Composition of the "Night Snipers" group: photos of participants, names, creativity

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

Many listeners and lovers of Russian rock know and appreciate the work of one of the popular rock bands in Russia "Night Snipers". It was formed on August 19, 1993 in St. Petersburg as a result of an acquaintance, and also thanks to the efforts and advancement in the musical work of Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova. The group continues to declare its existence, delighting fans with new albums.

First steps to success

At first, the first composition of the group "Night Snipers" included an acoustic duet of two friends - Diana (vocals, guitar) and Svetlana (vocals, guitar, violin). The first time they performed together was at the Russian Author's Song Festival. At that time, Diana lived in Magadan. She had to leave the duet and leave St. Petersburg. She returned to Magadan to study. Following her in November 1993, her friend and partner Svetlana Surganova went. The duo of two talents has been restored.

Bfor six months they performed at the Imperial casino, also at Magadan University, where Diana Arbenina studied at that time. Their musical group gained popularity by playing at various evening events, parties, apartment houses in Magadan. Then they got their name "Night Snipers". They also created their first audio recordings, which are rare for fans of this group.

Then they took part in the regional tour of the Russian music competition "Student Spring-1994". The band then traveled to Samara to complete their final tour performance. After they returned to St. Petersburg, where they found their electronic composition and performed at various events, in famous St. Petersburg clubs, such as "White Rabbit", "Tonnika", "Ambush", "Romantic".

Further the group visited many festivals, one of them is known as "Indian Summer". "Night Snipers" performed at the twelve-hour musical show of the city "Russian Modern".

The debut of the Night Snipers team was first held abroad in 1993. The band took part in a student festival in Denmark. After that, one of the informal publishing houses "Sleep grandfather" released the first author's collections of poetry by Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova: "Rubbish" and "Target".

First team

The Night Snipers group acquired its first electronic composition in February 1997. They continued to play both acoustic and electronic sounding shows. Composition of the Night Snipers at the timeconsisted of musicians from various rock bands. This is:

• D. Dulitsky - solo guitarist of the musical group "Vacuum";
• Yu. Degtyarev - rhythm section, member of the SKA group (Union of Commercial Avant-Garde);
• A. Ivanov - guitarist of the St. Petersburg group "Vacuum";
• the main members of the group are D. Arbenina and S. Surganova.

Popularity

The group "Night Snipers" got its first popularity on the Internet thanks to the journalist Willy Pshenichny. He posted several songs of the band on his website. With the support of the musicians of the Kuzya-Band group, the Night Snipers managed to record their musical works in well-known studios in St. Petersburg.

The group's music was distributed on cassettes. Their first album was unofficial, released live.

The first official album of the group "Night Snipers" was recorded in 1998 in the premises of the St. Petersburg zoo under the name "A drop of tar in a barrel of honey". It was released on cassettes thanks to the band's administrator R. Sungatullin.

The second release of the songs was included in the official album "Baby Talk", which was released in 1999 and included live and new studio recordings.

Big Stage

Svetlana Loseva, being the producer of the group, achieved the sound of songs on radio and television. In 1999, Night Snipers performed for the first time on the big stage in Moscow. At the same time, the group has its own personal website on the Internet. Where are the first postedofficial photos of the line-up of the Night Snipers group, as well as photos from performances and concert recordings.

Diana Arbenina

Diana Sergeevna Arbenina (Kulachenko) - was born in the city of Volozhin (Belarus) on July 8, 1974. Her parents were journalists; for work, they moved with Diana to the Far North of Russia. Then her family periodically moved to the villages of Kolyma and Chukotka. There Arbenina received her first musical education.

Diana wrote her first original songs in 1991. Her most famous and popular composition "Frontier" was written in the same year. Even during this period, such works as “Tosca”, “And again the roads are dark”, “Evening in the Crimea”, “Only noise on the river” and others were written. Diana limited herself to amateur acoustic performances. She participated in various activities and student competitions.

