The propaganda group is burly. The soloist of “Propaganda” is in slavery to the producer

The three soloists of the Propaganda group - Vika Petrenko, Vika Voronina and Yulia Garanina - became widely known to the public in the early 2000s. This happened largely due to their bright appearance and charismatic performance. But not without the help of producer Sergei Izotov, the Propaganda group attracted the attention of a multi-million Russian audience.

How it all began...

Before the girls gained popularity, they had to go through a lot of disappointments and difficulties. I had to make a living by performing at New Year's parties. The girls worked as clowns and life-size puppets, and hung around the old Arbat, performing their own songs.

A. Kozin, director of a famous recording studio, accidentally drew the attention of one of these performances. A few days later, the Propaganda group was introduced to producer S. Izotov. He helped the band record their first hit and brought them to the big stage. This is how the composition “Chalk” became known to the general public.

Lineup change

But staying in one team in the harsh conditions of show business turned out to be difficult. At one of the performances, viewers noticed that the Propaganda group had changed its composition. Instead of three girls, two appeared on stage, and one was completely unknown. Fans were explained that Victoria Petrenko left the group as a result of a split and “inconsistency” with the moral character of the pop stars.

Following her, Julia left the team. As one would expect, the renewed Propaganda group, whose composition has changed, also changed its image.

The new girls - Olga Moreva and Irina Yakovleva - worked on their appearance, worked on new songs and recorded their first album with great difficulty.

At the top of popularity

The album appeared in 2002 and was called “Children”. Following it, a remix album was released. The Propaganda group reached the top of the charts. New videos, songs, tours led to the fact that the soloists began to be recognized, their hits were increasingly heard on popular radio stations. 2003 became one of the most successful years, at which time another album “So be it” appeared. The song of the group “Propaganda” called “Super Baby” brought enormous popularity to Ira, Vika and Olya. A video was shot for it and a colorful disc was released, the songwriter for which was lead singer Vika Voronina. In 2004, the group won the Golden Gramophone for the composition “Yay-Ya”.

Since the beginning of its existence, the group has already released 7 albums, toured Russia and beyond. But the “star fever” of one of the participants again led to a change in the lineup. Having decided to start a solo career, in 2011 Vika Voronina left the team, her place was taken by Vika Bogoslovskaya (one of the participants in the “Star Factory”). After singing with Ira and Olya for no more than six months, she left them. And in July 2012, Maria Nedelkova joined the Propaganda group.

Constant work on images, experiments with disco style, bright attractive appearance of the participants, and talented performances allow them to stay afloat in the tough Russian show business. And today you can hear hits performed by the new lineup, which, according to critics, is in no way inferior to the original one.

Dear Gossip Girls, hello everyone! I’ve been on Gossipnik for a long time and closely)) But I still didn’t dare to write my first post, and then the idea came up after watching an old video of the group “Propaganda - Chalk” on the music channel. I remember how as a child I really found a deep meaning in this song)) I really liked this group, I knew, naturally, all the words by heart)) Then I was still a ten-year-old girl and in children's summer camps we simply listened to their songs.

A little history. The Propaganda group was founded in 2001. The first lineup, which will be discussed in this post, consisted of soloist Victoria Voronova, Victoria Petrenko and Yulia Garanina. They were the authors of all the first songs. But then there was a rift between the girls and the producer, and Victoria Petrenko left the group, followed by Yulia Garanina. Then there were other girls, but I won’t write about them, because... I am interested in precisely this, the first and most famous composition of this group. Well, let's remember our youth?)

We haven’t heard anything about the group for a long time, and the former members of this trio don’t appear anywhere. But after rummaging through the Internet, I finally found them. And I’m sharing with you, I think many of you also listened to them as children.

Of the trio, I liked the soloist Victoria Voronina, who is also a songwriter, the most. This is what she looked like during her popularity

I considered her an incredible beauty, so lively, with big eyes, and a good voice (yes, I sincerely thought so). BUT, what happened to her next is, excuse me, a complete joke... In general, judge for yourself.

