Biography of brother Sergei Lazarev
Pavel was born on March 15, 1978 in Moscow. His dad Vyacheslav Yuryevich Lazarev left his wife Valentina Viktorovna Lazareva, Pavel’s mother, when the boy was 10 years old. The popular Russian performer, theater and film actor Sergei Lazarev is Pavel’s younger brother. The difference between Valentina Viktorovna’s sons was 5 years. Mom raised her two sons on her own.
The boys had a difficult relationship with their father. After Vyacheslav Yuryevich abandoned his family, neither Pavel nor Sergei kept in touch with him for many years. Only in 2020, when his older brother passed away, the popular singer decided that it was necessary to restore relations with his dad. It would seem that Pavel’s death should have united his son and father, but in the spring of 2020, Vyacheslav Yuryevich Lazarev also died due to a suddenly opened ulcer.
It is known that in November 2014, Sergei Lazarev’s brother Pavel was released from a maximum security colony, where he had previously been imprisoned for four years for drug possession. After imprisonment, he tried to arrange a normal, healthy life: he found true love, began working for his brother, and began attending church.
Yuri Lazarev: my brother and I moved in different worlds
“Seven years have passed without Sasha.
With his departure, a gap, an emptiness, a black hole appeared in my life. The support has disappeared,” his brother, also an actor Yuri Lazarev, recalls about actor Alexander Lazarev. How Sasha left his homeland
We met with Yuri Sergeevich in St. Petersburg, in his dressing room at the Comedy Theater.
On the table under glass are photographs of brother Alexander. — Our father, Sergei Nikolaevich Lazarev, an artist by profession, was fond of photography and took a lot of pictures. Here we are with our parents on the lakes, here Sasha is fishing, and here we are with him and his mother. We had a huge number of Sasha’s photos! And recently I started looking and found nothing. Some kind of mysticism! Several boxes of my father's photographs—our entire family archive—evaporated. This is a blow to the family, I have nothing to leave behind...
I look at these remaining photographs, remembering my loved ones who are no longer around... Well, let's talk about my brother. I didn’t just love Sasha, I adored him. He is six and a half years older. And for many years I looked up to him.
Due to the age difference, we did not meet each other during my childhood. I actually hardly remember him while growing up. I didn’t receive any slaps on the head from my older brother, we didn’t interact in any way. I felt like I was alone with my mom and dad. And Sasha appeared only occasionally: he came and went. Although this could not have happened, he was also a child. And the four of us lived in one room in a communal apartment on Sredny Prospekt. It was cramped, and dad also painted pictures at home. You can imagine! But memory has erased the small details of those years.
Alexander Lazarev (1960s) From the personal archive of Yuri Lazarev
Sasha and I moved in different worlds.
I spent my free time with the boys in the yards and hit a ball against the wall. Sasha also kicked the ball, but in his own company. Or he walked along two fashionable avenues at that time - Nevsky and Bolshoy on Vasilyevsky Island. As he said, he wore out more than one pair of boots there. Our father adored Alexander and was very proud of him. After all, there were no actors in the family before him, except for a distant relative back in Tsarist Russia, an operetta artist somewhere in Orenburg. On our father's side, our ancestors were railway workers. According to my mother, house builders from the Volga. Another layer of people! My father, however, found himself in a creative environment. He came to St. Petersburg as a young guy back in the 1920s and entered the Academy of Arts. He was kicked out of there a couple of times for his behavior, and then they took him back for his talent. He was a strong artist, studied with Pavel Filonov. Dancer, reveler, impulsive, emotional, sharp, explosive. And small in stature. Brother is not into it. In the yard they called Sasha Gulliver - he was 190 cm tall. His mother’s character was soft, conflict-free, flexible. And I’m just like my father. Siblings, but they turned out to be different configurations. We are antipodes!
— Did the fact that Alexander was planning to become an actor really surprise the family?
“When my parents found out, they were at a loss. Nobody expected it. Sasha read poetry very well. Mayakovsky was his strong point. We both grew up behind the scenes of the Alexandrinsky Theater, where our dear aunt Raisa was in charge of the costume department. Sasha and I watched all the performances, although we didn’t go together, at different times. And we saw all the greats on stage and in life: Cherkasov, Merkuryev, Tolubeev, Simonov... There was never any talk of becoming an actor. And even thoughts! Neither he nor I. Sasha said: I’ll go to a factory as a cabinet maker, they make decent money. Everything was decided by chance. While walking around Leningrad, my brother saw an advertisement on a pole about the Moscow Art Theater School’s visiting recruitment and went to the audition. By the way, they met Tolya Romashin there and entered together. Years later, it turned out that Tolya has a brother, also an artist. The story is the same as ours: Tolya went to Moscow and became known throughout the country, and his brother remained in St. Petersburg, working at Lenconcert.
