Sergey Voronov: “I was drawn into a sober life. Musician Sergey Voronov: "Sometimes I raise my head up and say thank you!" What are you working on now

Vegetable growing - 30.11.2020

One of the most popular and sought-after blues guitarists in the country, Sergei Voronov, celebrates his 55th birthday on November 15th. A concert dedicated to this with the participation of the star friends of the musician will take place two days later in the capital's Jagger club. Before the event, the Izvestia columnist spoke with Voronov.

- Celebrating the anniversary, you limited yourself to a relatively chamber event. Why?

I do not like pathos, for the sake of which you need to assemble a large hall, deal with a bunch of organizational issues, prepare for six months. We already did this when we celebrated the 25th anniversary of CrossroadZ. Everything was serious there. And now I was overcome by doubts for a long time: to celebrate, not to celebrate? Therefore, I took up the anniversary concert only a month and a half ago. A well-known club was found, accommodating about half a thousand people. It's cozy, good stage, sound.

- Which artist will join you on stage?

I invited those who have been close to me for many years. Garik, Mazay... We walk side by side through life from our youth. And with Kolya Arutyunov, they started the Blues League together back in 1979.

There will also be Gia Dzagnidze - my good friend and wonderful guitarist, Dima Tactics, DJ, with whom we have a joint project Mean Barbados. We make music that is completely different from what you are used to hearing in my performance. Of course, you always want to see Keith Richards at your birthday party. But his phone number has changed, and now I can't get through to him. (laughs).

Reunions of historical lineups famous bands- an almost win-win reception in the concert business. Didn't you and Arutyunov think for the sake of some date to collect the former "League of Blues"?

It depends on Kolya. I was in the band in the early stages and had a brief comeback in the 1980s. Then Arutyunov and I broke up again, and since then he has been involved in LB, and I have been involved in my CrossroadZ team. So now it's his business. If he wants to assemble that "League of Blues" - I will be happy to participate in it.

While you are participating in the recreated Garik "Brigade C". In addition to the commercial component, is there anything that attracts you to this project?

Certainly. Now the "brigade's" hits have begun to sound more powerful, more intelligible. I'm thrilled. I think the public likes what we do. A number of concerts have already taken place in major Russian cities. We recently traveled through the Baltic countries, and everywhere the “Brigade S” was greeted with enthusiasm.

- Is it easy for you to move from the blues environment to what the "Brigade" performs? It's not the same thing, is it?

Absolutely not the same thing. But in the old days, I collaborated with the Brigade more than once, and recorded something with them in the studio. So for me, this is not someone else's material. Besides, there are people there. In working with them, everything is clear, nothing special needs to be explained. I feel good.

- You did not plan to write a book about the Moscow blues scene or make a movie about the history of a tenacious clubb.b.king,Where did you once work as an art director?

I am a slow person. I have a lot of ideas, but it’s hard for me to force myself to sit down and purposefully write something. Although I write some separate notes. They are hoarding. Maybe someday they'll make a book or a screenplay. But so far there is no such goal, no time. I have CrossroadZ and now also a new group The Lunar Brothers. From time to time I play in the Homeless Trio project and in the C Brigade. Enough to do.

Most recently, you were at the 65th anniversary of Stas Namin, in the center of which you actually began your professional career. In the late 1980s, he did not plan to create another “export” group around you, like Gorky Park, only in a slightly different genre?

This was not discussed, because I myself wanted to do my own work. Stas and I still have good relations - probably because we ended our cooperation on time. It is difficult to work with him. And I had a feeling that I'd better go my own way. And the example of Gorky Park did not incite me. I had no such aspirations at all. The main thing is to remain independent and do what you see fit.

I didn't want to be under someone. I visited the group of Stas Namin, where he was the artistic director, and after that I immediately gathered people close to me in spirit and made my own team. And the last thing I thought about was whether it would be successful or not. I just wanted to play my own music.

It is believed that Russian groups with an English-language repertoire on the domestic market are doomed to a modest existence. You had some quite solid and successful things in Russian. Do you think to try this move again?

