Chizh biography

From it you will find out where this group came from the Russian stage, how Sergey’s life came from before the acquisition of fame and glory. When creating this document, I was based on the various interviews of Chizh, the main part of the text, and make excerpts from them, are scored by fat font, i.e. Sergey tells you about myself, I only streamline and direct his words. At the very end, a list of all the sources used is given.

Sergey Nikolaevich Chigrakov was born on February 6 in the city of Dzerzhinsk, the Gorky region in a family of workers. It is better known as the "Chizh". Dad is a worker, mom - too. So - I was born workers in Dzerzhinsk and lived there for up to twenty -eight years. Dzerzhinsk is a very "chemical" city, somewhere next to such factories, it is unlikely that anyone would have lived.

But pollution is only one side of the coin. The other is that people simply had nothing to do there. Therefore, the only entertainment was to "wave" the street outside. But I did not participate in such showdowns in inheritance: I have a brother Volodya, who is nine years older than me. In our hometown of Dzerzhinsk, friends always called him a sister.

And when I grew up, I got the nickname. Volodya played rock in a group on the guitar and was a respected man in the city. Many tried to invite his group to dancing and weddings. Therefore, it was even honorable to become a Chizh Jr.. I also learned to play the guitar. And one of the main praises that he cherished in childhood were the words: “Listen, Chizh, and your brother is also fine!

From the age of 14 he performs with his brother in local ensembles, replacing one of the musicians. The first time I played somewhere in the year M or M. I played the guitar in the ensemble, where the older brother played. There was a Gradsky Song of the Blue Forest. And the music school. Then he began to play in restaurants, on banquets. They are the parents themselves-approx. I ran, played football, like all normal boys.

And here - bam, a music school, the most interesting thing that all this captured me, and I became a real fan of the accordion, and rushed for absenteeism and poor performance. Roughly speaking, I did not behave quite correctly, that is, I had such love, more precisely not love, is it now difficult to say how much was to me then? 18 years, go, or 17, no well, and, of course, began to skip.

I was kicked out later, however, they restored. Actually, I finished the school well: in specialty 5, in conducting 5; They gave me a direction to go further, although at one time they said that, they say, such people, drunks of alcoholics and rowdy, we do not need a school. But while I was kicked out, by the way, I didn’t lose time either. I worked in taverns and played rock with a share of irony - approx.

In such a speech, there was a “roof” and no one touched me: I played for bandits of a local scale.

But still he was insured: he came to the concert with weapons. For the first time he got to St. Petersburg in the year, entered the Leningrad State Institute of Culture named after Krupskaya at the Department of Orchestra conduct and folk instruments in the class "Accordon and orchestral conducting". Then, having graduated from the school, he moved to St. Petersburg and entered Ligik the Leningrad Institute of Culture and also finished him in the conduct of conducting and the accordion.

And he worked in the specialty. Cults of work. The department is folk instruments. There I played on the accordion, on the balalaika, on Domra, on the drums, I am a populist. We called it "populist"! In gg. I tried to mate from the army. But he tried somehow sluggishly and they say: “Well, you are sick? They say:“ Come on. ”I say:“ Well, that's okay.

”And that's all. And-the city of Ventspils. I served in the tank regiment, in Ventspils. Almost the occupier. The younger sergeant Chigrakov arrived on your order! I had a small guitar, I did not find it, and I wrote songs. Then he worked as a part of the army in my hometown by a teacher of music and singing, and also played with a gypsy ensemble at weddings. Later he got into the local group - GPD.

I worked out at school for about six months. At that time, I was already a rather noticeable face, but only among the musicians, but no one knew, of course. Well, since a new person came from the army and plays quite decently - let's chop the team. The guitarist found me, then we found a bassist and drummer. A "extended day group" appeared. It was at the beginning. We made the first program, in the style of hard rock.

Local critics christened us with "metallists." And then there was a fashion at the peak at the Havi-Metal. And the youth pinned us. I got into it in the year 85, just came from the army.I did not write much songs for the GPD, although there was no so -called leader in the group. Havi -Meadal played, but in this style I did not work with the songs. In March, at the 3rd Gorky Rock Festival on stage, he suddenly met a group of the same name from Kharkov.

In Gorky for the first time, I heard the Kharkov Gapdeshnikov. My friend was from Kharkov. At the festival, I ask him: "Who brought? “And what is they playing? Well, I went to Pankov to listen. I listened, and I just mistaken met the GPD, they were still called on some fest that we had. Then the festiv was rock against, Rock against this, Rock against Rock himself, parallel to study in Ligika, who finished in the Dzhazova Studios of Leningrad-aside-as The drummer, and then all the time met in the neutral territory in St.

Petersburg, where I studied at LGIK now, this is an academy of culture at the orchestral department.