Group "Mirage": history, discography, photos. The old line-up of the group

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

In today's article we will get acquainted with the once popular team, created back in the days of the USSR and which was very popular in the vastness of our vast Motherland during the Perestroika period. This is the Mirage group. Biography, photos of participants, discography of the band - all this the reader will find in our review.

What do we know about the team

The Mirage group was a cult group in the 90s of the last century, and probably only the lazy have not heard of it. A lot of interesting facts are connected with the team: wild popularity; big money; intrigue; litigation; the names of today's famous musicians who once started their journey in the Mirage. But… first things first.

When mentioning the Mirage group, the first thing that comes to mind is a set of phrases: “legendary group”, “the idol of all teenagers born in the 70s and later”, “the song “Music connected us”, "stadiums of fans", "groovy music", "soloist Tatiana Ovsienko".

However, if you dig a little deeper, it turns out that Tatyana Ovsienko is far from the only vocalist of the group. passed through the teammany well-known names today, for which the Mirage group was their home for a long time. Photos of former participants - Margarita Sukhankina, Natalya Vetlitskaya, Natalya Gulkina, Irina S altykova, Roman Zhukov - appear from time to time in the chronicle of various publications. All of them in one way or another were related to the team, at different times, in different composition, under different circumstances.

The musical group experienced all sorts of times - both popularity and oblivion. Its creation and further development fell on the era of Perestroika in the country, and this historical milestone also left its mark on the biography of the band.

Mirage group: the old composition of the group

The organizer of the group is the composer and musician Andrei Lityagin, who in 1986 united several talented musicians into a group. From this moment begins the countdown in the creative biography of Mirage.

Under the authorship of Letyagin, together with the poet Valery Sokolov, 12 songs were written. For musical compositions, arrangements and a studio recording of the vocal part were prepared, which was performed by a student of the conservatory, the future opera singer Margarita Sukhankina. Everything was ready for the promotion of the group - a great start promised a bright future. However, it turned out that the girl saw herself only in the world of classical music and was not going to take part in pop projects. Sukhankina insisted that her name did not appear anywhere and was not in any way connected with pop music.

The organizer of the group had to look for a new soloist. She became Natalya Gulkina. With the participation of Gulkina, several additional compositions were recorded, and in March 1987 the first music disc was released, which was released by the Mirage group. The band's discography began with the album "Stars are waiting for us."

The success of the music album led the band leader Lityagin to launch the Mirage concert activity, for which he invited another soloist to the band - Svetlana Razina, who, by the way, became the author of the popular composition "New Hero". At this time, another well-known person takes part in the life of the team - Roman Zhukov (he plays the keys).

Together Again

The group became very popular, but its soloists left the band in 1988 and created their own projects. A new girl came to Mirage - Natalya Vetlitskaya. However, she did not last long - she left after a year. After her, Inna Smirnova was the soloist for some time, but she soon left the band. However, such inconstancy did not bother Lityagin at all. With the participation of Margarita Sukhankina, he prepared another musical material for recording the second album Together Again. The summer of 1988 was marked by the release of the disc. The band's crazy tour began. The concert schedule was so tight that 80 concerts a month became the norm in the touring activities conducted by the Mirage group. Photos of the band members did not leave the posters of numerous cities of the Soviet Union.

The new faces of the team are Irina S altykova and Tatyana Ovsienko, who, however, onlythey danced on the stage and created the appearance of singing songs - the same Gulkina and Sukhankina mentally tore themselves on the soundtrack.

The success of Mirage was overwhelming, and in 1989 the song "Music Tied Us" became a participant in the music festival "Song of the Year".

Wind of change

In 1990, the Mirage group, whose members had more than one vocalist in their history, accepted a new girl into their ranks. The next soloist of the group was Ekaterina Boldysheva. A distinctive feature of the "Mirage" with the participation of this girl was that the songs at the concerts were performed "live", without using someone else's soundtrack.

The turning point for the USSR confused the maps and plans of the group leader Lityagin. For some time, the release of the third music album, which was planned for that period, had to be postponed. There has been a certain stagnation in the development of the team.

It was only in 1997 that an album of remixes of the group called Dance remix was born, on which the voice of Margarita Sukhankina sounded again. And again, there were changes in the group. The composition of the soloists has been completely updated. Now young girls began to appear on the stage - Evgenia Morozova, Maria Kharcheva, Nicole Ambrazaitis.

But in 2005 the Mirage group celebrated its coming of age, which was marked by an important event. In honor of Mirage's birthday, a grandiose concert was held at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex, in which musicians who had ever been involved with the band took part.

Sukhankina and Gulkina together again?

Birthday of the teamcoincided with another event - Margarita Sukhankina and Natalia Gulkina in the same 2005 decided to join forces and created a duet. At first they performed under the name "Solo for Two", then they decided to tour under their real names. They did not have the rights to perform compositions belonging to the Mirage group.

Their joint work led to the release in the same year of an album called "Just a Mirage", after which the women began to actively tour. However, not everyone was happy with the duo's success. And in the press, here and there, information appeared repeatedly that the new team was periodically threatened by unknown people. In parallel with this, the media wrote about the constant confrontation and conflicts between the duet Gulkin - Sukhankin and Andrei Letyagin.

However, after some time, the parties nevertheless came to a common denominator, and this ended in cooperation and very curious events. The duet of Sukhankin - Gulkin first became known as the "Golden Voices of the Mirage Group", later - "The Mirage Group of Composer Andrei Letyagin". In the period 2006-2007, the duo released three successive albums, which included new studio compositions, as well as recordings from some concerts.

The four young girls were renamed "Mirage Junior", and they began to conduct concert activities parallel to the duet, while also having the right to use the musical material of the Mirage group.

The split in the team and the departure of Gulkina

In 2010 there was a split in interpersonal relationshipsSukhankina and Gulkina, which was preceded by numerous conflicts and omissions. Further cooperation was impossible, and Natalya Gulkina left the team, subsequently pursuing a solo career. By the way, she did not receive rights to the musical compositions performed by the Mirage group. The official reason for Natalia's departure is the end of her employment contract, which expired in January 2011.

And again Svetlana Razina returned to the team. But not for long. She stayed with the group for almost a year, leaving in December 2011. What caused Razina to leave is unknown. According to rumors, she decided to pursue a solo career. Neither Sukhankina nor Lityagin commented on the departure of the soloist from the group. Only some time later, on the official website of Svetlana Razina, information appeared with explanations about her departure from the team.

Mirage continued its touring activities with the only remaining soloist of the group, Margarita Sukhankina.

In 2013, the group's album "Not for the first time" received the status of "gold" according to the results of sales.

Life after Mirage

Many musicians who later tried to make a solo career were part of the Mirage group. However, no one especially succeeded in bright and brilliant ups.

Tatiana Ovsienko has gone through a difficult period in her life. After leaving the group, she was happy in family life. However, the misfortune that happened to her husband - he was accused of murdering a man -pretty shook the nerves of the star. She said that until the happy moment when her husband was acquitted, she had to go through a lot. Friends turned away from her, she had to work long and hard to pay for lawyers. However, the viewer remembered some of Ovsienko's hits - "School time", "Captain", "Ringlet", "Trucker".

Irina S altykova also tried to build a solo career after leaving the team. Beautiful and very sexy blonde, she sang simple songs and shot her eyes from the TV screen. The girl was the dream of many men. Now she is running her own fashion house, Irina S altykova.

Natalya Vetlitskaya also failed to build a dizzying career. Now she lives in Spain and leads a rather closed life.