Who is Nikolay Ravens. Musician Nikolai Voronov: biography, creativity and personal life

17-year-old Muscovite Nikolai Voronov is a true child prodigy who was never called that at home to protect him from psychological trauma. The boy, born in the family of a psychologist and accompanist, from the age of three showed extraordinary abilities in mathematics and music. At the age of five, he began studying to be a pianist at the Gnesins' Moscow Secondary Special School for Specially Gifted Children. Absolute pitch and a unique musical memory, revealed in Nikolai, led to the fact that, in parallel with the general program, they began to study composition with him. At the age of ten, Kolya Voronov composed the song “White Dragonfly of Love” on a simple synthesizer, which six years later was destined to become internet hit and bring fame to the author. And now a first-year student of the composer department of the Moscow Conservatory, a pop career began to spin - he was invited with performances to corporate parties, the New Year's light of the 2x2 channel, to the Solyanka and Caviar clubs. Offers of cooperation from representatives of show business, requests for television filming and interviews rained down on the young musician. Fans, having found out the address of the Voronovs, began to gather at his entrance. What is called a serious hype has risen.

The current situation worries Kolya Voronov's parents a lot, who fear that excessive public attention will prevent their son from completing his education and thereby ruin his talent. OPENSPACE.RU decided to find out what Kolya Voronov himself had in mind.

Location: cafe on Izmailovsky Boulevard. Characters: Correspondent OPENSPACE.RU Denis Boyarinov, Nikolai Voronov and his director Alexander. Voronov studies the menu, then makes an order: meat in a frying pan, two bottles of mineral water.

- You bite your nails.

Yes (laughs embarrassedly). Can't get rid of the habit.

- This is some kind of characteristic feature for pianists. Horowitz also bit his nails in his youth.

For pianists, this is such a disaster. By the way, Horowitz - yes. And Stravinsky didn't bite.

- Can we start the interview?

And how.

Wonderful. Your mother and piano teacher told me in detail about your, so to speak, development as a classical musician, pianist. But here is the moment when you became interested in pop music, they, according to their confession, did not notice.

In fact, my mother probably noticed, but did not tell. I got into pop music at the age of ten. Turn on the TV and listen to songs. Any - listened to the White Eagle group, Viktor Tsoi ( laughs)… What else is there? Decl! ( Recites.) "And who are you? Who are you? Who are you? And who are you? Who are you? Who are you?" Really good songs. Choi is amazing...

And so, I say that it was all in principle interesting to me. But I took up pop music when my dad bought a synthesizer at the Savelovsky market Casio CTK 571. This synthesizer has become my attribute.

- Do you still play the same synthesizer?

Yes! And I don't want to change it!

- And it works well - the keys do not sink?

Works well. On the contrary, the keys sometimes want to pull out. With root! ( Laughs.) No, I'm afraid, I'm afraid to buy a new one. ( Conversational tone.) Do you know why I'm afraid?

- Why?

Because the new one won't have the Dragonfly rhythm. No - if new, then only Casio, only Casio. Moreover, it is interesting that on the new synthesizer it will be possible to make a remix for "Dragonfly". Actually, I'm glad you've heard Dragonfly. It's incredible! It is amazing! Why all of a sudden such an attraction to the song? All of a sudden! Here there was no this song, here it appeared - and suddenly this. And now everyone says that Nikolai Voronov is my idol. ( Laughs.)

- What are you listening to now?

Now it's classical music. She has something to say to me energetically.

- What period?

Modern. Not even modern, late XIX - early XX century.

- Modernists?

Still not quite modernists, but already ... Early avant-garde - Debussy, Scriabin, Mahler, Ravel is already less. All this is post-Chopin. Rachmaninoff is included, of course. Naturally, dodecaphonists, the New Viennese school - Berg, Schoenberg, Webern.

- I know you compose symphonic works yourself.

Yes, I do, of course. On the computer, I have three programs. I write in them, programs are immediately voiced. This is very important: you compose and immediately hear what you compose.

