Childhood and family of Alexander Bondarev
Alexander's hometown is Murmansk. His real name is Bondarev, Bon is his stage name. As a schoolboy, Sasha enrolled in a music school, where he studied guitar.
The real name of the participant in the show The Voice of Alexander Bon is Bondarev
The boy quit music classes after his favorite guitar teacher was fired from the music school. Sasha stopped playing the guitar, deciding that he would sing.
After graduating from school, he entered the pedagogical university in his hometown, becoming a music teacher. For some time after graduation, the graduate taught.
The beginning of the career of singer Alexander Bon, the first groups and competitions
While living and working in Murmansk, Bon was a member of the local musical group Roger.
As part of its composition at the Russian Student Spring 2008 festival, the aspiring performer became one of the laureates. Some time later, Alexander tried his hand as a performer by participating in the “Runway” vocal festival. This participation ended in victory for Bon.
Soon the talented performer realized that he was cramped in Murmansk. Wanting to radically change his life, he left his hometown and went to St. Petersburg. There Sasha became an ordinary street musician. In 2009, he created a group called “vMetro”. It still exists today, but in a different composition. In 2014, Bon became a member of the cover band “LONDON”.
Participation of Alexander Bon in the third season of “The Voice”
Being a sociable and open person, Bon quickly made many friends in his new city.
Thanks to them, Bon became a participant in the show “The Voice-3”. Friends themselves sent Alexander a profile to participate in this music show, when the selection for the second season was still underway. Since the line was quite long, it didn’t reach Sasha that time. In 2014, when the selection of participants for the new season began, Alexander received an invitation to appear at the casting. According to the vocalist, there is no goal for him to become famous, nor does he strive for big money. In his opinion, for creativity it is enough to enjoy life. For the blind auditions, Alexander prepared the song “Je suis malade”. To many this choice would seem strange. This is a rather complex composition, which is usually performed only by ambitious performers. Bon brilliantly performed this song, which everyone knows performed by Lara Fabian. Serge Lama also sang it at one time.
The talented young performer managed to touch the soul of his mentors. They were impressed after the contestant's performance. However, only Dima Bilan and Pelageya turned to him. Both mentors were ready to accept this vocalist into their team. Alexander decided even before the start of the audition that he would join the team of the mentor who would turn to him first. Since it was Bilan, Bon chose him as his mentor. In the “fights,” Bon’s opponent turned out to be David Mgeladze. According to the contestant’s recollections, it seemed to him that Bilan would make a choice not in his favor, so he began to prepare a farewell speech in advance. Much to his surprise, Dima Bilan left him on the project. Alexander did not develop friendly relations with David, they are too different, with different temperaments and mentalities. Nevertheless, to this day the performers call each other. At this stage, the singer performed the song “I’ve been waiting all my life.”
Alexander Bon has a girlfriend
Having reached the “knockouts”, the contestant completely stopped being nervous about whether he would fly out or not. After all, Alexander never dreamed of reaching such a high level in the show. Thanks to the fact that the anxiety was gone, the performer was able to completely relax and give his all on stage. During the “knockout” performance, the vocalist wanted to take a note that had not been given before, but the mentor did not appreciate such an idea and forbade Alexander to do this. So, without worrying at all and enjoying the performance, Bon again advanced to the next stage, ending up in the quarterfinals. Such contestants as Grigory Lavysh and Egor Sesarev performed with Alexander in the trio. Bon performed a cover version of Dima Bilan's composition “Clocks”. We can already say that this is a performer with enormous potential; he will surprise listeners more than once with the power of his voice and will gain many fans.
Music and TV projects
At this stage, Alexander Bon's career received a new round of development - as part of the Roger group, the singer gained stage experience and was able to improve the performer's talent. After some time, this knowledge and skills came in handy at the vocal competition “Runway” - Bon won this festival. After some time, he realized that his ambitions became cramped in Murmansk, so he moved to St. Petersburg, where at that time he saw prospects for creative development.
