Propaganda group in Russian show business

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

Three soloists of the group "Propaganda" - Vika Petrenko, Vika Voronina and Yulia Garanina - became widely known to the public in the early 2000s. This happened largely due to their bright appearance and charismatic performance. But not without the help of producer Sergei Izotov, the Propaganda group attracted the attention of a multi-million Russian audience.

How it all began…

Before the girls gained popularity, they had to endure a lot of disappointments and hardships. I had to make a living by performing at Christmas trees. The girls worked as clowns and life-size puppets, and hung around on the old Arbat, singing their own songs.

One of these performances was accidentally noticed by A. Kozin, the director of a well-known recording studio. A few days later, the Propaganda group was introduced to them by producer S. Izotov. He helped the team record the first hit and "brought" it to the big stage. So the composition "Chalk" became known to the general public.

Line-up change

But it turned out to hold out in one team in the harsh conditions of show businessnot easy. At one of the performances, the audience noticed that the Propaganda group had changed its composition. Instead of three girls, two appeared on the stage, and one of them was completely unknown. The fans were told that Victoria Petrenko left the group, as a result of a split and "inconsistency" with the moral character of the pop stars.

Following her, Yulia left the team. As expected, the renewed Propaganda group, whose composition has changed, has also changed its image.

New girls - Olga Moreva and Irina Yakovleva - worked on their appearance, worked on new songs and recorded their first album with great difficulty.

Top of popularity

The album appeared in 2002 and was called "Kids". It was followed by a remix album. The Propaganda group climbed to the top of the charts. New videos, songs, tours led to the fact that the soloists began to be recognized, their hits were increasingly heard on the air of popular radio stations. 2003 was one of the most successful years, at that time another album, So Be It, appeared. The enormous popularity of Ira, Vika and Olya was brought by the song of the group "Propaganda" called "Super Baby". A video was filmed on it and a colorful disc was released, the songwriter for which was the soloist Vika Voronina. In 2004, the group won the Golden Gramophone for the song Yai-ya.

Since the beginning of its existence, the group has already released 7 albums, toured Russia and beyond with tours. But the "star disease" of one of the participants again led to a change in the composition. Deciding to go solocareer, in 2011 Vika Voronina left the team, her place was taken by Vika Bogoslovskaya (one of the participants in the "Star Factory"). Having sung with Ira and Olya for no more than six months, and she left them. And in July 2012, Maria Nedelkova joined the Propaganda group.

Constant work on images, experiments with disco style, bright attractive appearance of the participants, talented performance allow you to stay afloat in the tough Russian show business. And today you can hear hits performed by the new line-up, which, according to critics, is in no way inferior to the original.