Andrey Kovalev: biography, personal life, family, songs, musical career and photos. Andrey Kovalev: biography, career and family Composer Andrey Kovalev

Andrey Kovalev has long been known not only as a popular performer, but also as a poet, composer, TV host, active public figure, and politician. Being a singer himself, he, nevertheless, defends the interests of listeners and spectators for quality music. Himself always performing live, he also encourages other performers. His patronage is also noticeable in relation to young musicians, to whom he provides all possible support. Of course, over the long years of his career, Andrei Kovalev has become far from being a poor man. All these qualities, coupled with a presentable appearance, cannot leave women indifferent. Among the admirers of the talent of the singer are ladies of absolutely different ages. Andrey Kovalev's wife, of course, it is difficult to withstand the onslaught of loving fans. If, of course, he has it.

A well-known fact is that the 58-year-old poet and musician was already officially married. His first wife's name is Natalya. From the union of these two people, a daughter, Julia, was born, who is currently 25 years old. As they write in various publications, despite the fact that the marriage broke up, the first wife of Andrei Kovalev was not left without a livelihood - the singer, poet and musician gave her a thriving business at her disposal (the Ecooffice company), which Natalya now manages. Andrey Kovalev himself is engaged only in a solo career. Taking into account the fact that today the singer is absolutely free and, in principle, looking at his photo you will not give him his actual age, Andrey Kovalev is quite an enviable groom.

It is all the more enviable for a girl who came from the Russian hinterland and with difficulty and colossal efforts is storming the domestic show business. This is how critics and spiteful critics characterize Svetlana Kuritsyna, the singer's chosen one. I would like to note that the girl has already achieved some noticeable results in her desire to settle in Moscow. She is the host of one of the channels with a very large audience (NTV). And she did it completely on her own. Of course, many may not like her as a media person, but a bad opinion is also an opinion. And in show business, the main thing is to be discussed, and in what context is a secondary matter.

Moreover, Andrei Kovalev repeatedly emphasized that he chose Svetlana Kuritsyna as his wife, because, unlike socialites, she has an open and kind soul. In general, the singer was bribed by the same simple naivety that brought the girl to television. In June 2013, Andrey Kovalev, as if to prove the seriousness of his intentions towards Svetlana Kuritsyna, went with his beloved home to her parents. At that time, he was absolutely sure that he wanted to make her his wife. Unfortunately, two years have passed since then, and there has not yet been a message about the wedding. Therefore, it is not known whether this is a real relationship, or just mutual PR.

Andrey Kovalev is a Russian singer, poet, composer, producer, radio and TV presenter, in the recent past the leader of the Pilgrim group, an organizer of rock festivals. In 2005-2008 he held rock festivals “Glory to Russia! Glory to Moscow!”, “Glory to Russia! Glory to the Eagle! and “Glory to Russia! Glory to Nizhny Novgorod! At the largest of them in Moscow, the number of spectators reached 40,000. He is the organizer of the festival for young groups "On the Fly!", created and finances free rehearsal venues for young groups. Since 2011, he has been engaged in a solo career, performing lyrical compositions.

Family and education

Andrey Kovalev was born in Moscow in the family of a military man and an opera singer. Andrei's mother sang at the Bolshoi Theater for 35 years, his father is a colonel in the Soviet Army.

Mom always actively introduced her son to music. Violin, cello, double bass - four hours of lessons every day. However, dad, a colonel in the Soviet Army, saw Andrei in a more courageous profession and gave his son a motorcycle. After a close acquaintance with technology, Andrey got excited about the idea of becoming an engineer. In 1979 he graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute (MADI), worked at a secure enterprise, continued to ride a motorcycle, and participated in motocross competitions. Later, fascinated by sculpture, the first time he entered the Stroganov School, one of the oldest art schools in the USSR in the field of industrial, monumental, decorative and applied art and interior art.

