Many participants in the show The Voice go on stage not only with a microphone, but also take musical instruments with them. Intars is one of those people, and in his act he demonstrated playing the trombone. At the blind audition, Pelageya and Agutin turned to Intars, but Gradsky and Bilan never saw the energetic performance from the Latvian. Regular TV viewers of the New Wave in Jurmala will probably remember Intars, in which he participated and won in the past. This page presents the artist’s biography, interesting facts from his life, as well as photographs. How his fate will turn out in this competition - all that remains is to follow the broadcasts, and who knows, maybe he will win this competition too, although he will have serious rivals.
Biography of Intars Busulis
Date of birth: May 2, 1978
Horoscope: Taurus
How old: 36
From: Tulsa (Latvia)
Personal life: Married, has three children
Where did he work before the Voice project: Worked as a vocalist and musician, took part in various festivals and competitions
Music education: music school (trombone class), music college
Mentor in Voice 3: Agutin
Interesting information about the participant:
In 2005, the artist took part in the “New Wave” competition in Jurmala, and won it.
Recorded a duet with Elena Vaenga, the song Neva and performed on the Saturday Evening program
Intars knows how to cook pilaf, and sometimes also cooks pancakes with potatoes
Favorite dishes of Russian cuisine: rassolnik, dumplings, Olivier.
There is an older sister who graduated from the same school and the same college as Intars.
Intars has both ears pierced
Intars released five albums before participating in the Voice competition
Intars Busulis VKontakte: Intars does not have an official VKontakte page
Intars Busulis on Instagram: http://instagram.com/intarsbusulis
His charming, attractive and bewitching voice won thousands of ladies' hearts. A talented singer, family man, father of three children and simply a handsome man, Intars Busulis, talked to us early in the morning over breakfast on the sunny terrace of the Riga Le Dome restaurant.
LENA: Intars, you come from Talsi, a small Latvian town. How do you remember your life there?
INTARS: This is my hometown and I have only the best memories of it! Even youthful fights are remembered with some warmth! ( Laughs)
LENA: Do you still have many childhood friends close by?
INTARS: Unfortunately no. Some went to Ireland to pick strawberries, others simply got drunk – it’s a small town. But now, by the way, there are a lot of English numbers in Talsi. Probably the local guys came on vacation. ( Smiling)
LENA: This is a tragedy of the periphery - people move away or drink themselves to death from idleness. But you are a completely different matter. What helped you break out not only to the capital, but also to conquer the Russian and European stages?
INTARS: Oh, still conquer and conquer! But thanks a lot to the parents. I was always busy with something: music school, some clubs. I was taught not just responsibility, but responsibility to myself.
LENA: Do you raise your children according to the same principle?
INTARS: Trying! I want my children to be busy and not spend all their time at the computer. In our family, it’s like in the movies: there is a bad cop - me, and a good one - my wife. ( Laughs). But when they do something mischievous, the son immediately runs to his mother, and the daughter to me. Everything is just like in the book!
LENA: My son and daughter study at a music school. Do you want them to continue the dynasty?
INTARS: Absolutely not! I just want them to be musical, to be able to sing among friends and to be able to do it well. I have an example before my eyes - my neighbor. An adult man, a businessman, deals with cars, but as soon as the feast begins, an accordion appears in his hands and that’s it - before us is another person, the soul of the company, the ringleader!
LENA: Intars, you have long been popular not only in Latvia. After projects on Channel One, you began to be recognized abroad. It's time to “grab a star”, no?
INTARS: I don't have time for star fever! If people recognize us, that’s good, it means everything we do is not in vain. Why do I say “we”? Because I’m not alone, but there’s a whole team of us. ( Switches to a Caucasian accent) We try, we put passion into the music and the listener feels it, right?
LENA: Have you performed in front of children? Is it more difficult than in front of adults?
