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Alexander Medvedev, aka Shura, was born in Novosibirsk on May 20, 1975. A real gem. I never studied music anywhere. He spent his college years at a local restaurant, where he sang from the age of 13. After completing design courses in Riga, he came to Moscow and began performing, at first “mask” under a foreign star. The singer's personal life is shrouded in darkness. Since the appearance of this character on the Russian pop scene, a lot has been said about him. And far from the most pleasant things. Paying tribute to his abilities, people who, by the will of fate, had to deal with him, unanimously stated: “It is incredibly difficult to communicate with this person.”
They said that on the set of his first video, “Cold Moon,” he brought the group to white heat. He was dissatisfied with everything: the script, its implementation, the director, the actors, the weather... He expressed his indignation violently: he shouted, stomped his feet. In the St. Petersburg club "Candyman" (the video was filmed in northern capital) found two transvestites, dragged them to the site, demanded to film them and pay them $200.
In fact, communicating with the young star is not so scary, although it is really not easy. In life appearance, although very extraordinary, does not inspire fear for the health of others. Even the absence of teeth is not immediately noticeable. By the way, questions about teeth unbalance Sasha - so it’s better not to ask them.
In conversation, the young man is moderately amiable, moderately impudent, moderately lies. He speaks about himself with pleasure. He is quite satisfied with his present and has no doubts about his brilliant future. In general, he is clearly not in danger of dying from modesty - at least not in the near future.
Shura was brought onto the difficult artistic path by her grandmother - she herself worked as a 6th grade cook and had a very indirect connection to art: dressed in incredible outfits, she sang romances in front of the mirror. Once, when a cheerful granny put on a skirt covered with bottle caps and appeared in this form before Shura, he got scared and hid in the bathroom. Apparently, grandmother’s love for extravagant toilets was inherited by Shura.
Shura's first Moscow performance took place at the Manhattan Express club. It was there that the young talent met the stylist and fashion designer Alisher, with whom he has been working ever since. Alisher sews stage costumes for Sasha and advises him during shopping trips. Now Shura is gradually moving away from her previous “extravagant-operetta” image and trying on more elegant clothes. He no longer wears shoes with crazy platforms, preferring stylish, insanely expensive shoes from famous companies. But the young star claims that she can change at any moment and dress up as something completely crazy. “I can’t stay in the same image for a long time, it immediately becomes boring,” he says.
Shura (Alexander Medvedev)
Singer Date of birth May 20 (Taurus) 1975 (44) Place of birth Novosibirsk Instagram @shuramedvedev
Singer Shura is a shocking artist who attracts attention with his creativity and unusual appearance. His star lit up in the late 90s. Then Shura's hits were recorded, which have not lost their popularity two decades later. The artist's fate is filled with contradictory events. There were ups and downs in musical career. The singer had to survive cancer and again achieve success on stage. Today there is less shocking stuff in a man’s life, but he still plays music and takes part in entertainment programs.
Biography of Shura
Alexander Vladimirovich Medvedev was born on May 20, 1975 in Novosibirsk. He was raised by his mother and stepfather. Most of all, the boy loved his grandmother, who instilled in him a love of unusual outfits and vocals. Sasha's childhood was not joyful. He received little attention, and at the age of 9 he was sent to a boarding school. After some time, the boy was taken in by his grandmother. With family at Shura's difficult relationship. The artist does not communicate with either his mother or brother, but helps them financially.
Alexander started earning money at the age of 13. Having no musical education, the guy performed at a local restaurant, surprising visitors with his shocking appearance. Then he decided to try his hand at Moscow. The debut in the capital took place at the Manhattan Express club. The love of shocking again helped the aspiring artist to the rescue. There he was noticed by fashion designer Alisher, who agreed to sew stage costumes for Shura.
His unusual appearance and original manner of performance, which was explained by the lack of teeth, contributed to the growth of the popularity of singer Shura. The artist released his first albums in tandem with composer Pavel Yesenin. The records were called “Shura” and “Shura 2”. Then there were the albums “Fairy Tale”, “Thank You. Second wind".
