The Hi-Fi group reunited after ten years. Hi-Fi group: composition, soloist, replacements, style of music and albums Year of formation of the hi-fi group

Hi-Fi history began long before the official date of creation of the team - August 2, 1998 - in the capital of Siberia. It was in Novosibirsk that the future founders of the group, Pavel Yesenin and Eric Chanturia, met and became friends. After numerous musical experiments (some of them, by the way, were very popular among the Novosibirsk and later Moscow public), it was decided to create a group.

Composition of the group:
Timofey Pronkin
Olesya Lipchanskaya

Former members
Mitya Fomin (1998-2009)
Oksana Oleshko (1998-2003)
Tatyana Tereshina (2003-2005)
Ekaterina Lee (2006-2010)
Kirill Kolgushkin (2009-2011)

Important facts:
- the group’s birthday is considered to be August 2, 1998
- the name of the group was invented by the famous image maker Alisher; Hi-Fi (high fidelity) = “highest quality”
- regular authors of “Hi-Fi” are Pavel Yesenin (music) and Eric Chanturia (lyrics)

Awards:

- “Muz-TV Award”

2008, “The most fashionable group” (World Fashion TV)

2005, nomination “Best Dance Project”

- "Golden Gramophone Award"

1999 – “Black Raven”

2000 – “Follow me”

2002 – “Secondary school No. 7”

2004 – “The Seventh Petal”

- “Stopudovy hit”

1999 – “The Homeless Child”;

2000 - “Follow me”;

2004 – “Ticket”

- “Bomb of the Year” (“Boom of the Year”)

2000 - “Follow me”;

2001 - “So Easy”;

2003 – “Secondary school No. 7”;

2004 – “The Seventh Petal”;

2005 – “Ticket”

- “Movement”, 2003

Popov Prize, 2003

Night Life Awards, 2001, nomination “Club Group”

and others…

1998

Clip “Not Given”:

The debut video “Hi-Fi” was filmed on August 2 in the cultural capital of Russia - St. Petersburg. The directors were Eric Chanturia and Alisher. The plot of “Not Given,” like a mirror, reflected the real history of the team: Mitya, Ksyusha and Timofey each went their own way, and then their paths crossed in one short word - “Hi-Fi.” It was on the set of “Not Given” that the group members saw each other for the first time. The guys' first impressions of each other were very contradictory - their characters turned out to be too different. But over time, it became clear that even such polar personalities are quite capable of getting along with each other. Since then, “Hi-Fi” has been considered one of the most friendly groups on the stage.

1999

Video "Street Child"

The filming of the “Besprizornik” video took place on the territory of an active chemical plant: natural scenery was selected in accordance with the nature of the song. The group’s second video clip, “Hi-Fi,” did not leave the top of the charts throughout 1999.

Debut album “First Contact”

The debut album “Hi-Fi” included 11 tracks authored by Pavel Yesenin and Eric Chanturia, including a remix of the band’s most famous song at that time, “Not Given.” The album sold record copies; this is confirmed by the huge number of its pirated versions, individual copies of which can still be found on shelves today.

Clip “About Summer”

They decided to make the video clip of the song “About Summer” as sporty and dynamic as possible, nerves of steel, healthy kidneys, gymnastics, yoga, jogging...

So “Hi-Fi” ended up in the gym. Timofey, Mitya and Oksana arrived on the set to watch the professionals perform and try to set world records on their own. The world charts are ahead, and the new video “About Summer” is setting records on all radio stations in the country. Russia doesn’t know about Sochi 2014 yet...

Clip "Black Raven"

The shooting location for the fourth video of the Hi-Fi group was the ruins of a once famous store in the center of the capital. The plot of the video is somewhat reminiscent of the film “The Matrix”: black suits, a little gloomy, to match the mood of the songs, scenery and a lot of special effects. Keanu Reeves with a bendable spoon in his hands will appear on screens much later, but for now cyberpunk performed by “Hi-Fi”

Album “Reproduction”

The second album “Hi-Fi” includes Pavel Yesenin’s remixes of hits released on the “First Contact” album, as well as 3 previously unreleased songs – “Black Raven”, “About Summer” and “Cuba”.

year 2000

Filming the video “Stupid People”

In the fall of 2000, Hi-Fi released a new song, “Stupid People.” Arthur Gimpel's talent was fully revealed while working on this work. Participants of “Hi-Fi” become angels observing the bustle of earthly life. These shootings became one of the most interesting in the history of the team - they involved special mechanisms with the help of which Timofey, Ksyusha and Mitya were raised to a height of 5-6 floors to create the effect of flight. So these angels still fly somewhere in the sky...

year 2001

Album “Remember”

The third album of the group “Hi-F”i was released in February 2001 and included seven completely new songs, three compositions already known to the public and an electronic sketch for Pavel Yesenin’s favorite game Counter Strike called “Network”. Initially, it was planned to place more slow compositions on the record, but at the last moment the concept was changed in favor of dance tracks.