Musical career

For a long time, Andrei did not even think about studying music. The source of inspiration turned out to be as old as the world: great and pure love. Moreover, as it often happens, love is not easy and far from a happy ending. When Andrei sang his debut compositions to fellow musicians, the reaction of professionals was positive. So the idea to take a musical career seriously arose. Since 2006, Andrei Kovalev has been the frontman of the Pilgrim group, since 2011 he has been a solo artist. According to the established tradition, solo concerts of the performer are held in the Moscow club "Alma Mater" and "Variety Theatre", gathering full halls of fans of Andrei Kovalev's work.

Rock band "Pilgrim"

The history of the rock group "Pilgrim" began when Andrey Kovalev was still a student. Like-minded students of MADI organized VIA. Andrey Kovalev played the bass guitar. The musician recalls: “Our group was called Wings of Anger, later Rus. At almost every festival we had a new name, and so it went on until I accidentally met the same guitarist who suggested that we return the old name "Pilgrim". And on the same day I wrote the song "Pilgrim".

In October 2006, the presentation of the video of the group "Pilgrim" for the song of the same name, which became the first single of the future album in the style of hard rock, took place. The video, which was shot by the famous director Alexander Solokha, contains a lot of high-quality computer graphics that turned a gloomy reality into a fantastic world of the future.

At the 2007 international rock festival BASINFIREFEST, which was held in the Czech Republic, Kovalev and his group "Pilgrim" represented Russia.

Opponent of the phonogram

It is noteworthy that all Andrey Kovalev's concerts are performed live. The singer is an ardent opponent of the phonogram. He is a co-author of the Moscow bill "On the procedure for informing consumers when using a phonogram", the initiator of concerts on City Day 2006 "Pops without a phonorama", concerts of Russian pop stars "We are for live sound!".

“Unfortunately, the law did not pass,” Andrey Kovalev comments, “but I think that the main thing is a certain moral component. Then everyone said - who needs this live sound ?! Television, all central channels - there will never be live sound. Everyone said, including journalists, that people come only to look at the stars, and what he sings, how he sings - it was absolutely unimportant. And if you look now at the top five most paid musicians - these are those who only sing live! There are no plywood workers among them! If you look at the most rated projects, for example, “Voice” on Channel One, everyone also sings only live. Here you are - on the TV channel "Russia 1" "Factor A" with Alla Borisovna Pugacheva - only live! RU TV award, MUZ TV - they defiantly announced - only live! On the "New Wave" Igor Krutoy announced that this year there would be only live sound, and immediately half of the stars were eliminated! Those past my undertakings are now being actively implemented today, as you can see. And now the thought is widely spreading: It's a shame to sing under the plywood!

In addition, Andrey Kovalev is the organizer and inspirer of the live music tours "Glory to Russia!". In the capital twice - in 2005 and 2006. – Powerful rock festivals “Glory to Russia! Glory to Moscow!”, in the summer of 2006 rock festivals “Glory to Russia! Glory to the Eagle! and “Glory to Russia! Glory to Nizhny Novgorod!

Albums and star duets

In 2004, the debut album "Salt, Tequila and a Slice of Lime" was released, named after the hit that the public loved. The plot of the video for this song is borrowed from Robert Rodriguez's tape "Desperado": "el mariacho" confronts a gang of bikers. As the singer admits, this action is very close to him and partly resembles his own biography. The video, directed by Alexander Solokha, uses Andrey Kovalev's own Harley Davidson and his rare 1964 Cadillac convertible.

The second album, titled Sky Xin, was released in 2005. The audience also remembered the bright video clips "Salt, tequila and a slice of lime" (2004), "New Year's Tale" (2004), "Spring of the 45th" (2005), "Sky Blue" (2005), which entered the hot rotation on many TV channels.

In 2006, Andrei Kovalev, together with Diana Gurtskaya, recorded the duet composition "Nine Months" (music by Kim Breitburg, lyrics by Ilya Reznik). The song, dedicated to young mothers, became the soundtrack to the film of the same name, aired on Channel One. Some time later, the song became a real hit, occupying the top lines of the charts of many radio stations for many months. Seven years later, the song is still heard on radio stations, breaking a kind of national love record.

Andrey Kovalev managed to record duets with very famous pop artists: Sasha Project (“Song of Santa Claus”), Lyubasha (“Falling”), the Tutsi group (“Train of Love”), Katya Lel (“Man and Woman”, “ New Year's story") and rapper Loc-Dog ("Slowly it snowed"). Several songs by Andrei Kovalev are performed by Danko and Katya Lel.

