In the hospital, Alexander Barykin whispered: “I sang as best I could...”

The father of Russian reggae, Alexander Barykin, has a bright and long creative biography. At the beginning of his musical career, he performed as part of the VIA “Veselye Rebyata”, “Moskovichi”, “Gems”, and the group “Pearls”. Then, together with his friend and colleague Vladimir Kuzmin, he organized the group “Carnival”. Alexander Barykin performed at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the accident, played in a football team of musicians and was involved in producing his son. The musician’s life was cut short in 2011 while on tour.

Childhood and early years

The biography of Alexander Barykin began in the village of Berezovo, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, in the family of Alexander and Alexandra Barykin. The parents of the future pop singer and their children soon moved to Lyubertsy, near Moscow, where Sasha graduated from high school No. 9, which was located in a renovated building on Kosmonavtov Street, a music school.

In high school, he formed his own musical group, Allegro, and even began performing on dance floors. From this moment you can begin counting down the biography of singer Alexander Barykin. In high school, the young man began to write poetry and songs, but later, having become a composer, he wrote rarely.

Like most Soviet youths, Alexander was drafted into the armed forces. At first, Alexander Barykin served near Kaluga, but was soon transferred to the air defense ensemble of the Moscow Military District.

After the army, the young man graduated from the classical music school named after. Gnessins in Moscow and entered the Krasnodar Institute of Culture to direct public events. Alexander graduated from the institute in the correspondence department, already when he performed on the stages of the USSR at a professional level.

Childhood and family of Alexander Barykin

Alexander's homeland is Tyumen region.
When he was still a child, the family moved to Lyubertsy, where the future singer spent his childhood. In parallel with secondary school, he enthusiastically studied music while studying at a music school. Even then he dreamed of a musical career. As a schoolboy, Sasha created his first group and called it “Allegro”. This group often played on dance floors. He was already writing songs based on his poems, but he did not immediately decide to perform them. After graduating from school, the young man had no doubts about where he should go to study; he went to Gnesinka. The gifted guy was immediately accepted there. Many teachers praised the talented student.

Carier start

The biography of Alexander Barykin has become the life story of a professional musician since 1973. At first he performed in the VIA “Moskvichi”, later he was seen in “Gems” and the Sochi group “Pearls”. The following year, after the start of his creative career, Barykin participated in the recording of the first album of “Jolly Guys,” “Love is a Huge Country.”

The fame of the young singer Alexander Barykin, whose biography had many more successes in the creative field ahead, was brought by the performance of the song “Invitation to a Journey” by Charles Baudelaire. The audience also liked Barykin’s participation in the project “In the Wave of My Memory” by David Tukhmanov. Before this, Alexander Barykin sang three of Tukhmanov’s songs in “Merry Guys”. The first of these compositions was recorded for the film This Merry Planet. Barykin sang in a duet with A. Lerman.

In 1979, after returning to the “Veselye Rebyata” ensemble, Barykin participated in the recording of “Musical Globe” - a collection of cover versions of hits from the West. Then the young man made a cover version of the song Belladonna by the most popular British rock band UFO, which he later performed during his solo career. In August 1979, Alexander left the ensemble.

Biography

The Honored Artist of Russia was born in the Tyumen region. When Sasha was still a baby, the Barykin family changed their place of residence to the Moscow region (Lyubertsy). Already in early childhood, the boy's inclination towards music and poetry was revealed. Therefore, it is not surprising that Alexander graduated with honors from music school and, while still a teenager, assembled the first musical group “Allegro”. The group was a frequent visitor to various dance floors, the young performer sang, including songs of his own composition.