Alexander moved to Moscow in 1955 From the personal archive of Yuri Lazarev
I remember how we accompanied Sasha to Moscow with the whole family. It seemed to me that he was going far, far away. Where is Leningrad and where is Moscow! Now the cities are separated by only three and a half hours on the Sapsan, but then they were different worlds. Leningrad in the 1950s was not the same as it is now. Essentially a province. We joked in the family: Sasha left his homeland.
The family didn't talk about difficulties
“The first time I came to the capital was a few years later, when I was finishing school, and my brother was an actor at the Mayakovsky Theater, where he served all his life. He played the main role in “The Irkutsk Story” based on Arbuzov. Both the Moscow and Leningrad audiences were eager to see the performance; they worked to a full house. That evening, when I looked at Sasha from the auditorium, my fate was decided. Dad dreamed that I would continue his work and become an artist; I myself was going to the Faculty of Biology. But I saw my brother on stage - and I couldn’t think about anything else except that I also wanted to be an artist.
Parents Yuri and Alexander with their grandson Shurik, Lazarev Jr. (early 1980s) From the personal archive of Yuri Lazarev
— Has the capital drawn in Alexander Sergeevich?
— Sasha still loved our city and often came home. We even went on vacation a couple of times together: dad, mom and Sasha and I. Or we walked with him along the St. Petersburg embankments, raising our coat collars from the wind, or we went to the Hermitage. He rarely visited it, and I practically lived there. I have always been fascinated by painting. We get to Palace Square, Sasha says: “Well, it’s a museum! Shall we go back?
Long, thin, dark-haired, either an Armenian or a gypsy, he gradually changed, a gloss appeared in him. He left as a simple guy... Later, when he came on tour with the theater to Europe, local newspapers wrote about him: “Russian Yves Montand.” There was charm even in his clumsiness. Although he moved on stage amazingly.
For his arrival, his mother was frying a huge number of cutlets and setting a luxurious table. I looked at my brother with greedy eyes, sitting in a corner, my mother ran between the kitchen and the room, and two giants of thought - brother and dad - started talking about the theater, about art.
In our family we never discussed difficulties and everyday life at all - the conversations were about music, poetry, literature, theater, painting.
Cause of Pavel's death
Lazarev Sr. was involved in an accident that occurred on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. A tire of his car burst, as a result of which Pavel was carried into the oncoming lane at speed. Sergei Lazarev’s older brother received the following injuries: a concussion, a bruised shoulder, and a broken nose.
However, despite his injuries, Pavel refused the help of medical specialists. He decided not to go to the clinic, but to spend a few days at home under the supervision of his family. A little later, the man began to suffer from severe headaches. He had to call an ambulance, which took him to the hospital. But, as it turned out, it was already very late.
Hospital medical staff diagnosed Lazarev Sr. with extensive internal hemorrhage, as well as blood poisoning. The cause of death of the young man was cardiac arrest. Pavel was buried in one of the Moscow cemeteries. The most tragic thing is that his death could have been prevented.
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As soon as Simone married her current husband, who was already a successful businessman, her new life allowed her not to work, but to manage the house and raise children. It is worth noting that the woman managed to raise and raise two successful sons, one of whom is rapper Timati, and the second is a DJ named Artem.
It is worth noting that Simona Yakovlevna supported the aspirations of her sons in every possible way and helped them develop. Currently, she looks great without resorting to plastic surgery. Now the woman is actively raising her granddaughter.
Pavel Lazarev – brother of Sergei Lazarev
The singer always supported his older brother. Pavel was thinking of starting his own business, and Lazarev Jr. promised to help him with this. The guys often called each other and consulted with each other.
The popular singer did not talk about the accident that happened to his brother until the funeral. When information about Pavel’s death appeared in the media, Sergei confirmed it. He canceled all the special events that were associated with the presentation of his new disc and the celebration of his own birthday.
Brother Sergei Lazarev passed away at the end of March 2020, when he was barely 37 years old. He left behind a 13-year-old daughter named Alina. Sergey Lazarev takes care of his niece as if he were his own child.
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Tragic injustice
Lazarev Jr. took the news of the death of his older brother very hard. He believes that what happened is extremely unfair. March 15, 2020 is Pavel’s birthday; he would have turned 40 this year.
On this day last year, his younger brother, the popular Russian singer Sergei Lazarev, paid tribute to the memory of the deceased, saying that he still could not get used to the idea that Pavel had no longer been with his family for two years.
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In 2001, Marina Petrovna received a second higher education, according to which she is now a marketer.
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Creative activity
Smash!!
In 2001, Lazarev, together with his Fidget colleague Vlad Topalov, became a participant in the musical project Smash!!.
The idea to create their own duet project came to the guys while they were working in the Neposedy ensemble. The idea turned into concrete execution when Vlad’s mother suggested that the boys record an aria from the musical Notre Dame de Paris together as a birthday present for their father.
At first, the duo was managed by Simon Naper-Bell, who was a former manager of Wham!.
