Leps Biography Education

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Several times being on the verge of life and death, he was again revived like a Phoenix from ash to delight fans with a unique talent. In the photo: Grigory Leps, starting a musical path as a restaurant singer, he became a living legend of the Russian stage, a real symbol of the era. And stellar duets with Stas Piekha, Irina Allegrova, Timati, Ani Lorak and other popular performers have already become the classic of modern Russian pop music.

Our hero and family was born and raised in Sochi, in a simple working family. Of the relatives, only his uncle was related to music - he played drums in local restaurants. Father, Viktor Antonovich Lepsveridze, had been cutting carcasses at a meat processing plant for more than forty years. Mom, Natell Semenovna, a nurse by profession, worked at a bread factory and raised two children, the singer has a younger sister of Eteri.

Grigory Leps in childhood Grisha grew up with a sociable and restless child and delivered a lot of trouble to his parents. He spent most of his time in the company of yard boys, among whom was an unconditional leader. I had to participate in street showdowns, which often ended in cruel scrapers. At the same time, childhood friends always noted his nobility and a sense of justice - Grisha never climbed into the rampage first and preferred, if possible, to solve conflicts peacefully.

Grigory Leps with his parents at school, he interrupted from doubles to three, although he was a well -read and shallow guy. He could also not boast of approximate behavior, often ran away from lessons and invented various pranks. From early childhood, Grisha Leps was so nicknamed his friends was seriously fond of football, and in high school he began to play drums in the school ensemble.

As a child, Leps was a real daredevil love for drums by his uncle, and besides, the boy had an innate sense of rhythm and absolute musical hearing. From a young age, he drummed wherever he would have to, including in the desk during the lessons, which was fury of his teachers. Grigory Leps in his youth in the year Gregory, with sin in half, graduated from eight grades and entered the music school for a detachment of percussion instruments.

After its end, the young man was drafted into the army and sent to distant Khabarovsk. There he continued to make music, performed in a military ensemble, where he played drums and sang patriotic songs. Grigory Leps in the army after demobilization Leps was at a crossroads - the lesson of music did not seem to him a serious matter for a man, and he knew how to sing and knock on drums.

Having worked for some time at the military factory, the young man returned to his hometown and soon ended up in the center of the Sochi musical party. The beginning of the creative path, at first, Leps was invited to the Index group, where he sang and played on drums. Thanks to Uncle Gregory’s connections, the team often performed in restaurants and quickly became popular with the local public.

After some time, the guys parted, and our hero began to go on stage as a solo vocalist. Grigory Leps in his youth had his own manner of fulfillment, which liked the regulars of the Sochi establishments. For the most part, these were local authorities and thieves in the law that generously paid the young man and often invited him to their table. Leps began to earn well, sometimes his fee over the night was equal to the monthly salary of a simple Soviet worker.

Grigory Leps in the Index group soon Gregory became a real Sochi celebrity, he performed in the best restaurants of the city, where very influential people gathered. Among them there were many stars of show business, such as Igor Krutoy, Mikhail Shufutinsky and Alexander Rosenbaum, who more than once offered the singer to move to Moscow and take care of a serious solo career.

The young Leps was a star of Sochi restaurants, however, Leps was in no hurry to leave his hometown, where everyone knew and loved him. He easily spent his fabulous fees on a drink, women and gambling, lived one day and did not really think about the distant future. The move to Moscow was a huge shock for Gregory by the brutal murder of the cousin Natalie, a well -known lawyer in Sochi.

A young girl right on the threshold of her house was caused by several stab wounds, from which she died on the spot. Leps was heavily worried about this tragedy, he tried to drown out the pain of loss with alcohol and drugs and, in order not to finally fall to the bottom, he decided to radically change his life and move to Moscow. Natalie, the cousin of Leps, was killed by the capital met the Solavskoye Celebrity - the money quickly ended, and a lot of money was required to record the album and promotion.

In addition, Gregory was not in the best physical and moral form, drank a lot, sometimes behaved inadequately and completely had no idea what to do next. The singer was about to return home when unexpectedly received help from a very influential and rich person who appreciated his talent.He gave the singer the necessary amount without even requiring a receipt, thereby giving the Sochi nugget a chance to break into a large stage.

