February 13th, 2015
For the 16th time, Luzhniki hosted a group of Moskovsky Komsomolets readers to celebrate the 33rd birthday of the newspaper, whose circulation has long exceeded 2 million copies.
I smoothly move to the pop platform "Europe Plus & Soundtrack". Here, as usual, all the cream. Scandals began at the entrance! The fact is that the local guards did not recognize the Propaganda group. Members of the trio Willy Star, Mad and JSG were so ugly dressed, just like street girls. If not for their producer, they would stand by the wall until the end of the concert!
July 25th, 2014
In 2002, singer Marina Simanovskaya, known by her stage name Marusya, a member of the White Chocolate female hip-hop group and Decl's friend, who sang the famous Letter with him, died of cancer in Russia.
In memory of her, the bands "Not Married" and "Daiquiri" recorded the song "For You". The Propaganda group also took part in the dedication.
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Biography, life story of the group "Propaganda"
"Propaganda" is a Russian musical group (the main styles are rap and pop).
About "Propaganda"
Once upon a time, three simple and sweet girls sang in the Propaganda group - Vika Petrenko, Yulia Garanina and Vika Voronina. Both Vikas studied at the circus school, and Yulia studied at the medical school. At first, there was loneliness, ridicule and personal tragedies in their lives, and then everything happened like in a fairy tale. The girls met their future executive producer Alexei Kozin, and he, in turn, introduced the girls to producer Sergei Izotov. And away we go - records, hit parades, concerts ...
"Propaganda" is not hip-hop!
Vika Petrenko and Yulia Goranina were born in Chkalovsky near Moscow. There they grew up and gained mind-mind. They were in the same class together and have been friends since childhood. When they both turned 14, they looked at each other with teenage audacity and said at the same time: "Let's rap!". After that, the girls began an unbearable life. “We listened to rap hard and dressed accordingly- said Julia, - wide trousers, caps back to front. For the fact that we are not like everyone else, they hated us. And we had to learn at school to spit on the opinions of others.. "Others" took revenge on their friends with enviable constancy. The progressive tandem was expelled from the lessons in disgrace, the girls actually took root “on the carpet” with the director of the school.
"I told you everything he shouted after the third hour of the prophylactic talk, any questions?".
"Eat,- the rappers got bolder, - Here is your subject called "Fundamentals of Law", and why do we - students - do not have the right to speak? Why don't you give it to us?!..”.
"I told you everything he yelled after the sixth hour of the prophylactic talk, any questions?".
"Eat…".
The girls expelled from school would hide in Petrenko's room and turn on the tape recorder at full power. They turned it on to forget their grievances, to forgive the stupid director, not to hear how in the next room "dad beats mom"…
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The sounds of the songs "", Basta Raims and 2 PAC rushed from the speakers. And sometimes some tantric themes, Japanese music and early. Where two girls from the Moscow region got such records is unknown. But it is known that from an excess of feelings or, perhaps, an imbalance of nerves (shattered by the surrounding idiocy), the girls tried to compose their songs in English. So that no one understands the words. Here is our protest: we have our own secret, we create!
"Yes, you- the girls shouted at each other, - we had some serious songs like that! Two women, embittered at the bleak life, spun such a rap that the walls swayed! We also loved to smash various hip-hop collections to smithereens. This is garbage, this topic loads, and that one bends .... Hooray, we're better!".
The teachers at school knew about this hobby of Vika and Yulia, and therefore they asked them on the first day, as soon as the "truants" appeared in the class. The chemist, for example, terrorized Vika about wearing pants instead of a skirt. Once she put forward an ultimatum: either wear a skirt or don't come at all! Petrenko had one skirt - and very short ...
"Vika, dear,- the director began once again with a soul, - your skirt is short, the boys look under it ... Quickly go home to change clothes !!! ”.
According to the director's firm conviction, the boys did not delicately look under the skirts of other schoolgirls, sometimes lifted up above the belly. But under Vikina ...
Girls were scolded even more for wide trousers. Once Petrenko came out to answer to the blackboard and began to carefully draw something on it. At this time, the rapper's pants treacherously slipped down. Strange as it may seem, the teacher was the first to neigh, followed by the whole class. Vika calmly turned around, straightened her pants and asked languidly: "Excuse me, but what's funny here?". All day after that, classmates and the teacher must have felt like complete idiots….
