Ivan Kuchin - a very controversial figure, even for such a variety of specific categories as Russian chanson. If the majority of the performers in this segment is still largely projects executed to the subject of the songs have a little remote, the Kuchin knows about singing, as had spent a year or two in prison. In addition, the author and performer of songs every effort to dissociate itself from the show business, which is part of Russian chanson, of course, is, and thwart all attempts to get him in the crowd.

12 years in prison for the wrong way to the dream

Kuchin Ivan Leonidovich was born on March 13, 1959 in a place where seemingly ordinary man, and had to exile any longer - in the industrial city of Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky, in the Chita region (now Chita Region) .  Of course, in the wrong place and at the time his parents and could not be none other than simple workers - father, Leonid, worked as a driver, mother, Nina Innokentevna was working on the railroad .  However, the education of the future singer-songwriter worked only the mother, the father and his family lived, what was the fault of the eternal Russian trouble, drunkenness .  Ivan grew up a child with the usual Siberian working-class suburbs, but the desire for creativity to be present at an early age .  And it manifested the desire for a beautiful and high in different ways: Kuchin sometimes wrote poetry, liked to draw .  He even entered the art-graphic branch of pedagogical school in the city of Ulan-Ude .  And then it's time to give military duty, and went to the legal Kuchin two years in the armed forces .  On his return from the army, the young man set about trying to make music, compose and record songs, and this need was a private record musical instrument .  Buy it in the stores there were no funds (from solid money have just returned from the army guy?), Nor the possibility (for the banal reason of the Soviet deficiency) .  Therefore, Kuchin, without thinking twice, "borrowed" equipment from the local House of Culture, which was the beginning of his wanderings in places of detention .

It so happened that during the period from 1980 to 1993 Ivan Kuchin had been in prison for 12 years, and always has been convicted of the same, which has grown from the first period, the article - 144 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (theft of another's property). Only after due staying in places not so remote Kuchin was unable to attend the funeral of his mother, he realized that he needed to change his life. By the way, the legendary Ivan Kuchin song "Man in a quilted jacket" has personally motivated: Kuchin to six months did not report the death of the mother feared that he attend a funeral for the escape. Coming out of prison in 1993, Kuchin has become actively engaged in, and dreamed about - composing songs.

Moscow does not speak for other people do not go to concerts ...

By the time it was possible to assume that the author and performer of songs already have their debut music album. Several of his songs Kuchin recorded in 1985, in a short period at the time of stay free. During one arrest in 1986, Kuchin had confiscated all the property, including the music track. And a year later the collection titled "Homecoming" inexplicably came to the listener and began to walk, so to speak, on his hands.

But after the release of Ivan he began to study music seriously. For a long time he wrote the song in the table, after moving in 1995 to Moscow led a very poor life. Gradually, however, the number of his fans has increased, and with the support of wealthy admirers of his albums were published in a professional manner. In the country the name of Ivan Kuchin thundered in 1997, with the phenomenal success of the disc "The fate of thieves", which became the leader in sales of the music industry, overtaking the recognized stars of show business. In just two years Kuchin made a few albums, but from 1998 to 2001 took a pause. Affected turmoil in his personal life: from the singer left a wife Larisa, whom he met in the early nineties, whom he married in 1996, and which made the musical career of the singer.

Together with her younger sister Helena Ivan Kuchin moved to a village 100 kilometers from Moscow, in an ordinary village house with common rural economy. Only in 2001, he returned to the music industry with the album "King-Father". This Kuchin colleagues on the shop floor, is not present on any social events is not at the ceremony, all kinds of awards and generally trying to stay on the sidelines. Do not give concerts in Moscow, to which the skeptical, and their performances in the province of calls not a concert and meeting with the audience.

Alexander Babitsky

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