Alexey Gorshenev is a Russian musician, songwriter, composer and soloist of his own group "Kukryniksy", whose work belongs to the punk rock genre.
Biography
Alexey Yuryevich Gorshenev was born on October 3, 1975, in the city of Birobidzhan. He was the second child in the family, two years earlier Mikhail Gorshenev was born into the family. From early childhood, brothers instilled a love of music, mother often played the piano, and the boys sang. The family loved the music very much. But Alexey could not stand classes, he did not like to sing and literally hated the huge accordion on which he had to play. When a guitar appeared in the house, the boy’s attitude to music changed. He mastered the skills of the game on his own, he really liked to play the guitar, he even tried to write his own songs.
The father of the family was military, and because of this, the family often had to move. At the time of graduating from high school, the Gorshenev brothers lived in Leningrad. Having received a certificate, Alex went to college. Michael's elder brother already had his own musical group, The King and the Fool, which as a result became a cult. At the invitation of his brother, Alex begins to play drums in his group in his spare time. “The King and the Fool” even recorded one album with both Gorshenevs. Then the younger was drafted into the army. After serving two years, the guy did not want to return to the famous team of the elder. He already had his own ambitions.
Career
In early 1997, Alexei Gorshenev gathers his own group, which he decided to name in honor of the famous trio of artists "Kukryniksy". The first appearance on the stage was on May 26 of the same year at the St. Petersburg club Polygon, popular among young people. In the autumn of the same year, the group took part in the concert "Prankish buffoon", which was organized by the elder brother of Alexei and the leader of the group "King and the Fool" Mikhail Gorshenev.
In 1999, the group recorded and released their debut album, entitled Kukryniksy. The album included 12 tracks, one of which, "It Doesn’t matter", immediately liked the grateful audience and became a hit. Later, a music video was made for this song.
In the entire history of the existence of the Kukryniksy group, 13 albums were recorded, the last one, Artist, was released in 2016. To date, the group has ceased to exist, before the anniversary of the team, a big tour of the country with farewell concerts was announced, a bullet point in which was the performance at the Invasion in 2018.
After the termination of the group, Alex announced a new project "Gorshenev", as well as a solo album "Love Letters of the Great".
