Petliura singer. Biography. Further education and career as a singer
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Petlyura (Yuri Barabash) biography
YURI BARABASH (1974-1996) The country knew him as Petliura. Sad eyes from the cassette cover, an unusual pleasant voice, songs full of melancholy, penetrating straight into the soul and turning it inside out...
Even now, when several years have passed since his death, there are still more questions than answers. Yura was not a vain person, he did not advertise his name anywhere, did not shine at noisy parties, and did not flash on TV screens. He was just doing his job. He sang. He sang very well. And he danced. But less often. Sang more.
But first things first. Stavropol, the city in which Yurkino spent his childhood, was no different from hundreds of other Soviet cities. Factories, factories, five universities, two theaters, three museums, one public toilet, six pubs, four bakeries, five dairy... But still, there was something special in this city, scorched by the sun.
Later, many years later, Slava Cherny will write him a song. About the Motherland. About Stavropol region. And this song will not be far-fetched, not one bit. Soulful, heartfelt. And well sung.
Remember?
Oh my Northwestern region,
I have always been in love with you since childhood.
And I missed you in Moscow.
For me you are like a pier for a ship.
My first love lived there,
And I got my first kiss there.
I will always love my city.
And I will never forget the city...
Bad company
Yuri's father was an officer in the navy, and Petlyura spent the first years of his life in Kamchatka. His older sister Lolita was born there, named after the Argentine singer Lolita Torres. By the way, Yuri himself received his name in honor of his great-grandfather, whose name was Jozef - he was a Polish officer.
The boy's studies were so-so, but he was the soul of the neighborhood groups. He did not at all want to move to Stavropol at the age of eight and part with his Kamchatka friends. But I had to: my sister was diagnosed with a heart defect, and the Far Eastern climate was contraindicated for her. In the south, Yura faced a new blow: his father died in 1984.
Barabash was left without a strict officer education and went to great lengths, especially since he found new friends very quickly. Already in the third grade, his mother caught him with a cigarette. She generally suffered with him: Yura did not want to obey at all and, although he was a very kind person at heart, he tried to do everything in defiance.
Fate miraculously saved him from major troubles: once, with his friends, they stole little things that were completely unnecessary to them, like pencils and paints, in kindergarten. “Well, do you want me to return it?” - Yura asked after a serious conversation with his mother. And he returned it, after which he never took someone else’s. On the contrary, I tried to share food and clothes with the orphanage residents I knew. Listen to "Vorovskaya"
How Yura became Petlyura
The teachers also got it from Barabash: the nickname “Petliura” appeared at school (it was awarded to Yura by a classmate defeated in a fight) and had two meanings. Firstly, a rhyme to the name, and secondly, an allusion to the Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura, disrespected by Soviet historians during the Civil War. However, Yura even liked the negative flair around this surname: the nickname Petlyura clearly indicated his rebellion and hooliganism. For Yura’s 14th birthday, his mother gave him a guitar.
He mastered the instrument quickly and without any music schools. His repertoire was largely shaped by the street and interactions with difficult teenagers. Petlyura heard many of the courtyard, prison, and criminal songs as a child. Subsequently, some of them were included in his albums: most of his compositions are not original works, but adaptations of all kinds of “urban folklore”. Listen to “White Dress”
Tender Orlov
At the age of 17, Petlyura recorded several songs at home and soon received an invitation from the great and terrible producer of the group “Tender May” Andrei Razin. He, as you know, put the production of teenage groups on stream, and they all bore the name “Tender May” and could simultaneously tour in different cities with the same repertoire. To be fair, it should be noted that Razin almost never put extras in front of the microphones who opened their mouths to the soundtrack - no, he honestly listened to dozens of boys, relying on young singers with a difficult fate: orphans, orphanages, and so on.
In 1992, Yura Barabash ended up in one of the last lineups of “Tender May”: wild popularity was a thing of the past, but Razin still called a vocalist into the group, whose voice reminded him of the style of Yura Shatunov. For some reason, Barabash was given the pseudonym Orlov, under which he worked at Tender May for several months. From a creative point of view, this gave him little, but it taught him how to work and allowed him to save some money to pursue a solo career. In addition, Petlyura did not like wearing long hair and an earring in her ear.
Listen to “Light the Candles” New Life The discs “Let’s Sing, Zhigan” and “Benya the Raider” were recorded in a home studio and began to spread throughout the country. Moreover, under the name “Yura Petliura”: one of the spontaneous “publishers” heard the musician’s childhood nickname and put it on the cover, because they simply did not know his real name. Due to the similarity of voices, there were even rumors that it was Shatunov who sang hooligan songs.
