Yuri Antonov Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The total circulation of records of the first official Soviet millionaire reached almost fifty million. This is a singer who set a record for the number of concerts in Leningrad: in half a month - almost thirty performances. People's Artist of Russia. In the photo: Yuri Antonov is difficult to accommodate all the facets of Maestro's talent into the framework of one narrative, so we tried to collect only significant moments in the biography of Yuri Mikhailovich.

Childhood: Tashkent - Berlin - Molodechno was a war. Ukrainian girl Natasha Litovchenko from the Poltava region lived in an evacuation in Tashkent, where the brave officer of the Marine Corps Mikhail Antonov came on vacation. Love broke out between them, and the lovers spent the whole vacation together. When the visit was over, the young man returned to the front, and the young wife remained waiting for him.

It soon became clear that she was waiting for Michael not alone. In February, a boy was born, who was called Yura. Yuri Antonov and his parents three months later, a victory over the Nazis struck. Mikhail, by order of the command, remained in the service of the deputy commandant of the district Potsdam. Natasha and his son were seconded to him. At first, the young woman worked in accounting, but three years later the daughter of Jeanne was born, and Natalya began to engage in home and children.

And then his son fell ill with polio. For seven months, Natasha lay with him in the hospital, fed and watered from a spoon until she put her beloved son on her feet. Little Yura Antonov with his father, a year in an interview with Antonov recalled how he was struck by a photograph of dad in the dugout. Three young smiling guys are sitting in black caps and with machine guns at the ready, and the father has a huge watch on the hand on a thin strap.

When little Yura asked what trenches they were sitting in, Mikhail Vasilievich briefly replied: “Stalingrad”. This artist carefully stores this photo in the home archive. Here Yura went immediately to two schools, general and musical. Little Yura always liked how his energetic mother sings Ukrainian songs, and his father loses his usual severity. In the school years, Yuri Antonov, as soon as the boy realized that he liked to make music, Yura was offered to become ...

the head of the choir at the railway depot. He was fourteen, he felt like an adult, and when the boy first brought the first salary home, his parents were amazed. They realized that music in the life of a son is seriously and for a long time. Youth: Molodechno -Minsk - Leningrad to continue education, Yuri entered the same, in Molodechno, in the class of folk instruments of the music school.

Having behind the experience of the head of the choir, he organized a pop orchestra at the local House of Culture. They really did not want to release Antonov from the team when he was sent by the teacher to the teacher to the children's music school in Minsk. But the pedagogical path was not for the character of Yuri. When it was possible, he took the place of a soloist-instrumentalist in the State Philharmonic.

The service in the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was remembered by the young man because he managed to create an amateur ensemble with which they performed at various army events. Yuri Antonov in the army returning from the army, Yuri took the position of musical director of Tonik, the ensemble of Viktor Vuyachich. He made arrangements, composed sketches, and even managed to withdraw the game on the guitar in the picture of Belarusfilm “Why not sing us!

The poster of the performances of Tonik with Antonov, as part, once came up to him by a bass player and showed his poems: “Maybe we will write some songs? So there were a “song about good young people and red girls”, “Wait, do not shoot, soldier! Yuri Antonov, in his youth, and the case was designated in the city of Donetsk, where the ensemble was on tour. The concert, on the occasion of the weekend, came from the musicians from the VIA guitars rattling throughout the Soviet Union at that time, these were almost the “Beatles” of the Soviet stage.

After the concert, the guys simply approached Yura and invited him to their team with a clavy instrumentalist. Taking with him the guitarist Anatoly Chizhevsky from the team, Antonov moved to Leningrad. The first steps to Glory, the beginning of the seventies in the USSR was marked by stagnation in all directions, including on the stage. And here the “singing guitars” represent the composition that stirred all the ideas about the Soviet song - “there is no more beautiful” without exaggeration, the whole country sang without exaggeration.

And for the first time throughout the country, the name of the performer and composer Yuri Antonov sounded. No one knew how he looked, those years were quite difficult for a young man who was not quite seriously perceived: everything was under the influence of the Union of Composers of the USSR. And in the Union of Composers, the average age is sixty -five, and we were there in thirty.

That is, it was a perfect conflict of interest. We already strove forward, torn simply. Time forced us to run forward, because the youth began to listen to the Western radio. We should have been somewhere close to this. And they tried to interfere with us. But we still escaped forward.The one who wanted to break through. After the “singing guitars” in Leningrad, Antonov had a joint work with “good fellows” in Moscow and the recording of the album, where the composer’s songs “no, not me” appear, “why”, “carries me a course”.

