No post-Soviet space characters that are associated in the public mind to a marvelous years of reconstruction to a greater degree than Mikhail Gorbachev Yuri Shatunov. Mikhail Sergeyevich and everything is clear, after all, the former head of a huge state, but with Yuri Vasilyevich, all of which are still often referred to as the old Yura, all somewhat confusing.

"Tender May": the brand era

Yuri Shatsko later changed his name to connecting rods, born September 6, 1973 in the Bashkir city Kumertau .  After his parents died, followed a few years after his birth, Yuri was temporarily taken foster aunt, but the complex nature of the boy's cousin forced to give it in 1985 in a children's home Akbulaksky .  There troubled young man had only about a year, after which he was transferred to Orenburg boarding school № 2 .  I must say that in the Orenburg Shatunov no different discipline and periodically fed from the orphanage to the free bread that is escaped and wandered .  So mad teenager originally perceived hostility and offer Sergei Kuznetsov, head of the musical circle at boarding school and part-time poet and composer, to go on stage .  However, where some of the pressure Kuznetsova, somewhere - because of their own interest in the new occupation Shatunov still recorded some songs and at the end of 1986 first appeared on stage at a New Year disco in a boarding school as a part of the newly formed group " Tender May ", whose name was taken from one of the lines of the song .  The next eighteen months have been a time of chaotic and sluggish cooperation with the Jury "Tender May", he occasionally wrote for one or two songs composed by Kuznetsov, and then he ran away from boarding school for a few weeks .

Meanwhile, a group of "Tender May" has become a local celebrity, their songs, including the legendary "White Rose" playing around Orenburg, about the association began to write in newspapers Orenburg .  Finally, in May 1988, a certain Andrei Razin, a man with a vague kind of activity, whether the employee the recording studio, or a musical agent, or the herald of a profession, as a producer, in a train accident heard the song "Tender May" and decided to bet on her artist .  Find out about Shatunova, he arrived in Orenburg, using either real, or false documents or by the Ministry of Education or by the Ministry of Culture made the transfer Shatunova in Moscow children's home, found himself Shatunova, who was at the time in another "race" .  September 3, 1988 brought George to his home in Moscow, and already on September 12 rods and "Tender May" gave its first concert on the big stage in Alma-Ata .  Thus began a grand history of the group "Tender May", a song that did not stop throughout the country over the next four years and which have become a real symbol of an era of perestroika .

Separate swimming

Any musical group in most cases comes to an end due to the ambitions of its members .  And in such a group as the "Tender May", the collapse was inevitable - too it was popular, too much money earning staff (no matter that this around the former Soviet Union traveled dozens of fake "gentle Mays' open their mouths phonogram Shatunova), too obvious, after all, was the opposition Shatunova, frontman and Razin, a producer who, in fact, most of the money earned from this project .  As a result of controversy in February 1992 Yuri left the group "Tender May", which is still trying to revive Razin with a different soloist, vocal manner which was difficult to distinguish from Shatunovskaya, but this venture quickly failed .  Shatunov meanwhile actively pursued a solo career, having started cooperation with Arkadiy Kudryashov, recording was released in 1993, and having a solo album in December 1992, the invitation to the "Christmas meetings" Pugacheva .

But it soon became clear that the time when the songs in the spirit and style of "Tender May" were in demand and popularity, has already passed, the audience needed new performers, and, these performers appeared more and more .  Connecting rods for a few more years, until 1996, he was still trying to create something new that will bring him into the upper echelon of show business, including renewed creative alliance with Sergei Kuznetsov, trying to adapt to new conditions, even released conditionally saying, raver record, but to no avail .  As a result, from 1996 to 1999 he was engaged in private affairs, he married a former member of the choreographic group "Tender May" named Svetlana (in 2006 they had a son), acquired real estate and a few shops in Sochi .  But with the beginning of the XXI century Yuri returned to show business, finely felt that enough time has passed to his songs in the "Tender May" has moved into the category of retro and can be played on nostalgic mood of the audience .  So since 2001, Yuri Shatunov again releasing albums and giving concerts .  Of course, the popularity of 1988-1992 is not in sight, but there are also people in his speech .

Alexander Babitsky

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