Producer Yuriy Aizenshpis: biography, cause of death, photo

Yury Shmilevich Aizenshpis was one of the most famous Russian producers of show business, twice the winner of the musical award "Ovation". He helped many current stars of the national stage to ascend to the sky of show business. And the creative teams and solo singers and singers with whom he worked, still resonate in the hearts of the public.

Family and childhood of Yuriy Aizenshpis

Yuri Aizenshpis, whose photo can be seen in this article, was born in Chelyabinsk, immediately after the war, on June 15, 1945. His father Shmil Moiseevich was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. His mother's name was Maria Mikhailovna. The name Aizenshpis means "iron peak" in Yiddish translation. Yuri's parents were Jews, they worked in the General Directorate for the construction of airfields.

At first the family lived in a wooden barrack. But in 1961 they received an apartment in Sokol (it was a prestigious Moscow district at the time). Yuriy Aizenshpis was very fond of sports since childhood. Most of all he was fascinated by track and field athletics, handball and volleyball. He could well have become a champion in one of these areas. But he still had to leave the sport. The fault was the leg injury he received in 16 years.

The first steps in show business

After school, Yuri Aizenshpis entered the Moscow Economic University for the specialty "engineer-economist". He graduated in 1968. In addition to sports, Yuri had other things. He was attracted by music. Since the sports career for him was closed due to injury, he chose show business.

And his first job was working as administrator of the rock band "Sokol". He sold tickets for the concerts of the creative team according to the original scheme, which helped to equip the stage with first-class equipment. And the quality and purity of sound for Yuri were always very important.

First he agreed with the directors of the clubs on the performance of the group. Further Aizenshpis bought up all tickets for the evening concerts and then personally sold them at a higher price. Yuri the first in the Soviet Union began to hire security to ensure order during the show.

Yuriy Aizenshpis: biography. Arrest

On the proceeds from the sale of tickets money (mostly it was dollars) Ayzenshpis bought from foreigners musical instruments for the band and high-quality audio equipment. But at that time in the USSR all currency transactions were illegal, and he was very risky in making such transactions. If he were caught, they could put him on a serious sentence.

On its "speculative" activity drew attention law enforcement agencies. On January 7, 1970 Aizenshpis was arrested. During the search it was found and confiscated more than 7 thousand dollars (as Yuri himself admitted in an interview, he accumulated more than 17 thousand dollars) and more than 15,000 rubles. Aizenshpis Yuri Shmilevich was convicted under an article for currency fraud. He was given ten years in prison. To serve his sentence, Yuri was sent to the city of Krasnoyarsk.

After he was released, he did not enjoy it for long. And again he was in prison for the same article. But this time he was given seven years and eight months of imprisonment. In total, he served in prison for seventeen years. And finally came to freedom only in April of the eighty-eighth year.

Imprisonment

Yuri was put to "wipe the deadline" among the criminals. Every day he observed cruelty, blood and lawlessness. But he was not touched. The main reason, most likely, was his communication skills. He could listen and conduct a dialogue. Being a very contact person, Yuri Aizenshpis was able to quickly adapt in an environment alien to him.

Although more than half of the prisoners usually go hungry, he circumvented this pitfall as well. Money, though secretly transferred in the form of bribes to prison, could make its existence in the zone more bearable than for many. At least he did not starve.

Yuri was not kept in one place, he was transferred many times to other regions and zones. Only in any place he was distinguished by his unyielding character and high standard of living.

The first "star" group of Yuri Aizenshpis

After his release from prison, where Yuri Aizenshpis spent a total of seventeen years, he got a job at the "Gallery", which created a hill of the Komsomol. Aizenshpis first organized concerts of young talented performers. In the eighty-ninth year he became the official producer of the "Kino" group. Yuri was in the ranks of the first, who violated the government's monopoly on the release of records. The last recording of the group "Cinema" - "Black Album" Aizenshpis released in 1990, taking for this loan of 5 million rubles. It was his first band, which he brought to the world stage.

Further activities in show business

In the 1991-1992 gg. Producer Yuri Aizenshpis closely worked with the group "Technology". He helped to release their first album "Everything You Want", which became a debut album. Widely deployed advertising activities, producing printing products featuring the members of the group "Technology": postcards, posters, etc.

In 1992 he received the Ovation award as the country's best producer. And from this year on ninety-third he cooperated with the "Moral Code" and "Young Hanse". In the summer of 1994 he began to work with Vlad Stashevsky. During their collaboration, four music albums were recorded. The debut became "Love does not live here anymore".

In the same year, Yuri was one of the organizers of the international music festival "Sunny Adzharia." Participated in the establishment of the "Star" award. According to the results of his creative activity in the ninety-fifth year Aizenshpis Yuri Shmilevich again received the "Ovation" award.

Since 1997, I started working with Inga Drozdova, who is just starting a talented singer. But at the same time he still cooperated with Vlad Stashevsky. In 1999-2000, Devoted a lot of time to singer Sasha. And he created a new star from it. And in 1998-2001. Worked with the singer Nikita, making it very popular on the stage. Yuri was the producer of many famous stars (Katya Lel and others).

The latest projects of Yuri are Dima Bilan and the Dynamite group. Since 2001, Aizenshpis has worked in the company Media Star as a general director.

Different roles of Yuri Aizenshpis

In 2005 he tried himself as an actor, having played a small role in the caste film "Night Watch". He also showed himself as a writer, becoming the author of the autobiographical book "The Kindle of the Stars".

Yuriy Aizenshpis: personal life

The theme of Yuriy Aizenshpis' personal life has always been banned for carrying out to the public. Therefore, he avoided interviewing these questions. But still the general information is known. Yuri had a wife - Kovrigina Elena Lvovna. But they lived in a civil marriage. This did not prevent the birth of his son, who was named Michael. He was born in 1993.

Death of the famous producer

Yuri Ayzenshpis was to have an operation on the heart. But we did not have time. On September 19, 2005, the producer became ill with a heart, and he was taken to the 20th Moscow city hospital for examination. After a while, the producer felt much better and was released home. But the next day, a heart attack recurred. Yuri was immediately taken back to the hospital, but they could not save. He passed away at about eight o'clock in the evening. A little did not live up to the planned operation on the heart of the famous producer Yuri Aizenshpis. The cause of death is myocardial infarction. Yuri was buried near Moscow, at the Domodedovo cemetery.