Lukyanov, Alexander Gavrilovich

Alexander Lukyanov was born in the city of Stanislav (Ukraine) and raised in Syzran .

In the fifth grade he became interested in rock and roll . Created a school group. I myself learned to play the guitar. He experimented with recording on a portable tape recorder, laying out famous songs on guitar parts and recording them in stages, by the method of multiple overdubbing.

Unable to get a professional musical education, after leaving school he left for Moscow, where his older sister studied at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute . According to her instruction, he entered the MPEI, the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, specializing in Semiconductor Devices ^[1] .

In his first year, he created his own rock band, but soon transferred to the main staff of the Harmony institute ensemble. As part of the ensemble, he toured extensively throughout the USSR and the world ( Angola , Cuba , Bulgaria , Germany , etc.). At the end of the institute, he entered graduate school , but, without completing his dissertation, he applied for resignation.

He got a job as a musician in the House of Culture of the Hammer and Sickle Metallurgical Plant, where he worked for five years.

For several years he worked as a musician in restaurants, at the same time wrote music. Having recorded the tape, he showed the material to Igor Matvienko , who introduced Lukyanov to Leonid Derbenev . According to the composer himself, this meeting was the end of his solo career.

Wife Irina, daughter Catherine and granddaughters Dasha and Ulyana Lukyanova.

Having co-authored with Derbenev the song “Summer is not winter”, performing it at the festival “ Song of the Year 89 ” and making the video, Lukyanov stops singing for a while. At the poet’s insistence, he offers the hit “Summer is not Winter” by the already popular singer Masha Rasputina at that time. Together they create most of the songs for the albums Urban Crazy and I Was Born in Siberia .

At the same time, the composer gets acquainted with Philip Kirkorov, who also performs the song “Summer is not winter”, and also agrees with Lukyanov to create new songs.

Alexander Lukyanov created 30 songs for Rasputina and more than 20 for Kirkorov. The total number of songs created by the composer exceeds 500 tracks.

Lukyanov released two solo albums:

• "Crazy"
• "Snow falls"

• Masha Rasputina (“I was born in Siberia”, “Let me go to the Himalayas”, “On a white Mercedes”, “Summer is not winter”, “Give me this sky”, etc.)
• Philip Kirkorov (“Summer is not winter”, “Atlantis”, “Marina”, “Primadonna”, “Who is Philip Kirkorov?”, Etc.)
• Alla Pugacheva (“Thunderstorm in St. Petersburg”, “Robber”, “Engagement Night”, “Beware, leaf fall!”, “You are my dream”, “Dandelion”)
• Natalya Vetlitskaya (“Eyes of the color of whiskey”, “Bird”)
• Natalya Senchukova (“Pie”, “Boat”, “I Want to Laugh”, “Cat and Mouse”)
• Dune Group (Zhenya, Lim-pom-po, Birthday)
• Larisa Dolina (“Feel my heart”, “Allergy to a lie”, “Matryoshka”)
• Lyubov Uspenskaya (“Dumplings with cherries”, “Hello, my dear”, “Divorced”, “Random ties”, “Sel la vie”, etc.)
• Tatyana Ovsienko (Fresh Wind, Dark Night)
• Jasmine ("Mother spoke," "White Blizzard," "Caprice")
• Valentina Tolkunova (“Sailor of the Black Sea Fleet”, “Where You Were Born”)
• Irina Allegrova (“Treason”, “Awesome eyes”, “Everything is fine”)
• Ekaterina Shavrina (“Young Molodki”, “No Need”, “Acacia”)
• Lev Leshchenko (Tango under the Window)
• Ksenia Georgiadi (“Find me, my dear!”, “We must sleep at night,” “For you and me”)

• Alexander Lukyanov’s songs are heard in various films, although the composer never wrote music specifically for cinema.
• In 1990 , he starred in the movie " Our Man in San Remo " in the role of himself ^[2] .

• Prize of the FSB of Russia (nomination "Musical Art", incentive diploma, 2007) - for the song "Russian Soldiers" (together with Sergey Sokolkin ) .