Biography
Viktor Tsoi is a phenomenon of Russian rock music. The leader of the rock band "Cinema", musician and film actor, he became a cumier generation of restructuring. The creative legacy that the singer left for his short life was repeatedly rethought with his contemporaries and the following generations of musicians.The phenomenon that represented the "Cinema" group in the post-Soviet space was unique: the problems raised in the songs of Tsoi still continue to worry young minds.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand and explain what Viktor Tsoi deserves such total nationwide love. The voice of the people, the symbol of the era of Russian rock, the breath of change - such notation is very by the way, when the name of the legendary musician remembers.
Childhood and youth
Viktor Tsoi was born in the summer of 1962 in the Leningrad family of scientific and technical intelligentsia. Musician's father Robert Tsoi worked as an engineer, and Mom, Native St. Petersburg, Valentina Vasilyevna, taught physical education at school. Tsoi Son Dunes (Russian name - Tsoi Maxim Maksimovich), Grandfather Viktor Tsoi on his father, was born in Korea. Despite the Korean roots, the growth of Victor was 184 cm (generally accepted version).
From early childhood, the boy loved to draw, and parents to develop his talent, Victor gave Victor to an art school, where he studied for three years. In high school, he could not please the parents with success, and teachers did not see a student in it capable of knowledge, paying attention to other children.
Already from the fifth grade, the circle of interests of the student has changed dramatically towards music. In the fifth grade, Tsoi had the first guitar, the boy enthusiastically begins to engage in music and even collects the first group of "Chamber No. 6" with comrades.
Hobbating a teenager with music was huge: to buy a 12-string guitar, the schoolboy spent all the money that parents left him, having left for rest. At the remaining three rubles, Tsoi bought Belyesha and nailed them on an empty stomach. The result was predicted, and after that, the musician did the only true conclusion for myself: never Belyesha.
After the ninth grade Viktor Tsoi decided to continue his studies in the Leningrad Art School named after Serov, to become an artist-designer. But the passion for the visual arts quickly cooled, since Music was held most of the young time. Tsoi was expelled from the second coup.
Victor went to work at the plant, and then settled in the artistic and restoration professional lyceum No. 61, where she mastered the profession of a carciste on a tree. The musician often cut out the Chinese Figures of the Netzke from the tree.
Nevertheless, all these life interests were not the main goal for Victor. Music has always been there, and over time, he more and more understood that this is the only activity that would like to devote his life.
Music
At the end of 1981, Viktor Tsoi, together with Alexei, Fishkin and Oleg Valina, created a rock band called Garin and hyperboloids, but a few months later renamed the team in the "Cinema" and in this composition entered into the famous Leningrad Rock Club. The newly-made team with the assistance of Boris Grebenchikov and the musicians of his group "Aquarium" records the first album "45". The name of the album occurred from the duration of the sound of his records.New creation has become popular on Leningrad apartment. In a relaxed atmosphere, the audience of the listeners tightly communicated with the performers. Already then, Viktor Tsoi clearly spoke about his life principles, which did not intend to retreat.
The next album called the "head of Kamchatka" in honor of the name of the boiler room, where Victor worked by the Kocheghar, the band recorded in 1984 in the new composition: Instead of Rybina and Valina, the team was part of the collective, the guitarist Yuri Kasparyan, Basist Alexander Titov, and was sitting behind the drum installation Gustav (Georgy Guryanov). In the same year, the "Cinema" group was a laureate at the second Leningrad Rock Festival, becoming a genuine sensation for listeners.
The next year of the festival, the "Cinema" group repeated his deafening success, and the musicians decided to record the Night album, which was thinking to become a new word in the genre of rock music that fully meet the latest trends in Western Rock performers. Working on "At night" was dragged on, and instead of her "Cinema" recorded a magneto album called "This is not love."
In November 1985, another replacement was held as part of the Movie Group: Alexander Titova, at the post of bassist, Igor Tikhomirov changed. This team did not change until the very end of its existence.
1986 became the year of the peak popularity of "Cinema". The secret of it consisted in a unique combination of fresh musical finds with simple and vitality of Victor Robertovich. In addition, the songs of "Cinema" was easy to perform under the guitar, this group is obliged to thousands of "kinomans", having the compositions of Tsoi in every yard.
In 1986, the Group presented the audience addressed the album "Night" and gave a sign concert at the Joint Moscow Festival of St. Petersburg Rock Club and the Moscow Rock Lab. Group albums were becoming increasingly popular, and new clips of the team watched millions of viewers throughout the Soviet Union.