- How would you describe the style of your symphonic works?

I have different ones. It's probably the return of a classic. Modern harmonies… No, that's how it should be said: I'm trying to show modern harmonies with a classical style. And in general - a combination. Even "Dragonfly" is a combination. Mix of pop-rock and disco.

- Do you give titles to your symphonic compositions?

- "Opus". Opuses under numbers. I can't get the names. I give numbers to songs. Song 68 is playing now.

- So you wrote 68 songs in total?

- And why do you play the same ten pieces at concerts?

- 15. Because they are the most hit. And so far I have only learned them.

Nikolai Voronov is a Russian singer, lyricist, songwriter and composer. The talented pop artist became famous thanks to his YouTube channel, on which he posted a song of his own composition and performance “White Dragonfly of Love”. The track became an instant hit. The music critic jokingly compared the performer with.

Childhood and youth

Nikolai Voronov was born in May 1991 into an intelligent Moscow family. His father Alexander Voronov teaches at the department of sociology and humanities of one of the capital's universities, and his mother has an accompanist education. It was she who first noticed her son's musical abilities.

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Nikolai Voronov in childhood

The musical biography of the boy began in childhood. At the age of 5, Nikolai Voronov sat down at the piano. He began to study at the Gnessin Moscow Special School, where especially gifted children studied. The boy showed perfect pitch and an excellent musical memory. This was the reason for additional studies in composition.

According to Nikolai Voronov, he wrote his first musical composition at the age of 8. The boy called it "Classical Etude for Piano". Later, the musician received a higher education within the walls of the Moscow Conservatory, where he entered in 2008 on a course with Roman Ledenev.

Music

The composition that glorified the young poet, performer and musician, he wrote at the age of 10. It was the song "White Dragonfly of Love". Nikolai Voronov attributed it to the thrash-pop style and remembered it 6 years later.

As Voronov admitted, he took up “pop music” after his dad gave him a Casio synthesizer. This instrument prompted the guy to write the first three songs. First, the composition “I'm waiting for you” appeared, and some time later two more - “People who immediately” and “White Dragonfly of Love”. The latter became a hit after Nikolai Voronov posted it on Youtube in 2008. A funny video with a catchy rhythm and words was viewed by thousands of users. Kolya woke up famous.

At first, interest in the song was more of a joke, users sent each other a funny clip with a catchy motive. But later she gained a viral effect, and the author of the composition became popular and received a number of offers to perform in shows on federal channels. Users were surprised and amazed by the fact that Nikolai wrote the song itself as a child, and predicted the viral Internet success of the composition 4 years before he posted the recording on YouTube.

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Nikolay Voronov

In November 2008, Nikolai was invited to give a concert in the fashionable Solyanka club in the capital, which he willingly did. There was a full house in the hall. One and a half thousand people came to look at Voronov and listen to his "live" performance. According to the musician, in his life it was the only performance in front of such a large audience.

Nikolai was also invited to a festive concert, which was broadcast on the 2x2 TV channel on New Year's Eve from 2008 to 2009.

In 2009, Artemy Troitsky spoke in favor of Nikolai Voronov going to Eurovision with his hit. The critic supported the initiative group that nominated Voronov with a video message. The song was to be performed by the Quest Pistols. But the musicians were refused, as the composition had already been performed until the end of October 2008.

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Nikolay Voronov

In the same year, Nikolai Voronov was awarded the Steppenwolf Prize in the Something category. The peculiarity of this nomination is that here the judges evaluate not music or text, but the social impact of a person or event.

Another wave of popularity covered the musician in December 2015, when the parodist Maxim Galkin quite accurately portrayed Kolya in the TV show Just Like It.

Today, the musician's discography consists of dozens of compositions. Only a few became popular, including "People who immediately", "Fruit tenderness" and "Run". But these songs could not achieve the popularity that the hit "White Dragonfly of Love" achieved.

