Biography of Simonov Butyrka

The history of the Butyrka group begins in September. By this time, the team had several songs at the studio in Voronezh, but there was no name yet. Of all the Moscow recording companies that the musicians turned to, the beginning team became interested only in the company Master Sound, well -known fans of the genre called the Russian Chanson company. Here they were noticed by producer Alexander Abramov, who, in turn, was able to convince the director of the company Yuri Nikolayevich Sevastyanov to pay attention to the group.

Yuri Nikolaevich, who has the richest experience of opening the genre stars Mikhail Krug, Sergey Nagovitsyn and many others gave the “green light” to the release of the debut album. True, the team had no name yet. But after on September 3, several prisoners made a daring escape from the Moscow investigative insulator, known to all under the name Butyrka, Alexander Abramov proposed to name the team.

Everyone liked the name and it took root. The debut "First Album", published in the year, had a stunning success. The original sound, the memorable vocals of Vladimir Zhdamirov, as well as the sincerity of Oleg Simonov’s poems immediately made the team popular. The themes affected by Oleg in verses were understandable and close to those who are familiar with the theme of life behind the barbed wire firsthand.

But there is another feature - the themes of the songs “Butyrki” not only about prison and camps, they have a lot about the fate of ordinary people and history, and they look like stories from their lives. He became a worthy continuation of a successful debut and secured the success of the group. At the presentation of the Public Musical Award “Worthy Song”, held in St.

Petersburg in the Oktyabrsky BKZ, the group won the “Opening of the Year” nomination and was awarded the award for the best video in the Russian Chanson genre for the song “Smell in the spring” dir. To date, the composition of the group looks like this: Vladimir Zhdarov-vocals, the author of music Oleg Simonov-Klavishny, the author of the words Alexander Goloshchapov-bass gitar Yuri Akimov-shock Dmitry Volkov-sound engineer, until recently, Alexander Kalugin was the guitarist, but after Alexander decided to seriously engage in the concert business, the guitarist of the Gaza Gaza Gaza group came to the team.

Glukhov. In the fall, the concert composition of the Botyrka group underwent changes: the Volgograd guitarist Sergey Egorov came to the place of the guitarist Vadim Glukhov, and the drummer Tagira was replaced by Moskvich Yuri Akimov. The Butyrka group conducts active concert activities and has more than once traveled around the cities of Russia from Orel to the find, not forgetting about other states.