Biography
With the name Valentina Strykalo, the fate of a young musician from Zaporizhia Yuri Kaplan is connected. The project of the young man appeared in 2008 spontaneously, while recording Yuri's humorous music numbers for the YouTube channel. Kaplan in front of the camera created a short song video message to the artist Vyacheslav Maja in a popular fruit manner on today.Unexpectedly, the roller of Ukrainians broke all records of popularity in the network, gaining over 100 thousand views. At that time it was an incredible figure, since YouTube was not so popular as today.
This event can be considered the birthday of the creative image of Valentine staring from the village of Burilsevo.
Childhood and youth
The biography of the creator of a colorful character began in the city of Zaporizhia. Yura Kaplan was born in 1988 in the family of builders. The boy graduated from a physical and mathematical school and entered the capital institution of the economy and international relations. In the first courses, the young man studied not very well, but over time he pulled into studies and in 2010 he received a diploma. But in the interview, he admitted: hopes that it does not have to touch him.
The fact is that he believes that to set a choice in front of a 17-year-old child at least stupid. Well, what can he know after school? How does he understand what he wants to do in the future? For example, in those years attracted director. But he was stopped by the idea that the profession of film director in Ukraine is unreliable. The guy read the student forums, where the guys wrote that they were removed on the chambers of the 50s, and left this venture. Now he says that it was simply afraid to be unemployed homeless with the formation of a film director.
After the debut performance in 2008, the singer created several rollers, where in a comic manner turned to a number of Russian pop stars: Timati, Dima Bilan, Potap and Nastya Kamensky, to the group "Tea together", Maksim and Sergey Zverev. Especially popular after the song dedicated to Maja, it became a message to Bilan, which gathered over 2 million views in a few days, and a little later, a song manifesto for Timati, who also covered a multi-million audience.
Immediately after such a loud success on the Internet, the guy began to call and offer to speak. But the repertoire for a full-fledged concert was clearly lacked. Therefore, Yuri decided to write a concert program with which he began to appear in clubs. Just one with a guitar. But he was not enough. Now he finally decided that he wanted to engage in rock music. Kaplan began to look for like-minded people to create his own team.
Parents in all of him supported, and when mom first saw the video of his son, said it was funny.
Music
In addition to the solo speeches of the artist in the Ukrainian program "Comedy Club" and entertainment clubs in Kiev, Yuri Kaplan gathers the Valentine Strykalo musical group and in 2010 begins work on the first album "Commission and Relax", which comes out in two years.
Together with the new repertoire, the musicians use the famous songs of other performers in the concerters of the famous songs of other performers, as well as the musical material of the former group of Yuri "In She" and the fictional collective "Water-bubbles". These are such tracks as "burn" and "our summer", which is famous on the Internet under the second name "yacht, sail".
The most popular songs of the first disk of a new creative team are the compositions of "Cheap drama", "I beat women and children." At the same time, young musicians promote their creativity, placing all the texts and tabulatures of songs on the Internet in free access.
Along with the creation of a second collection "Part of something more", in 2013 the musical group performs at concerts together with the famous representatives of youth culture. In particular, the extraordinary creative duet of Valentine Strykalo and the Russian artist Noize Mc became famous. Often, these perfects of artists took place under political slogans in support of Ukraine.
In addition to live performances, the group continues to conduct a personal video blog, in which Yuri Kaplan shares his thoughts and experiences about the personal life, talks about his creative victories, plans for the future and performs new songs.
Valentin Strykalo participates in records on radio stations in Russia and Ukraine, such as the "lighthouse", "silver rain", "MTV" and "Jam FM". Programs involving Yuri Kaplan have passed through the TV channels "NTV", Ren-TV. On the "First Channel", the record of the "big difference" program was published with the participation of the musicians of the youth team.
According to Forbes magazine, the group's work was included in the ranks of the first three of the most famous performers who became famous thanks to the Internet.
Today, the musicians of the Valentin Strykalo project are: Soloist and Frontman Yuri Kaplan, bass guitarist Stanislav Murashko, guitarist Konstantin Pyshov and Drikher Vladimir Yakovlev.
The genre of music in which the guys fulfill their songs, it is difficult to determine. This is indie rock, and pop punk, and indie pop. And on the other hand, comedy rock and non-prison. It should be noted that the fans of the group are enough.
Many accuse Yuri Kaplan in snobsm, but he admits that he did not think about anything. When I first turned on the camera for recording, this image was born myself.
In 2016, the long-awaited disk "Entertainment", which entered eight new tracks. In 2017, Valentine's tour took place in the cities of Russia, including Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Personal life
About the personal life of the artist, whose real name Yuri Kaplan, is little known in the media, although it is often in the network, his photos appear with cute representatives of weak gender. It is known that at one time his girlfriend was a one-line from the institute, but this connection did not exceed something more. To date, the musician has no wife and children, Yuri is free, at least, judging by his "instagram". A young man in an excellent physical form - with a height of 178 cm its weight - about 72 kg.
There are those who are confident that the singer of unconventional sexual orientation. After all, he was not ashamed to sing the song "Mom, I Gay." Yes, and in his "twitter" spoke for the legalization of same-sex marriages. However, from Yuri - this is a kind of steb about homophobics.
In an interview with 2008, he said that he lived on a removable apartment in Kiev, together with the younger brother Mark, who ends his studies at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. It was announced that he was sometimes thinking about moving to Moscow. Today, information where the singer lives, in Ukraine or Russia, no.
Valentine Strykalo now
In 2017, Hit Valentine strykalo "Our summer" became a soundtrack for the film Boris Khlebnikov "Arrhythmia". And many believe that the only negative of this picture is that after viewing you will eat "Yalta, Sail" for a long time. But, on the other hand, it is a plus.
In June 2018, Yuri Kaplan with a team spoke at the summer festival "Wild Mint", along with them at the concert, Zemfira participated, "Animal Ja Z" and "The Hatters".
And on July, great concerts are scheduled in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
True, in June 2018, in Twitter, Kaplan announced that he temporarily leaves music and would deal with clothes design. It is actually true, but it is not clear, but that these two concerts are the latest declared in the tour for 2018, do not have to argue.
Discography
- 2012 - "Commit and relax!"
- 2013 - "Part of something more"
- 2016 - "Entertainment"