Leps immediately began the recording of the first album “God God”, which was released in the year. The first song in the collection was Natalie, which the singer dedicated his dead cousin. A clip was shot on it, and soon this composition became a superchite and a visiting card of a novice singer. Grigory Leps - Natalie's stressed work schedule, endless rehearsals and shooting undermined and so by that time the Leps’s healthy health, and the artist was in a hospital with a sharp attack of pancreatitis.

He needed an urgent operation, for which his mother sold an apartment in Sochi. And although the doctors did not give the singer a big chance of recovery, he managed to get out and return to a full life again. This incident led our hero to faith and made him seriously think about his earthly destiny. The first steps on the big stage miraculously slipped out of the arms of death, Gregory quit drinking, lost 35 kilograms and began to work with unprecedented zeal.

For almost a year, he did not leave the studio and in the year released a new album “A Life” that was warmly met by the public and musical critics. Grigory Leps in the year with the song “My thoughts”, he first appeared on the stage “Songs of the Year”, and at the beginning took part in Alla Pugacheva’s famous “Christmas meetings”. In the same year, he performed Vysotsky’s song “Sail” in a large -scale prefabricated concert dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of the legendary artist.

At the end of X, clips were also shot for the songs “Rat-Revolution”, “First birthday” and “My thoughts”, which added popularity to the singer. In Leps, he recorded the third album “Thank you, people ...” and went with him on a tour of the country, during which he tore the ligaments and lost his voice. The young wife Anna, a former artist of the show ballet of Laima Vaikule, helped to survive the operation and return to the ranks of Gregory.

He gave several solo concerts in Moscow to the singer and was awarded the Chanson of the Year Prize for the song “Tango of Broken Hearts”. The following year, the light saw the next album of the singer “on the rain strings”, which included the famous “glass of vodka on the table”, which became the hallmark of the artist and the leader of the Russian -language karaoke. In the same year, the artist gave several concerts in support of the album and was awarded the next chanson of the year for the song “Dome”.

The singer celebrated the documentary about Grigory Lepse for a decade of creative activity by the Angella Saltors in the KCZ “Russia” and the large -scale tour “Favorites ... 10 years”, which included the best songs collected in the album of the same name. The flowering of creative activity The second half of X was marked by a smooth transition of Leps from chanson to popular music with rock elements.

Also, this period is interesting to creative collaborations with other pop artists. In the spring, the presentation of the next album of the singer “Labyrinth” was held, which differed from the previous new sounds and original creative finds. With the new program, Leps first went on a tour of the United States, where he was waiting for an enthusiastic reception.

The compositions “I don't believe you” and “She is not yours” immediately became hits and firmly settled on the first lines of the country's leading charts. Spectacular video clips were shot on both songs, and the duet of Leps-Allegrova was awarded the Golden Gramophone and the Prize of the Festival "Song of the Year-". In the spring, the singer presented to the audience a new concert program “Words”, the premiere of which took place in the Moscow Art Theater.

With Alla Pugacheva in the summer of the same year, Leps was awarded the Muz-TV Prize, performed at the closure of the New Wave festival and Igor Nikolaev’s creative evening, and also took part in a large-scale concert at the bottom of the city of Kharkov, which gathered thousands of people on the central square. In November, the artist was urgently hospitalized in the Botkin hospital with internal bleeding against the background of a perforated ulcer.

The singer spent several days in intensive care, doctors fought for his life with all their might, although the forecasts were the most disappointing. Next to Gregory, the mother and wife tirelessly were on duty, who, with their prayers and the power of love, practically returned him from the other world. A month later, the singer had already received his next “Golden Gramophone” with Stas Piekha, and on December 1 spoke in St.

Petersburg with a three-hour solo concert. Grigory Leps in the hospital in February of the next year, Leps presented the new concert program “Waterfall” in the Kremlin Palace, and a month later he again got to the hospital with a diagnosis of acute bronchitis. Having treated, he already in May went on a large -scale tour of Germany, in which he again appeared before the audience of vigorous and full of strength.

