(1998-2009, 2018-)
Timofey Pronkin
(1998-)
Oksana Oleshko
(1998-2003, 2018-)
Marina Drozhdina
(2016-)
participants
(2003-2005)
Maria Demidova
(2005-2006)
Ekaterina Lee
(2006-2010)
Kirill Kolgushkin
(2009-2011)
Olesya Lipchanskaya
(2010-2016)
Vyacheslav Samarin
(2012)
The official founding date of the group is August 2, 1998. From that day on, Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and fashion model Oksana Oleshko began working together over the filming of a video clip for the composition “Not Given,” which was filmed in St. Petersburg. It is noteworthy that the participants did not meet each other until this moment and did not know each other. The chorus of the song “The Seventh Petal,” which is in the “Hi-Fi” repertoire, was composed by rock singer Zemfira. The first version of the song was originally on English language, called “Get to stand after falling” and was recorded back in 1997 for the Orbita group, in which Mitya Fomin himself participated. Later, from this very first version, the song “Not Given” appeared [ ] .
At the beginning of 2003, Oksana Oleshko left the group, devoting herself to her family. Found two weeks later new soloist, she became a professional model Tatyana Tereshina. The first soloist of the pop group “VIA Gra” Alena Vinnitskaya was also offered to replace Oksana Oleshko, but despite much persuasion from the producers, the singer flatly refused. In May 2005, Tereshina was forced to leave the group. At the beginning of 2006, a student of the jazz department, Ekaterina Lee, was approved for the role of soloist.
At the beginning of 2009, against the background of the decline in popularity of “Hi-Fi” for the sake of solo career Mitya Fomin left the team, tired of “animating” Pavel Yesenin. He was replaced by new member- Kirill Kolgushkin, but the actual frontman of the group was Timofey Pronkin.
In February 2010, Ekaterina Lee announced her departure from the team for “greater self-realization on stage.” Later she became the lead singer of the group “Factory” instead of the departed Sati Casanova. In March 2010, after passing the casting, a new soloist Olesya Lipchanskaya joined the team.
In April 2011, Kirill Kolgushkin announced his intention to leave the team. In February 2012, Vyacheslav Samarin became the new soloist of the group. The band’s repertoire included several of his songs, one of which, “Don’t Leave,” had a video shot. However, Vyacheslav left the group in October of the same year.
In December 2016, a new soloist, Marina Drozhdina, appeared in the group, and until April 2018, the Hi-Fi group was a duet of Timofey Pronkin and Marina Drozhdina.
In April 2018, Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko appeared on the Olimpiysky stage for the first time in 10 years in the golden lineup of the Hi-Fi group. Sergei Zhukov invited them to perform as guests at the concert “Hands Up! " Mitya Fomin also reported that they recorded several new songs. On April 25, it was announced on the group’s official website that the golden lineup was preparing to film a new video clip. On September 6, the group performed in gold on the show “Murzilki Live” on the radio station “Autoradio”, where they performed some of their previous compositions and also presented new song- “Wake me up” with vocals by Pavel Yesenin and Mitya Fomin. On December 20, 2018, a music video was released for the song "Wake Me Up".
Composition of the group
| Period | Compound | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08.1998-02.2003 | Timofey Pronkin | Mitya Fomin | Oksana Oleshko | |
| 02.2003-05.2005 | Tatiana Tereshina | |||
| 05.2005-02.2006 | ||||
| 02.2006-12.2008 | Ekaterina Lee | |||
| 12.2008-02.2009 | ||||
| 02.2009-02.2010 | Kirill Kolgushkin | Ekaterina Lee | ||
| 02.2010-03.2010 | ||||
| 03.2010-04.2011 | Olesya Lipchanskaya | |||
| 04.2011-02.2012 | ||||
| 02.2012-09.2012 | Vyacheslav Samarin | |||
| 09.2012-12.2016 | ||||
| 12.2016-present V. | Marina Drozhdina | |||
| 04.2018-present V. | Mitya Fomin | Marina Drozhdina | Oksana Oleshko | |
Timofey Pronkin
Olesya Lipchanskaya
participants
The band's songs have repeatedly topped Russian charts. In 2005, the group became a laureate of the Muz-TV 2005 Award in the category “Best Dance Project”.
Story
Pavel Yesenin himself planned to become the soloist of “Hi-Fi,” but deciding that touring life would not leave time for composing music, he abandoned this idea, and Mitya Fomin became the frontman of the group. However, Yesenin did not like Fomin’s vocals, and he began to sing for him on the group’s recordings.
