In those years, the novice bard did not yet know how to work on the word, moreover, he did not consider it necessary. He doesn’t remember his early songs and never performs them, although he wrote more than a hundred songs during that period.
The company surrounding him was quite serious. It was these people who inspired Mikhail to begin studying academic wisdom. It was they who made it clear to the aspiring bard that none of them would take him seriously and would not communicate with him on an equal basis until he graduated from the University. Shcherbakov didn’t care where exactly to enroll. Moscow State University was considered the best among all. That's where Mikhail went. It was also important for him that this university was located not far from the Kievsky railway station. For him, as a newcomer, this factor mattered. He was nineteen when he became a student at Moscow State University, entering the Faculty of Philology. Shcherbakov received his graduation diploma in 1988. Bard recalls that he studied without honors. Studying at the University had a positive effect on him, since at that time he read a lot.
The beginning of the career of singer Mikhail Shcherbakov
After graduating from Moscow State University, Mikhail Shcherbakov became a professional singer-songwriter. He started performing at concerts. Sometimes these were solo performances, sometimes together with Mikhail Starodubtsev. They made recordings with the same Starodubtsev.Throughout his life, this poet and performer earned exclusively literary work. Although immediately after Moscow State University he worked for a short time in the position artistic director one of musical groups, something he doesn’t want and is even ashamed to remember.
The genre in which Shcherbakov works, he himself simply calls “song,” without going into concepts such as “art song” or “homemade song.”
The word bard is not very applicable to Shcherbakov; it is “narrow” for him. It would be more correct to call him a poet who serves the cause of poetry. He understands his work as a kind of mission, treats it with full responsibility, putting forward high demands on quality.
Shcherbakov started very early and immediately powerfully. Already from his first songs it became clear that he was a talented author and performer. Since he, none of the bards started. Michael asserted his own personality, his own theme and his own intonation. This theme and intonation turned out to be clear and close to the eighties, since his songs express their inner world, one might say, the world, if not of an entire generation, then of a considerable part of it.
Mikhail Shcherbakov - Trumpeter
Mikhail Shcherbakov is an established bard, whose poetry and music are indissoluble. He has found his audience, which continues to expand.
Shcherbakov never gives interviews; he believes that journalists invade his personal life. Because of this, little is known about some of his views on some things and events, about some details of his life. Yuliy Kim speaks of Shcherbakov as an assertive and convincing bard. Bulat Okudzhava said that this bard has prospects. And Alexander Dulov was surprised that with such complex verses, Shcherbakov had a huge number of admirers. His work continues to cause heated debate. Opinions about him are different, even opposite.
Shcherbakov has said more than once that he began to write under the influence of Kim. Some early poems clearly confirm this.
Mikhail Shcherbakov - Cherry jam
It must be said that in the eighties all intellectual youth were familiar with his work. He himself never joined any communities, did not participate in competitions or festivals. Its theme is the meaning of life, love and death. The text of his songs cannot be retold in shorter terms than the author wrote, and his melodies are practically irreproducible.
Mikhail Shcherbakov currently
Shcherbakov constantly researches and studies the Russian language, as well as the peculiarities of its sound, all of which is reflected in the sound of his poems. For example, he likes the way iambic sounds when it is sung rather than spoken. It can be said about the work of early Shcherbakov that he was guided by Russian classics, its imagery and themes. In later works this connection with Russian classics is more noticeable; in them one can hear both Chekhovian sadness and Tolstoyan detachment. Despite the fact that Shcherbakov’s language is sensitive to innovation, it is rich in exquisite archaic phrases of the past and the centuries before last.
It can be said that Shcherbakov's style is focused on the plasticity of imagination and the demonstration of the richness of language. The songs of this bard may seem difficult to understand, but how could they be so popular if they were too complex.
Personal life of Mikhail Shcherbakov
Shcherbakov lives and writes in Moscow. Very little is known about his personal life, since the poet himself refuses interviews.Mikhail Konstantinovich devotes all his time and himself to writing poetry. He can be called a 100% bard, since in life this is his only occupation.
