Hera Grach (real name - German Sorin) is known as a performer of chanson and the genre of life song. To date, he has released 12 music albums, has successfully toured both in Russia and abroad: in America, the Netherlands, Germany. Let's find out what his path to fame was.
Biography
German Sorin was born on February 25, 1970 in Sokolniki. He is from a rather wealthy family: mom is a leading engineer in a construction company, dad is a military man. In 1973, the family moved to Biryulyovo, where the formation of the future artist took place. German combined an ordinary school with a music one, studied accordion and went in for sports: boxing, football and hockey, and also tried himself in cycling and speed skating. True, the boy was expelled from the music school in the sixth grade, he missed a lot of classes because of the competition. The deduction did not stop making music, and at the age of 14 Herman mastered playing the guitar.
After leaving school, parents wanted to send their son to a military school, but he did not agree and joined the army, he served in Germany in the airborne troops. Upon returning, he entered the Gnesin School immediately for the third year. Since that time, the creative career of Hera Rook has begun.
Music
During his studies at Gnesinka, Herman participated in many song contests, so he was noticed and invited as a backing vocalist to the Dr. Schlager band. Work in this team allowed me to gain experience in live performances, and soon the young man decided to create his own project, and he organized the playboy pop group with friends. As Gera Grach himself admits, they sang mainly under the phonogram, which did not hinder the success of touring Russia.
Then Herman realized that he no longer wanted to be a pop singer and came to the genre of chanson. In 1997, he signed a contract with Alexander Kalyanov for the recording of his first solo album. At the same time, he took a pseudonym nicknamed by him in childhood in the yard - Hera Grach.
Albums
The debut disc "My Godfather" was released in 1998. After that, the singer began to collaborate with Soyuz Production, and in 2000 a second album appeared - The Beast. Actually, thanks to him, Hera Grach gained popularity. The album includes such famous songs as “Dog Fights”, “Dwarf Misha”. A year later, also under the direction of Soyuz, the disc Volya was released.
All the songs of Hera Grach sounded on the radio and in audio compilations, concerts began. Moreover, the singer performed not only on pop venues, but also in camps. Then the performer decided to leave the Soyuz Production company and release a new album on his own. So in 2002, the collection "Zhigan" appeared, but it turned out to be not very successful.
From 2003 to 2006, the singer released another 8 albums, and then came a period of calm. The new disc "Poison" appeared only in 2012, it was made in a new style, at the junction of rock and chanson, and the performer began to position himself not as Hera Grach, but as Herman Grach. Under this name, the artist performs to this day.
In 2014, the album “I am Young” was released. According to the chansonnier himself, all the songs from him were recorded back in the late nineties and the beginning of the two thousandth, but were not published for various reasons, and now it's time to collect them in one disc. The album was not officially released; it can be downloaded on the Internet or received at a concert.
At present, German Grach is successfully touring with the programs “I am Young” and “Wings”. As for his personal life, it is known that he is married, he has a daughter.