Remix album “New Collection-2002”, or “D&J remixes”

At the end of 2001, for the first time, the long-standing tradition of “Hi-Fi” was broken - the creation of melodies for the group was not entrusted to Pavel Yesenin. The experiment in the form of creating remixes of the band’s best songs was supported by musicians such as Maxim Fadeev, Yuri Usachev, Evgeny Kuritsyn and others - their original versions of proven hits “Hi-F”i made up the group’s new record called “New Collection-2002”, or "D&J remixes".

2002

Clip “Secondary School No. 7”

In April 2002, the shooting of the fifth video clip of the Hi-Fi group took place. The script was chosen in accordance with the theme of the song: the band members get together and remember the bright moments of their almost four-year collaboration.

The song “Secondary School No. 7” entered the golden circle of Hi-Fi hits and every summer becomes the anthem of all school graduations. There are 4 years left before the opening of the Odnoklassniki website...

Clip "I love"

Following “Secondary School No. 7” “Hi-Fi” they are shooting another video; this time the composition with the eloquent title “I Love” has a video version. The plot of this video differs from the group’s previous filming due to its bold futuristic treatment and tells the story of the love story of a girl from the future.

Album of the best songs “Best”

At the end of 2002, the Hi-Fi group summed up the four years of its existence by releasing an album with a set of the most famous songs, supplementing it with three previously unreleased tracks: “I Love”, “Secondary School No. 7” and “Ole-Ole” ( song-hymn in support of the Russian football team at the 2002 World Cup).

Video bootleg “True Stories”

The video cassette contains the complete set of clips of the group at that time: “Not Given”, “The Homeless Child”, “About Summer”, “Black Raven” and “Secondary School No. 7”; revelations from the participants about five years of work in Hi-Fi and a bonus in the form of recordings of performances on “Song of the Year”.

2003

Changes in the project composition

In March 2003, model Tatyana Tereshina joined the group. The spectacular Tatyana replaced Oksana Oleshko, who decided to devote herself to her family and husband.

Song "The Seventh Petal"

The first song of the updated composition “Hi-Fi”; By order of the group, St. Petersburg animators drew a fabulous video for “The Seventh Petal”, taking into account the theme of the song, but the “Hi-Fi” group did not distribute it further than the official website.

2004

- “Hi-Fi” is recognized as the most rotated group

According to statistics from the tophit.ru portal, the works of the Hi-Fi group are among the most in demand from radio stations. The song “Trouble,” for example, broke all records for the number of hits: in the first day the composition was online, more than 200 radio stations downloaded it.

Clip "Trouble"

Filming of the seventh video “Hi-Fi” took place in a nightclub. The director and scriptwriter was Pavel Yesenin, the band's permanent composer. About 20 actors were involved in the filming of the video, including the travesty show “Birds of Paradise” and the permanent ballet group “Hi-Fi”. The plot is based on a complicated love story; The video was decorated with specially choreographed dance numbers.

The cover version of the hit of the group “Forum” performed by “Hi-Fi” hit all possible charts in the country.

2005 year

Changes in the project composition

In May 2005, the team began searching for a new soloist. The beautiful Tatiana boldly set out on a long voyage on the waves of show business. Having wished Tanya good luck, the producers began to carefully watch the new faces of the capital. The hunt for a “new star” has begun.

The Hi-Fi group is the best dance project of the year

According to the results of TV viewers' voting, the Hi-Fi group was recognized as the best dance project of the year. The team received an award well-deserved for seven years of fruitful activity and opened an account for Muz-TV dishes with plans to earn more than one element of the service.

2006

Changes in the project composition

The New Year began for Hi-Fi with pleasant meetings and new discoveries. While on tour in St. Petersburg, the band members met a girl named Katya, a student in the jazz department of the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts, who was subsequently approved for the role of soloist. The acquaintance took place in a karaoke restaurant, where the artists came to have dinner after their performance; Katya worked there in the show program as a vocalist. Thus, the musical group completed the search for a new member, which had been going on for almost 9 months. Having brought out the “new star,” the producers updated the cast of the ballet, which included four new girls. In such a “raspberry”, preparations began for taking new frontiers.

Clip “Following the Footsteps”

With the new lineup, the Hi-Fi group is recording two songs. For one of these compositions, “Following the Footsteps,” the artists are filming a colorful video in Thailand. The video was directed by the group's producer Eric Chanturia, who presented a dance hit in the road-movie genre, when the main character becomes the road, in the philosophical sense “a certain path” that each of us takes, gaining experience and opening up new opportunities. The group’s positive mood did not change this time either, sun, beaches, joyful faces - this is the path that “Hi-Fi” follows, this is the journey on which they take all their fans.

2007

Song "Right to Happiness"

In 2007, the team began preparing material for a new album. A new song “The Right to Happiness” is being released. At the very beginning of 2008, “The Right to Happiness” entered the playlists of radio stations in Russia and the CIS.

2008

Group “Hi-Fi” – “The most fashionable group” according to “World Fashion TV”

On August 2, 2008, the Hi-Fi group celebrated its tenth birthday. The result: dozens of invariably hit songs, a large number of awards, prizes and prizes, performances at thousands of venues throughout Russia and abroad, a recognizable and beloved image by many.

