Biography:

Alexander Aleksandrovich Shevchenko  ( July 22 , 1961 , Mary – December 25, 2022 ) – Soviet and Russian pop singer, producer, musician, composer.

Early years

Alexander Shevchenko was born on July 22, 1961 in the city of Mary , in the Kara-Kum desert near the border with Afghanistan . Father Alexander Mikhailovich is an officer, mother Alla Alekseevna is a music teacher. At the age of 12, after his family moved to Leningrad , Alexander wrote his first song.

Career

From 1974 to 1979 he participated in the Phaeton group, from 1979 to 1982 in the Frisbee group, graduated from Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after. Herzen . Then he lived and worked in the Yakut taiga in the village of Chulman , where the first solo program “Duality” was born.

From 1989 to 1991 – lead singer of the Zodchie group .

Alexander Shevchenko became famous after the release in 1997 of the album of his group “Deja-vu” “ Everything will be as you want ” (the song of the same name became a hit ).

After the 1998 crisis, he became a producer . Among its “graduates” are such famous performers as Alena Sviridova and Alsou .

He wrote songs for the English group “CLEA” and released his first solo album “Nothing More” [1] . The announcement for the album was the only concert in Moscow in the spring of 2010 “I won’t look for you” [2] .

Death

He died on December 25 , 2022 at the age of 62. The cause of death was a detached blood clot [3] .

The farewell to the musician took place on December 29, 2022, the funeral service took place in the Church of the Resurrection of the Word in Moscow. The artist was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery [4] [5] .

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