The creativity of the bard, poet, musician Timur Shaov will attract even those who are far from the author’s song. Sincerely, with notes of sadness and sarcasm, with a social and at the same time political orientation, in the original performance. Who is he - modern Don Quixote or one of the few realists among the bards of Russia?
Shaov Timur’s creative piggy bank already has more than a hundred songs, most of which are truly folk songs, have spread into catch phrases and are performed at almost all bard festivals. Who is Timur Shaov? Where was born, how did you come to music? What milestones of his biography were reflected in the songs?
Biography of bard Timur Shaov
Timur Shaov is a native of Karachay-Cherkessia. He was born on July 14, 1964 in a family of creative intellectuals - the mother of the future bard was the head of the republican scientific research institute of literature, linguistics and history, his maternal grandfather created Nogai writing, was a famous Soviet ethnographer. Moreover, his family belongs to the Circassian principality. The family sacredly honors national traditions, and even his grandfather had 4 wives of different nationalities.
Timur did not have goals in becoming a musician or singer either in childhood or in youth. In addition to secondary education, he received primary music, but he did not see this direction in his main occupation. After school, Timur entered the Stavropol Medical University for a gastroenterology course, graduated with excellent performance and worked for more than 10 years as a specialist in a rural hospital - in the village of Zelenchukskaya.
Back in college, Timur Shaov began to write songs. More precisely, he wrote earlier, but he never engaged in their promotion, as such, as they say, "he worked on the table." Only in 2002, he began to engage in a musical career, already being famous in bardic circles.
The musical career of bard Timur Shaov
When Timur began to pay much attention to music during his student days, his family did not approve of his hobby and even condemned him. Father once said to the future bard: "Why do you want to become a balalaika ?!" Perhaps it was this phrase that became a kind of brake on Timur’s development in this direction.
For a long time, Shaov did not show his creations to anyone, and only in his last year, he said “there is nothing to do”, he performed the song “I have broken my leg” for a “wide” audience, among friends and neighbors in the student hostel.
Since 1997, while he was still a doctor, he began recording studio albums. Today in his piggy bank there are already 12 such collections, among which it is important to note the following:
- “From Baudelaire to the brothel” (1997),
- "Tales of our time" (2002),
- “Free Particle" (2006),
- “What Gerasim was silent about” (2010),
- “One Day of Uncle Zhora” (2015),
- “What does Freud have to do with it?” (2017).
In addition, Timur Shaov has two cassette music publications - The Family Medallion and The Mafia Buried, which are recorded on a tape recorder and are not studio, but amateur.
Songs by Timur Shaov were included in several collections of the author’s song - “The Results of the Five Year Plan”, “Russian Chansonnier. Timur Shaov ”, “ Russian bards. Volume 18 ”and others.
Creativity Timur Shaov
Timur Shaov is not an ordinary bard. His songs are sharp, relevant at any time, often they focus on the social aspects of life, and with reference to political situations. Timur is sincere and frank with his listener. Critics often compare him with an “akyn, ” who sings about what is happening around, but in a good sense of the term, and not in an ironic one.
It is interesting that the presentation of a theme or event in the songs of Timur Shaov can take place in different, often opposite styles - and rollicking, almost in the courtyard, and sophisticated, even somewhat impressive. Not all bards manage to be as versatile as Shaov Timur.
Unusual is the very form of the song by this bard. He sings not only with the guitar, he is often accompanied by instruments that are more classical in musical understanding - cello or accordion.
Timur Shaov himself doubts his “belonging” to the bards, and considers himself rather a satirist with a guitar in his hands. In addition to musical creativity Timur is also a poet, he has published two books - “Blue Notebook” and “Songs. And not only…".
There is a creative piggy bank Shaova and work in the cinema. He is the author of music and songs for the films “From the Point of View of an Angel”, “Park of the Soviet Period”, and the compositions in the second film are performed by him.