Clip “The Seventh Petal”

In August, a new video for the “Seventh Petal” remix, filmed by Evgeny Kuritsyn, is released.

Song and video “We are not angels”

In September 2008, a new single “We are not angels” appeared on radio stations, for which a video was shot by the talented Ukrainian director Alan Badoev.

Collection “Best No. 1”

At the same time, “Hi-Fi” selects 17 of the group’s most beloved creations by listeners for a collection of their own best songs. The selected material is sent to Sweden to the studio where the legendary Abba quartet once recorded. Arriving from Scandinavia remixed and mastered, the tracks occupy their designated positions on the record entitled “Best No. 1”.

year 2009

Changes in the project composition

In January 2009, the team was renewed again. But this time the producers are looking for a bright replacement for one of the men of the team. So, during long searches, castings and interviews, young sexy Kirill appears on stage. Kirill's thirst for creativity, original style and open character allow him to quickly become part of Hi-Fi, bringing a bright, positive style.

Song "It's time for us"

New soloist, new hit, new video. Maxim Rozhkov is responsible for the creative work and the picture.

Song and video “Forgotten September”

In September 2009, “Forgotten September” exploded on radio stations, for which a video was shot in October. The director was the group’s permanent composer Pavel Yesenin, who reveals his creative potential from different sides. Pavel’s openness to new knowledge and ability to “see” the best make this video a real event on the country’s music TV channels.

2010

Song “Status “Love”

The group releases a new hit “Status “Love”. “Hi-Fi” status is always positive, so on the social networks “My World”, “Vkontakte”, “Odnoklassniki” and others, a new song quickly spreads and millions of fans of the band put the word “Love” in the “Your Status” column.

Changes in the project composition

New status - new beauty. Newspapers immediately call Olesya the Russian Angelina Jolie. Free, easy-going, loving life, Olesya quickly joins the team without experiencing any difficulties in communicating with the permanent staff.

Olesya spends her 24th spring in the studio, recording female vocal parts for the group’s new album. There is not long to wait for her appearance on the territory of Moscow bohemia, but for now it’s time for business, time for fun….

-song “Time has no power”

The Hi-Fi group, together with 3XL PRO, recorded the audio composition “Time has no power”, which became the soundtrack to Timur Bekmambetov’s new film “Yolki”, for which a video was shot.

2011

–clip “Time has no power” (OST Yolki)

-song “Good Songs”

Changes in the project composition

At the end of April 2011 The lead singer of the Hi-Fi group, Kirill Kolgushkin, made an independent decision and told the other participants that he was going to leave the team because he did not feel that he could be the leader of the group and, accordingly, did not see his future in the group. Since there was no time to resolve the issue of personnel replacement in the project, since May the team has been forced to plan their performances as a duet Timofey and Olesya.

Timofey Pronkin
Olesya Lipchanskaya

The band's songs have repeatedly topped the Russian charts. In 2005, the group became a laureate of the Muz-TV 2005 Award in the category “Best Dance Project”.

Story

Pavel Yesenin himself planned to become the soloist of “Hi-Fi,” but deciding that touring life would not leave time for composing music, he abandoned this idea, and Mitya Fomin became the frontman of the group. However, Yesenin did not like Fomin’s vocals, and he began to sing for him on the group’s recordings.

The official founding date of the group is August 2, 1998. From this day on, artists Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko began working together on filming a video clip for the song “Not Given”. It is noteworthy that until this moment the participants had not crossed paths with each other and were not familiar: Fomin worked as a pediatrician, Pronkin as a stripper in a gay club, Oleshko as an employee of a karaoke bar.

At the end of 2008, against the backdrop of the decline in Hi-Fi’s popularity, Mitya Fomin, tired of “animating” Pavel Yesenin, left the band for a solo career. He is replaced by a new member - Kirill Kolgushkin, but Timofey Pronkin becomes the de facto leader of the group.

In February 2010, Ekaterina Lee announced her departure from the team for “greater self-realization on stage.” Later she became the lead singer of the Fabrika group instead of the departed Sati Casanova. In March 2010, after passing the casting, a new soloist Olesya Lipchanskaya joined the team.

In April 2011, Kirill Kolgushkin announced his intention to leave the team. In February 2012, Vyacheslav Samarin became the new soloist of the group. The band’s repertoire included his song “Don’t Leave,” for which a video was shot. However, Vyacheslav left the group in October of the same year.

Today the Hi-Fi group is a duet of Timofey Pronkin and Olesya Lipchanskaya.

