Andrei Razin is a Russian singer and music producer. The most important moment in his biography is the creation of the cult group "Tender May". In his personal life, a successful artist had to face both ups and downs.
Biography
Andrei Razin was born in 1963 in Stavropol. A year later, the boy, without even knowing it, faced a terrible grief: his parents died in a car accident, and he ended up in the Svetlograd orphanage. Here he grew up and received a construction specialty, going to work in the Far North.
Later, Andrei Razin went to Ryazan to try his luck there. He was able to get into the regional philharmonic and take the post of deputy director, showing his entrepreneurial talent: the young man skillfully found the necessary connections and quickly organized cultural events. His career took him to Chita, where Andrei managed to work on radio and television.
Thanks to his sociability and enterprise, Razin continued to build ties with already established artists. For some time he was organizing concerts for the singer Anne Veski, but in the end he realized that his dream was to perform on stage himself. Realizing that the plans have not yet come true, Razin returned to his native Stavropol and got a job in the collective farm leadership, but in the mid-80s he left his place and went to Moscow. At the same time, the leadership did not get a fairly large amount of money taken by an enterprising guy allegedly to buy a tractor.
In the capital, Andrei Razin did not waste time in vain and was actively engaged in the search for artists to create his own musical group. Here he met with Yura Shatunov and his friends, who performed songs of their own composition. The team was called "Affectionate May." Razin really liked the work they presented, and he agreed to produce the project and even personally sang in several songs of the group. They recorded an entire album and reproduced copies of it, and the cassettes themselves offered the guides on trains that ran around the country. So the band very quickly became phenomenally popular and began a concert activity.
By 1993, the group "Tender May" broke up, and Razin decided to do public work. He took the post of head of the Stavropol Cultural Foundation, and in 1997 even participated in the elections to the State Duma, but did not get the required number of votes. Subsequently, the successful producer was appointed CEO for the organization of the International Festival, dedicated to the opening of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.
