Hands up!

The future lead singer of the group, Sergey Zhukov, graduated from school in Dimitrovgrad in the Ulyanovsk Region in 1993 and moved to Samara to enter the Samara Academy of Culture and Arts . In June 1993, he began working on the radio " Europe plus Samara" and led the dance music program "Hit-hour". There, on the radio in 1993, he met Alexei Potekhin, with whom they created the group "Uncle Ray and Company" - in honor of the lead singer Ray Slangard of group 2 Unlimited , whose music combined elements of the Eurodance and techno style. In December 1994, Zhukov and Potekhin moved to Tolyatti, where they tried to record songs in the studio, and went to the Samara radio stations. May 1, 1995 they moved to Moscow.

At the end of 1995, the musicians handed over a cassette with several songs to the radio “ Maximum ” and signed: “This music will force you to raise your hands up.” The group did not yet have a new name. A week later, the cassette fell into the hands of the presenters Olga Maximova and Konstantin Mikhailov. They put the song “Good morning” in their show and announced: “Young group“ Hands up! ”” Since then this name has been assigned to the group ^[3] .

“Hands up!” Recorded the song “Baby”, which became popular, and then another hit - the song “Student”. Both compositions were very successful. From that moment, the group began touring around the country and abroad.

For recording women's parties, session vocalist Elizaveta Rodnyanskaya, a member of the Melissa group, was found ^[4] . Popular songs with her participation are “Student”, “Move your body”, “ Song ” and others.

A few months later, the first album entitled “Breathe Evenly” was ready. The songs "Kid" and "Student" were included in the top ten of the hit parade of " Russian Radio " " Russian Hill ". In the spring and summer of 1997, video clips were shot for these songs.

The success of the group continued at the concert venues: in the spring of 1997, they began performing at the MAXIDANCE -2 dance events at the Moscow Youth Palace and the international non-stop music festival NON-STOP 97 in Sokolniki Park. On August 30, 1997, the group took part in the international festival “ Dancing City 97 ” at the Gorky Central Park of Music and Culture in Moscow. As a dance accompaniment, the Street Jazz band participated in the concerts.

In the video for the song "He Kisses You" in the role of one of the main characters, it was decided to remove the travesty artist Anatoly Evdokimov . It was an unusual move, designed for shock and surprise, which was fully justified. Sergey Zhukov recalled:

I sincerely admit that after watching the video I said “Yes!” Because it is a fierce blow to the stereotypes that have developed in people: from work colleagues to fans.

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In 1999, the album No Brakes was released. According to Zhukov, the album was sold in a print run of 12,000,000 copies, of which 8 were pirated. The musicians themselves received $ 700 for it. All other money from sales was taken by Malikov ^[3] .

In the late 1990s, the team created its own music label “The Dancing Men” (“B-Funky Productions”), which immediately began to release modern pop groups ^[5] : “ Turbomoda ”, “Boys”, “ Revolvers ” , " Shark, " black singer Murphy.

In 2000, the German group " ATS " recorded a cover for the song " Song " from the album "Make it louder!". A song called " Around the World (La La La) " was featured in the Top 30 of the American charts and Top 20 of English. According to Zhukov, royalties from the song were more than they received in the previous 8 years of work ^[3] .

In August 2006, the group ceased to exist. As a reason, Sergei Zhukov cites the emergence of new groups with which it has become harder to compete. In addition, the musicians were tired of each other and musical disagreements began between them. The last concert was planned at the Olimpiysky , entitled End of the Legend. Farewell concert “Hands Up!” ”, But the musicians did not find the required amount (more than $ 500,000) needed for the organization.

Sergey Zhukov released solo works for several years, including the album “In Search of Tenderness” and several clips for songs from him. But since 2008, Zhukov began to use the name of a nonexistent group in solo work ^[6] . In addition, he produced the singer Shark (Oksana Pochep) , “Opium Project”, “ Factor 2 ”, the group “Tale” and the KNU project KUKLA

In February 2008, the first book by Sergei Zhukov, Zvezdopad, was co-authored with Maxim Petrenchuk, a journalist and network writer from St. Petersburg , published at AST .

In the spring of 2008, Potekhin began work on his new project, Track & Blues. It included DMC BluezZ and Vladimir Luchnikov, formerly the vocalist of the bands "Boys" and "Turbomoda". In March 2008, Alexey Potekhin released his collection of dance music “Potekhin Style. Disco 3 ", which collected the compositions of young groups and hits" Demo "," Track "," Jakarta "," Planck "," Kra $$ avchik ", SuperboyZ and others.