Sometimes I try. I did not have a special task - to sing in English. It so happened. I grew up in Berlin and, in addition to German, I listened to a lot of English-language music, which I liked. It turned out that writing in English is easier for me. And I'm not very good at Russian. Here in our most popular Russian-language song “How much you can endure”, I came up with only the chorus, and Garik helped me with the rest. Now I again have a few songs in Russian. They are at work. I'm giving it to some of my friends to listen to. Maybe this material will form the basis of the new album. I admit that it will not be CrossroadZ, but my solo project.

If you are asked today to compare the current state of the domestic music market with what it was a quarter of a century ago, what phrase would you start with?

Then everything began to shrink. The guys-producers realized that it was necessary to “fill in places”, divide spheres of influence and collect money. When they, in addition to the concert business, switched to radio and TV, there was no blues there. free, interesting musical programms closed one after another. Things got pretty sad in the media space for live, honest music. And now we have what we have. Now there is also something positive, despite the fact that life, in a sense, has become tougher. Therefore, it is necessary to compare with the proper degree of conventionality. But keep in mind that I don’t remember half of what happened to me and around me then, because I drank a lot (smiles).

- Aren't you going to have a drink on your 55th birthday after a long break?

No. A sober life has taken me. More precisely, she is quite drunk and without alcohol. (smiles). But now I record as much music as I never did in those years. My friendship with alcohol turned out to be bloody, very difficult.

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Sergey Voronov started musical career from performances in amateur groups. In 1979, together with Nikolai Arutyunov, he organized the Blues League. Since 1981 he has been playing in the Gallery group, since 1986 in the Stas Namin group. In 1990 creates a group CrossroadZ . Together with Garik Sukachev, Voronov stood at the origins of the Untouchables project. The musician also participated in the recording of the albums "Brigade C", "Alice", "Chayfa", "Kalinovy Most", etc.

This year, Sergey Voronov and his group CrossroadZ celebrate the quarter-century anniversary of the team's existence. Crossroadz is one of the country's most famous rhythm and blues bands, although they are, to put it mildly, not indulged in the attention of TV and radio. However, they cannot complain about the lack of attention.

It seems that for Voronov and his team a hundred people in a small club are much more important than several thousand with plastic beer glasses in a stadium. 25 years in the rhythm of rock and rhythm and blues for CrossroadZ passed successfully, exactly in the rhythm of their own music. Several albums, unchanged composition, wives, children and faith in what you are doing - how much more is needed? On May 21, an anniversary concert will be played at the Izvestia Hall club CrossroadZ.

The day before, the M24.ru correspondent talked with Sergey about childhood abroad, Mark Bernes and Jimi Hendrix, sex, drinking, and a little bit about the blues.

– You are a performer of American music, born in the USSR, but was quickly abandoned in the GDR. Do you have memories of those times, did you easily endure parting with your homeland?

- From birth to the age of six, I lived on Gorky Street, 54. Music always sounded at our house. Mom loved Aznavour, Gilbert Biko, Milva, Mark Bernes. It was a perfectly healthy mix. My parents were very sociable people, and there were often gatherings at home. Father at that time was the editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda (the youngest in the history of the newspaper. - A.P.). By the way, at that time a very kind and positive person worked in this newspaper, Uncle Vasya Peskov, the creator of the program "In the Animal World". In 1968, my father left for Berlin as a special correspondent, and then my mother, my brother, and Valya moved there. Parting with the motherland? I didn’t worry about him, but I left with my family.

- It is interesting, probably, it was, although socialist, but abroad?

- Impressions from the first day were terrible! I remember that on the day of our arrival there was no light and no food, except for salads in plastic jars, and for the first time I tried the typical German salad - herring with vinegar in mayonnaise, and potato salad. Then, however, life improved - light appeared, food too.

- Probably, what you saw when you came home for the holidays was a little discouraging?

- You know, it's strange, but for 10 years of living in Germany, I was in the Union three times at most. In Germany, pioneer and Komsomol camps were located in the most picturesque places of Saxon Switzerland, in the mountains not far from Dresden, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt, and they preferred to send us there. Guys from the Soviet-German uranium mining enterprise Wismuth, which owned these camps, came there. I was not very interested in all this, but my older brother was the opposite. He knew what the KGB apparatus in Karlsholrst was like.