`Not a word in simplicity...`
Mikhail Shcherbakov was cunning, oh, cunning - his songs are simple, simple and understandable. And what his sung words add up to is also clear and quite simple. It just seems that Shcherbakov’s songs are complex - if they were complex, this generally quiet genius would not have such loud and formidable popularity. It seems that the rhythm of his verse is complex - look how easily imitators follow him, follow him, how easily lovers of his songs adopt...
A decade and a half ago, his guitar clearly and distinctly declared that the author’s song has not only a glorious past - Vysotsky and Vizbor, not only a present and a continuous one - Kim and Ivasi - but also a brilliant future.
It was Shcherbakov who led this future, and it was his “Cherry Jam” that Bulat Okudzhava called new classics author's song.
It is believed that the determining influence on creative manner Shcherbakov was assisted by Vysotsky and Kim. Having plucked up the impudence, I will note that this statement does not carry any semantic load - like, indeed, any “commonplace”. Vysotsky and Kim had a decisive influence on everyone who listened and heard their songs. In Shcherbakov’s work, I, frankly, don’t see any features inherent in Vysotsky’s songs at all (Vysotsky, as a rule, had a more human-forming influence on people than a song-forming one). But with Kim’s songs, Shcherbakov’s chansons have at least one very significant common feature- absolute freedom of text and melody.
Both Yuliy Chersanovich and Mikhail Konstantinovich are amazingly incompatible with any widespread and, dare I say it, generally accepted schemes. However, if Kim’s disdain for stereotypes is expressed in the colloquialism and emphasized dramaturgy of his songs (the rhyme is not danced - to hell with it, really! normal people they still speak in prose), then in Shcherbakov this freedom is akin to the absolute looseness and relaxation of a fencer who flawlessly wields a sword. A sharp and irreversible change of melody, a hot break in poetic meter, inexplicable metamorphoses lyrical hero- and all this right in the middle of the song...
Perhaps it is precisely because of this indescribable grace that Shcherbakov is considered “complex”? Come on, if his song, his poetry and melody are accepted by almost any audience from the very first performance, what difficulty is this?..
Complex rhyme gives special beauty, harmony and simplicity to Shcherbakov’s texts. Intraline rhyme, for example.
And, no matter what he weaves, no matter where the governor leads,
Wait, how much water, how much trouble will flow away...
The rhyme is paradoxical and compound:
A la guerre comme a la guerre, yes.
Let Gerda cry.
And from these tears let
A rose bush grows...
By the way, there was another great bard who mastered rhyme, played hide and seek and recognition with it - Leonid Semakov. Some of Shcherbakov’s lines are constructed almost according to Semakov’s patterns - but, God, how different the intonations of these authors are - a frank mocking challenge of an outcast against the coldish grace of an aesthete! No, no, I swear again - there is no need for comparisons, the good thing about an original song is that it is diverse.
By the way, Shcherbakov’s popularity among art song lovers has given rise to a phenomenal situation - his songs at times literally “monopolize” this environment; Shcherbakov’s songs are sung almost exclusively. There was even a protest saying: “What if we could sing something like this, but not Shcherbakov...” I myself, having fallen under the spell of these songs in the early nineties, almost abandoned my own creativity and switched to performing; Shcherbakov’s songs were eighty percent in my repertoire. It was a creative near-death. In order to break free from the influence of the author of “The Trumpeter,” I finally had to write a song a la Shcherbakov:
I was not a liar - but I was afraid of the truth,
And, preferring to serve other people's words,
I forgot my bitter ballads
And he sang someone else's dead heads...
Despite the fact that the whole song from start to finish was imitative, I still like it - maybe just because of its similarity to Shcherbakov’s. And - like is cured by like - then I managed to make the immense admiration for Shcherbakov’s songs a little less global, and instead of almost the only one, he again became one of many.
