Biography
Alexander Vasilyev is a permanent leader and vocalist of one of the most popular Russian rock bands - "Spleen". Creative by nature, forever experimenting Vasilyev is an artist in the soul and in life, the author of the texts, the musician and the composer.Childhood and youth
Alexander Georgievich Vasilyev was born in Leningrad on July 15, 1969. By the sign of the zodiac - cancer. Together with the newborn son, the parents of Alexander in the same year moved to West Africa, to the city of Freetown (Republic of Sierra Leone), where his father worked as an engineer on the construction of the port. The mother of the future musician got a teacher at school at the USSR Embassy and taught Russian and literature there. In Africa, Vasilyev spent the first five years of life.
In 1974, Vasiliev, together with other Soviet citizens, evacuated from Sierra Leone back to the Soviet Union. Alexander's family for 2 years raised in the city of Zarasai in the northeast of Lithuania, and then returned to Leningrad.
Alexander from the young years was fond of music, and with rock music I first encountered in 1980, when I received a bobbin with records from my sister. On one side, there were songs of the Sunday Group, and on the other - "Time Machine", the concert of which the boy was first in his life a year later. The atmosphere and sounding live rock music made such an impression on the child that he decided to devote in Rok all his further life.
In 1986, Vasilyev entered the Institute of Aviation Instrument In Leningrad. In an interview, the singer admitted that he received only because of the building of the Chesmen Palace, in which this school was located. The musician liked the Gothic Interiors of the Palace: Corridors, Transitions, Celi Cabinets. The impressions of the years of study in this building, the singer invested in the song "Labyrinth".
There, Vasilyev met his namesque Alexander Morris Morozov and with the future spouse, too, Alexander. Threesome young people organized the rock band called Mithra. Vasilyev wrote for a group of songs, and Morozova had musical equipment: bass guitar, microphone and tape recorder "Record".
Music
In 1988, the young team "Mithra" tried to join the rock club, but they were not allowed there. This organization united the group of the city and conducted concerts and thematic festivals. During the selection, a group "cut" one of the founders of the Aquarium Anatoly Gunitsky. The group did not achieve special success and broke up in the same year due to the departure of her leader Alexander Vasilyev in the army. The musician who fell to construction doubt continued to write songs, later these compositions entered the first album of the group - "dusty".After the demobilization of Alexander's views, he had changed to higher education, he entered Ligitmik to the Economic Faculty, which did not graduate. After some time, continued to dive into the theatrical environment, setting around to work as a mother in the theater "Buff". At that time, his university friend and former member of the Mitra group Alexander Morozov already worked here. Young people again gathered a group and secret from the leadership used the studio theater for rehearsals.
Two years later, the first album called "Dusty Friend" was ready. Young musicians staged a party about this, during which they met Stas Berezovsky, who joined the group as a guitarist. The first video for the song "I was told the word" from the album "Dusty Byll" was removed Oleg Kuvaev - the creator of the Masyany cartoon series.
Success came to Alexander Vasilyev and the Splin group in the spring of 1998 after the release of the "pomegranate album". Then another young Petersburg group, which before that performed mainly in the clubs, began to collect stadiums. Spleen became widely known in the rock environment and abroad as the Mumi Troll group. When the famous British Band Rolling Stones, "Spleen" came to Moscow, was chosen for speaking on heating.
In 2004, ten years after the release of the first album "Splin", Vasilyev released his solo with the name "Cherniviki", which included and did not fulfill the compositions written for the group, for example, "two do not sleep" and "Crazy House" . Despite the growing popularity of the group, rumors began to crawl about the fact that "splinters" decay. Alexander Vasilyev, the summer he spoke at rock festivals without a group, with a flutist alone, and this fact spurred rumors even more. The singer himself argued that the speculation about the collapse of the team was not found on anything.
Vasilyev performed Kameo in the mystical drama "Living" in 2006. The Splin Group played three compositions for the soundtrack to this film and for one of them - "Romance" - was nominated for the MTV Russia Movie Awards Award.
When the team left the guitarist Stas Berezovsky, the fans started the decay again, but the group did not split and continued his existence led by a permanent leader. The composition of "Splin", formed by 2007, will continue for a long time. During this period, the album "split personality" was created. Work from time to time was interrupted by touring, Alexander Vasilyev with the group gave concerts in the United States.
The album of 2009 "Signal from space" is based on the desire to leave the native planet. In 2012, "Illusion" came out, two years later discography was replenished with the album "Resonance" in two parts.
