Few people know that Sergey Kuryokhin is not only a musician, composer, screenwriter and actor, but also the author of the viral concept "Lenin is a mushroom." And, despite the fact that Sergey’s life was not long, he lived it brightly.
Young years
Sergei Anatolyevich Kuryokhin - a native of the Soviet Union, or rather, the city of Murmansk. Born June 16, 1954.
The child was born in the family of a military man and teacher of mathematics. When the baby was 4 years old, the family moved to the capital. However, a few years later they exchanged a communal apartment in Moscow for housing in Yevpatoriya. In his new place of residence, Sergei studied at once in two schools - music and general education. From the age of 4 he began to master the piano.
Immediately after graduation, the whole family again changed their registration - this time they moved to Leningrad, where Kuryokhin became a student of the Institute of Culture. N.K. Krupskaya (now - SPbGIK). At the university, he tried to combine studies at the same time in three departments, but he was repeatedly expelled. As a result, Sergey decided to leave the institution himself, without having received a higher education.
The expulsion from the institute led to the fact that for some time he had to starve and be content with frequent and unstable part-time jobs.
Music career
Once Kuryokhin met the Leningrad poet Arkady Dragomoshchenko, thanks to whom he became a frequent guest of the notorious Saigon cafe - a meeting place for informal people of that time, so to speak, unrecognized geniuses.
In this cafe, Sergei met with members of the Post group and subsequently became her keyboard player. The group performed covers of popular rock hits of that period.
Soon, Kuryokhin left the “Post” and joined the group “BZHK”, from which he also left after a year.
Love for music never left Sergey. The next stage in his work was the Gulf Stream team. But this was also a very short project.
In 1981, a collection of songs by Kuryokhin called "Waysof Freedom" was released in the West, which Western music critics praised. Unfortunately, by now, all the originals of this creation are lost.
Later Kurekhina was noticed by Boris Grebenshchikov - it was he who called the musician to the long-lived group "Aquarium".
During the time that he was part of Aquarium, the group recorded 14 albums, in the creation of which one of the main roles, without any doubt, was played by Sergey Kuryokhin.
While still a participant in the Aquarium, Kuryokhin gathered friends and musicians and created the Pop Mechanic collective. After the musician left the Grebenshchikov collective, he completely concentrated on Pop Mechanics. The new big band has become no less successful in Kuryokhin’s career. With him he managed to visit Finland, Sweden, England.
In 1992, Sergei decided to "freeze" the activities of "Pop Mechanics", having left for some time in Germany. After 3 years, the group returned to the big stage.
Over the entire musical career of Sergei Kuryokhin, his groups have released dozens of albums and dozens of independent works.
Sergey Kuryokhin took part in the creation of the albums of the Kino and Alisa groups, as the members of these groups recall, Sergey worked with complete dedication.
He has been a composer in over 20 films. And moreover, in 7 films Kuryokhin was involved as an actor.
Personal life
At the age of 18, Sergei first married a girl named Tatyana. Two years later, the couple had a daughter. However, as you know, it is young-green, as a result of which they divorced.
Then, on the path of Kuryokhin, we all met the well-known Larisa Guzeeva, with whom he had been in a relationship for 4 years, but they failed to become husband and wife and they broke up.
Successful and beautiful Kuryokhin was a magnet for many women, so it is not surprising that a new passion appeared in his life later. She was Anastasia, who married Sergei in 1983 and lived with him bob-and-to-toe for the rest of his life. The couple gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth, and ten years later, the son of Fedor.
Unfortunately, Elizabeth Kuryokhina died when she was 15 years old. The date of October 24, 1998 became tragic for the girl, she swallowed sleeping pills.
