Igor Rasteryaev

Igor Rasteryaev is a Russian actor, author and performer of songs with real stories from the life of the people. He performs songs, accompanying himself on an accordion, he can be safely called a unique performer on the national stage, his work is appreciated by lovers of various genres of music. He gained universal popularity after the release of the hit "Combiners".

Igor Rasteryaev was born in Leningrad into a family of artists. His mother, a native Petersburg woman who received a technical education, met Igor's father when he came to Leningrad to enter a university. The singer's father is from the village of Rakovka, Volgograd Region, hereditary Don Cossack.

Every year, like all his peers, from September to May Igor went to an ordinary Leningrad school, but in the summer a completely different life began. During the summer holidays, the boy stayed with his father at home, in Rakovka. He communicated with the locals, made friends with the village boys, swam, fished, sunbathed and absorbed, along with the not at all Leningrad-like hot rays of the sun, the love for country life and free spaces.

In the village, the boy met Lesha, who, like Igor, came to visit his relatives in the village for the summer, only not from Leningrad, but from Moscow. This friendship was destined to last for many years. Igorek grew up and became Igor Rasteryaev, composing soulful songs with a guitar and accordion, and Lesha turned into Alexei Lyakhov, and it was with his light hand that the first video of Rasteryaev, filmed on a mobile phone, brought the singer popularity.

In such an amazing way, Igor's character mixed the features of a raised boy from an intelligent Petersburg family, hereditary love for art and the same hereditary love for the Russian village, the common people inhabiting it, their problems and joys.

Igor's further biography was quite predictable. Parents wanted their son to become a journalist, and he himself thought about journalism, but in the end he chose the theater, enrolling in SPbGATI in 1997. According to Rasteryaev, the journalism faculty would have to work hard, learn English, and in the theater academy "it was enough just to pretend to be talented."

However, the actor does not lack talent and charisma. In the filmography of Igor Rasteryaev there are only 7 films, including "Special Agent", "Secrets of the Investigation", "Version". And the roles are mostly episodic.

But at the Buff Theater in St. Petersburg, where he worked since graduation from the academy, he was considered one of the best young artists. Here he was busy in many productions: "The Magnificent Cuckold", "Casanova in Russia", "The circus left, the clowns stayed", "Adventurer" and others.

True, in November 2015 he left the theater. As Igor himself says, he simply grew out of the repertoire, although he does not regret the years he worked on the stage. The Buff Theater is a real treasure trove of talents; in different years such artists of the spoken genre as Yuri Galtsev, Gennady Vetrov, Elena Vorobei have emerged from it.

Surprisingly, the professional actor Rasteryaev seriously admitted that at first he was afraid of the stage. Over time, this passed, but he still does not dream of leading roles and just enjoys the creative process.

They say that the boy began to sing songs at the age of six, performing them in front of his grandmothers from Rakovka, and over time, Igor's many talents only developed and multiplied. Since childhood, he had a penchant for painting, singing, while the singer did not receive any musical education.

The singer learned to play the accordion and guitar all in the same Rakovka, where he began to compose author's songs. The song "Combiners", which made Igor famous, would have been listened to today only by residents of Rakovka and the surrounding farms, if not for childhood friend Alexei Lyakhov. It was he who came up with the bright idea to shoot a video with a song performed by Igor on his phone and put it on YouTube.

At first, the audience reacted sluggishly, within a few months the "clip" gained only three hundred views. However, then he got to the site of Dmitry Puchkov (Goblin). The popularity of the song skyrocketed, and it entered the top ten videos of the Runet. From that moment, Igor began to record new songs on video and upload clips to the Web.

Traditionally, his friend and colleague Aleksey Lyakhov is the operator and director of his videos. In 2015, Rasteryaev recorded the song "Month" with a young and talented singer Elena Gvritishvili. This is not their first duet, previously they performed the compositions "Bell-ringer" and "Kurgan" together. The girl has the purest soprano, her voice perfectly complements Igor's non-academic vocals. Popular actor Anton Shagin, known to the audience for his films Hipsters, Walking Through the Torment, and Dovlatov, starred in the video for the song "Month".

