The ex-soloist of the Lesopoval group invited Antenna to his house, where he lives with his wife Ekaterina, three dogs, two cats, four parrots and a rat.
February 1 2017
I decided to leave the Lesopoval group in 2008 after the death of its founder Mikhail Tanich. By that time, the popularity of the group was slowly dwindling, the concerts were getting smaller and smaller, the halls were gathering incomplete. It was felt that “Lesopoval” had outlived its usefulness. And I realized: it’s time to leave. Yes, and Katya pushed me …
I told Seryozha: “If you want to continue working in this team, work. But there is no future here. ” For which in the end I paid.
By itself. When I started my solo career, I had to face a huge number of difficulties that Tanich had previously solved. Customers called him, he agreed on sites, dates. And then I had to organize everything myself. And where to run, who to call, where to start? It was then that Katya rashly blurted out that she was to blame for being out of work.
To which I remarked: “Time will pass, you will thank me again.”
Then it was decided that Katya would become my director. She somehow quickly grabbed everything, met the right people, began to build relationships …
Our first solo concert took place six months later. And I liked everything so much! I realized that this is a vocation. When I was young, I went on tour with Serezha and Lesopoval, I saw how their director was cheating …
Now I understand that the wife-director is the ideal option. Who can I trust one hundred percent if not my wife? They say that the director receives 10% of the proceeds from the concert from the artist. I confess that I wouldn’t do it even for half the fee. You are constantly dependent on the people who call. You have no personal time. Katka is just a heroine! And she believed from the very beginning that everything would be fine. And I doubted even after the concerts went on. Because it is very difficult to achieve popularity a second time, and rarely does anyone succeed. After all, everyone involuntarily compares you to who you were before: the lead singer of the Lesopoval group. And this train lasts for many years. However, now I am already perceived as a separate creative unit.
When people are together for 24 hours, there is no time for surprises. Gifts turn into ordinary purchases, let’s go, they say, we’ll buy you this thing. And you say: a gift. To go shopping alone, you have to come up with some good reason. I don’t know how to lie and don’t want to. So we even go shopping together. And we use one phone for two. Both for work and personal matters. Serezha’s friends call me and ask to call him to the phone.
As a last resort, I have a tablet, so if Katya and I suddenly left, I can write her a message from it.
Katya and I met at the end of 2006 in Los Angeles.
I was sent there from the institute to practice journalism. By the time of the meeting with Serezha, she had already lived in America for about two months. One day my editor says: “The Lesopoval group is coming. What kind of group it was, I had no idea. It seemed that they had some kind of criminal theme … But my boss asked the guys to meet, feed, show the city.
Katerina was made responsible for the group. She was very young. How old were you then? Years 20.
21. I must admit that after the first meeting, Sergei did not interest me in any way. It always seemed to me that artists are windy people. And I told myself that I would never have such a husband. This is what it means to never say never. The guys left, and Serezha and I began to call back. Once he said: “That’s it. Stop sitting in America. Come to Moscow”. I arrived, met several times at his concerts, and after one of them Serega says: “Let’s go, I’ll show you the house.” That’s all.
I just recently caught myself thinking that 10 years have passed. They flew by so quickly and interestingly, we did not have any crises, pauses, nobody bothered anyone … But we are together for 24 hours. Time flies by with a smart person. It is very easy for me personally with Serezha.
For a long time we lived without any stamps in our passports and did not even think about it. Until the need arose. Increasingly, questions began to arise as to why, for example, Seryozha entered into an agreement for a stranger with a different surname.
So in 2012 we went and got married.
And so many times they postponed, postponed the date because of the tour. They already called us from the registry office: “Guys, what are you doing?”
As a result, they rushed there from the airport, having flown in from the Far East. And a day later they went to our house in Montenegro.
No lavish celebrations, white dresses, we don’t even have a photo.
Yes, I have a son, Neil, who will be 18 in February. But, frankly, my fatherly feelings never woke up in me. I don’t know what it’s connected with. We don’t even communicate. He lives with his mother in Latvia …
He has his own life there, a different family. At one time we tried to establish communication, but Neil, on his part, did not show any initiative.
You can’t be cute. It can be seen until we found the intersection point. He’s not a musician, thank God.
The second musician in the family is too much. I am also often asked: “Do you want to sing a duet with your husband?” I say: “I can’t.”
Do not need. There must be a fighter on the invisible front.
It is difficult for two creative units to live together in the same territory. Each with their own cockroaches. And someone has to keep a sober head.
Do you understand now who is the boss?