After the release of the album "Blood Group" (presented in 1988), "CINOMANIA" spread beyond the USSR. The team gave concerts in France, Denmark and Italy, and the photo groups were increasingly appearing on the covers of popular music magazines. A year later, "Cinema" produces the first professional studio album called "Star by the Sun", and the musicians immediately begin work on the next record.
The best songs from the Album "Star named Sun" made Victor Tsoi and a group of "Cinema" of the immortal, and the composition of the "pack of cigarettes" became a hit for each subsequent young generation of the states of the former USSR.
In 1989, the concerts of the Movie Group were held in France and the United States.
In June 1990, the last concert of Viktor Tsoi and his team in the Olympic complex "Luzhniki" in Moscow.
"Cinema" - the last album in the discography of the collective. The songs of "Cuckoo" and "Stay" became the most popular compositions that later repeatedly performed other musicians and groups.
Tsoi's songs turned the consciousness of many Soviet people. First of all, the name of the musician is associated with changes and changes. Such a desire represents the song "I want change!" (In the original - "Change!"), which for the first time sounded at the IV festival of the Leningrad Rock Club in DC "Nevsky" on May 31, 1986.
At first glance, it may seem that Tsoi was a commitment to radical decisions, but in fact he perceived life somewhat differently.
Tsoi about music:
"Music should cover: it should, when it is necessary - to mix when necessary - to merge, and when it is necessary - and make you think. Music should not only call for Go Through the Winter Palace. It should be placed. "Once in an interview with media representatives, he admitted that he believed himself an opponent of reincarnation, and to remain himself - the main thing for him. It is possible that the musician pondered over a professional acting career, and did not comment on the attitude towards the political trends of that time.
Tsoi said about his vision of changes in the Soviet society:
"I meant the release of consciousness from all sorts of dogma, from a stereotype of a small, worthless indifferent person constantly looking at" upstairs. " I waited for change in the mind, and not specific laws, decrees, appeals, plenums, congresses.Films
Viktor Tsoi's film as a movie actor was to participate in the graduation work of the young Kiev director Alexey Teacher, a kind of musical filmalman "End of Vacation". The filming of the film took place on Lake Telbin in Kiev. Participation in this picture marked the new stage in creativity.
The popularity of the "Cinema Group" led to the fact that Viktor Tsoi began to invite to participate in the filming of the "New Formations" films. The Tsoi-Filmaker filmography was fourteen films, among which it is necessary to note the important paintings of that time, fully reflective the essence of the "Epoch of Changes".
This is the famous "ACCA" of the film director of Vladimir Solovyeva, a picture filled with the tart feeling of the "beginning of the end" characteristic of the years of restructuring. This is the dramatic thriller "needle", in which the leader of the "Cinema" group performed a major role. The Hero of Tsoi Moro decides to fight with drug addicts, but everything turns out to be not so simple. His antipode, Narcodilera Arthur, played Peter Mamonov. The film became the 1989 Rental Leader, and Viktor Tsoi received the title of "Best Actor of the Year" on the results of the survey among the readers of the Soviet Screen.
Personal life
In the senior classes, Viktor Tsoi was not popular with classmates, all the fault was his nationality, but by 20 years, the personal life of the artist changed. The girls were on duty at the entrance of the beloved musician. And soon the young man met the soul mate. Acquaintance happened on one of the parties where the musician was present. Marianna was three years older than the musician. The first six months of lovers went on dates into the park, after which they decided to live together.The musician married Maryan (Marianna) Tsoi, who gave him the son of Alexander. In the future, Alexander Tsoi will also be a rock musician. Alexander turned out to be the only child of Viktor Tsoi, no more than the singer had no children. Tsoi's wife assumed the whole economic activity of the group, helped with concert costumes and organizational issues.
In 1987, during work on the filming of the film "ACCA", Victor met Natalie the unfriended worked by the director's assistant. A novel broke out between them, and the new relationship in the end led to the destruction of the family. As Marianna recalled in an interview, they turned out to be different in nature in Natalia. Marianna embodied the "passion volcano", and Natalia remained a "impregnable rock."
Officially, the couple did not divorce, and after the death of the musician Marianna, I took over the organization of the release of his last records, as well as unnecessary materials. In 1999, Viktor Tsoi widow received a higher education at the University of St. Petersburg, where he studied Japanese. The woman was fascinated by translations from Japanese, English.