In 1993, Arbenina proclaimed herself the leader of the acoustic duet "Night Snipers". She is the author of many songs released by her group. For many years of passion for music, Diana wrote more than two hundred songs and about one hundred and twenty poems. In connection with the release of Surganova in 2002 from the Night Snipers, Arbenina became the only vocalist in the group.

First tours and tours

In 2000, the band traveled to Germany on tour, where they recorded their next album, Frontier. The song "31st Spring" from it gets on "Our Radio". Thanks to this, in the fall of the same year, the group becomes popular, gains all-Russian fame.and signs with Real Records.

In 2001, Night Snipers went on a tour of Russia and the CIS countries. Their concerts were shown and broadcast on famous TV channels and radio. Then in the club "Barmley" in December 2001, during the performance, a new album "Live" was recorded in video and audio formats.

In 2002, the composition of the group changes significantly. A. Ponomarev becomes the new producer instead of I. Kopylov. In 2002, the next album "Tsunami" was recorded in the city of Kyiv. With him, “Night snipers performed in Israel. And in December 2002, as already mentioned, Svetlana Surganova left the group and founded her own musical project called Surganova and the Orchestra. After the departure of Svetlana, the group received its second name among the fans - "Diana Arbenina and the Night Snipers".

Over the long years of the band's existence in 2003 keyboardists appeared. A. Samarin was the first to come, A. Sadykov pulled himself up a little later. Their arrival helped to achieve a broader and more powerful sound for the band both in the recording studio and on stage.

The most grandiose performance of the Night Snipers musical group took place on February 23 at the arena of the Luzhniki sports complex. In May 2003, the next album Trigonometry was recorded at an acoustic concert. Its release took place in October. On this occasion, a concert was organized at the Gorbunov Palace of Culture. The group celebrated its tenth anniversary at the Bi-2 club.

New albums and achievements

The next album was released in autumn 2004 under the name SMS. This yearFedor Vasiliev becomes the bass player of the group. An important event in the existence of the Night Snipers musical group took place in 2005 - Diana Arbenina became the winner of the Russian Triumph Prize. After the group performed in the "Odd Warrior" project along with "B-2" in Japan.

In 2007 the band released the album "Bonnie and Clyde", which was recorded in Moscow. Shura from the Bi-2 collective participated in the arrangement of the songs. Then the group goes on tour, visits more than fifty cities in Russia, CIS countries, America.

The fifth album "Army 2009", which was released in 2009, was recorded in America. The band barely performed anywhere, they worked hard to create an album. Then "Night Snipers" gave a concert at the "Army 2009" festival.

In September 2012, the group released a new album "4". His main hits were the songs "Bunin", "Google", "What we did last summer." The team traveled not only to Russia, but almost all of Europe, visited the USA.

In June 2015, Night Snipers gave a concert at the Usadba Jazz festival. In July of this year, the group opened the Invasion festival. Then they recovered on an autumn tour of Russia. "Night Snipers" took part in charity concerts dedicated to helping children from disadvantaged families. Performed at the Maxidrom festival.

The group's large discography was presented in the 21st year of their existence, and in February 2016 they release their next album, Only Lovers Left Alive. As part of the "Night Snipers" group - Chigirin Maxim, who is the chief technicianon stage since 2015.

Soon they go on tour, where they present their album in 75 cities of Russia, America and Europe. In 2017, Night Snipers visited Israel, Moldova, and Spain. For the release of the next album for the 25th anniversary of its existence, the group took a short break.

Current team

Today the composition of the group "Night Snipers" consists of four people:

1. Diana Arbenina;
2. drums - Dmitry Gorelov;
3. lead guitar - Denis Zhdanov;
4. bass guitar - Sergey Makarov.

The group has achieved great success in implementing their ideas and creativity. They have hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. Ten studio albums. They have released over ten music videos. Diana Arbenina and the group "Night Snipers" attended various events. Played on the same stage with famous bands. Participated in major projects. All videos, photos of the Night Snipers group can be found on the band's official website.