Almost at any more or less significant festival of bard and songwriter you can meet Andrei Kozlovsky. This Russian singer and composer is well known both to amateurs to sit with a guitar by the fire, and to rockers. Andrei Kozlovsky is the author of the unofficial anthem of the famous "Grushinsky Festival" "Burn, Mountain".
Biography
Andrei Kozlovsky was born on July 9, 1959 in the city of Veliky Ustyug (Vologda Oblast). His maternal ancestors are the Lichkanovsky nobles. In 1840, Nicholas I, in the course of his administrative reform, transferred the Lichkanovsky family to one-man palaces (paramilitary landowners who lived on the borders of the state).
Almost a century later, in 1930, Vasily Gavrilovich Lichkanovsky, the grandfather of the future musician, was sentenced by the Judicial Troika at the board of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR to five years in a concentration camp. But he managed to escape from police surveillance with his wife Evdokia and daughters Elena and Lyudmila. The family left the village of Pomoshna and moved to Sakhalin. The mother of Andrei Kozlovsky, Galina, was born already in the Sakhalin village of Tymovskoye.
Galina got married, gave birth to a son. In 1963, the family moved to Vologda. There Andrey went to school. In 1978 he entered the Leningrad Forestry Academy named after S.M. Kirov. But he did not connect his fate with the specialty he received. A year after graduating from the Academy, in 1984, Kozlovsky began training at the Tyumen School of Welders. A year later, he received the specialty of a mechanical engineer.
For several years (from 1983 to 1989) Andrei Vladimirovich worked on a gas pipeline stretching from Urengoy to Uzhgorod through Pomary. There he was first a locksmith, then a welder.
In 1990, under the conditions of a changing state, he was forced to return to Vologda. He worked where and by whom: a welder and a storekeeper, in trade and at a sawmill. I tried myself in entrepreneurship.
Andrei Kozlovsky was married in 1991. In marriage, their spouse had two children. Almost nothing else is known about the personal life of the musician.
Creative way
Learned to play the guitar and began to compose songs Andrei Kozlovsky in his youth. In an interview with the Tatar-Inform news agency, he admitted that he always wrote only to "please the girls." He believes that the muse has an exclusively feminine beginning, and the creative process cannot be laid down in any schemes and formulas.
At the age of 16, Kozlovsky became a keyboard player in the Volna group, which performed at the club at the Vologda Shipyard. He worked as a cunt at dances and weddings in the team of Vyacheslav Kobrin. In the first year of the Forestry Academy, Andrei first comes on stage with his songs. In 1979 he was admitted to the Leningrad club "City Song", as well as to the club of satire and humor.
In Vologda, Kozlovsky was well known as a musician. In 1995, Viktor Kolesov invited him to play keyboards in the new group "County Chronicles." Andrey was the author or co-author of the overwhelming majority of the collective’s songs in Russian. The group soon changed its name and became the "Petrovich Band". Has toured not only in Russia, but also in Finland, the Netherlands.
The beginning of the 2000s was marked for Andrei Vladimirovich by his work in the duet Baranov and Kozlovsky. Then he collaborated with musicians from the groups "Station Mir" and "GrassMaster".
Marked with numerous awards at creative festivals. For example, in 1984 he became a laureate of a song contest in Leningrad. In 1986, a diploma winner, and a year later, laureate of the Valery Grushin festival. In 1990 - laureate of the All-Union Festival of Author's Song in Kiev. Since 1995, he has been regularly invited to participate in both the competitive program and in the final ("star") concerts at bard and rock festivals. Kozlovsky has repeatedly been a jury member at similar events.
Andrei Kozlovsky repeatedly repeated in an interview that he does not limit his work and is always ready for new projects. Relatively recently, he voiced almost all the main songs in the animated series “Fixics”. A little later, he appeared seven multiconcerts.
