Shura singer. Shura women: Secrets of personal life. - That is, you did not lose your front teeth in an orphanage

Performer of the hits "Do good" and "Shummeli summer rains» relatives are evicted from the apartment through the court

The absence of front teeth, a bald head, high platform shoes and strange outfits - this is how the singer Shura looked like, who entered the stage in the mid-nineties. He was called gay, a miracle in feathers, mentally unstable. According to show business criteria, the Shura project was extremely successful, but in 2002 the singer disappeared as suddenly as he appeared, and reappeared in the field of view only five years later. The artist changed, changed crazy outfits for a solid suit, put in his teeth ...

As a child, Alexander Medvedev (real name Shura) was not loved, in his youth they were not taken seriously. Now he is trying to deprive him of his apartment through the court own mother. Leonid Zakoshansky, the host of the “We Speak and Show” (NTV) program, talked about the lawsuit and not only with 38-year-old Alexander Medvedev.

* "I returned to show business with a completely different Alexander Medvedev," the artist claims

- How did you know that your mother sued you?

Shura:- My mother sent a lawsuit for my eviction from an apartment in Novosibirsk by mail to my director. AT statement of claim she pointed out that I have several apartments in Moscow and my own office. Although in fact in Moscow I have nothing! No registration, no apartment, not even a car!

In general, I was in shock, although I always knew that any inadequate act could be expected from her. But it's still my own mother! After all, she could call me, offer, they say, Sasha, let's sell the apartment, I would understand. But act on the sly! So mean...

Director and friend of Shura Pavel Depershmidt: - When Sasha saw this lawsuit, at first he did not even understand what was happening, he was so amazed. He paused, then said: “Okay, let him write out of the apartment.” A minute later it dawned on him: “What is it, will I be a homeless person now?” After all, now he can neither apply to the bank, nor get a foreign passport, nor get medical insurance ... Sasha loves his mother, sends her money. And she points out in the lawsuit: “We do not maintain relations with him. Presumably lives in Moscow.

The artist's lawyer Alexander Treshchev:- It is impossible to write the singer out of the apartment if he does not provide documents stating that he owns other real estate. The court cannot rule in favor of the mother and throw Alexander out into the street. (The court satisfied the claim of the mother of the singer Shura about the loss of his right to use an apartment in Novosibirsk. Alexander Medvedev appealed this decision. - Ed.)

"Don't you have any contact with your mother?" Maybe, at least on some family holidays, she calls you?

Shura:- Never. Recently I was attacked in the street with a knife. They talked about it on TV and wrote in the newspapers. And even then she didn't call me. Only once on my birthday (I was 25 years old) my friend Natasha quietly found my mother's number on my phone and called her. When my mother answered the phone, Natasha literally made her talk to me. We talked for the first time in a long time. They talked for a long time, even both burst into tears. But this was an isolated case.

* Singer Shura: “In the middle90sthe public could only be surprised by the outrageous image and the complete absence of complexes "

Have you been visiting your mother for a long time?

Shura:- Well, firstly, not visiting my mother, but at home. I still believe it's mine native home even though I don't even have keys because my mom changes the locks all the time. Last time was there five years ago. And during that wonderful time when we worked seven days a week, from each concert I sent my mother 500 dollars for several years.

How did your mother treat you as a child?

Shura:- I was unwanted child she wanted to get rid of the pregnancy. Mom called me a miscarriage and always found a reason to scold me. It seems to me that she loved my father so much that when he left her, she began to blame and hate me. Imagine, she did not even allow to call her mother - only Sveta! Otherwise she was. As a child, I didn’t understand why mom couldn’t be called mom, but I also didn’t want to get punched in the face ...