True, there was one person who helped Vika and Yulia - their class teacher. The wise woman said: "I don't care how you dress or what you're into, just study well...". And thus lifted all the bans. The girls only believed her. Even then, Petrenko was thinking about her future: “I knew exactly what I wanted from this life - success. They told me: shut up, you can't sing! And I sent everyone and sang. They told me: hide your hook hands, you can't draw. And again I sent everyone and drew. So after school, my two favorite things were singing and drawing.”.
“Thanks to our school, our yard,- said Yulia Garanina, - because they hated, poisoned us. It was they who taught us how to defend ourselves and fight!”.
After finishing the ninth grade, Petrenko went to Moscow to choose an art school. But she did not like any of them until she accidentally looked into the circus. Here they did not teach to draw, but they taught to sing.…
Garanina, in spite of everyone, chose a medical school. To spite - because those around were firmly convinced that Yulechka would become an artist. After all, by that time the girl had already managed to show excellent acting skills in amateur performances.
Thus was born the ideology and form of the future "Propaganda".
Vika Voronina
Vika Voronina in an ordinary Moscow school was persecuted, perhaps, even more than Petrenko and Garanina combined. Once, a classmate with a swing and almost full length drove a pencil into Vika's shoulder just because she was not like everyone else. Passions ran high and the fact that Voronina studied "excellent" without much difficulty. She could beat the buckets for half a lesson, and then answer brilliantly. Or write a test in five minutes and get "excellent". So the class quickly decided on their "outcast".
Nevertheless, Vika managed to simultaneously master the wisdom of playing the piano at the music school. and subsequently received a red diploma. Mom by the hand brought a talented daughter to the Moscow Chamber Academic Musical Theater. Pokrovsky. There, the girl sang for seven years, playing the main roles in such productions as "The Nest of Nobles", "Let's Create an Opera", "Rostov Action", etc.
"The backstage world of the theater, Vika said, turned out to be even more cruel than the school one. Children are inherently cruel. All the adults were delighted with me and all the children were completely horrified. How is it that the main role is this fat woman ?! Often the day ended with a button in my shoe or a nail in my chair…”. At the same time, Voronina accidentally got into the team voicing the Kremlin tree. For several years, such celebrities were babysitting the girl that, according to her, "I'm afraid to even name them". “After seven years in the theater, Vika said, I finally decided to leave. I was tearfully begged to stay, but there was nothing more for me to do there. I planned to enter Gnesinka, but one day, when I saw its gray walls, I changed my mind..
Fate led Voronina straight to the circus school. After completing preparatory courses, she immediately got into the second round of selection and was soon enrolled in the pop department.
Clinical death and creativity
Petrenko and Voronina could not help but get to know each other, because they got into the same course at the circus school. When they noticed each other, each thought of her own. Voronina: “Damn, this is not a woman, but some kind of kid!”. Petrenko: “What is this natural phenomenon? Nightmare!".
At the very first rehearsal, the girls had a serious quarrel. Petrenko had to run away somewhere, and Vika began to whine: they say, look how the girl is free!
Soon the students apologized to each other, and later became very close friends. Meanwhile, Voronina began to have problems with the adequacy of self-esteem. Day after day, classmates and teachers told her the same thing: "Cow! Fat girl! Where did you come? Do you want to walk on a tightrope with such weight ?!. The girl, driven to hysterics, tried to commit suicide. But fate had mercy on Vika - the ambulance arrived very quickly. A month after the incident, Vika could no longer be recognized by classmates. In front of them was a completely different girl - who had lost 27 kg (!), Cheerful and self-confident. “I guess I experienced clinical death,- said the girl. - I remember everything vaguely. I woke up in a ward with the only setting - to live and win. Nobody knew about it, but even then I started writing songs..
A few months later, Voronina dared to show her creations to Petrenko. The reaction was unequivocal: “You are a complete fool! Yes, with such material you can move mountains!”. Despite this enthusiastic response, Petrenko continued to rap in English with Garanina for a long time. They even managed to light up on the local Chkalovsky television with their songs. In addition, the girlfriends took part in the young group Danger Illusion. But the girls quickly got tired of being on the sidelines.
Voronina's friends had not yet been invited, and in the meantime she showed her compositions to vocal teacher Yuri Nikitovich Evrelov. Nikitich, as the girls later lovingly called him, had the ability to discern talent in a person and not let him disappear. In fact, thanks to him, Yulia and two Vicki found each other. He also recorded their first phonogram, made tolerable arrangements, and “on the track” admonished: how to sing, how to behave on stage ...