INTARS: We had charity concerts for children, and you know, it’s generally unclear what they need! As always with children - n-e-p-o-n-i-t-n-o! ( Laughs). In addition, children come to such events with adults, which means it is necessary to interest both young listeners and “old people.” At such mixed concerts, we even developed a certain work scheme. For example, we invite those who are already eighteen to raise their hands or, let’s say, admit: who kissed? And we perform a song for these categories. Actually it's funny. Teenagers begin to feel embarrassed, giggle, and show bravado.
LENA: Your participation in the “Exactly Exactly” project. So many images! What was the most difficult? Tina Turner?
INTARS: It turned out to be easy to show Tina Turner! What is there to play there? The main thing is that she never straightened her legs on stage. This saved me! Of course, I practiced walking in heels...
LENA: (Laughs) He borrowed his wife’s shoes and walked them around the kitchen?!
INTARS: (Laughs) No, I wandered back and forth around the hotel room. But this is terrible! How do you walk on this?! All my legs hurt by the end of the evening!
LENA: So you suffered and suffered on stage?
INTARS: (Laughs) Exactly! I had to stand still for about fifteen minutes, I would raise one leg, then the other. And everyone thinks: that’s how it should be, that’s the number!
LENA: Which image was more difficult?
INTARS: ABOUT! It was the Frenchman Joe Dassin and the song “Champs Elysees”. I don’t know French, and when I sing, I have to know the literal meaning of each line. There were also difficulties in staging the performance: there was only one camera filming, I had to meet the operator halfway, and on the way greet the audience, remember the text and movements, the plastic movements characteristic of the artist himself. It was all very difficult!
LENA: Have you ever wanted to learn French? Such a beautiful language!
INTARS: I have long had a desire to learn French, Arabic and Spanish! There's just no time...
LENA: Now you’re like in a famous cartoon: “Your mother is shown here and there.” It seems like you are not resting at all! Do you have enough time for your family?
INTARS: I try to devote more time to my family, especially in the summer. In June I had a two-week vacation, then another week and a half in July, and in August I will also have two weeks free. But by the fall you will need to work a lot.
LENA: Creative people are usually very emotional, are you easy to piss off, make you laugh, or upset?
INTARS: It's easier to upset me than to make me laugh. I can laugh, but it takes effort to laugh until I cry!
LENA: And can you cry?
INTARS: Sure I can! We are all human. But I don’t cry over movies and cats from the Internet. Now, when I stand on stage or hear a good song, I can shed a tear. True, only about myself!
LENA: Where is it more difficult for you to perform: in front of a large audience or at private events?
INTARS: It’s hard to say... Every performance is a huge responsibility. But small, intimate events are great for keeping fit. Otherwise you won’t sing for a week and you’ll have to sing for several hours. But whether it’s a big concert or a private “Christmas tree” - I go to the end! It is important for me that the viewer is satisfied and it is important to see the return from the listeners. If during a performance someone looks up from the plate and listens, if they start dancing, if they react, then everything is not in vain!
LENA: Are you a risk taker? Can you jump with a parachute?
INTARS: Oh come on! I regularly receive invitations to Dinner in the Sky, but I keep turning them down. I look at this crane that holds the platform, and I immediately remember how my brother suffered in the Talsi tragedy - he broke his legs, but, fortunately, he remained alive. Therefore, I will not risk my life for food. But driving a car or riding a roller coaster is welcome!
LENA: What brings joy in life?
INTARS: I love fast driving, pine forests, morning coffee – it’s a ritual! Even my wife and I have learned to achieve zen - the children can go crazy, but we calmly drink coffee. I love traveling around Latvia, but I dream of going to Iceland. I really like to plan my vacation, communicate with friends at home, around a set table, so we have a large table, but no TV. And I love my family, of course!
Intars Busulis- famous Latvian jazz and pop musician and artist.
Intars Busulis. Biography
Intars Busulis born on May 2, 1978 in Tulsa, (LatSSR). During his school years he played in a children's musical ensemble and studied folk dancing. He graduated from the Talsi Music School, trombone class, and the Ventspils Music College. Worked as a presenter at the Latvian radio station Radio SWH.
