Do you know that the idea of casting live and presenting the material in the form of a reality show does not belong to the Meladze brothers, not to Konstantin Ernst, but to the former producer Als - Valery Belotserkovsky? Unfortunately, the idea was not implemented by the Megapol production center, but within a few months the sensational project Factory was launched.
How the Love Stories group was created
In early 2002, information on casting in the future female collective of Valery Belotserkovsky was heard on the MTV channel and major music radio stations. The office of the production center "Megapol" began to storm young and promising girls from all over Russia and neighboring countries. Three months lasted the selection of applicants, but, unfortunately, in closed session. Reality show failed to start. And yet, as a result of auditions and samples, four beautiful girls were selected with good vocal skills and an angelic appearance. Thus began the group “Love Stories”. It was such a collective that the producer wanted to create, believing that talentless and depraved singers in the domestic show business were already enough. Maya, Olya, Zhenya and Kristina - these are the names of the first and most successful team.
Band producer
Who became the ideological inspirer and organizer of the group? This is a famous Russian producer Valery Belotserkovsky. His name may not say anything to a simple layman, but people who are interested in Russian pop music know it. In the 90s, it was one of the leading figures in musical Olympus, who presented Russia with such singers as Vadim Baykov and Alsou. After the latter left for solo swimming, little was known about the head of the Megapol production center. He waited and looked for real talent. In 2002, the group “Love Stories” became his brainchild, in 2013 he presented Anastasia Altman and the male team “Invoice”.
Valery Belotserkovsky is married, has three children. For a long time, Natalya lived in a civil marriage with his wife, until in 2013 the couple legalized their relationship.
Team members
The Love Stories group, whose composition has changed repeatedly over the years, has managed to become a springboard for many nowadays interesting personalities and young singers. There is very little information about the participants and, nevertheless, we will try to study each of them.
So, Skopich Maya, Zhenya Huseynova, Kristina Stryzhneva (girl with glasses) and Olya Sidorova (nicknamed "Ginger") are the first members of the Love Stories collective. The group, Masha Kozhevnikova, to which the casting also took place, was conceived as a quintet. But in the end, the girl’s quarrelsome nature did not allow her to continue her career as a singer, and four members remained in the team. Lida Komissarova and Ulyana Samorukova are also listed as former members of the first composition, but the Love Stories group did not upload photos with them on the official website, and they did not leak to the press.
Already being a famous socialite and planning a career as a public figure, Masha mentioned the experience of the singer. It is interesting that the fact about the participation of the actress from Univer in the Love Stories collective just became known. Maria Kozhevnikova, whose support group in social networks is growing daily, in one of the interviews said that, having no voice or music education, she was enrolled as a soloist, but she was ready to study and sing, and not wash the dishes after the producer. Perhaps Kozhevnikova wanted to show that, despite her youth, she has rich life experience.
At different times, such famous soloists as Natalya Podolskaya and Sati Casanova took part in the team.
Hits
The first hit, released a month after the creation of the collective, was the song "School". After rotation on all radio stations in the country, the producer shot a clip for this composition. The video came out touching and unlike other products on the stage, it looked like a retro. In the filming of the clip, actor Yegor Beroev was involved, who took part in many videos of the girls. Three months later, having developed a repertoire, the team gave the first live concert.
Then followed such hits as “Three Nights,” “How So,” “The Way Home,” and “Tell Why.” By the way, the last two clips were recorded by a group of three people. Already in 2005, the composition of the trio changed again, all previous participants left it and were replaced by new, no less promising girls.
The last album of the group incorporated 22 melodic compositions. The most popular of them are “Shakespeare”, “Come back”, “Good night, love”, “First time”, “Only for you”.
Collapse of the collective
In its original form, the quartet lasted only a year. After a while, the participant Evgenia left him, and the Love Stories group, whose photo more and more often appeared on the pages of the socialite, turned into a trio.
The girls continued to work, performed touching songs, and shot great videos.
But immediately after the end of the contract, each of them went their own way. Already in 2010, Maya Gubenko-Skopich began to perform solo and released the first video for the song “A Moment Before the Winter”. The fate of the remaining former members of the trio is not known.
Over the thirteen years of its existence, the team left the old participants and replenished new ones. And, nevertheless, today the Love Stories group goes on tours around the cities of Russia, makes videos, gives interviews. The producer of the team often attracts their wards to all kinds of charity events.
Love Stories Group: Composition of 2015
Today the team exists and develops. Its new members - Vika, Sveta, Nastya and Dina - have already managed to win the love of the public. The general concept of the group remained the same - pretty girls without a hint of licentiousness and vulgarity sing about their feelings and in each clip they tell new love stories. Girls improve their talent and strive to become mature artists. In the future, it is possible that one of them will choose a solo career, but so far, Love Stories in full force are performing and delighting the audience.