Singer Alexey Chumakov Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Alexei Chumakov - a singer, a musician, a presenter and screenwriter Childhood and family Alexei Chumakov was born in Samarkand, a pearl of Uzbekistan. The boy’s mother, Lilia Avanesovna, worked as a physiotherapist. Father, Georgy Georgievich Chumakov, worked as a designer and led the restoration of the Samarkand Cathedral of St.

Alexy of Moscow. Aleksey Chumakov in the childhood of his brother, the artist is called Sergey, he is 12 years older than Alexei, now he lives in Tyumen and works as an engineer of sound recording. It was he who taught Lesha, by nature of a quiet and calm boy, as Sergei said in an interview, in childhood, Alexei even had the nickname “Home Pie”, to give the offenders Alexei Chumakov with his parents and brother, Alexei began to sing at the age of five.

In order to develop the boy’s abilities, his parents sent him to a music school, to a class of percussion instruments and percussion; Later he independently mastered the guitar. Southern temperament, congenital charm and leadership qualities helped Alexei at the first school concerts. He often acted as a soloist and presenter, was the organizer of events.

In addition, in school years, Alexei became interested in basketball and kickboxing, participated in the productions of the puppet theater. For about five years, the family lived in a private house, about which Alexei had unpleasant memories. The singer is sure that the poltergeist lived there: family members felt the presence of outsiders, heard strange sounds and rustles, objects by themselves fell to the floor.

Later they learned that the house was built in the territory in which suicide was buried many years ago. This experience of Alexei described in his art book “In Search of Ghosts”. When Alexei turned 13, the family moved to Tyumen. The poltergeist has nothing to do with it - in Uzbekistan, persecution of national grounds began. At first, they had to grip through the rented houses with terrible living conditions: there was no sewage and central heating in the first house, the second had to be divided with still families, moreover, there was not even a water supply, not to mention amenities.

Having weighed all the pros and cons, the Chumakov decided to move to the hostel. Let them have to huddle in a five -year -old if you count the dog in the meter room, at least there were a toilet, shower and kitchen. The first steps to success at 11 years old, Alexei Chumakov began to write songs and create his own arrangements. With one of the copyright works, the song was called “Yellow Leaves” he won at the city contest “Morning Star”.

Alexei Chumakov and his mother Lilia Avanesovna parents brought Alexei an independent and hardworking person. The Chumakov himself earned pocket money as a schoolboy: he traded in the market with vegetables and fruits, helped the renovation team, and on the holidays he took on the painting of summer cottages. Alexey Chumakov and his Don Sphinx nicknamed Gucci at the age of 14, Chumakov first appeared before the general public - already in Tyumen, at the bottom of the city.

He gave his first fee to his parents: thousands of rubles, which, in terms of modern money, would be about a hundred rubles. Later, the young man met the director of the local puppet theater, who part -time led the concert hall, where the Tyumen traditionally held banquets. He appreciated the strong voice of Alexei and offered to entertain the audience. Alexei Chumakov in his youth and now Chumakov began to perform at city discos.

At first he called the organizers and offered the services himself, later they began to invite him. He performed covers on other people's songs and his own.

At the same time, Alexei did not have professional musical education, he did not even know a notate letter, but acted on a hunch. With difficulty, he accumulated money for the Ensoniq TS 10 synthesizer, which at that time was considered very “sophisticated”, and began to create his arrangements. From the age of 14, a musically gifted guy was sitting in the jury of local talent contests.

He himself participated, for example, the jury of the “Step” contest once recognized Alexei the best composer of the year. After graduating from the middle classes of the school, Alexei entered the vocal department of the Higher College of Arts, and a year later he transferred to the correspondence conduct of the conductor-core department to the Tashkent Higher College of Arts, which he successfully graduated in the year.

Alexey Chumakov dances Polka these years turned out to be difficult: every free minute Alexey composed music and arrangements, simultaneously performing in restaurants and clubs. As the singer himself admitted, it was a great school that needs to be passed to everyone who decided to connect their life with the stage, because not only talent, but also hard work loves success and recognition.

Aleksey Chumakov, in his youth, the singer had a whole collection of awards, but he was not going to rest on laurels, so he mastered the specialties of a make-up artist, art manager and musical producer, found a sponsor and conducted the first tour in Yekaterinburg. It was like this: in the year, Chumakov wrote a song and gave it to a friend of DJ, who put the composition on the air, she was heard by the entrepreneur Stanislav Nagaev, who was living in another city, who believed in the musical talent of Alexei.Having recognized the author of the song, Nagaev found Alexei and absolutely freely shot a short documentary about a young performer.

The video cassette was seen by producer Evgeny Friedland. For some time, Chumakov collaborated with him as part of the Alice musical, but later the producer began to produce the Prime Minister and Boris Moiseev. Five years have passed. Friedland undertook to produce the television singing contest "People's Artist" and invited Chumakov to the casting. The young man did not think for a second, but immediately went for a ticket.

The colossal experience accumulated over the years of his life helped him pay the attention of the jury - Anton Komolov and Larisa Valley - and go through a competitive selection. Alexei Chumakov in the “People’s Artist” The whole three finalists, to whom the winner of the second season of “People’s Artist” Ruslan Alekhno joined the year later, began to cooperate with the production center of the FBI Music Fridlyand.

In the year, Chumakov released the first studio album “Dreams of something larger”, which included 13 songs, including the hit “I'm going crazy from you”. Critics called the material “quite high-quality pop music of the American model”, especially highlighting the composition “Stop” and “It was and will be”. In April, he went to his first foreign tour and gave several concerts in Germany.