Video clips

Pamela Anderson starred in the Roar of Engines (2008) sketch, which is a mini-movie. The musician recalls: “I have been friends with Pamela Anderson for a long time. I even wrote a song about her, revealing the history of our relationship. The last two lines there are: “If you don’t return to Moscow, I’ll cheat on you with Lady Gaga.” Pamela was married twice, but never wore a wedding dress, and she never had a real wedding. Therefore, when she found out that she was offered to appear in a wedding dress, she immediately agreed to participate. In addition, she liked our song “Roar of Engines”.

Dolph Lundgren starred in another video for Pilgrim (Don't Extinguish the Candle, 2009). In his interviews, Andrey Kovalev says: “Dolph Lundgren called and said that he was filming the film “Command Performance” and wanted us to play ourselves there. He chose one of our songs, which we performed in the film. There, according to the plot, at a music festival, terrorists seized hostages, including the president of Russia - he shoots at bandits from a machine gun in the picture ... And we made our video after filming based on frames from the film.

In 2009, the video clip "Judas" was released, filmed in collaboration with the band Apocalyptica.

In 2011-2012, 12 new clips were released on the screens of the leading music channels in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: “Martha”, “Forgotten”, “If only you could”, “Fly”, “Maple Leaf”, “I will be all my life wait for you”, “I’m not a hero”, “Pamela”, “My woman” with Elena Korikova, “God given to me”, which starred theater and film actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya, “Give me back that fire” with the participation of Olga Budina and New Year video for the song "It's snowing."

In May 2013, he received the title "Klipoman of the Year", having won in one of the nominations of the prestigious music award of the RU.TV channel for the record number of clips shot in a year (9 video works).

In 2013, Agata Muceniece, the lead actress in the TV series Closed School, took part in the shooting of Andrey Kovalev's video for the song “And I keep dreaming about your eyes”. Andrey also shot a video in memory of actor Vlad Galkin with Vladimir Gostyukhin and Alexei Panin in the lead roles.

Poetry

To date, Kovalev is known for many creative endeavors. He wrote about 700 songs of different genres - from rock ballads to romances. Simultaneously with the songs, verses appeared, which were noticed in the poetic community. A book of lyrics "Pearls and Velvet" (2004) was released. In the preface to Kovalev's book of poems, the famous Moscow writer Alexander Govorov writes: “He is obliged to come to the reader like a lyric poet! I am proud that I had the honor to present the first book of lyrics by Andrey Kovalev, and a smart and supportive reader will appreciate it himself ... ". In 2006, a collection of poems "The sky is blue" was released. In 2012, the publishing house "Academy of Poetry" released the third collection of poems "To You Alone".

“All my songs and poems are my life! - comments Andrey Kovalev. - Of course, through the prism of creativity, but still it is in poetry and songs. That is why, probably, it catches people - after all, this creativity is not invented, but it is experienced! Unrequited love, in my opinion, is the best engine of creativity!”

Television and radio

Andrey Kovalev hosted a number of programs on television and radio, including: the author's program on the radio “Moscow Speaks”, “Formula for Success” (channel “Capital”), “Man and Woman” (radio “Pops”), “Live Sound” (Public Russian radio). Today Andrei is himself a regular guest of various television talk shows and guest broadcasts on many radio stations.

Charity

As a deputy of the Moscow City Duma, Andrey Kovalev (2005-2009) initiated concerts in Moscow on the City Day in 2006 "Pop music without a phonogram". As a deputy, Andrey remarked in his public speeches: “Why doesn’t anyone in America or Germany sing to a phonogram? Because, if someone takes a risk, then everything else he will become the object of the most cruel ridicule - the Western press smears such performers on the wall.

Under his patronage, there were performances by Russian pop stars “We are for live sound!”. Andrey Kovalev was the organizer of a number of musical events, including the touring patriotic rock festival Slava Rossii, the festival for young bands Take Off!, and concerts by the Master group.