Now Victoria, already an ex-soloist of Propaganda, is engaged in solo work, as her VK page tells us, writes songs for other authors and appears in videos. But for some reason no one sees them.

She was not spared the fate of duck lips and tuning, which makes everyone look the same. Now let's see what Vika looks like now.

Now Vika is 32 years old, Karl is thirty-two!

You know, girls, but I still like it, even now. She’s kind of cute, well, I don’t see any malice in her, even though she’s not popular now, she still continues to do something, which is commendable.

Two other girls, Victoria Petrenko and Yulia Garanina, created their own group with the simple name “Petra and Yukka”

This is what the girls look like now

The Propaganda group was created in 2001. Three teenage girls came to the then-famous producer Sergei Izotov and said that they had wonderful songs and they wanted to become famous. These were Vika Voronina, Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina. The producer really liked the songs and he started recording songs with the girls. During the work, it turned out that of all three, only Vika Voronina could sing, so “recitative parts” were written for the rest. This is how Propaganda’s own style was born, but the team existed in this composition for less than a year. Soon after the release of the first album, as Vika Voronina recalls, the girls were overwhelmed by star fever and the producer was forced to part with two of them. For some time, several brighter participants, who were subject to increased demands in terms of vocals, were vying for their place. As a result, Katya Oleinikova (2002-2003), Olga Moreva (2002-2006) and Ira Yakovleva (2003-2009) worked in the team for a long time. There has been a turn in the work of the Propaganda group - the abandonment of recitative parts and the transition to professional lyrical vocals. In addition, a fourth member appears in the team - musician, saxophonist Dasha.

In 2007, all rights to the Propaganda group passed to the new producer Sergei Ivanov, who had worked with the group up to this point as a director. Only Vika Voronina and Ira Yakovleva retain their places in the group of four participants, they are joined by Maria Bukatar. It is from this moment that the group begins to perform exclusively live, without using a soundtrack. The tour schedule of the Propaganda group includes 10-15 concerts every month, and the girls’ free days from touring are occupied by almost daily vocal and choreography rehearsals.

Not everyone can maintain such a schedule, and in 2010 Victoria Voronina left the team, who dreams of finding time for solo creativity. And a little earlier, in 2009, instead of Ira Yakovleva, a new participant appeared - Anastasia Shevchenko.

The group has a large number of national music awards (“Golden Gramophone”, “Song of the Year”, “Stopudovy Hit”, “Major League”, “Silver Disc”, “Bomb of the Year” and many others) and is a laureate of many television festivals and competitions.

Over the years of its existence, the group has released a large number of hits, such compositions as “Chalk”, “Who”, “Nobody”, “So be it”, “Rain on the roofs”, “5 minutes”, “Yay-ya”, “Super” -Baby” and “QuantoCosta” topped various charts of radio stations and TV channels for weeks.

In 2010, the song “You Know,” composed by Alexander Yankovsky, became such a hit. This track spent several weeks at the top of the DFM chart, and the video for this song is still on air on music TV channels.

The Propaganda group, consisting of Masha Bukatar and Nastya Shevchenko, continues to delight its fans with new dance compositions and regular concerts.

In 2011, the track and at the same time the video clip “I’m like that” were released, which entered the DFM chart and received more than 10 million views on YouTube. Then the group releases the album “You Know”, where one of the tracks “Dial” also appears on air on some radio stations.

At the beginning of 2013, the tracks “Girlfriend” and “I Wrote Love” were released. Video clips were also shot for these tracks, which are widely presented on television channels.

The track "Girlfriend" has gained immense popularity among the people. Most recently, the group released a new album, “Purple Powder,” and shot a video for the single “It’s a Pity.”