Most of the songs loved by millions ("Russian Road", "Daisies", "Cossack Song", "St. George's Ribbon") were written by Igor himself, a number of others - by his father's friend, Vasily Mokhov ("Rakovka", "About the Khutor Glinische", "Blizzard in Rakovka "," Bear "," Walk around the city "," Outside the window winter and night "). Surprisingly, at first the whole country recognized and listened to Rasteryaev's songs and videos on the Web, and only then he began to give full-fledged concerts.

The first concert took place in September 2010 in Moscow, the second in St. Petersburg a couple of months later. Here, on the stage of "Griboedov", Igor introduced his co-author and senior friend Vasily Mokhov to his fans, performing with him a duet of his songs.

The singer's discography and productivity are impressive given the period of creativity that the general public is familiar with. Over the past eight years, Igor Rasteryaev has released five music albums.

The musician continues to create, constantly trying new versions of performance and improvising. His performance at the Invasion festival in 2011 brought him considerable popularity among rock 'n' rollers. It was followed by other festivals and concerts, including a performance in Nizhny Novgorod to the ringing of church bells.

Igor collaborates with other artists, regardless of their rank and style of performance. There are recordings of his performances with Alexander F. Sklyar, Anna Kudryashova, and other singers and musicians on the Web.

He gives concerts in Russia and Poland, in Ukraine and Belarus, performs covers of songs of the groups "DDT", "King and Jester", "Disco Crash", "Leningrad", sings Cossack, folk and his own songs. With Igor, she expressed a desire to sing a duet even with Vika Tsyganova, but they have not yet had any joint projects.

Rasteryaev is beyond politics and fame, he just loves to sing about people and for people, about his homeland, its vast expanses and the mysterious Russian soul. In his lyrics, it is difficult to separate irony from seriousness, satire from a simple statement of facts, they are truthful and take the soul, just like uncomplicated, but such dear melodies.

As a child, Igor dreamed of becoming a bell ringer, a boy from a fairy tale who does not grow up, but never a singer and musician. Songs are part of his nature, character, and he himself is charming, simple and pleasant person to talk to, and at the same time extremely talented.

In 2012, Rasteryaev published the book "Volgograd Faces" - a collection of short stories and drawings that Igor drew at the age of 19. Prior to that, the book was published in Germany, and now it is the turn of Russia.

Igor's main passion, besides music, is fishing. On his Instagram, photos with the catch appear as often as posters of his upcoming performances.

The musician keeps the details of his personal life secret, although he answers questions about marital status that he does not have a wife and children yet. There are a lot of Igor's photos on the Web with female fans, but it is impossible to guess whether there is a lady of his heart on them.

In an interview, he was asked how he sees his future darling. He said that he appreciates human qualities in girls. It is also important for him that she was light on her feet and "can not stand the brains." He categorically does not accept stupidity and arrogance in a girl, and in any other person.

Igor continues to study music, his performances are scheduled for six months in advance, although sometimes concerts are canceled. This happened in May 2018. Despite the fact that all tickets for the concert in the city of Znamensk were sold out, the city administration banned its holding. The reason for the refusal was the presence of profanity in the song "Combineers".

In February 2018, Rasteryaev took part in the concert "Play, Favorite Accordion!", Dedicated to the 70th birthday of Gennady Zavolokin. It took place at the State Kremlin Palace and was broadcast on June 12 on Channel One. The musician sang the song "Russian Road".

At the end of 2017, the musician presented a new video work to the audience - a video for the song "Lake Chudi". It is noteworthy that this time Marya Zima took up directing instead of the already familiar Alexei Lyakhov. This is a plasticine animation, the characters for which were made by Rasteryaev himself in the company of his colleagues. In this composition Igor sings about the battle on Lake Peipsi, better known as the Battle on the Ice.

Rasteryaev presented the situation in a simple way. Allegedly, Prince Alexander Nevsky and his friends were fishing on the lake, and the soldiers of the Livonian Order wanted to "hook" the fishermen, for this they got what they deserved.

The video turned out to be bright and cheerful, although the song has an instructive meaning. As the musician himself says, with this video and track he wanted to both cheer up people and make sure that they do not forget about the exploits of the Russian people.

2011 - "Russian road" 2012 - "Bell ringer" 2013 - "Songs of Uncle Vasya Mokhov" 2014 - "Horn" 2016 - "Rain over the Bear"

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