Sergey Mikhalok

Sergei Mikhalok is a Belarusian musician who plays music in the styles of ska, reggae and anarcho-punk. The artist gained popularity in the late 1990s thanks to the Lyapis Trubetskoy group, as the frontman of which he is known to most listeners. Deliberately frivolous texts and specific vocals, uncharacteristic for the traditions of post-Soviet rock, have become Sergey's "calling card".

Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalok was born on January 19, 1972 in Dresden, then still owned by the GDR. Abroad, the boy's parents were abandoned by the profession of Vladimir Mikhalka - he was a career officer. Therefore, although the parents sent their son to Belarus every vacation, Sergei spent the rest of his childhood on the road. The future singer went to school in the Altai Slavgorod, finished - in Norilsk, and received higher education in Minsk.

The artist's family belonged to the category of "Soviet intelligentsia". There were always books at home, the magazines "Yunost" and "Seeker" were constantly subscribed. Parents encouraged their son's craving for independence: Sergey could choose circles and sections himself, although the boy often changed them, losing one interest and acquiring a new one. According to the musician himself, he was a restless child and once nearly drowned while riding a raft during the spring ice melt.

The period of Sergei's youth was not easy, his rebellious nature made itself felt. He was attracted to punk culture with all its attributes: fights, alcohol and drugs. Abuse of the latter brought the musician to a hospital bed. Sergei had an overdose of "Jeff" (aka "mulka"), a common in the 1980s and extremely dangerous drug based on ephedrine.

After resuscitation, he ended up in a specialized hospital, and the impressions received there were enough to give up injecting drugs. After the course of treatment, Sergei entered the institute, but he could not finally give up alcohol and psychoactive substances, which later had a strong influence on the musician's life.

Most of Sergey's work at the moment is associated with the Lyapis Trubetskoy group. Mikhalok founded it in 1989, and gave the name to the team after the name of the character from "The Twelve Chairs" Ilf and Petrov.

At first, the group was organized specifically: its members saw each other mainly at concerts. The situation changed after the performance of the musicians at the "Festival of Musical Minorities" in the capital of Belarus - from that moment on, the band began to gather for rehearsals.

At first, "Lyapis Trubetskoy" gave concerts only in Belarus and could not boast of popularity outside the narrow circles of fans of the musical underground. The group's position improved in 1996 when they were offered to record an album in a professional studio.

Even then, Sergei, the author of the overwhelming majority of the songs by "Lapis ...", was not afraid to enter into confrontation with the authorities. The group literally blew up the rock festival “Kupalle z Belarusian Maladzyozhnai” with the composition “Lu-ka-shen-ko” based on the song about Buratino from a Soviet film. However, it was not included in the album "Wounded Heart".

Sergey's team earned success outside of Belarus thanks to the album "You Threw". In the late 1990s, the songs "Ay", "In a white dress" and "You threw" were regularly rotated on the radio, and the clips for them were popular with music channels. From that moment on, "Lyapis Trubetskoy" became popular throughout the entire post-Soviet space.

The 2000s became the peak of the group's popularity. The musicians regularly toured both in Belarus and the CIS countries, and in far abroad, up to the USA. In addition to concert activities, "Lyapis Trubetskoy" has repeatedly recorded songs for Russian films.

Since the beginning of the 2010s, an acute social context began to appear in Mikhalka's poems, mainly aimed at criticizing the authorities, and not only Belarusian ones. Due to the peculiarities of the political situation in Belarus, the musicians were included in the "black list" - journalists were not recommended to mention "Lyapis Trubetskoy" in the media, the band's concerts were canceled.

The peak of the political protest of Belarusian punks was in 2013-2014: the group openly supported the protests at the Maidan, in Russia they acted as headliners at a concert organized in support of Alexei Navalny as a candidate for mayor of Moscow. The band also released the album "Matryoshka", which many in Russia considered openly Russophobic.

On August 31, 2014, Lyapis Trubetskoy fans learned that the group was officially ending its 24-year existence. Mikhalok himself explained in an interview that this should have happened back in 2010, but due to political persecution in Belarus, the musicians decided to wait - otherwise their act could be mistaken for fear of the authorities.

After the collapse of the team, Sergei came to grips with a new project, the "Brutto" group. The artist decided to move away from the traditions that became classical in the days of "Lapis ..." - primitive poems with the most frivolous content. The musician himself claims that the collective is rather a Belarusian-Ukrainian propaganda team of “creative terror and musical rebuff”.

Creativity "Gross" is closer in form to the songs "Iron" and "Warriors of Light" - in them social issues and the theme of human resistance to society and power come to the fore.

In the artist's personal life, there were 2 marriages in which two children were born. For the first time, Sergei married while studying at the university to the singer and composer Ales Berulava, in 1995 the couple had a son, Pavel. Later, the marriage broke up, and, according to Mikhalka, the separation was painful, but the musicians were able to overcome their differences and remain on friendly terms.

Sergei's second wife was Svetlana Zelenkovskaya, Zelya, a Belarusian actress. On November 13, 2013, the woman gave birth to her second son, Makara.

The musician has a difficult biography: problems with alcohol and drugs, which began in his youth and almost killed Sergei, only worsened with age. According to Mikhalka, by the time Pavel was born, he was a drunken alcoholic who did not disdain to regularly use narcotic drugs.

This also affected the appearance of the singer: the soloist of "Lyapis Trubetskoy" is remembered by most fans as a cheerful fat man, because at that time he weighed more than 100 kg. At the beginning of 2010, Sergei decided that he could not continue this way, and took up his health. The musician completely gave up drinking and drugs, lost weight, and began to play sports.

The result was excellent physical shape: with a height of 172 cm, the singer's weight is about 70 kg. In new videos, he is filmed with a naked torso. Thanks to this, fans were able to see Sergey's tattoos: there are more than 10 of them, and each is not just a picture, but also a symbol.

In 2018, the musician presented his new electronic project "Drezden", named after the city in which he was born. Presenting the debut album of the same name, the rocker said that he had long dreamed of trying his hand at electronic music.

Mikhalok made a number of categorical statements about Lukashenka, which even became the reason for calling the singer to the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Belarus. However, the check did not reveal any wrongdoing in Sergey's words. The musician speaks no less harshly about Russia, whose political course he calls tyrannical without hesitation.

Serhiy supports the situation in Ukraine and believes that the Ukrainian people achieved great success in 2014, overthrowing the corrupt and totalitarian government. The musician also believes that a rocker must constantly be in confrontation with social injustice, and if he cannot find one, he must come up with it.

Sergei also severely criticizes other musicians: he calls popular representatives of the Russian rock scene, who do not support the idea of ​​political protest, "gone bad." Mikhalok has no less negative attitude towards performers in the genre of pop music.

Although, perhaps, this does not apply to some pop compositions: in 2017, Sergey posted an amateur video on YouTube, in which he sings Valery Leontyev's song “Sunny Days Gone” with feeling and without mockery.

Fans of "Brutto" can follow the work of the group and the life of Sergei on the official blog on Instagram. There, the singer uploads photos from concerts, invitations to performances and shots from everyday life.

Now Sergey continues to perform and go on tour with "Brutto", and also regularly cover his civic position in interviews - often more intensively than talking about his creative plans.

1996 - "Wounded Heart" 1998 - "You Threw" 1999 - "Beauty" 2004 - "Golden Eggs" 2006 - "Men Don't Cry" 2007 - "Capital" 2008 - "Manifest" 2012 - "Rabkor" 2014 - "Matryoshka" 2014 - "Underdog" 2015 - "Native Land" 2017 - "Rocky" 2018 - "Drezden"

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