Текст песни Сёстры Базыкины - Чародеи и Факиры

Sisters Bazykina - Elena and Irina first appeared on television in the summer of 1985, during the XII World Festival of Youth and Students. This holiday had its own symbolism - the rosy cheeked blue-eyed girl Katyusha in a sundress and kokoshnik resembling a festival star-flower.

    A song about Katyusha appeared, written by Moscow composer Alexey Mazhukov. For the first time, two singers, sisters Elena and Irina Bazykin, performed it for the first time in one of the youth television programs. Not just twin sisters. Cute, chubby and ruddy, they are surprisingly suitable for performing a song outwardly, as if representing a visible embodiment of the festival Katyusha itself.

    But, no less important, they sang the song itself very precisely and vividly: merrily, in a major way and at the same time light and transparent. Traditionally, the Russian beginning has merged with the youth rhythms, with the intonations of modern pop music. And then there appeared new songs belonging mainly to Mazhukov, “Miracles” (it became known also under the name “Magicians and fakirs”), “What are you thinking about,” and others. Television willingly filmed with the participation of the Bazykin sisters small song plots ("video clips").

    The Bazykin sisters not only sang well, but also moved with ease, if necessary - danced, generally “looked”. Very important quality for music television. At one of the concerts held at the Moscow Variety Theater, the Swede Billie Watt, a well-known producer and director of Little Big All, drew the attention of young singers. “Girls are talented and artistic, they sing beautifully and move on stage,” he said. “In my opinion, this is exactly the case when an amazing musical band can be born ...”

    Who are these cute Lena and Ira?

    Year of birth - 1962 They were born in the Urals, in the town of Miass, but from early childhood they lived in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, the city of Nalchik. We graduated there as a pianist music school. They also mastered the guitar, though I played more than Ira. They sang always in unison. Folk songs, romances, pop. They wrote themselves (to the poems of Lorca Kirsanov). Performed at school parties.

    In the ninth grade, the songs of Alexander Gradsky were first heard. It was performed by the “Blue Forest”, “The coalman's girlfriend”, “Spain”. In 1978, the sisters decide to try their luck in Moscow. They pass the entrance examinations for the variety department of the Gnessin Music School. Accepted. And get into the vocal class ... to a person who has long been respected, loved and performed: to Gradsky! Alexander Borisovich, however, immediately declared to his new students: “The basis of the foundations in singing is the classical school and the academic technique. So - as I was taught at the Gnesinsky Institute, so I will be teaching you ... "

    Engaged in singing, vocal exercises, the formulation of proper breathing. After these introductory exercises, Bach's inventions and arias, Mozart's ariosos, and the stage — from Gershwin to Stevie Wonder, Pauls — sang. They practiced absolute coalescence of phrasing using examples of Abba compositions. School finished in 1982. After that - professional work. First - in the orchestra "Contemporary".

    Sisters Bazykiny were looking for a suitable repertoire for the duet. They sang the music of Gennady Gladkov (“Your Eyes”, “The Broken Wing”). Then they took the work "The Snowstorm" by Alexey Mazhukov. The song for two voices, according to the tone of the sound, seemed to fit the mood.

    The head of Sovremennik, Anatoly Kroll, made an excellent new arrangement, and Metel, as they say, immediately “went well” - the audience accepted it very well at concerts. The success inspired the girls. We decided to include in the repertoire other compositions of Mazhukov. But which ones? Gathered spirit and called the author ... Well, now let me continue this story to Alexey Sergeyevich Mazhukov. “... So, the girls called me. I never refuse to meet young artists, it is interesting to me. What kind of people grows? And what if something extraordinary?

    We met in the House of Composers, in the Small Hall. I listened to the sisters. Sang and Soviet songs (including mine), and foreign music in English. They tried to imitate the timbre of the famous group “B-Jiz” - a soft, quiet, lyrical sound, which came out from Lena and Ira by some particularly affectionate, warming soul. Although they were at the same time rather monotonous, they sang with a dialectal (Southern Russian) accent (later they taught them to sing in any language purely; now they have completely got rid of the "dialectisms").

    The content of the lyrics was not related at all, as if not noticing it (the disease on the stage was quite common) - Bazykin’s sisters simply sang, enjoying the melody ... Well, as they say, there was something to work on. Gave the girls notes. They quickly learned a few things, and I began to include them in my own concerts. Lena and Ira, of course, brought in a fresh stream. The very appearance of the two "twins" always caused excitement in the hall. They sang from time to time getting better. I told them: “Be sure to think about what you are singing. Look for such paints, such a sound, such its tension, which would help