– Often older brothers and sisters become the first guides of the younger ones in the world of music. There are many examples - from David Bowie to Mike Naumenko.

This is not my situation! When I started listening to rock and roll, my brother Valentin was into collecting diplomatic numbers. He had a file of car numbers, and he clearly defined which car belonged to the trade representative, which one belonged to the military mission. Then he began to study the history of the Second World War and military intelligence. Later, in 1984, my friends and I were imprisoned for ten days, but my brother already then had some acquaintances and connections in various instances, and I was released earlier.

Do you remember your first impressions of rock and roll?

– We lived in Karlshorst, where the 105th tank brigade was based (which, as my brother later explained to me, was there to protect the KGB headquarters), West Berlin radio stations were excellent, where there was a lot of music. Then I saw Jimi Hendrix perform on West German TV. I didn’t have records, but I had my father’s old journalistic recorder, and being a complete sucker in technology, I recorded my first cassette through a microphone from the speakers. I still have it, I need to find it and glue the film with nail polish. Recorded on it, it seems, T.Rex and Bob Dylan.

- Probably, then you also got your first guitar?

- She came to me in the sixth grade, and the guitar was made by the Shikhov factory! Aunt Masha brought it to me, because apparently I did not ask her parents too actively. One of the strange features of our family - the family was so hospitable that we constantly had guests on the weekends - artists of the Tovstonogov theater, Tagankovites, Moscow Art Theater students, Boris Polevoy, Rasul Gamzatov. And we always had a table set. I suppose that my parents simply did not have the money for a German guitar and for sending me on vacation to Moscow. They used this money for good mood and friends. We never had a personal car, a summer residence. My parents are an example of honesty, disinterestedness, selflessness and sincerity for me. Nobody forbade me anything. One day, my mother found a pack of Gader's Cabinet cigarettes in my brother's pocket, she forbade him to smoke this shit and gave him a pack of Marlboro. They lived right, and I inherited it.

- So, the first chords were shown to you by senior comrades?

- In the House of Officers there was such an over-conscript soldier Misha Polonsky. He knew the notes and tried to teach them to me. It was unbearably boring. At some stage, he just took and wrote the chords for me, and then enlightened me about the relationship between a man and a woman. As much as a twenty-year-old over-enlisted soldier with the right vocabulary can do.

- The Germans turned out to be girls in your taste?

- The Germans are very liberated girls, it has always been, is and will be. In the GDR, in principle, there was no hypocrisy! No one was outraged when they saw a couple kissing on the street. And it helped me a lot in further communication with women. A passport was issued there at the age of 14, and condoms were quietly sold to boys, and contraceptive pills were prescribed to girls. This is in the country of victorious socialism! These were the realities in which I grew up. When I returned, it was strange for me to observe that this was some kind of taboo topic. Now, as you can see, things are coming to this again. This hypocrisy is terrible! Which smells really bad.

- It's time to return to Moscow, and here you willy-nilly had to get used to something atypical. How do you remember this moment now?

- It was comparable to the feeling that a grown tree was suddenly uprooted and transplanted into another soil. However, as I now understand, I adapt quite quickly in general. So it was, though not without difficulty, and with Soviet beer. Friends took me to the "Pit" on Pushkin Street (Bolshaya Dmitrovka), and there I began to get used to shrimp with our beer. In Germany, fish and beer were not connected in any way. In general, I am a cheerful person, and it was enough for me that there were a lot of my friends around, with whom I feel good. We listened to the music we wanted, we always did what we liked, there was no money - we handed over bottles.

- Here you graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages and began to sing blues in a foreign language.

