Biography of Alexander Barykin - the creative path

Composer, professional, who graduated from "Gnesinka", singer, famous rock musician, father of Russian reggae, multi-instrumentalist, performer of many Russian pop hits, Alexander Barykin was born in remote village of Tyumen region in no less distant 1952. He lived a bright short life. And he did not die on March 26, 2011, because his voice, so surprisingly plastic, lives and will sound for us for a long time.

The most famous songs

Probably, there is no person who knows Russian a little, who would never sing: "I will drive a bicycle for a long time". Or the melodies of the songs "Island", "Airport", "Lifebuoy", "Program schedule". The youth of the 70s of the 20th century still keeps a completely dubbed record of David Tukhmanov, where there is a song on the poems of Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to travel", performed by Alexander Barykin. Biography of the singer is little known to the general public. This list of hits is given here so that melodies are remembered by everyone, not even by music lovers.

Biography of Alexander Barykin

Childhood

Music school Alexander Barykin graduated in the Moscow region Lyubertsy, where his parents moved. As a schoolboy he created his first musical group and played on various dance floors.

Takeoff

Subsequently, Alexander Barykin received the diplomas of the Krasnodar Institute of Culture (the director of mass events) and the Gnessin Music School (a department of classical vocal). Since 1971, music has become his profession. I played and sang with VIA "Merry guys", "Muscovites", "Samotsvety", "Pearls". He participated in the projects "Love is a huge country", "On the wave of my memory", "The musical globe", in the recording of music and songs for the film "Central from the skies". Then, along with guitarist Vladimir Kuzmin left "Samotsvety" and organized a group "Carnival", which became extremely popular.

Free flight

This period of Barykin's life was connected with reggae , and the newest wave of Russian music attracted him forward, to the happiness of creativity. For the first time on the Soviet record company "Melody" was written the phrase "rock band" - "Rock group" Carnival. "Brilliantly existed until 1982, when disagreements and litigation between Barykin and Kuzmin began, the group split, and the title rights remained Barykin, Kuzmin founded Dynamic, where part of Carnival left, Barykin had to look for new musicians for the old creative team, new hits appeared: Chile, Starry Ship, Miracle Island. David Tukhmanov, you The all-Union fame came after the performance of Igor Nikolayev's song "Program schedule." And in 1987 there was a perpetual hit - "Bouquet" - verses by Nikolai Rubtsov, for which Barykin received in addition to popular love a lot of criticism from colleagues for departing from Rock. "It began to be called an entertainer, which in itself is considered an insult to a rock musician.

Turbulence

Biography of Alexander Barykin contains many facts of the prejudiced attitude of others to his work. The answer was none the less: a plate of purest and high-quality rock titled "Hey, Look." And this at the very time when life brought to the musician the most horrible, almost deadly blows! Three months after the Chernobyl accident (1986) Barykin gave a big concert right at the nuclear power plant. As a result, he soon needed an operation on the thyroid gland. As a consequence, there are huge problems with vocal cords. In 1991, the Carnival disintegrated. The biography of Alexander Barykin as a musician on this, however, did not end. By the two thousandth he was cured, and his active activity in the field of Russian rock resumed. Grew up a son George - a wonderful musician, who took part in the recordings of albums that Barykin Alexander released. A photo of those years displays a man with a young smile and bright, kind eyes. A decade ahead of those Orenburg tours, where Alexander Barykin's biography was due to end. The second extensive heart attack. Scene, which the singer has dedicated his whole life. And she remained faithful to him. Alexander Barykin did not finish the song "Come on, live!", But stayed to live with us. Forever.