Childhood and adolescence
Yuri Kaplan (the real name of the outrageous musician) was born and raised in Zaporozhye, in a family of civil engineers. Father Gennady Kaplan played the guitar excellently and was fond of the works of Bulat Okudzhava and Yuri Vizbor. Apparently, his love of music was passed on to his son.
Yuri Kaplan - real name Valentina Strykalo
Yura also learned to play the guitar early, sang well, and actively participated in school amateur performances. As a teenager I liked to listen to “Spleen”, “Bi-2”, Radiohead, White Stripes. I printed out chords and tests of my favorite songs from the Internet and sang them at parties, arousing constant interest among girls.
In addition, as a child, the future musician was involved in martial arts, was a fan of Jackie Chan and showed promise in sports.
Yuri has been a creative person since childhood
After graduating from school, the young man first wanted to enter the directing department of the Kyiv Institute of Culture, but, after analyzing the deplorable situation in Ukrainian cinema, he applied to the economics department of KNEU. While studying, he played in a student band and worked part-time as an advertising manager.
Yuri Kaplan studied at the Faculty of Economics
Yuri Kaplan in childhood
Yuri Kaplan
, whom the YouTube community knows under the creative pseudonym
Valentin Strykalo
, was born on October 2, 1988, in a family of builders from Ukraine. The boy strove for science from an early age, and his parents sent their beloved child to a physics and mathematics school. Having successfully passed the exams, the young man entered the Institute of Economics and International Relations in Kiev. In 2010, he successfully graduated from higher education.
The young man first thought about a career as a musician in 2008, when he sang for the first time in front of an audience at an amateur performance competition at the institute. A little later, he recorded several humorous videos in which he addressed such Russian musicians as Timati, Potap and, as well as the “Tea for Two” group, which later broke up, MakSim and Sergei Zverev.
The most popular among all the videos was a clip with an appeal to Malezhik, which gained more than 100 thousand views in a short period of time. Somewhat later, no less popular YouTube messages addressed to Bilan and Timati were removed. These videos received 2 and 1 million views in the first year, respectively.
Music career
In 2008, during a get-together with friends, Yuri, “over a beer,” had the idea of “stirring up” something unusual. Inspired by a video Sam Nickel saw on YouTube, where the famous blogger addressed the composer Vyacheslav Malezhik, Yura recorded a comic song address to the same composer and posted it on the Internet on behalf of the provincial guy Valentin Strykalo.
In 2008, the idea for the image of Valentin Strykalo appeared
To his great surprise, the video received several hundred views and sparked heated discussion. Friends insisted that Yura not stop and develop this topic. This is how a scandalous appeal to Dima Bilan appeared, in which an aspiring composer from the village of Buriltsevo offers the artist his song “Mom, I’m gay.”
The video received more than two million views on YouTube and glorified its creator throughout the RuNet. This was followed by similar appeals to Potap and Nastya Kamensky, Sergei Zverev, Timati and other popular performers, which were invariably accompanied by a record number of views.
Valentin Strykalo recorded several video messages to the stars
After the first signs of popularity, Yuri came up with a completely new biography to support the image of a rural boy. He invented his small homeland - the village of Buriltsevo, Zhitomir region (such a village does not exist), a tyrant father who insisted that his son become an agrarian, a cruel guitar teacher who did not believe in Valentin’s talent.
The next step was radio: in 2010, Sergei Stillavin heard the musician and invited him to his show at the Mayak station. Then Yuri became a guest on programs on NTV and Ren-TV, and then on music channels A1 and MTV. Note that this was 2010, and a performer who made a career using the Internet could truly be considered a phenomenon and aroused interest.
Valentin Strykalo was a participant in many television programs
Having achieved popularity on the Internet, Yuri decided to enter the real stage. Having recruited musicians into the group “Valentin Strykalo”, he performed for the first time in front of a live audience at the Kiev club “Tsar Project”, and a year later he began to actively tour Ukraine with songs from his debut album “Humble and Relax”.
In 2013, the band’s next album, “Part of Something Bigger,” was released, with which the musicians went on tour throughout the post-Soviet space. Over time, their repertoire was replenished with cover versions of popular hits by other artists, as well as songs from the early work of Yuri and his team. As part of the album, two videos were released: for the songs “You know, Tanya” and “Space is waiting for us.”
In addition to touring, the band actively recorded on the radio and appears on television quite often. The guys became participants in such popular entertainment programs as “Big Difference” and “Let Them Talk.”
Since 2013, the musician has been actively touring.
In 2020, Yuri’s group took a creative break, during which the frontman completely changed the lineup. Soon the new members presented the first single after a long silence, “It will be decided by itself”
In the fall of 2020, the group’s next album, “Entertainment,” was released, in support of which the musicians traveled not only to the countries of the former CIS, but also to Europe. Fans noted that the atmosphere of the album became more lyrical and sad in comparison with Strykalo’s previous records.
