Biography
A bright charming beauty and a pretty clockwork guy is remembered for a long time who at least once saw the performance or clip "Time and Glass".The genre of this collective can be described as ambitious and non-standard: emotional compositions, bold provocative clips and a constant drive is such a face of this group. And such is the face of modern music, the founder of the collective Potap believes.
The history of creation and composition
"Time and Glass" - a team from Ukraine. The team first gathered together in 2010, when Alexey Potapenko (more known as Potap) and his spouse (now formerly) Irina Gorka founded their own production company called Mozgi Entertainment. The group "Time and Glass" has become a debut project of new producers.
Initially, it was planned that the new musical team would consist of three people: the singer Alexei plug-in and two soloists. Casting for the right to become participants in the team was held on the Internet. Producers viewed tens of thousands of questionnaires and photos before assigning final listening. As a result, two girls were chosen, one of which was Nadia Dorofeeva. After two weeks, Potap decided to leave in the group only hope. So trio became a duet.
The name of the team "Time and Glass" appeared not by chance. In one interview, Potap admitted that this word game had dreamed of him during the tedious flight from France to the United States. Waking up, the producer decided that this is a fun idea for the name of the new team. And it turned out to be right.
The beautiful part of the collective is Nadezhda Dorofeyev - Born on April 21, 1990. Girl comes from Simferopol. For the first time on the stage, Nadia came out in childhood: the scenic biography of Dorofeeeva began with Alsu "Sometimes" song, filled with a girl at one of the school concerts. Since then, the hope has dreamed of the scene and purposefully went to this purpose. The girl managed to participate in international competitions in Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. Nadia became the winner of the prestigious contest "Black Sea Games" and reached the final of the TV show "Chance". The project "Time and Glass" Dorofeeva has already prepared by the singer.
Alexey Zavgorodiy for a year older colleagues in the group. The young man was born on May 19, 1989 in the capital of Ukraine. Like Nadia, Alexey since childhood was a popular artist, dreaming about applause and glory.
On the way to the dream, the Zavgorodi managed to complete the university of culture and arts in Kiev and even participate in several early projects Alexei Potapenko. Scenic pseudonym Zvgorodnaya - positive. The singer admits that this nickname does notice his character and attitude to life.
Alexey and Nadezhda admit that they are very comfortable to work together. Professionalism and willingness to hear a colleague help the guys peacefully allowed even controversial situations. The team members are so accustomed to each other, which is often feeling almost brother and sister, although, according to both, at the beginning of the joint creative path, they had one date, which did not lead to the formation of a couple.
Talking in numerous interviews about the history of the Group's creation, artists do not hide information from reporters about their personal life. Alexey from his youth met with a girl named Anna Andryichuk, which was ultimately called under the crown. On August 17, 2013, the young played a wedding. In 2017, rumors appeared on the network that Anna is waiting for a child, but the species of fans who were based on the photo of a girl from her "Instagram" did not receive confirmation.
Nadia Dorofeeyev, like her colleague, is also happy in his personal life. Her boyfriend remained Vladimir Dantes for a long time. In 2014, even a rumor about the wedding of young people, after all, before that, the artist reported that, together with the boyfriend, he saved money for a solemn event.
In reality, the accumulated funds were spent on the purchase of a car, and the ceremony was comic. She took place in Budapest at the SziGet festival. Husband and wife, Vladimir and hope became later - in 2015. At a party on the occasion of marriage, which took place in a country complex near Kiev, Katya Saddy, Anna Sviridova, composer Ruslan Quinta, Nastya Kamensky, Vitaly Kozlovsky and others. The choreographer Miguel became a witness from the bridegroom.
Music
Songs that executes the group "Time and Glass" are written by its participants and Alexei Potapenko. Alexey Zavgorodi and Potap write music and arrangements for compositions, and the singer Nadezhda Dorofeyev composes poems for future hits.In November 2010, the first composition of the team was published, called "the map so dropped". And after 10 days later, the clip on this song entered the top five most viewed videos on YouTube. The musicians appeared the first fans.
Such a quick success was inspired by the Potap and the group members, and in early 2011, Nadezhda and Alexey recorded the composition of the "Love Dot" composition. The video on this song was also instantly popular, giving a team a lot of new listeners.
Another hit group appeared on radio stations in the fall of 2011. Above this single, the couple worked a couple of months, his author was a producer Potap. The showman called the song "Tile" and dedicated her to all adolescents. Then this composition has become the most sincere, sensual and strong team of team with a deep meaning. And after this, "Time and Glass" released another track "Silver Sea".
In the same year, the repertoire of the group was replenished with several more songs. In 2012, "Time and Glass" recorded the compositions of the "tear" and "accordion", on both songs, the guys removed bright and memorable clips, which were also loved by fans. And a year later, the English-language version of the "harmonica" was released. Two years, Nadezhda and Alexey worked on new songs, and in 2014 presented a long-awaited debut plate, which was called "Time and Glass". 18 songs entered the album.
All clips of the team are very creative and diverse. For example, the video on the "accordion" the soloists were filmed in Los Angeles and California, and the video for the song "# Karok" - in a huge shopping center in Kiev. And of course, each video video is a sea of positive, incendiary dances and bright artist images.
In 2015, the "Time and Glass" team appeared the song "Name 505", which literally removed the popularity of the group to a new level. This composition has kept on the first lines in all sorts of hitters and ratings. Later, the musicians were confirmed in an interview that "name 505" almost quarreled the team.
Potap, Nadi and Alexey turned out to be completely different vision of what song should turn out in the end. After disputes and stocking it was decided to take a break from the composition one day. And the miracle happened - after a day, the musicians again gathered in the studio and recorded a song in one hour.
