Content:
- Introduction
- A prosperous gigolo
- Guitarist in a white coat
- Legend of chanson
Biography of Garik Krichevsky
His generation grew up on the background of communist slogans, dreaming of American jeans. When the TV screens and newspapers are watched by wise leaders who personify "stability", and the home atmosphere is saturated with daring Vysotsky, a child develops in a multifaceted way, learning to think in metaphors from a young age. Garik Krichevsky's songs tell about complicated life in such simple and native words that they become a motif that is on everyone's lips.
His "Kievlanka", "Privokzalnaya", "My Number 245" are more than just hits. They are folk heritage like folklore, only fresher, more relevant and, probably, more heartfelt. Singer Garik Krichevsky sings about what is clear from the first chords and initial lines. His song images are living people, their experiences, cleansed of contrived buffoonery. This is a classical, intelligent chanson, imbued with light energy and warmth of soul.
A prosperous zhigan
The biography of Garik Krichevsky differs from the average Soviet citizen. He was born into a prosperous family of medics (father - dentist, mother - pediatrician) and, most importantly, he was pampered, but not spoiled. His parents saw in the little boy, trying to hum the motifs they heard, not an extension of themselves unfulfilled, but a personality, individuality. However, the heir still followed in his parents' footsteps - he entered medical school and became a doctor, but it was his choice.
Against the background of the scenery
The year of birth Garik Krichevsky falls at the end of the "Khrushchev thaw". In 1963, the country, which returned from Stalin's exile, breathed lively new creative names. Brezhnev's stagnation tried to drown out their bright glow so that they would not question the communist "paradise" with their ideas and beautiful emotions. This is how the principle of doublethink came into being, when people who continued to think for themselves learned to express themselves with metaphors.
Notes instead of phrases
Future singer, chansonnier, Garik Krichevsky (if officially - Georgy Eduardovich) early demonstrated musical talent: according to his parents, a one-year-old boy could not yet speak, but he was already singing. Instead of lullabies, he fell asleep to the music of "forbidden performers", so it is not surprising that at one of the children's matinees Garik sang lines from the song by Yuz Aleshkovsky (about "freedom and nights in prison"), which were considered to be a crime at that time.
Tests of pen, keys, strings
Garik Krichevsky's first musical instrument was the piano. His teacher in this specialty treated teaching formally "without a spark". Probably, that is why the attention of the lively cheerful boy switched to the six-string guitar, which he was seriously interested in in the seventh grade. Around the same time his talent for composing awoke. The first songs were, as it is common among teenagers, about love, but without the dreary dreariness, and with attempts to use pleasant metaphors and images.
Passion for music is combined with sports; the ability to stand up for yourself - a prerequisite if the boy wants to be respected. The creativity of the adult singer contains echoes and obvious references to backyard romance, but there are no intrusive "blatnye" themes. All the same, an intelligent upbringing and a higher medical education is an influence. But in the biography of Garik Krichevsky there is an experience of contact with life without embellishments.
Guitarist in a white coat
Having failed to enter the institute at the first time, he gets the work experience necessary for re-entry by getting a job as an orderly. First had to work in a psychiatric hospital, then Garik Krichevsky transferred to the ambulance. In parallel, the musician continues to play bass guitar in a vocal-instrumental ensemble.
VIA - a universal format that allowed creative personalities, including those with an informal vision of reality, to get at least some legal status. Garik Krichevsky since school was a member of a youth ensemble, and in his student years his passion for music more and more clearly acquired the contours of a vocation. But the singer, guitarist and student saw himself as a doctor; after graduation he works as an X-ray technician, planning to make a career as a gastroenterologist. It didn't work out, he had to choose.
Between two spaces
"Musical choice" contributed to the political events that were taking place in the country. In 1991, Garik Krichevsky's personal life "legalized": his wife became a girl named Angela - a colleague in his medical work. The August putsch caught the young couple at a crossroads: thoughts, orientations, priorities. They first went to Germany for a trial visit, and then with a residence permit.
With the German period in the singer's life are associated with the first creative successes of "high sample". In 1992, Garik Krichevsky and his musical team at the Kiev studio "Audio Ukraine" recorded a music album, songs from which were distributed by "tape pirates" throughout the Union. A special success accompanied the composition, which was included in the playlist by chance: "Kiyevlyanka" was rejected by the general decision for "frivolity", but was accidentally included in the playlist during the recording. This accident turned out to be fateful.
The legend of chanson
Then there was all-Union recognition, folk "yard" hits, a busy tour schedule. Garik Krichevsky - Honored Artist of Ukraine and repeatedly - "The best chansonnier of the year" for his soulful songs:
- "Lviv Rain";
- "She is so beautiful";
- "Tanya-dzhan";
- "Test for Love";
- "My Number 245";
- "Privokzalnaya";
- "There is only you."
The singer himself believes that the main achievement of his life - children, which he has two: Victoria and Daniel. Garik Krichevsky is open for communication. In 2018, he celebrated his 55th birthday, but on stage he "tears the hall", as in the days of his musical youth. The catalog of artists on Kontramarka.de presents this wonderful man, an extraordinary personality, a romantic and his own philosopher. The singer is still open to offers, performs a lot, tours and is preparing - the recording of a new album. The latest news about the tour schedule and concerts of the famous chansonnier in Germany can be found on the website kontramarka.de.
