Sergey Chigrakov: biography, personal life, family, career

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

Those "who cares" are well aware of the work of the group "Chizh and Co", popular at the end of the last century, but now a little slowed down. However, not everyone knows that Chizh is the founder of the gang, Sergei Chigrakov, and only a few know his biography. This egregious oversight should be corrected.

Early years

The future star, hope and legend of Russian rock was born in the city of the chemical industry - Dzerzhinsk, Gorky region. The family was completely ordinary - both dad and mom had a relationship with the chemical industry. Brother Volodya was already growing up in the family, several years older than little Seryozha.

Seryozha showed his creative inclinations from childhood. Perhaps the atmosphere of music that the boy was surrounded by from a very young age had an effect: his elder brother Volodya was very fond of music, played the guitar, and performed with his own team. Probably, the genes played in Serezha as well.

Being still a very tiny, five-year-old youth, Seryozha began to go to a music school,practice accordion. For those six years that he devoted to the musician, the elder brother Volodya had already managed to go to the army and return from it. And when he returned and saw that his younger brother was actively and, most importantly, willingly engaged in music, Vladimir decided to teach him how to play the guitar.

First performance experience

It took about three years for the grown-up Sergey to more or less professionally master the instrument. By the age of fourteen, Chigrakov Jr. was already confidently holding an instrument in his hands. Since that time, Volodya began to take Sergei to play with him in a group. Sergei Chigrakov periodically played along with his brother on the guitar, and also replaced absent musicians if necessary.

It was during this period that the nickname "Chizh" was firmly stuck to Sergei and remained with him for the rest of his life. Interestingly, Chigrakov Jr. also inherited it from his older brother: at first, teammates called Volodya that way, but when Sergei appeared in the group, the nickname gradually migrated to him.

Music connected us

In addition to the music school, graduated as a teenager, Sergei Chigrakov studied at the music school. Already in childhood, he firmly decided to connect his life with music, and therefore it was logical to enter just such an educational institution. It is interesting that Seryozha was initially expelled from the music school of his native city. He behaved in an inappropriate way, skipped - in general, kicked the bullshit, as they say. However, he was able to subsequently take up the mind,recover at school and even graduate with excellent grades.

At about the same time (maybe a little earlier) Chizh sang for the first time. The first work he performed turned out to be a song by Alexander Gradsky. It happened at one of the band's performances, thanks to which it turned out that Serezha has not only a good ear for music, but also a voice.

Leningrad

Chigrakov Jr. was in the northern capital for the first time in his life in the eighty-second year of the last century. He came here to enter the Institute of Culture. And he entered, choosing the department of orchestral conducting.

During his life in Leningrad (that "first" life), Sergei Chigrakov (pictured) managed, in addition to studying at the Leningrad Institute of Culture, to go to the army for two years, return, leave for distribution to work in Kultprosvet, work as a drummer in a jazz studio at the conservatory. And also to compose some new songs.

After all the above events, Sergei Chigrakov suddenly decided that Peter was a little not for him. And he returned home to his native Dzerzhinsk.

At home

At home, the future leader of "Chizh" polished his shoes and went straight to the very school - to work as a teacher of music and singing. At the same time, the aspiring artist worked part-time, performing at various events with a gypsy ensemble, and very soon he made a name for himself in the local musical environment.

At that time the GPA group was popular in Dzerzhinsk ("Group of extendeddays"). Sergey managed to work at school for about six months, when the GPA invited him to become a member of their team. Chigrakov accepted the offer without hesitation. However, he did not stay long in the team: chance or fate-a joker brought him to a group performing punk, with exactly the same same name. However, that band was from Kharkov. They lured Sergey to them. In the eighty-ninth year, Chigrakov, as a member of the GPA from Ukraine, moved to Kharkov. It was there, as part of this group, that the songs of Sergey Chigrakov began to sound from the stage for the first time and spread massively The start was given.

Leningrad: part two

Sergey lived for several years in Kharkov, working with the GPA team. However, by that time they were already called "Different People" - the band changed its name shortly after Sergey joined the group. However, in the ninety-third year, Chigrakov seriously thought about two things: moving to St. Petersburg and creating his own musical team. Both of these were accomplished by the summer of 1994. Thus, June ninety-four can be considered the date of birth of the legendary team. By this time, Sergei Chigrakov was already familiar with the entire St. Petersburg musical crowd, including the legendary BG. Things have moved on…

Should I sing a song

One of the most famous and beloved songs - the song "About Love" - was released on the album of the same name by Sergei Chigrakov associates in the ninety-fifth year. But even before him, the debut album Live (recordings from the concert) and the first studio disc called"Crossroads". After the ninety-fifth year, "Chizh and company" appeared four more studio albums and three live ones, and the latest of all was released in the ninety-ninth year.

Since then, for almost twenty years now, the group has not released new discs, although they are recording new tracks, shooting videos and actively touring. In addition, solo work is very common in the team - both Chizh himself and his musicians release their own songs or songs in company with a variety of performers. Chizh is doing the same at the present time.

A little more about love

In the biography of Sergei Chigrakov, his personal life deserves special mention. On the personal front, the musician is no less turbulent.

He is married for the third time. The first wife, Marina, appeared in her student days at the Dzerzhinsk Music College. The young couple had a son, Misha, and everything was fine, but three years later, Sergei fell in love with Marin's classmate Olga, who was his fan. Chigrakov lived with Olga, who gave him a daughter, Dasha, for fifteen years.

And then - it was not in vain that it was said above that the personal life of Sergei Chigrakov is very stormy - history repeated itself. The musician fell in love with his admirer Valentina, twenty years younger than him. In this marriage, the son of Kolya was born.

Interesting facts about Chizha

Even in the army, Sergei Chigrakov composed music and lyrics.

1. Boris Grebenshchikov helped Sergei record his first solo album in1993.
2. Musician's patronymic - Nikolaevich.
3. The song "About Love" was written by Oleg Tarasov. It was subsequently performed by Chizh in the film "Poor Sasha" (directed by Tigran Keosayan).
4. Sergey calls himself a do not care.
5. Believes that the best city is St. Petersburg, and the best listeners are in it.
6. Sergey is a multi-instrumentalist. He can play thirty musical instruments at once, including, in addition to the guitar, drums, piano and accordion, balalaika, domra, harmonicas and so on.
7. He is a rare connoisseur of jokes.
8. The musician, in addition to "legitimate" children, has an illegitimate son named Vlad. According to rumors, he was born in 1984 and is also a musician.
9. Aquarius by Zodiac sign, like his current wife Valentina.

• With older brother Volodya, the difference is nine years.
• The song by Alexander Gradsky, which Sergey chose for his debut performance as a singer, was called "Blue Forest".
• Served in the army in the Latvian port town of Ventspils.
• He is a rather laconic but not reserved person.
• Thinks that artists and music in general should be out of politics.
• He likes small towns like Dzerzhinsk and especially to perform in them.
• At school, he was an excellent student until the fifth grade.

This is the biography of Sergei Chigrakov, frontman of the group "Chizh and Co".