Today marks 60 years of the permanent leader of the band Time Machine, singer and composer Andrei Makarevich. Rock band he founded with Sergei Kawagoe May 27, 1969. Time Machine has successfully survived to this day, I have replaced a lot of the participants and the group still gives concerts. However, the activities of Andrei Makarevich was not limited to performances on stage. He created a lot of TV shows such as "The underwater world with Andrei Makarevich," "Shade," "Three windows" and "Relish". In August 2001, he also founded a project called "Creole Tango Orchestra", under which was released a lot of songs in jazz, blues and chanson.
On the anniversary of the singer released to coincide with his solo album, "The Chronicle of Current Events", which is now available for purchase on itunes. As the singer in an interview with RIA novsti, the new album was recorded with a guitar and a "sense of observation and the last couple of years." The album includes songs never out officially. Among them there is the infamous song "about the Internet." At the time, the video of this song has caused a great stir in the blogosphere and perceived by many as a personal insult. It even made some response songs, best known for Option Andrei Bocharov.
At school Andrew came up to organize a group «The Kids», which first played arrangements of songs by foreign authors. The school was an English bias, so writing songs in English it was not difficult. "Time Machine" appeared in 1969 in the high school and the first under the name «Time mashine» sang Beatles songs.
Russian style group was renamed only in 1973. Later Makarevich, having gone in the footsteps of his father, he studied at a graphic artist at the Moscow Architectural Institute and went on to play in the group.
Art and music are a red line through the whole life Makarevich.
Exhibitions of his works are held in Europe and in Russia. At the same time increasing popularity of "Time Machine". The team took first place at the festival "Song of Youth-76". In the same year the band recorded his famous song "You and I", "From end to end", "puppets". A song from the album, "It was so long ago," the first time you could hear in the film Training GITISa "Six letters of bit».
In the early 1980s, the artist creates compositions that have become classics of Russian rock "will be a day", "candle", "Snow" and others. The latter entered the book "New 1980". In the same year Makarevich writes its lyrics - "Rotate". And with the beginning of perestroika "Time Machine" began to tour abroad.
In 1993, the musician and artist has suddenly revealed one thing: becoming the leading culinary program "Relish" (and today participates in other TV projects). In 2002, Makarevich Russian jazzmen gathered in the "Creole Tango Orchestra".
In just a musical career Makarevich wrote more than five hundred songs, both for the "Time Machine", and for the solo concerts, but also for a variety of movies. He is known also as an actor, producer, artist, writer and public figure.
People's Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of Russia - Andrei Makarevich was awarded the Order of Honor, "For Service to the Fatherland» IV degree and the medal "Defender of Free Russia." Today, he continues to be active, creative and social work, full of plans and ideas.
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