Alexander Martsinkevich: biography and creativity

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Alexander Martsinkevich and the Kabriolet group began to cooperate in 1994. The Russian performer led this team. The singer and composer himself was born in Vsevolozhsk on January 20, 1967. Since 2014, he is also known as the leader of the Chains group. The performer comes from a large gypsy family, he was born in the Berngardovka microdistrict.

Biography

Alexander Martsinkevich has five brothers and two sisters. Since childhood, he was interested in music, mastered percussion instruments and guitar. At the age of 12, the young man was awarded the first prize in the city competition for young talents. It is known that at the performance, the young musician's drumstick broke and the boy finished playing alone.

Creativity

Alexander Martsinkevich started writing songs at the age of 13. From 1987 to 1989, the young man served in the army. He showed himself as a musician of the regimental orchestra, during the same period he played in an amateur vocalinstrumental ensemble. Alexander Martsinkevich in the early nineties performed in a restaurant with a gypsy group called "Mirikle".

Subsequently, speaking about this work, the performer noted that it is terrible when the public perceives you as an exotic dish. The musician emphasizes that not everyone will be able, regardless of the size of the fee, to perform any music on demand, when the listener eats roast lamb on both cheeks.

Alexander Martsinkevich created his own group in 1994, it was called "Cabriolet". Gypsy music has nothing to do with a fancy foreign car. But this is only at first glance. Among themselves, the gypsies call a "cabriolet" a wagon with an open top.

The people who came to visit in the old days on such transport were said to have come with an open heart. Alexander claims that this is where the name of the ensemble came from, as the musicians come to the public with an open heart, performing songs from the bottom of their hearts.

During the concert, listeners cannot remain indifferent, because the songs of this man are about life, love, about what each person experiences in different ways. The group won the Grand Prix at the International Festival of Gypsy Music, held in Poland. In the same place, the band recorded the first album, which was called “More”, which means “gypsies” in translation.

A clip was shot for the title track of the album. For several months this work was included in the rating of the ten best songs of Russia. All songs in the album "More" sound in the gypsy language, for this reason, none ofrecording studios in St. Petersburg did not dare to release this record on the domestic music market.

In most cases, it was noted that the album is wonderful, but for its release to a large audience it is necessary to sing in Russian. The musicians admitted that they were offended by such a decision, but they obeyed the laws of commerce. They tried to exclude compositions in their native language from the repertoire as much as possible, so now there are just over a third of them in the album.

In any case, the musicians do not intend to abandon them completely. In 1997, the Kabriolet group became a laureate at the Pop Song Festival of Russia, which was held in Moscow. In 1999, the team performs in St. Petersburg. There the team became the winner of the Silver Key.

Among the main achievements of the musicians is the participation in the International Festival "At the Turn of the Century", which focused specifically on gypsy art. Then the concert was attended by three hundred people, among whom were individual artists and groups. The panel of judges selected the top thirty contenders for the victory.

It was chaired by Nikolai Slichenko, head of the only Moscow Gypsy theater called Romen. Alexander and his group were among the best. After the musicians won a gold medal, becoming the winners of this competition.

Modernity

At the beginning of the 2000s, Alexander Martsinkevich, together with the band, recorded the song "Chains", for which a video was also shot. It was this composition that brought the groupfame.

Records

Albums of Alexander Martsinkevich as part of the "Cabriolet" group are very numerous: "Chains", "Roses", "Without You", "Sinful", "Why Everything Is Wrong", "Gypsy Dance", "Star of Hope", “Unfamiliar city”, “Everything for you”, “Behind your eyes”, “Guardian angel”, “Melodies of love”, “You are my music”, “Dedication to a friend” He also owns a solo record “What do gypsies do”, released in 2005.