Chumakov and Panayotes - Balalaika at the end of the year, the label began to endure losses, and the artists one by one began to leave Friedland. Alekhno was the first to leave, and after him the Chumakov. To questions about the reasons for such a decision, he answered from now on he wants to steer the creative process from and to. According to the singer, they and Friedland remained on friendly relations.

The solo career was the first after a break with Eugene Album only in the year, seven years after the first. It’s just that the singer was seriously carried away by writing and acting projects, he was a private guest on television, but he never forgot the music: he slowly worked on a new album, and also wrote songs for other performers, for example, he composed the Hit “Angels” for Boris Moiseev.

Such is Alexey. ” Alexey Chumakov and Michael Bolton - “Here and there” on March 12 of the year, the presentation of the second solo album of Alexei “Here and there” took place. The recording was attended by the composer and musician Richie Peni, who worked with many overseas celebrities. With dignity interrupting the silence, Alexei again plunged into shooting on television.

But the most important event of the year, he considers marriage to Julia Kovalchuk, which we will tell in more detail in the section "Personal Life". In the summer of the year, the couple presented a joint song “Notes”, they themselves shot a clip on it, which was awarded the RUTV TV channel. In honor of this event, the first solo concert of the artist took place in the Krocus City Hall arena.

Alexey Chumakov: The first solo concert television after success at the People's Artist contest Alexei quickly turned into one of the most recognizable TV presenters in Russia. In the year, Chumakov signed a contract with the Russia TV channel and, together with Elena Vorobei, became the face of the show “Secret of Success” by the Russian version of the British project “Factor X”, which opened Zhenya Otradny.

Since the year, Alexei Chumakov, a permanent guest on TV in the year, Chumakov participated in the reality “King of the Ring”, in which the stars go into the ring and fight each other in boxing gloves. Alexei fought with actor Vladimir Epifantsev and injured his finger in the first duel. Later he had to go to battle with the actors Evgeny Dyatlov and Alexander Nosik. Due to the injury, the fights ended with a technical knockout: a terrible pain pierced the hand, and the battle was stopped.

His co -host was Edgar Zapashny, already familiar to the singer on the King of the Ring. In the year, the program took place: Chumakov left the place of the host instead of him Vladimir Zelensky and Philip Kirkorov, Alla Pugacheva became the chairman of the jury, and the name of the program changed to the original to the original, only in respect for the primadonna instead of the letter “X” appeared in the header “A”.

Chumakov returned in the second season, but did not extend the contract for a third part of the show. Alexei Chumakov at the Factor A was a very busy year for Alexei, even if you leave the release of a new album and marriage to Yulia Kovalchuk behind the brackets. A lot of time took part in the new project “Channel One” - the “one to one” reincarnation show.

Chumakov shocked the audience with a resemblance to Stevie Uander, Ilya Lagutenko, Boris Moiseev and even Montserrat Kabalier, and as a result, according to the results of the audience vote, he became the winner of the first season, significantly ahead of the main rivals: Timur Rodriguez and Julia Savichev. After participating in “one to one”, Alexei Chumakov did not manage to agree to the proposals sprinkled with hail from the television channels.

As a result, he, along with Julia Kovalchuk, led the entertaining show “Who is from above? Alexei Chumakov, Alexei Chumakov, wrote his first script about the “One to one” project and scriptwriter, and later with the help of a familiar clipmed Kirill Kotelnikov, he shot him “Alien sunset” in the final version of the “mud”. The picture was shot in the Zombie-Trash genre and never went out in a wide rental.

The manuscript was lost and not published. The presentation of the first book of Alexei Chumakov in the year on the Russian book market was published by the first novel by Alexei Chumakov, a mystical novel “In Search of Ghosts”. As the author of the work said, at the beginning of the writer's career he was inspired by Stephen King. I am with irony with my own brainchild and still cannot accept the fact that my book may be interesting to someone, besides me, the presentation of the new book of Alexei Chumakov was held in the year-the artist presented a mystical thriller called "47".

The work was presented in the form of the diaries of a young man who rose to his neighbor’s apartment for his misfortune, which forever changed his life. The connoisseurs of the genre accepted the novel Heat, the impression ruined only the low quality of the press, and the writer's talent was compared with the skill of Dean Kunts. The couple became one of the most recognizable in the domestic media space and even got the title of “couples” according to the Glamor magazine, but their relationship began not at all like in a fairy tale.

Alexei Chumakov and Julia Kovalchuk - “A couple of the year”, as Alexei had repeatedly told, he and Julia have been colleagues on the stage and have known each other for a long time, from those times when Kovalchuk performed with the “brilliant”, and he only began the path to glory. They often saw behind the scenes, on the set, but there was no talk of “love at first sight”.

Alexey Chumakov and Julia Kovalchuk on vacation, future spouses began to communicate closely after Julia's participation in the project “Dances on Ice”. At first, Alexey invited the girl to his solo concert, then she called him to a party with her friends. Young people found out that they had a lot in common - both began their careers from the bottom and achieved everything exclusively on their own.

5 years passed before Alexey made his favorite offer, because for a happy relationship, the stamp in the passport is not at all required. In November, Julia Kovalchuk showed a engagement ring that appeared on a ring finger. Soon, the young secretly signed the registry office, and the wedding ceremony was held in Spain, where Julia and Alexei had their own apartments.

Only a dozen of the closest people came to the wedding of Kovalchuk and Chumakova. Photo from the wedding of Alexei Chumakov and Julia Kovalchuk Chumakov and Kovalchuk have always been an amazingly harmonious couple and often pleased the audience with joint creativity. For example, in the year, lovers presented the joint composition “Notes”, the video for which was shot by Julia and Alexei, without the help of professional operators.

And in the year, the couple appeared in the romantic comedy “I will urgently get married”, where their characters survived all the stages of the relationship - from hatred to love. In September, Alexei and Julia became parents.