Alexander Barykin with his mother | home and family

After serving in the army, Barykin entered Gnesinka. Specialization: classical vocals. The musician also studied in absentia to become a director of mass events at the Krasnodar Institute of Culture. The beginning of the musician’s career dates back to 1973 and his participation in the VIA “Moskvichi”. True, just 6 months later he found himself in another vocal and instrumental group - “Jolly Fellows”, with whom he collaborated until 1976. After which he left the group for some time to perform in “Gems”, but then returned to “Jolly Fellows”, with whom he toured the entire Union and took part in an international competition in Czechoslovakia.

Alexander Barykin in his youth

In addition to participating in various musical groups, Alexander managed to work with David Tukhmanov. The song “Invitation to Travel,” performed by the young singer, became the first step towards popularity. However, the career of a pop artist was not for him at that moment. The love for rock and reggae and the desire for self-expression served as the reason for creating their own band. The Zhemchug group, created in 1977, did not last long, but the artist managed to travel with it on tours on the Black Sea coast.

As part of "Carnival"

The next year, Alexander, together with Vladimir Kuzmin, the guitarist of “Samotsvetov”, organized the rock group “Carnival”. The team became widely known in the USSR thanks to the active distribution of tape recordings.

Then the biography of Alexander Barykin was eventful. He was seriously passionate about reggae and rock, new wave (new wave style). This, of course, in no way meant that the musician abandoned rock and roll. The musical credo of the group, which the members followed in those years, is reflected in the first two lines of the title track of the 1986 album “Rock and Roll Marathon”.

Carnival's debut magnetic album gained popularity among rock fans. The album “Superman” includes songs by Alexander Barykin, Vladimir Kuzmin, Vladimir Matetsky. The poems of Igor Kokhnovsky brought the content of the compositions closer to the style of “The Time Machine” and “Resurrection”, even with all the differences in music. For this album, only one song was written based on poetry by Kuzmin.

In 1981, she released a record with three songs from the group. The front cover featured a drawing based on the photo. The picture showed musicians against a black background. The singers' faces looked very serious and gloomy, which did not correspond to the photo at all (the original was placed on the back of the record). Only Alexander Barykin deliberately made his face gloomy.

Carnival participants performed at concerts in dark suits - in the spirit of what was happening in the country, as they themselves stated. At first they wanted to call the group “Black Carnival”. Perhaps this is a reference to the work of Ray Bradbury, which Alexander Barykin was fond of in the seventies. This is completely different from the “Star Carnival” that Barykin will soon begin to create with Vladimir Kuzmin.

Alexander Barykin died on Saturday at the age of 60...

Singer Alexander Barykin, who died on Saturday at the age of 60, left behind hits and songs in the repertoire of almost all Soviet and Russian pop stars, and for many he became a “lucky ticket” to the stage.

“You could like him or not like him, but no one needs to explain who Sasha Barykin is,” says Vyacheslav Malezhik, who sang with Barykin in “Jolly Fellows.” The musician admitted to RIA Novosti that he was doubly offended - he had lost a grateful listener and a pleasant interlocutor. “Even when we were in VIA “Veselye guys”, we spent a lot of time with him in the same room - he was one of my first listeners, we talked about everything - about love, about family, about work,” recalls Malezhik. Vyacheslav emphasized that Barykin was “a definite reference point” for many musicians. “A litmus test by which you could compare yourself and understand whether you were on the right path or not,” Malezhik explained. If Barykin became a reference point for his colleagues, then for beginning artists he was a “lucky ticket.” Philip Kirkorov’s debut in Alla Pugacheva’s “Christmas Meetings” took place precisely with the song that Barykin wrote. “Who will write a song for a young artist? Nobody. And the first person who wrote me the song “Wedding Tour” in Russian is Sasha Barykin,” said Philip. The artists were introduced by Pugacheva, whose repertoire also includes Barykin’s songs. For example, the composition “I Sing,” with which the singer began her farewell tour. “The legend has passed away. For me, this is a musician with a capital M, who drove his bicycle at full speed. This is a big loss for me, this is a person who was a bright moment in my life, and not only as a schoolboy, a loving pop artist, but also as a person who was one of the first to believe in me,” Kirkorov shared. Joseph Prigogine regrets that “we always remember people when they have already left us.” The producer said that on the eve of his death, Barykin sent greetings to him through the organizers of the concerts in Orenburg, which were the last in the career of the famous singer. Singer Valeria also conveyed condolences to all Alexander’s loved ones and said that as a child, like many, she listened to and admired the artist’s hits. “We understood that no one sang like that in the Soviet Union,” she added. “Every meeting with him was a real charge of positive feelings.” Farewell to Alexander Barykin will begin tomorrow, March 29 at 11.00 am, at the Variety Theater. Updated 28/03/11 15:58