On October 22, 2010, on Channel One, Andrei Malakhov ’s program “ Let They Speak ” hosted the group’s performance, in which it participated in its entirety for the first time in 5 years.

In October 2012, the group “Hands Up!” Released the album “ Open the door for me ”. The album included 14 compositions, of which nine were presented for the first time, and the rest were previously performed by the collective at concerts and entered the radio rotation (“Mom”, “I Will Be With You”, “Girl from the Past”, “See You in Dreams”, "Say why?"). Three videos were shot in support of the album.

In September 2013, the band released the official single “Wings” on iTunes , recorded in collaboration with Bahh Tee.

On October 30, 2014, a new song was released with the former wards of Sergei Zhukov - “ Factor-2 ” and the rising pop star Timur Vagapov - “Be silent.”

• 1998 year. The group received six silver medals, three gold medals and one platinum disc for a huge number of copies sold.
• 1999 year. The group became the winner of three diplomas of the second annual award of the Russian recording industry in the following nominations:
  • Russian radio hit (composition “My Baby”);
  • Album of the year ( Turn up the volume );
  • Performer of the year (Sergey Zhukov, Golden Gramophone Award).
• Special Award The World La-La-La-La-La-La from BMG Russia was awarded for more than 1,000,000 ATS group CDs sold abroad with a song from “Hands Up!” (in the Russian version “Song”, album “ Make it louder! ”).

The collective received another prize from Love Radio for Good, Tender, Affectionate, the best love song.

The International Association against Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking awarded the creative team “Hands Up!” With a diploma “For personal contribution to the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and the development of the anti-drug movement”.

• In 1999, the group won immediately in three categories of the second annual award of the Russian recording industry ("Russian Radio Hit", "Album of the Year", "Artist of the Year").
• In 2001, the group received the “Song of the Year” diploma.
• In 2002, she was nominated for the best Russian music most often ordered on the radio .
• In 2003, Muz-TV called the group the best dance project of the 10th anniversary.
• In 2011, the RU.TV Prize won the “Generation Choice" nomination.
• 2017 - “ Muz-TV ” prize, victory in the nomination “The best song of fifteen” for the song “My Baby”.
• 2017 - “ RU.TV Prize ” victory in the “Best Group” nomination.
• 2017 - Premier League Award for the song “Take the Keys”.
• 2018 - nominees for the "Give Five" award in the nomination "Favorite Group".
• 2018 - “ RU.TV Prize ” victory in the nomination “Best Group”.
• 2019 - nomination for “ RU.TV Prizes ” in the category “Best Duet”
• 2019 - nomination for “ RU.TV Prizes ” in the category “Best Group”

Golden Gramophone Award

• 1998 - “My Baby,”
• 1999 - Forgive
• 2001 - “18 to me already”,
• 2002 - "He Kisses You,"
• 2003 - "Omut" (solo song by Sergey Zhukov),
• 2017 - Potpourri
• 2018 - "Crying in the Dark."
• 2019 - "She Kisses Me."

Song of the Year Laureates

• 1999 - My Baby, I'm Sorry
• 2000 - "Alyoshka", "Thought",
• 2001 - “Kind, gentle, affectionate”, “Little Girls”,
• 2002 - "He Kisses You", "Leave", "Whirlpool."
• 2018 - "Crying in the Dark."
• 2019 - "She Kisses Me."

Number Albums

• 1997 - Breathe Evenly
• 1997 - Breathe Evenly (reissue: full version)
• 1998 - "Hands Up, Dr. Schlager!"
• 1998 - Make It Loud!
• 1998 - “Make it Louder!”
• 1999 - No Brakes
• 1999 - “No brakes at all”
• 2000 - Hello, It's Me
• 2001 - "Do not be afraid, I'm with you!"
• 2001 - “ Little Girls ”
• 2002 - “ The End of Pop, Everybody Dance ”
• 2003 - “I feel good with you”
• 2004 - "And the girls are so cold ..."
• 2005 - " Fuc * in 'Rock'n'Roll "
• 2012 - “Open the door for me!”

