Alexander Shaganov is the country's most sought-after songwriter

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

There are not so many songwriters in our country, but few people know them anyway. We love songs and performers, but we usually do not even pay attention to who is the author of the poems.

Early years

Poet Alexander Shaganov was born in Moscow in 1965, in an ordinary family. Among close and distant relatives of Sasha there were no people of the creative profession. After leaving school, he entered the Electrotechnical Institute of Communications and graduated in 1987. He dreamed of entering the Gorky Literary Institute, but it was almost impossible. And the communications institute was next to the house, and there was a military department. Then for some time he worked in his profession - a telecommunication engineer and a sound recording operator.

Even at school, in the third grade, Alexander began to write poetry. At the age of 14, he already knew exactly what he wanted - to write songs to be sung. And his poems sounded - so far only in school ensembles.

How it all began

After graduating from the institute, Alexander Shaganov did not leave his dream of becoming a songwriter. He began to go to various concerts, met famous performers and offered them his poems. But, as a rule, they already had authors,and the young, unknown poet was of no interest to anyone.

Alexander was lucky - he was given the phone number of Dmitry Varshavsky, who was the founder of the very young Black Coffee group. Right on the phone, Shaganov read him his poems "Vladimir Rus", which the interlocutor liked very much. The song became a number one hit in a matter of days.

Shaganov and the Lube group

After this success, Alexander Shaganov gained some fame. During the years of perestroika, when many musical groups fell apart, he met Igor Matvienko. He was just starting to work with Nikolai Rastorguev and created a group for him. A good writer was needed. They became Alexander Shaganov. To this day, he fruitfully works with the Lube group and wrote about 100 songs for it. They are all immensely loved by the people - "Atas!", "Combat", "Come on for …", "There, beyond the mists."

Besides "Lube", Alexander wrote poetry for many other musicians. His cooperation was especially warm with Evgeny Belousov and Dmitry Malikov. The debut song of the young singer Malikov "Until tomorrow" brought him a resounding success. For Zhenya, "Girl-girl" was written, which became his hallmark.

When Igor Matvienko started his new project "Ivanushki International", Alexander Shaganov wrote one of the group's songs - "Clouds".

Now he is rightfully called the best songwriter of the country and is actively working with new singers - Katya Lel, Danko, Anita Tsoi. His long-standing collaboration with Dima Malikov continues. Oneof Shaganov's songs was even performed by Alla Borisovna Pugacheva together with Sergei Chelobanov.

How are poems created?

The poet spends a lot of time in the country. He and his wife bought it after the birth of their daughter. Shaganov says that he is best able to compose poetry in peace and quiet. He can walk all day and carry the idea of a song in his head, think it over. And closer to the night, when everyone is sleeping, he writes down poetry. In the dacha, where it is always quiet, most of the material for the songs was written.

Shaganov released two collections of his poems and an autobiographical book "I am Shaganov in Moscow", in which he spoke quite frankly about himself. The decision to write it was dictated by the idea that someday such a book - a biography of the poet - would still be written, but many facts would be presented incorrectly. To exclude the possibility of lying about his life, Alexander decided to tell the whole truth about himself.

Shaganov Alexander: the family of a great poet

Wife Katya and daughter Liza are the closest and favorite people of the poet. Katya is an artist, now her works are presented in galleries in Moscow. She also designed her husband's autobiography book.

Daughter Liza, in addition to regular school, is also studying at the music school. Shaganov's daughter loves dearly, and in his book a lot of pages are dedicated to her.

Songwriter Alexander Shaganov turns 50 next year. And he dedicated most of them to his favorite art.