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 for a long time was a secret. 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 luxury home 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 started spinning with new force. 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.
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Andrey Arkadievich Kovalev(June 7, 1957) - Russian businessman and public figure. Owner of the Ecooffice group of companies, singer, songwriter, radio and TV presenter, leader of the Pilgrim group, music producer, organizer of rock festivals .
Biography
Family
Photo from family archive(with parents and brother)
Andrei Kovalev was born in Moscow into a military family and opera singer. Andrei's mother sang at the Bolshoi Theater for 35 years, his father is a colonel Soviet army.
Divorced, daughter born in 1990
Education
Andrew mastered musical instruments even 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. 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. Parallel led political career, was the Deputy Department of the Forest Fund, a member of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he began to create large business centers on the territories of closing Moscow factories, 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.
Andrey Kovalev is actively involved in charity concerts and promotions aimed at social support residents of Moscow, helps students of boarding schools for orphans, pupils of Preobrazhensky cadet corps, veterans of war and labor, single mothers and other representatives of the categories of socially unprotected citizens.
Musical career
With the Finnish team "Apocalyptic"
IN student years played the bass guitar in the group "Pilgrim". 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 everything more music"Deep Purple"
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 Alexey Strike and drummer Alexander Karpukhin moved to Pilgrim, after a split in the Master group. The band has released several heavy metal albums.
In 2011, the artist resumed his solo career and returned to creating and performing lyrical compositions.
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.
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”
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 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 star in wedding dress- 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:
When asked if the fighter with “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 these birthmarks. We must eliminate them! Criticism
The personality and work of Andrei Kovalev is actively covered in the media, receiving conflicting reviews from journalists and critics.
Nikolai Fandeev has the same opinion about Kovalev. Reviewing the album "The sky is blue", he wrote that it « futile attempt unlucky singer to perform a mixture of restaurant music and tasteless Soviet stage 70s of the last century" .
Andrey Kovalev and Elena Korikova, song "My Woman", video
Andrey Kovalev
Singer, producer, organizer
Andrey Kovalev during his creative life I tried myself in a variety of guises. He writes poetry and music, performs his own compositions, broadcasts on radio and television, and organizes rock festivals. To many lovers national music he is known as the front man of the Pilgrim group. In the mid-2000s, thanks to him, a series of festivals "Glory to Russia" took place in various cities of the country: Moscow, Orel, Nizhny Novgorod. They enjoyed well-deserved popularity: for example, about forty thousand spectators came to the festival in Zlatoglavaya. Andrey shares his skills with novice musicians. So, he organized the festival "Takeoff!", In which young groups try their hand. He has also created, oversees and finances a number of rehearsal venues where up-and-coming bands can hone their skills for free. In 2011, Kovalev actively engaged in solo career, preferring to perform lyrical songs.
Family and education
Andrei was born in Moscow. His father devoted his life to serving the Motherland, becoming a colonel in the Soviet Army. Mom, an opera singer, performed arias in Bolshoi Theater. Mother's influence creative plan affected my son early. From an early age, Andrei mastered the double bass, violin, and cello every day for four hours. The father in his own way influenced the formation of his son as a real man. He gave Andrey a motorcycle, which the young man was very happy about and even wanted to connect his life with technology. In 1979 he became a graduate of the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute. His first job was at an enterprise with a secrecy regime. But Andrey did not part with the motorcycle, and even was permanent member motocross competition. But also creativity was not ruined: he became interested in sculpture and from the first entry became a student of the famous Stroganov School.
Musical career
Seriously, Andrei did not plan to engage in music. But, in his life happened fatal love and feelings demanded embodiment in real world. Kovalev expressed them in music, and the first compositions were immediately positively evaluated. professional musicians. The first success inspired him to think about musical career. In 2006, Andrey Kovalev headed creative team Pilgrim group. Five years later, he preferred solo career. Today, his performances are held in the capital's Variety Theater and the Alma Mater club. Their halls are not empty during these performances.
Rock band "Pilgrim"
The rock group "Pilgrim" was born at a time when Andrei Kovalev was still studying at MADI. Together with like-minded people at the institute, he organizes a vocal and instrumental ensemble. Our hero started playing the bass guitar. According to the memoirs of the musician himself, the group changed its name almost every festival in which it took part. There were also "Wings of Anger" and "Rus". But one day he met a guitarist who came up with an idea that became brilliant: “Bring back the old name of the band -“ Pilgrim ”. So the musicians did. And Kovalev himself on the same day, under the influence of this idea, created the composition "Pilgrim".
The presentation of the video for this song took place in October 2006. The composition became debut single to the new album. The clipmaker was directed by Alexander Solokha. The video accompanying the song turned a gloomy routine into unreal world future.