In Moscow, Andrei Kovalev provided five free rehearsal facilities for young musicians. These bases are equipped with all musical instruments necessary for rehearsal. “I invite all young musicians to conduct their rehearsal absolutely free of charge,” Andrey Kovalev says in each interview. - I'm sure that future Metallica or Iron Maiden rehearse at these bases. Those for whom music is a hobby also come. Here the main thing is different - people have an outlet! There is an opportunity to make music, even if their dad is not an oligarch.”

Andrey Kovalev takes an active part in numerous charity concerts and events aimed at social support of Moscow residents, students of boarding schools for orphans and children left without parental care, pupils of the Preobrazhensky Cadet Corps, war and labor veterans, large families, single mothers and others categories of socially vulnerable citizens.

In 2005, Andrey Kovalev accused Neftyanoy Bank of raider seizure of a blocking stake in Auto-Prestige 1.

Andrei Kovalev is the godfather of Emilia, daughter of Katya Lel (godmother - Lyudmila Narusova) and Ivan, son of Stepan Menshchikov.

On June 30, 2010, attackers stole the musician's exclusive bike, which was assembled by special order in the most famous tuning studio in Europe, Fred Kodlin. The motorcycle was soon found.

Among the fans of creativity, even fans of 86 years old are noted.

In May 2013, Andrei Kovalev accused two top managers of Rosbank, Chairman of the Board Vladimir Golubkov and Senior Vice President Tamara Polyanitsyna, of extorting a bribe of $1.5 million to prolong the loan agreement, reduce the loan rate and the amount of monthly payments. On May 15, Golubkov and Polyanitsina were formally charged.

In 2013, Andrey Kovalev received the title of "Klipoman of the Year", having won in one of the nominations of the prestigious music award of the RU.TV channel for the record number of clips shot in a year (9 video works).

In 2013, Andrei lost 25 kg of excess weight. Leads a healthy lifestyle, is engaged in fitness.

Andrey Kovalev believes that the main thing in life is love. “She (love) is more important than work, career, worldly affairs,” says the singer. “Even if it is unrequited, love is still a great happiness!”

More than 300 songs have been recorded in the studio by Andrey Kovalev, and in general his repertoire includes more than 700 compositions. There are many poems that did not become songs. These are 4 collections. Andrey Kovalev records all new songs on his phone.

Andrey Kovalev collects turtles from different countries. “Everything happened by chance with the turtles,” Andrey says. - A friend gave one turtle, then another one, then a third. Then he himself saw another cool one on a trip. And off we go! All my friends now who come from abroad give me turtles, for my birthday they give me only turtles. The collection is growing so fast that there is nowhere to put the turtles.”

Discography

As part of the Pilgrim group

2007 - "Glory to Russia"

2008 - "There is no choice"

2008 - Concert in the Rain (DVD)

2009 - "Trizzy $" (single)

Solo career

2004 - "Salt, tequila ..."

2005 - "The sky is blue"

2007 - "Nine Months", "Man and Woman", "Ice and Fire"

2008 - "Romances"

2008 - "The Best Songs of Andrey Kovalev"

2012 - "My Woman"

Andrey Kovalev was born in Moscow in the family of a military man and an opera singer. Andrei's mother sang at the Bolshoi Theater for 35 years, his father is a colonel in the Soviet Army.

Divorced, daughter born in 1990

Education

Andrei mastered musical instruments in the preschool period: "violin, cello, double bass - four hours of lessons every day." After school, Andrei planned to enter the school at the Conservatory in the double bass class. However, fate decreed otherwise and he graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute. Later, carried away by sculpture, he entered the Stroganov Higher Art School, where he studied for several years.

Business and charity

In the late 80s, Andrei Kovalev organized the Prestige company for the sale of furniture. At the same time, he led a political career, was the Deputy Department of the Forest Fund, a member of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy.

In the late 1990s - early 2000s, he began to create large business centers on the territories of Moscow factories that were closing, reconstructing them according to his own sketches.

In August 2007, Andrei Kovalev bought three unprofitable pasta factories in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Smolensk, as well as the Extra M and Noble trademarks. The deal amounted to $55 million.