Following the work with the contemporary orchestra, with which Antonov recorded his first minion with the songs “Well, what to do with it”, “The third day”, “At birches and pines”. Yuri Mikhailovich also worked in the Moscow Music Hall, as well as the artistic director of the "highway"-the vocal and instrumental ensemble. Nevertheless, the path to the blue screen was closed to him, since he was not a member of the Union of Composers.

For the same reason, many of his songs were not allowed to publish. As part of the “good fellows” the upper row, on the right, the breakthrough and recognition of the All -Union glory came to the composer along with the cooperation of the Araks group. Despite the fact that the artistic council prohibited the release of their joint album at the Melody company, Antonov issued several records of minions that were in time in music stores.

It was then that the famous compositions “Mirror” and “Anastasia”, “Golden Stairs” and “I Remember”, “Life” and “Twenty years later”, “Mati” and “The Roof of Your House” appeared. Minions with a circulation of over twenty million copies were sold almost instantly throughout the country. Yuri Antonov. The film “I do not regret nothing” “Sound path” calls Antonov the best singer of the USSR of the year, but only those who have been at his concerts know in the face of the composer.

But he actively collaborated with the Odessa film studio, on which the film “Beware Women” was shot. Almost all musical accompaniment in the film sounds performed by the composer. He went out with the assistance of Jugoton in the year. Then the composer left the Roskontzer, since he was refused the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation at a time when his songs and performances with the Aerobus team were collected in stadiums of tens of thousands of people.

Yuri Antonov and the Airbus group came to the rescue of a friend Mahmud Esambaev, who suggested Antonov to speak under the auspices of the Grozny Philharmonic. Administrators worked in Grozny, who took the turnover of Antonov’s team much faster. The ensemble toured all over the USSR, very often performed at various venues in the North Caucasus for three years.

It was in Grozny that the talent and professionalism of the singer and composer appreciated the talent and professionalism, assigning him the title of Honored Artist of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The cover of the first studio album of Yuri Antonov and now came the moment when Yuri Antonova invited Moskontzer to work: ... they gave the opportunity to create a team, provided with good PEAVEY equipment, American equipment, powerful, somewhere kilowatt was with us.

We all drove in two trailers: in one - equipment, in the other - light. Everything was very serious for us, we played everything live, no phonograms. And I still ignore this method of execution as a phonogram. I believe that this is simply irresponsible and insulting for the viewer who paid money, but listens to the phonogram, the plate practically. Finally, the company "Melody" released two giant albums with the songs of Yuri Antonov.

It included such famous songs as “White Bearing”, “I go to meet you”, “Wild horses”, “Take care of women” and others. The second is the author’s disk “The roof of your home”, which included almost all the songs recorded earlier on the minions. The composer first comes out as an executor in the final “Song of the Year”, where the “Roof of Your House” was heard live on the entire Soviet Union.

Yuri Antonov-the roof of your house of the year was Antonov and as a composer in the "Adventures of the grasshopper of Kuzi" and the "new adventures of the grasshopper of Kuzi", a children's musical, published on two giant plates. He worked Maestro in close co -creation with the poet Mikhail Plyatskovsky. It was a landmark for Yuri Antonov and an invitation to the television project “Wider Circle”, where he presented a song with the same name, which became the anthem of the television festival.

Yuri Antonov - The second half of the eighties, the circle of the second half brought the artist of the meeting with the cinema. He writes compositions for the feature films “Before you part”, “Beauty Salon”, “Order”. In the first named picture, director Alexander Kosarev even persuaded Antonov to star as an artist named Ryzhikov. In honor of the fortieth anniversary of the Great Victory, the composer, the son of the front -line soldier, wrote piercing music to Mikhail Dudin's poems “Bullfinchi”.

With this song, he later again hit the "song of the year." For example, as he recalls his acquaintance with Leonid Fadeev: with him I wrote the largest number of “militants”. He himself came up to me, it was many years ago. I was sitting in the house of composers in a restaurant. In fact, he is also a chemical scientist ... with big labors. I wrote to me on a paper napkin with a pen - it was Anastasia.

With this song, we started cooperation with him. Soon, two more large discs “Believe me in a dream” and “The long -awaited plane” with new songs by Antonov were light. In addition to that in Finland, he recorded and released the English-language giant disk My Favorite Songs.After some time, another album-giant “From Sorrow to Joy” appeared, and central television showed the musical tape “About You and about Me”, where she presented a collection of videos for the songs of Yuri Antonov, as long ago loved by the mass viewer and completely new ones.

Yuri Antonov - About you and about me at the artist’s live performances is always a full house, in Leningrad he gives two concerts a day and on each of them - fourteen thousand spectators. Forbid Antonov, despite publicity!