: ....Alexander died on tour in Orenburg. On Friday he gave a solo concert at the local drama theater. Suddenly the artist felt ill. An ambulance was urgently called, but, alas, the doctors were powerless and they could not save Barykin. At the same time, video cameras installed in the theater recorded his last moments on the eve of the heart attack and the very moment when the singer became ill. “After the ambulance took Alexander,” his director Alexander Soldatkin told Segodnya, “he asked to bring everything he needed to the hospital, because he thought that he would lie there for some time. But when the administrator arrived at the clinic, Barykin was already in intensive care. He suddenly lost a blood clot...” For many of those present at the concert, “Bouquet”, “Airport”, “On the French Side...” were a real breath of good nostalgia for the music of yesteryear. “It has only now become clear that the artist could not work, because he had already had a heart attack,” says an employee of the agency that invited the artist to Orenburg with a trembling voice. - But we knew nothing about it... Outwardly he was a completely healthy person. He joked and smiled. The program worked 100%! The audience was delighted." The causes of Barykin's death are spoken differently. Thus, singer Alexey Glyzin believes that the cause of the artist’s death was the consequences of separation from his wife Nelly, who was more than 30 years younger than him: “He was very worried that his wife left him. I was too attached to her." Barykin did not disclose the reason for the separation - he kept everything to himself. Maybe he just hoped that she would return - after all, they never officially divorced. But Joseph Prigozhin, the husband and producer of Valeria, with whom Barykin recorded several songs, says that the artist was destroyed by oblivion. “Shortly before his death, Sasha showed me his new songs - he was preparing an album. I clearly remember that he was very sad. I think Sasha was tormented by the fact that he was simply forgotten. And everyone: television, media, fans. And for an artist, oblivion is like death. Moreover, he did not understand the reasons for this attitude towards himself... Hence the heart problems. And death." Joseph Kobzon is organizing the funeral.

Disagreements in the team

In 1982, disagreements began between colleagues after a trial over copyright to the name “Carnival” (Barykin won the trial). Vladimir Kuzmin then founded the group “Dynamic”, where the key musicians of the group moved. “Carnival” remained with Alexander Barykin, but he had to look for new participants.

As a result of this unpleasant incident, Alexander and Vladimir did not become enemies. The 1984 album “Carnival” included Kuzmin’s song “Let the Music Play,” and later the singer participated in a concert dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of Alexander Barykin’s professional creative activity, and Barykin participated in an event dedicated to Kuzmin’s fiftieth anniversary.

In March 1985, the Carnival group broke up, which came as a surprise to everyone. Alexander Barykin himself joined the Rock Studio ensemble, which was just about to go on an international tour. The tour, however, failed, and the creative association disintegrated. Barykin promptly reorganized Carnival, and the group even performed at a youth festival in Moscow.

Alexandra Byrykina: My son died in poverty!

Pugacheva did not help her friend in a difficult moment

Pugacheva did not help her friend in a difficult moment

At the end of March, musician Alexander BARYKIN died during a tour in Orenburg. The women around him vied with each other to find out which of them the singer loved more. Alas, in the race for championship, they forgot about the mother of the deceased, 82-year-old Alexandra Georgievna, who was confined to a wheelchair.

