Biography
Dolphin - singer, musician, poet and philosopher, voice generation of the 90s. It was he who stood at the origins of the Russian rap. For his musical career, the singer performed the compositions of various genres. He compiled rock, rap and electronic sound, entering the unexpected territory of alternative music. Dolphin is one of the most closed and mysterious musicians on the Russian stage.Childhood and youth
Lysikov Andrei Vyacheslavovich, more famous to the public under the pseudonym Dolphin, was born on September 29, 1971 in Moscow. Childhood spent in a communal apartment on the spindle. I went to kindergarten headed by his grandmother. But her grandson's upbringing was not easy due to the obstinate character of the boy. The school studied well, but without pleasure. I easily found a common language and classmates, and with teachers.
At the end of the school, he entered the Moscow Radiomechanical Technical Academy, but, having studied 3 courses, decided to throw it. Young man started working. First, it settled in the theater of the illuminator, then sold souvenirs on Arbat, was engaged in the sale of sheepskin.
In the late 80s, he was fascinated by break dance and hip-hop. In his youth, the artist achieved considerable success in dancing - traveled the whole country in the compositions of dance teams, more than once became the winner at the festivals.
In those years, Andrei accidentally received his currently popular nickname. Together with the guys danced on Arbat, but, by coincidence, was detained by the police. In the separation of one guy began to beat, and Lysikov decided to enhance it, to which the sergeant responded with the following phrase:
"Silent, and now we will go like Dolphin."So the dolphin "closed", becoming later creative pseudonym and replacing the real name.
Music
Soon Andrei realized that he wanted to do music. In 1989, a young man, together with Comrade Oleg Bashkov (deer) and Pavel Galkin (Mutabor), created the "Oak Guay" team. And soon on the musical arena, the Bachelor's scandalous group appeared, one of the participants who became Dolphin. Alexey Adamov spoke by the producer of the collective.It was a sexy revolution in music. The guys performed such provocative songs that the "bachelor party" literally shook the basics of Russian show business. The most popular hits of the group are "sex control", "Sex without a break", "I love people", "Kegley".
In 1992, in parallel with the "boyfriend", Dolphin recorded 3 albums at once as part of the "Oak Guaia" - "Suicidal Disco", Stop Killing Dolphins and "Blue Lyrics No. 2". The creativity of this team was very different from the compositions of the "Bachelor party". Here in the texts prevaled the themes of the inevitability of fate, thoughts about suicide and drugs, and from the music I had depressed and melancholism.
In 1996, Dolphin left the "Bachelor Party" and "Oak Guay" and decided to do a solo career. He created 2 different musical projects - Mishina Dolphins and Dolphin.
Andrei and Mikhail Warriors entered the Mishin Dolphins. The guys recorded only one toy disk and gave the only concert. But the Dolphin project exists to this day. His first album "not in focus" was recorded in 1997. According to musical critics, this record of the artist can be considered the greatest in the history of the Russian rap of the late 90s.
His second plate "depth of field" became a certain continuation of "not in focus". It is also created using samples of famous compositions. The album scattered a big circulation and became the beginning of the dolphinia.
On the songs "Love", "I will live" and the "door" clips were removed. They all hit MTV rotation. A year later, the album "Finns" was recorded, but he does not receive a response and recognition of listeners.
In 2001, the "Fabric" disk was released, where the dolphin did not use the samples of popular compositions for the first time. By the way, the song "Tenderness" entered it, which the singer devoted daughter Eve. The most commercially successful album of the artist is the "star". He came out in 2004, the songs began to twist on the radio, the words of the compositions "Spring" and "Silver" many knew by heart, and some phrases were used as a quotation.
In 2007, the sixth album of the singer "Youth" was recorded. After 4 years, the light saw the disc "creature. Music material turned out to be touching and poetic.
In 2014, a collection of verses of Dolphin was released. The book has fallen indifferent poems, lyrics. The publication was called "Andrei Lysikov". An illustrations of the Spanish artist Street-Art Pablo Herrero were used in the collection. And the honorable place on the title page took a pencil drawing of the author of the author - Mirone Lysikov. In support of the book, videos with reading poems by Artemia Troitsky, Irina Khakamada, Mikhail Efremov, Kirill Serebrennikov, were released.
In the same year, the album "Andrei" was recorded, in which instead of songs had peculiar sketches, or, as Dolphin himself calls them, "audiophilms." The clip was created on the "Nadya" track, in which Victoria Isakov starred. Pavel Ruminov became the director of the video, the film director "Dead Daughters", "I will be near" and "Status: Free."
Dolphin hits are often used in cinema, serials and computer games. In 2006, the popular executor wrote down the track "or I" for the film "Tin". In the TV series "Law of Stone Jungle" you can hear the "Retro" composition.
In 2015, the film "Warrior" came out, Andrei wrote for him a song "I need an enemy." In the film "Don't even think!" Song "Nor ZGI" sounds. By the way, in this picture, Dolphin appeared in the role of the actor - played Leo. Together with Lysikov, Alexey Alekseev, Sergey Mukhin, Alexey Panin, were starred in the project, Andrei Panin.
In 2016, Dolphin recorded his 9th album "She". The plate continues the concept of the previous work "Andrey". The singer is not small, the chorus is missing, the drums are set by the rhythm, the guitar or bass sound harmoniously, the electron sounds are added by the volume compositions.
For his musical career, Dolphin received a lot of awards. He was recognized as a poetic genius in 2000, twice - the best artist. In 2017, nominated for the "Fifth Real Award Music Box 2017" in the category "Out of Format".