In 1999, together with Raymonds Tigulis he formed the group Caffe, and four years later began a solo career in search of his own style. During this time he played in the National Armed Forces Brass Band and the Wet Point Jazz Band. His musical odyssey did not end there. He performed at jazz festivals in Lithuania, Estonia and France, and in 2005, as a vocalist and trombonist, he joined the band of a Danish bass guitarist Erica Mosuholma"E.Y.J.O."
In 2008, Intars, together with composer Kārlis Lacis, released his first album, which included songs in Latvian and Russian. Intars supported the release of the album with a concert tour in Latvia. Four months later, the song "Brīvdiena" entered the charts of music channels and radio stations.
In 2009 Intars Busulis received several important Latvian music awards and began work on a new album in English. On " Eurovision 2009“In Moscow, he performed the song “Traffic” in Russian.
Since 2013, Intars has been playing A.S. Pushkin in the musical “Onegin” at the Riga theater “Dailes”. Intars also performs as a trombonist as part of the legendary Latvian Radio Big Band.
At the end of 2013, Intars met singer Elena Vaenga. Highly appreciating the musical presentation, unusual manner of performance and natural artistry, Elena invited Intars to enter the Russian stage. Together they recorded a duet for the song “Neva”, which they presented at the singer’s solo concert at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg on January 28, 2014 and at Intars’ solo concert at the Dzintari Hall in Jurmala on June 30, as well as at the “ Golden Gramophone Award"at the Ice Palace on November 30, 2014.
On March 8, 2014, the duet’s television premiere took place on Channel One in a programme " Songs for loved ones", a week later on the channel Russia 1 in a programme " Saturday evening».
September 5, 2014 Intars Busulis came on stage of the show "The Voice", Season 3. At the blind audition, he decided to perform the song Duke Ellington“It’s all pointless,” while the singer took to the stage with a trombone, simultaneously playing along with himself and vocalizing. TO Intars Busulis all the mentors turned and without exception showered him with praise. However, he preferred the team of Leonid Agutin.
Performing "I Love You More than Nature" Intars reached the semi-finals. On December 19, 2014, Intars opened the semi-finals of the TV show “The Voice” with a hit Billy Joel Honesty.
In February 2015, the second season of the transformation show “Exactly” started on Channel One, and one of its participants was Intars Busulis. On the project, the singer transformed into Boris Moiseev, and the original himself was very pleased with the image that Intars showed. Creating the image of Boris Moiseev took a total of about four hours of work by the make-up artists. Viewers also saw Busulisa in images Billy Joel and the lead singer of the Lyube group Nikolai Rastorguev.
Intars Busulis: “It was especially interesting for me to perform as Billy Joel, because he has an unusual style of performance: he sings only with his diaphragm. When I transformed into him, I felt real excitement. I think that at the moment it is with Billy Joel that I have the greatest resemblance.”
Intars Busulis married, he has three children.
How does Intars raise three children, what can he cook and what instruments does he play? Only we have a detailed biography of one of the most prominent vocalists of the Voice-3 project.
Zodiac sign: Calf.
City: Tulsa, Latvian SSR, USSR.
How long has he been making music? At the age of 8, following his older sister, he entered a music school.
“I followed her to a music college,” says Busulis. “It was easier for the parents: both children are busy, and my sister will look after them if anything happens.” By the way, at school I had bad grades in music - threes, twos. Because they taught composers, but they didn’t let them sing, they didn’t even need notes. Just endless colloquiums.”
Education: Played in the National Armed Forces Brass Band and the Wet Point Jazz Band. In 1999, together with Raimonds Tigulis, Intars created the group Caffe, and four years later he began his solo career. He performed at jazz festivals in Lithuania, Estonia and France, and in 2005, as a vocalist and trombonist, he joined the group of Danish bass guitarist Erik Mosuholm E.Y.J.O. In 2008, Intars, together with composer Kārlis Lacis, released his first album, which included songs in Latvian and Russian.
Family status: married, three children: Lanny, 12 years old, Emilia, 7 years old, Amelia, one year old.