In 2008, he created the 1Rock media holding, which included the 1Rock rock club (the current name of the club is Pipl), the 1Rock magazine, a satellite TV channel, an Internet portal and a radio station dedicated to rock music. In 2010 the project was closed.

Andrei Kovalev actively participates in charity concerts and events aimed at social support of Moscow residents, helps students of boarding schools for orphans, pupils of the Preobrazhensky Cadet Corps, war and labor veterans, single mothers and other representatives of the categories of socially unprotected citizens.

Musical career

With the Finnish team "Apocalyptic"

In his student years, he played the bass guitar in the Pilgrim band. The musician himself recalls:

Our own group was called Wings of Anger, later Rus. At almost every festival we had a new name, and so it went on until I accidentally met the same guitarist who suggested that we return the old name "Pilgrim". And on the same day I wrote the song "Pilgrim" ... We performed more and more music "Deep Purple"

In 2004, Andrei Kovalev resumed his creative career, again began to write poetry and songs. He released several solo albums, recorded duets with a number of famous pop artists (Lyubasha, Sasha project, Katya Lel, Tutsi), which were actively broadcast on leading TV channels. Several songs by Andrei Kovalev are performed by pop stars (Danko and Katya Lel). In 2006, together with Diana Gurtskaya, he recorded the duet "Nine Months" (music by Kim Breitburg, lyrics by Ilya Reznik). The song, dedicated to young mothers, was included in the soundtrack of the film of the same name. The work was appreciated by Alla Pugacheva.

In 2006, Andrei Kovalev became interested in heavy metal, recreated the Pilgrim group. In 2007, at the BASINFIREFEST rock festival (Czech Republic), Andrey Kovalev and his "Pilgrim" represented Russia. In 2008, guitarist Alexei Strike and drummer Alexander Karpukhin moved to Pilgrim after a split in the Master group. The band has released several heavy metal albums.

In 2005-2008 he held rock festivals “Glory to Russia! Glory to Moscow!”, “Glory to Russia! Glory to the Eagle! and “Glory to Russia! Glory to Nizhny Novgorod! At the largest of them in Moscow, the number of spectators reached 40,000.

He is the organizer of the festival for young groups "On the rise!", created and finances free rehearsal venues for his bands.

In 2011, the artist resumed his solo career and returned to creating and performing lyrical compositions.

Video clips

The team with Pamela after filming the video

Andrey Kovalev, talking about the work on the video “Salt, tequila and a slice of lime” (directed by Alexander Solokha and cameraman Eduard Mashkovich, 2004), which involved the author’s own Harley Davidson and a rare 1964 Cadillac convertible, noted that the plot borrowed from Robert Rodriguez's "Desperado": "el mariacho" confronts a biker gang:

“Despite some comical hyperbole, this ‘action’ is very close to me and kind of reminds me of my biography”

Along with the passion for "heavy" music, Kovalev is fond of riding bikes, which, like the passion for music, is rooted in his childhood, when his father-colonel gave him a Tula scooter. The biker theme is the leitmotif of many video clips of the Kovalev team. Pamela Anderson starred in the sketch "Roar of Engines" (year of release of the video - 2008), which is a mini-movie. The musician recalls:

I have been friends with Pamela Anderson for a long time. I even wrote a song about her, revealing the history of our relationship. The last two lines there are: “If you don’t return to Moscow, I’ll cheat on you with Lady Gaga.” Pamela was married twice, but never wore a wedding dress, and she never had a real wedding. Therefore, when she found out that she was offered to appear in a wedding dress, she immediately agreed to participate. In addition, she liked our song “Roar of Engines”.

Dolph Lundgren starred in another video for Pilgrim (Don't Extinguish the Candle, 2009). In his interviews Andrey Kovalev says:

Dolph Lundgren called and said that he was making a film "Command Performance" and wanted us to play ourselves there. He chose one of our songs, which we performed in the film. There, according to the plot, at a music festival, terrorists seized hostages, including the president of Russia - in the picture he shoots at bandits with a machine gun ... And we made our video after filming based on frames from the film.

In 2009, the video clip "Judas" was released, filmed in collaboration with the band Apocalyptica.

