Biography
Vadik Korolev is known as the leader of the OQJAV group, where it lies with the responsibility for writing music, texts and the execution of vocal parties. The musician creates songs in the styles of Indi-Pop and Sinti-Rock with an admixture of alternatives and psychedelics. He believes that it is cool to "surprise nonsense is cool," and teaches this skill of his listener.Childhood and youth
The early biography of the soloist of the OQJAV group is connected with Perm, where he was born in the Gaiva microdistrict, but now the Vadik considers Moscow with his house. A mother and sister moved here after him, however, for the last capital, she became a transshipment point: Later, one of them moved to St. Petersburg, and the other to Paris. Korolev remained living in Moscow, coinciding with the city by Temontum.
Returning to a small homeland for a couple of days, the musician is eaten by Grandma Shangami, meets with grandfather and father. Friends in the city almost did not remain - one school, another university. Almost all people close to the spirit left Perm.
Korolev studied in the famous school number 22 with an in-depth study of French. Vadik since childhood loved music, inspired by the clips of Michael Jackson. In the 5th grade, I decided to learn how to play the guitar, began to perform with songs and dances at school events. It was there that, he was noticed and invited to the Perm Academic Choir "Mlada" - a youth musical team of a new generation in Russia and Europe, which spreads the boundaries of the traditional choir genre, complementing his difference vocal techniques.
Despite creative abilities, the guy is not going to turn music into the profession. He entered the Faculty of Faculty of University, and in the evenings he worked on a wholesale bookstore in the warehouse. After that, work was followed by the prosecutor's office, and then it happened to move to Moscow, where Vadik managed to work well in the Law Office of Auchan.
Creation
Another living in Perm, Vadik founded the Pilar group, which began to perform on the scenes of the hometown since 2004. The guys performed rhythmic electronics, won on independent music festivals and moved to Moscow with ambitious plans. Despite the fact that the producer "Mumiy Troll" and Zemfira Leonid Burlakov became interested in Permyakov, the group did not achieve much success.In 2012, the Korolev united with Katya Pavlova and Daniel Shaykhinurov, together with whom he created the "Okudzhav" group. For the first album, released 2 years later, the musicians received a prize of Artemia Troitsky "Steppe Wolf" as the best debutants, and were also marked by a number of other awards. In 2015, the team replaced the name on OQJAV, faced with the claims of the heirs of Bulat Okudzhava.
On the account of the group of hundreds of songs that took shape in the record "Okudzhav", "March", "Leaf-Flowers". They belong to the tracks "Jack", "Honest Choice", "Tatarka", several singles, mini-albums and dozens of atmospheric clips. From 2017, the composition was updated, where only Korolev remained from previous participants. He continued in the company Yaroslav Timofeev and Dmitry Shugaikin in the company Yaroslav Timofeev.
In addition, Vadik created joint projects with Taisia Vilkova and Evgenia Popova, created music for performances and films. In parallel, he wrote poems and released the book "Roman". The musician was filmed in the movies: in 2020, two premieres took place with his participation - "Man from Podolsk" and "The City fell asleep." Both work are marked at the film festivals.
Personal life
With a soloist of the band "Both two" Kate Pavlova Vadik met in the summer of 2011, when she came to tour from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and asked to live for buddies in the Moscow region. In that cottage, there lived and queens for whom Katya soon became a friend, a musical like-minded person and his beloved.
The girl struck him with creative freedom and the ability to extremely frankly talking about everything in the world. They became families, and at that time Vadik matured, feeling responsibility for his wife. For the first time in a long time he got a job, which, although low-qualified, but gave the soil under his feet. Over time, Kati and Vadika swore both in creative plan and in personal life. They broke up, and since 2017 everyone took up their own project.
Vadik Korolya now
On November 6, 2020, OQJAV came out the Krometna plate, which became the fourth studio album of the group. The presentation of the release in front of Muscovites took place on November 22 in Heaster, and residents of St. Petersburg joined the beautiful on December 10 at the Morse Club. On the eve of the speeches, Korolev gave an interview in the Evening Urgant program, where he told Ivan Urgant about the experience of filming the cinema and executed a song from the last disk. News, Fresh photos, announcements of performances and projects The musician lays out on the "Instagram" page.Discography
With Pilar Group:
- 2011 - Pilar
With the OQJAV group:
- 2014 - "Okudzhav"
- 2015 - "Filmartists"
- 2016 - "March"
- 2017 - "Traitor"
- 2018 - "Leaf-Flowers"
- 2019 - "Kehelban"
- 2020 - "Ground"