One cassette fell into the hands of the head of the Master Sound company, Yuri Sevostyanov. Many of the chansonniers he “discovered” later clashed with Sevostyanov, but he managed to do only good things for Petlyura. In particular, early albums were re-recorded in professional studios. In addition, several more discs were published and, what is especially important, included in the extensive distribution system. As a result, in 1996, Yura Petlyura became one of the most popular performers in the country, although television did not favor him at all. Listen to “Fast Train” Highway Patrol On September 27, 1996, Yura Barabash gathered his friends to show off a brand new BMW, bought with his first “real” royalties.
Petliura was an inexperienced driver: he had just purchased a car and only managed to make a couple of test drives. By evening they decided to “wash the behu” - modestly, the plan was to buy beer, and that’s all. It was for beer that Yuri left late in the evening on his last trip to Sevastopol Avenue, covered with thick autumn fog...
I didn’t even take any documents with me. The friends in the mangled BMW survived, but the driver died on the spot. A group from the “Road Patrol” program came to film the terrible accident: on TV they said that the identity of the deceased had not yet been established - and they showed the driver’s body. Many recognized the popular performer: calls came in, viewers reported that it was Petliura. Yuri was buried in Moscow at the Khovanskoye cemetery.
A few years after the funeral, his mother Tatyana Sergeevna and older sister Lolita moved from Stavropol to Troitsk near Moscow (and now Moscow) so that they could go to the grave closer. The artist has no other relatives. At twenty-two, Petlyura did not have time to get married, and he had no children left. Listen to “I Didn’t Want to Die” Petlyura-2 Three years after the death of Yuri Barabash, chansonnier Viktor Petlyura released his first album.
He is only a year and a half younger than Yuri, and in his debut album Victor used some fragments from Barabash’s songs. Many listeners then condemned him for his “cheap” attempts to achieve popularity by capitalizing on a famous name, but Victor eventually became established as an independent musician, having already released thirteen solo discs.
And, it’s quite likely that if it weren’t for that accident, both performers would now calmly coexist in the genre.
Photo: group in memory of Yuri Barabash on VKontakte
Barabash Yu.V. (04/14/1974 - 09/27/1996) - a popular performer of Russian chanson at the dawn of the 90s, known to the audience as Petliura. Born in a land of unique landscapes, in the very “heart of the South” called the Stavropol Territory. Petlyura spent his childhood and teenage life in his homeland. He was brought up in a prosperous and intelligent family. Yuri's mother was an exemplary worker at the local puppet theater, after studying at the regional philharmonic, and his father was an officer in the USSR Navy. Yuri is the second child in the family, two years younger than his sister Lolita. The future author-performer of chanson was remembered for his rather difficult character, and at times was an uncontrollable child. It was for his restlessness and hooliganism that his peers awarded the guy the nickname Petliura. This nickname had a disapproving connotation, because Simon Petlyura was an ill-wisher for the USSR during the Civil War. Since his teenage years, the guy dreamed of musical achievements, so Yuri’s main hobby was music. There was no opportunity to attend a music school, but he himself mastered playing the guitar at a professional level.
Music career
One day, the leader of the famous group “Tender May,” Andrei Rezin, listened to an amateur recording of Yuri’s song, in which it was impossible not to notice the singer’s enormous potential. After hearing this, the producer invited Petliura to a personal music studio for talented children. After the first successful results of the robot, in 1992 the singer, under his stage name Yuri Orlov, became part of the popular group “Tender May”. After a short time, he leaves the group and begins to build a solo future. The recording of the albums “Let’s Sing, Zhigan” (1993) and “Ben’s Raider” (1994) was carried out in a small home studio, but this did not prevent the songs on the albums from gaining enormous popularity among listeners.
In 1994, Yuri went to Moscow, where he first signed a professional contract with the Master Sound recording studio. The result of this collaboration was several successful albums, including “Fast Train”.
His musical career was not public, he did not advertise his identity, did not like to appear on television, radio or even at public events, preferring to simply do what he loved and delight his fans with new songs. Many compared Petlyura’s voice with the voice of Yura Shatunov, and it really sounded somewhat similar. But Petlyura’s songs sounded special, because he had his own unique style of performance, which is unlike any other.
Death of Petliura
On September 28, 1996, Petliura died tragically in a car accident on Sevastopolsky Avenue in Moscow. The details of the event are not fully known, but as some sources report, the singer was relaxing in the company of friends, and was the only one who did not drink alcohol. He got behind the wheel of his BMW car, which he had purchased just recently, to take his comrades for a batch of beer. Yuri had not yet become a professional driver, and, unfortunately for everyone, he lost control.