Medvedev was awarded the Golden Gramophone and participated in the “Song of the Year”. in the 2000s, Shura suddenly disappeared from television screens. The cause was drug addiction and advanced stage cancer. The man needed a lot of effort, time and money to recover.
In 2007, he reappeared on TV in music shows. In 2011, the singer released the album “New Day”.
Shura's personal life
Many people spoke about Shura as an artist gay. The singer strongly supported rumors about his homosexuality, but later admitted that it was nothing more than a PR stunt to attract more attention to his person. In 2010, the man went out with his girlfriend Elizabeth. According to Shura, he has been living with a girl for a long time in civil marriage he simply hid the relationship, preferring to keep information about his personal life secret. In 2017, news appeared in the press about the artist’s desire to have a child. Shura himself does not comment on the rumors.
For several months now, singer Shura has been in the most difficult situation. The artist lost his only home. He purchased an apartment in Moscow 15 years ago. But also in nightmare he could not imagine that the day would come when strangers would come to him and assure him that the living space now belonged to them. About all the vicissitudes of this tragic story Shura told our correspondents in an exclusive interview.
“In 2002, I decided to buy myself an apartment,” says the 43-year-old singer. — I came to the Stolitsa company, whose employees I was friends with at that time. They offered me to enter into a contract with CJSC Gradostroy. So, “Stolitsa” found an apartment for me, and I paid “Gradostroi” 30 thousand dollars as a down payment. The house was sold to me at cost - around $900 per square meter. At that time the dollar exchange rate was about 28 rubles. It turns out that the apartment cost 95 thousand dollars. But at that time I was still a drug addict, and for me it was a lot of money. The trouble is that I was not legally savvy, I didn’t read any papers, I was busy with my career. I had no time to delve into everything. I just regularly carried money to the company. I still had a debt of 25 thousand, but they told me that I could move into the apartment, make repairs there and live. We agreed that I would either work off this money through barter for my concerts, or pay it in later. That's exactly what I did. Moved into concrete walls, made repairs that cost me more than three million rubles. He lived in peace, paying all utilities.
For all these years, the singer could not have imagined that the company, it turns out, had not registered the apartment in his name.
“And here comes my birthday this year,” the public favorite sighs sadly. — Three days after it, I go out into the street to buy some water. And at the entrance there are two handsome young men with papers for my apartment and absolutely culturedly, without any attacks, they say: “Alexander, we purchased this apartment!” It turned out that “Stolitsa” registered my housing in the name of its employee Arabov Murad Mansurovich. I’m in shock, running away from grief into the bushes to cry. I was afraid that now they would come into my apartment and immediately evict me. But thank God, the new owners and I agreed that I would rent housing from them for six months for 60 thousand rubles a month.
The new owners are already planning to put the apartment up for sale.
“I’m still afraid to even think about where I’ll go,” the artist complains. — To take out a mortgage, you need a down payment. I don't have one. Roughly speaking, this requires eight million, but my fees are not a million rubles, and I have generally refused all tours because of all these proceedings. And now I need to pay lawyers, because I want to file an application in court so that the company fulfills its obligations and provides housing to my property.
Shura assured us that he is not even dreaming of any unprecedented luxury now:
“As you know, court proceedings are very long and unpredictable. But I need to move somewhere now. “I’m used to living where it’s green, I really love my Leninsky district,” the star shares. “But here you don’t have to choose anymore.” Wherever they give it, I’ll settle there. It would be good if there were people who could give a mortgage without a down payment. Because I don’t want to rent an apartment and pay money anywhere.
Andrei Malakhov and Viktor Rybin have already offered Shura a helping hand, saying that they can give them the keys to their homes. The singer’s mother Svetlana Ivanovna, with whom he reconciled six months ago after 25 years of misunderstanding, also began to persuade her son to move to Novosibirsk with her. The artist was also inundated with letters from fans from many regions of Russia with offers to live with them.
