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 front of Shura in this form, 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.

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Biography

Its popularity peaked in the late 1990s. Gained fame due to the outrageous manner of performance and memorable appearance - the feature of the performer until some time was the absence of front teeth. Some songs (for example, “The summer rains have died down”, “Do good”, “Cold moon” and “You do not believe in tears”) have become the objects of numerous parodies.

Personal life

Despite the initial data about the singer's homosexuality, which he called part of his image, in May 2010 Shura introduced his fiancee Lisa to the public.

After the decline in popularity, Shura became a drug addict and fell ill with cancer. He went through chemotherapy, took drugs for drug addiction.

Awards and prizes

Albums, singles

The first two albums were recorded in collaboration with composer Pavel Yesenin, who also performed on them as a backing vocalist.

• - "Shura"
• - "Shura-2"
• - "Fairy Tale" (1 version exclusive single)
• - Official collection + 2 songs: "Fairy Tale" (version 2 "Heaven is for us"); "Treasure Land"
• - "Thank you second wind"
• - News
• - “Forbidden Love” (feat. Irina Berezhnaya) (original + remix single’s)
• - "New day"
• - "Heart beats" (single)
• - "Prayer" (single) (feat. Svetlana Surganova)
• - "Laughter and Tears" (single)
• - "Dreams" (single)
• - "Our Summer" (single)
• - "Heart is beating"
• - "Penguins" (single)

Video clips

• - "Cold Moon"
• - "You do not believe in tears" (concert)
• - "Summer rains are noisy"
• - "Do good"
• - "Make a Move" (Unreleased)
• - "Hello"
• - "Forbidden Love" feat. Irina Berezhnaya
• - "Balloons"
• - "Heart is beating"
• - "Prayer" feat. Surganova and Orchestra (Concert + Backstage)
• - "Laughter and Tears"
• - "Penguins"

Popular songs

• The summer rains have faded
• Don Don Don
• Are You Ready
• cold moon
• Eternity
• Zimushka winter
• You don't believe in tears
• Wounded powder
• day outside the window
• Story
• Treasured land
• do good
• But autumn just came
• Artist
• Make a step
• Please say hello
• old artist
• Cheeks
• Peace and good (Do good 2)
• Or or
• New day
• Balloons
• heart beats
• Laughter and tears
• Our summer
• penguins

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Natasha considered.
“Ah Sonya, if you knew him the way I do!” He said ... He asked me about how I promised Bolkonsky. He was glad that it was up to me to refuse him.
Sonya sighed sadly.
“But you didn’t refuse Bolkonsky,” she said.
“Maybe I didn’t!” Maybe it's all over with Bolkonsky. Why do you think so badly of me?
“I don’t think anything, I just don’t understand it ...
- Wait, Sonya, you will understand everything. See what kind of person he is. Don't think bad things about me or him.
“I don’t think bad things about anyone: I love everyone and feel sorry for everyone. But what am I to do?
Sonya did not give up on the gentle tone with which Natasha addressed her. The softer and more searching Natasha's expression was, the more serious and stern was Sonya's face.
“Natasha,” she said, “you asked me not to talk to you, I didn’t, now you yourself started. Natasha, I don't believe him. Why this secret?
- Again, again! Natasha interrupted.
- Natasha, I'm afraid for you.
- What to be afraid of?
“I am afraid that you will ruin yourself,” Sonya said decisively, herself frightened by what she said.
Natasha's face again expressed anger.
“And I will destroy, I will destroy, I will destroy myself as soon as possible. None of your business. Not to you, but to me it will be bad. Leave, leave me. I hate you.
- Natasha! Sonya called out in fear.
- I hate it, I hate it! And you are my enemy forever!
Natasha ran out of the room.
Natasha did not speak to Sonya anymore and avoided her. With the same expression of agitated surprise and criminality, she paced the rooms, taking up first this and then another occupation and immediately abandoning them.
No matter how hard it was for Sonya, she kept her eyes on her friend.
On the eve of the day on which the count was supposed to return, Sonya noticed that Natasha had been sitting all morning at the living room window, as if waiting for something and that she had made some kind of sign to the passing military man, whom Sonya mistook for Anatole.
Sonya began to observe her friend even more attentively and noticed that Natasha was in a strange and unnatural state all the time of dinner and evening (she answered inappropriately to questions put to her, began and did not finish phrases, laughed at everything).
After tea, Sonya saw a timid maid waiting for her at Natasha's door. She let it through, and, eavesdropping at the door, learned that the letter had again been handed over. And suddenly it became clear to Sonya that Natasha had some kind of terrible plan for this evening. Sonya knocked on her door. Natasha didn't let her in.
“She will run away with him! Sonya thought. She is capable of everything. To-day there was something particularly pathetic and resolute in her face. She burst into tears, saying goodbye to her uncle, Sonya recalled. Yes, that's right, she runs with him - but what should I do? thought Sonya, now recalling those signs that clearly proved why Natasha had some kind of terrible intention. "There is no count. What should I do, write to Kuragin, demanding an explanation from him? But who tells him to answer? Write to Pierre, as Prince Andrei asked in case of an accident? ... But maybe, in fact, she had already refused Bolkonsky (she sent a letter to Princess Marya yesterday). There are no uncles!” It seemed terrible to Sonya to tell Marya Dmitrievna, who believed so much in Natasha. But one way or another, Sonya thought, standing in a dark corridor: now or never the time has come to prove that I remember the good deeds of their family and love Nicolas. No, I won’t sleep for at least three nights, but I won’t leave this corridor and won’t let her in by force, and won’t let shame fall on their family, ”she thought.

