Samoilov, Vadim Rudolfovich

Born in Sverdlovsk , then parents moved to Asbest . Father Vadim and Gleb worked as an engineer, mother as a doctor. He studied at the age of seven at a music school. He has higher education, graduated from the Radio Engineering Department of the Ural Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Design and Production of Radio Equipment. Since 1983 he was a fighter and commissar (?) Of the SSO "Impulse". From 1983 to 1986 - laureate of amateur song festivals. A participant in both games of the UPI team in the first season of the revived KVN 1986/87 ^[1] , where he only performed songs ^[2] . In 1987, after graduation, he was awarded the qualification of an engineer designer and technologist of radio equipment.

Vadim Samoilov, along with Alexander Kozlov and Peter May , was among the founders of the Agatha Christie group in 1985 (under the name VIA RTF UPI). He also became the only member of the group to play in it throughout the years of its existence, until the collapse in 2010, acting as a vocalist, guitarist, arranger, songwriter and producer. Among the songs written by Vadim Samoilov in the framework of “Agatha Christie” are “Viva Kalman!”, “Black Moon”, “Never”, etc. At the same time, starting with the album “Decadence”, during which he had to work to take on most of the production and director functions, he began to take a lesser part in the creative process, and the role of the main composer and textwriter of the group gradually passed to his younger brother Gleb Samoilov ^[3] .

In 1992, he participated in the recording of Nastya Poleva ’s album “The Bride” as a sound engineer, guitarist and keyboard player. In 1994, he participated in the recording of the song “Dance on tiptoe” ^[4] .

In 1994, he participated in the recording of the Titanic album by the Nautilus Pompilius band, as well as the Atlantis album released in 1997 . A year later, he took part in the recording of the album of Anton and Alina Nifantiev's Insarov group Razor.

He was the producer of the Chicherina , Semantic Hallucinations and others. In 2000, he participated in the recording and was the producer of the album “Dreams” by Julia Chicherina ^[5] . In 2003, he recorded the song "Invisible" for the tribute of the band " Picnic ". In 2004, a joint album was released with the group " Picnic " - " Shadow of the Vampire ." He participated in the Invasion festival as part of the Nautilus Pompilius ^[6] .

In 2005, participated in the recording of the album “Tender Night” by the group “Top” ^[7] .

He was the composer of the film Alexey Balabanov " It Doesn’t Hurt Me ".

In June 2010, he participated with Masha Makarova in the concert-shooting “Songs for Alla”. For the tribute, Igor Nikolaev ’s song “ Tell Birds ” was chosen. It was originally planned to sing her with Julia Chicherina ^[8] .

From July 21 ^[9] to November 26 ^[10] he conducted the weekly radio program Rockabel on Nash.

On February 2, 2012, he performed as a guest at a concert dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Picnic group in Yekaterinburg .

In 2012, along with the Picnic group, he went on tour first with the anniversary program 30 Light Years, and then with Vampire Songs.

In August 17, in Yekaterinburg at the celebration of the City Day, Vadim presented the new program for the first time after the end of the activities of Agatha Christie ^[11] .

Most often plays the guitars Gibson Les Paul Standard , Line 6 Variax 300 and Fender Stratocaster . Also played on SGC Nanyo Broadway (Japanese copy of Jackson Soloist), Jolana Superstar, Fender Telecaster, Gretsch Country Gentlemen .

Work on the new program of Vadim Samoilov has been going on for several years. In 2013-2014, ex-vocalist Agatha Christie showed fragments of this program at several festivals, including the "Old New Rock" in Yekaterinburg. ^[12]

In November 2016, Vadim Samoilov presented unreleased demo versions of his old songs entitled “Drafts for Agatha” on the Internet in the VKontakte social network, which included not only previously recorded songs in different arrangements with altered texts, but also songs that were previously unknown to the public and never sounded.

Tours «Agatha Christie. All Hits "(2015)," Vadim Samoilov. New. Agatha Christie. The Best ”(2017),“ Vadim Samoilov. Agatha Christie. XXX "(2018-2019)

Team composition:

• Vadim Samoilov - lead vocals, guitar, author
• Albert Potapkin (since 2019) - guitars, keys, sound production
• Alexander Radchenko - guitars
• Vladimir Nikolaev (until 2019) - solo guitar, bass
• Andrey Kaplev - keyboards, electronics, backing vocals
• Roman Baranyuk - drums, electronic percussion
• Igor Nesterovich - keyboards, backing vocals (since 2017)

New Songs

Since March 2017, Vadim Samoilov has released several singles: “Other”, “Words Ended”, “** ****** (To Berlin)”, “Here she is a dream”. The last few weeks led the charts “Chart Dozen” of OUR Radio and took the first line of the final chart in 2018.

In 2006, he created and led the charity project “Hero of Our Time” , the goal of which is to help young and novice musicians.

Member of the Authors Council of the Russian Authors Society.

From 2008 to 2012, he was a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, elected from all-Russian public associations. As part of his work in the Public Chamber, he is engaged in the fight against piracy, which he considers to be theft.

On February 6, 2012, he was officially registered as a confidant of the candidate for President of the Russian Federation and the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ^[13] .

