointed in his choice, so he deliberately failed the exams.

After that, Grigoriev entered the Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, but in 1987 he decided to move to Moscow. There Igor entered MGIMO and studied with a specialization in Thailand and the Thai language.

As a member of the MGIMO Komsomol committee, student Grigoriev had the opportunity to organize concerts on the stage of the institute's assembly hall. Thanks to his support, during that period Bravo, Igor Talkov and other semi-official performers and groups performed there. His acquaintance with Zhanna Aguzarova helped him finally join the circle of music show business.

In 1988, Igor, in addition to his studies, began to work seriously - he became the concert director of the singer Irina Ponarovskaya.

In 1991, studies finally ceased to interest him, and Grigoriev, interested in journalism, left the institute.

Igor's first publication was about Tatyana Samoilova, a legendary actress, whom no one remembered at that time. The article caused a furor, and Grigoriev was invited to the weekly "Argumenty i Fakty" to work as editor of the culture department. One of the achievements in this position was an interview with Boris Moiseev, which in 1992 was considered a “coming out”. However, the text of the article never mentions homosexuality, and Moiseev himself later repeatedly denied rumors about his unconventional orientation.

In the early 1990s, Grigoriev also worked at Novy Vzglyad, Imperial and Amadea, until in 1995 he was closely involved in publishing the magazine OM. The publication won success with Russian readers and in 1997 received the Ovation award as the best magazine of the year.

In 1998, Igor left the post of editor-in-chief of OM and took up politics, organizing the Generation of Freedom movement. The organization planned to work with young people, to promote liberal values, and a year later became a part of the Medved association. At this stage, Grigoriev left the movement due to disagreements with his associates and went to Prague, from where, however, he soon returned to Moscow.

In the 2000s, the man worked on television - he hosted the program "Fever on Saturday night with Igor Grigoriev", directed, shot videos, wrote scripts. In 2003, he even tried to shoot the series "Twin Twix", the pilot episode of which was highly praised by his colleagues, but the project did not have enough funding.

In 2006, after trying to revive "OM" and participating in the creation of the first Russian prize in the field of fashion, Igor went to Brazil, to Rio de Janeiro. 2 years later, in his blog in LiveJournal, the man wrote that he was finally leaving journalism.

Grigoriev turned to musical creativity back in 2008, having organized the group "Black and White Orchestra", whose performances were held in the style of a decadent cabaret. In 2009, after the band was disbanded, Igor performed on the stage of the CityJazz festival with a group of Brazilian saxophonist Leo Gandelman.

A year later, the musician took up solo work, announced the upcoming album and released the single "Dreams of my Spring", the video for which in 2011 became one of the most popular in the Russian segment of YouTube. The bright, frankly satirical video according to Komsomolskaya Pravda became the clip of the year.

In February 2011, having presented Dreams of My Spring in Rio de Janeiro, Grigoriev became the first representative of the Russian stage to appear in the Brazilian carnival program.

The musician also took part in the 4th season of the project "Two Stars", in 2012 he appeared on Channel One in a duet with Lyubov Uspenskaya. The couple liked the audience and journalists, but caused rejection from Viktor Drobysh, who was one of the jury members. Since Drobysh deliberately underestimated the duo's marks, special rules were introduced, according to which no couple could leave the project before its completion. This guaranteed the continuation of the performances of Grigoriev and Uspenskaya, who would otherwise have dropped out of the show.

In 2013, Igor released his first full-length album, Kornukopiya, which on the very first day entered the top 10 best-selling albums in the Russian iTunes segment. Songs from "Cornucopia" have included many genres - from outright rock in "Clueless Love" to the psychedelic "My Love".

There was also a place in it for folklore motives - a classic example of this is the song "Gypsy". The presentation of the album, later named Afisha as one of the 25 best records of the year, took place on the stage of the Gogol Center.

In 2015, the musician released a mini-album "Dark Corner", which was supposed to be the predecessor of the second full-length disc "Sopomor". The release was planned for 2016, but never took place.

The musician tries not to tell anything about his personal life and, according to him, does not discuss it even with close people. It is known from open sources that Igor's wife is Aiken Kuatbaeva and the couple has no children.

Aiken is a producer by profession, but she also dabbled in writing, having published a book "The Hero of My Novel" - supposedly written about her husband.

In an interview with Seva Galkin in 2013, Igor said that officially he and his wife continue to remain spouses, but have not lived together for a long time.

In 2017, Igor presented a new project - the "Attraction" group, gathering a team of young musicians around him.

Now Igor, after a long break, continues to engage in creative work, regularly gives concerts in Russia and foreign countries. In 2018, the artist's performances were held both in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and in the cities of Ukraine.

For a long time Grigoriev has been using the Internet and social networks extensively to communicate with the public and announce creativity. In addition to the official website and blog in LiveJournal, Igor has a Facebook page and a Telegram channel. The singer also maintains a blog on the Instagram network. There you can find both fresh photos of the man and old black and white photographs from the personal archive.

2013 - "Cornucopia" 2015 - "Dark Corner"

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