Climb to the white clouds of glory or show - business from scratch

Most mere mortals, looking at the TV screen, consider singers, actors, famous people - celestials. Talented performers, instead of sharing a secret how to start a show business from scratch, tell sad legends about the thorny path, the impossibility of a simple person without connections, good patrons or rich relatives to get into show business. And to enter the list of popular stars, occupying the top lines of charts is a utopia from a number of fiction.

As the proverb says: "Everyone knew that this can not be done. A man came who did not know and did, "my friend Sergei and I decided to create a musical group on the same principle. I wrote poetry for a long time, writing song texts was not a problem. Seryozha came up with melodies in fifteen minutes, the composer's gift was in his blood, we immediately started to work. While my colleague thought which synthesizer to choose for a quality sound recording, so that we should not waste time in vain, it was enough for us to have a regular Yamaxa guitar. I was required from - a notebook, a pen and simple naive rhymes. Target audience: young people from 13 to 25 years of age wanted to have fun, and under the abstruse reasoning about the meaning of life, especially not to dance.

"Larks" of us did not work out like real "owls", we sat at the table for an hour at two in the morning. Seryozha kept within five minutes, the melody was ready, half an hour later the first song was born: "Naruram, if you want love, snatch, come to me!", Such "masterpieces" were invented on the fly. Having delivered a portable studio, a friend wrote down our netlenku. The next day, two more songs were born, in almost a week we recorded the whole album. The group was called "The Rise!", Remembering that - as a ship you will name, so it does not drown him. Under the motto: "To give people a great mood and positive", we registered our works in the Russian Authors' Society. It remained to find the soloist, at this stage we were stuck for a long time.

It was necessary to get dark outside, we, as vampires, went to night clubs to get acquainted with potential singers. In one glamorous institution, Dmitry Rzhevsky, a keyboard player, was found. Dima's neighbor Gol turned out to be a drummer, and Anechka was a dancer, friends recommended. The soloist could not "catch". All the guys who had to listen to every day had an absolute hearing, a strong voice, a suitable cute appearance, but they did not have enough zest. Identical, like the robots released from the conveyor, with timbres not remembered, they did not cling to the soul.

In the "Day of the City" a friendly company, having decided to arrange a vacation, we went to visit friends. We were presented with a nice guy Alexei, who recently came from the city of Yeisk, to work as a driver. He joked, told anecdotes and smiled charmingly. Under the chimes of glasses with champagne, included karaoke with the hit of the group "Hands up". And Sergei and I, when we heard Lyosha singing along, shouted at the same time: "It's him!" Nobody understood anything. When we explained that Alexei would be our "star" all laughed. We exchanged phones and on the next day rehearsals began with the long-awaited vocalist.

Leszek us arranged in everything. Kind, charismatic, unpretentious, disciplined, without bad habits, understanding demands from a half-word, hard-working and not touchy - a set of rare qualities in one person. Children's years spent in the school choir did not pass for him in vain, and a light provincial accent gave exactly that original intonation, which we unsuccessfully searched for, after listening to more than one hundred singing boys.

At the dawn of glory, when concerts began, tours, success, and songs: "Narram", "I like you" twisted around the clock at leading radio stations, friends saw Lesin talent. And after the video "The Girl at the Wedding," where our soloist coped well with the role of a dramatic hero, which was noted by critics of MUZ and MTV, former skeptics claimed that they believed in our project from the very beginning.

Starting a show - business from scratch is really difficult, especially for beginners. Producers did not take our work seriously, did not think that the band would become popular, but did not take into account one important factor - people's love. That's who appreciated the group "Up!" On its merits. Thanks to letters and calls from fans asking to put the song you liked for yourself, relatives or friends, first the radio station, and then the television went to meet us.

The most important hit, "White Boats" was conceived as a tribute to the almost forgotten composer Vladimir Shainsky. We remembered his "Blue Carriage", "Let them run awkwardly" and other tunes for children and adults. Despite the fact that Vladimir Yakovlevich was already over eighty, the energy from him was beating with a key, he was happy as a child, when he learned that the group "Up!" Wants to remix his famous but nowhere sounding musical motif.

On the eve, participating in a joint concert in honor of graduates, medalists, we met with Karinka. Parents brought a girl from Rostov on the Don, to conquer Moscow. So the idea arose to give "Boats" a different perspective, as if the little sister was escorting her beloved brother to the army. The duet Lesha and Karina M. recognized the most successful project of the year. Tandem two talented young performers, conquered the hearts of millions. In the modern version of the "resurrected" hit with a fashionable arrangement, children, teenagers, boys, girls, women, old people, soldiers fell in love. The clip, where the little girl with white pigtails keeps the bear and cries at the train car, saying goodbye to her brother, was so realistic and natural that the whole country believed that this was not a script, but the truth. From the words of the author of the refrain of Leonid Yakhnin "White ships are clouds," many even cried.

The parody of KVN, where the favorites of the "Comedy Club" led by Garik Martirosyan, depicted Leska and Karinka with good humor, remaking the couplets in its own way, glorified us not only in Russia, but also in the countries of near and far abroad. And it all started with the usual acoustic guitar and the belief that any ordinary person can realize his dream, it is only necessary to want and make work that will pay off hundreds of times.