Anatole recently moved to Dolokhov. The plan for kidnapping Rostova had already been thought out and prepared by Dolokhov for several days, and on the day when Sonya, having overheard Natasha at the door, decided to protect her, this plan was to be carried out. Natasha promised to go out to Kuragin on the back porch at ten o'clock in the evening. Kuragin was supposed to put her in a prepared troika and take her 60 miles from Moscow to the village of Kamenka, where a trimmed priest was prepared, who was supposed to marry them. In Kamenka, a set-up was ready, which was supposed to take them to the Varshavskaya road, and there they were supposed to ride abroad on postage.
Anatole had a passport, and a traveler's, and ten thousand money taken from his sister, and ten thousand borrowed through Dolokhov.
Two witnesses—Khvostikov, the former clerk whom Dolokhov and Makarin used to play, a retired hussar, a good-natured and weak man who had boundless love for Kuragin—were sitting in the first room at tea.
In Dolokhov's large office, decorated from wall to ceiling with Persian carpets, bearskins and weapons, Dolokhov sat in a traveling beshmet and boots in front of an open bureau, on which lay bills and wads of money. Anatole, in his unbuttoned uniform, walked from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the office to the back room, where his French footman and others were packing the last things. Dolokhov counted money and wrote it down.
“Well,” he said, “Khvostikov should be given two thousand.
- Well, let me, - said Anatole.
- Makarka (that's what they called Makarina), this one disinterestedly for you through fire and into water. Well, the scores are over, - said Dolokhov, showing him a note. - So?
“Yes, of course, that’s how it is,” said Anatole, apparently not listening to Dolokhov and with a smile that did not leave his face, looking ahead of him.
Dolokhov slammed the bureau shut and turned to Anatole with a mocking smile.
- And you know what - drop it all: there is still time! - he said.
- Fool! Anatole said. - Stop talking nonsense. If you only knew... The devil knows what it is!
“Damn right,” said Dolokhov. - I'm talking to you. Is this a joke you're up to?
- Well, again, teasing again? Went to hell! Huh?... – Anatole said with a frown. “The right is not up to your stupid jokes. And he left the room.
Dolokhov smiled contemptuously and condescendingly when Anatole left.
“Wait a minute,” he said after Anatole, “I’m not joking, I’m talking business, come, come here.
Anatole again entered the room and, trying to concentrate his attention, looked at Dolokhov, obviously involuntarily submitting to him.
- You listen to me, I'm telling you the last time. What should I joke with you? Did I cross you? Who arranged everything for you, who found the priest, who took the passport, who got the money? All I.
- Well, thank you. Do you think I'm not grateful to you? Anatole sighed and hugged Dolokhov.
- I helped you, but still I have to tell you the truth: the matter is dangerous and, if you take it apart, stupid. Well, you'll take her away, okay. Will they leave it like that? It turns out that you are married. After all, you will be brought to criminal court ...
– Ah! stupidity, stupidity! - Anatole spoke again, grimacing. “Because I told you. BUT? - And Anatole, with that special predilection (which stupid people have) for the conclusion that they reach with their own mind, repeated the reasoning that he repeated a hundred times to Dolokhov. “After all, I explained to you, I decided: if this marriage is invalid,” he said, bending his finger, “then I do not answer; Well, if it's real, it doesn't matter: no one abroad will know this, right? And don't talk, don't talk, don't talk!