Now you laugh - but for me it was a real victory. Getting out of addiction, finding freedom.
Learn from my experience. Don't let genius dominate you - it will crush you...
In general, the widest popularity of Shcherbakov’s recordings is precisely the recordings, this is significant! - makes me extremely happy. At a time when television monopolized the information environment, at a time when immediacy and caries reign on the airwaves, at a time when eighty percent of traffic on the Internet is porn - in these troubled times It turns out that you can be the master of thoughts thanks to tape recorders and players.
Maybe this is a sign that a completely different life is possible...
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Mikhail Konstantinovich Shcherbakov is a Russian poet, author, and performer of his own works. He composes poems, for which he has written songs since 1979, published in various formats: audio cassettes, CDs, as well as books with lyrics. He is still creative to this day.
Biography of Mikhail Konstantinovich Shcherbakov: childhood and the beginning of creative activity
The poet and singer was born on March 27, 1963 in the city of Obninsk Kaluga region 105 kilometers from Moscow. He studied at one of the schools of his hometown, from which he graduated in 1980. According to Mikhail himself, the poet became interested in creativity already in the eighth grade, and then he began to create songs on serious topics. Shcherbakov made his first recordings on last year training in educational institution. However, the poet almost does not remember what he wrote about in childhood. The great successes in Mikhail’s work were influenced by his environment: these were serious people who were a source of inspiration and encouraged him to graduate from university in order to receive a good education. Thus, he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow University in the Department of Russian Language and Literature, having studied there for 6 years. Studying did him good, because at that time the poet was fond of books, read them in large quantities.
Career
After graduating from university, Mikhail took the matter seriously: he began performing professionally on stage with his works. Sometimes he performed them alone, and sometimes together with his namesake, colleague, duet partner, playing different instruments, Mikhail Starodubtsev, with whom he even made recordings together.
Shcherbakov simply called his genre “song”, without unnecessary descriptions and specifics. The works contained only his intonation, idea, personality, where the inner world of the author himself was expressed. At first glance, his work may seem complex, but that is why it is so popular among people.
Performances and first collections
Since the 1980s, Mikhail’s works began to gain popularity, and for the first time he performed on stage in front of an audience and released some of the first collections. These are: “Cherry Jam” (1994), “Another Life” (1994), “Balagan 2” (1996, 2001), “City City” (1996), “It Must Happen” (1996) and more than 20 collections .
Reviews of Shcherbakov’s activities
Yuliy Chersanovich Kim - Soviet and Russian poet, composer and screenwriter expressed his opinion about Mikhail Konstantinovich Shcherbakov. In his speech before Shcherbakov’s concert, he admitted that he puts the poet on a par with such famous personalities in Russian poetry, like Joseph Brodsky and David Samoilov. Julius Kirsanovich admires the fact that Mikhail devotes his entire life to writing poetry, without being distracted by extraneous matters or doing anything else. According to Kim, the poet does not need teachers, he is rather a master himself. Julius even dedicated several poems to Mikhail Konstantinovich.
Bulat Okudzhava, a famous talented poet, also spoke positively about Shcherbakov’s work, emphasizing that Mikhail Konstantinovich revived the genre of the art song, slightly transforming it for the better.
There are also negative reviews about the poet’s work, which are mainly aimed at the fact that Mikhail devoted himself to a genre (art song), the popularity of which has long weakened. However, most figures believe that it was Shcherbakov who gave him a “second wind” by writing such life works, which not everyone can understand unless they think about it.
Present tense
Mikhail devotes himself entirely to poetic activity. He "serves poetry." In works late creativity Shcherbakov focuses on Russian classic literature. Between 2012 and 2018, the poet wrote more than 30 songs and released several discs. He also continues to give public performances, delighting audiences with his thoughtful and unique performances.
Currently, the poet is engaged in creative work and lives in Moscow. Now on the Internet and in social networks you can even find many photos of Mikhail Konstantinovich Shcherbakov, where you can see how he completely and completely devotes himself to the career of a poet and does this with love and pleasure.