The official founding date of the group is August 2, 1998. From this day on, artists Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko began working together on filming a video clip for the song “Not Given”. It is noteworthy that until this moment the participants had not crossed paths with each other and were not familiar: Fomin worked as a pediatrician, Pronkin as a stripper in a gay club, Oleshko as an employee of a karaoke bar.
At the end of 2008, against the background of the decline in the popularity of “Hi-Fi,” Mitya Fomin, tired of “animating” Pavel Yesenin, left the band for a solo career. He is replaced by a new member - Kirill Kolgushkin, but Timofey Pronkin becomes the de facto leader of the group.
In February 2010, Ekaterina Lee announced her departure from the team for “greater self-realization on stage.” Later she became the lead singer of the Fabrika group instead of the departed Sati Casanova. In March 2010, after passing the casting, a new soloist Olesya Lipchanskaya joined the team.
In April 2011, Kirill Kolgushkin announced his intention to leave the team. In February 2012, Vyacheslav Samarin became the new soloist of the group. The band’s repertoire included his song “Don’t Leave,” for which a video was shot. However, Vyacheslav left the group in October of the same year.
Today the Hi-Fi group is a duet of Timofey Pronkin and Olesya Lipchanskaya.
Composition of the group
| Period | Compound | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 08.1998-02.2003 | Timofey Pronkin | Mitya Fomin | Oksana Oleshko |
| 02.2003-05.2005 | Tatiana Tereshina | ||
| 05.2005-02.2006 | |||
| 02.2006-12.2008 | Ekaterina Lee | ||
| 12.2008-02.2009 | |||
| 02.2009-02.2010 | Kirill Kolgushkin | Ekaterina Lee | |
| 02.2010-03.2010 | |||
| 03.2010-04.2011 | Olesya Lipchanskaya | ||
| 04.2011-02.2012 | |||
| 02.2012-09.2012 | Vyacheslav Samarin | ||
| 09.2012-present | |||
Discography
- - First contact
- - Reproduction
- - Remember
- - New collection 2002 D&J Remixes
- - Best
Video clips
| Year | Clip | Compound | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not given | Timofey Pronkin, Mitya Fomin, Oksana Oleshko | First contact | |
| Homeless child | First contact, Reproduction | ||
| About summer | Reproduction | ||
| Black Raven | |||
| Foolish people | Remember | ||
| And we loved | Remember, Best | ||
| I love | |||
| Trouble | Timofey Pronkin, Mitya Fomin, Tatyana Tereshina | ||
| In the footsteps | Timofey Pronkin, Mitya Fomin, Ekaterina Lee | ||
| Seventh Petal (remix) | |||
| The right to happiness | |||
| We are not angels | |||
| It is time | Timofey Pronkin, Kirill Kolgushkin, Ekaterina Li | ||
| Forgotten September | |||
| Time has no power | Timofey Pronkin, Kirill Kolgushkin, Olesya Lipchanskaya | ||
| I am there | |||
| Do not leave | Timofey Pronkin, Vyacheslav Samarin, Olesya Lipchanskaya |
Awards
"Golden Gramophone Award"
- - “Golden Gramophone” for the song “Black Raven”
- - “Golden Gramophone” for the song “Follow me”
- - “Golden Gramophone” for the song “Secondary School No. 7 (And we loved)”
- - “Golden Gramophone” for the song “The Seventh Petal”
"Muz-TV Award"
- - “Muz-TV Award” “The most fashionable group” (World Fashion TV)
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Notes
Links
- - official website of the Hi-Fi group
- www.hifigroup.narod.ru/ - Website about the Hi-Fi group
- on "Yandex.Music"
An excerpt characterizing Hi-Fi (group)
“Well, okay,” Denisov said. And, turning to his subordinates, he made orders that the party should go to the resting place appointed at the guardhouse in the forest and that an officer on a Kyrgyz horse (this officer served as an adjutant) should go to look for Dolokhov, to find out where he was and whether he would come in the evening . Denisov himself, with the esaul and Petya, intended to drive up to the edge of the forest overlooking Shamshev in order to look at the location of the French, at which tomorrow’s attack was to be directed.“Well, God,” he turned to the peasant conductor, “take me to Shamshev.”
Denisov, Petya and the esaul, accompanied by several Cossacks and a hussar who was carrying a prisoner, drove to the left through the ravine, to the edge of the forest.
The rain passed, only fog and drops of water fell from tree branches. Denisov, Esaul and Petya silently rode behind a man in a cap, who, lightly and silently stepping with his bast-clad feet on roots and wet leaves, led them to the edge of the forest.
