Nikolay Voronov - Russian singer, as well as a lyricist, songwriter and composer. The talented pop artist became famous thanks to the YouTube video service, on which Nikolai posted the song own composition and performance of "White Dragonfly of Love". "Dragonfly" instantly attracted the attention of fans with its uncomplicated lyrics and rhythm.
A music critic jokingly compared this young musician and performer with But there is some truth in every joke.
Nikolai Voronov, who became famous for his hit, the song "White Dragonfly of Love", was born in May 1991 in an intelligent Moscow family. His father Alexander Voronov teaches at the Department of Sociology and humanities one of the capital's universities, and my mother has the education of an accompanist. It was my mother who first noticed musical ability younger son If. Already at the age of 3, the boy demonstrated that music and mathematics are his favorite pastimes.
The musical biography of the boy began in childhood. At the age of 5, Nikolai Voronov sat down at the piano. He began to study at the Gnessin Moscow Special School, where especially gifted children studied. The boy showed perfect pitch and excellent musical memory. This was the reason extra classes composition.
According to Nikolai Voronov, he wrote his first musical composition at the age of 8. He called it "Classical Etude for Piano".
Music
The composition that glorified the young poet, performer and musician, he wrote at the age of 10. It was the song "White Dragonfly of Love". Nikolai Voronov himself attributed it to the thrash-pop style. But Kolya remembered this song only 6 years later.
As Voronov admitted, the musician took up “pop music” after his dad gave him a Casio synthesizer. This instrument prompted the guy to write the first three songs. First, the composition “I'm waiting for you” appeared, and some time later two more: “People who immediately” and “White Dragonfly of Love”. The latter became a hit after Nikolai Voronov posted it on Youtube video hosting in 2008. A funny video with a catchy rhythm and words was viewed by thousands of users. Kolya woke up famous.
At first, interest in the song was more of a joke, users sent each other a funny clip with a memorable motive, but later the song gained a viral effect, and the author of the composition became popular in earnest and received a number of offers to perform on shows on federal channels. Users were surprised and amazed by the fact that Nikolai wrote the song itself as a child, and predicted the viral Internet success of the composition 4 years before he posted the recording on YouTube.
In November 2008, Nikolai was invited to give his concert in the fashionable metropolitan club Solyanka, which he willingly did. There was a full house in the hall. One and a half thousand people came to look at Voronov and listen to his "live" performance. This concert can be seen on Youtube. The video has garnered a record number of views.
Nicholas was also invited to holiday concert, which was broadcast on the 2x2 TV channel in new year's eve from 2008 to 2009.
In 2009, Artemy Troitsky spoke in favor of Nikolai Voronov going to Eurovision with his hit. The critic supported the initiative group that nominated Voronov with his own video message. Should have performed the song Quest group Pistols. But the musicians were refused, as the composition had already been performed before the end of October 2008, which is prohibited by the rules of this international musical competition.
In the same year, Nikolai Voronov was awarded"Steppe Wolf" in the "Something" nomination. The peculiarity of this nomination is that here the judges evaluate not music or text, but public influence person or event. Therefore, Nikolai Voronov's competitors in the fight for this award were the Large Hadron Collider, Bruno's 4 positions, Eurovision 2009, the closing of the FUZZ magazine, Russian creative association"Komba BAKH" and underground actor Pahom.
Another wave of popularity "covered" the musician in December 2015, when the parodist quite accurately portrayed Kolya in the TV show "Just the Same".
Today, Nikolai Voronov, according to him, has almost 90 of his own compositions. But only a few became popular, including the songs “People who immediately”, “Fruit tenderness” and “Run”. But these songs could not achieve the popularity that the hit "White Dragonfly of Love" achieved.
Nikolai Voronov is often invited to various TV shows. The most striking and memorable was the show "Let's Get Married".
Personal life
The trash star of Runet does not like to talk about this side of his life. Personal life of Nikolai Voronov - almost Blank sheet.
On the Let's Get Married program, he admitted that he likes tall and curvy blondes. But he still doesn't want to have children. Yes, and Nikolai is not ready for marriage, because he is frightened by the hysteria and greed of the girls of his friends. Besides " perfect woman you have to suffer."
