Leonid Agutin Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The author of several books and director. Popularity came to him in the mid -nineties, after the release of the album "Boar Boy". The tenfold laureate of the Golden Gramophone Music Prize, Honored Artist of Russia. In the year, Russian President Vladimir Putin handed the executor the Order of Friendship. In the photo: Leonid Agutin Childhood and the Leonid family was born in the summer of the year in Moscow, in the family of the famous musician Nikolai Agutin and Honored Teacher of Russia Lyudmila Schoolnikova.

According to his mother’s memoirs, Lenya was born large 4.05 kg by a boy and immediately with a name. Parents so wanted a son that they immediately decided: let there be a loema, in honor of grandfather. In childhood, Leonid Agutin at that time worked with the elementary grades at school, Nikolai Petrovich was at first the soloist of VIA “Blue Guitars”, then - the administrator of the famous groups of Stas Namin, “Pesnyarov”, “Funny Guys”.

The parents of Leonid Agutin - Nikolai Agutin and Lyudmila Schoolnikova, the only child grew up in an atmosphere of unconditional love and creativity, the baby was very curious. Once, staying at home with his grandmother, he began to explore the apartment and opened the door to the balcony. Grabbing with the hands of the rods, he tried to climb further, but stuck between them.

In this position, grandmother found her grandson, who was busy in the kitchen. At the age of six, Leonid Agutin became a student of a music school at the age of six, and then went to the first grade of secondary school, where his mother worked. In parallel with his studies, he graduated from a jazz school in the piano class in the House of Culture "Moskvorechye".

Leonid Agutin in his youth his father was for Leni an indisputable authority to whom he tried to imitate. The news struck that Nikolai Petrovich was leaving the family. It happened right before the new year. The fifteen -year -old teenager worried very much, went into his senses, began to study worse, lit a cigarette. And he constantly repeated to his mother that she would definitely get married, and he would become a famous artist and dad would regret that he abandoned them.

Over time, the pain released, and my mother really married a doctor Nikolai Babenko, who lived in the next entrance and remaining his widower. The man moved to his wife, and gave his apartment a stepson. Youth: The army and the first steps in the work of Leonid, meanwhile, entered the Moscow Institute of Culture, but studied was interrupted when he was drafted into the army.

At first, he ended up in the Leningrad Song and Dance Ensemble, often performed in his composition before the command and colleagues. But once, having broken into a self -wolf, he was detained by a patrol. As a result, saying goodbye to the luxurious hair, the conscript went to the Karelian village of Kalevala, where he began to serve in the border worships.

Later, he will devote the song “Border” to this period, recorded together with “Olue Fraudsters”. In the army, Agutin continued to engage in music there Agutin almost became disabled - walking in a marshy area, injured his foot. The wound fumulated, and in the army infirmary the connivance was concerned about its injury. He was cured by his colleagues, seeing on a Saturday bath day, which is happening with his foot.

He, they say, only need to tolerate a little. Leonid Agutin served in the border worshipers of a steamed young man, a young man was laid on the bench, his hands were tied to her, and two dozen soldiers fell on the guy on top. Another iron brush cleaned the wound to live meat, ignoring the cries of the wounded. Then everyone washed with alcohol and flooded with ichthyol ointment.

According to Agutin, three days later the wound almost healed. In the year, Leonid demobilized and returned to the institute, began to travel with famous groups on tour trips to the Soviet Union. He spoke first with his songs, warming up the audience. He began to write poetry and music, recorded his compositions on a tape recorder. The student participated in the popular television program “Wider Circle” with the song “Snow falls”.

In two more programs, he was noticed as the performer of the compositions “You bewitched me” and “And I am small”. Leonid Agutin-Snow is falling “Wider Circle”, the year brought Agutin a diploma of the director-producer of theater-mass performances and victory at the music competition in Yalta. Fans still remember the “barefoot boy” and the singer himself, who was on stage barefoot, in a bright spacious shirt, canvas pants.

A year later, Leonid won already in Jurmala, at the international competition, after which he completely plunged into work on the debut album. Leonid Agutin is a barefoot boy music and television, despite his love for jazz and indie music, the artist chose a niche of pop artist for himself. The incredible success of the first album “Boar Boy” brought him the long -awaited fame, Agutin’s songs sound everywhere.

Interest in the singer did not fade even after the release of the next two albums: “Decameron” and “Summer Rain”. Throughout the nineties, Agutin's work has repeatedly celebrated the Golden Gramophone and the diplomas of the Songs of the Year.

Leonid Agutin in E in the first ten years of the new millennium, the singer and composer recorded five more albums, moving away from the usual format and immersed in experiments.For example, the Cosmopolitan Life disc was recorded in partnership with the famous Jazzman, guitarist, winner of the Grammy Award Al di Meola. The disk became a real discovery, was published not only in Russia, but also in America and European countries.