The very next year, Kovalev and the Pilgrim group performed from Russia at the BASINFIREFEST international rock festival in the Czech Republic.
Opponent of the phonogram
Andrey Kovalev is one of the few contemporary musicians opposing the use of the phonogram. This position of his is manifested not only in the fact that he sings “live” at all his concerts. He initiated a number of concerts in support of his beliefs, such as "We are for live sound!" and "Pops without a phonogram", which featured the stars of the Russian music scene.
Kovalev also took part in the creation of the Moscow legislative initiative, which provides for informing the audience of concerts about the use of phonograms by performers. The bill, unfortunately, was not adopted. However, Andrei Kovalev believes that the very fact of voicing this problem is already important. In the mid-2000s, when these concerts were held, the leaders of the Russian music market, and, in particular, the central TV channels, were firmly convinced that there would never be live sound. Yes, and journalists were convinced that the audience comes to the concert to see the star, and he does not care how she sings.
- And today the most rated television musical projects, as the "Voice" of Channel One, "Factor A" with A.B. Pugacheva of the TV channel "Russia 1" suggest only live sound. Same with national music awards– MUZ TV, RU TV. Here is the creator new wave» Igor Krutoy emphasized that everyone will sing live at this year's festival, which led to the fact that half of the participants immediately dropped out. My undertakings of that time, as you can see, are being realized. Everything these days more performers come to the idea, which we then actively promoted: “Singing to the veneer should be ashamed,” says Andrey Kovalev.
Discs and star duets
The release of Andrey Kovalev's first album "Salt, tequila and a slice of lime" took place in 2004. The record was named after the song, which quickly became a hit. The video clip for this composition is reminiscent of Roberto Rodrigueso's film "Desperado" in its plot. Mexican musician - El Mariacho fights with a biker gang. According to Andrei himself, such an action is close to him, since some facts of his biography are no less rich. For the filming of the video, a Harley Davidson motorcycle and a rare Cadillac car of the musician himself were involved.
The following year, the musician's second disc, Sky Xin, was released. The video for the title track, as well as videos such as “ Christmas story”and“ Spring of the 45th ”were actively rotated on TV channels and were remembered by the audience.
Andrey has repeatedly performed a duet with the most famous domestic performers. Together with Sasha Project, they performed “The Song of Santa Claus” together, with the “Tutsi” group - “Train of Love”, with Lyubasha - the composition “We Fall”, with Katya Lel - two songs at once: “ new year story” and “Man and Woman”, with the rapper Loc-Dog - “Slowly it snowed”.
But perhaps the most popular for Kovalev was the duet with Diana Gurtskaya. Their composition "Nine Months", released in 2006, is still in rotation on many radio stations to this day. The song became the soundtrack in the film of the same name shown on Channel One. And almost immediately, "Nine Months" began to lead many radio charts.
Video clips
Foreign stars starred in several video clips of the musician. So, in the "Roar of Engines" (2008), which is more of a mini-movie than a video, Pamela Anderson starred. Andrey Kovalev has been friends with the model for a long time. Pamela agreed to take part in the filming for several reasons. First, she liked the composition itself. And besides, she married twice, but she never had a real wedding. And miss the opportunity to put on, albeit on film set, wedding dress, she could not.
The 2009 video "Don't Extinguish the Candle" starred actor and director Dolph Lundgren. Moreover, he himself offered cooperation. The fact is that Lundgren was then filming the film "Command Performance", where, according to the plot, terrorists take hostages on music festival. And the musicians of "Pilgrim" were invited to play themselves in the picture, which the guys did with pleasure. And then they made a clip out of the frames of the picture. In the same year, the Judas video was released, which Pilgrim made with the Apocalyptica group.
Andrey Kovalev has always been responsible for filming video clips. In 2011-12, no less than 12 videos were released that made their way to the main music channels not only in Russia, but also in Ukraine and Belarus. And again, everyone participated in these works. famous people. So, Elena Korikova starred in the video “My Woman”, Olesya Sudzilovskaya in the video “God Given to Me”, and Olga Budina in the work “Give Me Back That Fire”.
Evidence of such attention to video works was the title "Klipoman of the Year", which RU.TV channel awarded to Kovalev and colleagues for the largest number released video clips for the year - nine!
Andrey is still actively shooting videos and attracting stars again. In the video sequence for the song “And I keep dreaming about your eyes”, the well-known for “ closed school" Agata Mutsenietse. And in the video dedicated to the actor Vladislav Galkin who left us, Alexey Panin and Vladimir Gostyukhin starred.
Poetry
Andrei Kovalev is known not only for his songs, of which he wrote about 700, but also for his poetry. The debut book of lyrics "Pearls and Velvet" was published in 2004. The lyrics of Kovalev were immediately appreciated by critics. So, famous writer Alexander Govorov in the preface to the collection was unambiguous, saying that Kovalev is a real lyric poet who will find his reader. Two years later, the second book of lyrics was published - “The sky is blue”. And last year saw the release of the third collection - "You alone."
Andrey Kovalev himself says that the engine of his work is unrequited love. His poems and songs are not artificial exercises, they are born from what the musician and poet himself experienced. Perhaps this is what attracts his fans.
TV and radio
In the diverse creative life of Kovalev, there was a place for conducting radio and television programs. His author's project was broadcast at the station "Moscow speaking", on the channel "Stolitsa" - the program "Formula of Success", on the radio "Pops" - the program "Man and Woman", and on the Public Russian Radio - "Live Sound". Today, Andrei himself is often invited to participate in various talk shows on television and on the radio.
Charity
As a deputy of the Moscow City Duma (convocation of 2005-2009), Kovalev initiated a series of concerts "Pops without a phonogram" as part of the City Day in 2006. Actively advocating "live performances" of Russian variety performers, he oversaw the project "We are for live sound!". In addition, he organized the patriotic rock festival "Glory to Russia" and the festival of beginner groups "On the rise!".
Realizing how difficult it is for young musicians to break through, Kovalev set up five special rehearsal bases in the capital. On them, young groups and performers can rehearse for free, using all the necessary musical equipment. And it doesn't matter if the guys are going to become the second Metallica, or music for them is just a hobby, an outlet in the harsh reality.
Kovalev invariably participates in charity concerts, the profits from which go to social support for various categories of residents of the capital. These are war veterans and large families, single mothers and orphans.
Interesting Facts
Andrey Kovalev in 2005 accused the Neftyanoy bank of having raiderly seized a blocking stake in the Auto-Prestige 1 company.
Andrey Kovalev's godchildren were Stepan Menshchikov's son Ivan and Katya Lel's daughter Emilia.
On June 30, 2010, Andrey Kovalev's unique bike was stolen, which was assembled for the musician by order at the famous European tuning studio Fred Kodlin. Fortunately, the stolen bike was soon found.
Andrey's work is interesting for all ages. Some of his fans are already in their ninth decade.
In May of this year, Andrey Kovalev accused the chairman of the board of Rosbank, Vladimir Golubkov, and senior vice president Tamara Polyanitsyna of extorting a large bribe. On May 15, these top managers of the bank were formally charged.
Andrey Kovalev - adherent healthy lifestyle life. This year he got rid of 25 kilograms of excess weight.
Andrei Kovalev considers love to be the main thing in his life, even if it is unrequited. He puts this feeling above career, work and all worldly affairs.
Andrey Kovalev immediately writes the music that comes to mind on the phone. And then he records in the studio, where more than 300 compositions were created.
Andrei Kovalev is fond of unusual collecting - he collects turtles. Passion was born spontaneously - with a gift from a friend. Today, every friend of Andrei knows what to give him for his birthday or bring from foreign travel so the collection is constantly growing.
Discography
(In the Pilgrim group)
"Glory to Russia" (2007)
"No Choice" (2008)
Concert in the Rain (DVD) (2008)
"Trizzy $" (single) (2009)
"7.62" (2010)
"March" (2010)
As a soloist
"Salt, tequila ..." (2004)
"The sky is blue" (2005)
"Nine Months", "Ice and Fire", "Man and Woman" (2007)
"Author's song", " Best songs Andrey Kovalev", "Romances" (2008)
"My woman" (2012).
Encyclopedic YouTube
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✪ Andrey Kovalev - Airports
✪ Andrey Kovalev - This will not be erased from memory (Video premiere!)
✪ Andrey Kovalev and Elena Korikova - "My Woman"
✪ Andrey KOVALEV - Beloved women / Video album /
✪ Andrey Kovalev and Olesya Sudzilovskaya - given to me by God
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Biography
Family
Andrey Kovalev was born in Moscow in the family of a military man and an opera singer. Mom Kovalev sang for 35 years at the Bolshoi Theater, her father is a colonel in the Soviet Army.
Divorced, daughter Julia born in 1990.
Education
He mastered musical instruments in the preschool period: "violin, cello, double bass - four hours of lessons every day." After school, Kovalev planned to enter the school at the conservatory in the double bass class. However, fate decreed otherwise and he graduated. Later, carried away by sculpture, he entered the Stroganov Higher Art School, where he studied for several years.
Business and charity
He 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
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 2005, Andrei Kovalev became interested in heavy metal, recreated the Pilgrim group. In 2007, Andrey Kovalev and his "Pilgrim" represented Russia at the BASINFIREFEST rock festival (Czech Republic). In 2008, guitarist Aleksey Strike and drummer Alexander Karpukhin moved to Pilgrim, after a split in the Master group. The band has released several heavy metal albums.
Video clips
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”
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 are: "If you don't come back 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”.
In another clip of "Pilgrim" ("Do not extinguish the candle", 2009), Dolph Lundgren starred. In his interviews, Andrey Kovalev says:
In 2011-2012, the music channels of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus broadcast 12 new clips: "Marta", "Forgotten", "If only you could", "Fly", " Maple Leaf”, “I will wait for you all my life”, “I am not a hero”, “Pamela”, “My woman” with Elena Korikova, “God given to me”, in which the theater and film actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya starred, “Give me back that fire " with the participation of Olga Budina and the New Year's video for the song "It's snowing."
Poetry
Andrey Kovalev is the author of music and words 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, the publishing house "Academy of Poetry" released the third collection of poems "You alone".
Television and radio
Andrey Kovalev hosted a number of programs on television and radio, including:
- the author's program on the radio "Speaks Moscow",
- "Formula of Success" (channel "Capital"),
- "Visiting Kovalev" (channel "Capital"),
- "Man and Woman" (radio "Pops"),
- "Live sound" (Public Russian radio).
Policy
The deputy himself noted in his public speaking :
When asked if the fighter with “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:
Criticism
The personality and work of Andrei Kovalev is actively covered in the media, receiving conflicting reviews from journalists and critics.
The same opinion about Kovalev was Nikolai Fandeev. Reviewing the album "The sky is blue", he wrote that it "a futile attempt by an unlucky singer to perform a mixture of restaurant music and tasteless Soviet pop music of the 1970s of the last century" .
There are references in the media that in the 1990s Andrei Kovalev was associated with criminal groups.
Many neutral and positive publications are devoted to the fight against phonogram performances.
Discography
Solo
- 2004 - "Salt, tequila ..."
- 2005 - "The sky is blue"
- 2007 - "Nine Months"
- 2007 - Ice and Fire
- 2007 - "Man and Woman"
- 2008 - "Author's song"
- 2008 - "The Best Songs of Andrey Kovalev"
- 2008 - "Romances"
- 2012 - "My Woman"
- 2014 - "Songs of Love"
- 2014 - "March"
"Pilgrim"
- 2007 - "Glory to Russia"
- 2008 - Concert in the Rain (DVD)
- 2009 - "Trizzy $" (single)
- 2015 - Kill the Dragon
Singles:
- 2007 - "Forgotten"
- 2007 - "Nine Months"
- 2007 - "Bonfire of Love"
- 2007 - "City of Angels"
- 2012 - “And I keep dreaming about your eyes”
- 2012 - "You are my tenderness"
- 2012 - "Road"
- 2012 - "My Woman"
- 2012 - "I'll be waiting for you all my life"
- 2014 - "Man and Woman"
- 2014 - "Love Train"
- 2014 - "Orphan"
- 2014 - "Salt, tequila"
- 2014 - "March Cat"
- 2014 - “Give me, Lord, this woman”
- 2016 - "This will not be erased from memory"
- 2016 - "I've been waiting for"
- 2016 - "Such a Woman"
- 2016 - "I don't want to be with you"
- 2016 - "Work brothers" (in memory of the Hero of Russia Magomed Nurbagandov)
Video clips
Year Song 2011 Only love can save 2011 Forgot 2011 Martha 2011 Nine month 2011 Man and woman 2011 If only you could 2011 A little angel 2012 My woman 2012 Fly 2012 God given to me 2012 I'll be waiting for you all my life 2012 Give me back that fire 2013 It is snowing 2013 Take-off landing 2013 Give me, Lord, this woman 2014 Road 2014 And I dream about your eyes 2014 Revolvers and dolls 2014 Airports 2015 It won't fade from memory Notes
- Andrey Kovalev and group Pilgrim History group "Pilgrim"
- The court recovered 9.5 million rubles from O2TV in favor of singer-businessman Kovalev
“Deputy of the Moscow City Duma Andrey Kovalev: “Land in the capital must sell at market prices ”- Ъ-Secret of the company - Fatal attraction
- Macaroni can rise in price one and a half times due to rising grain (indefinite) . Society. Argumenty.ru (October 19, 2010). - Andrey Kovalyov, the President of JSC "First Macaroni Company", said today that due to the increase in grain prices, the price of pasta could grow by 1.5 times. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
Russian businessman and public figure. Owner of the Ecooffice group of companies, singer, songwriter, radio and TV presenter, leader of the Pilgrim group, music producer, organizer of rock festivals.
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
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".
Star performances were held under his patronage domestic stage"We are for live sound!".
Andrey Kovalev was the organizer of the series musical events, among which are the touring patriotic rock festival "Glory to Russia", the festival for young groups "On the rise!", Concerts of the group "Master".
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 evaluates Andrey Kovalev and his results creative work more positively: “Andrey Kovalev is doing 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.