Nikolai Voronov on stage

Gradually, the popularity of the musician faded away. In an interview in 2016, Nikolai said that he had stopped doing pop music, and had completely concentrated on his professional career. He plans to create serious classical works. Today he has to his credit a poem for male choir and orchestra, pieces for violin and orchestra, 25 electronic symphonies and other compositions.

Nevertheless, in September 2016, the musician became a member of the X Factor show.

In July 2017, the musician again attracted the attention of the Internet community. Nikolai began to regularly upload videos to his YouTube channel, where before that he had posted only classical music of his own performance. On the new videos, the artist behaved extravagantly and defiantly. On social networks, Voronov also began to write short, incoherent messages.

Fans and the press suspected that the musician had gone crazy, but there was no official confirmation of such a diagnosis from relatives. Later, a psychiatrist commented on Nikolai's behavior without confirming a specific mental illness. According to the specialist, the young man is experiencing problems with the nervous system, and not with the psyche, which is most likely due to birth trauma. Over the years, Voronov learned to deal with the problem and even made it his feature.

Personal life

The trash star of Runet does not like to talk about this side of his life. The personal life of Nikolai, whose height reaches 195 cm, is almost a blank slate.

On the program, which appeared on the air in 2013, Nikolai admitted that he likes tall and curvy blondes, and older than him. A similar friend has already been in the life of a guy. Voronov mentioned the girl Nastya, with whom he periodically communicates.

Nikolai Voronov and Sveta Yakovleva in the show "Let's Get Married"

According to Nikolai, he does not want to have children yet. Yes, and he is not ready for marriage, because he is frightened by the hysteria and greed of the girls of his friends. In addition, "the ideal woman needs to suffer." On the program, it also turned out that the young man was being examined in a psychiatric clinic for nervous tics. At the end of the broadcast, the musician made a choice in favor of, which was among the contenders for the title of Voronov's girl and bride.

Nikolai Voronov now

Now Nikolai continues to communicate with fans through a social network.

Russian musician Nikolai Voronov told the story of his hit, about working with Quest Pistols and the desire to make money on classical music

- How did you get the idea to record the very video where you sing the song "White Dragonfly of Love"?

It was not me who came up with the idea, I never promoted my work in my life, I thought it was wrong. Just in Dubna, my dad invited me to give a concert and my pop songs were part of this concert. And one of the songs was jokingly called a hit by me. Someone just told me it was going to be a hit and I repeated it. Later, the guys from the Ukrainian group "Quest Pistols" turned to me with a request to perform this song, I agreed. We filmed together clip , and this song broke TV. It was played in all discos.

- Did you expect such a success?

No, and I don't think that anything special happened in my life. Yes, it is very pleasant, it brings money, happiness, but at the same time I understand that I can do much more. For example, I create classical music, although it is not yet popular.

Why do you think this video has become so successful?

I do not know that. My song is an accident, it just seems to me that I performed it well, and it was unusual.

- What is the contingent at your concerts?

There is no contingent as such. I recently gave a party in St. Petersburg, in which children from 14 to 16 years old participated, they were guests there, they really liked my songs. Once I led for 30-35-year-olds, well, that is, everyone likes it, absolutely different ages.

- How do you make a living now?

At the speeches.

- Do you see any of your competitors on Youtube or on the Internet?

I have no competitors. In general, I think that it is wrong to envy someone, on the contrary, you rather envy those who have no talent, who are too correct, if a person is more talented than you, it is, on the contrary, pleasant.

- Do you perform at corporate parties?

Yes, they just rarely call now. Different companies order, different people who know me and my songs.

- How has popularity changed people's attitude towards you?

I still had friends, I didn’t make friends with people who purely listen to pop music, but my acquaintances and friends are for classical, for serious work, so they thought that I was talented in the classics, and they think so.

- Glory always has a downside. What is it for you?

I don't see the other side. She is good and everything is nice that you are known. Moreover, I didn’t do anything bad, I wrote songs, but I didn’t kill a cat and didn’t record it on a video that a million people watched. And so I am responsible for myself and my actions, I think about what I do.

- What is your fee?