Once I returned early from school and found my mother with her lover. Jealousy cut off all the buttons on his clothes. And in general, later he tried in every possible way to quarrel them - he “kissed” his shirt with red lipstick, and put soldier's shoulder straps in her pockets. But I was not a bad son! I loved my mother and still love her. I was always drawn to her, gave her handmade gifts, and she ... sent me to an orphanage when I was nine years old. Why? Yes, I just interfered with her, because my mother was young, and the apartment was one-room. She tried her best to arrange her personal life, but potential applicants for her hand were blown away like the wind when they saw children's things in the apartment. Therefore, in her loneliness, she blamed me.

Did you live badly in the orphanage?

Shura:- I have always been a lively kid, and in the orphanage no one really touched me. Moreover, I often went to my grandmother's restaurant, where she worked as a chef, and picked up a bunch of fruits there. By the way, my mother strictly forbade telling my grandmother that she had sent me to an orphanage. Grandmother kept thinking that I was living at home. So, I collected fruit from her and distributed it to the children. So I earned myself immunity and even, one might say, authority.

- That is, you did not lose your front teeth in an orphanage?

Shura:- My younger brother Misha knocked out my teeth (Mikhail Dudchenko. - Ed.). And I have a lot of scars from him. Mom constantly pushed our foreheads against him, she wanted us to be at enmity.

The artist's mother was not present in the studio, but in her interviews she tries to justify herself. "There was no orphanage! - claims Shura's mother Svetlana Medvedeva. - I didn’t have a husband, I’m alone with two boys, and they have endless fights, so much so that the glass breaks in the doors! I sent Sasha to a boarding school to live in peace for at least a week. But as soon as he complained, they immediately took him away. Terrible things happened in the boarding school - children offended each other, set fire to beds ... Sasha stayed there only a month.

Shura:- My grandmother took me from the orphanage, only she needed me. I was teased at school and after the sixth grade I dropped out. Yes, yes, I didn’t even finish school, can you imagine! Why do I need an education when I have a “red diploma” from the school of life. But he began to perform in a restaurant where his grandmother worked.

- Your stage image began to take shape already then?

Shura: Yes, and also thanks to my grandmother. Grandma is the most cheerful and sincere person in my life. Somehow, two weeks before the New Year, she began to walk in an unusual gypsy skirt, which was embroidered with ... bottle caps. And my grandmother allowed me to try on her wigs, of which she had a lot. And at the age of 12, I began to put on grandmother's costumes, jewelry, platform shoes and go on stage in this form. Sang the songs of the bands Tender May” and “Modern Talking” and, you know, got a flurry of applause.

- But it's not the performances in the restaurant that made you popular. How did you get to the next level?

Shura:— You can say that the restaurant gave me a chance. It was there, when I was 17 years old, that I met the young musician Pavel Yesenin. Pasha wrote several songs for me, over time they became hits. The first person who appreciated my album was my grandmother. She said, “You sing so well! But in what language, I did not understand. Then Pasha convinced me that with this album I would be successful. And I went from Novosibirsk to Moscow. By the way, five years later Pasha became famous composer- he wrote songs for Alla Pugacheva, Diana Gurtskaya, Dima Malikov.

Of course, no one was waiting for me in Moscow. For two weeks I lived ... in the botanical garden, right on the bench! It's good that it was summer - I picked berries and ate. It was fun. During the day he begged, and at night he went to nightclubs and looked for at least some work. I even agreed to be a dishwasher. And when he really wanted to eat, he offered his songs in exchange for a bowl of soup. One Moscow prostitute saved me. She took pity on me and let me live with her. But for some reason she was afraid to leave home alone, so she took me with her to work. So I got into Right place at the right time. In one of the most popular clubs in Moscow, a casting was held among novice singers. This was my chance! I went on stage last, in a fur coat and with bright makeup. In the mid-nineties, the jaded Moscow public could only be surprised by a shocking image and a complete lack of complexes. And in the end, I was one of hundreds of applicants got a job in a prestigious nightclub.

Variety artist Alexander Peskov:— I was on the jury of this competition. When Sasha came out, I was stunned, good sense this word. And I thought: “Well, wow, how brave!”