“I had an extraordinary son,” says Alexandra Georgievna Byrykina ( Barykin is the musician’s creative pseudonym. - M.S.Sh. ), without holding back tears.

“I wake up and don’t want to get up, knowing that my boy, my assistant is no more... He bought me expensive medicines, food, and invited a priest for Easter so that I could confess.
I paid 20 thousand a month for a nurse - I am a disabled person of the first group, I suffer from arthrosis of the hip joints of both legs. The youngest son Vasya is also very worried about the death of his brother. And he can’t help me in any way - he can barely make ends meet. — Has Alexander started having heart problems for a long time? — Sasha has been very worried lately that Nelly left. Before this, my son had never had heart pain. The doctors said that, dying on the operating table, he remembered me and Nellie. When Sasha broke up with her, he came to me and cried on my shoulder: “Mommy, honey, you can’t imagine how much I love her! Even for vices."

— How is your relationship with your daughter-in-law now?

“Nellie always caresses me and helps me around the house.”
The other day I promised to bring my granddaughter Zhenya. But the relationship with Galka, his first wife, did not work out. I haven’t seen my granddaughter Kira for nine years. Pebbles won't let her come to me. He says: “If you go to her, I will kick you out.” Once this woman admitted that she forced Sasha to adopt Kira when she was one year and eight months old, so that she could then extract child support from Barykin. Family happiness lasted for four years, and then Galya stopped loving him. The next two decades were pure torture. — Is Georgy, the son of Galina and Alexander, visiting you? “He’s a good guy, but lazy.” Now he has been offered to become the leader of the Carnival group instead of his father, and Gosha says: “I don’t want to work like dad. He was a workaholic, but I like to sleep until 12.”

Huge debt

— Are Sasha’s friends supportive?

- What are you...
Pugacheva to Pavel Slobodkin , the director of the “Jolly Fellows” ensemble in the early 70s Plus, Alla has four Sasha songs in her repertoire. The year before last, Pugacheva invited my son to his 60th birthday. “Barykin, I’ve always loved you,” I confessed to him at the table. - And you gave all your love to your Galka! I’ll help you any minute.” At the beginning of the year, Sasha called Alla Borisovna to ask that he not be charged a lot of money for the concert on Channel One, which he wanted to do by March 8th. Pugacheva could help. But Alla didn’t pick up the phone, and he spoke to her answering machine. She never responded. Now, they say, this concert will be shown on his 60th birthday and he will be posthumously given the title of People's Artist. — Did you try to dissuade your son from the concert in Orenburg? After all, he didn’t feel well, and fasting... Alexander always observed it. — I tried to dissuade her. He answered: “Mom, I either die or earn money.” My son died a beggar! He had a huge debt hanging over him. In November, Sasha wanted to give an anniversary concert for the 30th anniversary of Carnival in the Rossiya hall in Luzhniki. He was warned that it would cost no less than a million rubles and such things could not be done hastily - work had to begin at least six months in advance. He just waved it off.

As a result, out of three thousand tickets, only 300 were sold, and four days before the concert they demanded money. My son didn't have them. I had to borrow. And in Orenburg he only earned enough to buy a coffin. Transporting the body alone cost 750 thousand rubles! Thanks to Alexander Soldatkin , its director, for helping organize the funeral, and Alexander Shirvindt - he helped organize a farewell at the Variety Theater.
The state paid for the grave at the Troekurovsky cemetery. The burial site there costs three million rubles. - Do you think your son had a presentiment of his departure? “On the eve of leaving for Orenburg, Sashenka came to see me. My son didn’t stay long with me, he was in a hurry on business. And this time I sat for two hours. We had a leisurely lunch. Sasha kissed me and went to the door, and then returned and kissed me three more times. I felt a pang in my soul. How I didn’t want to let him go! It's strange, but I don't even dream about him. The priest said - it means he feels good THERE. I don't believe it! My child wanted to live...

