Biography
Alexander Kogan - Singer and composer from Dushanbe. In 2013 and 2014, he became a laureate of the Golden Gramophone Prize. The artist has a unique talent: besides the music, he is popular in the cinema and managed to glorify the theatrical stage.Childhood and youth
Alexander Kogan is from Tajikistan, Dushanbe city. Born in 1980, April 15, Zodiac sign - Aries. The family moved to Moscow when the boy was six years old. However, from the capital, four years later, I had to move to the USA, where the Father Alexander, Valery Kogan, worked at the UN headquarters in New York.
Education The future artist continued in California, where three years (from 1995) he studied at the local college Woodside Priory. In 1998, Kogan entered the University of George Mason, which is located in Farfax district (Virginia), and received a political scientist diploma. Since childhood, Alexander plays on musical instruments (guitar and piano).
Music
It is known that from seven years Alexander Kogan knew the basics of the game on the piano. In an interview for an online portal OK-Magazine.ru, he told that he grew up in a creative family, where art was an integral part of life. The older sister is a student of the conservatory - often engaged and rehearsed at home, and the little Sasha watched with interest and tried to play the piano.
For some time, music with him was engaged in a tutor. However, Alexander admitted, the process was too time consuming. Teachers told that the boy does not have any abilities. According to Kogan, since childhood, he saw any melody in his own way and tried to remake.
At age 14, the teenager had an outline of author's musical works. At 18, Kogan became the founder of the musical team, without which no student event was done. By the way, according to American cities, Alexander toured a lot. Popular English-language compositions: "Baby You're An Astronaut", "Leaving Tomorrow Behind", "I Will".
To associate life with the work, Alexander Valerevich decided, still being a student and studying political science. Diploma The future artist received, and did not work in the specialty. In 2001, the Kogan returned to the capital and told his parents that it was closely taken for the musical career. Alexander's native idea was not supported first.
The creative path of Alexander Kogan began with cooperation with Alla Borisovna Pugacheva. Having learned about his desire to engage in music professionally, Priaudonna invited an old acquaintance in a record studio. This period was for Kogan the first step into the world of show business.
He performed songs under the pseudonym Christian Ako. Great impressions of the audience Alexander did not produce. Although externally, the artist is remembered immediately: High and Static, he always has a harmoniously looked at the stage and screen (height 178 cm, weight 86 kg).
Alexander wanted to establish itself on a musical field as the author of his own compositions: from the text to the melody. On the advice of Alla Borisovna, the singer went to the United States again to learn the craft from professionals.
In America since 2004, the two-time owner of the Grammy Prize, composer Walter Afanasyev, took up Kogan's training. Two and a half years, Alexander engaged in his studio. Later he worked with the Canadian singer David Foster. The debut solo concert of Kogan took place in New York.
Since 2011, joint activities with the popular Russian composer Viktor Drobysh brought Alexander Kogan, the first serious success: with the song "Who invented the world" the singer awarded the Golden Gramophone award in 2013. The fame of the artist has increased sharply, and the following compositions ("who threw someone" and "I am waiting for a call") were no less successful.
An important stage of Kogan's creative path was acquainted with Julio Iglesias in 2012 at one of the private concerts in New York. The conversation after the speech turned into friendly communication, and in 2013, Julio suggested Alexander to speak at the beginning of his concerts and drive through Russian and Ukrainian cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Dnepropetrovsk). Cooperation with Spanish celebrity continued by world tour (Ireland, United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Holland, South America).
In 2013 and 2014, Alexander spoke at the annual competition of the international scale "New Wave", which was held in Jurmala, and then two years in a row - in Sochi. In 2014, Kogan became an invited star at the event Kremlin Gala "Stars of Ballet of the XXI Century".
The work on the first album Alexander Kogan began in 2013 together with producer Viktor Drobysh. For the single "who threw someone's singer awarded the second" golden gramophone ". The debut collection "I am waiting for a call" came out in 2015. After the presentation of the album, Kogan went touring in Russia. In 2016, video on the song "Happiness" came out.
In 2013, Alexander Kogan received an episodic role in the film "Defender" (director Boaz Yakin), and also participated in the "Out of Love" and "Kalina Red". The performances took place in the Russian Song Theater, the head - Nadezhda Babkin.
In 2017, the singer released a joint song with a popular artist Stas Mikhailov "God for us."
Personal life
Alexander Kogan answers questions about personal life, although it is known that the singer was not married. Years of study and hard work completely did not leave him for a personal life.
Many sources are discussed with interest that the Kogan was not seen in the company of women: representatives of the press could not make a single photo, and there is no hint of a happy family life on social networks.
Alexander Kogan now
In 2018, the singer released the single "My Country, My Team", which fans first heard on the air Autoredio. The song is dedicated to the 2018 World Cup.It is also known that in the same year Alexander Kogan will be happy to return to theatrical layouts in the play of Mikhail Staritsky "for two hares."
Discography
- 2002 - "My Dream Girl"
- 2003 - "Love-Palach"
- 2008 - "I Will"
- 2009 - "You LIVE IN MY HEAD"
- 2009 - "Leaving Tomorrow Behing"
- 2013 - "Who invented the world"
- 2014 - "Who threw someone"
- 2014 - "I'm waiting for a call"
- 2015 - "If not you"
- 2016 - "Happiness"
- 2017 - "I'm with you"
- 2018 - "My country, my team"