"Singing Underpants" - the composition of the group

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

The "Singing Cowards" group, whose composition you will find in this article, is a popular Ukrainian musical group that appeared in 2008. It was founded by musician Andrei Kuzmenko and producer Vladimir Bebeshko. The group appeared at the New Wave contest, after which Igor Krutoy became one of its producers.

Birth of a band

The "Singing Cowards" group still continues to perform on stage. The composition currently includes three singers: Olga Lizgunova, Alena Slyusarenko and Irina Ryzhova. It is worth noting that during the existence of the group, many participants passed through the team. Among them are Nadezhda Benderskaya, Victoria Kovalchuk, Anastasia Bauer, Lali Ergemlidze, Rimma Raymond.

The idea to create such a frankly bantering team came from producer Andrey Kuzmenko after the appearance of a huge number of women's groups on the Russian and Ukrainian stage. At the same time, they were distinguished by very dubious artistic and vocal data. They even looked alikefriend. According to Kuzmenko, the group was supposed to find fault with show business, and the titles of the songs spoke for themselves: "Plastic surgeon", "Producer's bed".

Selection of participants

In the spring of 2008, a large-scale casting started. The band's name was not announced. Among the requirements were a large breast size (not less than the third), height from 160 centimeters, the ability to dance. At the same time, it was not necessary to sing professionally. As a result, the first composition of the "Singing Underpants" was formed. It included Anastasia Bauer, Irina Skrinnik, Alena Slyusarenko and Nadezhda Benderskaya. Even before the casting, it became known that Victoria Kovalchuk and Olga Lizgunova could get into the group. They knew the producers.

Already in April 2008, the debut video for the song called "Singing Cowards" was released. At the end of the year, a clip appeared with the name "Olivier Basin". After that, Nadezhda Benderskaya left the group. In March 2009, the first album called "Pops" was released.

Success on the New Wave

In the spring of 2010, the team took part in the international competition "New Wave". The group "Singing Cowards" specially took two vocalists - Lali Ergemlidze and Rimma Raymond. At the same time, only Olga Lizgunova remained from the original composition. Only for the duration of the competition, the "Singing Cowards" group, the composition, the photo of which you will find in this article, turned into a trio. The rest of the members remained behind the scenes, although they did not leaveproject.

The team made it to the final. Only then the director of the competition opposed the name of the team. The producers refused to change it. Still, the organizers found a way to get out. Presenter Ksenia Sobchak, announcing the participants, emphasized the first syllable in the word "cowards". Also at the competition, the group was banned from performing the song "Like Alla", dedicated to the prima donna of the Russian stage Alla Pugacheva. As a result of the competition, the group was awarded a special prize - a certificate giving the right to create a video clip and broadcast it on the air of Muz-TV.

Awards and prizes

2010 has been a very fruitful year for the band. The team won the Song of the Year festival with the composition "Like Alla", was recognized as the best corporate group on Ukrainian television, and was nominated for the Muz-TV channel award in the Breakthrough of the Year category. In 2011, new clips were released - "Girl", "Do not offer intimacy", "Girls of the oligarchs", "Kalimera". The second album was not long in coming.

In 2012, the team was at the center of a stellar scandal. The clip "Vasilek" won in the nomination "Creative of the Year" at a competition organized by the RU. TV channel. However, the participants did not receive the award. Nikolai Baskov, who was the host of the ceremony, was offended by his own loss in all categories of the competition and presented the prize to the boy who went up on stage to give flowers.

5 year anniversary

BIn April 2013, the group celebrated their 5th anniversary by releasing a new song "NaHa!" Dedicated to girls who expect to find love on the Web. By that time, the composition of the "Singing Cowards" group by name was as follows: Olga Lizgunova, Alena Slyusarenko, Irina Ryzhova, Anastasia Bauer, Victoria Kovalchuk and Rimma Raymond.

The next changes took place already in June 2013. Victoria Kovalchuk announced her resignation. Despite this, in October the group decided to try to get to Eurovision from Russia. The song "Mu-mu" was supposed to participate in the selection. But in the end, it did not take place, and the expert jury determined that the Tolmacheva sisters would participate.

Abroad performances

The composition of the "Singing Cowards" group and the names of the vocalists by that time were well known not only in Russia, but also abroad. At the end of 2013, the band released an updated version of the song "NaHa!" in Chinese, as interest in the project in this country turned out to be unexpectedly high. Around the same time, the famous video called "I don't remember anything" was released, which was timed to coincide with the upcoming New Year.

Death of Kuzmenko

A shocking surprise for everyone was the death of one of the main producers of the team. Andrei Kuzmenko tragically died in February 2015. Soon the group's contract with the production center of Igor Krutoy expired, which was not renewed. As a result, all organizational work fell on the shoulders of Vladimir Bebeshko.

Despite the difficulties, the group continued to develop. In the summer of the same year, the third album called "Karaoke" was released. At the same time, the team received the Ukrainian prize "Golden Loaf" for dubious achievements in the field of show business. The lyrics of the song "Moo-mu" was recognized as the most meaningless in the past year. After that, several more memorable singles were released: "padruga", "Cop", "It's good in the village in the summer." In August 2016, Anastasia Bauer left the group.

Participation in "Eurovision"

In early 2017, the Singing Cowards group, which included Olga Lizgunova, Alena Slyusarenko and Irina Ryzhova, made another attempt to participate in Eurovision, this time from Ukraine. The team reached the semi-finals with the song Singing Pants. But he failed to reach the final of the national selection.

Now preparing to celebrate its tenth anniversary of the group "Singing Cowards". And interesting facts about this original project are not long in coming. A few months ago, the clip "Lost Weight" was released, in which, in addition to special filming, videos of many past works were used. In particular, the clips "Plastic surgeon", "Icicle girls", "Beautiful end", "I don't remember anything", "Moscow-Kolyma" and many others. And also used footage with the deceased Andrey Kuzmenko, other famous people who have participated in the life of the team for many years. itVadim Ermolenko, Peter Listerman, Sergey Zverev. Former vocalists Victoria Kovalchuk and Anastasia Bauer also took part in the recording of the video.

It is worth noting that although the composition of the team changed several times, most often everything happened peacefully and without scandals. For example, Irina Ryzhova left the group for a while due to maternity leave, and then safely returned to the project. Also, the rest of the participants did not make any special claims to their colleagues and leaders, which is not so often the case in modern show business.