The soloist of the group "Disco Crash" told the magazine "Teleprogram" about meeting on the Internet, his daughter and the secrets of show business.
In July, Alexey Ryzhov celebrated a wooden wedding with his family - five years ago he married Irina, whom he met ... on the Internet. The family's favorite daughter Lida will be a year and a half on August 6. Dad tries to spend as much time as possible with the baby, but this is not always possible, as there is a lot of work. Despite the congestion of the stage with new and popular names, interest in the stars of the late 90s - early 2000s does not fade away.
"Young people should be taught bit by bit"
— Alexey, how did you meet Ira on a dating site?
- On the Odnoklassniki website.
How did the virtual meeting go?
- As usual, this happens on the Internet: first they appreciated each other's photos, and then they began to correspond. Soon "Disco Crash" came on tour to Astana, and I called Ira to our concert. After we celebrated our acquaintance and talked for a long time about everything in the world. We started dating - Ira flew to meet me in Moscow, sometimes she even went on tour with us: if there was an interesting and non-fatiguing route. And then I proposed.
Did you realize that you can't live without her? How has Irina changed your life?
- Before meeting Ira, I had a creative crisis, and when our relationship began, it immediately started: we recorded a new album with Disco Crash.
- Despite the age difference (your wife is 17 years younger than you), do you have common interests? Is your wife a creative person?
- Ira graduated from art school, knows all the artists, paints in oils. We are interested in history together.
Alexey and Irina Ryzhov celebrate their daughter's birthday: Lida is one year old! Photo: instagram.com
- Of course, media characters with a large audience on the Internet, who learn to draw attention to their work, are doomed to popularity. Victor Drobysh said that he would write an album for a blogger .... I don't remember the last name.
- How did you manage to get Philip Kirkorov to record the joint song "Bright I"?
- We did not really expect that Philip would agree, and 15 minutes after we sent him a demo, he answered positively. Philip is a professional of the highest level, apparently, he felt the prospects of the project. The next day, in our studio during a rehearsal, we quickly signed up, while Philip had not yet had time to come to his senses and think: why does he sing so little there or why does he sing like a DJ, and not the way he can? A week later, the song was ready. All radio stations picked it up at once. “Bright Me” was a success, among other things, because it was made here and now - on emotions. If we coordinated the song for several months, reworked it, I think it would turn into some kind of boring story. And it turned out so lively, fun ...
Private bussiness
Alexey Ryzhov was born on September 5, 1970 in Ivanovo. As a child, he studied with pleasure at a music school and played in the football section. After graduating from school, he entered the Ivanovo Energy University. For the first time, songs written by Ryzhov were performed at discos for students. In 1990, the Disco Crash group was created in Ivanovo. Now Ryzhov is a producer and composer of the band. Alexei has a son from his first marriage and a daughter from his second marriage.
The founder of the soloist and producer of the famous group "Disco Crash" Alexey Ryzhov was born in Ivanovo September 5, 1970 in a family of teachers.
Since childhood, he loved football. But, attentive parents were able to discern in him the grains of musical talent. Alexei had a good ear. Even before entering the first grade, he was sent to a music school in piano. From the first years of studying music, the guy showed a clear talent. He especially liked classical music, namely the sonatas of Mozart.
Surprisingly, in childhood, Alyosha was distinguished by perseverance, study was easy for the boy. This allowed him to successfully graduate from music school. The character of the young man was balanced. I didn't have much conflict with the teachers. I did sports. He was an excellent student and an activist. Nothing different from the other guys.
From early childhood he was fond of football. Participated in many competitions for his native city. And now he likes to "knock the ball."
Diskoteka Avaria"
Meeting at the summer school camp of school No. 66 in the city of Ivanovo with Nikolai Timofeev influenced the fate of both. The guys became friends. And they began to jointly hold school events and discos.
After graduation, both friends enter the Lenin Ivanovo Energy University. Here they actively participate in KVN, create a musical duet and hold fun discos. During one of them, the equipment of the guys broke down, everyone started laughing, someone joked about the disco and the accident.
And so the name "Disco Crash" appeared. During this period of time, the first songs personally written by Alexei appeared.
Together guys started performing in 1988, but officially the Avariya group has existed since 1990. Their cheerful songs with humor and dance rhythm became more and more popular. They belong to the genre of pop music.