Singer and musician Alexander Bon
2010 brought the performer recognition and several awards earned through solo musical performances. Bon became the winner of the Runway vocal festival, took the Grand Prix of the open regional festival TRASSA-2010, dedicated to youth creativity, and for the second time became a laureate at the Russian Student Spring, this time in the Pop Vocal category . Solo".
In St. Petersburg, Alexander Bon was first a street performer, but already in 2011 he organized his own group “vMetro”. This musical group still performs today, but without a founder. And in 2014, the man became a member of the group “LONDON”.
Alexander Bon in the show "The Voice"
In St. Petersburg, Bon made a huge number of acquaintances, including in the field of show business. According to legend, friends saw the potential of a popular singer in Alexander, so they sent an application instead to the organizers of a popular vocal super-project: they wanted the artist to get on the show “The Voice-3”.
Later, the singer admitted that this story was fiction. He really didn’t want to apply because of his low self-esteem, but his girlfriend encouraged him for a long time and convinced him to try. As a result, Bon filled out the questionnaire on the “Voices” website on his own.
Alexander Bon - “Je suis malade”
Alexander Bon's "blind auditions" were a success - Dima Bilan and Pelageya turned to him. However, Sasha’s success on this tour turned out to be painful for his girlfriend, who realized that the young man would remain in Moscow, and she, due to work and study, would have to return to St. Petersburg without her beloved.
For the “Blind Auditions,” Alexander Bon prepared Lara Fabian’s song “Je Suis Malade,” which is considered technically difficult to perform—probably, this is why the future finalist of “Voice-3” won the hearts of Pelageya and Bilan. The singer managed to stand out among the participants in the 1st round with his expressive style of singing and mastery of the falsetto technique.
Alexander Bon and David Mgeladze - “I’ve been waiting all my life”
After Bon passed the “Blind Auditions” with incredible success, he ended up on the team of mentor Dima Bilan, under whose strict guidance he reached the final battle of the participants. At the “Fights” stage, he performed in tandem with David Mgeladze, performing the song “I’ve been waiting all my life.” One of Bon’s most striking performances on the “Voice-3” show was the performance of the song “Clocks” - it belongs to his mentor Dima Bilan. Until now, the composition “Clocks” performed by Alexander is very popular.
In the quarterfinals, the singer managed to score 118.4 points with the musical composition “Supremacy”; he beat two other members of Bilan’s team – Olga Oleynikova and Simone Da Silva.
Alexander Bon - “The Hours”
In the semi-finals he presented the hit “Let’s steal each other” and was significantly ahead of Ksana Sergienko on points. In the final, Bon shone along with Alexandra Vorobyova, Mariam Merabova and Yaroslav Dronov, but according to the results of the audience SMS voting, he took 3rd place.
The winner of the “Voice-3” show, unexpectedly for many fans of the vocal super-project, was Alexandra Vorobyova - many TV viewers and social network users were sure that the victory in “The Voice-3” would go to Alexander Bon.
Alexander Bon - “Let's steal each other”
Bon's other songs are no less popular - the artist has covered many modern hits. He is also working on his own compositions, and his fans are confident that the release of a collection of original songs will lead to a rapid growth in the musician’s fame.
Alexander Bon also distinguished himself by independently filming the project using a GoPro mini-camera, which he hung on his clothes. The young man posted the videos on his personal YouTube channel, and they instantly gained several thousand views. Later, the videos appeared on the Channel One website.
Alexander Bon on the project “Exactly”
In 2020, Bon became a participant in another music television show. He competed in the “Exactly Exact” transformation competition on Channel One. On the television project, the musician had the opportunity to visit Elvis Presley, Matthew Bellamy, Ilya Lagutenko and even his mentor Dima Bilan.
In the same year, he toured 7 cities of Russia on his first tour and gave 2 solo concerts in Moscow: at Crocus City Hall in May and at the 16 Ton club in August. Original compositions from these performances were included in Bon’s first mini-album “MiniABon”. These are the tracks “Man”, “Fly”, “Alive in You” and “In the Hearts”.
