Yuri Yuryevich Magomayev is widely known as a singer and author of his own compositions. Muslim nephew of Muslim Magomayev is by no means obliged only to his famous relative. Jura has personal talents that helped him succeed in his work. The singer has his own music albums and several famous hits.
Biography of Yuri Magomayev. Start
In the city of Murmansk on September 12, 1979, Yura Magomaev was born. The further fate of the baby was determined by his mother. From early childhood, she hired him tutors in the piano class. Upon reaching the age of seven, the boy entered a music school, at the same time participating in a choir for boys located in the Kirov Palace of Culture.
Muslim’s sister, Tatiana, also had a hand in the creative biography of Yuri Magomayev. With her easy serve, the young talent took up ballroom dancing. Classes were held in the Inter-Union Palace. But Yura did not appreciate the rush of his aunt and soon abandoned these classes. Tatyana believed that Muslim Magomayev’s nephew should be talented not only in the musical direction, but also in the dance. However, this trend in the creative life of Jura was not allowed to happen.
After finishing school, Yuri Magomaev decided to enter the music school at the pop department. But this did not happen, since the future artist began to earn his livelihood early, forgetting about his studies. At the age of eighteen, he had already managed to work in various restaurants in his native city.
early years
Three years after that, he turned to seasonal earnings in Sochi. For ten years, life continued in such a monotonous manner. After seasonal work, in winter, Muslim Magomayev’s nephew sometimes returned to his hometown. By 2006, Yuri finally moved to Moscow.
At some point, the young man dreamed of even becoming a civil aviation pilot. But this also was not destined to come true due to poor vision in the boy. At that time, he did not even think about a musical career.
A sharp turn in the biography of Yuri Magomayev occurred after the death of Muslim Magometovich, who died on October 25, 2008. Until then, Yuri worked as a musician and DJ in various restaurants of the capital. Obviously, his father's credo affected, which stated that there should not be two Magomayevs.
Magomayev family
Few people knew that the father of Yura, the eldest Yuri Magomayev, is the brother of Muslim Magomayev. In his youth, the Murmansk musician often had cases when he was shamelessly questioned about his family, and in particular about a great and famous relative. It annoyed him greatly when strangers climbed into the soul like that. And he hid it from strangers. Only the most trusted friends knew that Yuri is Muslim’s brother by mother.
The depth of the history of the Magomayev family begins with the fact that an unknown girl Aishet in the forties became the wife of Magomet Magomayev, who worked as a theater artist in Baku. In 1942, a couple was born to a couple, a boy named Muslim. The father of the family, like many then men, went to the front. He went through the whole war, almost to the end. He died in May forty-fifth, not having lived a few days before the victory.
Aishet Ahmedovna Magomaeva was a provincial actress and often went on tour. Little Muslim was decided to leave his father’s brother in Baku. The child showed a talent for musical art, and he needed to get an appropriate education. And with the nomadic life of the mother, this was impossible.
Procreation
Ayshet toured various cities: Tver, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Ulan-Ude, Chimkent and many others. Life went on, and at some point, the mother of Muslim met Leonty Kavka in the capital of Buryatia. He was her work colleague, they performed on the same stage. Here, in 1958, Yuri Leontyevich Magomaev was born. Ayshet never entered into an official marriage with Leonty Kafka, although they lived their whole lives together in a civil marriage. Yuri Leontyevich with philosophical nostalgia recalls that he still had a dash in his birth certificate opposite the column father.
The musician buried his parents for a long time. His father, who recently worked at the Murmansk Drama Theater, died almost thirty years ago, and his mother survived to retirement and died in 2003.
But then, back in 1971, at the thirteen-year-old Yuri, everything was just beginning. Studying at a music school, a talented keyboard player simultaneously played in the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Constellation" of the railway workers at Oktyabrskaya. All this he did already then at a fairly high professional level. At that time, each ensemble was assigned to each palace of culture. The participants in these VIA were, for the most part, graduates and students of music schools. It was a full-time staff and by all rules received a salary as music specialists.
Creativity of past years
In the seventies, the main place of youth entertainment was discos. Young people got to know each other and often at such events, a new unit of society was born. In the Palace of Culture, where Yuri Magomayev, brother of Muslim Magomayev, played, as part of the Constellation, people often crowded twice as many as planned. Yuri warmly recalls those times, that holiday atmosphere. He still meets with members of his then ensemble: bass player Sasha Ignatenko, drummer Vitya Varnik, guitarist Andrei Karpenko. Yuri Valentinovich still collaborates with vocalist Vyacheslav Usov in the musical field.
In the early 80s, there were more than twenty restaurants in Murmansk. Many performed their live music ensemble. Frequent visitors of that time were sailors. They moved our musical progress, bringing vinyl records from contemporary popular artists from abroad. So Yuri Magomayev Sr. got acquainted with the work of the legendary groups Deep Deep, The Animals and The Eagles. The composition "Hotel California" of the latter was an undoubted hit of the Murmansk restaurants, which Yuri heard by ear with his group on frequent orders of visitors.
Career opportunities
In 1985, the father of Yuri Yurievich Magomayev with his ensemble opened the prestigious restaurant "Meridian". At this event, he was noticed by the founder of the popular at that time VIA "Pesnyary". Yuri was invited to try to work with the ensemble, not only as a keyboard player, but also as a singer. Magomaev refused, laughing aside: "Which one of me is Belarusian."
Ten years before this incident, Yuri declined an invitation to participate in the Aray group, which later gained popularity under the name A-Studio.
In the 90s, he received an offer to settle in Finland as a professional performer, but here, as a singer, Yuri Magomayev did not take place.
Legacy of the Magomayevs
The son of Yuri Leontyevich experimenting in his songs with such directions as pop, chanson, rock, jazz, mixing them in search of new unique compositions. After the release of the album "Fly away", our hero is preparing new music. Many of them have already seen the light and have undoubted popularity.
A separate moment in the biography of Yuri Magomayev is a meeting with the father of the popular singer Katya Ogonyok - Eugene Penhasov. This man became for Yuri a very close person and mentor.