Journalist Otar Kushanashvili:- Although I was warned to take validol with me to his performance, I thought that this was said for the sake of formality. And it turned out it was true.

Shura:- Managers announced me as the son of Russian emigrants from America. The director of Zhanna Aguzarova came up with this game: “You sing one song in English, pretend that you don’t understand anything in Russian and leave.” In fact, I didn't know a word of English! I had to bluff. Here the lack of teeth played into the hands - English sound"the" was very easy to pronounce. Once my performance was seen by the famous stylist Alisher. He worked on the image best stars Russian stage- Sofia Rotaru, Zemfira, Pugacheva, Kirkorov, Rasputina ...

Alisher asked me only one question: am I ready to become a star. He convinced me to add some details to the image. In working on the image, we focused on Ozzy Osbourne and Marilyn Manson. In general, Shura was an explosion.

How did you feel when you became a star?

Shura: I was blinded, swirled in eternal holiday. Along with popularity came a bunch of pseudo-friends. I've been lending money left and right, paying for everyone at banquets, buying booze, throwing parties... I'm generous, yes. For me, money doesn't mean much at all. If enough to buy my dog ​​a piece of meat - everything is in order. This is important to me, but money is not.

But I still remained a lonely Novosibirsk boy. And so, when I was offered drugs for the first time, I did not refuse. I was taught to such rubbish, which you get used to incredibly quickly, and it causes a constant feeling of anxiety and irritation. I constantly had a headache, it was enough for one unkind word to make me fall into a hopeless depression. At the slightest provocation, shed tears, threw tantrums. I became uncontrollable - I rushed at the guards, dragged assistants by the hair, disrupted concerts - it's scary to remember. But the audience was only entertained, everyone thought it was a show, and no one understood that in fact I was just dying. At concerts, there were five thousand people in front of me, but when I came home, I was left alone. In my head it constantly sounded: "No one needs you." And I had to suppress these thoughts with drugs.

When did you decide to quit drugs?

Shura: One morning I saw that my dog ​​had nothing to eat. And I also have nothing - the refrigerator is empty, there is no money. I decided: to hell with all these crowds of guards, retinue, all this went ... far! I realized that I wanted to return to normal life, and voluntarily went to bed. drug treatment clinic. Just in time, as it turns out. The doctors found that I had knee cancer. In two months I was to die. And then, when I called all my “friends” and asked them to borrow at least some money to save my life, everyone told me “no”. At that moment, I could get drunk, call drug dealers, forget myself, but I gathered myself into a fist and survived! The operation was done and everything went well.

Cancer treatment went hand in hand with drug addiction treatment. I was under two drips: right hand I was dripped with chemistry, in the left - drugs for addiction. I had time to reevaluate my life and I felt sick of myself. After leaving the hospital, I threw away all my heels, terrible outfits and began to put myself in order. But because of chemotherapy, I had another problem - my metabolism was disturbed, I recovered from 46 to 130 kilograms! He was terribly embarrassed about this, he was afraid to leave the house, not to mention the stage. No diets or diet pills helped. Had to accept desperate measures: borrowed money from the owner of the institution where he started his career, and did liposuction. I don't hide it. I had 50 kilos of extra fat removed.

Was it scary to return to the stage after a five-year break?

Shura:- Terrible! Besides the fact that I was still full, my hand began to shake. When I was invited to speak at some private party, I was more nervous than ever. I understood that if at least one person let me know that they noticed my hand, which was just shaking, I would burst into tears. But everything worked out - I spent the performance sitting on a bar stool, putting my hand under my ass. And the fear began to recede. And I gradually returned to show business. But a completely different Alexander Medvedev.

Prepared by Ilona VARLAMOV, especially for FACTS

For several months now, the singer Shura has been in the most difficult situation. The artist lost his only home. He bought 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 belongs to them. About all the ups and downs of this tragic history Shura told our correspondents in an exclusive interview.