Personal life of the poet
Since Shcherbakov refuses to give interviews to journalists, almost nothing is known about his personal life. One thing is clear: he plunged headlong into creativity, completely devoted himself to a business that is both a hobby and a job for him.
Interesting facts about Mikhail Konstantinovich Shcherbakov
- Performing on stage, composing texts and performing them is the main and only source of income for the poet. That is, he makes money through his creative activities, and he does a great job.
- Mikhail does not like giving interviews; he believes that journalists and interviewers should not intrude into people’s personal lives, so there is no information about Shcherbakov’s views and ideals.
- At the university where Shcherbakov studied, he worked for a short time as the artistic director of a musical group, but the poet is ashamed and does not want to talk about it.
Biography
He performs at concerts solo (with an acoustic guitar), or with the participation of Mikhail Starodubtsev ( acoustic guitar, piano, backing vocals), with whom he has been collaborating since 1981. All recordings are also made with the participation of Starodubtsev, mainly with a synthesizer (since the mid-1990s). Shcherbakov sometimes takes part in Yuliy Kim's recordings and concerts.
Discography
Number albums
They were released in the first half of the 1990s only on cassettes; almost all the material was subsequently re-recorded and published on CD:
- 1 - songs 1981-1985, recording 1985
- 2 - songs from 1983-1986, recordings from the early 1990s
- 3 - songs from 1987-1990, recordings from the early 1990s
- 4 - songs from 1989-1990, recordings from the early 1990s
- 5 - songs 1991-1993, recordings from the mid-1990s
- 6 - songs 1989-1994, recordings from the mid-1990s
- 7 - songs from 1993-1994, recordings from the mid-1990s
- 8 - songs from 1982, 1990 and 1994-1995, recordings from the mid-1990s
Albums from the mid-1990s
- Cherry jam (1994) - songs 1983-1988, recording 1990 (© State Enterprise Melodiya), acoustics
- Another Life (1994) - songs 1986-1994, recordings 1993-1994.
- Balagan 2 (1996) - songs 1983-1993, recording 1996 (© “EXIT Branch”), acoustics
- City City (1996) - songs from 1993-1995, recordings from 1994-95.
- This Must Happen (1996) - songs 1986-1994, recordings 1992-1995.
- Spell (1996) - songs from 1982 and 1989-1995, recordings from 1992-1995.
- I Erected a Monument (1996) - songs 1985-1991, recording 1996
- Whole Summer (1997) - songs 1995-1996, recording 1996
Much of the material from these albums was subsequently re-recorded or re-released on other albums.
Albums with new material (with synthesizer)
- False Step (1999) - songs 1997-1998, recording 1998
- Déjà (2000) - songs 1998-2000, recording 1999-2000.
- If (2003) - songs 1999-2002, recording 2002
- Regional center (2006) - songs 2003-2005, recording 2005
- Other people's music and more
- part 1 (2010) - songs 2006-2010, recording 2008-2010. with 5 bonus tracks (from the album “If”)
- part 2 (2013) - songs from 2006-2013, recording from 2013 with 4 bonus tracks (3 from the album “If”, 1 - new)
- part 3 (2015) - songs from 2006-2015, recording from 2015 with 7 bonus tracks (all the remaining ones not re-released from the album “If”)
- Round dance (2017) - songs 2010-2017.
Archival records
- Chanson (1999) - songs 1981-1983, recordings 1983-1985, released by Igor Gryzlov (as noted on the disc cover - with the connivance of the author)
- Tireless Ark 1 (2001) - songs 1983-1990, recordings 1987-1990, acoustics
- Tireless Ark 2 (2001) - songs 1983-1990, recording 1990, acoustics
- Balagan 2 (2001), re-release of the album "Balagan 2" (1996) with a bonus track (6 songs, recorded in 1996)
New recordings of old songs
(with synthesizer, except for the album “Favorites, part 2”)
- Favorites, part 1 (1999) - songs 1982-1996, recorded 1999
- Favorites, part 2 (2000) - songs 1983-1999, recorded in 2000, acoustic
- Once (2002) - a new version album “City City”, with a changed order of songs and a bonus track (1 song), recordings from 1999 (from the album “Favorites, Part 1”) and 2001.