– Thanks to my best friend Sergei Mnatskanov, I met Kolya Arutyunov. It happened while visiting my other best friend (I have several best friends) Sergo Grigoryan. We decided to play the blues, but later it turned out that we looked at it differently. I loved Muddy Waters and everything about him. IN last years while in Berlin I listened to a lot of black and white blues and assumed that we would play standards and something close to The Rolling Stones. Kolya wanted to play a little different - so we broke up. Well, a few years later I was lucky enough to meet Misha Savkin, Andrey Butuzov and Sasha Toropkin, and everything went in the right direction. Earning money was not an end in itself for us, and crowds of girls were not the meaning of existence. There were no problems with this either. It is important that we have been together for 25 years, and that we are a family.

– It seemed very strange to me that CrossroadZ, a group performing music, if not elite, then certainly requiring certain training, was accepted by club Moscow rather quickly.

– Before perestroika, the country sat in the kitchen, and then went out into the living room and became part of the global process. I understood this very well when in 1986-1988 we traveled with Stas Namin around the world and we were met as the most progressive people in the world. We started a club movement. At the beginning of the program there was a concert[, then a "disco". One of the first to open was BB King, followed by Manhattan Express, then Soho and Pilot, Armadillo. Many people in the 1990s thought that when I sang songs in English, I was guided by the West. They didn't understand that I was brought up in an Anglo-American and German-speaking culture! We didn't have the original idea to be like someone else. Once I heard Brown Sugar and immediately understood that it was mine without understanding the lyrics. It was a natural process for me.

“There were always a lot of girls and booze around you. But the rock 'n' roll lifestyle probably didn't mean waking up to the same one every morning, and sober, too?

- I really sometimes made friends with alcohol more than with women. I had a close relationship with him. I must say that I periodically raise my head up and say "thank you!" Somewhere up there, there are guys who help in life. By the way, the secret that I feel like I'm 25 years old is that I don't remember half of my life! All mine ex-wives are my closest relatives and I love them all.

- Does your current stage stand out in some way from all yours - different, but invariably beloved?

- I have a wonderful wife Alena. I play better, I sing better. I can move for two hours on stage and I can stay up. I want to play more often. In recent years, I began to think! (laughs) Exactly! I used to just fly through life, get high. Now we need to do more, there is less time left.

- In what way have you, after all, achieved a certain harmony, your personal buzz?

- Many people perceive the blues as a musical movement, and this is a sense of the world. There are much more virtuoso musicians than me, but many of them have nothing to do with music. I don't have idols. There are people whom I love, respect, with whom I was lucky to play in this life. And, of course, the ones around. In general, everyone sees what he has a soul for. Someone sees enemies around, and I see friends.

Blitz questionnaire

Favorite writer and literary hero

- If you choose between writers, then this is not an easy question. They, like artists, are different, and that's the beauty of it. This is Bukowski and Nabokov. Although I remember reading John Steinbeck in the original, and, you can say, fell in love with Danny from Tortilla Flat. It wasn't until years later that I found out that the book was from 1935!

Favorite movie and actor

- It's not easier with actors! I love cinema since childhood, and I watched a bunch of films, all the classics of westerns, horrors, excellent Soviet comedies and Bergman and Fassbinder until 1978. Yes, and then did not lag behind. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of my favorites. Actors? Bridges and Lyubshin.

Drink

There was whiskey, now coffee with milk.

Food. Kitchen

- With food like this: I was lucky enough to travel half the world, and I like all the culinary features. Gallic octopus, if you choose. But - it is in Catalonia.

car model

- "Mercedes" coupe 450 SEL.

Hours

“My Moser, 1929.

Chronicle of an interview with Sergei Voronov or how it happened

It was long, long, long. Then even longer, longer, longer. Finally, something began to emerge, but rather absurd. But does the reality of the absurd exist? Kafka wrote about this in the affirmative. In this chaos created in social network, I dreamed of something real, valuable and interesting. So what, that this is not quite a dialogue, but two voices stray into two monologues? Sergei Voronov was able to express himself in some of his answers, to sound embodied. And for a guitarist (and for a person too) ... Sound. Well, you yourself understand.

Do not try (at times) to look for meaning, logic and chronology are torn. Let it ride. Go!

Sergey, what impressed me most about you - style, taste - in music, image. Is it developed or shall we say innate already?