“I come from a large family, I have two sisters and two brothers. My mother now already has 11 grandchildren. So for me, three children is nothing special; my wife and I are not going to stop at this number,” Intars assures. – When my first child was born, I was 23 years old, I served in the army, and they didn’t let me go to my wife. I was so upset, I thought I would definitely be rehabilitated the second time. And my daughter was born in December, all this New Year’s fuss, work, you understand. Again I was not with Inga at such a crucial moment. It wasn’t until Amelia arrived that I was present at the birth from start to finish and even cut the umbilical cord myself. It was cool. On this day I fell in love with my wife even more. She's such a great guy for me; If there was an opportunity, I would give her an order.
Because of “The Voice,” I haven’t really been at home for several months, and Inga copes with the children alone. Her brother comes occasionally. And basically the main assistant is the son. Lanny told me the other day: “You shouldn’t have made it to the next round.” And it's cool that he said that. I immediately felt that he needed me. He's great for me. About two years ago I was dissatisfied with him, my son began adolescence, he became disobedient. And now, at 12 years old, I suddenly calmed down. He lets my mother and I go to the cinema and says: you go for a walk, I’ll sit at home with the children.
The middle daughter is a classic girl, exactly the way I imagined her. Everything falls out of her hands, she doesn’t look where she’s going, she quickly forgets everything and is interested in princesses. She is only 7 years old, but you can already see how much she loves being looked after.
The most important thing I want to teach my children is to love their homeland. The place where you were born is your foundation. I come from Talsi, my wife is from there, and my children were born there. Despite the fact that we have lived in Riga since 1999, we go to Talsi to give birth. My mother works in a local maternity hospital, you can imagine what conditions we have there.
Of course, I love music, but if I didn’t have my family, I don’t even know what I would live for. When I’m at home, the day is scheduled minute by minute: some to school, some to kindergarten, some to hockey, change diapers, fix something, run to the store. It’s like with us – you buy 2 liters of milk, the next morning it’s gone. Socks disappear every day. And in these troubles there is such happiness. After all, this is what a person lives for, to leave a mark, to raise happy children.”
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Intars Busulis, singer, musician, in the program “Simple Questions” with Yegor Khrustalev.
Egor Khrustalev, presenter:
It is a great honor for me to talk with you. And I want to say that during the time we were driving together in the car, getting here, I came to the conclusion that you have an absolutely non-Latvian temperament. Do your fellow countrymen tell you about this?
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Intars Busulis, singer, musician:
By the way, people from the Caucasus say that this is true.
Egor Khrustalev:
What are you – Caucasian?
Intars Busulis:
That I am almost Caucasian, yes. And, as Soso says: “A Latvian with Georgian manners.” Maybe that's how it is.
About trombone
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Egor Khrustalev:
You have a unique career. You are one of the most famous Latvian musicians. If you had not found yourself on the Russian stage, the biggest success that could have awaited you inside Latvia – what would it look like?
Intars Busulis:
I'm actually a brass player. And by profession, and by vocation too, one might say. Because I really love brass music, I played in many orchestras: in a symphony orchestra, in a military orchestra.
Egor Khrustalev:
In the military.
Intars Busulis:
Serviceman. If it were now - pah-pah-pah, God forbid, of course - I would be called up. I'm not that old yet. I am a trombonist. I was even a very good trombonist - I had “tens” all the time at school, that is, “fives”.
Egor Khrustalev:
In fact, everyone who follows your work knows that you are an excellent trombonist.
Intars Busulis:
Yes, but now, unfortunately, I don’t play much. I would most likely be a trombonist, I think. I would study classical music. Because, in fact, my main goal, for which I went when I studied at the music college in Ventspils, was to play in the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. I still have a desire, because I really love classical, symphonic music.
Egor Khrustalev:
Intars, before you started recording, I think you were whistling something classical. But if you play the trombone for yourself, for your own pleasure, or just whistle, what kind of music is that? Is it jazz or, after all, classical?