Composition of the group

Discography

• - First contact
• - Reproduction
• - Remember
• - New collection 2002 D&J Remixes
• - Best

Video clips

Awards

"Golden Gramophone Award"

• - “Golden Gramophone” for the song “Black Raven”
• - “Golden Gramophone” for the song “Follow me”
• - “Golden Gramophone” for the song “Secondary School No. 7 (And We Loved)”
• - “Golden Gramophone” for the song “The Seventh Petal”

"Muz-TV Award"

• - “Muz-TV Award” “The most fashionable group” (World Fashion TV)

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Notes

Links

• - official website of the Hi-Fi group
• www.hifigroup.narod.ru/ - Website about the Hi-Fi group
• on "Yandex.Music"

An excerpt characterizing Hi-Fi (group)

The rain passed, only fog and drops of water fell from tree branches. Denisov, Esaul and Petya silently rode behind a man in a cap, who, lightly and silently stepping with his bast-clad feet on roots and wet leaves, led them to the edge of the forest.
Coming out onto the road, the man paused, looked around and headed towards the thinning wall of trees. At a large oak tree that had not yet shed its leaves, he stopped and mysteriously beckoned to him with his hand.
Denisov and Petya drove up to him. From the place where the man stopped, the French were visible. Now, behind the forest, a spring field ran down a semi-hillock. To the right, across a steep ravine, a small village and a manor house with collapsed roofs could be seen. In this village and in the manor's house, and throughout the hillock, in the garden, at the wells and pond, and along the entire road up the mountain from the bridge to the village, no more than two hundred fathoms away, crowds of people were visible in the fluctuating fog. Their non-Russian screams at the horses in the carts struggling up the mountain and calls to each other were clearly heard.
“Give the prisoner here,” Denisop said quietly, not taking his eyes off the French.
The Cossack got off his horse, took the boy off and walked up to Denisov with him. Denisov, pointing to the French, asked what kind of troops they were. The boy, putting his chilled hands in his pockets and raising his eyebrows, looked at Denisov in fear and, despite the visible desire to say everything he knew, was confused in his answers and only confirmed what Denisov was asking. Denisov, frowning, turned away from him and turned to the esaul, telling him his thoughts.
Petya, turning his head with quick movements, looked back at the drummer, then at Denisov, then at the esaul, then at the French in the village and on the road, trying not to miss anything important.
“Pg” is coming, not “pg” is Dolokhov coming, we must fight!.. Eh?” said Denisov, his eyes flashing merrily.
“The place is convenient,” said the esaul.
“We’ll send the infantry down through the swamps,” Denisov continued, “they’ll crawl up to the garden; you will come with the Cossacks from there,” Denisov pointed to the forest behind the village, “and I will come from here, with my ganders. And along the road...
“It won’t be a hollow—it’s a quagmire,” said the esaul. - You’ll get stuck in your horses, you need to go around to the left...
While they were talking in a low voice in this way, below, in the ravine from the pond, one shot clicked, smoke turned white, another, and a friendly, seemingly cheerful cry was heard from hundreds of French voices who were on the half-mountain. In the first minute, both Denisov and the esaul moved back. They were so close that it seemed to them that they were the cause of these shots and screams. But the shots and screams did not apply to them. Below, through the swamps, a man in something red was running. Apparently he was being shot at and shouted at by the French.
“After all, this is our Tikhon,” said the esaul.
- He! they are!
“What a rogue,” Denisov said.
- He will go away! - Esaul said, narrowing his eyes.
The man they called Tikhon, running up to the river, splashed into it so that splashes flew, and, hiding for a moment, all black from the water, he got out on all fours and ran on. The French running after him stopped.
“Well, he’s clever,” said the esaul.
- What a beast! – Denisov said with the same expression of annoyance. - And what has he been doing so far?
- Who is this? – Petya asked.
- This is our plastun. I sent him to take the tongue.
“Oh, yes,” Petya said from Denisov’s first word, nodding his head as if he understood everything, although he absolutely did not understand a single word.
Tikhon Shcherbaty was one of the most necessary people in the party. He was a man from Pokrovskoye near Gzhat. When, at the beginning of his actions, Denisov came to Pokrovskoye and, as always, calling the headman, asked what they knew about the French, the headman answered, as all the headmen answered, as if defending themselves, that they didn’t know anything, to know they don't know. But when Denisov explained to them that his goal was to beat the French, and when he asked if the French had wandered in, the headman said that there were definitely marauders, but that in their village only one Tishka Shcherbaty was involved in these matters. Denisov ordered Tikhon to be called to him and, praising him for his activities, said a few words in front of the headman about the loyalty to the Tsar and the Fatherland and the hatred of the French that the sons of the Fatherland should observe.
“We don’t do anything bad to the French,” said Tikhon, apparently timid at Denisov’s words. “That’s the only way we fooled around with the guys.” They must have beaten about two dozen Miroders, otherwise we didn’t do anything bad... - The next day, when Denisov, completely forgetting about this guy, left Pokrovsky, he was informed that Tikhon had attached himself to the party and asked to be left with it. Denisov ordered to leave him.
Tikhon, who at first corrected the menial work of laying fires, delivering water, skinning horses, etc., soon showed greater willingness and ability for guerrilla warfare. He went out at night to hunt for prey and each time brought with him French clothes and weapons, and when he was ordered, he also brought prisoners. Denisov dismissed Tikhon from work, began to take him with him on travels and enrolled him in the Cossacks.
Tikhon did not like to ride and always walked, never falling behind the cavalry. His weapons were a blunderbuss, which he wore more for fun, a pike and an ax, which he wielded like a wolf wields his teeth, equally easily picking out fleas from his fur and biting through thick bones. Tikhon equally faithfully, with all his might, split logs with an ax and, taking the ax by the butt, used it to cut out thin pegs and cut out spoons. In Denisov's party, Tikhon occupied his special, exclusive place. When it was necessary to do something especially difficult and disgusting - turn a cart over in the mud with your shoulder, pull a horse out of a swamp by the tail, skin it, climb into the very middle of the French, walk fifty miles a day - everyone pointed, laughing, at Tikhon.
“What the hell is he doing, you big gelding,” they said about him.
Once, the Frenchman whom Tikhon was taking shot at him with a pistol and hit him in the flesh of his back. This wound, for which Tikhon was treated only with vodka, internally and externally, was the subject of the funniest jokes in the entire detachment and jokes to which Tikhon willingly succumbed.
- What, brother, won’t you? Is Ali crooked? - the Cossacks laughed at him, and Tikhon, deliberately crouching and making faces, pretending that he was angry, scolded the French with the most ridiculous curses. This incident had only the influence on Tikhon that after his wound he rarely brought prisoners.
Tikhon was the most useful and brave man in the party. No one else discovered cases of attack, no one else took him and beat the French; and as a result of this, he was the jester of all the Cossacks and hussars and he himself willingly succumbed to this rank. Now Tikhon was sent by Denisov, still at night, to Shamshevo in order to take the tongue. But, either because he was not satisfied with just the Frenchman, or because he slept through the night, during the day he climbed into the bushes, into the very middle of the French and, as Denisov saw from Mount Denisov, was discovered by them.