Nikolai Voronov now
After the popularity of the Internet hit "White Dragonfly of Love" died down, Nikolai Voronov was never able to release a song that would achieve the same success, and gradually disappeared from television screens and disappeared from journalists' radars.
But in 2016, journalists tracked down the musician to find out how Nikolai Voronov lives after the past period. resounding success. Nikolai Voronov said that he stopped doing pop music and does not accept musicians' offers to write songs for them or perform popular hits, but not because of "star fever".
Nikolai wants to become a serious composer, and in order to develop in this area, the musician is sure that silence and loneliness are needed. Nikolai stopped writing songs and focused on more serious music. Nevertheless, the artist performs regularly, and his main income is still money from fees and some royalties from Dragonfly. Moreover, the artist does not need much: Nikolai continues to live with his parents, spends money on food and entertainment with friends.
The musician also claims that if anything saddens him, it is not the past popularity, but the awareness of the fragility of this world.
However, in September 2016, the musician became a member of the X Factor show.
In July 2017, the musician again attracted the attention of the Internet community. Nikolai began to regularly upload videos to his YouTube channel, where before that he had only posted classical music own performance. On the new videos, the artist is stripped to the waist, swears, says incoherent sentences and makes inarticulate sounds. IN in social networks the musician also began writing short, rambling messages.
Fans and the press suspected that the musician had gone crazy, but there was no official confirmation of such a diagnosis from the musician's relatives.
Discography (songs)
- 2008 - "Barricade"
- 2008 - "White Dragonfly of Love"
- 2008 - "People who immediately"
- 2008 - "Casino"
- 2009 - "Chub, kamon"
- 2009 - "Country"
- 2009 - "Run"
- 2011 - "Fruit tenderness"
- 2011 - "Sms"
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26 year old Russian composer Nikolai Voronov, who became famous at the end of the 2000s thanks to a hit « White Dragonfly of love» , now leads a rather strange video blog on YouTube: in the videos, he sits in front of the camera in a half-naked form and utters little meaningful monologues. In social networks, they are worried about the mental health of a man.
Social media users suggest that a certain person is to blame for Voronov's behavior. mental disorder caused by the calm after the fame. “This is an example of how show business cripples people,” wrote the Russian Shuffle Telegram channel.
Nikolai Voronov was born in May 1991. According to his mother, he began to study music at the age of three. From the age of five he learned to play the piano at the Moscow Secondary Special music school named after the Gnessins. Voronov became a star at the age of 17 thanks to YouTube and the song "White Dragonfly of Love", which he wrote at the age of 10. With her, he performed at corporate parties, TV shows and clubs.
Voronov's popularity quickly waned. Last year, the young man gave an interview to StarHit, in which he said that he had left the stage because "he began to play the piano more seriously in order to become a professional who would not have any failures at all." At the same time, he stated that he hated the conservatory, where he studied for five years, because there they “taught him nothing” and did not see him as a composer. Ravens also admitted that he was not worried about past glory.
Nikolay Voronov
Nikolai Voronov was born on May 15, 1991 in Moscow. At the age of seven, he entered the Gnessin Moscow Music School for the specialty of piano to T.A. Zelikman and studied there for 12 years. In 2000 due to nervous disease due to fatigue from excessive piano lessons, Nikolai canceled a trip to Holland for a competition, and piano lessons gradually began to shift more and more into the background. Since 2006, the musician moved from the piano class to the Faculty of Theory and studied there with teacher Anton Anatolyevich Prishchepa. In 2008, he entered the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory at the Faculty of Composition (the third number out of 18 applicants). In the same year, Voronov began touring: he goes to concerts first with various managers, but after three years he refuses them and continues to work on his own. On this moment Nikolay is the author of two quartets, one trio, more than ten duets, a quintet, a sextet, many piano compositions and improvisations, both recorded and unrecorded. There are also compositions for orchestra - five poems.
Nikolai considers electronic symphonies, of which he has 25, to be his main genre. total duration over six hours of listening. They are electronic because they are mostly computer-based. Nikolai refuses live performers due to the impossibility of performing live and says that "live performers as pure and accurate as a computer will still not be able to play." In the 13th, 14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd and 25th symphonies, Nicholas uses his voice in various options. Voronov's electronic symphonies were written between November 4, 2008 and August 30, 2012.