Transferring to your money, on average I play for 8000 hryvnia per concert. It happens less at corporate parties and club performances. The largest was somewhere around 80,000 rubles.

- What are your plans for the future?

I create classical music, I make theatrical performances, if this work is once known, I think it will not go anywhere, because I have always been taught that classical music is eternal music. And pop art, well, "Dragonfly", judge for yourself, was written in 2001, respectively, she is already 12 years old, and 12 years old is normal for a hit. The fact is that at concerts they ask her to play mainly, at one time she thundered, and without this song I would not have been known, that's for sure.

How has popularity changed your life?

I continue to travel by public transport, in terms of lifestyle, my popularity has changed me for the better, because I quit smoking when I got on stage.

Popularity is not always acquired through participation in diverse competitions and castings. Sometimes a chance meeting with the right people and even a clumsy home video leads to fame. Nikolai Voronov is exactly the man who managed to become famous thanks to a private video posted furtively on the popular Youtube site. We will tell about his history, biography and creative successes in this article.

General information from life

Nikolai was born in May 1991 in Moscow. His father was Alexander Yaroslavovich Voronov, a well-known lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Humanities at the International University of Nature, Society and Man "Dubna". Since childhood, Nikolasha, as his mother called him, loved to listen to music. He could sit for hours with his eyes closed and enjoy his favorite tune.

Getting a musical education

From the age of five, the Voronovs decided to send the boy to the Gnessin Music School, where he could learn to play the piano. Nikolai Voronov loved to learn something new, so he gladly gave himself up to the hands of teachers. Here the musician studied for 12 years.

However, due to excessive zeal, the young man became too irritable, which eventually led to a nervous breakdown. Therefore, the parents and he himself decided to leave the music school and take a break in training for a while. For the same reason, Nikolai was forced to refuse to participate in a prestigious competition held in 2000 in Holland.

In 2008, he entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where the young man was trained under the strict guidance of Ledenev. It was thanks to perseverance and incredible hearing that student Voronov managed to write first the first poem for a male choir and orchestra, then six new pieces for violin and orchestra, and then come up with parts for cello, violin, string orchestra, viola and celesta.

Passion for Russian "pop"

Along with classical music, Voronov Nikolai Alexandrovich became interested in domestic "pop". According to him, his interest in this musical style arose from the moment when he was presented with the first synthesizer. It was this instrument that helped the young talent compose the following songs:

• "I'm waiting for you".
• "People who immediately."
• "White Dragonfly of love".

At the same time, the last topic about the dragonfly became a real hit. Later, Nikolai came up with other songs, many of which became popular. Among them you can find such works as:

• "Casino".
• "Fruit Delicateness"
• "Run."
• "Barricade".
• "Country".
• "Chub, kamon" and others.

One of the last works written by the musician is "Newspapers write". In total, the artist has created over 90 of his own songs, many of which he performs himself and allows other musicians and artists to do so.

Tour

Feeling the strength of a talented performer in himself, at the end of 2008 Nikolai Voronov decided to go on his first tour around the country. In organizing concerts, the musician was assisted by various personal managers. However, he decided to refuse their services after about 2-3 years from the moment the first tour began.

Voronov Nikolay (musician): entertaining facts from life

During the beginning of his creative career and studies at the university, Nikolai met wonderful people, composed music, poetry and drew inspiration from the works of famous classics. Unusual, less often funny, but more often memorable situations often occurred in his life. For example, the most memorable event for him was the first appearance on the stage. It happened, according to him, in the middle of 2008 during a small concert in Dubna, organized by representatives of the Solyanka club. At that moment, the composer and performer made a splash.

According to preliminary measures, at that time over 1,500 spectators gathered in the hall, who came to listen to the music performed by Voronov. Later, Nikolai Voronov himself posted the same musical number (songs written by the composer can be found in this article) posted on YouTube. Surprisingly, this video scored a huge number of views and positive comments.