My paternal grandmother was an artist (although I don’t remember her), my father was a poet (and a journalist), my mother had an excellent ear, and everything was ok with taste. Well, besides that, I grew up in Berlin, where the music on the radio and TV sounded in real time - so it was easier for me to navigate

- Is the mustache a message to Art? There is something in you from Salvatore... or is it a coincidence?

My whole life consists of "coincidences" - many people call the chain of these "accidents" fate. But all this is not a thoughtful image, but it happened

You are perhaps the only orthodox blues musician in this country. There is something amazing in this - nevertheless, the blues on Russian soil takes root with difficulty. Why blues?

I am not a true blues musician, I like to go in different directions, although you can smell blues roots in the basis of my music.

- Can you be a little more specific then? And about directions as well.

I got into the blues through Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, etc. I mean, I heard them before Muddy Waters.

Yeah. Does experience with Namin count? There, as far as I remember, there was a rich experience of joint tours with Western artists.

Then, when one of my teachers, Roman Runovicz, gave me a Waters record, the mosaic took shape. It was in 1977.

What about Keith Richards? Was there an impact?

By the time I joined the Stas Namin Group, I was a guitarist who had formed in my preferences. But it was in Flowers that I gained the experience of playing professionally in a group.

Keith Richards was one of the main figures of rock and roll for me long before we met. And - outwardly - including.

1977 OK - and before Namin - the Blues League - let's talk about this project, if you don't mind? Is this your first project on the then Soviet stage? (you will need to "dig up" your early photos - compare with Richards).

In 1979, we met Kolya Arutyunov and began to rehearse and play together. This was the start of what would become the Blues League. We broke up in the 80s.

- If you restore the correct chronology then was the Gallery group?

And they recreated the group in the 87th. A Gallery - 81-83 years.

After which is the Namin group, from which you left to revive the League, and we are approaching the era of CrossroadZ www.thecrossroadz.ru/? About which we will talk for a long time and separately.

In 1987, I was ready to create my own group, based on the Stas Namin Center.

- Did something go wrong?

By another "coincidence" Kolya Arutyunov just parted ways with his musicians. And we, having drunk a bottle of vodka, decided to renew our cooperation. I called my colleagues in Flowers Sasha Solich (bass - now the Moral Code), Sergey Grigoryan (drums). Grigoryan was later replaced by Yura Rogozhin. In the autumn of 1988, our struggle of intellects with Kolya led to my leaving the League. And just then a historic (for me) meeting with Richards took place.

- Sergei, here you go. Then Keith appeared, and how was it?

Think. I told this story a hundred times (smiles).

- After all, you wrote his solo album - in the sense - participated in this "mystery".

Already somehow indecent.

- Well, encore!

- (laughs) Ok.

I can't help but ask about high-profile projects in which you participated later - well, let's outline them - they were too beautiful.

Steve Jordan introduced me to him. It was in New York.I didn’t quite understand about beautiful projects.

It was I who jumped over to Brigade-S, SW, then the Untouchables ... But if you don’t repeat about Richards before that, it’s great. Then about beautiful projects. And to the main thing to CrossroadZ. The projects were great, maybe I forgot about someone else?

In general, acquaintance with Kesha (Keith Richards), and three nights in the studio gave me such a boost of energy and self-confidence that, having arrived home, I began to write songs

Then it became clear that the story was retold by our hero a thousand times and in order not to tire him once again - that's what Sergey Voronov said about Richards in 1995 - Ogonyok magazine www.thecrossroadz.ru/press.php

- And the Ravens and CrossroadZ page opened?

I made five pieces by the year 89, and when I went to the studio with Garik to work on his solo album Nonsense, I recorded four of them at the same time. Kuzin played drums, Murtuzaev and Solich played bass. Then he went on tour with Garik - he played his things with his line-up in the first part. Later, he also collaborated with the SV group.I remember the compliments - about the cool backing vocalists in Diamond Rain (in the studio). But then I sang all the backs myself (smiles).

HAHA. There were no vocalists! OK, how was CrossroadZ born? But I want to ask you about one musician from another band - Anatoly Krupnov. Time is running. The figure is bright. I would like to remember him.

