Biography
At the peak of popularity, the group "Little Prince" gave up to 10 concerts on tour. One-hour speaking was replaced by a brief break, during which the hall filled new wishes to sing in unison with a soloist Alexander Cotton that "Life is an eternal big carnival."
The combination of lyrical texts about love with vigorous disco music, as well as the unique image of the vocalist rapidly won the sympathy of fans throughout the union. However, the advancing era of change forced the musicians to leave the scene. The speeches "Little Prince" returned only in the "zero" - on the wave of growing popularity retro.
Compound
For most fans, the team "Little Prince" is primarily a permanent vocalist Alexander Cotton. The artist since childhood was fond of music, graduated from a music school in the class of guitar and piano and planned to associate life with art. After graduating from the secondary school played in amateur groups.
The turning point in his fate was the participation in the concerts of the tour "Tram" Desire ". Several shows team played together with the group "Mirage". During one of them, the talented 20-year-old keyboardist noted the founder of the iconic team, producer and composer Andrei Liatigin. In the late spring of 1988, cotton became a member of Mirage.
Behind the keys of the cotton remained not long. In August of the same year, Mirage toured in Crimea. An iconic concert for the history of the "Little Prince" was completed by the joint execution of the song "Close circle". Together with the girls soloists to the microphone came out and cotton. His voice and manner of singing impressed Liatina, and he decided: the vacancy of the Mirage keyboard player is reopened again, and the cotton will pull its own project.
Andrei Liatigin himself became the author of the music for all songs of the first and only album "Little Prince". Texts wrote Elena Stepanov. The composition of the compositions were attracted by Gitarist Alexey Gorbashov, while the "Mirage" group was played.
Prior to cooperation with the teams of Lytyagin, the musician played in the Alpha group, and also participated in the record of the first plates of Dmitry Malikova and "Lube". The "MK" edition in 1988 was mentioned Gorbashov among the best guitarists of the Soviet Union.
At the concerts, the guitarists of Valery Starikov and Nikolai Rakushev appeared at the concerts. Kirill Kuznetsov played on the drums, and Sergey Krylov took the keyboard player - the namesake of the showman and singer Sergey Krylov. Contrary to the common practice of that time, the composition of the "Little Prince" was passed by teaching and scandalous care. Some musicians participate in the performances of the team on retro projects and now.
Music
The story of the "Little Prince" begins with the record of a musical material created by the festive and stepanova. The first composition - "I do not know why I need you," is recorded even before the appearance of the official name of the group.
The stylistic features of the upcoming musical project are already traced in it: the general melancholic mood, the passion of execution, the inconsistency of the lyrical hero. At the end of the year, the remaining 7 compositions of the debut album "We will meet again" are written in the Studio in Estonia, called one of the songs.
The name of the cotton group suggests his friend, lover of works of the French writer. Lytyagin agrees to the "Little Prince". To test the reaction of the public, the debutants are allowed to perform on the warming up of Mirage. In August 1989, a year later, a year with a memorial execution of the song "Carnish Circle", Alexander Cotton goes to the scene in the solo project.
The approval of the audience is approved by Andrei Liatina in solving to produce the project, and in the same year he organizes a solo concert of the "Little Prince" in the Olympic sports complex. A previously recorded album is published. The group goes on tour. As mentioned in the program "Hi, Andrei!", Published on the TV channel "Russia 1" on May 2, 2018, on the day the team is playing up to 10 concerts in one city.
The vocalist style is thinking over, somewhere copying Western stars, selling their own finds somewhere. The famous leather with a fringe is a joint "project" with a neighbor who worked at the fashion house Vyacheslav Zaitsev. A wide belt with rivets decorated with metal asterisks is an accessory purchased on tour in the Baltic States. But the red pants with the stars are admitted to cotton in one of the interviews, copied from Freddie Mercury's outfit.
The popularity of "Little Prince" is growing, despite the absence of a new musical material and clips in the full sense of the word. The video that the team produces is cutting frames from concert performances. A similar video is accompanying clips on the songs "or not", "goodbye", "I don't know why I need you," we will meet again. "
In 1994, shortly before leaving the scene, the "Little Prince" will reissue a debut album, complementing his three compositions. It is a "wet asphalt" and "autumn" of the authorship of Igor Nikolaev, as well as "you betrayed love", written by Sergey Trofimov.
In the same year, Alexander Cotton leaves a musician career for the sake of business. To fix the financial situation, it opens the fashion store, but it does not become profitable. In 1998, the "Little Prince" goes to tour in Germany along with the "Mirage". Vocalist meets the future Polynai's wife. The romance romance makes him think about the place of residence. Soon the pair signs in Moscow and returns to Germany. Cotton remains to live in Baden-Württemberg.
Here he managed to return to musical activity, but already as a producer. Together with his wife, Cotton creates a concert agency "Aleksis Entertainment". A pair admires the daughter Alexander Jan from the first marriage, and soon their common child is born - the girl is called twisted. At this, the biography of the "Little Prince" could be considered completed if it were not for the wave of nostalgia on the hits of the beginning of the 90s.
The first major return on the scene took place in 2004. At the 18th anniversary of the Mirage group, Andrei Liatigin collected in one concert of all participants of the legendary team. Speaker and "Little Prince". In 2006, due to the serious material situation, Lytyagin sold copyright to works that performed by the group, a permanent soloist of the "Little Prince". Cotton thus received complete freedom to use still favorite public hits. Later, Lyatyagin tried to achieve a transaction illegal through the court, but lost.
"Little Prince" now
Alexander Cotton, together with his family, still lives abroad. The eldest daughter Yana works by the flight capacity, Vita still learns. The artist is filmed in the transmissions dedicated to the stars of the last century, Vita is joined by Alexander. On the air of the "First Channel" program, "Male / Women's" girl somehow told that he gave to listen to the father's headquarters in Germany, and they called him "Russian Dieter Boulin."
Cotton arrives not only for the sake of air on television. "Little Prince" - a permanent participant of retro discos, which conduct well-known radio stations. In addition, the team supports the project of Sergey Vashuti "Disco USSR", when several performers or groups who won the hearts of the listeners in the distant 90s are sent to joint tours.
Alexander Cotton is not registered in "Instagram", but leads an account in VKontakte. The official community dedicated to the "Little Prince" is also registered here. The news of the group participants, nostalgic photos and videos, as well as the poster possessions are laid out.
Clips
- 1989 - "I don't know why I need you"
- 1990 - "Goodbye"
- 1990 - "We will meet again"
Discography
- 1989 - "We will meet again"
- 1994 - "Little Prince" (complemented reissue of the first album)