“In 2002, I decided to buy an apartment for myself,” says the 43-year-old singer. - I came to the company "Capital", with the employees of which I was friends at that time. They offered me to conclude a contract with ZAO Gradostroy. So, Stolitsa found me an apartment, and I paid 30,000 dollars to Gradostroy as a down payment. Housing was sold to me at cost - in the region of $ 900 per square meter. Then 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 big money. The trouble is that I was not legally savvy, did not read any papers, pursued my career. I didn't have time to delve into everything. I only regularly carried money to the company. I still had a debt - 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 out this money by barter for my concerts, or I would pay later. That's exactly what I did. I drove into concrete walls, made repairs, which cost me more than three million rubles. He lived quietly, paying all utilities.

For all these years, the singer could not even imagine that the company, it turns out, did not record the apartment in his name.

“And now my birthday is coming this year,” the audience’s 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 civilized, without any raids, they say: “Alexander, we bought this apartment!” It turned out that "Stolitsa" registered my housing on their employee Murad Mansurovich Arabov. I am in shock, I run away from grief into the bushes to roar. I was afraid that now they would come to my apartment and immediately evict me. But thank God, we agreed with the new owners that I would rent a house from them for six months for 60,000 rubles a month.

The new owners are already planning to put the apartment up for sale.

“I’m still even afraid to think about where I’ll go,” the artist complains. - To get a mortgage, you need a down payment. I don't have it. Roughly speaking, you need eight million for this, but my fees are not one million rubles, and I have generally refused all the tours because of all these proceedings. And now I have to pay lawyers, because I want to apply to the court so that the company fulfills its obligations and provides housing to my property.

Shura assured us that now he does not even dream of some unprecedented luxury:

- As is known, litigation very long and unpredictable. But I need to move somewhere now. I'm used to living where it's green, I love mine very much Leninsky district, - the star shares. “But there is no choice here. Wherever they give me, I will settle there. It would be nice 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.

Andrey Malakhov and Viktor Rybin have already offered a helping hand to Shura, saying that they can give 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. And also the artist was flooded with letters from fans from many regions of Russia with offers to settle with them.

“One woman wrote: “I live alone in a three-room apartment, come, I will give you two rooms,” Shura smiles. - Basically, they write, of course, not from Moscow, people in the outback are more responsive. But I will not leave Moscow, I have a job here. It's a shame that so many lies are now being written about my situation. They say that the apartment was taken away from me for debts, drugs and so on. And they wrote to my lawyer that I was doing PR for myself on this and no apartment was taken away from me. On the this moment 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 compose ten more!

It is worth noting that the deplorable situation with housing at Shura is not the first time. At the dawn of his career, when he had just moved to Moscow, future star I had a chance to spend a whole week in the Botanical Garden, eating the berries growing there.

- I started as a homeless person, and I continue, - the artist is sad. - Well, what should I do now, go live on the same bench? By the way, my first home in Moscow after the botanical garden was also on Leninsky Prospekt. I lived there together with the prostitute Tanka. At that time, I had already begun to sing in one institution for a bowl of soup, and I took it with me. She made money there. And I also fed her Pekingese dog when Tanya left for a long time. I remember how I thought: it is better to eat the carrot yourself or feed it to the dog.

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Biography, life story of Shura

Shura (real name - Medvedev Alexander Vladimirovich) is a Russian pop singer.

Childhood

Alexander Medvedev, aka Shura, was born in Novosibirsk on May 20, 1975. Raised by my mother and grandmother own father did not know. A little later, his younger brother Misha appeared. The guys were constantly fighting with each other. There were rumors that it was Misha who once knocked out Sasha's front teeth.

Shura was led to the difficult artistic path by her grandmother. She herself worked as a cook of the 6th category and had a very indirect relation to art: dressed in unthinkable outfits, she sang romances in front of the mirror. Once, when a cheerful granny put on a skirt hung with bottle caps, and appeared in this form in front of Shura, he got scared and hid in the bathroom. Judging by everything, grandmother's love for extravagant toilets was inherited by Shura.