The next fifteen years, the singer has repeatedly become the owner of the Golden Gramophone and other prestigious musical awards, which was awarded the The World Music Awards as the best Russian -speaking artist. Leps ft. Timati - London recorded four studio collections and presented six concert programs.His above collaborations with Irina Allegrova and Stas Piekhoy, as well as star duets with Timati “London”, Ani Lorak “Mirror”, Valery Meladze “Turn over”, Joseph Kobzon and Alexander Rosenbaum “Evening Town” entered the Golden Fund of the domestic stage and have already become the classic of the modern Russian song.

And the composition “A glass of vodka on the table” is called the main karaoke hut throughout the post-Soviet space. Meladze-Turn around your summer anniversary, the artist celebrated the “Miduccal Maucerseous” concert tour and a large-scale benefit within the framework of the Festival “Heat”, in which the stars of Russian show business took part. At the end of the year, Leps pleased the fans of the new duet composition “Eagles or Raven”, performed with Maxim Fadeev.

The song has become a real anthem of strong male friendship, which has repeatedly helped the artist at different stages of his difficult life path.

Fadeev - Eagles or Raven, another beautiful ballad performed by Grigory Viktorovich, became a soundtrack for the historical series "Godunov", shot in the year for the Rossiya channel. The singer also lit up in the sensational video of Philip Kirkorov “The color of the mood of the blue”, playing a homeless person in it. Grigory Leps in the clip “The color of the mood of the Blue” in the year Leps sang a duet with Emin Agalarov, the song “Roses”, gave a joint concert with Stas Mikhailov, at which they banged each other’s songs, underwent two operations on the vocal ligaments that Parisian surgeons conducted.

Leps in the “voice” of Leps is a frequent guest on television, and recently not only as a pop artist and participant in annual musical awards. In him, he occupied the mentor’s chair in the Talent Show “Voice” on the Russia channel, compiling the company Raper Baste, Polina Gagarina and Alexander Gradsky. Leps was a mentor in the “voice” the debut was successful - the ward of Leps Hieromonk Fotiy won a confident victory, bypassing Mikhail Ozerov in the final of the team of the old -timer project Alexander Gradsky.

Leps and Hieromonk Photius next season Grigory Viktorovich did not turn on blind auditions to his own daughter Inge Lepsveridze, although her voice recognized. Thus, he did not leave her a chance to compete for victory, surprising not only the spectators, but also the jury members. Leps’s daughter sings on his “voice” but to Alexander Panayotov, who eventually took the second place, he reacted more than loyally, in every possible way took care of him during the competition and undertook to produces after the end of the project.

The producer and businessman on September 29, the official opening of the production center Grigory Leps, designed to help young talented artists, took place to find their way in domestic show business. Leps produces young artists The Center is also engaged in organizing competitions of young talents, music festivals and concerts of popular performers. In parallel with creative and production activities, Grigory Viktorovich is successfully engaged in several business projects, which can be called a favorite hobby, which, moreover, of good financial dividends.

Lepsu owns the Karaoke club “LPS Bar” in Moscow, a joint restaurant with Emin Agalarov “The glass of vodka” in the center of the capital and the recently opened pies at Pyatnitskaya, inside the bar of Grigory Leps, also founded his jewelry house GL Jewelry, which releases stylish jewelry and accessories for men and women, made mainly of silver. A sales hit is an original bracelet in the form of a banditing with engraved words of the prayer “Our Father”.

Such a jewelry can be seen on the hand of Leps himself, the artist also with pleasure gives his name products to friends and colleagues in the stage. Leps owns the jewelry brand another passion of Grigory Viktorovich are sunglasses, which are already more than three hundred in his home collection. It is not surprising that he came up with the idea to engage in design and release of points under his own trademark “LPS Optics”.

Leps a large fan of sunglasses is also a serious connoisseur and collector of icons, some copies from his collection simply have no price. In the year, Leps organized an exhibition in one of the halls of the State Historical Museum - according to experts, the total cost of exhibits amounted to about forty million dollars.