The Propaganda group celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2016. Over the entire period, the composition of the team changed several times; we counted 9 such changes. These compositions are presented in the photo. Today the Propaganda team includes Maya Podolskaya, Veronica Kononenko and Arina Milan. They replaced Maria Bukatar and Anastasia Shevchenko in November 2015. Based on the time they worked in the group, the rating of “veterans” of Propaganda is as follows: 1) Maria Bukatar - 9 years and 6 months, in 5 compositions; 2) Victoria Voronina - 9 years and 4 months, in 5 compositions; 3) Anastasia Shevchenko - 6.5 years in 4 teams; 4) Irina Yakovleva - 6 years in 2 teams; 5) Olga Moreva - 4.5 years in 2 teams; 6) Ekaterina Oleynikova - 1.5 years. All others: Victoria Petrenko, Yulia Garanina, Victoria Bogoslavskaya, Maria Nedelkova - less than 1 year.

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The popularity of the girl group "Propaganda", according to fans and music critics, is based on the charm of the vocalists and the lyrics, in which everyone finds understandable and painfully close. The girls sing about love and friendship, the expectation of a miracle and romantic relationships.

Group "Propaganda" in a new composition

At first, the group was positioned as a teenage group, but a couple of years after entering the stage, the soloists “grew up”: teenage pants were replaced by tight trousers and sexy T-shirts. Femininity also manifested itself in creativity, which was reflected in the image of Propaganda.

Compound

The group was born in 2001. The history of the appearance of “Propaganda” is simple and at the same time complex, like the first songs of girls. Three vocalists of the “golden lineup” - Victoria Petrenko, Yulia Garanina and Victoria Voronina - followed similar paths to unite into a musical group. Along the way we encountered misunderstanding, loneliness, ridicule from peers and personal tragedies.

Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina grew up in Chkalovsky, near Moscow. We became friends as children and studied in the same class. At the age of 14, the girls, united by their passion for rap, began to sing. The teenagers looked the part: caps with a backward peak, wide trousers that miraculously stayed on their hips. Because their rapper friends contrasted sharply with the rest of the school students, the girls became outcasts and regulars in the principal's office and teachers' room.

Later, Vika and Yulia will thank their classmates, teachers, the principal, and the street kids for the bullying and hostility: Petrenko and Garanina learned to fight and overcome obstacles. After 9th grade, the future vocalists of Propaganda went to Moscow. Vika entered the circus school, Yulia entered the medical school.

The third member of the “golden cast”, Vika Voronina, has a similar biography. The future “propagandist” also went through the hostility of her classmates, who considered Vika a “black sheep.” Vika studied brilliantly and with enviable ease. She could write the test in 5 minutes, and write poetry in the remaining time. From the age of 5 she dreamed of becoming a singer - Victoria’s mother is a musician by profession.

Having passed exams for the 10th and 11th grades as an external student, Voronina joined the troupe of the capital's musical theater named after. B.A. Pokrovsky, where she served for 7 years. The artist voiced the New Year tree in the Kremlin along with, and stars of Russian show business.

Vika’s plans to continue her studies at Gnesinka changed at the last moment: the girl entered the variety department of the circus school, where she met Vika Petrenko, and then Yulia Garanina.

Petrenko and Garanina appeared on stage together for the first time: the girls rapped in English and were broadcast on local television in Chkalovsky. Then we took part in the performances of the young rap group Danger Illusion, but Vika and Yulia got bored of being on the sidelines.

The idea to unite the duet into a trio belongs to Yuri Evrelov, a vocal teacher at the circus school. He saw the potential in Vika Voronina, who showed her compositions, made an arrangement and helped the girls record their first phonogram.

The grinding of the future Propaganda trio turned out to be painful: the “golden cast” quarreled and even fought. For the first time, the girls performed in the capital's Manhattan club under the banner “Influence.” But after a slip of the tongue by the presenter, who announced the group “Infusion” instead of “Influence,” they came up with a catchy and ambitious name “Propaganda,” which is difficult to distort.

The group earned its first popularity by performing in front of onlookers on Arbat. There, the director of the recording company, Alexey Kozin, saw the talented girls who came up with a circus performance for each song. Amazed by what he saw of the show, he introduced the girls to future producer Sergei Izotov, the “father” of the star groups “” and “”.

