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Oleg Kvasha (musician)

Oleg Semyonovich Kvasha. Born on September 13, 1958 in Klaipeda (Lithuania). Soviet and Russian musician, composer, songwriter, incl. "Green-eyed taxi".

In his youth he performed on dance floors, played and sang in Klaipeda restaurants.

In 1982 he moved to Leningrad, got a job as a night watchman at the club named after. 10th anniversary of October on the Obvodny Canal. I worked there for five years.

In 1982, he began his career as a composer on the big stage - with the song “The Pied Piper,” which she performed. True, for ideological reasons the song was banned and it was performed again five years later.

In the mid-1980s, he wrote a number of songs that brought Oleg Kvasha all-Union recognition as a composer: “Saturday is Saturday” (1985), “I Don’t Want to Love Secretly Anymore” (1986) and “Green-Eyed Taxi” (1987).

In 1989, already at the international festival of Soviet songs in Zielona Gora, Oleg Kvasha received the Grand Prix - “Golden Samovar” for the song “Promises, forgiveness and farewells”.

Since 1990, he began his career as a performer of his own songs, accompanied by the group “Green-Eyed Taxi”, with which he toured all over Russia and the CIS countries from Kaliningrad to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and from Murmansk to Bishkek.

In 2000 he created a dance project KVASHA, with whom in the same 2000 he received his first Golden Gramophone for the remix “Green-Eyed Taxi 2000”.

He also received the “Golden Gramophone” in 2001 for “Green-Eyed Taxi” as the most ordered song in the “Russian Radio Order Desk”. “Golden Gramophone” 2002 - for the anthem of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg “St. Petersburg is a proud white bird.”

Oleg Kvasha's songs are performed by Alla Pugacheva, Sergei Zakharov, the Forum group, Tõnis Mägi, Sergei Penkin, Zara, Global Deejays (Austria), (France), Brazzaville (Spain), .

On November 24, 2003, at the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, at the ceremony “Person of the Year of Russia 2003” he received the title “Composer of the Year”.

He is the only Russian composer accepted into the French society of authors SACEM.

He conducts active concert activities, composes and records new songs.

Oleg Kvasha and the group "Green-Eyed Taxi" - show "Sing, Tramp" (1994)

Personal life of Oleg Kvasha:

Was married twice.

He doesn’t talk about his first wife. He has a reputation as a ladies' man, which he likes to talk about: “I don’t even know how many women I had. At one time I counted to 846, and then gave up. And this was in August 1997. At that moment, 850 was widely celebrated "anniversary of the city of Moscow. And in honor of the anniversary, I specially slept with four girls so that I had exactly 850 of them. All of St. Petersburg knows about this unique gift."

The second wife is Olga, who was half his age. They got married in 2004. The couple had two children - daughter Nelly and son Artem.

In 2013, the couple divorced.

He is interested in European football, the history of world cinema and vintage Mercedes Coupe cars.

Discography of Oleg Kvasha:

1987 - “Saturday is Saturday” (author of music for two songs out of ten)
1989 - “Everyone will take his own” (author of music for all songs, performer of one of them)
1990 - Oleg Kvasha - “Exactly today, exactly now”

1995 - Oleg Kvasha - “Sing, tramp”
1997 - Oleg Kvasha - “Best songs of the 80s”
2000 - KVASHA - “Dance project KVASHA”
2004 - Oleg Kvasha - “There are no more chains on my soul”

Singles by Oleg Kvasha:

1988 - “Pied Piper”
1996 - “The Heart of Juliet”
1997 - “Tired like a dog”
2003 - “Our City St. Petersburg”
2006 - “Zelenoglazoe Taxi”
2008 - “Saturday is Saturday”
2010 - “Plasticine doll”
2012 - “Fire and I”
2015 - “Hot Gloria”
2016 - “Smileys”
2017 - “I’ll salt the bread”

For a number of years he performed on dance floors and in restaurants in Klaipeda. In 1982 he moved to Leningrad after getting a night job watchman to the club named after 10th anniversary of October on the Obvodny Canal. He worked there for five years.

