Vladimir Shahrin

Vladimir Shakhrin is a Soviet and Russian rock musician, lead singer of the Chaif ​​group and the author of many of the group's songs.

Even at the beginning of the artist's work, Andrei Matveev, a journalist and a great lover of rock and roll, having heard the songs of "Chaifa", compared Vladimir Shakhrin with Bob Dylan, a musician who is valued primarily for the high quality of poetic texts.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Shakhrin was born on June 22, 1959 in Sverdlovsk, present-day Yekaterinburg, into a family of teachers of an architectural and construction technical school. His father taught students computer technology, his mother - industrial drawing. Vladimir has a sister, Anna.

Both of the musician's grandfathers fought. Fyodor Shakhrin was a driver during the Great Patriotic War and was taken prisoner in Belarus. The soldier was saved from subsequent repressions by the ability to repair equipment: when the train with the freed fighters passed Poland, repairmen were needed, and the man volunteered to help with the captured equipment. Thanks to this, Fyodor returned home with normal documents, without mentioning the shameful captivity for a Soviet person. Maternal grandfather Evgeny Sulin is an artilleryman, awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Vladimir began to play the guitar and sing while still at school. His father also contributed to his passion for music, he gave the boy the first tape recorder and cassettes with recordings of foreign rock groups.

Later, when in the 10th grade the future guitarist of "Chaifa" Vladimir Begunov was transferred to the same school where Shakhrin studied, the schoolchildren organized what later became one of the most popular Russian rock bands. At that time, their company was called the "Ensemble of 10 B".

By the end of the school, the graduates even staged a rock opera, although Vladimir himself admits that it was rather a musical. The plot told about a beggar king who wants to give his daughter in marriage to a rich man and thus get rid of debts.

Shakhrin recalled the words from the king's aria "Whoever puts out 1000 pesos, she will love that one," at that time it seemed to Soviet schoolchildren a huge amount.

Only many years later, Vladimir realized that the king was asking for money for his daughter, which was barely enough for a cup of coffee. However, at the graduation ceremony, the play was a huge success and young musicians were even accused of disrupting the official entertainment program with a professional team.

After leaving school, Vladimir and the rest of the ensemble entered the architectural and construction college. It was important for them to stay together, and in this educational institution there was "blat" - both the musician's mother and his grandfather taught there.

From 1978 to 1980, Vladimir served in the army, in the border troops, where a talented fighter was assigned six months later to the song and dance ensemble of the Far Eastern Border District. After returning from the army and graduating from the technical school, Shakhrin until 1988, in parallel with playing music, worked by profession as an installer of the Sverdlovsk house-building plant.

Vladimir himself considers the year of foundation of "Chaifa" to be 1976, it was then that Vladimir Begunov transferred to the class from another school. However, the first official line-up of the band gathered in the mid-1980s, and at the same time the group got its name: Vadim Kukushkin, who played the punk pipe, called the word "tea-f" the drink that was obtained by brewing tea in the Soviet coffee machine "Bordeaux".

Under this name, Shakhrin's team first performed on September 29, 1985. This date is considered the official birthday of the Chaif ​​group. Throughout the years of the band's existence, Vladimir has occupied the position of frontman, main vocalist and author of most of the lyrics and music.

In 1985 "Chaif" presented the first official album "Life in Pink Smoke", although it was preceded by the "Verkh-Isetsky Pond" magnetic album, recorded a year earlier. Its musicians did not distribute it due to the frankly amateurish quality of the recording. Since that time, the group has released over three dozen albums, both electric and acoustic (including compilations and live recordings).

A distinctive feature of the rock and roll "Chaifa" is the emphasis, first of all, on the deep content of the lyrics. This style is typical for most of the Russian rock of the 1980s, especially among people from the Sverdlovsk rock club.

In the work of the group, there are compositions of different styles and semantic content. First, there are semi-humorous songs like "Argentina - Jamaica 5-0", "Orange Mood" and "My Apartment".

