Producer Shulgin Alexander Valerievich: biography, personal life, creativity

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Alexander Valeryevich Shulgin is a fairly well-known Soviet and Russian composer and producer. He also manages the Familia group of companies, which operates in the media, entertainment industry and publishing business. However, producer Shulgin is popular not only for his musical talent, but also for scandals and life stories that haunt him throughout his life.

Childhood

Composer Alexander Shulgin, and then still unknown boy Sasha, was born on August 25, 1964 in the city of Irkutsk. 3 years after his birth, probably the first truly significant event took place in the boy's life. Grandfather decided to give his grandson a compact music player and became the one who awakened in a small child a great love for art in general and music in particular. The kid sat around the player all day, listening to melodies fromrecords.

How did it all start?

Already in the sixth grade, the future producer Shulgin joined the school ensemble. He began to devote all his free time to frequent rehearsals and popular songs at that time. In addition, the teenager learned to play the guitar, sorting through the motives of Western hits and Russian songs. A couple of years later, a small ensemble, performing at lights and school events, tried to play songs composed by the future composer.

In those years, the young team had a hard time. Quality equipment was sorely lacking. Parents were able to provide their heirs only with guitars, but amplifiers had to be made literally from improvised means. The same story happened with columns. Soon the teenagers realized that for the best sound it is necessary to acquire at least some kind of equipment, and not made on the knee in the garage, but real, bought in a professional music store. But in order to buy something you need, you must first sell something unnecessary … One of the group members had an older brother who turned out to be a commission worker, and young talents got as much as 800 rubles for old home-made equipment. But the senior "comrades" of the future producer Shulgin turned out to be traitors and decided to divide the proceeds into three, not taking into account the 13-year-old Alexander.

Youth

After graduating from school, Shulgin Alexander Valerievich enters ISLU (Irkutsk State Linguistic University). A little later, he moved to NI ISTU (National ResearchIrkutsk State Technical University), and from there he once again leaves for BSUEP (Baikal State University of Economics and Law). Such a frequent change of educational institutions is directly related to the desire of the young man to devote himself completely to music.

First musical steps

Once Alexander met the members of the Carnival group, who invited him to Moscow with them. There, at the age of 19, he begins to work as part of the popular Soviet group Cruise. Cooperation with her opened the way for the future producer Shulgin to Germany, and Cruise became the first group to go abroad. It is there that Alexander gets acquainted with recording trends and learns to understand the complex system of show business.

Shulgin himself says that they lived in Germany for 4 years, then the Cruise broke up - the ambitious musicians began to quarrel and the relationship came to naught. Warner took a look at what was being done with the band and waved their hand. Each of the artists believed that the company would sign a contract with him, but this did not happen. Shulgin stayed in Germany to work in the studio, began to learn the system of show business.

Creative path

Having said goodbye to Germany, Shulgin returns to his homeland, where he begins his production activities, simultaneously opening several of his own firms. In 1998, he founded the company "Familia". She is still involved in media, business and entertainment to this day. Very soon, producer Alexander Shulgin becomes famousalso as a composer. More than 50 songs of his composition become real hits and capture only the top lines of the charts and charts. Throughout the 90s, he has been working together with the singer Valeria and the Mechta group. Later, he undertakes to produce the Jazz album of the rock group Alisa, promotes Mumiy Troll and Ivanushki International up the career ladder. Leading artists begin to cooperate with Shulgin.

In the early 2000s, producer Shulgin became the author and musical director of such popular shows for young talents as "Star Factory" and "Become a Star". As a result, the group "Other Rules" is born, the participants of which are the finalists of this project. In 2005, Shulgin released the album "Representation", where he seriously talks about the struggle between good and evil.

A year later he becomes a columnist and writes his own column in the Vzglyad newspaper. Later, in 2010, Alexander begins composing for the music portal Newsmusic. In 2011, he decided to make a gift to his native land (Alexander Valerievich Shulgin is Russian by nationality) and wrote the anthem to Irkutsk: "Siberia, Baikal, Irkutsk." Very soon, this gift became legendary, and the record acquired various interpretations.

Shulgin in search of himself

In 2011, Shulgin is seriously interested in religious issues and even enters the PSTGU (Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University). A little later, the composer will begin to create music for the Orthodox channel "SPAS". At the same time, the producer isadvanced technologies and becomes a member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Family

The personal life of Shulgin Alexander Valerievich has long ceased to be only personal and has become public property. His first wife was the famous singer Valeria, whom he met in one of the nightclubs, where his future wife had a small solo performance. This meeting was not love at first sight. Initially, the producer just wanted to work with Valeria, later their relationship grew into something more. And even the singer's official husband, musician Leonid Yaroshevsky, could not prevent the future couple from finding, as it seemed then, happiness.

"Happy" family life

After a short time, Alexander Shulgin and Valeria announce their marriage. In marriage, in 1993, they have their first child - the girl Anya. A little later, beautiful boys are born - Artem and Arseny. Being pregnant with her third child, Valeria had already filed for divorce, but her husband was able to convince her to save her family for the child. Later, the couple nevertheless divorced, and the matter was not without a loud scandal.

Valeria told reporters about quarrels with her ex-husband, because of which the composer's reputation was badly damaged. In addition, the stories of the ex-wife that after the birth of their daughter, the gentle and caring Alexander became quick-tempered and aggressive, and sometimes even raised his hand to his wife, were very shocking details of their family life.

Offended Shulgin repaid the same coin and left his own children without attention, care and alimony. Furthermore,the daughter even stated that she did not consider Alexander her father and did not have any warm feelings for him.

Later, producer Alexander Shulgin struck up a close relationship with one of the participants in the Star Factory project, Yulia Mikhalchik. However, this novel ended as quickly as it began. His new girlfriend realized from her own experience that the statements of the singer Valeria were not empty words out of a sense of revenge, and very quickly hurried to leave her lover. Since then, Shulgin has been living the life of an avid bachelor and, it seems, is not going to change anything at all. At least, nothing is known about his new passions at the moment.

Producer and composer Shulgin today

What is Alexander Shulgin doing now? Judging by the list of his merits, he does not sit a single day without important things to do. In 2016, he is producing a very interesting short film "Chess" and is the composer of this film, in which Ornella Muti herself played the main role.

Today Alexander Shulgin invests in new high-tech projects. He was among the first in Russia to invest money in the blockchain, and later joined the Elon Musk project. A year ago, the composer gave a free lecture in his hometown. He talked about what, how and why society is changing, where new technologies come from, and what education young talents need to have in order not to be left out in the future.

In 2017, Shulgin was spotted at the Innoprom site. There, he also expressed his opinion regarding the futureour country with you. A well-known producer assures that only robotization can help Russia. Of course, there is a huge risk, because, according to Shulgin himself, production will always compete with foreign competing firms, and not create worthwhile original products for the needs of the country.

Alexander Shulgin is a significant figure in the history of Russian show business. He has established himself as a talented, successful producer and composer. His works are performed not only by our compatriots, but also by a number of foreign artists. It is worth noting that Shulgin is exactly the person who made himself. Born in an ordinary family, he was able to turn his hobby not only into his life's work, but also into a decent income.