Biography about Tsoi

Famous people Biography of Viktor Tsoi: Leningrad Rock Club, Blood Group and Fatal Turn Biography of Viktor Tsoi, Future Legend's Birthday, Family, Son, Beloved Women, The Day of the Death of the Soloist of the Kino Group, the main songs and facts in the material of Komsomolskaya Pravda Alexander Rogosa journalist Viktor Tsoi Viktor Tsoi - not only a cult Soviet A rock musician, a star of several generations, the author of dozens of hits that the whole country knows, but, perhaps, the most famous ethnic Korean in the history of Russia.

Victor Tsoi in childhood. Photo: Reservation from the family archive, Timur Khanov, his great -grandfather moved to Vladivostok before the revolution of the year - had to leave his homeland so as not to fall into the Japanese army, which then captured Korea and declared war on China. In X, by order of Stalin, the Soviet Koreans began to massively resettle from the Far East to Central Asia.

So the family of the future musician was in Kazakhstan.

After school, he went to study in Leningrad, graduated from the military and, as a result, the donkey there, having settled the engineer at the factory. With his future wife Valentina Guseva, a teacher of physical education from Pushkin, Tsoi Sr. met visiting friends. A few days later he made an offer to the girl. Victor Tsoi at school fourth on the right. The wife proposed to name the boy Dmitry, but Robert Maksimovich insisted on his own version: Victor - from Latin means “winner”.

Musician Victor Tsoi with his wife Maryana and son Sasha, year. A year later, they signed again. Victor by that time had a talent of the artist - he attended a secondary art school by the way, at that time no more than 40 students were gaining from all over Leningrad a year. The new company fascinated so much that after a couple of years, Tsoi was expelled from the Serov Art School for total poor performance.

He entered the vocational school for the specialty "wood cutter". The creative career of Viktor Tsoi at the beginning of the X Tsoi often disappears in Andrei’s apartment “Pig” Panov, who is sometimes called the first Soviet punk. The Major boy, carried away by rock music, bought musical instruments, equipment, and regularly gathered musician friends. They drank, talked.

Here, a group of Panov himself rehearsed - "automatic satisfactors." Victor Tsoi played with them for some time too. And he even went once with the Au to underground tour to Moscow. But the main thing is that at the pig he once met in Alexei Rybin. We came together with characters. And in the summer of the year they agreed to assemble their own group - “Garin and hyperboloids”.

The third participant in the composition was the drummer Oleg Valinsky, a neighbor of the "fish", but soon he was taken to the army. According to legend, the first song that Viktor Tsoi wrote, “my friends”, well, sake: “For the first time he sang her at the birthday of sound engineer Andrei Tropilo in the Leningrad Restaurant“ Brig ”. One of those who simply stunned from what was heard was the first Soviet rock journalist Artemy Troitsky, who often arranged for the Leningrad musicians apartment in Moscow.

With his direct participation, Tsoi and fish began to stumble to the capital. Viktor Tsoi and Kino the first album was recorded in metro station by that time, more precisely, then the duet was already renamed the Kino. The name "45" is in honor that the program lasted exactly 45 minutes, this one side of the imported CD. Soon, some disagreements arose in the “cinema” from the “cinema”.

And Tsoi begins to rehearse with the new guitarist Yuri Kasparyan. A new cycle of songs was recorded with him, which contrary to the desire of the leader of the group somehow went to the people and today are known as the second album “Cinema” “46”. In the year, Kino finally had a full-fledged electric composition, with bass guitar and drums. The album "Head of Kamchatka" was recorded.

Furore at the second festival of the Leningrad rock club. In the same year, Victor Tsoi married Marianne Kovaleva. Their relationship has been going on for a couple of years. Maryana worked in the circus and took on the appearance of the group, bringing the children to the first big performances spectacular costumes with cuffs and rhinestones. In m, the couple was born the son of Sasha.

The pope-musician devoted to him the song "Sasha loves books about heroes and revenge." She entered the album "This is not love." Already after the recording, the classic composition of the “Kino” was formed, which will remain unchanged until the tragedy of the year: Victor Tsoi Vokal, guitar, Yuri Kasparyan Guitar, Igor Tikhomirov Basitara, George “Gustav” Guryanov drums.

