Legostaev, Konstantin Valerevich

The early years

Born on February 15, 1976 in Leningrad, spent his childhood in the city of Otradnoe . He graduated from school number 3, he served in the Air Defense Forces. Graduate of St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television and the acting faculty of VGIK named after S. A. Gerasimov (2009) ^[2] . Winner of the Grand Prix of the festival "Talents and Fans" of 1999 ^[3] and the Grand Prix of the festival "Idols of the XXI Century" ^[4] .

Carier start. Star Factory

The first song, “Wait and Sing,” Konstantin wrote in 1996 for the band “ Guests from the Future ” and released a single for this song in 2001. The song hit the charts of the country's leading radio stations and music channels. This composition was the first for "Guests", the authors of which they were not ^[2] . In 2003, he performed with the soloist of the group Eva Polnaya at the concert “Bomb of the Year 2003”, performing “Wait and Sing” ^[5] , in the same year Legostaev’s songs “God did not think about anything” and “School ".

In 2004, he participated in the television project of the First Channel “ Star Factory ” -5. He became famous on the project thanks to the songs “Under One Blanket” ^{[6] [7]} , “Lullaby” ^[8] , “Tell Me How ...” ^[9] , “Only to Us” ^[10] , “School” ^[11] . As part of the reporting concerts, he performed with Eva Polnaya ^[12] , the Bi-2 group and Nikolai Noskov .

After the Star Factory

After the tour, Legostaev terminated the contract with the production center of Maxim Fadeev and took up a solo career. In 2007-2011 he was the frontman of the DELTA pop-rock band, who recorded the song “Dangerous, but free” - the song became the soundtrack to the film “ Especially Dangerous ” by Timur Bekmambetov ^{[13] [14]} , entered the hit parade of the Europa Plus radio station and performed in 2009 at the EUROPA PLUS LIVE festival in St. Petersburg ^[15] . Legostaev also starred in the video “Manager's Riot in the Office”, filmed specifically for the movie “Especially Dangerous,” and played a major role in the video.

In 2009, for the song “Tell me how ...” ^[16] performed by Lolita Milyavskaya , Legostaev was awarded the “ Song of the Year ” prize ^{[2] [17]} . In 2011, he released his solo album "Under One Blanket" ^[18] . Currently, Legostaev is writing songs for the stars of Russian and Ukrainian pop. Known as the author of the following compositions:

• Taisiya Povaliy - “Only Mine” ^[19] (song from the album “For You”)
• Ani Lorak - “I Will Give Life” ^{[20] [16]}
• Dmitry Koldun - “With the Rains” ^[21]
• Gela Guralia ^[16] - “You Know” ^[22]
• Nikolay Baskov ^[2] - “Mom” ^[23]

In the rotation of the TV channels Muz TV and MusBox there were videos for Legostaev’s songs “Peter” ^[24] , “Dreaming” ^[25] , “I will fly to you” ^[26] and “Do not swear” ^[27] . In 2014, he began the Apriori concert program with singer Pascal ^[28] .

Member of the jury of various music festivals ^{[16] [29]} , participant in concert programs in St. Petersburg and Russia ^[30] . In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal "National Treasure" of the non-profit organization of the charity fund "National Treasure".

Soundtracks

Legostaev is the author and performer of the soundtracks for the following films and television series:

• “ The Game ” (song His choice was made ) ^{[31] [32]}
• “ Karpov ” and “ Karpov-2 ” ( Forget your hell song) ^{[33] [34]}
• “Three Stars” (song Give everything to heaven ) ^[35]
• Farewell ( I love song) ^[36]
• Non-native ( Revolver song)

Albums

• 2012 - Under one blanket

Singles

• 2011 - At the dawn! (feat. DJ Smash and Chin Kong Producton) ^{[37] [38]}
• 2013 - Dreaming (feat. Pascal ) ^[39]
• 2015 - Time to Love (feat. Lolita Milyavskaya) ^[40]

• Close-up Interview on YouTube
• Interview on Spring FM on YouTube