After talking a little more time with the esaul about tomorrow's attack, which now, looking at the proximity of the French, Denisov seemed to have finally decided, he turned his horse and rode back.
“Well, damn, now let’s go dry off,” he said to Petya.
Approaching the forest guardhouse, Denisov stopped, peering into the forest. Through the forest, between the trees, a man in a jacket, bast shoes and a Kazan hat, with a gun over his shoulder and an ax in his belt, walked with long, light steps on long legs, with long, dangling arms. Seeing Denisov, this man hastily threw something into the bush and, taking off his wet hat with its drooping brim, approached the boss. It was Tikhon. His face, pitted with smallpox and wrinkles, with small, narrow eyes, shone with self-satisfied gaiety. He raised his head high and, as if holding back laughter, stared at Denisov.

After numerous musical experiments (some of them, by the way, were very popular among the Novosibirsk and later Moscow public), it was decided to create a group. Initially, Hi-Fi included Dmitry Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko; the team worked in this composition until 2003. August 2 is considered Hi-Fi's birthday, because it was on this day in 1998 that the group's debut video was filmed. The video “Not Given” was filmed in St. Petersburg, directed by Eric Chanturia and Alisher. The plot of the video, like a mirror, reflected the real history of the team: Mitya, Ksyusha and Timofey each went their own way, and now their paths crossed in one short word - Hi-Fi. It was on the set of “Not Given” that the group members first saw each other. The guys' first impressions were very contradictory - their characters turned out to be too different. But over time, it became clear that even such polar personalities are quite capable of getting along with each other. Since then, Hi-Fi has been considered one of the most friendly groups on the stage. Hi-Fi's first performance took place on August 23 at the Soyuz show. After this, the band began preparing material for their debut album. The release of “First Contact” took place in February 1999, it included 11 tracks authored by Pavel Yesenin and Eric Chanturia, including a remix of the band’s most famous song at that time, “Not Given.” The album sold record copies; this is confirmed by the huge number of its pirated versions, individual copies of which can still be found on shelves today. In support of the debut album, Hi-Fi is shooting a video for the song “Besprizornik”, one of their most striking works. Filming took place on the territory of an active chemical plant: natural scenery was selected in accordance with the nature of the song. The second video of the Hi-Fi group did not leave the top lines of the charts throughout 1999. Immediately after the release of “First Contact,” the authors of Hi-Fi began preparing material for the next album; its presentation was scheduled for the second half of 1999, and so it happened. “Reproduction” (as the record was called) included Pavel Yesenin’s remixes of hits from “First Contact”, as well as 3 previously unreleased songs - “Black Raven”, “About Summer” and “Cuba”. Two of them acquired video versions at the same time. They decided to make the video for the song “About Summer” as sporty and dynamic as possible, for which a gym was rented. Mitya, Timofey and Oksana arrived on the set to watch the professionals perform exercises and try to set world records on their own. Thus, the Hi-Fi group confirmed the validity of the title of one of the most athletic and mobile musical groups in the country. For the fourth, for the song “Black Raven,” the Hi-Fi video set was the ruins of a once famous store in the center of the capital. The plot of the video is somewhat reminiscent of the film “The Matrix”: black costumes, a little gloomy, in keeping with the mood of the song, scenery and a lot of special effects - but it appeared on the screens much earlier. The start of the musical project turned out to be so successful that the Hi-Fi participants practically stopped appearing in Moscow due to constant tours. However, the authors continued to work: in the fall of 2000, Hi-Fi released a new masterpiece - the song “Stupid People”. The video design of the composition was quite original: the film crew, led by Arthur Gimpel, settled in one of the Moscow courtyards, where the Hi-Fi participants had to reincarnate as angels observing the bustle of earthly life. These shootings became one of the most interesting in the history of the team - they involved special machines, with the help of which Mitya, Ksyusha and Timofey were raised to a height of 5-6 floors to create the effect of flight. The song “Stupid People” was the first sign from the upcoming new album Hi-Fi. The group’s third album, “Remember,” was released in February 2001 and included seven completely new songs, three compositions already known to the public and an electronic sketch for Pavel Yesenin’s favorite game “Counter Strike” called “Network.” Initially planned

