Alexander Losev: the voice behind "Flowers"

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

The songs of the group "Flowers" still evoke pleasant memories of their youth, true friendship and first love for many. But few people know that Alexander Losev (photo below) is the voice of the group, and only thanks to his talent this music gained wide popularity and recognition in the 70-80s.

Young years of Alexander Losev

Sasha was born in 1949. His father was the secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee. Even at school age, the boy fell in love with music and learned to play the guitar well. At school, he constantly took part in amateur performances, and in his student years he was a soloist in local ensembles. Alexander Losev had a good ear and a unique voice, so his repertoire included songs of various genres.

Student time

After graduating from school, Sasha entered the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering. At this time, he met Stas Namin, who studied at the Institute of Foreign Languages. His new friend was an ambitious, determined and creative young man. So together they started theircreative activity. It can be noted that it was Namin who formed the "Flowers", which glorified these talented guys. In their student years, they were carried away by the hippie movement, which was new to them, which to some extent was reflected in their work.

Musicians and beginner bands from all over Moscow liked to gather in the basement of the Energetik Palace of Culture, and Alexander Losev and his friend became regular participants there. Like most other young groups, the future Flowers performed already famous compositions. They played the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and they were invited by little-known clubs in the city to fill in musical minutes for 10 rubles.

Alexander Losev: biography of success

An important step in the work of Losev was his participation in the ensemble of A. Kozlov. It was also an interesting stage in his life, as they played jazz with elements of rock. Alexander was the soloist, and their repertoire included compositions by foreign groups such as Chicago. At the same time, his friend Stas dreamed that they would record a record together with several songs that the guys perform in the ensemble.

But new acquaintances have dramatically changed the life of a talented performer. Sasha and Stas began to communicate with musicians Sergey Dyachkov and Vladimir Semenov, who suggested that they make their own album. It included "Asterisk", "Don't" and "Flowers Have Eyes". These three compositions were combined in a disc - "forty-five", which sold seven million copies. Further in 1972-73. they recorded a record by the Melodiya company. Since then, the group of Alexander Losevbecame popular and gained many fans.

In 1974, "Flowers" pleased the listeners with the next disc, on which such hits as "Lullaby", "You and Me", "Honestly", "More Life" sounded. At this time, the young group took a step into professional activities at the Moscow Philharmonic.

Further activities of Losev

VIA "Flowers" ended their "flower" activities in 1978, and the band members played under the direction of Stas Namin. But the soloist Alexander gets a job singing in the VIA "Red Poppies". There he performs “Mirror”, “Insomnia”, “All that was”, “Kiss for my beloved”, “How can I stop loving you.”

Namin and Losev met again in 1980 on tour. Stas persuaded a friend to become the lead singer of his group.

It is interesting that the famous song "We wish you happiness", recorded for the youth festival, is associated with Alexander Losev, because he sang the main part in this composition.

At the end of the eighties, the group broke up, and Losev recruited his line-up with young talents.

The last performances of Alexander Losev took place in Haifa and Tel Aviv in 2004 from 23 to 25 January. There he performed his most famous hits of the past years.

Private life

1974 was a successful year for Alexander for another reason. He got married this year. Three years later, his life was marked by another joyful and long-awaited event - Losev had an heir, Nikolai. But, like many other talented musicians, AlexanderLosev did not know how to combine creativity, business and family responsibilities, which is why not everything went smoothly in his family.

Unfortunately, his beloved son died at the age of eighteen. This tragedy led to the breaking of the marriage ties with his wife, who soon remarried. After the death of the heir, the singer changed, he began to smoke a lot, lost weight, and the performance of songs became more soulful.

At sunset

In his last interview, Alexander Losev admitted that he feels lonely, despite the fact that there are many good friends in his life. And this is not surprising, because he was haunted by misfortunes, especially in his personal life. Shortly before his death, Alexander was diagnosed with lung cancer (III degree). After the operation, he underwent intensive chemotherapy. A few weeks later, he already went on his last tour to Israel, as the treatment was considered successful.

After the performance, on February 1, 2004, Losev was at a friend's birthday party, where he drank a little alcohol, which provoked instant death. He was 54 years old.