- On Foot from the East (2004) - songs from 1982-1995, recordings from 1999 (from the album “Favorites, Part 1”) and 2003.
- Suppose (2004) - songs from 1982-1995, recordings from 1999 (from the album “Favorites, Part 1”) and 2003.
- Whole Summer (2005) - new version of the album, recordings from 1999 (from the album “Favorites, Part 1”) and 2004-2005, with bonus tracks (3 instrumental compositions, remade from songs from 1980-1984)
Collections
In 2003, Shcherbakov’s collection was released in the series “Russian Bards” (MOROZ RECORDS), composed of recordings from the albums “Favorites, Part 1”, “Once”, “False Step”, “Déjà”.
Stages of the creative path
- 1978-1981 - more than 100 songs were written, most of which the author considers “non-existent”. These songs, as a rule, are not included in his current repertoire.
- 1982-1988 - about 100 songs were written, 80 of them were subsequently published on CD, the author continues to perform about 20 songs from this period at concerts, sometimes apologizing for the imperfection of the lyrics; About 10 poems of this period are known that did not become songs.
- 1989-1995 - about 130 songs were written, 128 of them were published on CD; The books “Cherry Jam”, “There Was No Poison” (both 1990), “Another Life” (1996) were published.
- 1996-2005 - 80 songs were written and published (by spring 2006); New recordings of about 120 previously written songs have also been published.
- 2006-2011 - 18 new songs were written and performed at concerts, 11 of which were included in the album. The book “Thirteen Discs” (2007) was published.
- 2012-2017 - 27 new songs were written, performed at concerts with varying frequency and released on CD.
Criticism
I am especially flattered by the mention next to Shcherbakov, whom I consider an unconditional genius, the main phenomenon in modern Russian poetry, without any discounts on the genre. He may not have moved the song forward, but it was poetry that moved forward, inventing his crazy prosody, and the guitar only helped him. True, I don’t think that we have direct similarities,<...>- but if there is, it’s happiness.
Man was conceived with the expectation of difficult times, hoping to be the best bard in Russia... But then Russia turned into something unclear, and the bards became something unknown. And Shcherbakov chose this path - he goes into some very distant spheres, very bravely experiments with meter and rhythm. Yes, he has many failures, but nothing can be done - the person develops.
The fact is that the word “bard” to Mikhail Shcherbakov, oddly enough, is not as easily applicable as to many of the well-known names I have already listed. The word "bard" is a little too narrow for him. Of course, first of all, he is a poet. And his attitude to business is called a very high and, it seems to me, very precise word: “service.”<<...>> This is more than a poetic need to write poems and songs. This is the concept of your business as a kind of mission, with very high responsibility and with a very high requirement for the quality of this business. This is what, it seems to me, distinguishes Misha from this general brotherhood of bards.
Name:
Mikhail Shcherbakov
Zodiac sign:
Aries
Eastern horoscope:
Rabbit
Place of Birth:
Obninsk
Activity:
singer-songwriter, poet
Weight:
68 kg
Height:
170 cm
Biography of Mikhail Shcherbakov
The childhood of Mikhail Shcherbakov
Mikhail was born in Obninsk. He studied at the fourth Obninsk school and graduated from it in 1980. Already in the eighth grade, as Shcherbakov says, he began to write serious songs. In his last year, he began to make his first recordings, as there was always a need to listen to himself from the outside. To his surprise, all the recordings were instantly sold out.
In those years, the novice bard did not yet know how to work on the word, moreover, he did not consider it necessary. He doesn’t remember his early songs and never performs them, although he wrote more than a hundred songs during that period.