Shura is a real gem. Music has never been studied. He took his universities at a local restaurant, where he sang from the age of 13.

creative way

At the end of the design courses in Riga, he came to Moscow and began to perform, at first mowing under a foreign star. The personal life of the singer is always shrouded in darkness. Since the appearance of this character on the Russian pop scene, a lot has been said about him. And not the most pleasant things. Paying tribute to his abilities, people who, by the will of fate, had to face him, unanimously stated: “Communicating with this person is incredibly difficult”.

It was 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 incarnation, the director, the actors, the weather... He expressed his indignation violently: he shouted, stamped his feet. In the St. Petersburg club Candyman (the clip was filmed in the northern capital) he found two transvestites, dragged them to the site, demanded to remove them and pay them $200.

In fact, communicating with a young star was not so scary, although it was really not easy. In life appearance, although very extraordinary, did not inspire fear for the health of others. Even the absence of teeth was not immediately evident. By the way, questions about teeth always unbalanced Sasha - so careful people tried not to ask them.

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In conversation, the young man was always moderately amiable, moderately impudent, moderately fibbed. He spoke about himself with pleasure. He was quite satisfied with his present, he had no doubts about his brilliant future. In general, as his acquaintances said then, he is clearly not in danger of dying from modesty.

Shura's first performance in Moscow 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, advised him during shopping trips. Gradually, Shura moved away from his former "extravagant operetta" image and tried on more elegant clothes. He stopped wearing crazy platform shoes, preferring stylish, insanely expensive shoes from well-known brands. But the young star claimed that at any moment she could change and dress up in 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. Already in next year the record Shura-2 went on sale. The success was amazing! Shura, inspired and confident in himself and his abilities, began to record singles, shoot videos and release albums with enviable constancy - to the delight of fans and the envy of enemies. His popularity grew every day, until one day Shura suddenly ... disappeared.

Difficult period

At one fine (or rather terrible) moment, Shura suddenly realized that his popularity could not be eternal. The singer felt, felt with his skin how the glory of success leaves him. Depression began, which Shura tried to cure with drugs. As a result, the strongest dependence and oncological disease, which was found on late stage development.

Fortunately, Shura changed his mind in time. The fear of death helped him understand what was really important. The artist moved complex operation, underwent a course of chemotherapy and was freed from drug addiction. Having got rid of his ailments, Shura firmly decided to return to the stage.

Return

In the late 2000s, she shone on the stage new star- Updated Shura. The outrageous boy turned into a brutal and charming man. Shura continued to record albums, shoot videos, began to appear frequently in various TV shows and even try his hand as a presenter. So, in the program "Musical Ring" on NTV, Shura led the column "Do good".

In 2015, Shura celebrated his jubilee - 20 years of fruitful creative activity.

Personal life

For a long time, the public was sure that Shura was gay. However, such an opinion was formed solely because of the extraordinary image of the artist. In May 2010, Shura introduced his fiancee Lisa, the promoter of the Opera club, to the public.

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The once insanely popular pop singer Shura (real name Alexander Vladimirovich Medvedev) has been trying to stay away from secular life. After Shura's career began to decline, the artist, exc...

Singer Shura. Photo: personal archive of Alexander Medvedev.

Alexander Medvedev, known under the pseudonym Shura, is a colorful figure. Incredible outfits, platform shoes and the absence of front teeth attract the public no less than vocal data. By the way, the singer has no musical education. The nugget passed his universities in restaurants, where he sang from the age of thirteen. Artistry Alexander inherited from his grandmother, who was of gypsy blood and amazingly performed romances. leafing through Family album, Shura spoke about how he got rid of addiction to drugs, defeated cancer and fascinated Patricia Kaas.

1. I am thirteen years old. In Moscow, I'm passing through - I'm going to Riga for design courses. We can say that I fell in love with Moscow from the first candy. When I was five years old, they gave me a box chocolates with the image of the Kremlin. I took her out into the yard, treated the guys. Then he cut off the cover with the picture and hung it over his bed. I said that I would definitely live in this city. And the dream came true.

