Group "Fruits": composition, photos of participants

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

This article is dedicated to the creative team from St. Petersburg - incredibly talented and unlike anyone else young guys who, like a fresh breeze through an open window, burst into the musical life of the domestic show business and are gaining more and more popularity every day, love and recognition of fans. This is the fruit group. The composition of the participants, the history of the formation of the team, successes and plans for the future - everything is covered in our story.

The band's musicians are so juicy, fresh and diverse, like a basket of summer fruits, bright and inviting. Their manner of performance and communication with the audience captivates, endearing them. "Fruits" is a new vector in the development of Russian music.

Sasha Dal. It all started with music

The history of the creation of a musical group began with its organizer - Sasha Dal, in the City on the Neva - the girl's homeland, where she studied and absorbedatmosphere of amazing and romantic Petersburg. Alexandra from early childhood was engaged in music and did it very enthusiastically and zealously. Giving interviews to various publications today, Dahl admits that he is serious about nothing else and does not know how to do anything in life except music. At first, the girl studied at a music school in piano, then there was a school-studio for musically gifted children "Tutti", later an institute of culture - Sasha received such an education. After studying, she tried to build a musical career and tried herself as a solo artist, recorded her own album, but her songs could not get into the rotation of radio stations. The production centers also did not want to cooperate with the young singer. Alexandra decided to start creating musical material for other performers. In the piggy bank of her creations there are songs from the repertoire of Christina Orbakaite, Masha Rasputina, Alla Pugacheva. The girl wrote soundtracks for films, for some time she was engaged in producing activities. But all this did not bring due satisfaction.

History of the creation of the team

In 2009, Alexandra assembled the first composition of the Fruits team, which lasted about two years, but eventually broke up. There were many reasons for this, including different views of the organizer and members of the group on the creative development of the team and the philosophy of its existence.

After some time, Dahl formed a group of other members. It was already a new group "Fruits". Composition (girls-vocalists and musicians)was formed thanks to an accident, and I must say, a very funny accident. One day, after many years since graduation, Alexandra met the guys with whom she was not particularly friends, but studied together. At school, the boys were too broken, listened to rock, hooligans, and the girl, on the contrary, was a fan of pop music, so very correct and modest, as she herself says, she didn’t even smoke at that time. We met, talked on social networks and decided to jointly participate in one significant event in St. Petersburg. And after this musical experiment, they realized that something was working out for them and they had to continue…

Fruit group. Line-up (Mimi, Ma and band members)

So everything started spinning. Later, Anna Korzhenko joined the guys, with whom Alexandra had known since childhood, since her studies at the Tutti school. Anya is a bright personality, an excellent vocalist, with charisma and character, although in the team she has a sweet and gentle nickname - Mimi. By the way, for the organizer of the group - Sasha Dal - there was also a playful name. The guys from the team call her Ma. In addition to the girls, two soloists, talented musicians Alexei Yelesin (acoustic guitar), Konstantin Ionochkin (double bass), Diego (percussion, sound noises), Konstantin Koleshonok (saxophone), Mikhail Popov (accordion) participate in the group. Each of them is an individual, and together they are just an explosion of energy, a kind of modern Bremen musicians.

What is the band's secret? Why does the team cause such sympathy, and its music findsresponses in the hearts of numerous fans? Everything is simple. The guys are not like anyone around, they are a breath of fresh air. The chip of the group is in the performance of songs without equipment, with acoustic instruments (Unplugged). This technique allows you to perform at any concert venue - be it a living room in an apartment, a restaurant or a festival stage - and gives you a great opportunity to be with your audience at arm's length, breathe the same air with them in unison.

The idea of creating such a team at one time Alexandra was suggested by her friend - St. Petersburg restaurateur Aram Mnatsakanov. He had once seen something similar in France and was inspired by the idea to combine his gastronomic business projects and Alexandra's musical abilities.

About work, domestic music and fans

At first the band worked as a cover band. The musicians did not have their own repertoire, they re-sang world hits, but they did it masterfully, unusually and very talentedly. They played small concerts in their hometown, and then an offer from Ivan Urgant came from the capital. The showman invited the guys to his program as her musical accompaniment. The prehistory to this turn of events was the repeated meetings of Fruits and Urgant at New Year's cooperatives, where the showman himself noticed the team.

The guys write songs with talent, each in their own direction, they rehearse a lot together and work hard every day. Despite the colossal employment, they find time for communication, often come asinvited guests on radio broadcasts. It is interesting to talk with them on various topics, to find out their vision of a particular problem. In one of the interviews, when asked what is wrong in the development of modern domestic music, they said that, in their opinion, modern musicians are often overcome by laziness, and the fuss around their own PR prevails over work with musical material. Worthy among the most worthy are Yolka, Zemfira, Sergei Shnurov and the Leningrad group. But the image of his admirer is characterized as a person without a certain gender and age, in love with life, pure and naive, like a child.

Significant events in the band's biography

The band's reporting concert at the Cosmonaut Club in September 2011 became their debut performance on the big stage. This can be called the starting point in musical development, the beginning of a great creative journey.

Fruits admit they have an incredible amount of work to do today. In addition to developing some of their own projects, the musicians take part in charity concerts and events, they are nominees for the Muz-TV music awards and the Sobaka.ru magazine award “TOP-50. The most famous people of St. Petersburg 2015. In 2013, the team represented Russia at the New Wave competition for young talents in Jurmala. The guys say that being busy with their favorite work is a pleasure, but at the same time there is practically no time left for personal life. By the way, the girls - the soloists of the group - have not yet got a family, but the guys-musicians are all married, someone haschildren. Devoted companions patiently wait for the arrival of their husbands only on weekends.

A landmark event in the history of the group was the shooting of the first clip of "Fruits" with the name "Moscow-Preserve". As Sasha Dal herself (team leader) commented on the video, this is a kind of gratitude to the city for welcoming the guys into its arms. The director of the video, Angelina Nikonova, brought to life the ideas of Alexandra, who for a long time was looking for the right person to carry out this important task, a person with new, uncluttered views on life and fresh ideas. They succeeded.

In March 2015, another music video for the song "Bali" premiered.

Future plans

Today the main task of the team is to work on a collection of their own compositions. Author's songs are a movement forward, development and creative growth. In addition, it is not interesting when you are characterized and remembered only as artists who cover other people's hits. It's fun to create your own musical story.

So far in the discography of "Fruktov" - their firstborn called "Harvest '11-'12". The band's official website provides information about the collection. The disc includes 10 compositions, as always filled with an amazing sense of taste, style and sophistication! In addition, the web page contains comprehensive information about what the Fruit group lives on a daily basis: line-up, photos of members, female vocalists of the band, their interests, achievements and plans for the future.

Now the team members are on a long business trip, they work and spend most of their lives in Moscow, although they remember and love their hometown of St. Petersburg and every time they return there with trembling and bated breath. The city on the Neva gives them strength and special inspiration to conquer new horizons. It is really safe to say about these stylish and talented guys that it is better to see them once than to hear about them a hundred times. At the same time, listening to them is a pleasure.