Biography
"King and Jester", though he stopped the actual existence after the sudden death of his leader Mikhail Gorznesva in 2013, converted to the "Northern Fleet", but continues to sound in the songs and opera and live on the pages of books. The former participant of Kish Alexander Balunov since 2016, in addition to music, is busy with writing activities and does not cease to tell the readers unknown facts of creative biography of the cult horror-punk group.Childhood and youth
In the 1973th day of the 1973th day in the city on the Neva, Tatiana and Valentina Balunov had a joyful event - the younger son Sasha (fish on the zodiac sign) appeared. A little earlier in the family took congratulations on the birth of the firstborn of glory. It is known that the mother, in the very familiar surname Savelyev, came to this world on December 20, 1946 and devoted himself to the musical education of preschoolers, and Brother graduated from the Polytechnic Institute.
At the time limit, the boy went to the local secondary educational institution No. 334, and then transferred to SOSH No. 147, where in the 13-14th age and there was a fateful acquaintance with Mikhail Gorent and Alexander Schigolev.
Moreover, the ball and pot first had no melodic art (at that time they didn't even have guitars available), but the literature - young people wrote books together, and then they switched to the creation of songs. As the artist admitted later, he practically doesn't remember school years - for him, it is more significant that related to creativity.
By the way, no one of the initial composition of the King and the Shut had an appropriate education. However, Alexandra still has "tower", as well as the second level of chess.
Personal life
Personal life artist and writer arranged not immediately. In marriage with Inna Demidova on October 2, 1995, the son of Kirill appeared on the world, who went in the footsteps of the famous Father and plays the guitar and sings in Chunder, cooperating with the Austrians Princesse Angine. The debut mini-album of the collective called Insight was born in 2019, and in 2020 it was a turn of Knife Party - his exit was preceded by a tour of Indonesia.
On January 31, 2003, Balunov became a father for the second time: at that time, the press secretary of "Kish" Anastasia Rogodnikov presented him with the heir of Vasily. A woman who worked as music director of Radio Maximum and Hit FM, since 2015 occupies a similar position to "our radio".
Alexander does not make souls in children, regularly publishes their photos on its own pages in Vkontakte and Instagram, and the younger even put on the cover of the "Songs about Love and Friendship" disk.
At the moment, the ex-bassist "King and Shuta" is a romantic relationship and lives in California with Irina Koshinovskaya - the graduate of Illinois University in Urbane-Champane. A man never ceases to be friends with the rest of the legendary punk band and supports close relationship with his daughter and a widow Mikhail Gorcereva.
On the official website, the ball is stored not only the history of the team, told by Prince, jokes and interviews, but also a questionnaire with brief facts of biography. It follows from it that the favorite object in the school was physical education, a favorite beer is called "Admiralteyskoye", and the beautiful representative of the opposite sex is considered smart.
Music
In the late 80s, in the bright heads of the friends-comrades Misha Gorendeva and two Sasha, Balunov and Schigolev, no less bright idea came about the formation of his own team.So a punk rock "office" appeared on the light, which, after acquaintance with Andrei Prince, Knyazev changed his own concept and renamed King and Shuta.
"King and the Jester" are friends from 13 years old, from school, everyone was equal. I generally raise questions who were the main thing in the group. She was our common matter, we believed in it, it was our life. We made copyrights only on the fourth or third album, it did not matter that we didn't matter who of us is more author, "the celebrity told in an interview.Since the founding of the group, who joined the public with mystical stories and terrible fairy tales and ballads, and before the 1996, Alexander was held by the guitarist. At the specified year, he retrained to Basist instead of Grigoria Kuzmina. However, in the period from 1993 to 1995, the guy had to be answered for vocal parties, replacing Knyazeva, who went into the army.
On January 31, 2006, Balu decided to take a permanent vacation, but, returning after 2 weeks, after a couple of days he announced his final leaving from the team. The musician moved to the United States, where the violinist Maria Nefodeov moved a little earlier, but the connection with the former colleagues did not lose. He rolled back to the guys a tour in America, helped the pot to record a joint song DON'T CRUCIFY ME with Californians Red Elvises and regularly visited Kish's concerts.
Subsequently, a man introduced listeners with a tribute to the het 70s "Do you believe me?" And together with a friend of nicknamed, Bottches was gathered to experiment with the song from the "12 chairs" performed by Andrei Mironova. But in the end, the independent composition "Fear and Hate" was born.
In 2015, in a duet with already mentioned "Red Elvis", the artist released Maxi-Single "as a star", after 2 years he took part in the creation of the "death of the jester". In the same 2017, Balunov solo discography was opened by "Songs of Love and Friendship", and in 2018 it was supplemented by "children's songs for adults" with "KnyaZZ".
Alexander Balunov Now
Balunov's strength is enough for several things right away. Fans are deeply grateful to Alexander not only for the release of musical innovations, but for the preservation of heritage pots, restoration of rare materials and a separate group in Vkontakte, dedicated to the archives "Kish."
Do not forget rocker and about creating books. In 2019 to "King and Shuta. Between Kupchino and Rzhevka and "King and Shuta. The infinite story "was added and the" king and the jester. As in the old fairy tale. "
Alexandra Balunova has a personal Yutiub-Channel, where records of Mikhail's memory concerts and other speeches, author clips, video from life, archival rollers, etc. are stored.
Discography
With the group "King and Jester":
- 1996 - "Stone on the head"
- 1997 - "King and Jester"
- 1999 - "Acoustic Album"
- 2000 - "Heroes and Villains"
- 2001 - "As in the old fairy tale"
- 2002 - "Sorry, no rifle"
- 2004 - "Riot on the ship"
Solo:
- 2017 - "Songs about Love and Friendship"
With Andrey Knyazev:
- 2018 - "Children's songs for adults"