Igor Kupriyanov is not only Black Coffee

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

Igor Kupriyanov became widely known during the time of the Black Coffee group, but the two leaders did not get along in one team, and the musician finally found his way. He founded a successful solo project, which was called "Caffeine" on the cover of the first vinyl, but later the name became consonant with his own name.

Biography

Kupriyanov Igor Evgenievich was born on November 16, 1959 in Moscow. At the age of 13, he already created his own group called Bottlenose Dolphins, in which he began to sing and play the guitar. But apparently, something went wrong, and soon Igor put together a new team, Arsis, whose activities were interrupted by the need for the guys to repay their debt to the Motherland. When Kupriyanov successfully served in the army, a new project called "Rockappetite" was born. An interesting fact is that each of his bands were quite popular during their active years.

Black Coffee

Once, back in 1986, Igor Kupriyanov decided to found another project andarranged a casting for musicians. It was then that he met Kostyl (guitarist from Metal Corrosion), who, like everyone else, came to the audition. A new friend brought Igor together with Dmitry Varshavsky, who just needed a bassist and backing vocalist. However, the talented Kupriyanov agreed to this on the condition that he would write and perform some songs himself. Their collaboration lasted four years (1986-1990), and in the USSR "Black Coffee" was a wild success. During this time, the group released four top-grossing albums:

1. "Light Metal" - 1986;
2. Black Coffee - 1987;
3. "Cross the Threshold" - 1988;
4. "Freedom - will" - 1990.

In all songs, pronounced bass parts are clearly heard, which are very masterly beaten. According to a poll by Moskovsky Komsomolets (for 1988), Igor Kupriyanov was one of the top three bass players in the USSR. However, Dmitry Varshavsky “strangled” him creatively, so the talented composer left the band.

Starting solo career

In the 90s, the musician created a new project called "Caffeine", the sound of which was in the genre of melodic hard rock. Igor Kupriyanov became at that time not only a composer, songwriter and arranger, but also produced the project on his own. Then he took part in the show "Stallone Rocks", and filmed a video clip for the lyric composition "Farewell".

A year later, Igor Kupriyanov's album "Attempt to Escape" was released, which sold 900,000 copies throughout the Union. His compositions were filled with romance, so especiallypleased the fair sex. The co-author of the texts is Viktor Kotelevsky, with whom Kupriyanov worked at Arsis. In addition to the art video, two concert videos were shot: "Night Guest" and "Summer Dream Fairy".

Pause and a new "brainchild"

Then followed a period of calm, and in 1995 the White Wind album was presented to the world, which was released with the support of the PolyGram recording studio. In the same year, the musician went to the mini-world football championship, which was held in London especially for representatives of show business. Kupriyanov was a member of the Fortuna team and took an honorable third place.

Violent activity

In 1997, the musician recorded the album "Once and For All", but the default that swept across the country prevented its implementation. However, in the clubs about the new songs of Igor Kupriyanov they found out pretty quickly. Video clips were shot for the compositions “I chose you” and “When I was 15 years old”. Around the same time, the musician tried himself as the host of STS in the show "The Most-Most" and worked hard there for a whole year.

In 2001, the group "Kupriyanov" got an official website, in the creation of which the iwda.group agency took part. In 2003, an album appeared called "Seven Days", which was released under the label "Quadro". The composition has changed again. The disc was released in CD format and is very popular among music lovers.

Smoke over Moscow

Kupriyanov worked for several years on a new album, which nevertheless appeared in 2008. Studio work on "Smoke over Moscow" ofteninterrupted by various tours, concerts and festivals. Therefore, in total, the disc was created for more than four years. In 2006, work began on Adrenaline, and after recording, the group's line-up was once again changed. Then again followed by a stormy concert activity and a visit to the international rock festival in the city of Uzhgorod, in which the legendary "Aria" also took part.

New time

In 2009, connoisseurs of Kupriyanov's work founded the official Russian fan club, whose members enjoy special privileges. In September 2011, Igor's best album was re-recorded under the name "Attempt to Escape", which was a good idea, since the sound mixed from vinyl leaves much to be desired. Some unreleased compositions were also included.

On November 21, 2014, Kupriyanov held a big concert on the occasion of his birthday, and also for the first time presented the world with a new song called "Time". The guests of honor were such rock stars as Vitaly Dubinin, Mikhail Zhitnyakov, Sergey Terentyev, Alik Granovsky, Maxim Udalov, A. Strike and Blonde Ksyu. Recently, the musician and his comrades have been actively involved in concert activities, and it is possible that soon the discography of Igor Kupriyanov will be replenished with a new album.