The frontman of the Little Prince band is now associated with a wide musical audience with the only album "We Will Meet Again" (1989). It was under the eponymous and main song that millions of compatriots danced from it at one time.
Domestic retro music is currently simply unthinkable without the Little Prince band and its soloist Alexander Khlopkov. After all, they are regular participants in various festivals and performers on the radio waves "Disco of the 80s and 90s", "Radio Dacha" and "Legends of Retro FM".
The popular singer and now accepts invitations to participate in club and corporate events. And his concerts for the Russian-speaking audience gather full halls in many countries of Europe.
Short biography of Alexander Khlopkov
On February 22, 1968, the future popular artist was born in the capital of our country. In a family far from the world of culture and art, Sasha’s musical inclinations were received with great interest by his brothers, sister and parents. From kindergarten, the boy talentedly performed practically the entire repertoire of “Time Machines”, and then went to a music school (piano class) and began performing as part of amateur ensembles.
It is noteworthy that the future idol of millions of fans of his talent never received a professional education. His first teacher, transferring invaluable knowledge of stage skills and backstage competition, was Alexander Sitkovetsky (head of VIA "Autograph"). And in May 1988, Khlopkov, on the recommendation of Andrei Lityagin, joined the mega-pop music band Mirage.
Creative career of a musician
Alexander Khlopkov’s creative career in the Mirage began at a time when Natalia Gulkina left the musical group, who decided to start a solo career and left her post as Natalia Vetlitskaya. According to the artist, he began a romantic relationship with the new soloist of the group. However, after some time, the young people broke up, remaining friends.
Alexander still with great reverence recalls that period of his creative life. The team has developed warm, friendly relations. At Khlopkov’s house, “parties” often gathered, in which Roman Zhukov, Igor Sarukhanov, Andrei Razin and Dmitry Varshavsky took part. It is interesting that there was no such case when artists left the Mirage, as they say, "nowhere." This kind of "factory of the stars of the 80s" was a real school of life for all its participants.
During the musical tour in Yevpatoriya there was an episode when the composition "Closing the Circle" was performed by all the participants of the Mirage, and Lityagin noted the vocal data of the keyboard player. It so happened that at this time the producer was going to implement a new creative project, which required a new soloist. And the name of the group came up with Mikhail Goryachev.
The Little Prince group was organized in April 1989. Its formation was very rapid, and in August of this year the first (and, unfortunately, the only) album was already recorded in Tallinn. A tremendous success accompanied the new team, tickets for his concerts were instantly sold out, and the soloist received many letters of thanks and gifts.
In 1994, the record was reissued. In its new edition, in addition, included the compositions "Autumn" and "Wet Asphalt" by Igor Nikolaev, as well as the song "You betrayed love" by Sergey Trofimov. Thus, the first round of popularity of Alexander Khlopkov was limited to 1993. And already in 2006, he bought from the former producer the rights to all the songs of The Little Prince.
But this action was accompanied by a rather large scandal related to the fact that Andrei Lityagin executed a deal in violation of legal norms. Indeed, by that time he himself no longer had any rights to these musical works, as he transferred them simultaneously to several persons, including the company JAM Group International. However, after lengthy litigation, a decision was made in favor of the soloist.
At present, Alexander Khlopkov very accurately guessed the new trends in pop music, when the disco repertoire of the eighties and nineties of the 20th century became extremely popular. Now his old songs “I don’t know why I need you”, “Farewell” and “Bigfoot”, having gained a second youth, were supplemented with fresh hits, among which there are compositions “Along the edge of the sky”, “April” and “Never”.
