Singer, actor, composer, novice of the monastery - how can all this not contain a very long human life? This can be learned from the example of Pavel Evgenievich Smeyan.
Pavel Smeyan was born in 1957 in Moscow. The whole family of the future musician and actor was associated with art: grandfather and grandmother were musicians, parents worked in the film industry. Paul had a twin brother, Alexander, so his childhood was not alone. The brothers were brought up according to classical canons, and according to family tradition they were assigned to a music school.
Paul recalled that they often used their absolute resemblance: they passed exams for each other and went to classes. In general, they were ordinary boys: they hooligans, fought and argued.
They also listened to music. At first it was a classic that constantly sounded in the house of Smeyanov. Paul was especially heard by Debussy and Slonimsky - he loved complex works. And when I was a little older, I heard rock music. Neighboring boys carried portable tape recorders into the courtyard with recordings of English and American rock bands, which soon became the idols of Paul and his brother. This determined his further creative biography.
As a teenager, Pavel played in an amateur ensemble at the local palace of culture, and quite successfully. They had decent instruments at their disposal, so the guys played with pleasure, including rock.
Creative biography
After school, the Smeyan brothers were together again: they entered the Gnesinka faculty of pop music (saxophone). And they created their own group, Victoria, which was quite popular. Thanks to this, Pavel and Alexander got a job at the Moskontsert.
In the early 80s, “Victoria” was auditioned at the Lenkom Theater: director Mark Zakharov needed a musical group for the rock opera “The Death of Joaquin Murieta”, and the Smeyanov team advised him. The commission also included Nikolai Karachentsov and Alexander Zbruev, and all three liked the performance — the members of the group were hired by the Rock Studio.
Pavel liked the theater - he could improvise, give out random remarks during the performance, even walk around the stage with an instrument. During one of these passages, Zakharov drew attention to Paul - his artistry, plasticity and charisma.
And when the rock opera "Juno and Avos" by Alexei Rybnikov was staged at the theater, they introduced a separate role for him - the narrator. They say that they still cannot find the second such artist. And the song "I Will Never Forget You" by Pavel Smeyan was a hit.
There was an unusual event in his biography: he spent a whole year as a novice in a monastery on Valaam, and then returned to Lenkom again.
In the mid-eighties, Pavel left Lenkom to make music. However, he continues to perform in entreprise musical productions in various theaters, and everywhere he has great success. At that time, rock operas were very popular, and artists toured the country a lot, Pavel also traveled a lot around Russia.
By the beginning of the nineties, Smeyan was able to closely engage in music: he played in rock groups, with the ensemble "Apostle" he recorded an album of his songs. He was also invited to record music for the films The Trust That Burst and Mary Poppins, Goodbye! In total, Smeyan performed about 20 songs for films.
In recent years, Pavel has been working on his rock opera, Word and Work. This work was based on the novel by Prince Alexei Tolstoy "Silver Prince".
In 2009, Pavel Evgenievich was diagnosed with cancer, died from the same year, was buried in the Khovansky cemetery. His creative heritage, in addition to performances and music for films - more than 100 songs.