We wanted to place more slow compositions on the disc, but at the last moment the concept was changed in favor of dance tracks. At the end of 2001, the Hi-Fi group released an album again, this time an album of remixes. It was then that the long-standing Hi-Fi tradition was broken for the first time - the creation of melodies for the project was not entrusted to Pavel Yesenin. The experiment in the form of creating remixes of the best songs of the group was supported by such musicians as Maxim Fadeev, Yuri Usachev, Evgeny Kuritsyn and others - their original versions of proven Hi-Fi hits made up the group’s new record called “New Collection-2002”, or “ D&J remixes". In April 2002, the fifth Hi-Fi video clip was filmed. The script was chosen in accordance with the theme of the song: the band members get together and remember the bright moments of their almost four-year collaboration. The song “Secondary School” entered the golden circle of Hi-Fi hits and every summer becomes the anthem of all school graduations. Following “High School,” Hi-Fi is filming another video; this time the composition with the eloquent title “I Love” has a video version. The plot of this video differs from the group’s previous filming due to its bold futuristic treatment and tells the story of the love story of a girl from the future. The “I Love” video was the last collaboration between the original members of the project. At the end of the same 2002, the Hi-Fi group sums up the four years of its existence by releasing an album with a set of the most famous songs, supplementing it with three previously unreleased tracks: “I Love”, “Secondary School No. 7” and “Ole-Ole” (song-hymn in support of the Russian football team at the World Cup). In parallel with the record, a video cassette “Uninvented Stories” was released, which contained the complete set of the group’s clips at that time: “Not Given”, “Street Child”, “About Summer”, “Black Raven” and “High School”; revelations from the participants about five years of work in Hi-Fi and a bonus in the form of recordings of performances on “Song of the Year”. In 2003, serious changes took place in the team: the group's lead singer Oksana Oleshko decided to leave the team and devote herself to her family and husband, Hi-Fi was forced to start searching for a new member. As a result, professional model Tatyana Tereshina was selected to replace Ksyusha in the group. The first work of the updated Hi-Fi line-up was the song “The Seventh Petal”. At the request of the group, St. Petersburg animators drew a fabulous clip, taking into account the theme of the song, but the Hi-Fi group did not distribute it further than the official website. In 2004, the team filmed another, seventh, video clip. The shooting of the video for the song “Trouble” (a cover version of the hit song of the group “Forum”) took place in a nightclub. The director and scriptwriter was Pavel Yesenin, the band's permanent composer. About 20 actors were involved in the filming of the video, including the travesty show “Birds of Paradise” and the ballet group Hi-Fi. The plot is based on a complicated love story; The video was decorated with specially choreographed dance numbers. At exactly the same time, Hi-Fi received an important award: the band’s songs were recognized as the most rotated. According to statistics from the portal tophit.ru, the works of the Hi-Fi group are among the most in demand from radio stations. The song “Trouble,” for example, broke all records for the number of hits: in the first day the composition was online, more than 200 radio stations downloaded it. In 2005, there were personnel changes in Hi-Fi again: in May, Tatyana Tereshina left the team with the intention of pursuing a solo career. The group's producers began searching for a lead singer. The new year, 2006, began for Hi-Fi with positive changes in the lineup: while on tour in St. Petersburg, the band members met a girl named Katya, a student in the jazz department of the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts, who was subsequently approved for the role of soloist. The acquaintance took place in a karaoke restaurant, where the artists came to have dinner after their performance; Katya worked there in the show program as a vocalist. Simultaneously with Katya, in February, the project had its own ballet, consisting of four girls

With the new lineup, the Hi-Fi group immediately records two songs. For one of them, the artists are filming a colorful video in Thailand. Since March, Mitya, Katya and Timofey have begun preparing material for the fourth full-length album. The history of Hi-Fi continues... Important facts: - the group’s birthday is considered to be August 2, 1998 - the name of the group was invented by the famous image maker Alisher; Hi-Fi (high fidelity) = “highest quality” - regular authors of Hi-Fi are Pavel Yesenin (music) and Eric Chanturia (lyrics) Awards: - “Muz-TV Award”, 2005, nomination “Best Dance Project” - “Golden Gramophone” 1999 – “Black Raven” 2000 – “Follow Me” 2002 – “High School” 2004 – “The Seventh Petal” - “Stopudovy Hit” 1999 – “The Homeless Child”; 2000 - “Follow me”; 2004 – “Ticket” - “Bomb of the Year” (“Boom of the Year”) 2000 – “Follow Me”; 2001 - “So Easy”; 2003 – “Secondary school”; 2004 – “The Seventh Petal”; 2005 - “Ticket” - “Movement”, 2003 - Popov Prize, 2003 - Night Life Awards, 2001, nomination “Club Group” and others...