In 2020, Valentin Strykalo was on sabbatical
In parallel with his concert activities, Yuri managed to realize his “cinema” ambitions. He starred in the comedy “Hello, we’ve arrived” and took part in the voice acting of the Russian version of “The Scariest Film”. And in 2020, his song “Our Summer” was performed in the film “Arrhythmia” by Boris Khlebnikov.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBHDlgFs4H
mass media
In April 2010, Sergey Stillavin, having noticed Yuri on the YouTube portal, invited him to participate in his own show on Mayak radio[8]. Soon stories and programs with Kaplan’s participation appeared on “Silver Rain”, “NTV”, “Ren-TV”, “MTV”, “”, “A-ONE”. Russian Pioneer magazine made him the hero of the August issue as “the main singer of the Web 2.0 generation”[9], and in July 2010 Forbes magazine included Valentin in the top three artists who became famous on the Internet[10]. On August 3, 2010, on the air of the Ukrainian radio station “Jam FM” (95.6), a studio version of Valentin Strykalo’s song “Cayenne” was first heard, which he recorded as part of a new group, and in November the video for this song premiered on the Ukrainian TV channel[ eleven].
On September 17, 2010, Yuri’s performance was shown on Channel One in the show “Big Difference in Odessa.” On December 8, 2010, he took part in the “Zvezdochat” program on the A-ONE channel. On April 1, 2011, he appeared in the program “Let Them Talk,” where he performed a fragment of the song “Everything is decided.”
Personal life of Valentin Strykalo
Valentin Strykalo hides his personal life from strangers. It is known that he is not married and has no children. He rents an apartment in Kyiv with his brother Mark and is not yet planning to start a family.
Almost nothing is known about Yuri’s personal life
Yuri is an active user of the Internet, maintains accounts on Instagram, VKontakte and Twitter, in which he shares his thoughts with subscribers.
Yuri is an active user of social networks
Participation in videos, films[ | ]
- He starred in the videos “Brunette” by the Ukrainian group KAMON!!!, “Sports and Booze” by the group Mortal Squirt, a bootleg video from Culture Prophet vs. Buckmaster for the song “Luniz - I Got 5 On It”[14][15][16].
- Yuri Kaplan took part in the Russian dubbing of the film “The Scariest Movie 3D” and in the filming of the film “Hello, we’ve arrived!”[17][18].
- The song “Our Summer” (“Yacht, Sail”) by the group “Valentin Strykalo” performed by Yuri Kaplan is heard several times in the film “Arrhythmia” (2017) by Boris Khlebnikov[19].
Notes[ | ]
- To be Valentin Strykalo (undefined)
. TOP 10 (December 7, 2008). Archived from the original on May 26, 2014. - Valentin Strykalo will perform a concert in St. Petersburg, The Epoch Times (December 22, 2011)
- Mikolyuk, Vladislava.
Internet hero Valentin Strykalo: “I’m ashamed in front of my parents for my songs with obscenities”
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“Komsomolskaya Pravda” in Ukraine
(June 21, 2011). Retrieved January 15, 2020. Archived April 8, 2013. - Bulanova, Olga.
—-cheap-with a poor-picture-with an incomprehensible-person-in the frame” The ideal viral video is cheap, with a poor picture, with an incomprehensible person in the frame
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Billboard Russia
3 (December 9, 2011). Retrieved January 15, 2014. Archived July 9, 2012. - Rogoza, Alexander
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Yuri Kaplan, lead singer of the Valentin Strykalo group: “The fee from the first concert was enough to eat and return home,” Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda
, kp.ru (March 12, 2013). Archived June 18, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013. - Belinskaya, Yulia.
The boy from the network
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Forbes Ukraine
(December 29, 2012). Retrieved January 15, 2014. Archived August 27, 2013. - Lee, Vasilisa.
“Valentin Strykalo” about his new album: “There will be plenty of humor.
Everyone loves a veil" (undefined)
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Komsomolskaya Pravda
(October 19, 2013). Retrieved January 15, 2014. - Well, to be honest, it’s been almost a year now, but it hasn’t broken up, I closed it (undefined)
. Yuri Kaplan's Twitter (May 8, 2019). Archived from the original on May 19, 2020. - Yuri Kaplan confirmed the dissolution of “Valentina Strykalo” (unspecified)
(2019). - Sergey Stillavin and his friends. Vkusovschina, May holidays with Foresta, Valentin Strykalo (Yuri), Film lovers (unspecified)
. Radio "Mayak" (April 30, 2010). Retrieved October 19, 2013. - Igor Martynov.
Zaporozhets not for sale // “Russian Pioneer”. - 2010. - No. 4(16). — P. 34-43. - Sokolova, Anna
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Three stars, Forbes
(July 23, 2010). Archived from the original on October 3, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2013. - Premiere of the video “On Cayenne” on channel M1 (unspecified)
. Valentin Strykalo. Official site. Retrieved August 7, 2013. Archived August 29, 2013. - Kamon – Brunette
- Sports and booze
- I Got 5 On It (Culture Prophet vs Buckmaster Remix)
- Actors (undefined)
. Hello, we've arrived! Retrieved August 7, 2013. Archived August 29, 2013. - KinoPoisk.ru
- https://tvrain.ru/lite/teleshow/here_and_now/strykalo-447562/