At the end of 2015, the group introduced the next album "Deep House" to the courts of students. This time the plate was made up of five compositions, each of which was given recognizable "digital name" - "Name 505", "Song 404", Rhythm 122 and "Dangerous 220". The fifth track was the remix to the title composition of the album. With touring the team visits Russia. In 2015, the composition of the "Time and Glass" group appeared in the "Comedy Club", the humorous show of the TNT channel. And on the first channel Nadia and Alexey performed in the program "Evening Urgant".
2016 was generous for hits. The compositions "Proposal" and "On Style" again made "time and glass" by the stars "YouTube".
And already in 2017, the team released another album called "The Best", which received another name "countdown". In the discography of the group, he became the third. Among the 15 tracks included in the record, turned out to be both loved group hits and new duets. Especially fans accounted for the "Back2leto" composition, which became the next hit of the team "Time and Glass".
Alexey and Nadezhda are recognized that the popularity and love of fans are not easy. Permanent shooting, concerts and flights are really tired. For example, the verses and music for new compositions artists are often composed directly in airplanes, because the time is catastrophically lacking. However, the Dorofeeyev and Zavgorodny emphasize, even strong fatigue pays off by the applause of the audience.
"Time and Glass" is often reproached in excessive simplicity and non-implicit texts. Alexey and Nadia were already accustomed to such criticism and answer that their task is to give the listeners a good mood and positive. And for this you do not need to compose poems at all, it is enough to share your own optimism and energy. And the army of the group fans is the best confirmation of the fact that Alexey Zavgorodniki and Nadezhda Dorofeeva on the right track.
The musical group has pages in all social networks, the official site is valid. In "Instagram" guys laid out the premier songs and clips, information about concert speeches. On his account, the musicians noted that in 2018 the video for the song "Name 505", which became the first non-mail video in the teamwork of the team, overcame the mark of 200 million views and became the most popular clip throughout the former Soviet Union.
In 2017, "Time and Glass" began to work on the next record. New experience for musicians was the record of a lyrical musical composition for the soundtrack to the animation tape "Victrana Princess: Ruslan Ta Lyudmila." The singers also participated in the dubbing, voicing the main characters of the cartoon Mil and Ruslana. According to Nadi, now the girl dreams of singing slow hit about love in Ukrainian.
Although the group is Ukrainian, her creativity loves in Russia. Therefore, the musicians did not be limited to tour only in their native country. In the late 2016 - early 2017 "Time and Glass" gave more than five concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The Collection called The Best ("Countdown" came out in the summer on the Mozgi Entertainment label. And at the end of 2017, the artists presented a new composition "Troll". The number of views of the clip on this song very quickly turned the mark of 100 million.
Also in 2017, Nadezhda and Alexey became mentors in the 4th season of the Ukrainian teleproject "Voice. Children". For performers, even made a special double chair.
In 2017, the list of works of the creative couple replenished the colorful clip on the track "And we are on strength", which very quickly gained popularity. The author of the music was Alexey Zavgorod, but the text was composed by the "exploit". The artists themselves rated the track as the anthem of their group, Dorofeyev sings in it not as usual, and in some places even reads rap.
New 2018 in the work of the participants of the "time and glass" track "E, Boy", recorded together with Ivan Dorne, and a clip, which for 3 months scored 30 million views, as well as a joint song Nadi Dorofeeva and the Monatary "Deep".
In the spring of the same year, the team together with the Mozgi group and Michel Andrade recorded the composition, which became the soundtrack to the full-length Ukrainian comedy "Rained Wedding", and the video was published on the official Yutiub-channel Mozgi Entertainment. In the video, a friendly team is in the recording studio, three stand in microphones (including vocalist Nadia Dorofeyev), on the guitar and piano, they accompanied Potap and positive. The stylization of the clip takes the audience in the 1990s.
In the spring of 2019, the musicians removed a black and white clip on their first Ukrainian-speaking song "Smoke". He was distinguished from previous works of musicians with minimalism, it contains only black background, smoke and dancing Alexey and Nadia. Fans of the couple have reacted positively to the composition, praising them, that they are promoting Ukrainian into the masses.
After fans, the couple had long to wait for the release of the new "Studiode" Vislovo (Visto). This happened on July 5 of the same year, the record included 14 tracks, including the composition "Deep", recorded jointly with the monastic.
Musical critics noted that new songs of musicians are inferior on provocativeness and wildness of their former hits, and some compositions do not even cause the desire to sing along.
Collapse of the collective
Now the group "Time and Glass" remains as popular, but in March 2020 her fans waited for the sad news about the collapse of the team. In an interview with Positive and Nadia, they spoke about the reasons for such a decision and the sense of the "time expired" roller, which became farewell.
In 2020, they celebrated the 10th anniversary, both artists felt that they had all possible to the maximum for the group and were now ready for a new stage of life. At the same time, the Zergorodius hurried to calm the fans, explaining that there was no conflict between the musicians. They will continue to be friends, meet, but only work in separate creativity.
To beautifully finish the "story", the artists announced a farewell semi-annual tour in Ukraine "final titles". The last concert of the couple planned to spend on September 11 in Kiev.
Discography
- 2014 - "Time and Glass"
- 2015 - "Deep House"
- 2017 - The Best ("Countdown")
- 2019 - Vislovo.
Clips
- 2010 - "So the map has fallen"
- 2011 - no dot dot »
- 2012 - "Tears"
- 2012 - "Garmoshka"
- 2015 - "Name 505"
- 2016 - "On Style"
- 2016 - "Propultuous"
- 2017 - Troll
- 2018 - "E, Fight"
- 2019 - "Dim"
- 2019 - "Loch"
- 2020 - "20s"
- 2020 - "Forever / never"