In October 2017, Spleen went on tour to the UK and gave concerts in London and Dublin. For 2018, the group managed to release fifteen studio albums, two collections and nine singles.
In the spring of 2018, the next record was published - the "counter strip". Eleven tracks entered the album. In February 2018, the Spleen Group appeared on the NTV television channel in the transfer of the "apartment of Margulisa", and a couple of months before that, in the Evening Urgant program, they performed "the warmth of their native home" from the album "Counter-Stream".
In the repertoire of "Splin" there is a special series of songs - these are the verses of famous poets laid on the music: "Lichichka. Instead of writing, "Vladimir Mayakovsky," Magic Violin "Nikolai Gumileva," Under Surdin "Sasha Black. Another representative of the literary classics, Sergey Yesenin, Vasilyev mentions alcohol in the track.
"I told Alexander Vasilyev that the topic of the conversation is the responsibility of rock-idol before his audience. Vasilyev said: "Oh, Lord! ..".The correspondent of the newspaper "Izvestia" Dmitry Sokolov-Mithrich in an interview with the artist affected the painful topic of drug addiction in the work of the group. According to the musician, the problem of drug addiction is the main, modern art only displays it. What society is such songs. The singer himself says that neither He personally, nor his surroundings from drugs suffered.
Personal life
The personal life of the singer is divided into several stages. The leader of the group "Spleen" was married twice. In 2006, Vasilyev was born the son of Leonid from the first wife of Alexandra, with which he met still at the Institute. The birth of the firstborn Musician dedicated the song "Son", which entered the album "Split personality."
The circumstances of the singer's divorce are unknown, but after a while Vasilyev married the second time on the girl named Olga Zhrush. In 2014, the couple had a son. The boy called the novel. At the same time, the Soloist "Splin" moved from an urban apartment to a private house in the spill. The artist confessed that this place reminds him of childhood and after moving outside the city he was "born again." For several years in a small family there were no other children, but in 2018, Olga's wife gave birth to a musician daughter Nina.
In the creative biography of Alexander Vasilyev there is no only rigid direction. As a hobby, the musician is engaged in painting as an amateur artist. In 2008, the first personal exhibition of his paintings in the gallery of Elena Vrubelovskaya in Moscow was held. Alexander is also interested in sports and devoted him to his hobby of the song "Handball" and "Match".
The singer likes to sit in his spare time on the Internet. He was also recognized that he doesn't know how to cook at all, but he loves exotic cuisine and often happens in restaurants. Alexandra Vasilyev has no personal account in "Instagram", but the official page has the "Spleen" group.
Alexander says about his stage image:
"My image has not been engaged in my image. I watched the concerts of my favorite Radiokhede group and understood that I would do that I don't follow my appearance. After all, so make the most advanced musicians. "Fans are accustomed to see Vasilyeva in jeans and mint sweatshirts, without a beard in youth, later - with a bristle thrust. Despite age, the musician keeps the form (height 176 cm, weight - 82 kg) and is faithful to its style. In 2019, the artist noted the anniversary - 50 years. Fans sent a favorite artist in social networks photos with congratulations and warm words. Alexander, contrary to the tradition of tradition, the concert did not give a concert on this day, marking a holiday in a narrow circle of family and friends.
Alexander Vasilyev now
Now Vasilyev continues to active activities in the group. In 2020, Spleen released a new album called "Vira and Main", which includes 11 compositions. The disc cover decorated the drawing of the soloist. The touring tour of the exit of the album from the group is not quite predictable. In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, some concerts are canceled or postponed. Transfer alerts are published in the "Splin" account in "Instagram" and on the page of the VKontakte group.In early 2021, the group released a track and a clip on it with the actual name "Virus".
In August, the team plans for the first time to perform on the largest annual Rock Festival in Russia "Flying".
Discography
- 1994 - "Dusty Friend"
- 1996 - "Weapon Collector"
- 1997 - "Lantern under the eye"
- 1998 - "Pomegranate album"
- 1999 - "Altavistist"
- 2001 - "25th Frame"
- 2003 - "New people"
- 2004 - "Reversing Chronicle of Events"
- 2007 - "split personality"
- 2009 - "Signal from space"
- 2012 - "Illusion"
- 2014 - "Resonance. Part 1"
- 2014 - "Resonance. Part 2"
- 2016 - "The key to the cipher"
- 2018 - "Counter Straight"
- 2020 - "Vira and Main"