In August 2002, the duet of Lazarev and Topalov won the New Wave competition in Jurmala.
The duo's first video for the song Belle stayed at the top of the MTV charts for six months.
At the same time, Lazarev took part in the play Romeo and Juliet at the Theater. A.S. Pushkin, where he got the main male role.
In February, the band's debut album Freeway was released, which almost instantly acquired gold status (more than a million licensed copies were sold).
In 2003, the role of Alyosha Karamazov in the play A Few Days in the Life of Alyosha Karamazov at the Moscow Art Theater was added to Sergei's numerous achievements. A.P. Chekhov.
On December 3, 2004, the group's second and final album, Smash!!, was released. - 2nite, and at the end of the year Lazarev left the group and began a solo career. The singer signed a contract with the recording company Style Records, and began searching for and recording material himself. He also returned to his native Pushkin Theater to participate in the play Borrow a Tenor!.
Solo career
On December 1, 2005, Sergei's debut album Don't Be Fake was released.
At the beginning of 2006, the singer released his first Russian-language composition, Even if you leave.
In May 2007, Lazarev's second album entitled TV Show was released.
In 2007, he won the first season of the television competition Circus with the Stars. He played the main role in the 2008 New Year's television show on Channel One.
Lazarev also participated in the Dancing on Ice project, where he took second place.
Sergei took part in the dubbing of the films High School Musical, High School Musical: Vacation, High School Musical: Graduation.
In March 2010, Lazarev signed a contract with the music company Sony Music Entertainment.
On March 31 of the same year, Sergei's new album Electric Touch was released, which received gold status in June 2011.
In July, Sergey and Ani Lorak recorded a joint song for the New Wave: When You Tell Me That You Love Me.
In May 2011, the artist’s video for the song Heartbeat was released.
In February 2012, Lazarev sang the song Moscow to California with Timati and for the first time with DJ Meg. A video for this track was also released, filming of which took place in Moscow and California.
In December 2012, Sergei’s fourth studio album, entitled “Lazarev,” was released, and already in March 2013 it gained the status of a gold disc.
On May 14, 2013, a video was released for the single Tears in My Heart from the singer’s fourth album.
On December 5, the video clip Into the Heart was presented.
On March 12, 2014, the Take It Off video was released, which was presented two years after the premiere of the song itself.
In December 2014, the musician released the video album “Lazarev” Show: Live in Moscow, which was specially recorded on March 30, 2013 as part of a grand show at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.
In 2020, Sergey Lazarev became the host of the First Channel project Dance!, and also released another single, “That’s All She.”
In honor of the 10th anniversary of his solo career, on April 1, 2020, Lazarev released a collection of his best songs in Russian, The Best (Russian Edition).
In December 2020, the artist presented a new album, In the Epicenter, and in April 2020, he went on tour with a new show, N-tour.
In September 2020, the artist presented a video for the song Whisper.
Sergey Lazarev Eurovision
In December 2020, Lazarev was chosen as Russia's representative at Eurovision 2020.
The singer with the song You Are the Only One on May 14, 2020 took 3rd place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with 491 points in the final. According to the results of the audience voting, Sergei's performance became the best.
Eurovision 2020 Russia
In February 2020, it became known who would represent Russia at the song competition in Tel Aviv, Israel. Lazarev was again chosen as a representative of the Russian Federation.
The competition song called Scream for Lazarev was written by Philip Kirkorov in collaboration with the Greek composer Dimitris Kontopoulos.
The artist will perform in the second semi-final on May 16 under number 13.
After it became known that Lazarev would represent the Russian Federation at the competition, bookmakers predicted 1st place for the artist.
When the singer presented the competition song on March 9, his chances changed - Lazarev was placed in second place in the rating, where he remained for several weeks. The artist's main competitor was Duncan Lawrence from the Netherlands.
After the participants showed their numbers, the bookmakers again made changes to the list of competition favorites - John Lundvik from Sweden removed him from second place. Bookmakers believed that Scream had an 11 percent chance of winning.
After the artists appeared on the red carpet, Lazarev was displaced from third place by the representative of France, 19-year-old androgynous blogger Bilal Hassani. Now Lazarev is predicted to take 4th place with a probability of victory of only 9 percent.
On May 12, the grand opening ceremony of the 64th Eurovision Song Contest 2020 took place in Tel Aviv, Israel, at Habima Square.
41 representatives of the participating countries, including the Russian delegation, took to the orange carpet. The artist with Philip Kirkorov and the team appeared very modestly in outfits that were discreet for the king of pop: both Lazarev and Kirkorov chose bright jackets with a black shirt, black trousers and matching shoes for their appearance on the orange carpet.
Sergey Lazarev / Reuters
Sergey Lazarev with the Russian delegation at Eurovision 2020 / Reuters
On May 16, in the second semi-final, Lazarev entered number 13. His song Scream received enough votes from the audience and judges to qualify for the grand final.