“One woman wrote: “I live alone in a three-room apartment, come, I’ll give you two rooms,” Shura smiles. — Mostly, of course, they write not from Moscow; in the outback people are more responsive. But I won’t leave Moscow, I have work here. It’s also a shame that so many lies are now being written about my situation. They say that my apartment was taken away for debts, drugs, etc. And they wrote to my lawyer that I was doing PR for myself with this and that no apartment was taken away from me. On this moment an interview with you is the only truthful printed source of information. In the meantime, most publications do this: I told them one word, and they will write ten more!
It is worth noting that this is not the first time that Shura has had a deplorable housing situation. At the dawn of his career, when he had just moved to Moscow, the future star had the opportunity to spend a whole week in the Botanical Garden, eating the berries growing there.
“I started out as a homeless person, and I continue to do so,” the artist says sadly. - Well, what should I do now, go live on the same bench? By the way, my first home in Moscow after botanical garden it was also on Leninsky Prospekt. I lived there with a prostitute Tanka. At that time, I had already started singing in one establishment for a bowl of soup, and I took it with me. She made money there. I also fed her Pekingese dog when Tanka was away for a long time. I remember thinking: it’s better to eat the carrots yourself or feed them to the dog.
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Biography, life story of Shura
Shura (real name: Alexander Vladimirovich Medvedev) is a Russian pop singer.
Childhood
Alexander Medvedev, aka Shura, was born in Novosibirsk on May 20, 1975. He was raised by his mother and grandmother, but did not know his own father. A little later he had younger brother Misha. The guys were constantly fighting among themselves. There were rumors that it was Misha who once knocked out Sasha’s front teeth.
Shura was brought onto the difficult artistic path by her grandmother. She herself worked as a 6th grade cook and had a very indirect connection to art: dressed in incredible outfits, she sang romances in front of the mirror. Once, when a cheerful granny put on a skirt covered with bottle caps and appeared in this form before Shura, he got scared and hid in the bathroom. Apparently, grandmother’s love for extravagant toilets was inherited by Shura.
Shura is a real gem. I never studied music anywhere. He spent his college years at a local restaurant, where he sang from the age of 13.
Creative path
After completing design courses in Riga, he came to Moscow and began performing, at first squinting under a foreign star. The singer's personal life is always shrouded in darkness. Since the appearance of this character on the Russian pop scene, a lot has been said about him. And far from the most pleasant things. Paying tribute to his abilities, people who, by the will of fate, had to deal with him, unanimously stated: “It’s incredibly difficult to communicate with this person.”.
They said that on the set of his first video, “Cold Moon,” he brought the group to white heat. He was dissatisfied with everything: the script, its implementation, the director, the actors, the weather... He expressed his indignation violently: he shouted, stomped his feet. In the St. Petersburg club Candyman (the video was filmed in the northern capital) he found two transvestites, dragged them to the site, demanded to film them and pay them $200.
In fact, communicating with the young star was not so scary, although it was really not easy. In life, his appearance, although very unusual, did not inspire fear for the health of others. Even the absence of teeth was not immediately noticeable. By the way, questions about teeth always unbalanced Sasha - so cautious people tried not to ask them..
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In conversation, the young man was always moderately amiable, moderately impudent, moderately fibbing. He spoke about himself with pleasure. He was completely satisfied with his present and had no doubt about his brilliant future. In general, as his friends said then, he was clearly not in danger of dying from modesty.
Shura's first Moscow performance took place at the Manhattan Express club. It was there that the young talent met the stylist and fashion designer Alisher, with whom he soon worked together. Alisher sewed stage costumes for Sasha and advised him during shopping trips. Gradually, Shura moved away from his previous “extravagant-operetta” image and tried on more elegant clothes. He stopped wearing shoes with crazy platforms, preferring stylish, insanely expensive shoes from famous companies. But the young star claimed that she could change at any moment and dress up as something completely crazy. “I can’t stay in the same image for a long time, it immediately becomes boring”, he said.