The driver received fatal injuries, and all other passengers received injuries of varying severity.
Barabash Yuri Vladislavovich did not have time to live a few days before the official release of his next album, which after the singer’s death was called “Farewell”. The singer was buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Viktor Vladimirovich Petlyura (October 30, 1975) is a Russian performer specializing mainly in the genre of chanson and the so-called “yard songs”.
Childhood
Viktor Vladimirovich was born on October 30 in Crimea, in southern Simferopol, in an ordinary average family. His father was an engineer at a hydroelectric power station, and his mother worked as a kindergarten teacher. Victor was the only child in the family, so he was never deprived of parental love, affection and attention.
According to Victor himself, he has no idea who he was born talented in the field of music. His parents, however, like other relatives, were never associated with the author’s performance of songs or music in general. However, from childhood, the parents realized that their son was a future brilliant singer, so they began to actively develop and encourage this talent.
Viktor Petlyura first picked up a musical instrument when he was seven years old. His parents enrolled him in a music school for guitar and piano classes at the same time. But it soon became clear that learning to play two musical instruments at once was problematic for a boy, so he was faced with a choice of what to continue and what to give up.
At that time, the guitar was very popular among Vitya’s older comrades: young people sat in the courtyards in the evenings and played simple but very memorable tunes. Seeing how much attention the performer with the guitar received and how beautiful it looked from the outside, the boy made his choice and continued his studies only in the guitar class.
Youth
At the age of eleven, Victor completely mastered playing the guitar and decided to start writing his own compositions. Initially, his advisor and musical mentor becomes a school teacher who taught him to play the guitar. It is to him that Victor entrusts his first drafts, which he evaluates, criticizes and notes shortcomings. After a couple of months, the teacher recommends that Vita show his work to at least his school friends in order to get a fresh assessment and comments from those for whom, in principle, the compositions were created. After listening to several tunes, school friends simply cannot find words to describe how talented their friend turned out to be.
Over the next two years, Viktor Petlyura tries to compose compositions. He writes in several genres at once, trying to find the most suitable one for himself. Ultimately, he settles on half-yard compositions and chanson music, which becomes his professional hobby in his subsequent solo career.
At the age of thirteen, a young guy, who at that time had already gained a little popularity among his friends, decides to create his own team. He recruits a team of enthusiasts who begin to work together to create their own image and musical base. A couple of months after this, the guys are invited to one of the Simferopol clubs. At that time, the group already had several professionally recorded tracks, so they accepted the invitation and immediately after the performance signed a contract with the club for subsequent performances. So one single evening changes the career of Petlyura and his friends.
Further education and career as a singer
In 1991, after graduating from music and high school, Viktor Petliura seriously decided to devote himself to music, so he entered the Simferopol Music College. His friends and, at the same time, colleagues in the musical group who are already studying there help him choose this higher education institution. According to them, only the school can give them the necessary theoretical basis that will help the team in the future become more professional.
With the start of school, new problems arise. Since the already created musical group is now busy studying almost all day, the Simferopol club terminates the contract with them and prohibits rehearsals on its stage. Disagreements begin in the group: some participants propose to separate and re-create the group after graduation, while others, led by the lead singer himself, propose to reorganize the group, creating a completely new team. In the end, the decision rests with Petliura, who is indeed recruiting a new team, but also does not forget about the dedicated old participants.
In 1999, their first debut album, Blue-Eyed, was released, recorded at the Zodiac Records studio. The album itself receives the most positive reviews, and the lead singer of the group, Viktor Petlyura, is recognized as talented and suitable for performing songs in the chanson style. However, the participants themselves are not optimistic: recording songs in a studio that mainly works with pop and rock performers is not only inconvenient, but also annoying. That is why Petliura, seeing that this format does not suit him at all, decides to open his own recording studio to create subsequent albums.
Two years later, a team of almost professional chanson performers recorded their second album, “You Can’t Get Back,” in their own recording studio. At the same time, minor changes in composition occur. Petlyura decides to hire two backing vocalists for a better sound. They are the charming Ekaterina Peretyatko and Irina Melitsova. Two talents come to work as arrangers at once - Rolland Mumdzhi and Konstantin Atamanov, while Ilya Tanch begins to compose the lyrics of the songs together with Viktor Petliura himself. But, despite such an extensive musical group, most of the work on creating and promoting albums and compositions is still done by the soloist himself.
To date, there are 10 albums by Viktor Petlyura, written in the genre of Russian classical chanson. This includes both the artist’s famous discs: “Fate”, “Light”, “Son of the Prosecutor”, as well as less popular ones, which were assessed by audio listeners only six months after the release of the albums.
