A unique person who does not fit into the traditional patterns and frameworks of life - Andrey Kovalev - is a musician, poet, entrepreneur, producer, TV presenter, public and political figure. In addition, he, being the frontman of the Pilgrim group, organizes rock festivals. And in 2018, he acquired the ownership of the Grebnevo estate in the suburbs, once the former residence of the princes Golitsyn, Bibikov and Trubetskoy. The musician and businessman are planning to organize a private museum here, on the basis of which various festivals can be held.
Andrey Kovalev has recently been a frequent guest of various television projects and talk shows. And his musical fecundity is expressed in annual compositions, the number of which certainly amounts to at least three. On the music channels of domestic television, show business stars regularly use his songs at various concerts and festivals.
Biography and career of Andrei Kovalev
On June 7, 1957, a future musician and entrepreneur was born in the capital's family of a serviceman and an opera singer. In his childhood and youth, Andrei attended a musical school along with a secondary school. And after receiving a certificate of secondary education, he, at the insistence of his father, entered the road institute, which after the second year he threw in favor of the Stroganov Art School.
During training, Kovalev discovered another hobby in the form of music, and, switching to it, assembled a team of like-minded people and organized the musical group "Pilgrim".
But no pursuit of creative activity could satisfy his talented young man with his irrepressible thirst for becoming a successful businessman. In this "role" he made his debut with a furniture company in the late "eighties." And then there was a state post of the deputy head of the Forestry Department and a position in the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy.
Andrey Kovalev succeeded in commercial activities by creating business centers on the basis of empty and abandoned production facilities, which in the dashing "nineties" could be purchased for almost nothing. The so-called “service” business, when unprofitable enterprises were bought up and reconstructed for subsequent resale to specialized holdings, both in our country and foreign partners was very well mastered by Kovalev. This business path has been covered with the First Pasta Company, a small "rock empire" and other commercial projects of an enterprising businessman.
And in the end, Andrei Kovalev takes 23rd place in Forbes (2011) among the list of the largest domestic rentiers. And two years later, the period of "pure creativity" begins, which today is at the peak of its implementation.
The musical group "Pilgrim", founded in 2005, is focused on lyrical ballads, patriotic motifs and even heavy metal. The stars of Russian and foreign show business are often involved in cooperation. So, to shoot a video on the rock ballad “Roar of Motors”, he invited Pamela Anderson, who played the role of the oligarch’s bride, stolen from under the crown by biker-Kovalev. And in 2011, a lyrical album was recorded in a solo performance "My Woman", the presentation of which was held at the Variety Theater.
The discography of the singer Andrei Kovalev today has dozens of albums in the group "Pilgrim" and in solo performance. The artist’s latest works in this role include the following: “Revolvers and Dolls” (2013), “Songs of Love” (2014), “Marta” (2014), “Kill the Dragon” (2015).
Kovalev’s personality is interesting to fans of his talent in the role of a radio and television presenter, as well as a poet, behind whom there are already four collections of poems. The fifth book of poems is currently being prepared for publication, which should be a "kind of surprise" for the interested public.