October 11, 2010 Vadim Samoilov, together with other rock musicians, took part in a meeting with President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev ^[14] . During the meeting, V. Samoilov helped Andrei Makarevich sing the song of the Time Machine “For those at sea” ^[15] . Vadim Samoilov was also one of the organizers of the meeting ^{[16] [17]} . Vadim Samoilov did not invite the leader of the DDT group, Yuri Shevchuk , to the meeting, explaining that Yuri takes a “fairly teenage, non-conformist position, but at such meetings you still need to seek dialogue” ^[18] .

Since 2015, he has repeatedly visited with concerts the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic . In September, on the Day of the City of Lugansk, he was awarded the LNR Head medal “For Services to the Republic” of the 2nd degree “for an active life position, empathy with the fate of the LPR, high morale and patriotism, an invaluable contribution to the formation of a“ young state ”” ^[19] . After that, the musician was declared in Ukraine "persona non grata" and he was denied entry to this country.

In 2017, he joined the new board and council of the Russian Musical Union (RMS), which was approved at a meeting in Moscow on March 23, 2017. ^{[20] [21]}

In March 2011, Vadim Samoilov filed a lawsuit against music critic Artemy Troitsky demanding compensation for moral damage in the amount of one million rubles ^[22] . The reason for the lawsuit was the phrase said by Troitsky in the film of the REN TV channel “Notes of Protest” ^[23] :

With these words, Troitsky, in particular, implied that Vadim Samoilov helped Vladislav Surkov to record the “Peninsula” disc, in which he put the official’s poems to music ^[23] . At the time of filing the lawsuit, Vadim Samoilov was a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and, according to the media, was on friendly terms with Surkov ^[24] . On May 4, 2011, the World Court of the Khamovnichesky District of Moscow began preliminary hearings of the case initiated under Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (insult) ^[24] . According to Artemy Troitsky, this lawsuit was part of a campaign organized by the Russian government against him ^[24] :

The point of view of the journalist was supported by some musicians. In particular, Vasily Shumov organized a concert of solidarity with a journalist, which was held in the Moscow club "Bread" in June 2011. It was attended by Yuri Shevchuk , Oleg Nesterov , Nick Rock and Roll , the Center , Barto , Stackel, Resonating Mu , Last Chance , Monroe and Kennedy Daughter and others ^[25] . Later, the album-album "For Trinity" was also released.

In December 2011, the lawsuit under the criminal article “Insult” was terminated due to the decriminalization of the article itself ^[26] .

In 2018, at the celebration of Fisherman's Day in Murmansk, Vadim Samoilov during a concert dedicated one of the songs to those who are fighting in the Donbass and Syria, preceding its performance by political agitation. Seeing that one of the spectators turned around and began to leave the concert, Vadim took this very negatively, and began to insult him right from the scene, using profanity at the same time. This incident caused a wave of indignation among citizens and later Samoilov was forced to apologize on his page in one of the social networks ^{[27] [28]} .

Of course, I was categorically wrong that I used obscene language in a conversation at a concert. This is my cant, it’s all bad, and generally it’s not worth it to swear. Especially, of course, I want to apologize to the children. Dear children, Uncle Vadya uttered the wrong words. Such words do not need to be used, especially in a conflict situation. Once again, I apologize to all Murmansk residents and visitors to the concert and I hope this will not diminish the impression of the wonderful concert that we had. ^[29]

Married with a second marriage, from his first marriage has a daughter, Jan.

Albums

Singles

• March 3, 2017 - Others (soundtrack to the NTV. Film “Revolution Live” doc.)
• April 5, 2017 - Words are over
• May 5, 2017 - To Berlin
• December 22, 2017 - Somewhere between (a remake of the solo song of Alexander Kozlov and his own arrangements).
• June 22, 2018 - Here she is a dream

• 1991 - Urfin Djus - "Waste"
• 1993 - Nastya Poleva - “Love and Falsehood”. Dir. Oleg Rakovich
• 2002 - Semantic hallucinations - "Hunters" - maniac
• 2004 - Picnic - “Torture Doesn't End”
• 2008 - Bi-2 - “Everything as he said”
• 2010 - The film "Epilogue" (DVD)
• All videos of Agatha Christie
• February 26, 2017 - live performance in the program "Salt" (RenTV).
• 2017 - Live performance in the program "Air" (Our Radio and NashTV)
• 2018 - “Words Ended”, premiere on the show “Evening Urgant” (Channel One)
• 2018 - “Somewhere Between” (live video)
• 2018 - Live performance in the program "Air" (Our Radio and NashTV)
• 2019 - “Here she is a dream”, official clip

• 2005 - “The Nightmare Before Christmas” , Russian voice acting - dubbing, the mayor’s sad face
• 2006 - “It Doesn't Hurt Me” (dir. A. Balabanov) - composer
• 2011 - “Crackle” (dir. V. Konisevich) - episodic role of a trucker
• 2013 - Faster than Rabbits - Composer
• 2017 - “Revolution online” ^[30] , the television movie - in the role of himself

• Автобиография
• Сайт проекта «rocklab» (ex-«Герой Нашего Времени»)
• Член Общественной палаты РФ Вадим Самойлов
• Позиция Вадима Самойлова по проблеме пиратства
• Вадим Самойлов в программе Вести на канале Россия-2 на YouTube
• Vadim Samoilov in Oleg Nesterov’s program “Following the Wave of My Memory”
• Vadim Samoilov in Kirill Reshetnikov's “Sieve” program
• Instagram-life of Vadim Samoilov - Interview in Yarkub magazine, December 2016