JUST A FACT

The Russian Authors' Society has registered 400 songs by Barykin. From them he received an average of 120 thousand rubles a year.

- I can die at any moment!

— were Barykin’s last words to his 33-year-old lover Svetlana Vtyurina

Six months before his death, the famous musician, having lost hope that his beloved wife Nelly would return to him, began another affair. This time Alexander's choice fell on masseuse from Bryansk Svetlana VTYURINA. The singer openly admitted to her that he did not have long to live.

“We met in a romantic setting,” Vtyurina . Before, she had not told anyone the details of her affair with Barykin . — He invited me to dance in a restaurant. “You are the gift of my last days!” - Sasha has constantly repeated since then.

The last time I came was in mid-March. Again he told me not to pay attention to his “affair” with Lenina .
He said that Lena asks him to confess his love to her in public, saying that this is a good PR move. Barykin found such falsehood unpleasant. I tried to calm him down, insisting that I understood everything. “Svetik, I can die at any moment,” Sasha said unusually harshly and dryly at our last parting. I couldn't find the words to answer. — Barykin didn’t ask to give birth to his child? “On the contrary, he said that he didn’t want any more children.” They say he already has a lot of them. If death had not separated us and I had married him, I would definitely have given birth. I'm 33 and I really want to become a mother. But I am grateful to this person for the priceless gift of communication. The age difference was absolutely not felt. Alexander is so lively and active! Sasha wanted me to move to Moscow with him, but I couldn’t quit my job yet. — Did Alexander share his experiences? - I didn’t hide anything! He spoke openly about all his women. Only he never mentioned the singer Raisa Syed Shah , who says that she gave birth to a son from him 23 years ago. I found out about her after the funeral. Everything else was no news to me. He was planning to divorce Nellie at the end of last year. But she delayed. Nellie had to go to Bryansk to get a marriage certificate, but there was still no time.

Concert at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

After the Chernobyl accident, Alexander Barykin gave a concert there. The singer was exposed to radiation, and then he had to undergo surgery on the thyroid gland. Many performers who have been in the radiation zone noted that this negatively affects their vocal abilities. Negative changes were noted by A. Pugacheva and I. Ponarovskaya. Barykin started having problems with his ligaments in the early nineties. After 1996, he did not release any new records for five years, but recovered and continued his creative activity again.

Variety career

After the release of the hit “Bouquet” and the recording of the album of the same name, fans began to reproach Barykin for moving away from rock. In response, he releases a rock record, but soon “Carnival” finally breaks up. In the nineties, Alexander played as part of a football team of musicians, produced his son, and in 2000 organized a big concert to mark the band’s twentieth anniversary. Two years later, a concert took place on the occasion of Barykin’s fiftieth birthday. The anniversary disc was called “Star Carnival”.

Facts from personal life

The biography of Alexander Barykin was full of successes and failures, ups and downs in the creative field. In my personal life, there were also joyful meetings and partings. Alexander knew his first wife from school, and the couple were married for thirty years. They had a son, George, and a daughter, Kira. A. Barykin has an illegitimate son, Timur, from Raisa Sayed Shah. The musician married for the second time in 2005. There were also children in this marriage - daughter Evgenia. Shortly before the date of death of Alexander Barykin (the biography in creative terms was not yet completed at that time - the singer died during a tour), he and his wife decided to divorce. Unfortunately, this was not necessary due to the singer's death.

“Looks very good”: the 92-year-old mother of Alexander Barykin was shown by the artist’s son

Alexander Barykin’s songs “Bouquet”, “Blue Eyes”, “Airport”, “Miracle Island”, “Lifebuoy” were sung by the whole country. The musician began performing in 1973 with the groups “Muscovites”, “Merry Guys”, “Gems”. Barykin’s participation in the Carnival group brought great fame. The artist died suddenly at the age of 59 from a heart attack. The attack occurred on March 25, 2011 on stage in Orenburg. Doctors operated on Barykin, but by morning he died.

