The article is devoted to the biography and work of the legendary rock musician Yuri Shevchuk. The article also contains information about the personal life of Yuri Shevchuk.
Biography
Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk is a famous Soviet and Russian rock musician, songwriter, poet, actor, artist, producer and public figure. Yuri Shevchuk was born on May 16, 1957 in the village of Yagodnoye, Magadan Region. The family had two more children - sister Natalia and brother Vladimir. Little Shevchuk has been attracted to creativity since childhood. At first he was very interested in drawing, and when the family moved to Nalchik, he added a musical school to the art school.
When Yuri was 13 years old, he again changed his residence permit and moved to Ufa. There, the teenager continued to engage in fine arts at the House of Pioneers and play the button accordion and guitar in the school ensemble "Vector". After school, the young man decided to become a professional artist and entered the Bashkir Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Graphic Arts. He received higher education, but in his student years the love of paintings lost the love of rock and roll that has become fashionable. Shevchuk plays in amateur groups "Free Wind" and "Kaleidoscope", receives awards for the lyrics of his songs.
Creativity and career
Yuri Shevchuk wrote his early songs under the influence of domestic bards, primarily Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, Alexander Galich, as well as Russian poets of the Silver Age - Osip Mandelstam, Sergey Yesenin and others. Yuri Shevchuk continued to develop the theme of Vysotsky’s songs, for which they are still often compared. The main theme of Shevchuk’s work is civil-patriotic lyrics, a call for moral self-improvement, non-violence, overcoming hatred, as well as social satire and protest.
In 1979, Yuri Shevchuk is part of an anonymous group that rehearsed at the local Avant-garde Palace of Culture. A year later, the team gets the name "DDT" and records a trial magneto album. In 1982, the guys sent several songs to the contest, and the song "Don't Shoot", written about the war in Afghanistan hidden in the Soviet Union, has a deafening resonance.
Recorded on an underground studio, the album "Compromise" is quickly becoming popular and puts DDT on a par with recognized St. Petersburg rock bands. Yuri Shevchuk had constant conflicts with the authorities, as they viewed the songs as a way to show protest against the current government.
With the advent of Perestroika, DDT became one of the cult groups of Russian rock. The songs "Boys Major", "I got this role", "Born in the USSR", "Thaw (Leningrad)", "Actress Vesna" are becoming favorite in the country. But the loudest compositions, which became the business cards of Yuri Shevchuk, came out already in the 90s. This is “Rain”, “Last Fall”, “What is Autumn”, “Agidel (White River)”, “Night-Ludmila” and others.
In 1999, the author’s biography was replenished with the publication of the collection of poems “Defenders of Troy”. After 10 years, he published his second book, Solnick.
In the XXI century, the composer and singer continues to be actively engaged in creativity. The new songs feel the influence of philosophy. Yuri Shevchuk raises the question of the insignificance or greatness of man in the world, religious motives, love of life. Studio albums of the DDT group come out with enviable regularity, and Yuri does not re-release old compositions, but constantly offers listeners new items, of which it is worth separately mentioning “Born this night”, “Song of Freedom”, “This City”, “Missing"
Yuri Shevchuk also tried his hand at the cinema. He participated as a cameo in projects and starred as an actor. Yuri played the main character Ivan Khristoforov in the mystical drama "Spirits of the Day", appeared in the comedy "Little Vovochka", the historical melodrama "Once Upon a Time There Was a Woman" and the television series "Father", for which he wrote the soundtrack.
Yuri Shevchuk wrote music especially for films, for example, “Geographer drank the globe”, “Generation P”, “Lord officers”, “Azazel” and others.