Poetry

Andrey Kovalev is the author of music and lyrics for most of his songs (he wrote more than 600 songs in different styles). In 2004 he published a book of poems "Pearls and Velvet", in 2006 - "The Sky is Blue". In April 2012, a collection of poems "To You Alone" was published.

Television and radio

Andrey Kovalev hosted a number of programs on television and radio, including:

"Formula of Success" (channel "Capital"),

"Man and Woman" (radio "Pops"),

"Live sound" (Public Russian radio).

Policy

In 2005-2009 Member of the Moscow City Duma.

In politics, Kovalev is known for promoting a bill to ban the use of a phonogram (co-author of the Moscow bill "On the procedure for informing consumers when using a phonogram"), as well as the fight against audio piracy. In this endeavor, he was supported by well-known domestic musicians, including Alexander Gradsky.

The deputy himself remarked in his public speeches:

Why in America or in Germany no one sings to the phonogram? Because, if someone takes a risk, then everything else he will become the object of the most severe ridicule - the Western press smears such performers on the wall.

When asked if the fighter against “plywood” is afraid of infringing on the financial interests of show business players and “repeating the sad fate of banker Andrei Kozlov or singer Abraham Russo,” the deputy replied:

I have good security, and in general I'm only afraid of colds. In general, there are a lot of dishonorable people in show business. No other business has that many. Black cash, bribery and shootouts remained in the 80s and 90s with red jackets, and only in show business did these birthmarks remain. We must eliminate them!

As a deputy, Andrey Kovalev initiated concerts in Moscow on the City Day in 2006 "Pop music without a phonogram".

Under his patronage, there were performances by Russian pop stars “We are for live sound!”.

Andrey Kovalev was the organizer of a number of musical events, including the touring patriotic rock festival Slava Rossii, the festival for young bands Take Off!, and concerts by the Master group.

Criticism

The personality and work of Andrei Kovalev is actively covered in the media, receiving conflicting reviews from journalists and critics.

Viktor Shenderovich published several devastating articles about the Pilgrim group, where he wrote that Kovalev's songs and performance lacked a soul, and “instead of a meaningful action, there was a vulgar show designed for a foolish public. And excesses of temperament break out of the wrong places. Also, the journalist was extremely dissatisfied with the remake of Viktor Tsoi's song "Change".

Nikolai Fandeev has the same opinion about Kovalev. Reviewing the album Sky Blue, he wrote that it was "a futile attempt by an unlucky singer to perform a mixture of restaurant music and tasteless Soviet pop music of the 70s of the last century."

Sonya Sokolova assesses Andrey Kovalev and the results of his creative work more positively: “Andrey Kovalev does everything very, very well: some of the best arrangers and musicians work with him, he organizes festivals and actively helps young bands, and at the same time became a co-owner of a large news agency ”,“ if you look at Kovalev more closely, you understand: in front of you is a person who has very skillfully and humorously constructed a public image for himself and painstakingly working for him.

Many neutral and positive publications are devoted to the fight against phonogram performances.

Andrei Kovalev is the godfather of Emilia, daughter of Katya Lel (godmother - Lyudmila Narusova).

On June 30, 2010, attackers stole the musician's exclusive bike, which was assembled by special order in the most famous tuning studio in Europe, Fred Kodlin. The motorcycle was soon found.

Andrey Kovalev is a Russian singer, poet, composer, producer, radio and TV presenter, in the recent past the leader of the Pilgrim group, and the organizer of rock festivals. In 2005-2008 he held rock festivals “Glory to Russia! Glory to Moscow!”, “Glory to Russia! Glory to the Eagle! and “Glory to Russia! Glory to Nizhny Novgorod! At the largest of them in Moscow, the number of spectators reached 40,000. He is the organizer of the festival for young groups "On the Fly!", created and finances free rehearsal venues for young groups. Since 2011, he has been engaged in a solo career, performing lyrical compositions.

Family and education

Andrey Kovalev was born in Moscow in the family of a military man and an opera singer. Andrei's mother sang at the Bolshoi Theater for 35 years, his father is a colonel in the Soviet Army.