Alexander Bon - “Fly”
The artist released a video for the musical composition “Fly”. Music critics spoke positively about Alexander’s first creation, but noted that the songs lacked “hit” quality, so Bon’s music was not appreciated by the general public.
After the end of the “Voice” project, Alexander remained a devoted viewer. On Instagram, he often commented on the performances of participants in the next seasons of the show. Thus, after Alexander Panayotov’s first speeches, Bondarev reproached his colleague for narcissism. The artists have known each other for many years, and Bon has repeatedly witnessed the manifestation of his stage comrade’s star fever.
Personal life of Alexander Bon
Alexander is dating a girl from St. Petersburg.
She came to Moscow to support Alexander. When he passed the “blind” auditions, the girl was even a little upset, because she understood that they would have to separate for a while. She works in St. Petersburg as a nurse at a city hospital. Alexander Bon tries to film all significant events of his life on a video camera. He believes that in his old age it will be very interesting for him to review all these recordings. Even when he goes on stage during performances on “The Voice,” he continues to film discreetly.
Biography of a chess player
Alexander Gelman is one of the most popular chess bloggers on Russian-language YouTube. The chess player gained fame due to his “joyful” attitude towards the game and his unique manner of commenting on his own online blitz games on the Internet, which is characterized by extreme emotionality. In many ways, Gelman's commentary style can be compared to that of a football commentator. The blogger’s channel is considered to be of very high quality content. He was even compared in this regard to the work of master John Bartholomew, one of the leading English-language bloggers.
Termination of activities
Alexander Gelman ran his channel on Youtube quite successfully for several years, and during this time he also developed a VKontakte community called “Chess Club Joyful Chess”. Later, like a bolt from the blue, a blogger’s video appears with an obviously negative assessment of the results of his work on the Internet. In his opinion, the return was clearly unequal to the amount of effort invested. Alexander Gelman complained that chess never became as popular among Internet users as computer games.
The result was that new videos stopped being released. This situation was brightened up by several blitz games published in 2016. However, things did not go further than this; the posting of new material stopped for almost a whole year.
What's on the personal front?
This topic is closed for discussion by the master. Questions on this topic in the comments remain unanswered, although the chess player claims that he reads them all.
Alexander clearly separated his personal life and online activities and, apparently, continues to adhere to the same position.
Does he use computer prompts?
Such assumptions have been made more than once in a rather harsh form by unknown users on the network. However, in reality all these accusations turned out to be unsubstantiated. It was concluded that such statements have no basis in reality and are nothing more than trolling.
Alexander is on horseback again
In the fall of 2020, Alexander Gelman resumes his online activities. This became possible thanks to the admonitions of the blogger’s fans. Now he hosts a gaming stream every week. Performing live is quite difficult, especially without the proper experience and preparation. The initiative was implemented to promote the channel, as well as to receive preferences from viewers. At the same time, it was assumed that the streams would facilitate communication with subscribers. However, this idea cannot be fully realized due to technical reasons.
See also: Robert Huebner
The blogger satisfied the curiosity of the audience live by answering several questions they asked. So it became known that the chess player is married and that he gets acquainted with all the comments from viewers on his videos on YouTube. The master said that he left classical chess and is now busy playing exclusively online and conducting training via Skype.
Crisis 2020
The summer of 2020 was marked by an unprecedented event. The famous blogger has blocked almost all of his videos from being viewed. What does Alexander Gelman himself say about this? He commented on what happened as follows: six months of streaming and other activities on the network did not give the desired result. Therefore, the master decided to experiment. Many fans of Gelman, being completely bewildered and confused in connection with this event, regarded the maestro’s act as disrespect for the audience. Indeed, during the entire existence of Youtube, not a single blogger has tried to promote his channel, while completely closing all the content. After some time, access to the video recordings was restored.
