Vasily Vakulenko

Vasily Vakulenko (pseudonym - Basta) is a popular Russian rap artist, composer and TV and radio host. The famous rapper proved himself not only in music, but also achieved particular success as a screenwriter, director and producer. Also known under the pseudonym Noggano.

Vasily Mikhailovich Vakulenko was born in Rostov-on-Don on April 20, 1980 in a family of military personnel. His father and mother had nothing to do with the art world, but, noticing that his son had musical talent, they took the boy to a music school.

After graduating from secondary school, Vasily Vakulenko decided to continue his path in the world of music and became a student at the local music school, choosing the conducting department. But soon the future rap performer realized that conducting was not something that would be useful for him for self-realization. As a teenager, he showed interest in a new phenomenon for Russia in the 90s - rap culture.

At the age of 15, the young musician wrote the first rap text. And at the age of 17, Vasily was taken into the "Psycholyric" group, which was soon renamed "Caste". In his native Rostov, Vakulenko was known as Basta Khryu. During this period, a debut rap track called "City", recorded by Basta, appeared.

The musician celebrated his 18th birthday by writing a new song "My Game". "City" and "My Game" quickly glorified Basta far beyond the borders of his native Rostov. Gradually, the artist's compositions are becoming more and more popular.

From that moment on, the rap artist, along with his friend Igor Zhelezka, who is also a rapper, began touring the cities of the Black Sea coast of Russia. They went on a kind of musical tour across the Krasnodar Territory and even the North Caucasus, performing at various venues. From time to time they gathered 6-7 thousand fans at the stadiums. But everything did not go the way Vasily dreamed, and the concert activity quickly faded away. The rapper has not performed in concerts for several years.

The creative career of rapper Basta resumed in 2002. Yuri Volos, a friend of Vakulenko, suggested making a studio at home, equipping it with the necessary sound equipment. Vasily, who had long missed creativity, quickly restored his old compositions and wrote new ones. But no one remembered rapper Bastu, and finding a producer turned out to be a difficult task.

Basta later wrote a song about this difficult period in his life under the self-explanatory title "Dumb Labels, No Chances". By a lucky coincidence, Basta's demo disc got to Bogdan Titomir. The musician liked the compositions of young performers, and he invited them to the Russian capital. In Moscow, Titomir brought Basta and Volos to the studio of the creative association Gazgolder, where the rappers were welcomed and showed interest in them. In the first year of his stay in the capital, Basta created musical material for several discs, but decided not to rush, but to release albums with a time interval.

2006 turned out to be a breakout year for rapper Basta. His debut album "Basta 1" was released, which was positively received by rap fans. This long-awaited success inspired the performer so much that Basta immediately released two new videos entitled "Autumn" and "Once and for all". He used the Internet to spread it quickly. The composition "Mama" has also become popular.

In 2007, the album "Basta 2" appeared, which included duets with singer MakSim and rapper Guf and a number of new clips, the most striking of which were "So Spring is Crying", "Our Summer", "Internal Fighter" and "Tea Drinker" ... In just three months, the rapper's second album sold 50 thousand.

The successful Russian rapper was noticed by the American producers of computer games from Rockstar Games. Basta's song "Mama" sounded in the popular game "Grand Theft Auto IV".

The composition "Graduation" has become one of the most important in the musician's career. In social networks, users called her one of the best, suggesting that such a single will be played in schools for a long time at every prom.

In the future, Basta pays more and more attention to working with other representatives of Russian show business. Together with the Nerves group, he creates the video "With Hope for Wings", which impresses the Russian audience.

In 2007, Vasily Vakulenko was recognized not only under the pseudonym Basta, but he also became Noggano. Three albums of the rapper were released under this name: in 2008 - "First", in 2009 - "Warm" and in 2010 "Unpublished".

In addition, Basta's creative biography has been enriched with new pages. In 2008, the musician made his debut in several qualities at once: a screenwriter, director, producer and actor. This happened when he presented his own film "Tea Drinker". Baste liked writing the scripts so much that they began to appear one after another. Vasily worked as a director in the film "Fairy Tales for Adults". Now Basta's creative baggage in the world of cinema is acting in 12 films, scripts for 5, director and production work in a number of tapes.

Basta is gradually strengthening cooperation with other rap artists. In 2010, rapper Guf participates, together with Vakulenko, in the creation of a new work, and already in November the disc is released in a gray booklet and practically without a title.

In 2011, Basta pleasantly surprised fans with a new album "Nintendo", which impressed with the unusual style of "cyber-gang", and fans of his work expect other innovations.

In 2016, it became known that Basta became the mentor of the fourth season of the "Voice" project, and he was accompanied by Polina Gagarina, Alexander Gradsky and Grigory Leps.

Basta's collaboration with the singer Polina Gagarina became successful. The songs "The whole world is not enough for me without you" and "The Voice", as well as the composition "Angel of Faith", presented in 2016, were especially remembered by the fans.