Personal life
It is not known for certain who Viktor Petliura met at the beginning of his singing career. Some fans still claim that at the very beginning Petliura dated a girl named Alena, with whom he wanted not only to live together in the future, but also to create joint compositions. However, the girl was killed in front of her lover in an accident. Whether the story is true or in fact all this is fiction to make Petliura more mysterious - no one knows.
It is known that Victor was married twice. He and his first wife were married for two years and then separated due to frequent quarrels. From this marriage, Petlyura had a son, Evgeniy. The performer got married for the second time, already being famous and popular. At the moment, his wife is financier and concert director of Petlyura Natalya, who was also already married.
Viktor Petliura’s songs are equally loved and sung with pleasure by both adult and young audiences. They have everything: sincere love and respect for a woman, an understanding of fortitude and courage, fun and a unique gypsy flavor.
In 1999, Petlyura recorded her debut disc entitled “Blue-Eyed” with Zodiac Records. A year later, the second album “You Can’t Return” is released. Performing chanson in a studio where mostly rock and pop musicians work is quite difficult. Therefore, Petliura decides to create her own recording studio.
During this period, the main core of the team is selected, with which the performer still works today. In addition to Victor himself, the lyrics of the songs he performs are written by Ilya Tanch. The arrangement is by Konstantin Atamanov and Rolland Mumdzhi. The team also has two backing vocalists - Irina Melintsova and Ekaterina Peretyatko. But most of the work is done by Petliura himself.
Victor Petlyura - “White Bride”Victor Petlyura works very fruitfully. Almost every year new discs are released. And in 2001, the artist released two albums at once - “North” and “Brother”. The track list of the first included “Demobilization”, “Cranes”, “Irkutsk Trakt”. The second included the compositions “White Birch”, “Sentence”, “White Bride”. In 2002 - again 2 new records: at the beginning of the year an album called “Fate” appeared, and at the end - a collection “Son of the Prosecutor”.
Petlyura's discography includes many albums. After 2002, the discs “Sedoy”, “Date” and “Guy in a Cap” were released. Later, the collections “Black Raven” and “The Verdict” appeared. “New Year's Snow” and “Viper Girl” were performed at “The Shore”. For the video “Pigeons” the song of the same name was recorded as a duet with. Of the latest compositions that the singer presented, fans highlight “Evening”, “Two Poles” and “I will become the wind”.
Victor Petlyura and Anya Vorobey - “Pigeons”Victor also performs some songs from the repertoire of Yuri Barabash, a native of “”, who performed under the creative pseudonym Petlyura. The artists are not relatives; they are united only by their origins (both were born in the south of Russia) and devotion to chanson. In addition, Viktor, by his own admission, is Petlyura according to his passport.
The singer’s work is rewarded with recognition in professional circles. On Victor’s shelf at home he keeps the award from the “Songs of Cinema” festival, held as part of “Kinotavr”, SMG AWARDS in the “Chanson of the Year” category, and the “Real Award” of the MUSIC BOX channel in the “Best Chanson” category.
Personal life
The personal life of Viktor Petlyura is shrouded in mystery and legends. His fans tell the sad story that Victor experienced in his youth. Allegedly, the singer had a beloved girl, Alena. The young people not only planned to get married, but also planned to work together. Shortly before the wedding, Alena tragically died from a stray bullet during a gang war in front of Victor's eyes. At that moment, the couple was sitting at a table in a cafe. The tragic death of her beloved plunged Petliura into depression for a long time, from which creativity helped her get out of it.
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Viktor Petliura and his wife Natalya
Whether this is a true story or a fairy tale created to envelop the name of the performer with some kind of romantic aura is not known for certain. Now Viktor Petlyura is happy in his second marriage. The current wife, like the first, is called Natalya. The first wife gave the musician a son, Eugene. The guy is studying to be a cook. The second has a son, Nikita. Parents see the young man as a diplomat, but for now he composes in the style of R&B. Both boys got along well with each other, because they are the same age. Victor and Natalya have no children together.
Petlyura’s chosen one is a financier by training and works as her husband’s concert director. She speaks excellent French, as she received another diploma from the Institute of Foreign Languages.
Victor Petlyura now
The album “The Most Beloved Woman in the World” became a turning point in Petliura’s work. The musician decided to change his stage name and henceforth, at the suggestion of producer Sergei Gorodnyansky, be called Viktor Dorin. This step was forced by the fact that on the Internet, next to Barabash’s photograph, there is often an article about Victor, and all sorts of fables are written, even to the point that men are brothers.