In 1997, Shura presented his debut disc - Shura. The very next year the Shura-2 record went on sale. The success was stunning! Shura, inspired and confident in himself and his abilities, began recording singles, shooting videos and releasing albums with enviable consistency - to the delight of his fans and the envy of his enemies. His popularity grew every day, until one day Shura suddenly... disappeared.
Difficult period
At one wonderful (or, more correctly, terrible) moment, Shura suddenly realized that his popularity could not last forever. The singer felt, felt with his skin, how glory and success were leaving him. Depression began, which Shura tried to cure with drugs. The result is severe addiction and cancer, which was discovered at a late stage of development.
Fortunately, Shura came to his senses in time. The fear of death helped him understand what was really important. The artist underwent a complex operation, underwent a course of chemotherapy and was freed from drug addiction. Having gotten rid of his ailments, Shura firmly decided to return to the stage.
Return
At the end of the 2000s she shone on the stage new star– updated Shura. The flamboyant boy turned into a brutal and charming man. Shura continued to record albums, shoot videos, began to often appear on various television shows and even try his hand as a presenter. Thus, in the “Musical Ring” program on NTV, Shura hosted the “Do Good” section.
In 2015, Shura celebrated his anniversary - 20 years of fruitful creative activity.
Personal life
For a long time, the public was sure that Shura was gay. However, this opinion was formed solely because of the artist’s extraordinary image. In May 2010, Shura introduced his fiancee Lisa, a promoter of the Opera club, to the public.
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Russian pop singer, whose popularity peaked in the late 90s of the 20th century. Known for his shockingness and extravagance: for a long time the artist did not have his front teeth, which is why he had a lisp. Repeatedly became the object of parodies. Winner of the “Golden Gramophone”, “Silver Galosh”, “Sound Track” awards, etc.
Biography of Shura
Alexander Vladimirovich Medvedev, known under his creative pseudonym Shura(SHURA), was born on May 20, 1975 in Novosibirsk in the family of Vladimir Shapkin and his wife Svetlana. Having given birth to a son at the age of 18, the mother soon married a second time - to Nikolai Medvedev, and two and a half years later Shura had a younger brother, Mikhail, who later became a businessman.
Alexander found out about his own father only when he died: “I don’t even have a photograph of my father, but my mother somehow mentioned that I look very much like him.”
His own father and stepfather did not take part in Alexander’s upbringing, and his mother sent her first-born at the age of nine to an orphanage, from where the future singer was taken by his grandmother Vera Mikhailovna, who worked as a chef at the Novosibirsk restaurant “Rus”. It was there that Shura, who can be called a real genius, since he never studied professional music anywhere, began his ascent to the creative Olympus. At the age of 12, the boy, expelled from school with a certificate of incomplete secondary education, began performing in front of restaurant audiences.
According to the performer, he had no friends among his peers; his classmates, for example, seemed stupid to him; he did not know what to talk to them about. He was drawn to adults and noisy companies. So, in the restaurant where he sang, he felt at ease. However, according to Shura, there were also disadvantages: there he learned to swear and drink vodka: his grandmother had strict morals, but did not have time to keep track of everything.
Shura's creative path
Having subsequently graduated from design courses in Riga, Shura came to conquer Moscow, and he introduced himself as nothing less than a foreign pop star. His first performance in the capital took place at the Manhattan Express club. Here Shura met a stylist Alisher, with whom he began to collaborate since then. True, yours unusual image he explained it not by the efforts of this master, but by the influence of his grandmother.
Shura recorded his debut two albums (in 1997 - Shura, in 1998 - Shura 2) in tandem with the Novosibirsk composer Pavel Yesenin, who also acted as a backing vocalist, and a few years later began to collaborate with such stars of domestic show business as Dmitry Malikov, Alla Pugacheva, Diana Gurtskaya, etc. In 1999, Alexander’s third collection, “Fairy Tale,” was released, then the albums “Thank you for the second wind” (2001), News (2003), “ Forbidden love"(2004).