HI-FI is a Russian pop group from the nineties. One of the few who managed to gather the old line-up on one stage after many years and carry a unique style of performance through the years.

Compound

In 1998, Pavel Yesenin and Eric Chanturia became the founders of a new musical project. The exact date of creation is August 2, 1998. On this day, work began on the first video clip “Not Given”.

The members of the group were. Initially, one of its creators, composer and arranger Pavel Yesenin, applied for the role of the group’s lead singer. However, he abandoned this idea, not wanting to change his main activity to frequent tours with an irregular schedule. Mitya Fomin became the central figure of HI-FI.

It is interesting that the members of the group never communicated with each other before its founding. Fomin studied at a medical university in Novosibirsk, and then moved to the capital to apply for admission to VGIK. At this time, fate brought him together with Yesenin and Chanturia.

In an interview for the Internet portal Starhit.ru, Mitya said that meeting the future participants of HI-FI in 1998 did not inspire confidence. Different people who don’t know each other won’t be able to achieve anything in show business, Fomin thought. Soon the HI-FI frontman gained incredible popularity. During his ten years of work with the group, four albums were released.

Oksana Oleshko also came to the team at the invitation of the producers. By profession, Ksyusha is a ballet dancer. She came to Moscow from sunny Tbilisi, worked in ballets of such stars as,. In 1998, Oksana met Eric Chanturia, who offered to participate in the HI-FI group. Despite the fact that Oleshko had never practiced vocals professionally, she accepted the producer’s offer.

For the girl, this project turned out to be an opportunity to discover new facets in herself and engage in creativity: Oksana wrote the words for the songs of Chanturia’s ward, Batyrkhan, and also appeared on the cover of Playboy.

Like the rest of the participants, Timofey Pronkin was not associated with music before joining HI-FI. As a professional dancer, he knew what the stage was, but he had never studied vocals. By the way, Timofey is seriously passionate about design and opened a printing services company.

Music

Until 2003, the HI-FI group released many songs that became hits (“The Princess’s Song”, “Brother”, “He”, “I Love”, “Black Raven”, “The Seventh Petal”). The clips have repeatedly become chart winners on Russian music channels. In 2002, a video for the song “The Seventh Petal” was released. In its original version, the song existed in English. I wrote the chorus for the Russian version.

Already in 1999, HI-FI received the first Golden Gramophone award for the composition “Black Raven”. The following songs won the same award: “Follow me” in 2010, “And we loved” in 2002 and “The Seventh Petal” in 2004.

In 2003, Oksana Oleshko announced her decision to leave the stage. This concerned not only the HI-FI group, but also show business in general. The ex-vocalist of the pop group preferred family life. Oleshko married the lead singer of the group, but the marriage broke up. Oksana's second husband was a businessman. The singer gave birth to two daughters, but this time there was a divorce. The father of the third child, Oksana's son, is businessman Sergei Tsvitnenko.

Also in 2003, the producers found a replacement for Oleshko. For two years she became the new soloist of HI-FI. But later she left the group, pursuing a solo career. After Tereshina left, the group members changed periodically. Among them: Katya Li, Olesya Lipchanskaya, Marina Drozhdina.

2005 was marked for the group by winning the “Muz-TV Award” in the “Most Fashionable Group” category. This is the largest award in the history of the team.

In 2009, Mitya Fomin left the HI-FI group. Now he has a solo career. The producers decided to replace the lead singer with Kirill Kolgushkin. The new soloist was never able to become the leader of the group; this privilege went to Timofey Pronkin.

During his solo career, Mitya Fomin achieved no less success than the legendary pop group. A year after working outside the team, the video “Everything will be fine” was shot. The audience appreciated Fomin's work, and soon the song was playing at the top of the radio charts.

In addition, the singer worked thoroughly on the hit “Everything will be fine”: he was the director. The song brought Mitya an award from the Golden Gramophone. In 2010, the first album “So It Will Be” was released. Mitya Fomin also began working as a TV presenter at Muz-TV.

In 2012, Vyacheslav Samarin replaced Kolgushkin. Although he left the team that same year, he managed to make an unsustainable contribution. He wrote several songs for the group. A video was shot for the track “Don’t Leave”. From 2016 to 2018, HI-FI existed as a duo of Timofey Pronkin and Marina Drozhdina.

The girl was previously familiar with the group’s work, but does not call herself a fan: she admired the quality of the vocals and the choreography. When she joined the group, she didn’t have to get used to the stage and learn the words of the songs: Marina knew each of them by heart, so much so did the group become a cult group at that time.

HI-FI now

Each of the HI-FI performers builds a career and conquers show business. Most performers have solo careers, and some have left show business altogether.

For 10 years there was no news about the HI-FI group, although Timofey Pronkin and Marina Drozhdina still gave concerts. Stars can be invited to cooperate; their contact details are on the official website and Instagram. There are also photos and video reports from concerts, and addresses to fans.