In 2017, Dolphin took off at once 3 new clips on the songs of "Cream", "Ryabinov Birds" and "Remember". In the fall, Andrei visited the show Ivan Urgant, in which he fulfilled the composition "Creica". By the way, in 2016, Dolphin had already come to the Evening Urgant program, where he spoke about the collection of poems and adolescence, and also performed the song "Silver".
The artist leads a stylishly decorated account in "Instagram", lays out clips, frames from photo sessions and concerts. Fans note that during the creative biography, the artist has not changed much outwardly, which is visible by Lysikov's news tape. His weight is 62 kg with a height of 170 cm. He is still tightened, assembled and serious. Although sometimes the singer allows himself lyrical retreats, appearing in photo shoots against the background of dilapidated rustic houses.
In the summer, the artist with colleagues flew to Kiev at the Atlas Weekend festival, but it was not possible to get out of the airport terminal. Dolphin banned entry into the territory of Ukraine for 3 years, it was connected with the concerts of the singer in the Crimea. But still, the speech of musicians took place, although without a soloist. Instead of Lysikov sang the whole hall.
In the fall of 2017, the musician went to the tour in the country, which lasted until March 2018. March became a fruitful month for the artist. Dolphin removed the clip to the Single "520", in which he appeared in front of the audience in the image of Vladimir Putin. The video was kept in black and white gamma, it uses documentary frames of protest demonstrations.
The roller used informal symbolism of the Russian opposition movement - a rubber yellow duck, which often appears in the hands of the participants in anti-governmental shares. It is known that the same symbol was used in such promotions in Serbia, Brazil, China.
The clip has become the most politicized rollers from the dolphin existing. Soon there was a release of the 10th album of the solo discography of the musician, which was called "442". The names of the seven track tracks here were presented in the form of three-digit numbers. In an interview, the artist does not disclose the values of each figure. The music of new compositions is distinguished by gloomy sound, depotable and concise rhymes, which are issued by almost the recitative, and the powerful sound of the rhythm section and guitar losses.
The album received positive feedback from critics and failed to fans of Andrei's creativity. In April, on the eve of the new Big Tour, the singer again visited the studio of the first channel as a guest of the Evening Urgant program. The author of the executor shared with TV presenters from working on the creation of songs and their reproduction at concerts, noting that he likes writing musical compositions more than their execution.
At the beginning of the summer of 2018, Lysikov made a team on a large-scale event in Yekaterinburg, held as part of FIFA Fan Festa. In August, Dolphin appeared in the concert program of the Music festival "Picnic Pictures".
The new solo album appeared in the repertoire of the musician in 2019. The disk with the name "Edge" was represented by the clip on the song "J2000.0" and a short provocative teaser. In the video, it was shown how the singer himself arrives at the sea coast, where the corpse bursts in the sand. Later, Dolphin explained that he decided to share with the public with the publication of a new full-length film, where he played one of the heroes.
Personal life
With his wife Lick Guliver (Angelica Zhannova Sassim), the artist met during work in the "Bachelor party". Already 3 months after the meeting, which took place at the celebration of the Birthday of the Titanic Club, they decided to live together.
Later it became known that with the work of the future husband Lika met long before the meeting. She first visited the concert of the Bachelor party in the early 90s, having received a free ticket thanks to her grandfather, who worked in the amusement park on the Black Sea coast.
The spouse of the singer is interested in photography. Her hobby was reflected in the names of the first two albums Andrei "not in focus" and "depth of field." Some of her photos were used in the design of Dolphin albums. A couple of children have two children - the daughter of Eve (1998 R.) And the son of Miron (2006. R.), But the performer prefers not to talk about personal life.
Andrei is a deep and closed person, he reads a lot, is often divided by "finds" in an interview - advises fans interesting books, films. Despite popularity, Dolphin far from the world of show business. He would prefer a domestic evening with the family of noisy star party.
In one of the interviews, the artist admitted that at the young age almost fell into drug addiction. He stopped him from the wrong step by a friend's advice.
On the stormy youth of Dolphin now reminds only the passion for tattoos, which on the singer's body is already more than 15. The artist's favorite tattoo boasts before everyone is a Dolphin image that is knocked out on his hand. On the back of Andrei there is a shadow from the bird, discontinued in flight wings.
Dolphin now
2020 made its own adjustments to the creative life of the artist, but Andrei Lysikov decided to spend the time of self-insulation with the benefit. In the spring, he released a live concert "Quarantina", where he performed the tracks "June", "Clouds", "Silver", "Romance" and others. Speech was recorded in an industrial deserted zone. In the summer, the performer presented a new video for the song "Summer" from the Album "Krai".Experimenting with music genres, the singer for a long time acts as a DJ. In August 2020, Dolphin released a new work in the style of electro and Funk - the project "Mechanical Dog". Together with Lysikov over the album, Sergey Lebedev was worked on the album.
At the beginning of 2021, Andrei and the musicians of his group began a concert tour "Edge", which, according to preliminary calculations, was supposed to last until April. The first cities where artists visited, became Moscow and St. Petersburg. Information about the speeches was published on the page of the official website of the Contractor.
Discography
- 1997 - "not in focus"
- 1999 - "Depth of field"
- 2000 - "Finns"
- 2001 - "Fabric"
- 2004 - "Star"
- 2007 - "Youth"
- 2011 - "Creature"
- 2014 - "Andrey"
- 2016 - "She"
- 2018 - "442"
- 2019 - "Edge"