People started talking about the outrageous singer almost immediately, and his compositions “The Summer Rains Have Stopped,” “Do Good,” and “Cold Moon” immediately became hits. The performer was presented with various professional awards, including: “Song of the Year” (“Don’t Believe Tears”, “The Summer Rains Have Stopped”), “Song of the 20th Century”, “Golden Gramophone” (“Do Good”), “Hit FM”, “Stylish singer of the year”, “Best singer of the year”, etc.
However, the wave of popularity gradually subsided, and Shura was very worried this fact. Dark times and loneliness, drugs, terrible disease- cancer, which he openly stated in interviews.
Shura: “Cocaine appeared... It was this that saved me from loneliness after concerts... Because I was very lonely. But I didn’t have any loved ones, because everyone was driven away from me. It was not beneficial for anyone that I had a soul mate. The dealers lived with me, you know? They rented apartments nearby. They didn't let me go. I won’t say that this happened with all the stars, but in general there was a specific additive. Thank God, such a disease as cancer happened to me, and I quit drugs myself. I went to church, prayed to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, then they injected me with chemotherapy in one arm, and drugs for drug addiction in the other arm. That is, I miraculously survived.”
Over time, the singer moved away from his extravagant image, put in teeth and began to appear in public in elegant clothes. However, he himself once admitted that he could do something crazy at any moment: “I can’t stay in the same image for a long time - it immediately becomes boring.” In an updated image, Shura returned to the stage in the late 2000s and immediately became a guest on popular shows, including “Musical Ring”, “You are a superstar” on NTV, etc.
In 2014, Shura released the song “Laughter and Tears” and a video clip for this composition. In 2015, he took part in the transformation project “One to One!”, Season 3, on the TV channel “Russia 1”. His rivals and colleagues on stage were: Alexander Rybak, Nikita Malinin, Mark Tishman, Batyrkhan Shukenov, Svetlana Svetikova, Anzhelika Agurbash, Evelina Bledans and Marina Kravets. To participate in the popular show, Shura studied with an Italian vocal teacher and lost ten kilograms. To get back into shape, the musician took up swimming and went on a strict diet.
In 2016, the artist, who tried to reconcile with his own mother on his birthday with the help of Andrei Malakhov’s talk show “Let Them Talk,” presented a video for the song “Penguins,” and in 2017 released a video for the song “Girlfriend.”
Shura's personal life
Shura's personal life is shrouded in darkness. In 2010, on his 35th birthday, he brought out a girl Lisa Tuchnina, introducing her as his future wife. There was talk of an imminent wedding, but nothing is known about this solemn event in the singer’s life. The performer said about Lisa that they had known each other for many years and understood each other perfectly, dreaming that they would have twins.
Subsequently, the singer did not reveal practically any details about his personal life to the public. In 2017, in an exclusive video interview with the online TV guide “Vokrug TV”, Shura admitted that it is not in his rules to wake up in his bed alone: “My bed is mine and only mine. It is huge - 2.20 by 2.20 meters. It’s very difficult to buy underwear for her... Yes, I can make love on this bed, and then give a kick...” In the same frank conversation, the performer mentioned that he was visited by thoughts of creating a full-fledged family.
Shura: “I dream of a cozy little house. Of course, about family. I thought about children for a very long time. Since I am a former cancer patient, I still doubt whether it’s worth it - because, well, God forbid... After all, oncology is like that... But I want some kind of family, probably already. Still in my fifties.”
Shura's health
For five years, the pop singer fought against cancer, for the treatment of which about a million dollars was spent in clinics in Russia and Switzerland. Only a few of his most devoted friends helped the artist financially, while the rest, having learned about Shura’s diagnosis, turned away from him. According to him, not only money, but also a Chihuahua named Matilda helped the singer overcome cancer.
Shura about overcoming the disease (video interview, November 2017): “This is a very difficult situation in general. They announce your sentence and you don’t want to live. I don’t want to strain my relatives... I don’t want to undergo chemotherapy. In my case, some kind of fiction helped me. One clairvoyant said: “Get yourself a dog, it will save you.” I didn’t want to live for my relatives, that is, to strain them. Every day they will endure your chemotherapy courses, investing money in it, because it costs a lot... Thank God that the people around me helped me. I didn't want to live. I got myself a dog and lived for this little lump. I came after a course of chemotherapy, I was feeling bad. Then he kissed this little lump. I lived for him. That is, you need to decide on the purpose for which you live. For example, a loved one. But at that time I had no one except this dog. She pulled me out of oncology. Not relatives, but a dog.”
