Sinyaya Ptitsa

The Blue Bird
Background information
Origin Gomel, Belarus; Samara, Russia
Genres pop, rock
Years active 1972 – 1991

Sinyaya Ptitsa (Russian: Синяя птица, The Blue Bird) was a Soviet music group, vocal and instrumental ensemble (VIA), which existed from 1972 to 1991. Later, several Russian musical groups created by former members of the original band took the name Sinyaya Ptitsa.

History

The band formed in 1972 in the city of Gomel (Belarus) as vocal-instrumental ensemble We, you and guitar. In its structure were Sergey Drozdov (at the time - a student of the Gomel Music College Sokolovsky ), Vyacheslav Yatsyna, Valery Pavlov, Boris Belotserkovskii, Yuri Metyolkin, Yakov Tsyporkin and Vladimir Blum. Subsequently, the band was called Voices of Polesie became the winner of the Belarusian national competitions and all-union competition.

In 1978 the ensemble was awarded the All-Union Competition entertainers. In 1986 the group took part in the festival Rock for Peace in the Czech town of Sokolovo, and then sends an address in the location of Soviet troops in Germany.

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Drozdov was one of the recognizable voices in the Soviet Union.[1]

In 1987, Blue Bird participates in the Festival of Soviet-Indian friendship, in February 1988 in favor of the Afghan cities of Kabul, Herat, and Bagram, and also gives a lot of concerts for the troops of the Soviet Army in Poland. In the summer of 1991, a group arranges tours to the United States, has returned to the team in the fall to another new country. This ended the life of the group in the same composition.

Composition VIA Blue Bird (1972-1991)

  • Valentin Barkov (bass guitar, vocals)
  • Yuri Bankovsky (violin)
  • Boris Belotserkovsky (drums)
  • Robert Bolotny (saxophone)
  • Michail Bolotny (mus. head, keyboards)
  • Victor Varvalyuk (drums)
  • Eugene Voynov (vocals)
  • Oleg Gazmanov (sound engineer)
  • Dmitry Galitsky (keyboards)
  • Vladimir Gaponov (guitar)
  • Eduard Deyneko (trumpet)
  • Igor Dotsenko (drums)
  • Sergey Drozdov (bass guitar, vocals)
  • Yevgeny Zavyalov (vocals)
  • Alexander Zverovich (vocals)
  • Sergei Kastorsky (keyboards)
  • Oleg Kolesnichenko (vocals)
  • Alexey Komarov (drums)
  • Yacov Kulishevsky (vocals)
  • Svetlana Lazareva (vocals)
  • Sergei Levkin (guitar, vocals)
  • Vitaliy Loos (trombone)
  • Gennady Matviyenko (guitar)
  • Valery Melnikov (trumpet)
  • Yuri Metelkin (vocals)
  • Alexander Mostovoy (guitar)
  • Anatoly Murygin (guitar)
  • Lev Panin (violin)
  • Nikolai Parfenyuk (vocals)
  • Vladimir Preobrazhensky (vocals)
  • Valery Pronin (violin)
  • Alexander Pruzhinin (keyboards)
  • Victor Ryabkov (vocals)
  • Anna Salmina (vocals)
  • Igor Sarukhanov (guitar, vocals)
  • Vladimir Ulyanov (violin)
  • Yuri Humaryan (guitar)
  • Igor Shablovsky (guitar)
  • Vladimir Shurigin (guitar)
  • Valery Yushchenko (vocals)
  • Jury Janin (guitar)

References

  1. ↑ В Тамбове умер солист Синей птицы Сергей Дроздов — Антон Валагин (in Russian)
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