And finally, the girls decided to work together. A painful rubbing against each other began. Even if the three angry cats are locked up in an isolated room, they will only remotely resemble our heroines, who closed themselves in Nikitich's makeshift studio in order to make a makeshift recording of material.
“We immediately decided that the main feature of our work would be female recitative, Julia recalled but it was not so easy to realize the idea. Girls and I are so different! And so explosive! We wrote two songs for exactly a year. There were tears, quarrels, obscenities, they even dragged each other for hair. And besides, we had huge financial problems. We had to work day and night, and in our free time we locked ourselves in Nikitich's office and wrote songs..
Having worked out the initial material, the girlfriends called their project "Influence" and took the demo tapes to the clubs. They already included the songs "Prayer" and "About it". Soon a new group was invited to perform at the Manhattan Club. While the future Propaganda. shaking in anticipation of her first appearance on stage, the presenter cheerfully squealed: “And now we have a young, promising, talented project called “Infusion” as our guest!”. The audience, heated up by bizarre cocktails, liked the word. "Infusion? Cool cool! Let's skip one more!".
After the concert - by the way, very successful - the girls had a tantrum. “Well, what the hell is an infusion?!” Yulia yelled. “We need to change the name urgently!”, Petrenko echoed her. And Voronina acted the wisest of all: she went home and immediately fell asleep. That same night, she dreamed of the band's new name. At the same time, in the sleeping Chkalovsky, Petrenko was shaking an old newspaper in front of Garanina's sleepy face. "Look, she shouted, what a word! Almost the same as "influence", only more sonorous and beautiful. PROPAGANDA!".
Garanina silently nodded her head and did not understand anything.
Mysticism happened: two Vicki independently came up with the same name for their group.
"Propaganda"
At that time, the girls did not even think about any good path in show business, and even more so glory. When the trio again had problems with money, the music generally faded into the background. There was no hope for parents who were barely making ends meet. Julia successfully got a job as a nurse in a polyclinic and supported her girlfriends for six months on her salary. But fate continued to throw the girls new and new difficulties. Yulia's cousin sat on the needle. While the parents did not know anything, the girl, crying, begged her brother to leave, but he could no longer. For the first time, seeing his torment with her own eyes, Yulia broke down: she stole drugs in the hospital and brought them to her brother. The loss was discovered and the girl was left without work. The brother was burning before our eyes, and therefore Garanina abandoned everything in the world. After some time, the family accompanied the boy on his last journey. Nervous breakdowns of the sister were replaced by prolonged depression.
“I have stood on the edge of the roof more than once, Yulia admitted, I was kept only by the thought of the girls and our songs. Then I began to console myself with the fact that I wrote poetry all day long. They came out very black. Now we want to write songs for some of them, but we just can't find the music. Probably, I need to re-experience something similar to my then state in order to get such music. ”.
Yulia was pulled out of depression by Petrenko. She did not console or persuade her friend, but simply continued to live her life: she ran to classes at the school, to some parties in clubs, wrote new songs ... And one day Garanina woke up. “Here I am sitting in four walls on my ass, she thought, and there is no use for me. And the girls are trying, it’s hard for them without me. ”. One fine day, Yulia simply asked the girls to take her with them to their next job ...
At this time, the hungry "Propaganda" as soon as it turned around to feed itself. The girls entertained the kids on Christmas trees, worked with raster dolls, carrying 35-kilogram costumes. But most often the trio hung around on the old Arbat. And for good reason.
Cunning journalists have already managed to spread dirty rumors that the "propagandists" made money by showing schoolchildren on the back of the Novoarbatsky grocery store their girlish breasts. It is not true. The girls really worked on the Arbat. They performed their own songs acoustically. At the same time, both Vicki moved in style and, like experienced circus performers, now and then performed dangerous tricks. There was always a crowd of onlookers around the group. And one day, in the midst of such a crowd, Aleksey Kozin, director of the CD Land Records recording company, accidentally wormed his way.
“I was walking with another delegation of colleagues from Germany, he said. - We tasted another bottle of Jameson whiskey and we were drawn to the extreme. Having made our way through the crowd of idlers, we saw THEM ".