The singer's 45-year-old son, Georgy Byrykin (real name of Alexander - Note redue) followed in his father's footsteps and became a musician.

Georgy himself composes songs and performs them on stage. As the eldest of Alexander Barykin's three children, he takes care of his grandmother, who lost her eldest son. On March 1, Alexandra Georgievna Byrykina turned 92 years old. Georgy posted family photos from the holiday and said: “We congratulated my grandmother on the ninety-second anniversary of her birth.”

Mother of Alexander Barykin - Alexandra Georgievna

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Alexandra Georgievna Byrykina uses a wheelchair, but is actively interested in the world around her. Netizens heartily congratulated the mother of their favorite musician: “Alexandra Georgievna Happy Birthday! Health, health, health”, “God grant you many years to come”, “Well done! The mother of our beloved Albar looks very good”, “Many years”, “Health, live long”, “Grandma has more health” (the authors’ spelling and punctuation have been preserved. - Ed.).

Alexander Barykin's mother - Alexandra Georgievna - with her grandson Georgy and family

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Alexander Barykin began writing songs based on his poems while still a schoolboy. The future artist’s father worked as a mechanic at an agricultural machinery plant, his mother worked as an engineer at an electric lamp plant. After graduating from school, the young man entered the classical vocal department of the Gnessin Music School. Alexander Barykin was married to Galina Berezova for almost 30 years. In this marriage, a son, George, was born in 1974, and 18 years later, a daughter, Kira.

Barykin’s second wife was singer Nelly Vlasova, who performed with him as a backing vocalist.

The wife was 33 years younger than Alexander. The artist became the father of his daughter Eugenia in April 2006, but the marriage was not successful. Having learned about Nelly’s numerous infidelities, Barykin broke up with her, but never had time to file a divorce. The singer’s daughter Kira believes that her father seemed to have perked up and gained strength after breaking up with Nelly, so the cause of his death could have been workaholism and intense work, and not the breakdown of the family.

Alexander Barykin and Nelly Vlasova

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Cause of death of Alexander Barykin

The performer’s biography ended in 2011 in Orenburg, where Alexander was on tour. It is known that shortly before this he experienced a hypertensive crisis and is undergoing comprehensive treatment at the Bryansk Cardiac Dispensary. The cause of death was a heart attack during a performance. The singer finished his last song and then went backstage. From there he was taken away in an ambulance. An operation was performed in the hospital, but Alexander Barykin died in the morning. The musician’s biography was cut short; he was 59 years old.

For friends and colleagues, the sudden death of the artist came as a shock. They assumed that the reason was worries about a divorce from his young wife (Nelly was 33 years younger). But the couple broke up in 2010, and after the drama, Alexander suffered a micro-infarction. Barykin found his wife with her lover, but did not have time to divorce her so that three children from a previous marriage would receive an inheritance. All rights to the songs remained with Nelly.

New hits of Alexander Barykin

The next hit of “Carnival” was called “Bouquet”.
The poems belong to Nikolai Rubtsov. When Barykin sang the words of this song, which had become so popular, on television, he was introduced as an independent singer, and “Carnival” was mentioned only in passing. Alexander Barykin Bouquet Disco 80 x 2003 The next magnesium album was called “Hey, look!” It turned out to be quite tough, almost hard rock. The most notable songs of this album are “What a Pity,” “Whirlpool,” “Hey, Look!” etc. By 1992, Barykin recorded one of his most unsuccessful albums. It was called "Russian Beach". Sales were very sluggish. Barykin reassembled the Carnival group, which included some musicians from the previous lineup, as well as his matured son Georgy.

Thanks to the signed contract with MOROZ Records, their old discs were re-released. The year 1995 passed in constant performances. From time to time, the singer invited Carnival to concerts.

Alexander considers one of the most successful albums to be the album he released in 1996 called “Islands.”