Vladislav Medyanik

Slava Medyanik has been among the legends of Russian chanson for two decades. The singer urges to treat this genre without condescension, as he believes that chanson is the most Russian story song that helps a person find a way out in a given situation.

Vladislav was born in 1957 in Krasnoyarsk. The boy did not want to study music, but he could not resist the will of his father, who served in the KGB. Vasily Medyanik saw his son as a military doctor, while Slava was going to enter the Moscow State University as a zoologist. However, then he gathered a musical ensemble at the school, became the star of city restaurants and dance floors.

At 17 he left home, performed in Odessa, Izmail, Chernivtsi. An uncontrolled way of life led to the fact that once Slava and her friend broke into someone else's apartment and took away money and valuables worth 40 thousand rubles. Medyanik spent 2 years in the colony, accomplice Alena - 3.

When work in restaurants ceased to bring pleasure, Slava left for America with only a thousand dollars in his pocket. Overseas "untwisted", bought out the unprofitable institution "Blue Lagoon" and turned it into the most popular vacation spot in all of Brooklyn.

Medyanik recorded his first album Songs from the Roadside on his home tape recorder. There were songs by Vertinsky and Rosenbaum, and songs that nobody knew. Slava found the producer for the second part of "Songs from the Roadside-2" already in America, among the same emigrants who were imbued with sympathy for him. For the fee, the singer bought equipment for his studio in Krasnoyarsk and began work on the next album.

It took about a year to record. In 1991 Slava wrote the album "California". The cover for the disc was painted by the illustrator Maxim Sharaev, almost the only author of European-style comics in Russia.

Vladislav's hit "We are wolves" has become widespread on the Internet. The clips on it represent both the singer's concert recordings and vloggers' exercises. So, Tatyana Knopf put footage from the film "Vesyegonskaya She-Wolf" to the music.

The video from Medyanik's performance, where he performs the composition "Kabakam Tavern Smoke", attracts attention by the fact that the backing vocals of the chansonnier are young people in monastic robes. The singer's official website has uploaded a video for the songs "Wheels are knocking", "Doll". In the deeply genre album "Oh, my life!" for the first time "The keys are lost" and a cover of the song "Hiroshima" by Vladimir Vysotsky were performed.

The album "Selfish Question" was recognized in the Russian-speaking environment in Israel, Germany, the USA and other countries. In the homeland of the author, the disc was published in a small edition, since the American company Russian Supple was engaged in the distribution, and in Russia it did not control the situation.

In 2003, an album was released with the meaningful title "From the bag and from the prison ...", which included the hits "I will miss you very much", "Glass of wine".

The famous Russian producer Alexander Tolmatsky, Decl's father, was involved in the project "Hallelujah", so the influence of Western music can be traced in it. Alexander tried to break the prejudiced attitude of television and radio channels, which considered chanson to be non-formatted music. However, the leadership of the media found any reason not to let Medyanik's work go on the air, to the extent that the name of the musician was considered inappropriate.

The album "Spilled Wine", which the singer wrote for three years and released in 2008, is sustained in a lyrical style, without a hint of hooliganism or thugs charm. In the songs Vladislav reflected his own experiences and philosophical reflections and therefore believes that the album is especially for adults, sophisticated listeners. "Planet of Happiness", released in 2011, delighted fans with hits "Listen, Sonny", "First Love".

In 2015, Medyanik presented the album Soul on the stage of his own club "Solo". In addition to solo compositions, the disc contains duets: with Lyubov Shepilova - the song "Through the Cigarette Smoke", with the Ukrainian singer Sano - "Dialogue", with Lyubov Uspenskaya - "Tramp".

By the way, the joint performance with Anyone “I am on my own, you are on my own” became the soundtrack to the thriller “Fall”, in which Alexander Zakharova, Alik Smekhova and Lev Prygunov played. The song was included in the 1996 album "Selfish Question".

A little later, Slava released an album with songs to the verses of Vyacheslav Ivankov, the notorious criminal authority Yaponchik. The most popular were "Kandalny edge" and "I want silence". Medyanik is friends with many of his colleagues - with Alexander Marshal, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Willie Tokarev. The author of the lines "A star fell from the sky in gold" Sergei Nagovitsyn presented Vladislav with the song "Dzyn-za-ra".

Vladislav says that his personal life is a tour, he does not go into details. Daughter Katya (Katherine in the American manner) was born when the musician lived in the United States in the 90s. She stayed there, studies at New York University as a lawyer, and comes to visit her father twice a year.

Moreover, Medyanik's education did not cost a penny, since the girl played tennis at the Nick Bollettieri academy at a fairly professional level, and the university provided free tuition, if only Catherine played under his flag. However, both her father and Katya herself dream of playing for Russia. As the singer admitted, over the years it became clear that the American page in the biography turned out to be superfluous:

And this is despite the fact that in America Slava opened his own restaurant in Brighton Beach. The institution was called "Severny", by the creative pseudonym of the performer of urban folklore Arkady Zvezdin, widely known in narrow circles. Thanks to a chance meeting with the North in Odessa, the chansonnier established himself in the desire to devote his life to music.

Medyanik lives in Malakhovka, near Moscow. From concerts he rests on fishing, but before that he likes to sleep well.

The rumor spread on the Internet that he collects porcelain milkmen, the musician denies. In an interview with the Krasnoyarsk TVK6.ru channel, Slava explained that in 2015 he brought a souvenir from Thailand to his friend-designer Boris Krasnov. Moreover, this piece of dishes was simply stolen from the restaurant when the waiter refused to sell legally.

Chansonnier owns the Solo entertainment center in Moscow - a complex of cafes, karaoke, a restaurant and a hookah bar. Vladislav is pleased to provide a concert venue for his colleagues to perform.

Vyacheslav Medyanik continues to give concerts in Russia and abroad. In the spring of 2018, the musician visited Israel, then drove to Voronezh and Orenburg. At the beginning of the same year, the public organization "Union of Cossack Warriors of Russia and Abroad" awarded the performer of the chanson the rank of colonel of the Cossack troops and presented the corresponding patent.

1988 - "Songs from the Roadside" 1990 - "Songs from the Roadside 2" 1991 - "California" 1996 - "Selfish Question" 1997 - "Eh, My Life" 2000 - "Hallelujah" 2001 - "Ce-la-vie" 2003 - "From the bag and from the prison" 2008 - "Spilled Wine" 2011 - "The Planet of Happiness" 2015 - "Soul" 2015 - "About the Truth"

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