Composer, professional, graduated from Gnesinka, singer, famous rock musician, father of Russian reggae, multi-instrumentalist, performer of many Russian pop hits, Alexander Barykin was born in a distant village of the Tyumen region in no less distant 1952.
Lived a bright short life. And he did not die on March 26, 2011, because his voice, so surprisingly plastic, lives and will sound for us for a long, long time.
The most famous songs
Probably, there is no person who knows the slightest bit of Russian who would never hum: "I will drive a bicycle for a long time." Or the melodies of the songs "Island", "Airport", "Lifebuoy", "Program Guide". Young people of the 70s of the twentieth century still keep David Tukhmanov's record completely washed down, where there is a song on verses by Charles Baudelaire “Invitation to Travel”, performed by Alexander Barykin. The biography of the singer is little known to the general public. This list of hits is given here so that the tunes are remembered by everyone, not even music lovers.
Biography of Alexander Barykin
ChildhoodAlexander Barykin graduated from a music school in Lyubertsy near Moscow, where his parents moved. As a schoolboy, he created his first musical group and played at various dance floors.
Takeoff
Subsequently, Alexander Barykin received diplomas from the Krasnodar Institute of Culture (director of mass events) and the Gnesins Music College (department of classical vocals). Since 1971, music has become his profession. He played and sang with VIA "Funny Guys", "Muscovites", "Gems", "Pearls". He participated in the projects “Love is a huge country”, “In the wake of my memory”, “Musical globe”, in the recording of music and songs for the film “Center from the Heavens”. Then, along with guitarist Vladimir Kuzmin, he left Gems and organized the Carnival group, which became extremely popular.
Free flightThis period of Barykin’s life was connected with reggae , and the newest wave of Russian music led him forward, fortunately for creativity. For the first time, the phrase “rock band” - “Rock band Carnival” was written on the Soviet record of the Melody company. at Barykin’s. Kuzmin founded “Speaker", where the Carnival part went. Barykin had to look for new musicians for the old creative team. New hits appeared: Chile, Star Ship, Miracle Island. Barykin’s collaboration with David Tukhmanov, you the joint record “Steps” was infringed. All-Union fame came after the performance of Igor Nikolaev’s program “Transmission Program.” And in 1987 an eternal hit appeared - “Bouquet” to the verses of Nikolai Rubtsov, for which Barykin received a lot of complaints from colleagues for leaving They started to call him a pop artist, which in itself is considered an insult to a rock musician.
TurbulenceThe biography of Alexander Barykin contains many facts of a biased attitude of others to his work. The answer nevertheless followed: a record of the purest and highest quality rock called "Hey, look." And this is at the very time when life inflicted the most terrible, almost deadly blows on the musician! Three months after the Chernobyl accident (1986), Barykin gave a big concert right at the nuclear power plant. As a result, he soon needed an operation on the thyroid gland. As a result - huge problems with the vocal cords. In 1991, the Carnival broke up. The biography of Alexander Barykin as a musician, however, did not end there. By the age of two thousand he was cured, and his most active activity in the field of Russian rock resumed. Son George grew up - a wonderful musician who took part in the recordings of albums released by Alexander Barykin. The photo of those years displays a person with a young smile and bright kind eyes. There is still a decade ahead of those Orenburg tours, where the biography of Alexander Barykin was supposed to end. The second extensive heart attack. The scene to which the singer devoted his whole life. And she remained faithful to him. Alexander Barykin did not finish the song “Come on, live!”, But stayed to live with us. Forever.