At this time, Voronina was sitting in a splits, Petrenko was juggling empty beer bottles, and Garanina was maliciously rapping. Energetic "propagandists" bribed Kozin, first of all, with their actual texts and sincerity of performance.
A few days later, Alexei Kozin was already introducing Propaganda to the producer. They became Sergey Izotov, who made at one time, "" and "". “Uncle Seryozha - that’s what we immediately began to call him,- the girls yelled. - He took our tape and said to call him the next day. The night before the call was a real nightmare. At first we cried, then we laughed like fools. Well, that's it, we think, if it breaks off here, then we will never break through!.
The next day, Voronina tremblingly dialed Izotov's number. "Come!", came from the tube. “I could not stand it and screamed at the whole house, Vika said. - The girls understood everything and also yelled ... ".
Faith in the future and in something bright
Truth, gray as the world: the engine of trade is advertising. In modern show business, this simple postulate has remained unchanged: competent PR is necessary for the successful "promotion" of an artist. Image is everything! This is success, fame, money, etc. However, forgetting that a good deed will not be called PR, the “modest” hard workers of the show industry often create breathtaking flashy images for artists that can compete with the most fantastic comic book characters. And the phrase "It's all PR!" became a symbol of something false and unreal.
And these three girls did not need to invent anything. In life, they are the same as fans saw them on stage and on TV screens. They are "Propaganda". It is beyond any fiction and cheap tricks, it is more than an image. This is their life. Their work is beyond all falsehood and is directed at the listener, at the viewer. On you, face to face. Confession. The truth that is spoken, looking into the eyes.
"Propaganda" is Vika Voronina, Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina; these are three friends who created exactly the kind of team that they themselves wanted to create. And their song "Chalk" sounded on the radio of the whole country for a long time, and video clips for the compositions "Chalk" and "Nobody" were actively rotated on music channels.
"Propaganda" is, first of all, sincerity. Sincerity in feelings, in actions and in songs.
Death and rebirth
When on September 26 at the Novosibirsk State Technical University a concert was held as part of the “We Continue History” action, dedicated to the upcoming population census, the youth were very surprised to notice not three, but two soloists in the “Propaganda” group. And one of the girls was completely unknown to the fans. This was explained simply - in "Propaganda" there was a split, which was hastily "glued" by the producer of the team, Sergei Izotov.
On September 10, "Propaganda" sang on the stage of the Tyumen Youth Palace in the old composition. However, after the concert, the producer of the group, Izotov, gave the girls a scolding, as a result of which the soloist Vika Petrenko left the group. Izotov reproached his subordinate for immoral behavior and "inconsistency with the appearance of the Russian artist".
As a sign of solidarity, Vika's friend Yulia Garanina refused to go to the next big concert in Novosibirsk.
Due to the fact that the contract for the Novosibirsk concert was concluded even before the conflict, Izotov was forced to hastily look for a new singer. She became Olya Moreva. She very quickly learned the songs of the group and performed in Novosibirsk together with Vika Voronina, the third soloist of Propaganda.
This is how the “Propaganda” where Vika Petrenko, Yulia Garanina and Vika Voronina sang was gone. But there was another one. Vika Voronina, Olya Moreva and Ira Yakovleva began to sing in it.
... On their first album "Kids" (2001), the girls worked with full dedication. From about 50 musical drafts, they first chose 20, and from the selected ones, the best 10 tracks. Then there were tears, quarrels and girl fights in the studio, personal problems and problems with songs, but always a search, always creativity. In September 2001, Propaganda shoots the debut video for the song Chalk. The video was created based on Darren Aranofsky's film "Requiem for a Dream" - a poignant, intimate conversation about the life of drug addicts. Rainy skies, autumn St. Petersburg lanes, dark corridors of communal apartments and miserable inhabitants of the social lower classes of society flash through the frames. And above all this, the young and pure dream of teenagers hovers - to decorate the gloomy world, to make it brighter, better ...
The debut album "Kids" went on sale in February 2002 and immediately climbed to the top of the charts. On the wave of success, in July, the remix album "Not Children" (2002) was released, which included the new song "Cold" and remixes of the songs of the debut album from well-known representatives of the Russian pop scene in the person of Yuri Usachev (""), Mutabor, Radiotrance and others. The new clip "Nobody" was also well received by fans. Following CD Land releases a collection of hits and remixes "Who?!" (2002).
