Ivan Vikharev Biography

Berdsk with the producer of "Tender May" Andrei Razin on the left. At the end of the 10th - beginning of the X, the group was so popular that the musicians gave 13 concerts in the Olympic, they collected thousands of people for thousands of people. This was not even dreamed of Timati and Oximiron combined, who recently gathered 50 thousand people in the Olympic for two. About the tour of the Berdsky "May" - VN material.

Published re -in the cycle “The best materials VN. Ru for the year. " Ivan Vikharev is a musician from Berdsk. At the end of the 10ths of the last century, like many at that time, he was fond of the work of the Gentle May group. After leaving the soloist group Yuri Shatunov, Ivan had an idea to try his hand at a big stage. He came to Moscow, and with the help of acquaintances managed to become a participant in the star team.

Moreover, he managed to get into the main composition, later the May of May had many understudies. When the Berdchanin performed his song “Coconut Island” at the rehearsal, the song producer Andrei Razin liked the song so much that he was taken by a soloist. The fans were crazy about the young soloists of May, and once they even raised a bus on which the group touched. In the beginning of x, when Ivan Vikharev joined, there were no such excesses, but the touring schedule remained quite dense.

There were a compartment almost like a train, a shower, a kitchen, a dressing room, a tank of water on liters, a compartment for equipment were installed. We rode on it in the Stavropol Territory, in the south of Russia. They drove up to the stadium in this car, changed clothes, went on stage, and after work they sat in the trailer and rode on. Ivan Vikharev, with one of the soloists of the "affectionate May" Sergei Serkov, was quite tough, and discipline too.

And although there were fewer orphans in a later composition, the age of the guys hesitated within years. Only Shatunov was a principled smoker, and he was allowed alone. They drove everyone else, reached scandals and dismissals. But you can understand a person: he drove the children, and there was a huge responsibility on him. When we were already older, it became easier.

There is tour of tour, Razin did not give us any messages. Well, teenagers are teenagers, there were incidents. Once on a hot summer day before the concert, the guys drank beer with crayfish. And then almost all musicians had problems during the show, because it was not possible to quickly run to the toilet. Ivan Vikharev, at a speech with a special sympathy, Ivan recalls the times when Uncle Vova Ukhin, the famous host of the TV show, “Good night, kids!

I remember him well. He was a strong man, he could drink validol with vodka, ”Ivan recalls. Despite the superpolarity of the group, it was not possible to earn a lot of ordinary participants in the team. Administrator Andrei Razin was a very entrepreneurial person. Thanks to the hearing he he had launched, as if he was a nephew of Mikhail Gorbachev, all the doors opened in front of him.

By the year, Razin earned 32 million Soviet rubles, and continued to receive 50 thousand rubles a day from his 60s of the "affectionate May", which toured all over the country. Andrei Razin fully paid for all expenses to musicians - travel and food, and paid only 50 dollars for the concert. On average, $ 50 per concert, ”recalls Berdchanin. I earned more than my parents. True, I did not accumulate the apartment or car.

In the year, after a free ruble exchange rate was introduced, the dollar rose sharply from several rubles to the same time rose rose. If in the year the prices for bread from three rubles jumped up to 11 rubles per bun, then in the year the loaf was already twice as expensive. In the current course for $ 50, you could buy 2.5 kilograms of sausage.

However, the whole country was experiencing a crisis, the state employees did not see the salary for six months or more. Therefore, even such earnings in these years was better than nothing. In the year, “Affectionate May” practically ceased to exist and give concerts. Ivan Vikharev returned to his native Berdsk to devote himself to a solo career. Now he continues to write music, shot several clips, gives concerts in Berdsk and areas of the region.

Supports communication with the members of the Affectionate May group, who recently returned to concert activities again. He plans to record a joint song with Andrei Gurov - one of the first soloists of the group. District media.