Of course, it was time to think about your group. I started searching. Sasha Butuzov-Fagot, poet, lyricist, including for SV, suggested his cousin Andrey as a bass player. I gave him a cassette with my records. He listened to it, and called back - he was full of enthusiasm, praised, and agreed immediately. Further, at Garik's base in the Stas Namin Center, there was again an audition for drummers. There were three of them. Sasha Toropkin turned out to be the most correct - before that he managed to play with Borey Bulkin. We started rehearsing in March '90. A little later, Misha Savkin joined us, who recently turned 60!

- WOW! And how did the first album come about?

So I continued to make songs.

- And the band rumbled in the expanses of the Fatherland. And why by the way in English mostly texts?

At rehearsals, something was born or completed.

- This is in 1993, I'm not confusing, did the Parisian record come out?

At the expense of the language. I have a standard (now already) answer: for me, language, text is the same tool that I own. I have it (in music, in particular) English. A huge amount of music that I listened to, and 5 years of In "Yaza, also bore fruit

- It's logical...

I immediately began to write in English. There are things in Russian and German. Yes, in 1992 I went to Paris to sign an agreement. Then we came with the group in the autumn and gave a few concerts.

There are 6 records in the band's discography, don't you confuse? The first one - rammed the listeners - I remember the Diamond Rain clip in MuzLift and MuzOboz, it was playing somewhere else.

And the clip - and music - all this was knocked out both from pop music and from the primacy of Russian rock. In '93, Between was released. And the Diamond Rain hit played for a long time on French radio stations.

- Which is not surprising - the thing is on the level.

The video was filmed in 1991. Misha Khleborodov and Misha Mukasey.

Slightly away from the next issues. Sergey, are you still open to the world - do you meet, are you in contact? Looking for (more important)?

I have a sin - I love people (smiles).

- Is it a sin?

As for the search, then there is such a thing - if you are not lazy, you can do a lot of things: draw, photograph. I used to draw more. I'm filming now...

Your photo-experiences in you showed a deep philosopher, a very subtle lyricist and a person with a great sense of humor.

It's probably not quite right to say that I'm a musician.Without a sense of humor, I would not have lived to this day (laughs).

- Sharman.

Well, 25 years of the band next year.

Three questions:

Sergey, do you think about the essence of creativity and talent in general? Well, this is an almost Hamlet-level question, it seems to me - every artist sooner or later faces it - trying to understand the origins and movement (or something) of his talent.

- And what are the interests of Sergei Voronov in life?

- What are you working on now?

And I can't resist - another one:

Is it easy to be a musician? After all, you not only need to surprise, but also surprise yourself, enjoy each new work ...

I re-read our part, which was done - there is a fair amount of creative absurdity. It turns out very cool - and if we finish it, there will be a thing in general.

Can we continue a little? A? Well, at least with these questions for now.

Yes, later today.

- Can four questions be mastered in the evening, or a busy schedule?

Concert today. Tomorrow (smiles).

About donation. I guess, that talented artists(in a broad sense) - not quite earthly people. More like galactic. They feel thinner and see more. Plus - they are able to transmit it. Sometimes it is so that "mere mortals" are not always clear about their intention. And from here, from misunderstanding, the question arises: what did the artist want to say? Art does not need to be understood, it can only be felt.

In life, my interests boil down to love. I love to love, compose and play music, take pictures, travel, cook, make laugh. And yes, I love people.

What am I working on? I make music. And I'm getting ready for the 25th anniversary of the Crossroadz.

I love to play on stage. I enjoy it. If this changes, I will not be dragged onto the stage.

And there is nothing (I think) to add. A curtain!

Recorded by Alexey Shulgin

1979
Start creative activity Sergei Voronov - the first joint project with musician Nikolai Arutyunov.

1981
Sergey Voronov plays with the Gallery group.

1986
Sergei Voronov is a member of the legendary Stas Namin Group (Flowers) and tours the United States (Soviet-American project Peace Child) and Japan, participates in joint concerts and jam sessions with Peter Gabriel, Little Steven and Lou Reed.
1987
Tours in Holland and Germany. Sergei Voronov leaves the "Flowers" and recreates the "League of Blues" with Nikolai Arutyunov.