He studied at a school with a musical bias, and also attended a music school, but he never graduated from it. He learned his musical and stage skills in practice, performing in one of the local restaurants from the age of 13.

Sasha's character and hobbies were greatly influenced by his own grandmother Vera Mikhailovna, who was of gypsy blood and owned the Rus restaurant in Novosibirsk.

After graduating from high school, Medvedev went to Riga, where he studied design courses. After their graduation, he moved to Moscow in the hope of conquering the capital. At first, he performed on small stages in various clubs, posing as a foreign performer.

His first serious performance in Moscow took place at the Manhattan Express club, where Shura met the stylist and fashion designer Alisher, who began to create unusual concert costumes for him, which became an integral part of his image for a long time.

The peak of Shura's popularity came in the late 1990s. Crowds of fans admired his songs and memorable appearance and image. Shura lisped, as he did not have front teeth and appeared in public in tight leggings and shoes on an excessively high platform.

His self-titled debut album Shura was released in 1997. In 1998, the second record Shura-2 saw the light. Both discs were recorded in collaboration with composer Pavel Yesenin.

The third album "Fairy Tale" was released in 1999. Two years later, the discs "Thank you for the second wind" and News were released. In 2011, Shura's next album, entitled "New Day", went on sale. Shura only appeared on screen in six music videos filmed for some of his popular songs.

The compositions "Summer rains have died down", "Do not believe in tears", "Cold moon" and "Do good" have become real folk hits. When the popularity of the extravagant performer, who knew all the delights of stellar life, including drugs, began to subside, the singer was diagnosed with cancer. He was saved with the help of treatment and operations.

In 2007 and 2008, the updated Shura appeared before the public, taking part in the show "You are a superstar!". The new image of the singer is no longer built on shocking.

Personal life

Not married. Has no children. For a long time, due to the extravagant stage image of Shura, it was believed that he was a homosexual. However, in 2010, he appeared in public in the company of his girlfriend Lisa.

Interesting Facts

Real name - Alexander Medvedev

His first two albums were recorded in collaboration with composer Pavel Yesenin, who also performed on them as a backing vocalist.

He survived cancer, during which he recovered to 140 kg.

At the age of nine, his mother gave him to an orphanage, where he lived for two years.

His grandmother was of gypsy blood

During the peak of his musical career, he used drugs

Discography

2000 - Tale (original exclusive single)

2000 - Collection + 2 songs

2001 - Thank you second wind

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 do not lose their popularity after two decades. The fate of the artist is filled with conflicting events. There were ups and downs in the music career. The singer had to endure cancer, again to achieve success on stage. Today, there is less outrageousness in the life of a man, but he still makes music, participates in entertainment programs.

Shura's biography

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 for unusual outfits and vocals. Sasha's childhood was not joyful. Little attention was paid to him, and at the age of 9 he was sent to a boarding school. After some time, the boy was taken to her grandmother. Shura has a difficult relationship with his family. The artist does not communicate with either his mother or his 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 a shocking look. Then he decided to try his hand at Moscow. The debut in the capital took place in the Manhattan Express club. The love of shocking again rescued the novice artist. There he was noticed by fashion designer Alisher, who agreed to sew stage costumes for Shura.

Unusual appearance, original manner of performance, which was explained by the absence of teeth, contributed to the growth of the popularity of the 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, participated in the Song of the Year. in the 2000s, Shura suddenly disappeared from TV screens. The reason was drug addiction and cancer in an advanced stage. 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".

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Shura's personal life

Many people spoke about Shura as an artist of non-traditional orientation. The singer strongly supported the rumors about his homosexuality, but later admitted that it was nothing more than a PR move to attract more attention to his person. In 2010, the man came out with his girlfriend Elizabeth. According to Shura, he has been living with a girl in a civil marriage for a long time, 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 baby. Shura himself does not comment on the rumors.