About flat
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Intars Busulis:
I love to improvise. I would probably play jazz. For example, Summertime in G minor. Oh, this is such a good tonality, flat.
Egor Khrustalev:
I saw your interview, you were asked: “Flat or sharp?” You said: “No, of course, flat.”
Intars Busulis:
Flat, of course.
Egor Khrustalev:
I can not understand. Of course, I am a person who has something to do with music, as an amateur, but the difference between flat and sharp - how to feel it? Can you find some words to explain the difference between flat and sharp?
Intars Busulis:
I do not know why. I've just been used to playing in flat keys all my life. F major, G minor, B major, D minor. So, in general, in brass music, that’s how it is, it sounds. It just sounds.
Egor Khrustalev:
Sounds better, yes.
About the weather
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Intars Busulis:
Better, yes. And here in Latvia... These keys – you can think a little more than in sharp keys. I immediately feel that the song is in a sharp key or in a flat key. It's immediately clear. We love to be sad. I also like to be sad.
Egor Khrustalev:
You can't tell. I love autumn, I love such gray weather, without the sun. I love snow, how gloomy the weather is today. I really love this. And it’s even better when there are weather changes, when summer turns to autumn, autumn turns to winter, winter turns to spring. When spring turns to summer, it’s also nice. But anyway, summer is not my kind of weather at all.
About Eurovision
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Intars Busulis:
I want to ask a question from the point of view of, say, a Belarusian musician. Because any musician or performer, of course, understands that they can make a career and, relatively speaking, become successful, financially successful, only if they enter either the Western market, which is less likely, or the Russian market, which has huge open spaces. And your path was connected with a number of competitions. You won in Jurmala, you won the show “The Voice”, you participated in “Eurovision”. It's the right way? Or, in general, would everything have turned out differently in your situation?
Egor Khrustalev:
I have always believed and still believe that you just have to go and challenge. Firstly, to yourself. And participate in competitions. At the beginning, of course, there are some small competitions, but, in any case, this is some kind of step. And go to big competitions, where there is an opportunity to get to know yourself, firstly. Get to know other people, be in this environment. And, in the end, always think about victory, about the best thing that can happen to you in this competition. That’s why I was at Eurovision, we did everything to get to Eurovision, and we got to Eurovision, and, of course, got not the best place in this competition.
Egor Khrustalev:
I think you had 19th place?
Intars Busulis:
This is the very last one. This is Eurovision, which took place in Moscow. But not the worst - we got second place from the bottom. This is also a good place.
Egor Khrustalev:
Belarus almost always has such results.
Intars Busulis:
This year has been like this for us. But, anyway, we met people, met a lot of Muscovites. And, in the end, I also participated in a jazz competition, where I also had very good results. I received the Grand Prix. And, of course, “New Wave” in 2005.
About participation in popular shows
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Egor Khrustalev:
In your opinion, why is it so that almost none of those who shone brightly in the “Voice” project have developed their own repertoire? Almost no one, I will say again, has developed a repertoire with which he could perform. And even now you participated in the transformation show “One to One”.
Intars Busulis:
"Exactly the same".
Egor Khrustalev:
“Exactly”, yes. And, again, people who perform there very successfully, in the end, it turns out that no one ever got their own, let’s say, hit of a lifetime, song of a lifetime.
Intars Busulis:
Yes. I also have a little bit of this problem. But we have a concert repertoire that we play. And our program is structured so that people find it interesting. Firstly, the program is designed in such a way that, of course, it would be interesting for us too. But, the most important thing is the viewer who paid for the ticket and stood in traffic jam. He knows his place, he comes, sits in his place and listens. We just have to give the audience what they want. That's why they came here - to look at us. And we have this repertoire. Now, recently, of course, both songs and videos for songs have appeared. “Lead Me” has finally appeared. Because we don’t have video clips of the Russian repertoire, and never have. There were only concert recordings.
About Vaenga
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Egor Khrustalev:
Your song is legendary - “Neva”, after all.
Intars Busulis:
Oh, what are you talking about? “Neva” is a separate story. About Lena, about our acquaintance.