In April 2018, HI-FI performed at the Olympic Stadium with a gold lineup. Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin, Oksana Oleshko, after 20 years, were again on the same stage and performed their favorite hits.

At the same event, performances were made by, and. In an interview with journalists, Mitya Fomin keeps the intrigue, but hints that the HI-FI meeting did not happen by chance and fans can expect a new song or even an album.

In addition to the three permanent performers, Marina Drozhdina appeared on stage. Later, the singer shared with media representatives that the audience reacted to her appearance not as violently as to the original HI-FI lineup, but this was not a reason to be upset. Marina plans to stay in the group for a long time.

Discography

• 1998 – “Not given”
• 1999 – “Street Boy”
• 1999 – “Black Raven”
• 2000 – “Stupid People”
• 2002 – “I love”
• 2004 – “Trouble”
• 2007 – “Following the Footsteps”
• 2008 – “The Right to Happiness”
• 2009 – “It’s time for us”
• 2010 – “Time has no power”
• 2011 – “I’m There”
• 2012 – “Don’t Leave”

Hi-Fi initially included Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko. The team worked in this composition until 2003.

August 2 is considered Hi-Fi's birthday, because it was on this day in 1998 that the group's debut video was filmed. They filmed a video for the song “Not Given” in St. Petersburg, directed by Eric Chanturia and Alisher. The plot of the video, like a mirror, reflected the real history of the team: Mitya, Ksyusha and Timofey each went their own way, and now their paths crossed in one short word - Hi-Fi. It was on the set of “Not Given” that the group members saw each other for the first time. The guys' first impressions were very contradictory - their characters turned out to be too different. But over time, it became clear that even such polar personalities are quite capable of getting along with each other. Since then, Hi-Fi has been considered one of the most friendly groups on the stage.
Hi-Fi's first performance took place on August 23 at the Soyuz show. After this, the band began preparing material for their debut album. The release of the album “First Contact” took place in February 1999, it included 11 tracks authored by Pavel Yesenin and Eric Chanturia. In support of the debut album, Hi-Fi is shooting a video for the song “Besprizornik”, one of their most striking works.

Immediately after the release of “First Contact”, the authors of Hi-Fi began preparing material for the next album. The album “Reproduction” was released in the second half of 1999. It included Pavel Yesenin’s remixes of hits from the album “First Contact”, as well as 3 previously unreleased songs “Black Raven”, “About Summer” and “Cuba”. Two of them acquired video versions at the same time.

In the fall of 2000, Hi-Fi released a new masterpiece, the song “Stupid People.” This composition became the first sign from the upcoming album Hi-Fi. The third album of the group “Remember” was released in February 2001 and included seven completely new songs, three compositions already known to the public. At the end of 2001, the Hi-Fi group again released an album, this time an album of remixes. It was then that the long-standing Hi-Fi tradition was broken for the first time; the creation of melodies for the project was not entrusted to Pavel Yesenin. The experiment in the form of creating remixes of the band's best songs was supported by musicians such as Maxim Fadeev, Yuri Usachev, Evgeniy Kuritsyn and others - their original versions of proven Hi-Fi hits made up the group's new record called "New Collection-2002" or "D&J REMIXES".

In April 2002, the fifth Hi-Fi video clip was filmed. The song “Secondary School No. 7” entered the golden circle of Hi-Fi hits and every summer becomes the anthem of all school graduations. The next composition, “I Love,” became the last collaboration of the original composition of the project.

In 2003, serious changes took place in the group: the group's lead singer Oksana Oleshko decided to leave the group and devote herself to her family and husband. In place of Ksyusha in the group, professional model Tatyana Tereshina appeared, who now performs solo under the pseudonym Tanya. The first work of the updated Hi-Fi line-up was the song “The Seventh Petal”. In 2004, the band's songs were recognized as the most rotated.

At the beginning of 2006, the Hi-Fi group again changed its soloist; to this day, she is a student of the jazz department of the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts, Ekaterina Lee.

For one of them, “Following the Footsteps,” a colorful video was shot in Thailand. And at the end of 2007, the Hi-Fi group went to Kyiv, where they planned to shoot the video “The Right to Happiness” under the direction of the talented Ukrainian director Alan Badoev.

On August 2, 2008, the Hi-Fi group celebrated its tenth birthday. The result: dozens of invariably hit songs, an immense number of awards, prizes and prizes, high-quality work at thousands of venues throughout Russia and far beyond its borders, a recognizable and beloved image by many - a mark has been left in history.

In January 2009, changes took place in the Hi-Fi group. Mitya Fomin, who left the team for a solo career, is replaced by a new member - Kirill Kolgushkin. With the updated lineup, the group releases a new hit, “It’s Time for Us,” and shoots a video of the same name under the direction of director Maxim Rozhkov.

Discography:

2008 - “The Best I”
2004 - "Best"
2002 - “Best”
2001 - “D&J REMIXES”
2001 - “Remember”
1999 - “Reproduction”
1999 - “First Contact”

Official website: www.hifigroup.ru