Coming out onto the trail, the man paused, looked around and headed towards the thinning wall of trees. At a large oak tree that had not yet shed its leaves, he stopped and mysteriously beckoned to him with his hand.
Denisov and Petya drove up to him. From the place where the man stopped, the French were visible. Now, behind the forest, a spring field ran down a semi-hillock. To the right, across a steep ravine, a small village and a manor house with collapsed roofs could be seen. In this village and in the manor's house, and throughout the hillock, in the garden, at the wells and pond, and along the entire road up the mountain from the bridge to the village, no more than two hundred fathoms away, crowds of people were visible in the fluctuating fog. Their non-Russian screams at the horses in the carts struggling up the mountain and calls to each other could be clearly heard.
“Give the prisoner here,” Denisop said quietly, without taking his eyes off the French.
The Cossack got off his horse, took the boy off and walked up to Denisov with him. Denisov, pointing to the French, asked what kind of troops they were. The boy, putting his chilled hands in his pockets and raising his eyebrows, looked at Denisov in fear and, despite the visible desire to say everything he knew, was confused in his answers and only confirmed what Denisov was asking. Denisov, frowning, turned away from him and turned to the esaul, telling him his thoughts.
Petya, turning his head with quick movements, looked back at the drummer, then at Denisov, then at the esaul, then at the French in the village and on the road, trying not to miss anything important.
“Pg” is coming, not “pg” is Dolokhov coming, we must fight!.. Eh?” said Denisov, his eyes flashing merrily.
“The place is convenient,” said the esaul.
“We’ll send the infantry down through the swamps,” Denisov continued, “they’ll crawl up to the garden; you will come with the Cossacks from there,” Denisov pointed to the forest behind the village, “and I will come from here, with my ganders. And along the road...
“It won’t be a hollow—it’s a quagmire,” said the esaul. “You’ll get stuck in your horses, you need to go around to the left...
While they were talking in a low voice in this way, below, in the ravine from the pond, one shot clicked, smoke turned white, another, and a friendly, seemingly cheerful cry was heard from hundreds of French voices who were on the half-mountain. In the first minute, both Denisov and the esaul moved back. They were so close that it seemed to them that they were the cause of these shots and screams. But the shots and screams did not apply to them. Below, through the swamps, a man in something red was running. Apparently he was being shot at and shouted at by the French.
“After all, this is our Tikhon,” said the esaul.
- He! they are!
“What a rogue,” Denisov said.
- He will go away! - Esaul said, narrowing his eyes.
The man they called Tikhon, running up to the river, splashed into it so that splashes flew, and, hiding for a moment, all black from the water, he got out on all fours and ran on. The French running after him stopped.
“Well, he’s clever,” said the esaul.
- What a beast! – Denisov said with the same expression of annoyance. – And what has he been doing so far?
- Who is this? – Petya asked.
- This is our plastun. I sent him to take the tongue.
“Oh, yes,” Petya said from Denisov’s first word, nodding his head as if he understood everything, although he absolutely did not understand a single word.
Tikhon Shcherbaty was one of the most the right people in the party. He was a man from Pokrovskoye near Gzhat. When, at the beginning of his actions, Denisov came to Pokrovskoye and, as always, calling the headman, asked what they knew about the French, the headman answered, as all the headmen answered, as if defending themselves, that they didn’t know anything, to know they don't know. But when Denisov explained to them that his goal was to beat the French, and when he asked if the French had wandered in, the headman said that there were definitely marauders, but that in their village only one Tishka Shcherbaty was involved in these matters. Denisov ordered Tikhon to be called to him and, praising him for his activities, said a few words in front of the headman about the loyalty to the Tsar and the Fatherland and the hatred of the French that the sons of the Fatherland should observe.
“We don’t do anything bad to the French,” said Tikhon, apparently timid at Denisov’s words. “That’s the only way we fooled around with the guys.” They must have beaten about two dozen Miroders, otherwise we didn’t do anything bad... - The next day, when Denisov, completely forgetting about this guy, left Pokrovsky, he was informed that Tikhon had attached himself to the party and asked to be left with it. Denisov ordered to leave him.
Tikhon, who at first corrected the menial work of laying fires, delivering water, skinning horses, etc., soon showed greater willingness and ability for guerrilla warfare. He went out at night to hunt for prey and each time brought with him French clothes and weapons, and when he was ordered, he also brought prisoners. Denisov dismissed Tikhon from work, began to take him with him on travels and enrolled him in the Cossacks.
