The soloist of the cult Soviet group "Tender May" Yuri Shatunov, whose biography will be considered in this article, has undergone severe trials of fate since childhood. Despite this, he found his place in life and gained millions of fans, giving them his creativity. The biography of Yuri Shatunov is rich not only in ups to the heights of fame. There were difficult periods in his fate, which tempered his character and made him what he is.
Biography of Yuri Shatunov: the artist’s difficult childhood
On September 6, 2013, the singer celebrated his fortieth anniversary. He was born in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the city of Kumertau. After the appearance of the boy, his father left the family, so the mother brought up little Yuri on her own. When he was 11 years old, his mother died, and his own aunt, who lived in the village of Tulgan, took an orphan to her upbringing. He did not live long with relatives and ended up in the Akbulaksky orphanage in the Orenburg region. Until adulthood, the guy was brought up in a boarding school in Orenburg, where he was transferred at 13 years old.
Biography of Yuri Shatunov: acquaintance with music
At the boarding school, the boy met with Kuznetsov Sergey, who led a music circle there. With his help, in a local House of Culture on a simple tape recorder, he recorded his first songs. Serkov Sergey and Ponomarev Vyacheslav soon joined Shatunov and Kuznetsov - such was the first composition of the “Tender May” group. The guys sang for themselves, neither at discos, nor on the big stage, they spoke, they could not even dream of the popularity that would overtake them.
Creative biography of Yuri Shatunov: “Affectionate May” on the wave of success
Once in 1988, Yura rode on the same train with the manager of the Record studio Andrei Razin. He heard the song "White Roses" performed by the boy and a couple of days later went to Orenburg to find him. But Jura was not in the boarding school, as he escaped. Then Razin took Pakhomov and Kuznetsov with him to Moscow, to which the fugitive Shatunov soon joined. Between 1988 and 1992, the guys from Tender May worked hard and gained real fame - tens of thousands of fans came to their concerts, their songs sounded in almost every house where there was a radio.
“May ended”
In 1992, the group ceases to exist with the departure of Shatunov from it. Yuri decided to pursue a solo career and recorded his first album under the title “That May Ended”, but it appeared among the masses only in 1993 and was called “You Know”. At the end of December 1992, at the invitation of Alla Pugacheva, Shatunov appeared at the “Christmas Meetings” as a solo artist. In 1993, his best friend Mikhail Sukhomlinov tragically dies, which Shatunov suffers very much
painfully. Nevertheless, in 1994, he finds strength and begins working with producer Boris Zosimov. During the period of cooperation, Yuri writes several albums, makes the film "Tender May", and tours. Now the artist is recording new songs, participating in various shows, acting in films, helping orphanages in Russia.
Yuri Shatunov: biography
A photo of the artist with his daughter, who was born in March of this year, indicates that he is a happy and loving father. He also has a son Dennis born in 2006. Yuri met his wife Svetlana in 2000, and in 2007 they officially registered their relationship. A happy family now lives in Germany, in the city of Munich. In his free time, the singer loves to play hockey, is professionally engaged in diving and is fond of computer games.