In September 2001, music lovers learned about the Propaganda group: the song “Chalk” was broadcast on radio Europe Plus, which became the vocalists’ first hit.

Soon the trio presented the song “Nobody”. In the same year, the group’s “golden album”, called “Children,” was released. The author of some of the album's lyrics and music for them is Victoria Voronina. In the wake of resounding success, the girls recorded two remix albums, giving them the name “Who?!” and “Who invented this love.”

Vivid videos soon appeared on the compositions of the hits “Chalk” and “Nobody”. The songs occupied the top lines of the charts for a long time, and their videos were included in the rotation of music channels. In 2002, the “golden lineup” of young “propagandists” recorded their second album, giving it the name “Not Children.”

In 2003, the group broke up: Vika Petrenko was the first to leave the team, followed by Garanina out of solidarity. The producer hastily replaced those who left with Olga Moreva and Ekaterina Oleinikova. Fans of “Propaganda” favorably accepted the new songs “Superbaby” and “Kvanta Costa”.

In 2003, the updated line-up presented the album “So be it”, the red thread of which runs through the compositions of love. The poignant song based on Voronina’s poetry “Five Minutes for Love” and the video in a new, more romantic and feminine role appealed to music lovers.

In the spring, “Propaganda” was awarded the “Stopudovy Hit” award, and 2 months later at the “Golden Gramophone” festival-concert, which was broadcast on Channel One, the girls presented fans with the hit “Rain on the Roofs.”

At the end of 2003, “Propaganda” thundered with a new hit and a video clip “Yay-Ya” (“Eat Apples”) recorded for it. The vocalists transformed into seductive Eves, increasing the army of fans significantly.

By the end of winter 2004, the ensemble took the top lines of the charts and hit parades with the “apple” composition, and in the spring a video appeared for the ballad Quanto Costa, with which the vocalists became laureates of “Song of the Year”. The song “Marie fell in love with Juan” was also among the best.

In 2005, “Propaganda” rarely appears on screens due to poor financing, and in 2007 Sergei Ivanov became the group’s producer. The fruit of the joint efforts of Ivanov and the girls was the album “You Are My Boyfriend,” which was coolly received by music critics and listeners. A series of failures and setbacks causes the only one from the “golden cast”, Vika Voronina, to leave Propaganda.

The composition of the trio is changing again: Irina Yakovleva and the departed Voronina are replaced by Maria Bukatar and Anastasia Shevchenko. In 2010, “Propaganda” pleased with the song “You Know,” recalling its former glory.

In 2012, the trio turned into a duet: Bukatar and Shevchenko remained. A year later, the girls recorded the album “Girlfriend” (the single of the same name became a hit), and in 2014 – a new one, which was called “Purple Powder”. The album includes the songs “It’s a pity”, “A banal story” and “Not yours anymore”.

In the spring of 2015, “Propaganda” presented fans with the composition “Magic,” which immediately went into rotation. In the fall of the same year, the reality show “Get into Propaganda” was launched on the Russian Musicbox music channel, in the final of which new participants were determined - Arina Milan, Veronika Kononenko and Maya Podolskaya.

Music

Having started a creative biography in the style of rap, “Propaganda” gradually changed over the years, transformed and tried other directions, including pop, pop-rock and house. The experiments did not always find a response in the hearts of the trio’s old fans, who fell in love with the “golden line-up” for their rap recitatives.

In a 2004 interview, Nastya Shevchenko and Masha Bukatar said that changes in musical directions turned out to be a necessary condition for growth and movement forward.

In 2014, Bukatar and Shevchenko went “free swimming”, starting a solo career. During the recording of the single and video “I’m leaving you” with rapper TRES, the girls returned to Propaganda.

Group "Propaganda" now

In 2017, the vocalists recorded the “Golden Album”, which included hits sung over 15 years, as well as new tracks “You are my weightlessness”, “Meow” and “Forget”, recorded by the new composition of “Propaganda” and liked by music lovers.