Tikhon did not like to ride and always walked, never falling behind the cavalry. His weapons were a blunderbuss, which he wore more for fun, a pike and an ax, which he wielded like a wolf wields his teeth, equally easily picking out fleas from his fur and biting through thick bones. Tikhon equally faithfully, with all his might, split logs with an ax and, taking the ax by the butt, used it to cut out thin pegs and cut out spoons. In Denisov's party, Tikhon occupied his special, exclusive place. When it was necessary to do something especially difficult and disgusting - turn a cart over in the mud with your shoulder, pull a horse out of a swamp by the tail, skin it, climb into the very middle of the French, walk fifty miles a day - everyone pointed, laughing, at Tikhon.
“What the hell is he doing, you big gelding,” they said about him.
Once, the Frenchman whom Tikhon was taking shot at him with a pistol and hit him in the flesh of his back. This wound, for which Tikhon was treated only with vodka, internally and externally, was the subject of the most funny jokes in the whole detachment and jokes, which Tikhon willingly succumbed to.
- What, brother, won’t you? Is Ali crooked? - the Cossacks laughed at him, and Tikhon, deliberately crouching and making faces, pretending that he was angry, scolded the French with the most ridiculous curses. This incident had only the influence on Tikhon that after his wound he rarely brought prisoners.
Tikhon was the most useful and brave man in the party. No one else discovered cases of attack, no one else took him and beat the French; and as a result of this, he was the jester of all the Cossacks and hussars and he himself willingly succumbed to this rank. Now Tikhon was sent by Denisov, at night, to Shamshevo in order to take the tongue. But, either because he was not satisfied with just the Frenchman, or because he slept through the night, during the day he climbed into the bushes, into the very middle of the French and, as Denisov saw from Mount Denisov, was discovered by them.
After talking a little more time with the esaul about tomorrow's attack, which now, looking at the proximity of the French, Denisov seemed to have finally decided, he turned his horse and rode back.
“Well, damn, now let’s go dry off,” he said to Petya.
Approaching the forest guardhouse, Denisov stopped, peering into the forest. Through the forest, between the trees, large with easy steps went to long legs, with long dangling arms, a man in a jacket, bast shoes and a Kazan hat, with a gun over his shoulder and an ax in his belt. Seeing Denisov, this man hastily threw something into the bush and, taking off his wet hat with its drooping brim, approached the boss. It was Tikhon. His face, pitted with smallpox and wrinkles, with small, narrow eyes, shone with self-satisfied gaiety. He raised his head high and, as if holding back laughter, stared at Denisov.
Hi-Fi group "hi-fi" - Russian musical group, founded by composer and arranger Pavel Yesenin, as well as producer and lyricist Eric Chanturia.
The history of Hi-Fi began long before the official date of the creation of the team - August 2, 1998 - in the capital of Siberia. It was in Novosibirsk that the future founders of the group, Pavel Yesenin and Eric Chanturia, met and became friends. After numerous musical experiments (some of them, by the way, were very popular among the Novosibirsk and later Moscow public), it was decided to create a group.The original composition of the group since the formation of the group: Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko.It is noteworthy that until this moment the participants did not intersect with each other, did not know each other, and even recorded in the studio at different times.Today the Hi-Fi group is an established brand, popular trademark.
Both older fans of the 90s and a new generation of viewers who love bright, high-quality and original music get pleasure from the “Hi-Fi” lifestyle.The inspirers and founders of the group, Eric Chanturia and Pavel Yesenin, set the direction of the group’s movement in the mainstream of show business, and the guys are ready for new victories, conquering the charts and, of course, for new meetings with their listeners. The concerts feature the best and most popular Hi-Fi songs of all time. Remembering that life is moving, the producers of the band together with the guys are actively working on new songs in the studio, the production of new ones is already ready dance numbers for a ballet show.The main thing that creative life The group was fresh and full, so that every minute on stage was dedicated to the audience, and new songs this spring sounded in everyone’s heart.On the official website of Vipartist you can get acquainted with the work of the Hi-Fi group, watch photos and new video clips of the group, and use the specified contact numbers to invite the Hi-Fi group with a concert to your event. You can order a hi-fi concert performance for a celebration and, of course, invite a hi-fi band to a corporate event or a wedding.
Pop group Hi-Fi was one of the most sought after musical groups Russia in the early 2000s. Hi-Fi is melodic pop music, experiments with Eurodance and vocal parts that salute the New Age style. This complication of sound, together with lyrics devoid of primitive phrases, allowed the group to create their own brand, which has existed for almost 20 years.
