Biography
Billy Talent - Canadian Quartet, playing in the punk rock genre. The participants of the team are associated friendly relations, they are not bothering communication on album and tour entries. For the compositions of the group, a frequent change of quiet and loud vocals, slow and rapid rhythm is characterized.The history of creation and composition
The group is international composition. Basist Jonathan Gallant half the Indian, the rest of the participants - Canadians in the first generation. Parents of the guitarist Ian di 'Saya - immigrants from India, the former drummer, and now Vocalist Benjamin Kovalevich - from Poland, and the drummer Aaron Solovonyuk - from Ukraine.
Embed from getty imagesAlthough all the musicians are talented, there are no Billy among them. The name of the team is explained by the history of its creation. First, the guys from Toronto, who became acquainted with the competition of gifted high school students, played and recorded music as a group PEZZ.
Under this title, the musicians in 1999 released the first in the discography album "Watoosh!". However, the Kanadian colleagues heard the same team from the United States and threatened a lawsuit for the illegal use of a registered name.
Kovalevich proposed to rename a group in honor of the Hard Core Logo's Hero's Hero's Hero ("Hard-Bark emblem") - Guitarist Billy Tallent, in the film by Bruce McDonald played by Callum Kita Renny. The proposal was accepted, and the team continued to live under a new name.
Music
The most famous songs of Canadian Punk - "Red Flag", "Try Honesty", "Rusted from the Rain", "River Below" and "Nothing to Lose". Listeners and critics note that from the album to the album, the team reduces the amount of abnormative vocabulary in songs and increases the topical topics affected in the compositions. Music is becoming more restrained and courageous. In 2007, 2012 and 2016, the Group came to tour to Russia.Group clips are distinguished by fascinating dynamic stories. For example, in a roller, shot on the song "Surprise, Surprise" "Talented Billy" appear as pilots. Video shooting was often accompanied by difficulties for musicians, so, for the "Devil in a Midnight Mass" roller, the guys rotated on the podium, located in the middle of the temple. And for the sake of the Saint Veronika clip, Canadian panks had to float - 8 hours the participants were filmed in some t-shirts inside the dam.
BILLY TALENT now
Now Solovonyuk's place behind the impact installation took Jordan Hastings. The fact is that Aaron is painful sclerosis and collaborates with the Canadian Council Counterting Fund.
The organization receives funds from the sale of T-shirts with the photo Billy Talent. In the song "This Is How It Goes", the musician talks about the fight against the ailment.
For a long time on the tour, the group went with a mini-fridge filled with drugs for Aaron Ukolov, however, since 2016, Solovonyuk does not go to the scene. The exception was the concert on February 27, 2017 in Toronto, when the musician participated in the execution of two compositions.
Recently, the news about the group is small. March 16, 2019 Kovalevich, as the seven-time owner of the Juno Prize, held the 48th ceremony of its presentation.
Discography
- 1999 - Watoosh!
- 2003 - Billy Talent
- 2006 - BILLY TALENT II
- 2009 - Billy Talent III
- 2012 - Dead Sillence
- 2016 - AFRAID OF HEIGHTS
Clips
- "Devil in a Midnight Mass"
- "Fallen Leaves"
- "Red Flag"
- "RUSTED FROM THE RAIN"
- "Saint Veronika"
- "SURPRISE, SURPRISE"
- "VICING DEATH MARCH"