"Night" appears on the cassettes. Remember - the trace of the palm on the envelope? Later it becomes known that this material was recorded even before the album “This is not Love” at the studio of Andrei Tropilo and the musicians themselves did not want it to come out in this form. Nevertheless, two years later, the “Night” is released on the records by the official Soviet company “Melody”.

The first official release! According to rumors, the album at Vinil spread out of a circulation of 2 million. The musicians did not receive a penny from the State Monet, but nevertheless, the record added to the Kino Popularity group.Well, a well -known fact: Sergey Bugaev, who played the main role in this cult movie, at one time also played the “cinema” on drums. Cats plastic and the techniques of the fashionable kung fu in the scenes of fights, the language of God, which is understandable to the youth public, the main character even clearly uttered the word “fucks”, in the intimate sense of the word - an insolent in that time!

Returning from the filming of Alma-Ata to Leningrad, Tsoi, along with the musicians, “Kino” records the album of the same name “Blood Group”. It comes out next year, m. In the country, Kinomania begins. The Kino group releases a “star named the Sun”, an album, hits from which the whole country sings. The team collects stadiums throughout the country. The producer of the group becomes Yuri Aisenshpis.

Meanwhile, Viktor Tsoi himself lives a civil marriage with a new lover, they met Natalya Razlogova on the set of “Asssa”. The musician parted with Marianna two years ago, but still officially did not divorce - according to the widespread version, Marianna Tsoi was just against the legal divorce. Group at the peak of popularity. He completed a large tour of the group in the Soviet Union.

A few days later, the musicians go on vacation. Yuri Kasparyan comes to him for a while. Musicians make draft records of the future album, work on arrangements. Early in the morning, Tsoi leaves for fishing. A pure chance that he did not take his son Sasha with him. At a bend, he suddenly taxes into the oncoming lane. At this moment, the Ikarus bus drives out of the turn.

Lobe clash. The passenger car crushes excerpts from the police protocol: “at a speed of at least kilometers per hour”, “lost control”, “death occurred instantly”, “was sober, did not drink alcohol over the past 48 hours to death” The most common version of the tragedy - the rock musician could fall asleep at the day before. There is another fairly common version that Viktor Tsoi on this trip listened to the records that they made with the guitarist Yuri Kasparyan that he could either think about another musical idea and did not follow the turn that he could rearrange the cassette at that moment.

However, Kasparyan himself refutes this version. According to him, the cassette with the drafts of the future album was with him. Tsoi did not have a copy. The next day, in Moscow, in Krivoarbatsky Lane, the “Tsoi wall” spontaneously arose - people began to leave inscriptions, lines from songs on it. “Kinomans”, fans of rock, informals are still gathering here. Despite the numerous outrage of local residents and the fact that the wall periodically repains, inscriptions appear again and again.

In January, the “Black Album” of the Kino group was released. Musicians prepared the draft notes of songs without Tsoi. After the death of the soloist, the group announced their dissolution. In Russia, more than a dozen cities and villages, whose streets are named after the soloist “Kino” - Arzamas, Artem, Kopeisk, Anadyr and others. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, there are still no such monuments.

Wall of memory of Victor Tsoi on Arbat in Moscow. Photo: Pixabay. With Boris Grebenshchikov from the Aquarium group, which at that time was the most famous Leningrad rock musician, Viktor Tsoi met in a suburban train. There was a guitar at hand. BG, as he later admitted more than once, was delighted. It was he who helped to record the “Kino” group to their first albums. In the fall of the year, Viktor Tsoi lay in a hospital in a psychiatric hospital for a month and a half - so he avoided drafting into the army.

After the graduation, the leader of Kino worked for some time in the restoration workshop of the Catherine Palace in the city of Pushkin. In his spare time, Viktor Tsoi cut out of the “Japanese” Figures Necke from the tree. In order to avoid punishment for parasitism, with the years Viktor Tsoi worked as a stoker in a boiler room, which was located in the basement of a residential building on Blokhin Street, this place was nicknamed “Kamchatka” - in honor of one of the songs of the early “Kino”.