Sergey Selyunin died

January 11 in St. Petersburg at the age of 62, the rock musician, the leader of the group “Exit” Sergey “Silya” Selyunin, died.

It is reported by Fontanka.ru .

Sergei Gennadievich Selyunin was born in 1958 in Tallinn, composed songs since the late 1970s, and collaborated with student rock groups during his studies at Leningrad State University. The debut of the “Exit” group founded in 1982 on the stage of the Leningrad rock club in one concert with Kino and Strange Games. In addition to Sergei Selyunin (guitar, vocals, bass), the first composition of the group included Alexander Andreev (guitar, bass), Mikhail Brook (percussia), Andrei Zazudovsky (violin, guitar), Yuri Dishlov (guitar), Vladimir Zakharov (piano).

In the summer of 1982, the “output” recorded his first magneto -album “Brother Isaiah”, among which were hits such as “Brother Isaiah” , “strange people” , “afternoon dream” and “vandalism” .

The “brother of Isaiah” was followed by several more magneto -albums. In 1986, Sergei Selyunin moved to Moscow, where he gathered a new composition of the group. In 1989, he returned to Leningrad and released a joint album with the musicians of Aquarium, Aquarium and Sil. In 1990, the “output” was transformed into a new, acoustic format: Oleg Sakmarov (flute, saxophone) and Pyotr Akimov (cello), who played in the Gluck Club Glucian group, joined Sergei Selyunin. This composition recorded the first professional album of “output”, “continuity of simple things”.

Over the years of the existence of the “Exit” group, about two hundred musicians played in it, 19 albums were recorded. In addition, Sergey Selyunin performed with solo concerts. In 2019, the musician published a humorous book about Russian Rock and about himself “How Rock-N Roll appeared.”