Shura, who overcame a terrible illness, got rid of everything else from drugs and alcohol addiction, began to lead a correct lifestyle and expressed confidence that in no case should one give up; on the contrary, one must, gritting one’s teeth, fight and go towards the goal. Speaking about plans for 2018, the musician noted that he intends to undergo a course of treatment in the Russian scientific center"Restorative traumatology and orthopedics" named after academician Ilizarov.
Awards and achievements of Shura
- 1997: “Golden Decibel”; first place in the hit parade for the song “Cold Moon”.
- 1998: “Golden Gramophone” (song “You Don’t Believe Tears”), winner of the “Song of the Year” competition in the nomination “Best Performer and Best Singer” (song “Don’t Believe Tears”); first place in the Muz-TV hit parade (clip “The summer rains have stopped making noise”).
- 1999: “Stopudovy Hit” prize for the song “Don’t Believe Tears”; victory in “Song of the Year” (“The summer rains have stopped making noise”); “Muz-Oboz” award in the category “Best Performer of the Year”; “Silver Galosh” award in the “Smile of the Year” category.
- 2000: Golden Decibel Award in the category "Most popular singer Novosibirsk"; competition “Stylish things” - award “Stylish singer of the year” (“The sky is for us”).
- 2001: Golden Gramophone award (song “Do Good”); “Soundtrack” award (song “Artist”).
- 2002: Golden Duck Award; Night Life Awards in the category “Best singer in the world of night music.”
- 2003: “Soundtrack” award (song “Zimushka-winter”); “Silver Galosh” in the “Most Stylish Performer” category.
- 2007: Order “Benefit, Honor and Glory of Russia” for high professionalism and invaluable contribution to the development of art.
2013: award from AURUM magazine.
Shura discography
- Albums
- 1997 - Shura (in collaboration with composer Pavel Yesenin)
- 1998 - Shura-2 (in collaboration with composer Pavel Yesenin)
- 1999 - Fairy Tale
- 2000 - official collection + two songs
- 2001 - “Thank you for the second wind”
- 2003 - News
- 2011 - “New Day”
- 2012 - “The Heart Beats” (single)
- 2012 - “Prayer” (single) (together with Svetlana Surganova)
- 2014 - “Laughter and Tears” (single)
- 2015 - “Dreams” (single)
- 2015 - “Our Summer” (single)
- 2016 - “The Heart Beats” (single)
- 2016 - “Penguins” (single)
- 2017 - “Girlfriend” (single)
- Video clips
- 1997 - “Cold Moon”
- 1998 - “You don’t believe in tears” (concert)
- 1998 - “The summer rains have stopped making noise”
- 2000 - “Do Good”
- 2001 - “Take a Step”
- 2003 - “Hello”
- 2004 - “Forbidden Love” (together with Irina Berezhnaya)
- 2010 - “Balloons”
- 2012 - “The Heart Beats”
- 2012 - “Prayer” (together with “Surganova and the Orchestra”)
- 2014 - “Laughter and Tears”
- 2016 - “Penguins”
- 2017 - “Girlfriend”
- Popular compositions
- The summer rains have faded
- Don Don Don
- Are You Ready
- Cold Moon
- Eternity
- Zimushka winter
- Don't believe in tears
- Porushka-poranya
- Day outside the window
- Fairy tale
- Treasured land
- Do good
- And autumn just came
- Artist
- Make a step
- Please say hello
- Old artist
- On the cheeks
- Peace and goodness (Do good 2)
- Or or
- New day
- Balloons
- Heart beats
- Laughter and tears
- Our summer
- Penguins
Filmography of Shura
- Actor
2007 - 2015 My truth (Ukraine, documentary)
2001 Fox Alice (party singer)