Egor Khrustalev:
In any, say, duet, the following situation occurs: one loves the other, and the other allows himself to be loved. In your situation, do you think she was more carried away by your talent or did you adore her?
Intars Busulis:
It was such an exchange of everything that you just said. We actually met in Astrakhan. But we met through a friend of ours. It turned out that he also knows Lena - he is from St. Petersburg. And Lena also lives in St. Petersburg and Riga. And, as I understand it, our friend was showing music links from the Internet.
Egor Khrustalev:
Yours?
Intars Busulis:
Yes.
Egor Khrustalev:
And she liked it.
Intars Busulis:
And my friend showed me links from Lena’s Internet. She didn't know me, I didn't know her. And this friend wanted us to meet. I was ready, but Lena said that she wouldn’t just get acquainted. Not because she is a great actress, but she just didn’t want me to get to know her not only as a person, but also as a musician. And that she invites you to the concert. And before that, we didn’t talk to her at all, only from the Internet I listened to her, he listened to me. And I came to this gorgeous concert in Astrakhan, which I listened to for the first time and not the last - after that I was at 7 or 8 concerts, I don’t know how many. So, a great concert. The muse just appeared to me at that moment. And we met after the concert. I didn’t even meet her before the concert. I put on the most stylish pants - red ones. And then our cooperation just began, with this meeting in Astrakhan. Friendship, I mean. And all the songs: “Neva”, “Lena”, then “Gravity”, “Brīvdiena” - in Latvian, which she really liked.
About the attitude towards him in Latvia
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Egor Khrustalev:
You wonderfully performed a song by probably the most popular performer in the Soviet Union - Jaak Joala, “I draw you.” For the Soviet audience, as it were, performers from the Baltic states were very special. It was such a flair of something from what is called “abroad,” from what was Western history.
Intars Busulis:
I understand.
Egor Khrustalev:
But I read information about him that he had a pretty bad time and suffered from the press in the last years of his life. Especially when the Soviet Union collapsed, and he had to listen to a lot of offensive things: “I sold out to Russia, the hand of the Kremlin.” What does your destiny look like now? Do you ever hear such offensive things?
Intars Busulis:
I believe that there are very few such people, maybe only a few, who live in some kind of imaginary world of their own. I believe that many people, after all, think realistically. That music is, in general, a thing that has no boundaries. And, if I can speak Russian normally, I think, and understand a little bit what I say... Maybe you don’t understand?
Egor Khrustalev:
No, everything is fine.
Intars Busulis:
And why don't I sing in Russian?
Egor Khrustalev:
They are more proud of you or, on the contrary, as if: “This is already such a person, living in another world, show business.” What does it look like?
Intars Busulis:
The most important thing for me is that I myself understand where I come from, what the flag of my Motherland looks like, how the anthem sounds, and whether I get goosebumps when my anthem plays or not. Still, I love my country, and I love everything that happens there: both good and bad. Mostly good. And, in my opinion, for me this is the most important thing. What are people saying? People talk about something all the time. People are either happy or dissatisfied. There are all kinds. But mostly people are glad that there is a person or group of people - a "Subscription Band" as it is today - who are, I think, missionaries or ambassadors of good news. In general, that we are going to where they are waiting for us.
About Lyme and Pauls
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Egor Khrustalev:
Latvia is a very small country, even compared to Belarus. But in fact, there are a lot of truly iconic musical characters. And those who perform songs like Laima, for example, and music that personifies the very golden era of Soviet pop music, written by Raymond Pauls. Why do you think this happened?
Fadeev, caught in adultery, immediately rushed to refute the sick fantasy of his ex-ward, inviting Temnikova to take a lie detector and check the authenticity of this information.
Seryabkina was only amused by such news. She is sure: Lena is simply taking revenge on her. After all, if anyone in “Silver” had a love relationship, it was with Temnikova, and not with Fadeev. By the way, other representatives of show business believe that Elena simply decided to get hyped on the eve of the presentation of the new track “Hug.”