Nikolai considers the opera “Janis” to be an important work for himself, in which, in his opinion, he was able to more accurately depict nature creative person. Another such composition is the poem "Trees". There, Nikolai depicts a situation where a person is left completely alone with his thoughts, simply because no one hears his thoughts. What he says is completely ignored, because everyone is busy with their own business.
Nikolai has more than 90 songs, of which only "White Dragonfly of Love", written in 2001, became truly famous. Recently, the song "Fruit Tenderness" was written, which Nikolai appreciates more than "White Dragonfly", because in "Fruit Tenderness" - the arrangement and the sounds that Nikolai himself heard, while the rhythm for "Dragonfly" " invented by a synthesizer, and Nikolai himself heard only the harmony, melody and all the rest of the design.
Now Nikolai is trying to find performers for the opera Janis, but so far without success. But he does not stop, writes essay after essay, and in free time visits the conservatory, rides a bike and picks mushrooms.
Nikolai's music, according to him, you can try to analyze from the point of view of familiar forms, but you will get confused, because all opinions will be different. After all, in none of the composer's plays there are constructions that musicologists are so accustomed to seeing.
17-year-old Muscovite Nikolai Voronov is a true child prodigy who was never called that at home to protect him from psychological trauma. The boy, born in the family of a psychologist and accompanist, from the age of three showed extraordinary abilities in mathematics and music. At the age of five, he began studying to be a pianist at the Gnesins' Moscow Secondary Special School for Specially Gifted Children. Perfect Pitch and unique musical memory, revealed in Nikolai, led to the fact that, in parallel with general program with him began to engage in composition. At the age of ten, Kolya Voronov composed the song “White Dragonfly of Love” on a simple synthesizer, which six years later was destined to become internet hit and bring fame to the author. And now a first-year student of the composer department of the Moscow Conservatory, a pop career began to spin - he was invited with performances to corporate parties, the New Year's light of the 2x2 channel, to the Solyanka and Caviar clubs. Offers of cooperation from representatives of show business, requests for television filming and interviews rained down on the young musician. Fans, having found out the address of the Voronovs, began to gather at his entrance. What is called a serious hype has risen.
The current situation worries Kolya Voronov's parents a lot, who fear that excessive public attention will prevent their son from completing his education and thereby ruin his talent. OPENSPACE.RU decided to find out what Kolya Voronov himself had in mind.
Location: cafe on Izmailovsky Boulevard. Characters: correspondent OPENSPACE.RU Denis Boyarinov, Nikolai Voronov and his director Alexander. Voronov studies the menu, then makes an order: meat in a frying pan, two bottles of mineral water.
- You bite your nails.
Yes (laughs embarrassedly). Can't get rid of the habit.
- It's some kind characteristic for pianists. Horowitz also bit his nails in his youth.
For pianists, this is such a disaster. By the way, Horowitz - yes. And Stravinsky didn't bite.
- Can we start the interview?
And how.
Wonderful. Your mother and piano teacher told me in detail about your, so to speak, development as a classical musician, pianist. But here is the moment when you became interested in pop music, they, according to their confession, did not notice.
In fact, my mother probably noticed, but did not tell. I got into pop music at the age of ten. Turn on the TV and listen to songs. Any - listened to the White Eagle group, Viktor Tsoi ( laughs)… What else is there? Decl! ( Recites.) "And who are you? Who are you? Who are you? And who are you? Who are you? Who are you?" Really good songs. Choi is amazing...
And so, I say that it was all in principle interesting to me. But I took up pop music when my dad bought a synthesizer at the Savelovsky market Casio CTK 571. This synthesizer has become my attribute.
- Do you still play the same synthesizer?
Yes! And I don't want to change it!
- And it works well - the keys do not sink?
Works well. On the contrary, the keys sometimes want to pull out. With root! ( Laughs.) No, I'm afraid, I'm afraid to buy a new one. ( Conversational tone.) Do you know why I'm afraid?
- Why?
