Kovalev business biography

About me, the biography of Andrei Kovalev so, get acquainted: Andrey Kovalev is a person whose work is quite difficult to accommodate in any framework. Family and education Andrei Kovalev was born in Moscow in the family of a colonel of the Soviet Army and the artist of the Bolshoi Theater. Mom from childhood introduced her son to music, at four, he was already learning to play the piano.

In a music school, Andrei was engaged in the class of cello, about to enter the school at the Moscow Conservatory after school. However, his father did not want his son to become a musician, and to distract Andrei from musical classes, he gave him a motorcycle. The calculation of his father was justified - his son became interested in Mogroossom and eventually entered the Moscow Road Institute of Madie.

However, Andrei Kovalev also did not forget about his musical preferences-in the second year of the institute, he began to play a bass gitar in the vocal and instrumental ensemble “Pilgrim”.

After some time, he became interested in the design of furniture and entered the Higher Art and Industrial School for the former Stroganovskoye. Soon he created one of the first cooperatives for the production of furniture in our country. Then, years of work in business and public service followed. However, love of music did not fade away, and, already being a successful businessman, Andrei Kovalev began to write poetry and music, as well as perform his own works.

To date, Andrei Kovalev has created more songs - in a variety of genres, from romances and author’s song to stage and heavy rock. Only in the last six months on the air of Radio “Chanson”, “Russian Radio”, “Radio Dacha”, “Police Wave”, “Road Radio” and others. Musical career Pilgrim Group at the beginning of the year Andrei Kovalev created his own rock band, and from that moment his work was inextricably linked with heavy music.

It is interesting to note that the search for the name of the new group was long and difficult, but at some point Andrei Kovalev remembered his first team-and as a result, the new composition found the historical name “Pilgrim”. In the group’s repertoire - real male songs, lyrical ballads and patriotic works “Glory to Russia! In the creative asset of the Pilgrim group-cooperation with the stars of world show business: everyone is memorable to Pamela Anderson’s visit to Moscow, when the famous model played the main role in the video clip of the Pilgrim group “Road Motors”.

According to the script, Pamela transformed into the bride of the oligarch, abducted directly from under the crown by biker, the role of which was played by the leader of Pilgrim Andrei Kovalev. The Pilgrim group took part in the filming of Dolph Londgren's film “Dangerous Tax”, and the song “Do not extinguish the candle” became the soundtrack for the film. Personnel from this film entered the group’s video for the composition “Do not extinguish the candle” - the main idea of ​​the clip, like the film itself, was the theme of the confrontation of good and evil, world order and chaos.

Pilgrim does not forget about cooperation with foreign “brothers in arms” - the second album of the “no” group included the composition of Judas, recorded together with the world -famous Finnish quartet of Apocalyptica cellists. Finnish musicians also took part in the record of a large -scale and spectacular clip for this composition. In June, the Pilgrim group decided on a large -scale and ambitious project - a full -size concert DVD, due to the filming in not the most ordinary and simple conditions, called the concert in the rain.

Gorky, and in front of the Pilgrim group, other groups played for five hours, and Pilgrims were sure that the audience who defended for so much time under the showers would no longer be able to continue this musical marathon. But when the musicians went on stage and saw a sea of ​​people standing under the streams of water, they were shocked! That is why the “concert in the rain” is permeated with a real living drive and true love for music - both the musicians themselves and the audience, which, of course, is mandatory components of a serious concert video.

And the presentation of this DVD took place in November of the same year together with the presentation of the album “There is no choice” at a large -scale and very spectacular concert at the 1ROCK club. In April, Andrei Kovalev, along with the Pilgrim group, presented the 7.62 album, named after rifle weapons caliber. And after only six months, the musicians presented fans with another gift - the double album "Marta", dedicated to the five years of the team.

A solo career of the year Andrei Kovalev decided to return to the origins of his work - to the lyrics. His new album “My Woman” is just like that-calm, romantic, at the junction of popular music, pop rock and author's song. The presentation of this record took place on April 28 in the Moscow State Pop -stage the Moscow Theater. And on October 30, at the same site, Andrei Kovalev celebrated the flight of creative activities with a grandiose concert show, which was attended by Katya Lel, Diana Gurtskaya, Reflex, Irakli, Alena Sviridova, Danko, etc., despite employment in concerts, lays new tracks every month.Many remembered his radio program “Man and Woman” on the “First Popular Radio”, which the author himself recalls with warmth: “Our program was an adult, went at night, talked about different sides and nuances of relations between the sexes.

I decided - I must help people find their soul mate, read on the air of dating announcements, connecting lonely hearts. ” Several programs Andrei conducted on the Radio “Says Moscow”. The Pioneer-FM radio was published by the program “He and She”. The performance of Andrei Kovalev is incredible - only in years dozens of new clips with the participation of popular actors and actresses: “Road” with Alexei Panin and Vladimir Gostyukhin, “Airports” with Anastasia Panina, “And I dream of your eyes” with Agatha Mutsenitsa, “My Woman” with Elena Korikova, God, “And I have everything I dream of a goddess” reached years.

This ”with Olesya Sudzilovskaya and others. The video“ Forgot ”and“ Marta ”became very popular on the Internet - on the YouTube resource. The freshest video - the video for the song “This will not be erased from memory” - is notable for the fact that the popular actress, the heroine of the series “University” - Nastasya Samburskaya, was shot in it. In addition to writing songs, Andrei Kovalev released four collections of poems: the book “Pearls and velvet” was published in the year, “Heaven blue” - in the year, the collection “You alone” - in April of the year, and the book “Only Love can save” in March of the year.

Now Andrei Kovalev is working on the fifth book of poems. Andrei tried himself as a film producer. The film "Cook", directed by Yaroslav Chevazhevsky, was successful on the screens of our country. Noteworthy facts Andrei Kovalev are an active opponent of singing under the phonogram. He himself always sings live, to which he calls on other representatives of the musical community.

An important initiative of Andrei Kovalev as a deputy of the Moscow City Duma was the draft law on the ban on the phonogram. But there are still achievements: a decree is adopted, according to which at all concerts in Moscow, held using budget money, there can only be a lively sound, ”says Andrey Kovalev. Today Andrei is actively concerts throughout Russia. The concert program of Andrei Kovalev is accepted “with a bang” and a multi -thousandth audience of the City Day and the elite public of a custom -made event.

The program includes the best lyrical compositions of the singer and composer, written in recent years - “forgot”, “airports”, “only love can save”, “I am not a hero”, “my woman”, “airports”, “this will not erect from memory”, “sky blue”, “man and a woman”, “9 months”, “salt, tequila and a slice of lime”, etc. Andrey Kovalev is a national artist of the Republic of Ingushetia!

Andrei Kovalev wrote the song “Glory of Russia”, which is very popular. Andrei Kovalev gave several concerts for military personnel on the basis of Khmeimim in Syria. Andrei Kovalev was awarded with an honorary diploma for his contribution to the aesthetic and cultural and moral education of military personnel Odon. E Dzerzhinsky.