Secondly, songs with social and even political overtones, such as "Dogs from the city outskirts", "For myself, for him, for me" and "Where are you, where". And the latter is a rare case for Chaif, a heavy composition dedicated to the victims of Stalin's repressions.

Special attention should be paid to the famous "crying songs", which are popular with the public and for many years have remained not only rock and roll, but also yard classics - "Nobody will hear" (Oh-yo), "From the war", "Don't with me".

And, of course, an important part of Chaif's work is positive and kind rock'n'roll, where classical music for the genre is juxtaposed with unassuming lyrics, sometimes humorous and sometimes romantic. Such examples include "17 years old", "The blues of the night janitor", "Yesterday was love."

Another feature of Chaifa is a careful approach to concert programs. Unlike many modern rock bands, the Urals do not practice "club chaos" and perform, albeit not as often as their colleagues, but with large programs.

Chaif ​​continues to regularly release new albums. Musicians record CDs and songs both solo and in collaboration with other performers. Over the years, the group has not changed its style, not allowing chernukha, characteristic of Russian rock, into its work, not exchanging for popular political trends and continuing to delight fans with kind and clever compositions.

Vladimir himself considers rock to be more of a lifestyle than just music, which he honestly admits in the song: “Rock and roll is me”.

As in the musical biography of Vladimir there was a place for only one group, so in his personal life all these years there is one woman - his wife Elena Nikolaevna, before marriage Shlenchak. Shakhrin met her when he was studying at a technical school. The romance proceeded violently, at some point Vladimir, even because of a quarrel with his beloved, wanted to shoot himself from his father's starting pistol.

In marriage, 2 daughters were born, and now Vladimir Vladimirovich is no longer only a father, but also a grandfather. The eldest daughter Julia gave the musician a granddaughter Alice and a grandson Maxim. The youngest Daria gave birth to a girl who was named Victoria.

Shakhrin himself, regretting that in his youth he did not have time to pay enough attention to children, spends a lot of time with his grandchildren, making up for lost time. Numerous photos and videos of Vladimir with his family can be seen on the group's Instagram. Shakhrin does not have a personal account, the singer treats social networks and the Internet with a grain of irony, which he directly speaks of in the song of 2018 “What We Did Last Year”.

Vladimir is the owner of a non-standard and memorable appearance, despite even a man's average height of 170 cm. "An uncle with a nose like mine," Shakhrin sings in the song "Beer". Perhaps the nose is the reason for the increased interest in the musician's nationality. Vladimir himself laughs at this and in an interview says that if you put a skullcap on him, they will be mistaken for an Uzbek, if a kippa, for a Jew, and if you dress in a double-breasted suit, you will get a spitting image of Italian.

Journalists note that, despite his popularity, Vladimir does not suffer from star fever and is very easy to communicate. The singer's fans could see this with their own eyes thanks to Shakhrin's performance in 2017 on the program "Evening Urgant".

Today "Chaif" is one of the most demanded Russian rock bands. Musicians regularly give concerts in cities of Russia and abroad. In addition, the group pleases fans not only with new songs, but also with clips for them. In 2019 Chaif ​​will present a video for the song All Bond Girls.

Vladimir himself prefers to spend his free time with his family. In Yekaterinburg, the musician has his own house, in the construction of which he, thanks to his construction education, was directly involved.

1985 - "Life in Pink Smoke" 1986 - "Saturday Night in Sverdlovsk" 1987 - "Dermontin 1990 -" Never mind "1991 -" Fourth Chair "1992 -" Let's Go Back "1995 -" Let everything be as you want " 1996 - "The Real World" 1999 - "Shekogali" 2000 - "Sympathy" 2001 - "Time Doesn't Wait" 2003 - "48" 2006 - "From Myself" 2009 - "Own / Alien" 2013 - "Cinema, Wine and Dominoes" 2017 - "String Theory"

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