For Propaganda, 2003 can already be called a significant year. New soloists, new emotions, new songs and the poignant album So Be It (2003) as a result. But not the result. This is just the beginning... The new album is inspired by the feeling of love, we can say that this album is love! Warmly and poignantly the lines of Vika Voronina lay down on the video "Five Minutes for Love", the first video in the new role of the group. In pursuit of emotions and feelings, the second video hit “So Be It” appeared on the screen, which was destined for months and months to march on television screens. For the song “So be it” in April 2003, “Propaganda” received the “Stopudov Hit” award, and a couple of months later, on the “Golden Gramophone” of Channel One, the hit “Rain on the Roof” turned more and more fans to “Propaganda”. The position of Propaganda in the charts was strengthened by the blockbuster Song without Words, which opened the re-release of the successful album So Be It, now in the full version called Someone Plays Love... (2003).
In November 2003, the group shot a new video for the song "Yay-Ya", where "Propaganda" briefly turned into Eve seductresses of the glorious disco era of the 80s. This song is rather unusual in its sound. "Propaganda" for experiments and never wanted to stand still!
“Yai-ya” successfully won the top lines of various hit parades and by the end of the winter of 2004 already “competed” with another novelty from “Propaganda” - Super Baby, the video for which was aired in the spring, which gave Vika, Ira and Olya a colossal creative charge: in April, the shooting of a new original video for the poignant ballad Quanto Costa took place.
Experiments of the group "Propaganda" with the disco style took shape in the colorful stylish disc Super Detka (2004), two main songs from which have already become hits ("Yai-ya", Super Detka). The new album "Propaganda" is about a romantic, vulnerable contemporary. She sometimes cannot understand her feelings, which find her everywhere. It's hard to figure out what your heart wants... The author of all the songs on the Super Baby album is Vika Voronina.
New Age
The girl group gained the greatest fame in the period 2002-2004. At this time, rap in Russia was at the peak of its popularity, so the pretty rapper girls quickly acquired an army of devoted fans.
By 2005, "Propaganda" began to appear less and less on TV screens and on the stages of the country. It's all about money. More precisely, their lack. Due to a sharp reduction in funding, the group's affairs were getting worse and worse every day.
In 2007, the director of the group, Sergei Ivanov, became its producer. After a year of hard work, Propaganda releases the album You Are My Boyfriend, which, unfortunately, was negatively received by both critics and listeners. There was no trace of the former glory ... Tired of constant failures, in 2010 Vika Voronina left the group and began a solo career. A year before, Ira left the group. New singers came - Masha Bukatar and Nastya Shevchenko. No one remained from the very first composition of Propaganda.
In the middle of winter 2012, a new soloist appeared in Propaganda - Vika Bogoslavskaya, a member of Star Factory-4. Bogoslavskaya worked in the group for only a month. In her place came another girl - Maria Nedelkova. For unknown reasons, Masha also did not stay in the team. Newcomers came and went without staying for long... There were only two "propagnadists" left - Maria and Nastya.
In 2012, the group released the album Best Songs. New Collection", in 2013 - "Girlfriend", in 2014 - "Purple Powder". Despite the persistent efforts of the producers of the team to return "Propaganda" to its former glory, nothing came of it. Times have changed a long time ago, and Propaganda itself was gone long before its first fall...
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The Propaganda group was founded in 2001. Three teenage girls came to the well-known, at that time, producer Sergei Izotov and said that they had wonderful songs and they wanted to become famous. They were Vika Voronina, Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina. The producer really liked the songs and he began to record songs with the girls. During the work, it turned out that of all three, only Vika Voronina can sing, so “recitative parts” were written for the rest. Thus was born its own style of "Propaganda", but in this composition the team lasted less than a year. Soon after the release of the first album, as Vika Voronina recalls, the girls were overwhelmed by star disease and the producer was forced to part with two of them. For some time, several brighter participants claimed their place, to whom increased demands were made in terms of vocals. As a result, Katya Oleinikova (2002-2003), Olga Moreva (2002-2006) and Ira Yakovleva (2003-2009) worked for a long time in the team. There was a turn in the work of the Propaganda group - the rejection of recitative parts and the transition to professional lyrical vocals. In addition, the fourth member appears in the team - a musician, saxophonist Dasha.