Musical career

For a long time, Andrei did not even think about studying music. The source of inspiration turned out to be as old as the world: great and pure love. Moreover, as it often happens, love is not easy and far from a happy ending. When Andrei sang his debut compositions to fellow musicians, the reaction of professionals was positive. So the idea to take a musical career seriously arose. Since 2006, Andrei Kovalev has been the frontman of the Pilgrim group, since 2011 - a solo artist. According to the established tradition, solo concerts of the performer are held in the Moscow club "Alma Mater" and "Variety Theatre", gathering full halls of fans of Andrei Kovalev's work.

Rock band "Pilgrim"

At the 2007 international rock festival BASINFIREFEST, which was held in the Czech Republic, Kovalev and his group "Pilgrim" represented Russia.

Opponent of the phonogram

“Unfortunately, the law did not pass,” Andrey Kovalev comments, “but I think that the main thing is a certain moral component. Then everyone said - who needs this live sound ?! Television, all central channels - there will never be live sound. Everyone said, including journalists, that people come only to look at the stars, and what he sings, how he sings - it was absolutely unimportant. And if you look at the top five most paid musicians now, these are those who only sing live! There are no plywood workers among them! If you look at the most rated projects, for example, “The Voice” on Channel One, everyone also sings only live. Here you are - on the TV channel "Russia 1" "Factor A" with Alla Borisovna Pugacheva - only live! RU TV award, MUZ TV - they defiantly announced - only live! On the "New Wave" Igor Krutoy announced that this year there would be only live sound, and immediately half of the stars were eliminated! Those past my undertakings are now being actively implemented today, as you can see. And now the thought is widely spreading: It's a shame to sing under the plywood!

59-year-old singer Andrei Kovalev is an enviable groom. The artist not only records songs, but also organizes festivals, and is also a producer. Kovalev's personal life was a secret for a long time. After breaking up with his wife Tatyana, the music star did not talk about his chosen ones. However, Andrei recently made an exception and spoke on the air of the First Channel program “About Love” about a 23-year-old common-law wife who gave birth to his son. Not so long ago, the celebrity family moved to the luxurious house of Kovalev.

For three years now, Kovalev has been in a relationship with a young Odessa resident, Maria Bulgakova. The age difference between the lovers is about 40 years. However, this does not bother either the artist or his young darling, who gave birth to the star's son Nikita. “He is my smartest and most educated child,” Kovalev is sincerely proud of his heir.

According to Kovalev, he immediately distinguishes between girls who only need money from a man. “They have a sparkle in their eyes, they are predators. It cannot be hidden, and it is visible. Sooner or later, she still blurts out, ”said Kovalev.

“When my mother found out that I was dating Andrei and I would have a child from him, she was most likely upset, but did not show it. She and I burst into tears together, she supported me, said that everything would be fine, ”said Maria Bulgakova.

Kovalev met Maria while walking down the street. “She was very modestly dressed. It was clear that this was a decent girl, ”recalls the singer. Without much thought, the artist invited a pretty young lady to star in his video, and also invited her to a karaoke club. The relationship between Andrei and Mary developed rapidly. Then Kovalev decided to buy new things for the Odessa woman. According to the chosen one of the celebrity, he spent $ 500 on her - a decent amount of money at that time. However, after Maria heard the offer to go with Andrei to the hotel, she disappeared.

After some time, Kovalev returned to Ukraine. The artist's romance with an Odessa woman spun with renewed vigor. The girl's pregnancy was a pleasant surprise for Andrei. Now the artist does not have a soul in his heir. “It was an amazing feeling for me. After all, I already have a daughter, and every man dreams of a son, ”said Kovalev.

// Photo: Frame of the program "About Love"

However, despite the seriousness of their relationship, the lovers are in no hurry to formalize them. At the same time, Maria dreams of a white dress and a solemn ceremony, but considers the stamp in her passport a formality. Andrei himself joked that at first he was waiting for several children from his beloved. The hosts of the program Roza Syabitova and Sofiko Shevardnadze insisted that Kovalev make an offer to the chosen one on the air. But Bulgakova said that she did not want to get married in this way.