Mikhail Bashakov - this name is well known in the musical environment, but not to a wide audience of listeners. The author of famous songs that have become hits, a talented musician who does creative work not for success and popularity, but for the soul - all this is about Mikhail Bashakov.
Childhood and youth
Mikhail Bashakov was born in Leningrad on July 1, 1964. In elementary school, he studied piano. But then he abandoned music for the sake of sports and returned to it, as a teenager. Mikhail independently, without teachers, learned to play the guitar and began to compose songs. After leaving school, trying to understand what he should do in this life, he studied at the vocational school for a year. Mikhail Bashakov, however, realized that this activity was not for him. He applied to a jazz school on ul. Saltykov-Shchedrin, because decided to become a drummer.
In their first year at the school in 1981, together with their school friend, guitarist Kostya Makarov, they created their own group "Paradise Chicks", which performed in various teenage clubs and lasted two years.
The beginning of a creative biography
Without graduating from college, Mikhail leaves to work in a folk film studio in a cultural center named after Kirov. Here he mounts, selects music for produced short films and even removes several tapes according to his scripts.
During his work at the studio, Mikhail Bashakov, whose biography is full of unexpected life turns, gets acquainted with the singer and artist Vladimir Dukharin - “Spirit”, who played a significant role in his life. This acquaintance prompted Bashakov to a serious study of German classical philosophy, painting and self-education.
After a while, Mikhail Bashakov and Dukharin create the Trickster group. Before she became famous, more than one musician was replaced in her. But only with the advent of bass player Mikhail Dubov, “Trickster” won its first title, becoming a laureate of the Second Rock Festival in Cherepovets. After the group included the accordion player-saxophonist Pavel Kashin, she was fully staffed and changed her name to “Spirits”.
Mikhail Bashakov as part of the team "Spirits"
The group "Spirits" successfully performed at the VII Rock Festival. After that, her touring activities began. The first concert season of the group was marked by participation in a number of actions at the festival of the Aurora magazine, they made recordings at the Aquarium studio in the Palace of Communication Culture, in the Zheleznodorozhniki recreation center and at the E. Pekhi studio.
The stage design for the concerts of “Spirits” was taken over by V. Dukharin. During Kashin’s absence, he was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Mikhail Smirnov, who remained in the group. In 1990, "Spirits" recorded the vinyl album "Happiness", which in 1991 sold a large print run.
In the fall of 1991, “Spirits” took part in the “Europe + Asia” festival, held in Chelyabinsk, and began working on a new album, which was never released.
After leaving the group of Pavel Kashin, the team tried to stay afloat: performed in clubs, tried to record, but it was going to sunset, and the "Spirits" quietly disintegrated. Each of the band members went their own creative way. Mikhail Bashakov temporarily disappeared from sight.
Creative experiments by Mikhail Bashakov
In 1994, on the initiative of Bashakov and Sulin, a duet appeared, and then a trio of Hi-Fi Parachutes, performing music in the techno style. The group successfully performed in St. Petersburg clubs for a year, went on tour in Switzerland, but broke up after returning.
Mikhail Bashakov decided for himself that the music was over, and got a job as a DJ at the Baltika radio station in St. Petersburg.
But in 1996, an unexpected turn took place in Mikhail's life again. Thanks to the support of one of the fans, Bashakov was able to give several acoustic concerts. In the same period, his collaboration with Kashin was resumed, which became a well-known performer in the domestic market of pop music, but at his concerts he continued to sing songs of Bashakov and “Spirits”.
So, as a result of the merger of the Calypso Blues Band and Bashakov’s songs, the Bashakov Band appeared. The first concert took place on March 27, 1998. The group recorded the album “The Sun Under the Wing”, which consisted entirely of Bashakov’s new songs.
After the default in the country, Mikhail went into free swimming. In 2000, the Bashakov-Band appeared in a new composition. In addition to concerts with the “Band”, Mikhail participated in the actions of the “Mighty Kuchka” creative community. Gradually, the word “band” from the name was eliminated and “Bashakov” remained.
In subsequent years, Mikhail Bashakov, for the most part, performed solo or with a small acoustic composition. Self-released the album "Best."
The most famous hits
Mikhail Bashakov, whose photo is given in this article, is not known to many pop music lovers, although the musician has several studio records. It was he who wrote such famous hits as "Sambadi", "Alice", "Do not worry", which often sound on the radio. However, to feel the full power of Mikhail Bashakov’s creative charisma, to appreciate his art is possible only at his solo concerts.