Biography
Alexander Shulgin - Russian composer and producer. Thanks to him, Singers Valery and Alevtina Egorova, Saxophonist Elena Sheremeth, a Saxophonist "Dream" and other musicians came out. Now Schulgin is headed by a group of companies "Familia", which leads to the media and entertainment industry.Childhood and youth
Alexander Valerevich was born in Irkutsk. By nationality, he is Russian, by the sign of the Zodiac Virgo. His parents divorced early. Mother worked at the state enterprise.
Still in the younger school Sasha showed himself as a creative person. As a child, he began writing poems, and in the 12th age he became interested in music. At first it was associated with collecting popular audio recordings, but soon the teenager was already playing in the school ensemble on the guitar.
After school, Shulgin entered Irkutsk State Linguistic University, then transferred to Irkutsk Technical University, from there to the Baikal State University of Economics and Law. But it was not necessary to learn to learn anywhere else, since with music a young man did not part, and in 19 years began to work as part of the Soviet rock group "Cruise".
Working with this team led Alexander to Germany, where he sorted up in modern sound recording trends and the show business system. Returning home, Shulgin began production activities. In his youth, opened a number of own firms. In 1998, founded the company "Surname". To date, this structure includes a musical publisher, a consulting company, a number of social networks and much more.
Personal life
With the first wife - Singer Valery Alexander Shulgin met in a nightclub, where she performed solo. At first, the producer suggested his professional services, and then their relationship was turned into romantic. And this is despite the fact that Valeria was then married to the musician Leonid Yaroshevsky.Nevertheless, soon young people officially concluded a marriage, and in 1993 they had a firstborn - daughter Anna. Later in the family appeared sons of Arseny and Artem. Although during the last pregnancy, Valery has already filed a divorce, Schulgin managed to persuade her to stay for the kid.
As a result, the singer and producer left all the same, and with a grand scandal. The fact is that the ex-wife Alexander Valerevich told reporters about the reason for their breeding - the explosive character of the elect, which caused a serious blow to the reputation of her former husband. Shulgin did not try to keep in touch with heirs and did not pay alimony. Children answered him reciprocating. According to Valeria, when Anna Schulina's daughter learned that his father allegedly wants to visit her, in tears ran into another room.
Subsequently, Anya declared to journalists that he did not consider biological dad with his own father and does not experience any kind of feelings to Shulgin.
After Valeria, Alexander, he lived in a civil marriage with the singer Julia Mikhalchik, who met on the "Star Factory". However, and with a young bride, the composer broke up, since then preferring to enjoy the life of a bachelor.
Shulgin became interested in issues of religion and in 2011 entered the Faculty of theology to the Orthodox Holy Tikhonovsky Humanitarian University. Subsequently, the composer began writing music for the first public Orthodox television channel "Savior".
This does not prevent Alexander Valerevich to get involved in technology. It increases its condition due to the successful work of venture investment. The composer even became a member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation. The multifaceted Nature of Schulgin significantly depicts the page in "Instagram", where the photos in the temples are interspersed with frames from the playgrounds of technological and educational festivals.
In 2017, in the program "Direct Ether", the first husband Valeria Leonid Yaroshevsky said that the singer and producer did not wait for the official divorce at all: Valery changed him with Schulgin. About the betrayal of the spouse and its second marriage Yaroshevsky released a book called "Valeria:" Steam locomotive "from Atkarsk." The scandalous statement spawned a number of a talk show.
Now about the personal life of Alexander Valerevich, nothing is known: the producer is not divided with the public information about his women. With an increase of 175 cm its weight is 73 kg. About the speech Mikhalchik in the program "Fate of Man" Schulgin said that from the singer, they tried to pull the words needed to produce the words about the aggressiveness of her former chosen one. According to the composer, he appreciated the delicacy of Julia and its honesty.
Relations with the first family are still tense. Alexander Shulgin was not invited to the arms wedding, which took place at the end of the summer of 2020. For a celebration, a country restaurant under the open air was chosen.
Music
The first records of Schulgin coincided with the appearance of the debut plate of the group "Cruise". In Germany, the most powerful Kruiz disk was recorded, a lot of live concerts took place in which Alexander took part.