In 2007, all rights to the Propaganda group are transferred to the new producer Sergei Ivanov, who worked with the team until that moment as a director. Only Vika Voronina and Ira Yakovleva retain their places in the group of four participants, Maria Bukatar joins them. It is from this moment that the group begins to perform exclusively live, without the use of a voice phonogram. The tour schedule of the Propaganda group includes 10-15 concerts every month, and the girls' days free from touring are almost daily rehearsals of vocals and choreography.
Not everyone can withstand such a schedule, and in 2010 Victoria Voronina leaves the team, who dreams of finding time for solo work. And a little earlier, in 2009, instead of Ira Yakovleva, a new participant appeared - Anastasia Shevchenko.
The group has a large number of national music awards (Golden Gramophone, Song of the Year, Stopud Hit, Major League, Silver Disc, Bomb of the Year and many others) and is a laureate of many television festivals and competitions.
Over the years of its existence, the group has released a large number of hits, such compositions as "Chalk", "Who", "Nobody", "So be it", "Rain on the roofs", "5 minutes", "Yai-ya", "Super -Baby" and "QuantoCosta" topped various charts of radio stations and TV channels for weeks.
In 2010, the song "You Know", the composer of which is Alexander Yankovsky, became such a hit. This track spent several weeks on the top lines of the DFM chart, and the video for this song is still on the air of music TV channels.
The Propaganda group, consisting of Masha Bukatar and Nastya Shevchenko, continues to delight its fans with new dance compositions and regular concerts.
In 2011, the track was released and at the same time the video clip "I am like that", which hit the DFM chart and gained more than 10 million views on YouTube. Then the group releases the album "You Know", where one of the tracks "Naberu" also appears on the air on some radio stations.
At the beginning of 2013, the tracks "Girlfriend" and "I wrote love" were released. Video clips have also been shot for these tracks, which are widely presented on TV channels.
The track "Girlfriend" has gained immense popularity among the people. More recently, the group released a new album - "Purple Powder" and shot a video for the single "It's a pity".
Group Propaganda in 2016 celebrates its 15th anniversary. For all the time the composition of the team changed several times, we counted 9 such changes. These compositions are shown in the photo. Today, the Propaganda team includes Maya Podolskaya, Veronika Kononenko and Arina Milan. They replaced Maria Bukatar and Anastasia Shevchenko in November 2015. According to the time of work in the group, the rating of "veterans" of Propaganda is as follows: 1) Maria Bukatar - 9 years and 6 months, in 5 compositions; 2) Victoria Voronina - 9 years and 4 months, in 5 teams; 3) Anastasia Shevchenko - 6.5 years in 4 squads; 4) Irina Yakovleva - 6 years old in 2 teams; 5) Olga Moreva - 4.5 years in 2 teams; 6) Ekaterina Oleinikova - 1.5 years. All others: Victoria Petrenko, Yulia Garanina, Victoria Bogoslavskaya, Maria Nedelkova - less than 1 year.
Official website of the group PROPAGANDA: probkistars.com
Official VKontakte group: vk.com/gruppapropaganda
Official community on Facebook: facebook.com/groups/143071822419123/
Instagram: instagram.com/gruppapropaganda
Dear Gossips, hello everyone! I’ve been sitting on Gossip for a long time and tightly)) But I didn’t dare to write my first post, and then an idea came up after watching the old clip of the Propaganda - Melom group on the music channel. I remember how, as a child, I directly found a deep meaning in this song)) I really liked this group, I knew, of course, all the words by heart)) Then I was still a ten-year-old girl and in children's summer camps we just listened to their songs.
A bit of history. The Propaganda Group was founded in 2001. The first line-up, which will be discussed in this post, consisted of the soloist Victoria Voronova, Victoria Petrenko and Yulia Garanina. They were also the authors of all the first songs. But then there was a discord between the girls and the producer, and Victoria Petrenko left the group, followed by Yulia Garanina. Then there were other girls, but I won’t write about them, because. I'm interested in this, the first and most famous composition of this group. Well, let's remember our youth, shall we?)
For a long time nothing has been heard about the group, the former members of this trio do not flash anywhere. But after digging around on the internet, I found them. And I share with you, I think many of you also listened to them in childhood.
Of the trio, I liked the soloist Victoria Voronina the most, she is also a songwriter. This is what she looked like when she was famous
I considered her an incredible beauty, so alive, with big eyes, with a good voice (yes, I sincerely thought so). BUT, what happened to her next is, excuse me, a complete paragraph ... In general, judge for yourself.
