The creator and frontman of Therr Maitz, composer and vocalist Anton Belyaev quickly took off on the Russian musical Olympus in 2013, when he took part in the broadcast of the First Channel "Voice". After the first performance, he became popular. The audience noted his smile, lightness, charm. Today, his YouTube videos, despite the complex music and singing in English, receive several hundred thousand, and some millions of views. But this success is not accidental. This is a natural result of Anton Belyaev’s determination, as well as his passion for music.
Biography
Anton Belyaev was born in 1979, in the far northern edge - in Magadan. From an early age, it became clear to his parents that the boy was musically gifted. At the age of 5, he was sent to a music school, where he studied piano. The path to the music school passed through the central park, where the "nerd" could easily run into the fists of the local punks. However, this did not happen, since Anton was able to become his own among them.
The boy often performed on stage, received diplomas and awards. However, in a world unrelated to music, he was completely different - rebellious, not recognizing authorities. As a result, he was expelled from school with an in-depth study of the English language, and he had to finish grade 9 already in another.
After school, Belyaev entered the music school. But he was expelled from there, however, not for hooliganism, but for his excessive love of jazz. Saved Anton only that at the insistence of his mother he went to Khabarovsk under the supervision of an older sister. There he entered and in 2002 successfully completed the jazz department of the Institute of Culture.
He combined his studies with work in restaurants and clubs. Thanks to this, already in 2004 the young man was invited to the post of art director of one of them. Then he has the opportunity to realize his potential as a composer, singer and musician performing his own compositions - the group Therr Maitz appears. The name of the group is the redone word "termites", in English "thermites".
In 2006, Anton moved to Moscow, where he worked as a producer and arranger of famous Russian musicians, including Polina Gagarina, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Maxim Pokrovsky, Nikolai Baskov.
In 2013, at the insistence of his wife and bandmates, he took part in the second season of the Voice contest, where he reached the finals and became a semi-finalist. After the project, he conducts intense concert activities, shoots videos and records albums.
A family
Parents of Anton Belyaev belonged to the Soviet intelligentsia. Mom was a teacher at school and taught computer science. My father was also connected to computers and worked as an electronics engineer in a computer center.
His parents moved to Magadan from Kazakhstan in 1962. Anton is the second child in the family. He has an older sister Lilia, who studied at the librarian of technical literature. The difference between them is 11 years.
For many years Belyaev led a life typical of a musical party. As he himself put it in the program "Alone with All" it was a gulba: today here, tomorrow there. Anton did not plan to settle down, much less marry. The meeting with his future wife happened by chance - he went to a cafe, saw a girl and immediately fell in love. This was Julia Markova, a journalist by training, a TV presenter and correspondent for the Muz TV channel.
A week later, Anton gave Julia a toothbrush and the same donkey, who became his mascot on the Voice. Future husband and wife began to live together. A marriage proposal was also made spontaneously during one of the concerts. In 2012, the wedding took place, and in 2017 the couple had a son, Semyon.
