Starkov Gennady Wikipedia Biography

There is a nest, but there is no gazebo. Valeria Ivanovna shook her head and said, turning to her niece: "But Gene will surpass you." The song "Bells" is the fruit of unrequited love at 17. By that time, he had already graduated from a music school in the Bayan class, was the author of several songs. In his youth, he “specialized” in the so -called courtyard genre. But of course, of course, he did not think about the laurels of a popular author-performer.

During service in the army, in the Aviation-Fighter Regiment on the Kuril Islands, he recorded a “bell” on a tape for a year. He handed it to the left and right to fellow soldiers leaving for the mainland. And once he presented to the correspondent of the newspaper “Suvorovsky Netisk” of the Far Eastern Military District. This journalist has become one of the imaginary authors of the Bells.

I am already tired of proved that I am not a camel, ”says Starkov. Demobilized from the army, he lived in Primorye for seven years - from for a year - in Kavalerovo, in Lifudzin. During this time I traveled almost the entire edge. In the year, he decided to leave for his native Leningrad. He began to earn money on bread, settled by the driver. And as the author-performer immediately plunged into the creative environment.

In those years, on the Neva shores, life in bard clubs, they called them still puffs of amateur song, was boiling with might and main. Concerts gathered in a bit of the full halls of all kinds of culture of the Culture of the Palace of Culture. Starkov spoke a lot and with pleasure. But not without reason they say - the story is repeated twice: once in the form of a tragedy, another time in the form of a farce.

It happened in the life of the author-executor. The first time he almost suffered at the age of 11, when he sent his poem to the Pioneer Truth.

He described what he saw with his own eyes was a dying village: ... and as if exhausted from grief, the branches were lowered down birch. And from this poverty of Russia, tears are involuntarily running. From the editorial office a “signal” came to the school, and it was almost expelled from the pioneer organization. Then for him it was a tragedy. The school principal and teacher of the Russian language helped out.

And in the year at a concert in the DC named after Gaza, he “on a hurry” performed a new song “The Grave of an Unknown Soldier”. And then there was a song "Cranes cry over Russia." Of course, the song is good - the words as a whole and music ... But what villages, which churches are you crying about? A few months later, in the same DC, his song “The Grave of an Unknown Soldier” sounded again.

The representative of the organs categorically recommended: "Give away from the scene from sin away." There was a threat of a serious or simply specific Chekist on the territory of his responsibility did not need excess “dissident”, it is now difficult to say. But Starkov’s himself did not suit the laurel of the martyr-dissident. And he stopped public speeches for a decade and a half.

He graduated with the Red Diploma of the Leningrad Motor Transport College, then the Polytekh Engineering and Economics and Faculty of Car and Automobile Economy of the North-Western Correspondence Polytechnic Institute. He worked at the transport enterprises of Leningrad, grew up to the director of the car enterprise. He resumed public speeches in the year.

It was almost the first concert of authors, broadcast on a living television. When Starkov went on stage, the presenter exclaimed with sweet spontaneity: "Wow, Gene, we have already buried you." And then he turned to the hall: "Here is the legend of the bard song." From the title "Legend" Starkov resolutely rejects. However, as well as from their involvement in the bards. Although among them he has many friends and people close in spirit.

I have been working in the lyrical genre for a long time. He does not like to write by order. But there are exceptions. By the years of the sea fleet, he wrote words for two songs: “The Sea Soul” and “I know”. Music was written by the St. Petersburg composer Vladimir Posovsky. In the year, these songs sounded on Palace Square. In the middle of X, one of the FM radio stations announced the competition apparently to attract the audience: write words to the melody that sounded in the film “The Kreytoye Father”.

Poems formed by themselves, and Starkov sent them to the radio station. I did not receive any news from this and did not remember about the competition anymore. And then somehow in the club of authors-performers they say to him: they heard your song on the radio on the melody from the “godfather”. Starkov reacted simply: "Well, they married me without me." In the film "Penal Bbat" his song "The False Wife", written at 16 years old, sounds.

It also sounds without mentioning the author. And he also found out about this when the film was spinning in the cinema halls. Starkov’s song “So far” sounds in the television program “ships entered our harbor”. He performs a lot - often before university teachers. Before students, too, as the poet himself says, teachers often invite. In general, he was used to speaking to those who are versed in music, the literature has been sentences in the spirit of time for the past couple of years: to write corporate hymns.

As a rule, he refuses. Of course, a large company should have its own anthem. It's like a business card, he believes. But, firstly, the company should be solid, and, secondly, you need to know it well from the inside to write worthy both music and text.And made a professional record performed by the orchestra of the Leningrad Military District. The St. Petersburg concert dedicated to the Lettum of the song “Bells”, the organizers announced the beginning of the festival “The Souls of my Bell”.

The initiator of the venture is the Russian Cultural Center of the RCC, which did a lot to restore justice and confirm the authorship of Gennady Starkov. Now Gennady Starkov is often invited to perform at festivals, concerts, meetings. And God forbid more strength and health to this wonderful person with a young soul and a hot heart! In the family of Gennady Starkov, neither a spouse, Lidia Grigoryevna, nor two daughters- Irina and Natasha, nor two grandchildren Dmitry and Andrei have much passion for music.

Enough of one nugget who plays on the button accordion, piano, guitar and drums, and even writes hits. And even if his name is not so well known, but in the territory of the entire former Soviet Union his “bells” is sung as a folk song. And if the author has at least one such hit in the piggy bank, you can’t dream of more. Gennady says: “Actually, I do not consider myself a poet with a capital letter.

I am the author is a performer and I write mainly music and texts to songs. And the authors of the performers - masters from poetry consider us several orders of magnitude lower than their majesty poets. But I am not offended by such a low rating. The main thing is that people like my songs, and the rest is everything transient. So I am completely calm for myself.

And the songs are my “bells”, “Yalta”, “Friper”, “My village”, “Cranes”, “Father’s house” - probably, the third generation is already sings. And the last songs “Yellow Listopad”, “Woman from the fall”, “Unlucky”, “Sea soul”, “Guess the gypsy” I also like people, and even sing them. It pleases me. So, it’s not for nothing that I torment notes and letters. ” I also want to add that this is an amazingly kind intelligent person, with a young soul, a big heart, with whom it is interesting to communicate, which is interesting to learn!

Vera Aksyonova.