On the eve of the new century, she was revealed by cancer. After removing the tumor in the chest, the doctors found oncological education and in the brain. I realized that it was impossible to do anything, Marianna Tsoi went home to die. For the last three months, her mother and spouse Alexander Aksenov were cared for her, more famous for the scenic pseudonym ricochet.
Death
On August 15, 1990, Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident.
Tsoi crashed into an accident at the thirty-fifth kilometer of the Latvian slot route - Talsi near the city of Tukums, returning from a rest in the Baltic States. His car crashed into a passenger bus of the Ikarus brand, whose driver was not injured. According to the official version, Tsoi from the overwork fell asleep during the control of the vehicle.
For a long time, rumors went that the musician did not notice the turn, since I changed the cassette in the car radio, but there was no confirmation of such allegations. The cause of death is still exploring Russian society.
The death of the singer has become a shock for the country. On August 19, 1990, thousands of people gathered at his funeral in St. Petersburg at the Bogoslovsk cemetery. Many fans were unable to accept the news of the death of the idol, committing the life of suicide.
On his grave in St. Petersburg, there are always live flowers and never go out candles. The wife of Viktor - Marianna Tsoi, as well as his mother, Valentina Vasilyevna Tsoi, was buried on the same cemetery.
After death, the musician established a large number of monuments in different countries of the world. One of the main sculptures, which depicts a rock performer sitting on a motorcycle, is installed in St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospect, opposite the "Aurora" cinema.
On the 35th kilometer of the Education Highway - Talsi, where a deadly accident was happening, a monument was also installed a 2 meters high of 30 centimeters. As a foundation, sculptors chose one of the most popular photos of the musician, on which it is captured with arms crossed.
Sculptor Amiran Hablashvili and the artist Ruslan Vereshchagin, created a monument, decided to forever fix the famous lines of Tsoi about death and love from the song "Legend":
"Death is worth living, and love is worth waiting ...".Memory
The creative heritage of the musician was repeatedly recycled by other groups. So, Konstantin Kinchev, the leader of the "Alice", which one time was friendly with Tsoem, performs some of his songs on his speeches.In 2000, Tribute "Kinoproby" took place, in which many Russian rock performers participated.
The Ermitage Symphony Orchestra performed the songs of the "Cinema" group at a concert dedicated to the memory of the musician.
In 1990, after the news of the death of the artist, a wall of Tsoi appeared. In Moscow, fans of Viktor Tsoi's creativity were written by the wall of the house number 37 in Arbat (Krivarbatsky Alley of Moscow). The inscription "Tsoi alive" and quotes from his songs fans wanted to emphasize the love of the popular performer. Further, the wall of the memory will be one of the main attractions of the Russian capital.
Directors did not forget about the biography of the popular musician. Cinematographers continue to shoot films about his life and work.
In 2012, the documentary film "Tsoi` Cinema` "directed by Evgenia Lisovsky came to the screens. In the film, the song "Ataman" was made public (not published). Natalia Razlogova retained a cassette with this composition, making it a public domain.
In the summer of 2018, the premiere of the Drama Kirill Svetrennikov "Summer", dedicated to the beginning of the creative path of Viktor Tsoi, his friendship with Mike Namento, as well as the relationship with his wife Mike - Natalia, took place in Cannes. The musicians played European actor of the Korean origin Theo Yu and the leader of the group "Beasts" Roma Beast (Roman Bielik), Irina Starianbaum was approved for the role of Natalia Naumenko.
Every five years, Tsoi's fans celebrate the next anniversary date from the birth of Viktor Tsoi festive rock concerts and memory shares. In 2017, in honor of the next anniversary date on the song "Star named Sun" in St. Petersburg, a clip was removed by one frame. This year, the artist would have 55 years old.
And in 2020, the premiere of the picture of Alexey Teacher "Tsoi", in which the last stage of the musician's life turned into the audience. Evgeny Tsyganov played in the film, Paulina Andreeva, Mariana Spivak.
Discography
- 1982 - "45"
- 1983 - "46"
- 1984 - "Head of Kamchatka"
- 1985 - "This is not love"
- 1986 - "Night"
- 1988 - "Blood Group"
- 1989 - "Star named Sun"
- 1990 - "Cinema" ("Black Album")
Filmography
- 1986 - "Yia Hha!"
- 1986 - "End of Vacation"
- 1987 - "ACCA"
- 1988 - "Needle"
- 1990 - "City"
- 1990 - "Sex and Perestroika"