Because the new one won't have the Dragonfly rhythm. No - if new, then only Casio, only Casio. Moreover, it is interesting that on the new synthesizer it will be possible to make a remix for "Dragonfly". Actually, I'm glad you've heard Dragonfly. It's incredible! It is amazing! Why all of a sudden such an attraction to the song? All of a sudden! Here there was no this song, here it appeared - and suddenly this. And now everyone says that Nikolai Voronov is my idol. ( Laughs.)
- What are you listening to now?
Now it's classical music. She has something to say to me energetically.
- What period?
Modern. Not even modern late XIX- the beginning of the XX century.
- Modernists?
Still not quite modernists, but already ... Early avant-garde - Debussy, Scriabin, Mahler, Ravel is already less. All this is post-Chopin. Rachmaninoff is included, of course. Naturally, dodecaphonists, the New Viennese school - Berg, Schoenberg, Webern.
- I know you compose symphonic works and myself.
Yes, I do, of course. On the computer, I have three programs. I write in them, programs are immediately voiced. This is very important: you compose and immediately hear what you compose.
- How would you describe the style of your symphonic works?
I have different ones. It's probably the return of a classic. Modern harmonies… No, that's how it should be said: I'm trying to show modern harmonies classic style. And in general - a combination. Even "Dragonfly" is a combination. Mix of pop-rock and disco.
- Do you give titles to your symphonic compositions?
- "Opus". Opuses under numbers. I can't get the names. I give numbers to songs. Now there is a song 68.
- So you wrote 68 songs in total?
- And why do you play the same ten pieces at concerts?
- 15. Because they are the most hit. And so far I have only learned them.
The teacher's youngest son International University nature, society and man "Dubna" Nikolai Voronov woke up famous on the wave of success of the song "White Dragonfly of Love". Nine years ago, this composition blew up all the dance floors of the country, and the cult club "Solyanka" could not accommodate those who wanted to hear the hit live.
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Voronov was called to the TV show, and the media lined up to interview the young extravagant musician. But after the legendary song, the author did not create new hits. The excitement around him began to subside, and Nikolai himself went into the shadows and began to run a YouTube channel.
Now Internet users are seriously puzzled by the mental state of the once famous singer, whose adequacy is questioned by many. The fact is that Nikolai's videos contain profanity and seem to demonstrate a challenge common sense. website decided to personally figure out what was happening to the young performer. In a frank conversation, the musician explained such a strange behavior.
"I changed my image because I am not satisfied with the claim to everyone that is made by our so-called stars, who consider themselves superior ordinary people. Stars don't exist. We have only one principle: "Your genius is not so important as how much you are a career horse." It annoys me terribly. And then what can we say about Pushkin, about Dostoevsky, who are physically dead? How to treat them? There was no radical change in the image. This is just a small change because I want to help humanity realize this global problem. They try to impose a disease on me, but in my person the disease is diagnosed in all of humanity. Someone believed in it and died, but I will not die. I'm here. I can be understood correctly only if I am completely separated from me and considered in a more mass sense, from the position of society as a whole, and not part of it. I never loved myself and was not interested in myself. I love others," Voronov said.
To finally dispel the rumors about the musician's mental illness, website asked the psychotherapist Vitaly Kekuh to explain the behavior of Nikolai. “I can assume that the problem is as follows: either something happened during the pregnancy of Nikolai’s mother, for example, intoxication; or an injury was received during childbirth, asphyxia or a pinched nerve. You know what kind of obstetricians we have - they pulled her head ", pinched a nerve. These consequences are visible on Kolya's face. Everything is fine with his psyche. And such defiant behavior is compensation for external physical feature. It is felt in his facial expressions. But he’s done well, he understood in time how to use his shortcomings,” the specialist noted.
According to Voronov's mother, the young man has been writing music since the age of three. When he was five, he began to study piano at the Gnesins' Moscow Secondary Special Music School. Nikolai held his first concert in Dubna. In 2008 he entered the first year of the composer department of the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky.
As Nikolai recalls, he took up pop music when his father gave him a synthesizer. The first three songs he composed were called (in chronological order) "I'm waiting for you", "People who immediately" and "White Dragonfly of Love". In 2008, the author predicted: "Dragonfly" "will be his hit." And so it happened.
