Group "Bravo". Aguzarova, Syutkin, Lenz

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

The history of the Moscow beat-group "Bravo", like any other, which played music unconventional for the official Soviet stage, is characterized by both the unrelenting control of the party-administrative bodies, and constant changes in the composition, as well as close contacts with other informal musicians.

"PS" - "Bravo"

So, the future leader of "Bravo" Yevgeny Khavtan begins his musical career in 1982 in the group "Postscriptum" by Garik Sukachev, who then played a new wave. Some time later, in 1983, Garik Sukachev left the team, and his first future star soloist Zhanna Aguzarova, who had previously sung in the band Amanita, banned by the KGB, joined the ensemble.

The ensemble changes its name to "Bravo" and begins to play a beat, performing in palaces of culture, institutes and schools. At the end of the year, the group's first unofficial magnetic album appeared, but already on March 18, 1984, the participants were detained by police officers right at the concert. The Bravo group is on the banned list, and Zhanna Aguzarova is arrested for several months due to problems with documents, and then expelled fromMoscow.

Peak of popularity

The band is changing line-up and has practically ceased touring, doing only rehearsals and occasional home gigs.

Since 1985, the situation with unofficial music in the country has significantly softened, and musicians as an amateur group are invited to the newly created Moscow rock laboratory, which has the right to organize official concerts. Zhanna Aguzarova returns to the team, and very soon Alla Pugacheva begins to patronize the group, by that time she had already become the first star of the Soviet stage and a popular favorite.

It is she who invites the guys to the most prestigious music festivals, and then to television. In 1986, Bravo acquired the status of a professional philharmonic group, and in 1987, their first official disc was released on Melodiya, consisting of songs from 3 magnetic albums released by that time and sold in the amount of 5 million copies.

Syutkin and Lenz

The Bravo group is at the peak of popularity, but in 1988 Zhanna Aguzarova leaves it, preferring to pursue a solo career. The team remains famous, gives concerts. However, due to the fact that the soloists of the Bravo group are constantly changing, the success of the team is not growing.

This continues until 1990, when Valery Syutkin, a talented composer, memorable vocalist and artist, joins the team. "Bravo" again takes off to the top of popularity - gives more than 1 thousand subscribers.concerts, releases the albums Stilyagi from Moscow, Moscow Beat and Road in the Clouds, which became the most popular in the discography that the Bravo group had.

Syutkin in 1994, again, for the sake of a solo career, leaves the team. He is replaced by Robert Lenz. Together with his arrival, the audience of quite numerous fans of the ensemble is already becoming constant, and ever younger, which gives the group the opportunity to give an acceptable number of concerts and release new singles and albums.

Change of direction

The creative activity of the group is also changing - now, in parallel with their work in Bravo, they are engaged in solo projects, perform songs by other authors and invite other composers to their concerts.

Musicians, together with guest stars, celebrate 20 and 25 years of work in the Kremlin and become one of the most profitable concert bands in the country, and their participation in major rock festivals only increases the number of their fans, and from among those who have not yet was born when the group "Bravo" began its activities. The ensemble continues to release albums, including with the participation of foreign producers, but very rarely: "Fashion" - in 2011, and "Forever" - only in 2015

Nevertheless, the Bravo team is not forgotten by fans - many songs are constant hits on radio and television.