In the spring of the same year, the trio presented the track “Not Like Me,” for which a video appeared in September.

Once again, the reformatted “Propaganda” is experiencing a revival. Fans follow the news of their favorite band on the group’s website and on the page in "Instagram"(unverified).

At the end of May 2018, the “propagandists” delighted fans with a concert in Krasnoarmeysk and Omsk.

Clips

• 2001 – “Chalk”
• 2002 – “Nobody”
• 2002 – “Five minutes for love”
• 2003 – “So be it”
• 2003 – “A-yay”
• 2004 – “Super Baby”
• 2004 – “Quanto Costa (Remix)”
• 2004 – “Marie fell in love with Juan”
• 2006 – “I miss you”
• 2007 – “Christmas Trees”
• 2009 – “Above My Land”
• 2010 – “You Know (DJ Pomeha Remix)”
• 2011 – “That’s who I am”
• 2013 – “Girlfriend”
• 2014 – “It’s a pity”
• 2015 – “Magic”
• 2017 – “You are my Weightlessness”

Discography

• 2001 - “Kids”
• 2002 - “Not Children”
• 2003 - “So be it or Someone is playing at love...”
• 2004 - “Super Baby”
• 2006 - “Poems in the subway or Alone at home”
• 2008 - “You are my boyfriend”
• 2011 - “You Know”
• 2012 - “Best songs. New collection"
• 2013 - “Girlfriend”
• 2014 - “Purple Powder”
• 2017 - “Golden Album”

Victoria Voronina lived on her mother’s pension for three years and lost 28 kg due to her worries.

Victoria Voronina lived on her mother’s pension for three years and lost 28 kg due to her worries.

In the wake of the success of the NTV project “I want to join VIA Gro,” the MUSICBOX TV channel recently launched a similar project called “Get into Propaganda.” Its participants were invited to compete for the right to become the new soloist of the Propaganda group, which gained fame in the early 2000s with the hits “Chalk”, “Superdetka” and “Eat Apples”. Is it worth “getting into Propaganda,” Vika VORONINA, a former member and author of all the group’s hits, told us.

At the origins of the group were me and my friends from the village of Chkalovsky near Moscow - Vika Petrenko And Yulia Garanina, whom I met while studying at the circus school,” recalls Victoria. - The three of us constantly hung out at my house. I played the piano and composed songs. And the girls performed them with me. Alexey Kozin from the record company “CD-Land” accidentally found our records in a box where unplayed cassettes and discs were thrown away in one of the Moscow nightclubs. And I convinced the former producer of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and “Guests from the Future” to take up our promotion. Sergei Izotov.

At first the group was called “Influence”. Our first album “Children” sold a huge number of copies. After concerts, fans tore pieces of our clothes as souvenirs. We could be an unsinkable group. But, unfortunately, our relationship with Vika and Yulia did not stand the test of fame.

Since my parents did not steal from me, our family always had a poor financial situation. Until I was 21, I didn’t have jeans or a mobile phone. And I was quite happy with receiving $100 for a concert, which was comparable to my parents’ monthly salary. And the girls caught star fever. They began to show dissatisfaction with Izotov. It seemed to them that he was doing everything wrong: he was shooting the video according to the wrong script, dressing us in the wrong clothes, etc. As a result, Sergei Evgenievich fired them. Because of this, the girls and I quarreled and stopped communicating. Only a year and a half later, Vika and Yulia called me and admitted that they were wrong. We met, cried, hugged. But it was already too late.

You are the one to blame

After Vika Petrenko and Yulia Garanina, I worked with twelve other teams,” continues Voronina. - Every six months or a year someone changed. Sometimes I came to a concert and didn’t know who would stand on stage with me. And in 2006, Izotov started another business - alcohol. And he announced that he would no longer engage in Propaganda. It was a hard blow for me. I remember, from anxiety, I lost 28 kg in two weeks. I was stuck with a car loan. There was no rich lover. Only retired parents. And I didn’t know how to live further.