In the early 90s, the guys were invited to broadcast on Europe Plus radio. It was a review of musical novelties. The duet's sparkling humor was liked by the listeners, their "remixes" of famous songs were eagerly awaited. The group gained popularity and fans.
In 1996 to "Accident" Oleg Zhukov and Alexey Serov joined.
First album released in 1997 with the new line-up "Dance with me". At this time, from all the speakers, at all radio stations, the songs of the Disco Crash group sounded. The peak of glory has come. The group's producers Ryzhov and Timofeev record several albums at the Soyuz studio.
The songs “You threw”, “Move your booty”, “New Year”, “Sky”. "Maniacs" and hundreds of others do not allow the group's popularity to fade.
Not everything was smooth on the way "Accident" to popularity. Oleg Zhukov died in 2002. The producers were even going to close the project. But the group still continued their performances. A large program on the DTV channel was dedicated to the deceased Zhukov, it was called "How the idols left."
The group has a huge number of awards: the best dance project, the best video, the best group, the best song and others. Multiple award winning "Golden Gramophone", "Song of the Year". Endless tours of the cities of Russia, abroad, crowds of fans, wild popularity, fame. The group is still popular and loved.
Personal life
Alexey Ryzhov at 48, he is the father of three children from two marriages. The life of an artist takes place in constant concerts and traveling, so a long family life in show business is a rarity.
From his first marriage, Alexei has a daughter, Natasha, and a son, Ivan. The girl is fond of choreography, is a participant and winner in the show "Dancing" on the TNT channel. Her dancing abilities do not cause anyone to suspect that she got on television through "pull".
Son Ivan is still in school. I have not yet decided on the choice of a further path, but I have already participated as a model at Children's Fashion Days.
Although the marriage with the mother of the children, Natasha, broke up a long time ago, Ryzhov is an excellent father, and is directly involved in raising children. There is a lot of evidence for this on the Internet. There are many photos from birthdays, vacations and other joint events.
Alexei himself has repeatedly said that he does not want his children to follow in their father's footsteps. A career as a musician is a difficult path. Let them choose theirs.
More recently, Alexei had a daughter from the second marriage with Irina. The girl was named Lydia. Until they show her face to the camera. Irina works as a fashion designer. The couple met each other on a social network. After a short correspondence, it became clear that this was love and that they were made for each other.
Alexey Ryzhov open to communication with fans and the public. Together with his wife and children, they post a lot of photos, do not avoid journalists and give interviews with pleasure. Alexey has open pages in all social networks. Happy to answer letters from fans.
Alexey writes his blog on the site "Putin's Wooden Faces". Being a football lover and fan since childhood, he shares with his readers his opinion about the game of his favorite teams and discusses the tactics and strategy of their game.
Group "Disco Crash" more than a decade pleases us with his cheerful songs, remains at the peak of popularity at the present time. Its permanent producer is a talented musician Alexei Ryzhov. It remains to wish the group many more years to shine in the sky of Russian show business.
Alexei Olegovich Ryzhov. Born September 5, 1970 in Ivanovo. Russian singer, composer, producer, member of the Disco Crash group.
The parents taught at the school.
From an early age he was fond of music. At the age of six, he studied at the local music school No. 1 in piano.
He also loved sports, played football well.
He graduated from secondary school No. 66 in Ivanovo.
Even in his school years, he met with - a future colleague on the stage. Ryzhov and Timofeev started by organizing and holding discos, first in schools and then in clubs.
After leaving school, Alexey Ryzhov entered the Ivanovo Energy University. Nikolai Timofeev also studied with him. While studying at the university, they played together in KVN. They continued to work as disc jockeys.
In 1988, Ryzhov and Timofeev - at that time members of the city Komsomol headquarters (GKSH) of the city of Ivanovo - organized their own musical group. First, they performed in front of students. It was at these student parties and discos that Aleksey Ryzhov's original works were performed for the first time. Andrey Vaganov became the first director of the group. The first names of the team are "Interview", "Fire Extinguisher". The main place of their work was the club "Crash", located in Ivanovo on Lenin Avenue.
In 1990, a group appeared "Diskoteka Avaria". They began to be invited to host programs on radio and TV in Ivanovo. From 1990 to 1995, the duo hosted a program called "Disco Crash" on the regional radio Ivanovo, as well as on the radio station "Europe plus Ivanovo" and on the local radio channel "Echo", broadcast on the frequencies of radio "Mayak" in Ivanovo, the program was dedicated to reviewing musical innovations. And a few years later, the whole country already recognized the group, into which they joined and.
In 1997, the group released their first music album "Dance with me", which brought her first popularity.
In 1999, Alexey Ryzhov and Nikolai Timofeev offered several songs to the producers of the Soyuz recording studio, who soon included them in the collections of dance pop music Move Your Booty!, Soyuz 23, Soyuz 24 and Soyuz 25. As a result, the group gained fame in the country, began to tour successfully, its video clips were broadcast on the MTV Russia and Muz-TV channels. The remix of "Avaria" for the song of the group "Lyapis Trubetskoy" "You threw" was a great success.
The song "New Year" brought national love to the group.
Disco Crash - New Year's
Alexey Ryzhov is the producer of the Disco Crash group and the composer of all songs.
In 2001, the album "Maniacs" was released, which became the winner of the IV annual award of the Russian recording industry "Record" in the "Album of the Year" nomination.
On February 9, 2002, after a long illness, the brightest member of the group, Oleg Zhukov, dies. The activity of the group is suspended for a while, after its resumption, the maxi-single “X. H. H. And R. N. R. ”, followed by the single“ Sky ”, both songs were successful in the charts. Video clips were shot for these songs, as well as for the songs "Severe Rap" and "If You Want to Stay".
In 2002, the group won the Best Russian Act nomination at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Barcelona.
In 2003, "Disco Crash" received the "Muz-TV" award in the nominations "Best Dance Project" and "Best Pop Group", and in 2004 - in the nominations "Best Song" and "Best Video" for the song "Sky" .
"Disco Crash" is a multiple winner of the "Golden Gramophone" award, diplomas "Song of the Year" and others.
In 2005, the Disco Crash group became the winner of the MTV Russia Music Awards (RMA) in the Best Group nomination.
The group repeatedly took part in the filming of the New Year's program Blue Light on Shabolovka on the Rossiya TV channel.
In 2006, the album "Four Guys" was released, which is dedicated to the memory of Oleg Zhukov. In the same year, the group won the VIII award of the Russian recording industry "Record" in the nomination "Domestic radio hit of the year" - the song "If you want to stay" was recognized as the best track of the year.
At the fourth Fashion People Awards ceremony, held on May 20, 2006 at the Crocus City Mall in Moscow, the Disco Crash group was awarded the Sounds of Gold prize for outstanding musical achievements.
In 2007, Disco Crash won the Muz-TV award in the Best Duet and Best Video nominations. The team included the Live Sax Party team of saxophonist Anton Rumyantsev.
In 2008, Disco Crash won the fifth MTV Russia Music Awards (RMA) in the Dance nomination with the song Pasha Face Control and the tenth Record award ceremony in the Radio Hit of the Year nomination with song "Malinka".
On December 31, 2011, the Russia 1 TV channel premiered the New Year's musical film The New Adventures of Aladdin, based on an oriental tale about a tramp in love with Princess Budur, with the participation of Russian show business stars. Among them, the soloists of the Disco Crash group took part in the filming of the film in the images of ferocious robbers.
At the end of July 2012, Nikolai Timofeev left the band and took up solo work. Later, Ryzhov and Timofeev sued for copyright infringement.
In February 2013, the single "K. U. K. L. A ”, which becomes the soundtrack for the circus performance of the same name by the brothers Edgard and Askold Zapashny.
In 2014, the album "Girl behind the wheel" was released.
In June 2016, the song “Bright I” was released together with the song.
In February 2018, on Valentine's Day, the song "Dreamer" was released, recorded in a duet with.
In July 2018, the group released a new song "Welcome To Russia" in support of the Russian national football team at the home World Cup.
The growth of Alexei Ryzhov: 170 centimeters.
Personal life of Alexei Ryzhov:
Was married twice.
The first wife is Nadezhda Ryzhova.
Two children were born in the marriage - son Ivan and daughter Tatyana.
The second wife is Irina Ryzhova (nee Shumova), an artist-designer by profession. She is 16 years younger than Alexei. We met in 2008 on the Internet, on the Odnoklassniki social network. At first they corresponded, then agreed to meet. A relationship developed between them. In August 2012, the couple got married.
In 2016, the couple had a daughter, Lida.
In August 2018, Alexei Ryzhov was not allowed to rest abroad. As the media wrote, the musician owed the state 104.5 thousand rubles. Law enforcement agencies detained Ryzhov for non-payment of taxes right at the Moscow airport, from where he was going to go on vacation to Italy with his wife and daughter.
Filmography of Alexey Ryzhov:
2003 - Snow Queen - robber
2009 - Like the Cossacks ... - the first border guard
2011 - The New Adventures of Aladdin
2011 - All inclusive! - episode
Discography of Alexey Ryzhov (as part of "Disco Crash"):
Studio albums:
1997 - "Dance with me"
1999 - "Song about you and me"
1999 - "Marathon"
2000 - "Accident vs!"
2001 - "Maniacs"
2006 - "Four Guys"
2011 - "Non-childish time"
2014 - "The girl behind the wheel"
Collections:
2000 - "All the Hits: Crash Vs!"
2009 - The Best
2010-Other
Maxi singles:
2001 - “You hesitated!”
2001 - "Song about eggs"
2002 - "H. H. H. I R. N. R.”
2003 - "Sky"
2004 - "Song of the Robbers"
2004 - "Severe rap"
Video clips of Alexey Ryzhov (as part of "Disco Crash"):
1999 - "Threw"
1999 - "Nowhere to go"
1999 - "Come on, Crash!"
1999 - "New Year's"
2000 - "Drink beer!"
2000 - "Attraction"
2001 - “You hesitated!”
2001 - "Song about eggs"
2001 - "On the edge of the attack"
2001 - "Disco Superstar"
2002 - “X.X.X. And R.N.R.”
2003 - "Sky"
2003 - "Sky"
2003 - "Song of the Robbers (Gang)"
2004 - "Severe rap"
2005 - "If you want to stay"
2006 - "Opa!"
2006 - "Malinki" (feat. Zhanna Friske)
2007 - "Evil"
2007 - "Serenade"
2008 - "Pasha Face Control" (feat. DJ Smash)
2008 - "Fathers" (not released)
2009 - "Planet Love"
2009 - "Fashionable dance aram-zam-zam"
2010 - "New Year's 2010" (feat. DJ Ryzhov)
2010 - "Summer is always!" (feat. V. Brezhneva, N. Zadorozhnaya, S. Khodchenkova)
2010 - "Star"
2011 - "Non-childish time"
2011 - "Nano-techno"
2011 - "Weather Forecast" (feat. Kristina Orbakaite)
2012 - "Carnival" (feat. Dzhigan & Vika Krutaya)
2012 - "Labyrinth" (feat. Batista)
2012 - "Evening"
2012 - Electro Music (feat. E-not)
2012 - "Feet-legs"
2013 - "K.U.K.L.A."
2013 - "Swing"
2014 - "#Like"
2014 - "The girl behind the wheel"
2015 - Samui
2016 - "Bright I" (feat. Philip Kirkorov)
2017 - "My love"
2017 - "Mohair" (feat. Bread)
2018 - "Dreamer" (feat. Nikolai Baskov)
2018 - "Welcome to Russia"
"in Jurmala. Hits from the recent album "Non-Children's Time" sounded from the stage, in particular - "Carnival", now performed in company with Vika Kruta and Dzhigan. And in addition to the founding fathers Alexei Serov and Alexei Ryzhov, the young backing vocalist Roman also sang Petrenko ... Well, while "Disco Crash" performed in Latvia, its recent soloist Nikolai Timofeev gave interviews about the problems that, in his opinion, had accumulated in the group. The other two preferred not to answer: they continued rehearsals, touring. But immediately after returning from the festival "New Wave" leader of "Disco Crash" and the author of all its hits Alexey Ryzhov decided to break the silence...
On the day of the release of the album "Non-Children's Time" youcame to the online conference with readers of "RG" only together with Alexei Serov. It seems that the conflict in the "Disco Crash" did not break out this July, but much earlier?
Alexey Ryzhov: Yes, it has been brewing for a long time and in a nutshell it can be described as follows: will "Disco Crash" be a group of Nikolai Timofeev. Or more simply: what should be - a group for the sake of a soloist or a soloist for the sake of a group?! Because of this, there was a conflict. But Alexei Serov and I do not want to use Kolya's methods and pour dirt on each other. After all, is it not for the same reason that in twenty years on stage we have survived many other stars, mired in strife, in order to make a kitchen scandal now?!
Did you manage not to part with enemies?! Behind the scenes, many artists do not even greet each other, it seems that they would be happy to burn each other's concert costumes ...
Alexey Ryzhov: May the fans still love us together and individually. Well, what happened - this is life ... It also happens. But two or three years will pass and maybe we will all take a different look at what happened. And most importantly, let people judge who of us is right and who is not - on specific cases: concerts, songs.
Therefore, we did not respond to ridiculous accusations, because we are busy working, not talking. Although, if we leave emotions and turn to facts, we did not expect that Nikolai would perform at the "Slavianski Bazaar", performing our songs to the soundtrack, on which Serov and our voices were recorded. And that he will call them his own although all the hits of the group are the authorship of Alexei Ryzhov - Note. Ed.), and also - will announce the beginning of a solo career without any agreement with us. We reacted to this very correctly: we wished him success, but reminded him that he has no right to perform our (my) songs without permission, which we did not give him. Moreover, all this also happened on the eve of my wedding, to which I, of course, also invited Kolya. But he didn't come...
Previously, responsibilities in the group were distributed as follows: Ryzhov was responsible for writing songs, Serov for video and directing, and Timofeev was supposed to be the frontman and like the girls. All three of you also sang... How will the roles be redistributed now?
Alexey Ryzhov: Now we do not have a frontman, and we work with Lesha on an equal footing. Unless I had to redistribute Kolya's vocal parts among themselves. Yes, and my keyboard instruments of technology are now moving closer to the center ( before Ryzhov preferred to stay on the sidelines), and I show myself more. And in the final song on the "New Wave" he sang solo ... We quite adequately and live played a big concert in Riga. But too little time has passed since Timofeev's departure, so we have not yet decided whether we will invite a third soloist or whether the help of one or two backing vocalists will be enough. And in any case, all the songs loved by the fans will remain in the repertoire. And the main thing for us is to keep the atmosphere of the holiday. Since "Disco Crash" is perceived as a "group-holiday".
Is this the most difficult period in the band's history, or have there been harder times?
Alexey Ryzhov: Of course, everything happened: 20 years ago we failed in Moscow, where we were invited to record at the studio, but the result was unsuccessful. And when we decided to return home, to Ivanovo, they refused to rent a club there, which in six months we made a cult vacation spot for all young people. As a result, I had to start almost from scratch. And somehow, while working on the album "Four Guys", I accidentally pressed the format all button on my working tool and ... again I had to do everything from scratch ...
There was also a moment when Alexei Serov received a bullet wound in the head, miraculously survived, and at the same time I lost my mother. Well, now we just ended something old, which became at the same time the beginning of a new stage of "Disco Crash". The program now has more than thirty songs, but people often ask to add one more, then another, then a third. However, this is a pleasant chore: artists who have two hits and nothing more have it worse ...
Now the rivalry between the group and its former soloist is inevitable. So, is it time to think about new songs?
Alexey Ryzhov: We are just going to make a couple more songs from the album "Non-Children's Time" as singles, shoot a video for them - already with a new line-up. Then we plan a sabbatical, and I'm sure that by the end of the year we will have absolutely new material. That's when we will draw conclusions - whether we need to invite new members of the Disco Crash. But in any case, we will remain ourselves and extremely sincere, that's for sure.
The Diskoteka Avaria group is one of the rare Russian bands that has been at the top of the charts for more than 20 years. The group Disco Crash received many prizes and awards, as in the previous compositions.
Despite some difficult moments in the history of the Diskoteka Avaria group associated with the departure of members, the team was able to keep the love of their fans and make their work even more professional.
Disco Crash Lineup:- Alexey Ryzhov
- Alexey Serov
- Anna Khokhlova
The history of the group Disco Crash Winding
The Diskoteka accident group was created back in the late 80s in the city of Ivanovo. Alexey Ryzhov and Nikolay Timofeev, two friends with a great sense of humor, decided to join their efforts and create a creative duet in their composition. At first it was performances at KVNakh. The audience liked the young people with their sense of humor and originality of ideas, and they began to be invited as hosts to weddings, anniversaries and corporate parties.
The guys started with rock music. But they had to run discos, as there was not enough money for expensive instruments and equipment. Gradually, the direction of music became closer to dance. The group was called "Accident", as the team rehearsed and performed in the club of the same name.
In Ivanovo, the team gained popularity, and the guys were invited as presenters to the local radio station. The program they hosted was called "Disco Crash" and was a review of the latest in music.
In 1992, Oleg Zhukov, who was an actor in the puppet theater, joined the Disco Accident group. The team was actively involved in the creation of remixes. The first successful composition was a remix of Alla Pugacheva's song "Kings Can Do Everything".
The three of them did not work for long, after a couple of years Alexei Serov joined them. And the Diskoteka accident group, whose composition was already a fully formed group, which had enough songs to record an album, received an additional creative impetus from him.
The first album was called "Dance with me", it was very popular in the Ivanovo region and quickly sold out among fans. The popularity began to grow, several more albums were recorded one after another. And the team was accepted by the spoiled Moscow public.
In 2001, the Disco Crash group, consisting of Oleg Zhukov, Alexei Ryzhov, Nikolai Timofeev and Alexei Serov, released the album Maniacs. This record received many awards and prizes, became the best-selling in 2001 and was recognized as the "Album of the Year".
The albums of the Disco Crash group come out one after another, the team receives all kinds of awards. Only in 2012 did Nikolai Timofeev leave the Disco Crash group. The parting was associated with discord in the team, a lot of disagreements and misunderstandings accumulated.
Nikolai begins to pursue a solo career. This rift sparked several copyright infringement lawsuits on songwriting. All rights to the songs belonged to Alexei Ryzhov, but Nikolai Timofeev forbade the Disco Crash group to use his voice in phonograms.
A girl appeared in the team - Anna Khokhlova and she is in the Disco Crash group this year as well. Participant of the Ukrainian version of the song show "X-Factor". In 2013, the group recorded a composition for the presentation of the Zapashny brothers, and in 2014, after a long silence, the album "Girl Driving" was released.
Alexey Ryzhov
He has been fond of music since childhood, and many predicted him a successful career as a musician, but his second passion, football, became an obstacle to entering a music university. However, now Diskoteka Avaria the composition of the group cannot conceive without it.
Alexey Serov
Received a legal education. In early childhood, he took part in the A + B team, and this was the beginning of his career as a musician.
After graduating from the university, Alexey organized with his friends a law firm that still exists in Ivanovo and is the largest in the city.
Like Alexey Ryzhov, he is fond of football, he met the guys from the Discotheque and the accident happened on the football field. So he ended up in the group "Disco Crash" and to this year is a member of the collective.
Anna Khokhlova
Anna was born in the Chelyabinsk region. In St. Petersburg, she graduated from the University of Culture and Arts, and for some time took part in the GOODINY project as a soloist. In 2012, the girl sang a song for the animated series Barboskiny.
After her participation in the show "X-factor" on Ukrainian television, Sergey Prahomenko recommended a girl to replace Nikolai Timofeev, who left Disco Crash. As a result, the Disco Crash group replenished the group with this creative personality and the team received "fresh blood". And until this year, as we hope in the future, all songs and videos could not do without her participation.
Ex-members of the Disco Crash group
Nikolay Timofeev
Of all the members of the Disco Crash team, Nikolai is the most recognizable. He studied with Alexei Ryzhov at the Energy Institute, where he held discos to earn money for equipment for the group.
In 2012, Nikolai left the Disco Crash group. This departure was scandalous due to the many lawsuits that he had with Ryzhov. During his solo career, Nikolai has already released several songs and video clips. He himself acted as a director of his videos under the pseudonym "Stagoranovich".
Oleg Zhukov
Oleg was born in Ivanovo and before working in the Disco Crash group, which he joined in 1992, he was an actor in a puppet theater. In the team, he had the role of frontman. Oleg voiced the vast majority of commercials and compositions of the band.
All rap parts were performed by Zhukov. A lot of weight did not prevent Zhukov from dancing beautifully. At all the concerts of the Disco Crash group, Oleg appeared after the performance of the third composition, the fans greeted him with a standing ovation, as he was everyone's favorite.
In February 2002, Oleg Zhukov died. The Disco Crash group stated that no one would be taken in his place, since he was not only part of the team, but also a close friend to everyone.