2. The central park of the city of Novosibirsk, where I spent my childhood and youth. A very happy time. From the age of thirteen I sang in restaurants, earned money and drove the guys from my class to have fun in the park. We walked, rode the carousel, ate barbecue. I have never spared money for entertainment, for my relatives and friends.

3. This is me at the dacha of my good friend Natasha. I really like this place near Moscow. We often rest here, fry kebabs, make fish soup. Well, yes, I like to fool around. These lambs are outdoor ceramic sculptures. Do you think they are alive? Ha ha ha.

4. I am with my grandmother Vera Mikhailovna - the closest and most adored person to me. She always supported me, gave both her blessing and money for all my undertakings. Grandmother of gypsy blood and chic sang romances. She also had a skirt made of forty pieces, lined with bottle caps. When grandmother walked, the skirt rattled like a tambourine.

5. Shooting some TV program. I was a TV presenter. In total I had twelve different female images. As for Ksyusha Sobchak, we get along very well. For her birthday, she often orders a concert with my participation. I respect her, love her and say: "If I ever marry, then only to someone like Sobchak."

6. I'm in the Metelitsa club, I'm running my own program. This is my last bleaching blonde: even then my hair began to fall out little by little. I was diagnosed with cancer. I took what happened as normal. I dreamed prophetic dreams that, they say, you will jump if you don’t stop taking drugs. But it was hard to stop. The disease became an incentive to quit, leave the environment that sucked money out of me for drugs, and completely change my life.

7. My twenty-second birthday. We celebrate it in the Metelitsa club. My girls are with me good friends. They sang in some youth group. I can't remember the name now, it quickly faded away. I love my birthday. I always celebrate it on a grand scale, noisily, cheerfully and insanely expensive. Although I'm getting older and older.

8. I am in the image of Baba Yaga, I sing a song from the cartoon " flying ship", with me the backing vocals" Buranovskiye Babushki ". I had to go to the dentist that day and had my upper teeth removed. The director exclaimed: “Look at Shura: how he responsibly prepared for the role!” It was a funny number.

Alexander Medvedev, aka Shura, was born in Novosibirsk on May 20, 1975. A real gem. Music has never been studied. He took his universities at a local restaurant, where he sang from the age of 13. At the end of design courses in Riga, he came to Moscow and began to perform, at first "mowing" 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 not the most pleasant things. Paying tribute to his abilities, people who, by the will of fate, had to face him, unanimously stated: "It is incredibly difficult to communicate with this person."

It was 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 incarnation, the director, the actors, the weather... He expressed his indignation violently: he shouted, stamped 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 remove them and pay them $200.

In fact, communicating with a young star is not so scary, although it is really not easy. In life, the appearance, although very extraordinary, does not inspire fear for the health of others. Even the absence of teeth is not immediately evident. 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 lying. He talks about himself with pleasure. He is quite satisfied with his present, he has no doubts about his brilliant future. In general, he is clearly not in danger of dying of modesty - at least not in the near future.

Shura was led to the difficult artistic path by her grandmother - she herself worked as a cook of the 6th category and had a very indirect relation to art: dressed in unthinkable outfits, she sang romances in front of the mirror. Once, when a cheerful granny put on a skirt hung with bottle caps, and appeared in this form in front of Shura, he got scared and hid in the bathroom. Judging by everything, grandmother's love for extravagant toilets was inherited by Shura.

Shura's first performance in Moscow 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 since then. Alisher sews stage costumes for Sasha, consults during shopping trips. Now Shura is gradually moving away from the former "extravagant operetta" image and trying on more elegant clothes. He no longer wears crazy platform shoes, preferring stylish, insanely expensive shoes from well-known brands. But the young star claims that at any moment she can change and dress up in something completely crazy. “I can’t stay in the same image for a long time, it immediately becomes boring,” he says.