1988
Sergei Voronov and the League of Blues are touring in Sweden, Colombia and Peru. In the summer of 1988, during a tour in New York, the famous session drummer Steve Jordan (Blues Brothers Band, Bob Dylan, Little Steven, James Tailor) introduced Sergey Voronov to Keith Richards, guitarist of the Rolling Stones. Sergei Voronov takes part in the recording of his solo album Talk Is Cheap and takes Richards' gift - a 1959 Fender Stratocaster guitar - to Russia.

1989
After leaving the League of Blues group, Sergey Voronov continues to work as a session musician. He tours with the groups "Brigada S" and "SV", together with Garik Sukachev, he records his first solo album "Nonsense".

1990
In April 1990, Sergei Voronov created the Crossroads group. It consists of bass player Andrey Butuzov (ex-Cocktail, Alexander Nevsky), guitarist Mikhail Savkin (ex-League of Blues, Silver Ruble) and drummer Alexander Toropkin (ex-Freestyle) . Sergey Voronov names his group "Crossroads" in honor of the composition of the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson "Crossroad Blues". The repertoire of the group performing "hard" blues, rhythm and blues and rock and roll includes songs by Sergei Voronov, as well as cover versions of songs by Willie Dixon, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Rolling Stones and so on. The first public performance of the Crossroads takes place at the Hammer and Sickle Palace of Culture. In 1990 Sergey Voronov recorded his first hit Diamond Rain.

1991
The Crossroads are taking part in the unprecedented Rock Against Terror campaign. This year the group performs with concerts in Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

1992
"Crossroads" The group becomes the headliner of the Moscow festival "Blues in Russia", named after one of the compositions of the "Crossroads" Blues Lives in Russia. After the festival, a vinyl compilation of the same name is released. The domestic press calls Sergei Voronov "bluesman No. 1 in the CIS." In 1992, the group participated in the Rock from the Kremlin festival, the first official rock music festival. In July 1992, the Crossroads group went on tour in France (Paris, Cap d'Ag, Troyes).

1993
In Paris, the first CD "Crossroads" Between (in the Russian version - "Between ...") is released on the Trema recording company. The single Diamond Rain occupies a leading position in the French charts. In 1993, the Crossroads group was invited to take part in the Tallinn Rock Summer festival along with Faith No More, Procol Harum and New Model Army.

1994
With the development of the club business, "Crossroads" begin an active concert activity. Also in 1994, Sergei Voronov headed the jury of the Generation-94 music competition, became the art director of the first B.B. King blues bar in Moscow. Here, the Crossroads arrange a jam session with Big Brother & The Holding Company - the band of the legendary Janis Joplin, and also play for the "king of the blues" BB King in the club of the same name.
In Russia, the CD "Crossroads" "Between ...", released by the recording company SNC, is released. "Crossroads" give several concerts in the city of Bischofswerda (Germany), open concerts of Glen Hughes (Deep Purple) in Moscow and Nazareth in St. Petersburg.

1996
In the summer of 1996, the Crossroads group was invited to open a concert by ZZ Top in Moscow's Gorky Park. In December 1996, Sergei Voronov traveled to the USA to attend the opening of the Chicago House of Blues, where he took part in a concert with the famous Blues Brothers (CD Life From Chicago's House Of Blues, 1997).

1997
"Crossroads" present a new program and start another club tour. Among the joint projects with Western "stars" is a jam session with the Motorhead group at the Chesterfield Club. In December 1997, Sergei Voronov traveled to New York, where he met the famous bass player Noel Redding, a member of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Their joint concert takes place at the New York club Manny's Carwash.

1998
As part of the Living Collection series, the band's live disc is released, and at the end of the year, Crossroads releases the Iron Blues CD, which includes cover versions of famous blues compositions.

1999
At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture of China, the Crossroads are going on a month and a half tour of China, where they give 23 concerts, including with the "father of Chinese rock" Xu Jian. Upon returning to Moscow, the musicians hold a series of club performances "Crossroads: China Tour".