Typically, the Russian public, accustomed to the “pop” face of Agutin’s talent, reacted quite cool to his experiments, while in the USA, Canada, Germany, the album for a long time occupied good positions in the charts. But a hit in Agutin’s homeland was his collaboration with “inveterate scammers” called “Border” and clip. Leonid Agutin and Vladimir Presnyakov in his youth at the age of forty, the merits of the singer and composer were marked by the state - he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

A year later, Leonid shared with his fans the first book of poems “Record Book 69”, written by him in ten years. Not all of the poems became songs, but their deep meaning and sincerity did not suffer from this. Ocean of love. " Channel One Documentary. In addition to his own creativity, Agutin with pleasure became a participant in entertainment programs. In the year, it was his student Dasha Antonyuk who won the main prize.

Leonid Agutin and Daria Antonyuk her mentor, meanwhile, released a new studio disc “just about important”. All compositions in this album are copyrighted. In the chart of ITUNES Store albums, the disk was in the first place immediately after the release. In the same year, Agutin became the laureate of the Music Box Award in the category “Singer of the Year. The growth of Leonid Agutin - cm for twenty years he published four more books, the last of which, Leonid Agutin.

Unlimited music ”came out in the year. By the fiftieth anniversary of her son, her mother wrote her book about him, Lyudmila Schoolnikova. And the discography of the singer was replenished with two more albums: “50” and “Cover Version”. The artist summed up the intermediate life results with a brief analysis of himself: the scene always makes it possible to seem like someone else, except who you are.

And here I am: a graduate of the Moscow Secondary School, the Jazz School of Moskvorechye, the Moscow State Institute of Culture, the Private Marine of the Border Cant, the First Cop of Classical Wrestling, the avid billiard player and football player, a well -educated story, now a devoted husband and loving father of two daughters; It is a kind of Leonid Agutin, a “barefoot boy”, a peddler of all kinds of musical experiments, an awl in the body of Russian show business, a guy whom he himself invented, and without whom it would be mortally boring.

So, in March, he presented his next album “La Vida Cosmopolita” to the audience, calling it a kind of continuation of the famous Cosmopolitan Life disc. A professional team worked on the plate, well -known Latin American musicians were invited to the studio, of course, primarily Elom di Meol, as well as Diego Torres and John Sekada, Ed Calle and Amori Guttierres.

In total, eleven tracks were recorded. Agutin also gave his consent to cooperation with Beeline. As it turned out, the agency engaged in advertising decided that Leonid approaches this role, since twenty years ago the modern slogan of the mobile operator formulated: “half only, but no longer needed.” True, in his song it was about the heart. The musician played in the video of himself, an atmosphere of improvisation and laughter reigned on the site.

Many sketches “outside the frame” entered an advertising proposal, for example, one where Olga Kuzmina sings her “TU-RUR-RU”. Now everyone knows about the Beeline action: "half only, but no longer need." The format is all the same: blindly listening and unique repertoire of performers. Participants are mainly performed singers and musicians. During the year, due to quarantine, Leonid Agutin periodically gave online concerts in social networks and at other sites.

However, a number of concerts at the offline also took place with the musician-at the beginning of the year he nevertheless performed in Kalinigrad, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The summer of the year is also planned by the summer of Agutin - the artist will perform in the Moscow Garden "Hermitage" within two days. Little is known about the first wife of the musician.

The hasty student marriage lasted surprisingly for a long time - for five years. He ended due to the fact that Agutin had been devoting to creativity all the time while his wife was waiting for him with a tour. At the Paris Musical Festival of the Year “Boar Boy”, he became interested in the ballerina Bolshoi Theater Maria Vorobyeva. A fleeting acquaintance grew into a more serious relationship, and their daughter Polina was born in the year.

Leonid Agutin, Maria Vorobyova and their daughter Polina in her book, the singer’s mother recalls the moment of acquaintance with her granddaughter, whose birth she learned only a few months later. She noticed that how much her son was happy to be a father, was not so ready to become a husband to a woman who gave him her first daughter. Nevertheless, Leonid bought them an apartment, arranged, having made renovation, periodically came when he returned from the tour.Materially provided a civilian wife and daughter completely, brought outfits and gifts for Polinka out of all trips.

Noting in the restaurant a baby’s two -year, Agutin honestly admitted to Vorobyeva that he had met a new love. After some time, the woman with her daughter left for permanent residence in Italy, worked there, met a man who married and gave birth to her son Andre. Now her whole family lives in France, but with Polina Leonid never interrupted the connection, cared for her, and periodically visited her.

She first saw Agutin in Yalta at the competition, noting his non -standard and passion for herself. And Leonid, seeing her for the first time, could no longer think of anyone else. He came up with a “insidious” seduction plan: he came to his lover’s father and busily suggested writing a song for their Angelica duet. He began to take care of the girl, and soon the couple settled together under one roof.