The company surrounding him was quite serious. It was these people who inspired Mikhail to begin studying academic wisdom. It was they who made it clear to the aspiring bard that none of them would take him seriously and would not communicate with him on an equal basis until he graduated from the University. Shcherbakov didn’t care where exactly to enroll. Moscow State University was considered the best among all. That's where Mikhail went. It was also important for him that this university was located not far from the Kievsky railway station. For him, as a newcomer, this factor mattered. He was nineteen when he became a student at Moscow State University, entering the Faculty of Philology. Shcherbakov received his graduation diploma in 1988. Bard recalls that he studied without honors. Studying at the University had a positive effect on him, since at that time he read a lot.
The beginning of the career of singer Mikhail Shcherbakov
After graduating from Moscow State University, Mikhail Shcherbakov became a professional singer-songwriter. He started performing at concerts. Sometimes these were solo performances, sometimes together with Mikhail Starodubtsev. They made recordings with the same Starodubtsev.
Singer Mikhail Shcherbakov went on tour throughout the country
All his life, this poet and performer earned money exclusively from literary work. Although immediately after Moscow State University he worked for a short time as the artistic director of one of the musical groups, which he does not want and is even ashamed to remember.
The genre in which Shcherbakov works, he himself simply calls “song,” without going into concepts such as “art song” or “homemade song.”
The word bard is not very applicable to Shcherbakov; it is “narrow” for him. It would be more correct to call him a poet who serves the cause of poetry. He understands his work as a kind of mission, treats it with full responsibility, putting forward high demands on quality.
Shcherbakov started very early and immediately powerfully. Already from his first songs it became clear that he was a talented author and performer. Since he, none of the bards started. Michael asserted his own personality, his own theme and his own intonation. This theme and intonation turned out to be clear and close to the eighties, since his songs express their inner world, one might say - the world, if not of an entire generation, then of a considerable part of it.
Mikhail Shcherbakov - Trumpeter
Mikhail Shcherbakov is an established bard, whose poetry and music are indissoluble. He has found his audience, which continues to expand.
Shcherbakov never gives interviews; he believes that journalists invade his personal life. Because of this, little is known about some of his views on some things and events, about some details of his life. Yuliy Kim speaks of Shcherbakov as an assertive and convincing bard. Bulat Okudzhava said that this bard has prospects. And Alexander Dulov was surprised that with such complex verses, Shcherbakov had a huge number of admirers. His work continues to cause heated debate. Opinions about him are different, even opposite.
Shcherbakov has said more than once that he began to write under the influence of Kim. Some early poems clearly confirm this.
Mikhail Shcherbakov - Cherry jam
It must be said that in the eighties all intellectual youth were familiar with his work. He himself never joined any communities, did not participate in competitions or festivals.
Its theme is the meaning of life, love and death. The text of his songs cannot be retold in shorter terms than the author wrote, and his melodies are practically irreproducible.
Mikhail Shcherbakov currently
Shcherbakov constantly researches and studies the Russian language, as well as the peculiarities of its sound, all of which is reflected in the sound of his poems. For example, he likes the way iambic sounds when it is sung rather than spoken.
It can be said about the work of early Shcherbakov that he was guided by Russian classics, its imagery and themes. In later works this connection with Russian classics is more noticeable; in them one can hear both Chekhovian sadness and Tolstoyan detachment. Despite the fact that Shcherbakov’s language is sensitive to innovation, it is rich in exquisite archaic phrases of the past and the centuries before last.
Mikhail Shcherbakov writes the words for his songs himself
It can be said that Shcherbakov's style is focused on the plasticity of imagination and the demonstration of the richness of language.
The songs of this bard may seem difficult to understand, but how could they be so popular if they were too complex.
Personal life of Mikhail Shcherbakov
Shcherbakov lives and writes in Moscow. Very little is known about his personal life, since the poet himself refuses interviews.
Mikhail Konstantinovich devotes all his time and himself to writing poetry. He can be called a 100% bard, since in life this is his only occupation.
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