Now Victoria, already an ex-soloist of Propaganda, is engaged in solo work, as her VK page tells us, she writes songs for other authors and acts in videos. But for some reason no one sees them.
She was not spared the fate of duck lips and tuning, making everyone look the same. And now let's see how Vika looks now.
Now Vika is 32 years old, thirty-two Karl!
You know, girls, but I still like it, even now. She is kind of sweet, well, I don’t see any malice in her, although she is not popular now, but still she continues to do something, which is already commendable.
Two other girls - Victoria Petrenko and Yulia Garanina created their own group with the uncomplicated name "Petra and Yucca"
This is what the girls look like now
Victoria Voronina lived on her mother's pension for three years and lost 28 kg from worries
In the wake of the success of the NTV project “I want to join VIA Gro”, a similar project called “Get into Propaganda” was recently launched on the MUSICBOX TV channel. Its participants were offered to compete for the right to become the new soloist of the Propaganda group, which gained fame at the beginning of the 2000s with the hits Chalk, Superdetka and Apples Ate. Is it worth it to “get into Propaganda”, we were told by Vika VORONINA, a former member and author of all the hits of the group.
At the origins of the group were me and my friends from the village of Chkalovsky near Moscow - Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina, whom I met while studying at the circus school, - Victoria recalls. - The three of us constantly hung out at my house. I played the piano and wrote songs. And the girls performed them with me. Aleksey Kozin from the CD-Land record company accidentally found our records in a box where unplayed cassettes and CDs were thrown into one of the Moscow nightclubs. And he convinced the former producer of "Inveterate Scammers" and "Guests from the Future" Sergey Izotov to take up our promotion.
At first the group was called "Influence". Our first album "Kids" was sold in huge numbers. Fans after concerts tore off pieces of our clothes as a keepsake. We could be an unsinkable band. But, unfortunately, our relationship with Vika and Yulia did not stand the test of fame.
Since my parents did not steal from me, our family always had a bad financial situation. Until the age of 21, I did not have jeans and a mobile phone. And I was quite happy to receive $ 100 for a concert, which was comparable to the monthly salary of my parents. And the girls picked up a star fever. They began to show dissatisfaction with the Izotovs. It seemed to them that he was doing everything wrong: shooting a clip according to the wrong scenario, dressing us in the wrong clothes, etc. As a result, Sergei Evgenievich fired them. Because of this, the girls and I quarreled and stopped talking. Only a year and a half later, Vika and Yulia called me and admitted that they were wrong. We met, we cried, we hugged. But it was already too late.
You are the one to blame
After Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina, I worked with twelve other teams, Voronina continues. - Every six months - a year someone changed. Sometimes I came to a concert and did not know who would stand with me on stage. And in 2006, Izotov got another business - alcohol. And he announced that he would no longer be engaged in "Propaganda". For me it was a hard blow. I remember that from experiences in two weeks I lost 28 kg. I had a loan for a car. There was no rich lover. Only retired parents. And I did not know how to live on.
For support, she turned to the concert director of Propaganda, Sergei Ivanov. He used to sell perfumes. He joined our team in 2004. And he became a very close friend to me. “Though you do not leave us! I told him. “Let’s somehow survive together.” According to Ivanov, he negotiated with Izotov for a long time and eventually bought the rights to Propaganda from him. “Now I am your producer,” he told us in the summer of 2007. Signing new contracts with me. I trusted the man so much that, without really delving into it, I signed everything he asked. Moreover, she signed for him twice on blank sheets, which, according to him, were intended for fans. It never occurred to me that Sergei could deceive me.
I soon realized what a fool I was. Referring to the need to pay compensation to Izotov for us, Ivanov began to take almost all the money from our concerts. My monthly salary averaged six thousand rubles. And I had to dye my hair, fill the car, pay for a rented apartment. My mother gave me her pension for three years. But even this money was not enough to live on. "Can I go to McDonald's to work?" I asked Ivanov. “No,” he answered. You are a media person. I wasn't allowed to sell songs to other artists either. It turned out that under the contract I transferred to Ivanov the rights to everything that I wrote and will write in the future.