I turned to the concert director of Propaganda for support. Sergei Ivanov. He used to sell perfumes. He joined our team in 2004. And he became a very close friend to me. “At least don’t leave us! - I told him. “Let’s somehow survive together.” According to Ivanov, he negotiated with Izotov for a long time and eventually bought the rights to Propaganda from him. “Now I’m your producer,” he told us in the summer of 2007. We sign new contracts with me.” I trusted the man so much that, without really delving into it, I signed everything he asked. Moreover, she signed for him twice on blank sheets of paper, which, according to him, were intended for fans. It never occurred to me that Sergei could deceive me.

Very soon I realized what a fool I was. Referring to the need to pay compensation to Izotov for us, Ivanov began to take almost all the money from our concerts. My monthly salary averaged six thousand rubles. And I had to dye my hair, refuel the car, pay for a rented apartment. Mom gave me her pension for three years. But this money was not enough to live on. “Can I go to McDonald’s and work?” - I asked Ivanov. “No,” he answered. “You are a media person.” I was also not allowed to sell songs to other artists. It turned out that under the contract I transferred to Ivanov the rights to everything that I wrote and will write in the future.

For trying to communicate with one of my colleagues or their producers, he fined me. In fact, I became his slave. In the summer of 2010, she couldn’t stand it and told Ivanov: “Seryozha, either you raise my salary, or I leave the group. I can’t work anymore for that kind of money.” “I’d rather raise the salaries of other girls,” he replied. “And you, old, crooked, hunchbacked and fat, are not particularly needed by the team.” After that, Propaganda worked for some time without me. Ivanov called me. But I was offended and didn’t pick up the phone. “He probably wants to apologize for getting excited,” I thought. “Why the hell do I need this?”

A month later, we finally called, met and agreed that I would finish working in the group until the end of the year, and then terminate the contract with him and start performing solo.

The last time I went on stage as part of Propaganda was on the night of December 31, 2010 to January 1, 2011. However, Ivanov did not even think of terminating the contract with me. Instead, he began, like a magician, to pull into the light of day some pieces of paper allegedly about me disrupting concerts and threatening legal action. He said that he would not give up his work book. And he even refused to pay his salary for New Year’s Eve.

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I barely ran away

For a whole year I came to my senses and didn’t even try to pursue a solo career. It seemed to me that all paths to show business were closed to me,” says Vika. - Then a friend from Perm showed my contract with Ivanov to the lawyers. “You can wipe yourself with this piece of paper,” they assured. - There were a lot of violations in it. How can you transfer rights to songs that have not yet been created?! This is complete bullshit." I perked up and began to seek termination of the contract through the court. The consideration of my claim at Ivanov’s place of registration in Sergiev Posad was unsuccessful. Their judge had never encountered such cases and, without understanding, rejected my claims.

In response, Ivanov turned to the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow and demanded to collect fines from me of five thousand dollars for failure to fulfill the contract, and also to prohibit me from doing anything without his knowledge - giving concerts, recording my voice, using my image, etc. But his claim was also rejected. And most importantly, in the decision of the Khamovnichesky Court, our contract was declared in fact to have ceased to be valid since 2011.

But Ivanov continued to claim that I belonged to him and did not allow me to work independently. In St. Petersburg, he even came to the club with the UBEP men to seize me. I barely managed to escape from him, get into the car and drive away. And in Moscow, after my performance at the Arena Moscow club, through his efforts, a criminal case was opened. It’s interesting that I was interrogated as a witness in this case by Ivanov’s friend, who had previously come with him to Propaganda concerts. Then this person was fired from the authorities, and the case was closed.

As my friends told me, Ivanov says directly: “My task is to destroy her. Until I sue her, I won’t calm down.”

Sergey IVANOV with Maria BUKATAR and Anastasia SHEVCHENKO. Photo: