Running in life

Valery Yakovlevich Leontyev will not give 65 years lived in the Russian Federation. He goes on stage with a springy gait. He stands under the sofits in a cast pose, as if under tattooed skin it is all -metal, like a terminator. The figure of the athlete, the posture of the gymnast, the teeth of snowy white. Only the skin, veins in his hands and the hands of the hard workers themselves-speak of his venerable age and difficult biography of the Soviet-Russian artist, which reflects the difficult history of our country: post-war childhood, which was also held in the yurt (Leontyev’s father is a deer-zootechnician, transferred from Sakhalin in Komi), a musical school, a brick factory, a Vorkuta Mountain Institute Syktyvkarskaya and Voroshilovgrad Philharmonic with visiting concerts in district villages and villages, monthly tour in Afghanistan-84 covered by the war, so on, and so on, and so on.

Valery Yakovlevich Leontyev saw a lot - sorry, he sparingly shares his memories and does not like social networks. Since 1979, when his all -Union career began, he repeatedly traveled one sixth of the land and other countries. And it does not reduce the once specified pace: in the anniversary March, 9 concerts were scheduled for him, a month later, in May-15, from Yakutsk to Israel. It should be borne in mind that the concert of 65-year-old Leontiev is two and a half hours of dancing with dressing, endless PA with ballet and even persistent in his arms. The load for the champions. What is hypodynamia, which the Soviet country learned about in the mid-1980s from the song of Leontyev, is still unknown to him:

Valery Leontyev sang movement and dancing. For this he was loved in the USSR, where artists were ordered to stand for a long time. Leontyev began with the "dance hour in the sun" , for which he received the first award of the International Festival "Golden Orpheus - 1980". The “spiral and turbulent” voice of the singer made acrobatic tricks, juggling the complex stanza of Semyon Kirsanov and without getting down from the intricate rhythm, set by David Tukhmanov. On the cover of the vinyl minion with this song released by the company "Melody" in the footsteps of the competition, the name of the singer is largely written in English: Valery Leonties . He himself, not in a Soviet way of dressed and belted, flooding his head in his head, flies somewhere by a prominent-flies in the same direction as the then-popular Boney M disco, on the album “ Nightflight to Venus” .

In terms of appearance and vote, Valery Leontyeva most in the Soviet Union was a disco. In his performance, it looked as organic as possible. The first vinyl giant of the singer, “Muse” (1982), moves in a disco-rhythm-even in the patriotic “beloved side” and the gypsy romance “there, in September” the Grus pulsates. The “muse” by Leontiev is a frisky and restless, it is like the Pushkin stanza - “either the camp will vow, then will develop and the leg beats with a quick leg.”

The album starts with the “Deltplan flight”, which became an exemplary Soviet disco at. The flexible and plastic voice of the singer soars up almost upward. “Flight on the Deltplane” turned out to be almost accidental - the radio editor persuaded Leontiev to write down the song to the music of Edward Artemyev from the film “Related”, in which the young heroine ran away from family dramas to the song Boney M “ Sunny” . The light wing of the Artemyevsky Deltplan, dispersed by Leontiev’s voice, like Sunny , still takes people from the dance floor directly to the sky. It is funny that for a long time Leontiev forgot about the existence of Deltplan, did not perform a song at concerts and remembered it only in the 2000s, when he found out that the remixes of DJs were doing her and she lives her own club life.

After Valery Leontyev, there were many different dances in discography: cancan, tango, twist, rock and roll, boogies-wools, salsa, waltz-solitary, paired and collective, intimate and sports dancing. The artist loves to dance and generally synchronous movement, because, as you know, movement is life. “Everyone runs, runs, runs, running, running, running ...” - Leontyev sang in one of his main Soviet hits and always fled the fastest. He still runs, now-from age: on his last album “Love-Capcan”, released for the 65th anniversary, young rhythms sound.

The artist is a hostage to his public. From her, he does not hide on any deltaplane.

Leontiev sang not only songs about dancing and for dancing. At the beginning of his career, along with the disco, “discs are circling” and “who is to blame”, he masterfully performed Tukhman experiments in the art clock of the “memory of the guitarist” and “memory of the poet”, composed on the verses of Rozhdestvensky and Voznesensky. In 1984, the singer performed with the concert program “Running through life” : it was given the name of a surreal song about a runner, running past his love and her star hour-it was practically hard rock, which was then fought in the USSR. In perestroika, he sang the socio-critical songs of Igor Talkov-a desperate “Afghan wind” and the caustic “bandaged foreheads” . Then he soloed in the rock-muzik “Jordano”, in which he simultaneously played three main roles-Giordano Bruno, the Jester and Satan. But time showed that with all the wealth of professional capabilities and universality of the gift of the public, he was nicer for the muskut power of the voice and the muscular relief. In the eighties, she fell in love with the singer-athletus, who was not shy about showing her sexuality, and an extravagant lady's saint and did not want to part with this way. Indulging the audience, in the rampant 1990s, the supercrofessional Valery Leontyev, who called himself “animals for the stage” , turned into a kind of alpha singer, pop-Kazanov, who brought the show-ballet and stubbornly atmosphere a strip club into each corner of the vast and uncomfortable country. “Come on, girls,” the singer in leather shorts on lightning hinted ironically from the stage, but the “girls” in the hall could not be saturated:

The artist is a hostage to his public. From her, he does not hide on any deltaplane. Although in the mid-1990s, Leontyev nearly ran away from his audience (as in the song “I am running through life”) and still recalls it with anxiety. Under the leadership of the wayward genius of Yuri Chernavsky, he recorded two records on the American studios-“On the way to Hollywood” and “Santa Barbara”, which now, after almost 20 years, sound more difficult and better than the standard Russian pop production. The audience did not accept the experiment, despite the expensive show with special effects and a half -naked cor deucadian. In a recent interview with Boris Barabanov from Kommersant, Valery Leontyev said that he was erased by a polite misunderstanding of the hall, which was waiting at the concerts of the “traffic lights” and “Deltaplan”: “I broke. I stopped carrying this program (“On the way to Hollywood.” - Ed. ) And made a more dummy mix of the old and new. I would like to receive applause for my work, and I began to receive them. It became easier for me to live. ”

In the same interview, Valery Leontyev makes several sad conclusions about the state of Russian pop culture and society-there is nothing to sing and in general for anyone: “Now, probably, you should not delve into history and find out why we are such, and not some others. When, carefully, interesting harmonies were etched from consciousness, when only the most trivial melodic lines were vaccinated from childhood, how could one come to a variety of genres and performers? This is all the result of our historical development. Social and, as a result, musical. ”

The circle of Russian history is closed, and running along it does not stop. The place of frank Soviet censorship on radio and TV, because of which we now represent Leontiev only according to Deltaplan and Traffic Light, now occupied the invisible-censorship of commercial formats and self-censorship. In 1979, the “Dance Hour in the Sun” was thrown out of the “blue light” for unknown reasons, for a television and radio anestr of the 2014 model, it is simply too complicated- even in an adapted version . A quarter -century prescription, the song “bandaged foreheads” sounds as if it were written yesterday and could be cut in the intense air, but Valery Leontyev will not be at the anniversary concerts. The audience does not expect it, and why spoil the holiday with sad thoughts? Let's better dance.