For trying to communicate with one of my colleagues or their producers, he fined me. In fact, I became his slave. In the summer of 2010, she could not stand it and said to Ivanov: “Seryozha, either you raise my salary, or I leave the group. I can't work for that kind of money anymore." “I'd rather raise the other girls' wages,” he replied. “And you, old, crooked, humpbacked and fat, the team doesn’t really need.” After that, Propaganda worked without me for some time. Ivanov called me. But I was offended and did not pick up the phone. “He probably wants to apologize for getting excited,” I thought. “What the hell do I need this for?”
A month later, we still phoned, met and agreed that I would work in the group until the end of the year, and then I would terminate the contract with him and start performing solo.
The last time I went on stage as part of Propaganda was on the night of December 31, 2010 to January 1, 2011. However, Ivanov did not even think about terminating the contract with me. Instead, he began, like a magician, to pull out some pieces of paper allegedly about my disruption of concerts and threaten lawsuits. He said that he would not give the work book. He even refused to pay his salary for New Year's Eve.
Barely ran away
For a whole year I came to my senses and did not even try to pursue a solo career. It seemed to me that all the ways to show business were closed for me, says Vika. - Then a friend from Perm showed my contract with Ivanov to lawyers. “You can wipe yourself with this piece of paper,” they assured. - There are a lot of violations in it. How can I transfer the rights to songs that have not yet been created ?! It's complete bullshit." I perked up and began to seek termination of the contract through the courts. Consideration of my claim at the place of registration of Ivanov in Sergiev Posad was not crowned with success. Their judge had never dealt with such cases and, without understanding, rejected my demands.
In response, Ivanov appealed to the Khamovniki Court of Moscow and demanded that I be fined five thousand dollars for failure to fulfill the contract, and also forbid me to do anything without his knowledge - give concerts, record my voice, use my image, etc. But his claim was also dismissed. And most importantly, in the decision of the Khamovniki Court, our contract was recognized as de facto terminated since 2011.
But Ivanov continued to claim that I belonged to him, and did not allow me to work independently. In St. Petersburg, he even came to the club with the UBEP guys to grab me. Barely managed to escape from him, get into the car and drive away. And in Moscow, after my performance at the Arena Moscow club, through his efforts, a criminal case was opened at all. It is interesting that I was interrogated as a witness in this case by a friend of Ivanov, who had previously come with him to Propaganda concerts. Then this person was fired from the authorities, and the case was closed.
As acquaintances told me, Ivanov directly says: “My task is to destroy it. Until I sue her, I won’t rest.”
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Forfeit $300 thousand
A couple of years ago, on TV, along with Vika Voronina, they showed two girls from the first line-up, who claimed that they were the real “Propaganda” and that I forbade them to perform, but in 12 years of working with the group, I have never encountered these girls, - Sergey Ivanov admitted. - And Voronina herself left the team in 2010. She said she was tired of singing. In fact, she experienced female jealousy towards other participants - Masha Bukatar and Nastya Shevchenko, who at some point became a head and shoulders above her as artists.
After Voronina left, only two participants worked in Propaganda. We tried to take the third, but no one stayed longer than three months. I still have a valid contract with Voronina, concluded until 2017. It stated that in the event of her departure, she must pay a penalty of 300 thousand dollars. But I treated her with understanding and did not demand this money from her. For two years there was no hearing or spirit from her. And then Vika again wanted to return to the stage, and she needed to terminate the contract. If she came to me and humanly asked, it would be a different conversation. But Voronina immediately sued me. At meetings, she threw tantrums and shamelessly lied, as if I had not paid her a salary for years.
Voronina's claims about the rights to her songs were also lies. She sold them to the former producer of Propaganda, Sergei Izotov. When he stopped working with the group, Vika came in tears and asked me to buy these songs, since she herself had no funds. I paid off with Izotov for a long time. Get into debt. And the judge recognized me as the rightful owner. In general, Voronin's court completely lost.
Yes, I really went to the police and demanded the cancellation of her concerts. But no one forbade her to compose, record and perform new songs. And Vika performed with the old ones that belonged to me. Plus, I used the name “Propaganda” in the posters, which I registered as a trademark. In doing so, she interfered with the work of our group and harmed us. The criminal case on the fact of her performance at Arena Moscow has not been closed so far. Investigators can't find her for questioning. As far as I know, Voronina is hiding abroad - in the USA, in the city of St. Louis. Yes, I could give up on her and terminate the contract with her. It makes me neither cold nor hot. But Vika behaved in such a way that I, for the sake of principle, will not terminate anything.