The Hi-Fi group was created in 1998 by Pavel Yesenin (composer and arranger) and Eric Chanturia (producer and lyricist). Pavel Yesenin initially wanted to become a soloist himself, but soon realized that constant touring did not leave time for composing music, so Mitya Fomin was chosen as the frontman. At the same time, Yesenin did not like Fomin’s vocals: Pavel recorded in the studio himself, and a soundtrack was played at concerts. That is why Afisha wrote about the uniqueness of the Hi-Fi pop group, in which none of the participants has anything to do with writing or performing songs.
Together with Mitya Fomin, the original composition of the group included Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko - the trio’s joint work began with the filming of the video “Not Given”, before which the group members did not know each other. In 1999, the video “The Homeless Child” was released, which was at the top of the charts throughout the year. At the same time, the first Hi-Fi album called “First Contact” was released, and a few months later the second record “ReProduction” was released, which included another super hit of the group - “Black Raven”.
The year 2000 for Hi-Fi was marked by the release of the video “Stupid People” - this song remains one of the most recognizable today. In 2001, the album “Remember” was released, as well as a record with remixes “New Collection 2002” or “D&J remixes”.
In 2003, Oksana Oleshko left the group and show business - she decided to devote her life to her family. Two weeks later, her place is taken by professional model Tatyana Tereshina, but in 2005 she also decides to take up solo career. In 2006, Katya Li, a student in the jazz department of the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts, became the soloist of Hi-Fi.
By 2009, the group's popularity was noticeably declining; Mitya Fomin, tired of his role as an animator for Pavel Yesenin's vocals, left the band. Mitya is replaced by Kirill Kolgushkin, but Timofey Pronkin becomes the de facto leader of the team. In 2010, Katya Li left the project, a month later she was replaced by Olesya Lipchanskaya, chosen during the casting, and in 2011, Kirill Kolgushkin left, replaced by Vyacheslav Samarin. The latter lasted only a few months in Hi-Fi, so until December 2016 the group performs as a duet of Timofey Pronkin and Olesya Lipchanskaya. The latter, before the onset of 2017, was replaced by Marina Drozhdina, so today Hi-Fi is a duet between Pronkin and Drozhdina.
Since 2002, Hi-Fi has not released a single full-length record, only compilations, the latest of which are 24 tracks released on four vinyl discs under common name"The best".
Hi-Fi (Hi gh Fi delity - high fidelity sound reproduction) is a Russian musical group founded by composer and arranger Pavel Yesenin, as well as producer and lyricist Eric Chanturia.
The band's songs have repeatedly topped the Russian charts. In 2005, the group became a laureate of the Muz-TV 2005 Award in the category “Best Dance Project”.
Not given, Homeless Child, About Summer, Black Raven, Stupid People, Secondary School 7 (And We Loved), I Love, Trouble, In the Footsteps, The Seventh Petal (remix), The Right to Happiness, We Are Not a...
Story
Pavel Yesenin himself planned to become the soloist of “Hi-Fi”, but deciding that touring life would not leave time for composing music, he abandoned this idea, and Mitya Fomin became the frontman of the group. However, Yesenin did not like Fomin’s vocals, and he began to sing for him on the group’s recordings.
The official founding date of the group is August 2, 1998. From this day on, artists Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko began working together on filming a video clip for the song “Not Given”.
It is noteworthy that until this moment the participants did not intersect with each other, did not know each other, and even recorded in the studio at different times.
At the beginning of 2003, Oksana Oleshko left the group: she decided to leave show business and devote herself entirely to her family. Two weeks later, a new soloist was found, she became the professional model Tanya Tereshina.
In May 2005, Tatyana Tereshina decides to pursue a solo career and leaves the group. At the beginning of 2006, Katya Li, a student of the jazz department of the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts, was appointed to the role of soloist.
At the beginning of 2009, against the backdrop of the decline in Hi-Fi’s popularity, Mitya Fomin, tired of “animating” Pavel Yesenin, left the band for a solo career. He is replaced by a new member - Kirill Kolgushkin, but Timofey Pronkin becomes the de facto leader of the group.
In February 2010, Ekaterina Lee announced her departure from the team for “greater self-realization on stage.” Later she became the lead singer of the Fabrika group instead of the departed Sati Casanova. In March 2010, after passing the casting, a new soloist Olesya Lipchanskaya joined the team.
In April 2011, Kirill Kolgushkin announced his intention to leave the team.
In February 2012, Vyacheslav Samarin became the new soloist of the group, however, he left the group in October of the same year.