The musician's second moment of glory was the New Year's concert of 2008-2009, broadcast by the 2x2 TV channel. Thanks to the popularity gained on YouTube, even the famous music critic Artemy Troitsky noticed the composer and performer Voronov. According to certain information, it was he who initiated the departure of Nikolai with the hit "White Dragonfly of Love" performed by the Quest Pistols group for Eurovision 2009.

And although they, indeed, managed to submit such an application, the commission did not approve this initiative. The refusal of the persons responsible for the competition was due to a violation of the rules. The fact is that the song has already become a hit. It was broadcast on radio and television, which was strictly not allowed until the start of the competition.

Musician awards and prizes

In the summer of 2009, Nikolai Voronov was awarded an honorary award called the Steppe Wolf. In addition, Nikolai has repeatedly become the laureate of various prizes and awards.

What is the musician doing today?

At the moment, Nikolai Voronov offers his services as a host at corporate parties, performs at concerts, composes new compositions and is engaged in creativity. So, for all the time, Nikolai wrote:

• two quartets;
• one trio;
• about ten duets;
• one quintet;
• one sextet;
• five poems;
• about twenty-five electronic symphonies;
• more than a dozen pieces of music created especially for the orchestra;
• more than ten compositions for piano, etc.

He also runs his own website. He also has an official VKontakte page. In his free time, the young man enjoys cycling, picking mushrooms and visiting the conservatory. About how Nikolai Voronov starred in television shows and programs ("Comedy Club" and others), we will tell further.

Participation in the Comedy Club

Sometimes Nikolai is invited to various talk shows and programs of various kinds. For example, once he became the guest of honor of the popular Russian show Comedy Club. During the live broadcast, the musician entered into a funny dialogue with the hosts of the program, spoke briefly about his work and even sang a few lines from his hits: “Barricade” and “Dragonfly of Love”. By the way, it was on this program that the performer announced that the song about the dragonfly is almost 15 years old. It turned out that he wrote it at the age of eleven.

Nicholas's personal life

If the musician talks about his creative successes very willingly, then he prefers to remain silent about his personal life or quickly changes the subject. From his words it becomes clear that he has not yet thought about a serious relationship. However, he boldly says that he likes blondes with "appetizing, plump forms."

Musician's hobbies

Like any normal person, Nikolai has his own interests and taste preferences. For example, he likes any bright and interesting music, including classical. The main thing is that it fascinates the listener and produces a certain effect. “It should lift the mood, make you want to cry or laugh,” says the composer.

Nikolay hardly watches TV, but he likes to read a lot. Among the favorite writers and poets of the musician are the following Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva, Brodsky and others.

So, we have considered the creative life of the musician and his biography. Nikolai Voronov is a popular performer today with a unique ear and sense of tact.

26-year-old Russian composer Nikolai Voronov, who became famous in the late 2000s thanks to his hit « White Dragonfly of love» , now leads a rather strange video blog on YouTube: in the videos, he sits in front of the camera in a half-naked form and utters little meaningful monologues. In social networks, they are worried about the mental health of a man.

Social media users suggest that some kind of mental disorder caused by a lull after fame is to blame for Voronov's behavior. “This is an example of how show business cripples people,” wrote the Russian Shuffle Telegram channel.

Nikolai Voronov was born in May 1991. According to his mother, he began to study music at the age of three. From the age of five he learned to play the piano at the Gnessin Moscow Secondary Special Music School. Voronov became a star at the age of 17 thanks to YouTube and the song "White Dragonfly of Love", which he wrote at the age of 10. With her, he performed at corporate parties, TV shows and clubs.

Voronov's popularity quickly waned. Last year, the young man gave an interview to StarHit, in which he said that he had left the stage because "he began to play the piano more seriously in order to become a professional who would not have any failures at all." At the same time, he stated that he hated the conservatory, where he studied for five years, because there they “taught him nothing” and did not see him as a composer. Ravens also admitted that he was not worried about past glory.

I didn't have any problems with this. I live and grieve, as before. Only sadness is not from the fact that they forgot me, but from the fact that all life around is dying.

Nikolay Voronov.