Collections

• 2013 - “The Best”
• 2013 - “Slow-motion”

Singles

• 2016 - “Hands Up !: 20 years (When we were young)”
• 2018 - “Our Children” (together with Stas Mikhailov )
• 2018 - Boys Slamming (shared with Little Big )

• 1997 - Kid
• 1996 - Student
• 1998 - Dreaming only about you
• 1998 - My baby
• 1999 - Call him like me.
• 1999 - Without love
• 2000 - Alyoshka (First version)
• 2000 - Alyoshka (Second version)
• 2000 - Ay-yay-yay
• 2000 - So you need it
• 2001 - 18 I am already
• 2002 - Go away
• 2002 - He kisses you
• 2002 - Territory (solo clip by Sergey Zhukov)
• 2003 - Omut (solo concert clip by Sergey Zhukov)
• 2003 - I feel good with you
• 2003 - Children's
• 2004 - Dance
• 2004 - Hey guys! (Soundtrack for the movie " Don't Think ")
• 2005 - Hotel
• 2005 - Natasha
• 2006 - Tears are dripping (solo clip by Sergey Zhukov)
• 2007 - Drive Me Crazy
• 2007 - The girl does not sleep (solo clip by Sergey Zhukov)
• 2007 - I do not like (feat. Tantrum)
• 2011 - My Friend (feat. Igor Akinfeev )
• 2012 - Tell me why (feat. USB )
• 2012 - I love you (New Year's Club mix)
• 2013 - Girl from the Past (feat. St1m )
• 2013 - Wings (feat. Bahh Tee)
• 2014 - You are my sea (feat. Mikhail Zhukov)
• 2014 - What have you done
• 2015 - Beauty Queen (feat. Bonya and Kuzmich)
• 2016 - When we were young
• 2017 - Take the keys
• 2017 - Candy
• 2017 - Crying in the dark
• 2018 - Dancing
• 2018 - To hell with this pride
• 2018 - Slam Boys (feat. Little Big )
• 2019 - Our children (feat. Stas Mikhailov )
• 2019 - She Kisses Me
• Collaboration with other artists

The group recorded joint compositions with various artists, for example:

• In 1998, with Vyacheslav Dobrynin - album "Hands up, doctor hit!"
• In 2000 with Murphy - an English cover of the song “Sorry” - “Open Up Your Heart”
• In 2000 with Diana Gurtskaya - “Winter”
• In 2000 with Igor Nikolaev - a remix of Nikolaev’s songs “Sakhalin” (Original song “Murka”) and “Bride”
• In 2000, the German group "ATS" released the single "Around the World" - an English-language cover version of the song " Song ". This single became platinum in six European countries and occupied the top lines of the western charts. Thanks to this hit, Sergey Zhukov earned his apartment.
• In 2001 with the Shark - "Only for you"
• In 2001 with the Turbomod group - “Call”
• In 2003 with Jasmine - "This Evening"
• In 2003 with DJ Rodik-Off - “Don’t Stop”
• In 2004 with the group Online - “It's so cold for girls”
• In 2004 with DJ Vital and 3 wishes project - a cover of “18 to me already”
• In 2004 with a group of Ivanushki International - a cover of “Andryushka”
• In 2004, with a group of inveterate scammers - a cover of “Well, where are you girls?”
• In 2004 with Philip Kirkorov - cover “I will not give you to anyone”
• In 2004 with Nikolai Baskov - cover "Omut"
• In 2004, with the band Super Gang - cover "My Baby"
• In 2004, the Romanian singer Haiducii, together with the Eurodance / italodance member of the group Eiffel 65 Gabry Ponte, released a remix of the song "I feel good with you." This single reached the 5th line in the Italy Singles Chart and the 33rd line in the Austria Singles Chart.
• In 2004 with Pulsedriver - “Natalya Petrovna”
• In 2012 with ST1M - “Girl from the Past”
• In 2012 with Mikhail Zhukov - “See you in Dreams”
• In 2013 with Bahh Tee - single “Wings”
• In 2013 with the USB group (from Comedy Club) - “Tell me why”
• In 2014 with Mikhail Zhukov - “Heart” and “You are my sea”
• In 2018 with Stas Mikhailov - the single “Our Children”
• In 2018, with the Russian pop punk rave group Little Big , the single “Boys Slam”

• The official website of the group
• Songs Hands Up! on Yandex.Music
• Songs of TurboMod on Yandex.Music
• Interview with the group “Hands Up!”: Seriously about love, music and travesty (ROL) (2002)
• Interview with People's History in 2005
• HANDS UP! Tv
• Radio "Hands Up!"
• Evening Urgant. Sergey Zhukov "Hands Up!" - Alyoshka (11/04/2014)