2000
The fourth disc of Crossroads Salado is released. The group is rehearsing a new program and is preparing to release a Russian-language disc. March 31, 2000 Voronov takes part in a concert in memory of Anatoly Krupnov at the Olimpiysky c / c.
The most important event of 2000 is the 10th anniversary of the group in the D / K Gorbunov on May 27, 2000. With the participation of Sukachev, Sklyar, Arutyunov and Zinchuk.

2001
The spring of 2001 was marked by a hugely successful CROSSROADZ concert at the Moscow Palace of Youth (1500 spectators), followed by a tour of Ukraine. Later that year, the group began work on a biographical documentary, which was produced by Andrey Stankevich. In the summer of 2001 CROSSROADZ recorded three singles in Russian. The opening of the group's website www.crossroadz.ru soon followed.

2002
This year the group rehearsed new material, performed in clubs in various cities and played at four summer bike shows: in Kaunas, Krasnodar, Yegorievsk and, of course, in Moscow. Later that summer, CROSSROADZ played three shows with Barry "The Fish" Melton (Country Joe And The Fish) during his tour of Russia. CROSSROADZ performed live on Russia's largest music channel, MuzTV, as well as on Daryal TV. The song "In The Morning" entered the rotation of "Open Radio" - the number one rock station in Moscow.

2003
In the spring, the group plays Okudzhava's songs in blues arrangement on international festival in Krakow. The Live Collection DVD from the 1998 Crossroads television concert is released (the first DVD by a domestic blues team). During his visit to Moscow in autumn, W.C.Clark jams with Crossroads at the B.B.King club. At the end of the year, Voronov and Butuzov are invited to record songs by V. Vysotsky in order to give blues sound to the imperishable works.

2004
In the spring in the Orange club, under the creative direction of Sergey Voronov, Voronnights are held with the participation of the best representatives of our blues, jazz, soul. June 26 - the 10th anniversary of the B.B. King club in Lefortovo. In July Crossroads take part in the international festival in Douarnenez (France). From September 27 to October 2, the group gives three concerts in England.

2005
Year of the 15th anniversary of the group. On May 27, the largest Moscow club "Apelsin" hosted the anniversary concert of CROSSROADZ with the participation of A. Makarevich, A. F. Sklyar, N. Arutyunov, D. Chetvergov and G. Dzagnidze.
The world saw the album "15: 0. The Best Of The Crossroadz".

2006
At the end of May the band plays 3 shows in London. Woodstock legend Barry "The Fish" Melton is a special guest at Crossroadz.
Live concert in the "Born in the USSR" program on NTV+, a music show on the Rambler TV channel, participation in the Harley Davidson festival, in Moscow Fashion Week.

1979

1981

1986
Sergey Voronov is a member of the legendary "Stas Namin Group" ("Flowers") and tours in the USA (Soviet-American project Peace Child) and Japan, participates in joint concerts and jam sessions with Peter Gabriel, Little Stephen ... Read all

1979
The beginning of the creative activity of Sergei Voronov is the first joint project with musician Nikolai Arutyunov.

1981
Sergey Voronov plays with the Gallery group.

1991
The Crossroads are taking part in the unprecedented Rock Against Terror campaign. This year the group performs with concerts in Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

2001
The spring of 2001 was marked by a hugely successful CROSSROADZ concert at the Moscow Palace of Youth (1500 spectators), followed by a tour of Ukraine. Later this year, the group began work on a biographical documentary produced by Andrey Stankevich. In the summer of 2001 CROSSROADZ recorded three singles in Russian. The opening of the band's website soon followed.

2003
In the spring, the band plays Okudzhava's songs in blues at the international festival in Krakow. The Live Collection DVD from the 1998 Crossroads television concert is released (the first DVD by a domestic blues team). During his visit to Moscow in autumn, W.C.Clark jams with Crossroads at the B.B.King club. At the end of the year, Voronov and Butuzov are invited to record songs by V. Vysotsky in order to give blues sound to the imperishable works.

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