In the same year, the release of the album "Basta 5" took place, which became the seventh work in the discography of the rapper, performing under the stage name Basta. After a while, Vasily delighted the fans of Noggano by releasing the disc "Laksheri". Thanks to revenues of $ 1.8 million, Basta was ranked 17th in the list of the richest figures in Russian show business according to Forbes magazine.

Vakulenko collaborates with famous musicians to create new masterpieces. Together with the singer Alena Omargalieva, he sang the song "I Rise Above the Earth", which was very much to the liking of celebrity fans.

The fans were also surprised by the performance of Soviet songs by the rapper. The cover version of the lyric song "Dark Night", written by composer Nikita Bogoslovsky and poet Vladimir Agatov, became a unique work of Basta.

The song "The Master and Margarita" is one of Basta's last works. This single can be attributed to completely different works that have no resemblance to the already familiar compositions. The song was included in the soundtrack to the full-length feature film “Me and Uda. Redemption".

Among the musician's works that have become part of film projects - the song "Giv mi mani", included in the soundtrack of the crime comedy "Salvage", a cover version of the composition "Paradise apples", which sounded in the drama "Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive". The number of films in which the rapper's songs are used include "Homeland", "Ke-dy", "Attraction", "Street".

In 2017, together with Paulina Andreeva, Basta performed a cover version of Natalya Vetlitskaya's hit “Look into your eyes”, which ended the film “Myths”. Later, a video was shot for the song.

Fans expected from Vakulenko unique concerts, which few rap singers dared to do, because in the memory of fans - April 2015, when he was the first Russian rapper to perform with a symphony orchestra at the Olympic Stadium, the largest concert venue in the Russian capital. Therefore, in 2016, Basta organized a concert in the Kremlin Palace, and again with the participation of a symphony orchestra.

The artist decided to hold the concert at the Olimpiyskiy again in 2017, and all the fences were removed for a 360 ° view, and the singer appeared in front of a 36,000-strong audience on a stage designed in the form of a boxing ring.

In 2016, Basta had a conflict with the Russian rapper Kirill Tolmatsky, known as Decl. Tolmatsky complained about too loud music in the Moscow club "Gazgolder", which belongs to Vakulenko. Basta reacted on social media by posting an angry post regarding such remarks. The posting of a tweet on the microblogging service Twitter led to the beginning of a lawsuit.

Decl demanded compensation for moral damage in the amount of 1 million rubles. As a result, the court decided to partially satisfy the claim - to recover compensation for moral damage in the amount of 50 thousand rubles.

The scandal continued a year later, after Tolmatsky continued to speak negatively about the Gazgolder studio on the Internet, to which Basta again could not help but react, calling the musician a “hermaphrodite”. Decl filed a lawsuit, this time increasing the amount of compensation 4 times, and again won the case.

Basta's personal life was quite successful. He met his wife Elena by chance. The initiative was shown by the girl herself - a longtime fan of the rapper's work.

Elena is the daughter of the famous journalist Tatiana Pinskaya, who lives in France, and an entrepreneur who sells elite wines. At first, the future mother-in-law, seeing a brutal rapper in tattoos, was horrified. But after reading his texts, she changed her anger to mercy. The woman agreed that the guy is very talented. Basta wrote soundtracks for Pinskaya's documentaries about artists Eric Bulatov and Oscar Rabin.

In 2009, Vasily Vakulenko and Elena Pinskaya legalized their relationship and got married. The couple had children: in the same year they had their first daughter Masha, and in January 2013 little Vasilisa appeared. The birth of daughters changed the artist's life. In an interview, Vasily noted that before his life proceeded only at night, but now he began to notice the beauty of the day, sunrises and sunsets.

Vasily Vakulenko continues to explore new creative horizons, not stopping at what has been achieved. In 2017, he won the GQ magazine's Person of the Year award for Musician of the Year. The artist's income grows in proportion to his popularity. According to Forbes, in 2018, Basta earned $ 3.3 million.

In 2018, the singer becomes the mentor of the fifth season of “Voice. Children ”, where Pelageya and Valery Meladze also participated. The rapper's ward Sofia Fedorova with the song "For Dessert" took second place in the super final. With the participation of Basta, the rap battle Versus Battle was held, where Guf and Ptakha competed, and in the middle of summer the artist performed at the VK Fest in St. Petersburg.

Judging by the rapper's Instagram, where he posted a photo of a naked torso for everyone to see, Vasily began to struggle with excess weight. Vakulenko told fans that he lost 5 kg, but his goal is to lose 15 kg. Initially, his weight with a height of 181 cm was 95 kg. At the same time, sports training helps the artist to form muscle relief, which has already been appreciated by the popular trainer Sergey Badyuk.

In the fall of 2018, the premiere of the crime comedy Clubare is scheduled, in which Basta played the role of the main character, the promoter involved in a criminal scam. He also became the author of the film score. The cast also included Evgeny Stychkin, Dasha Charusha.

2006 - "Basta 1" 2007 - "Basta 2" 2010 - "Basta 3" 2010 - "Basta / Guf" 2013 - "Basta 4" 2015 - "Basta / Smokey Mo" 2016 - "Basta 5"

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