Upon returning to Russia, the musician began a new stage of his creative biography as a composer. More than 50 his songs became hits and fell into charts. During the 90s, Schulgin collaborated as the author of songs with such stars as singer Valery and the group "dream", and also produced the album Jazz Rock band "Alice", promoted the first discs of the Mumiy Troll and Ivanushki International. Dmitry Malikov, Oleg Gazmanov, Irina Allegrova, Alexander Malinin, Irina Saltykov, Christina Orbakayte and many other popular performers.
By the way, at the studio "Under the audio recording" belonging to Alexander Shulgin and Ilya Lagutenko, the first album of Zemfira was released. Also, the producer is published by Mikhail Zadornov concerts and restored at their own account of the archives of Yuri Victor. In the new century, Shulgin managed to create a musical "I", to open the world an extraordinary saxophonist Elena Sheremet, whose CDs diverged by millions of circulations, especially in North America.
After the completion of cooperation with Valery Shulgin recorded several albums with Aleceptina Egorova. Among them are the plates of Made in Russia, "Primadonna". From the bright hits of the singer, the audience noted the compositions "with a good morning", "what a dark one", "losing".
In 2005, Alexander created a conceptual album "Presentation", all the songs and instrumental compositions of which are devoted to the struggle of good and evil. Then he released the "Triptych" disk - a triple album of pure tool music written in the form of a cocktail jazz and sounds for relaxation. The last studio work of Schulgin at the moment is the dual CD "Fairy Tale". The first part of this work is played at the Harp and Cello, and the second on the piano.
In 2011, the composer gave the native city of Anthem "Siberia, Baikal, Irkutsk", which became a gift for the 350th anniversary of Irkutsk. The record is executed in various interpretations from a pure orchestral to choral.
TV project
In 2002, Alexander Shulgin was invited to the first reality show for the support of young performers "Become Star". As a result, the "Other Rules" group appeared, which included five finalists of this show. But, having started working with the team, Shulgin switched to a new, more promising TV project "Star Factory".For the participants of the Factory, Alexander wrote more than 40 songs, created dozens of stage images and helped a variety of beginners to determine their own style. Under the start of Shulgina, Yulia Mikhalchik, Nikita Malinin and Alexander Kireev received all-Russian fame.
In 2016, Alexander Valerevich became a co-producer of the Shumat Short Film. The main role in the picture was played by Ornell Muti. Shulgin also wrote music for this tape.
He is known and as an investor in new high-tech projects. The composer was one of the first in Russia in Russia invested in the blockchain, and also joined the project of Ilona Mask.
In 2016, the producer spent a free lecture in Irkutsk under the name "Transformation of the Global Economics and Lifestyle 2020-2030", which was devoted to changes in society, new technological trends and the question of which professions and what education will be in demand in the future.
In 2017, Shulgin spoke at the "Innoprom" site "Finance for Industry 4.0", where he presented his vision of the future country. According to the producer, robotization will save Russia, but the risk will remain that production will be aimed at ensuring foreign firms, instead of creating their own original products. Also, the investor read a lecture on new professions that will appear and develop in 20-30 years.
Schulgin infrequently appears in media space. In 2019, he visited the studio of the Irina program by Belogriva "Talk about the main thing," where he spoke in an interview about new projects and further creative plans.
Alexander Shulgin now
Shulgin is a member of the RBC Prize Expert Council. Lectures specialist in the blockchain and global economy are held today at universities in Russia, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Japan. In 2020, he became the organizer and ideological inspirer of the IX International Innovation Forum Rasia Baikal, which was held in Irkutsk in the last few days of August. At the event there were 13 experts from Russia and other countries.
Do not forget the producer and about music. In April, he introduced the online program "Siberian Ark Alexander Shulgin", in which Gennady Kaganovich was attended and the composer himself.
Discography
- 1992 - The Taiga Symphony
- 1992 - "Stay with me"
- 1995 - "Anna"
- 1997 - "Surname, Part 1"
- 1999 - "The Best"
- 2000 - "First Internet Album"
- 2001 - "Eyes of the color of the sky"
- 2005 - MADE IN RUSSIA
- 2005 - "Primadonna"
- 2005 - "View"
- 2005 - Lady Sax
- 2006 - Sax IT Easy
- 2006 - Sax IT UP!
- 2008 - "Triptych"
- 2013 - "Diptych SKAZKA"