Oleg Kvasha began his journey as a composer on the big stage with the song “ Pied Piper" written in 1982. The Russian pop diva immediately liked her Alla Pugacheva, but Soviet ideologists did not like the song and it was postponed for almost five years. But it was during this time that a number of songs were written that brought Oleg all-Union recognition as a composer: “Saturday is Saturday” (1985), “I Don’t Want to Love Secretly Anymore” (1986) and “Green-Eyed Taxi” (1987). And in 1989, already at the international festival of Soviet songs in Zielona Gora Oleg Kvasha received the Grand Prix - “Golden Samovar” for the song “Promises, Forgiveness and Farewell.” Since 1990, he began his career as a performer of his own songs, accompanied by the group “Green-Eyed Taxi”, with which he toured all over Russia and the CIS countries from Kaliningrad to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and from Murmansk to Bishkek.

In 1995, he met a 12-year-old aspiring singer Zara and recorded the maxi-single “Juliet’s Heart” with her. With "Juliet's Heart" Zara became the winner of a number of international music competitions, and the song "Exactly today, exactly now" was included in the rotation of many radio stations and brought the singer her first fame.

In 2000 he created the dance project “KVASHA”, and with this project in the same 2000 he received his first “Golden Gramophone” for the remix “Green-Eyed Taxi 2000”. In 2003, he became the author and performer of the official anthem for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, “St. Petersburg - a proud white bird,” which also received the Golden Gramophone award.

November 24 2003 at the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg at the ceremony “Person of the Year of Russia 2003” he received the title “Composer of the Year” for writing the official anthem of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg “St. Petersburg - a proud white bird”

In 2005, after a number of cases of exclusion of the song “St. Petersburg - a proud white bird” from concerts and television programs by the new city leadership and unsuccessful attempts at peaceful negotiations to keep the song on the air, he filed a lawsuit in the amount of 3 million rubles against the Petersburg - Channel Five broadcasting company "for copyright infringement. Four years later, the claim was fully satisfied, the management of Channel Five was relieved of their positions, and the new management of the channel made an official apology to Oleg. After the change of city leadership, the song “St. Petersburg - a proud white bird” is again performed in kindergartens and schools of St. Petersburg, pleasure boats depart from the Palace Bridge to it, it is constantly heard in the Wedding Palaces of St. Petersburg, as well as during official and informal events held in the city both performed by the author and performed by amateur and professional groups of St. Petersburg.

In 2007, in collaboration with the Austrian group Global Deejays, specializing in creating remixes of world hits (“Sound of San Francisco”, “What a feeling”, “Stars of 45″) took an active part in the creation and promotion of the “Green-Eyed Taxi” remix. This remix topped the charts of many Russian dance radio stations and charts and received the honorary award “Ringtone of the Year in Russia 2007”.

In 2009, in collaboration with the French singer and composer F.R.David (author of the world hit “Words don’t come easy”) took an active part in the creation and promotion of the English version of the song "Green-Eyed Taxi". At Universal (Germany) album released F.R.David"Numbers", where the song "Taxi" became the key song. Today he is the only Russian composer accepted into the French society of authors SACEM.

In 2015, after the reunification of Crimea with Russia and the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions, he wrote the song “Bread with Salt” and for a long time offered it to the main stars of Russian show business. Everyone refused, except People's Artist of the Russian Federation Mikhail Boyarsky. In January 2017, “Bread with Salt” was recorded and performed by Boyarsky in the Kremlin at a concert dedicated to the Day of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, after which it was banned on all radio stations and federal channels.

Oleg Kvasha's songs are performed Alla Pugacheva , Irina Ponarovskaya , Mikhail Boyarsky , Nikolay Karachentsov , Larisa Dolina, Lyudmila Senchina,

Oleg Semyonovich Kvasha(born September 13, Klaipeda) - Russian musician and composer, author of popular songs “Green-eyed taxi”, “Saturday is Saturday”, “I don’t want to love secretly anymore”, “St. Petersburg is a proud white bird”, etc. .

Biography

Oleg Semenovich Kvasha was born on September 13, 1958 in Klaipeda (Lithuania).

For several years he performed on dance floors and in restaurants in Klaipeda. In 1982 he moved to Leningrad, getting a job as a night watchman at the club named after. 10th anniversary of October on the Obvodny Canal. He worked there for five years.

Oleg Kvasha began his journey as a composer on the big stage with the song “Pied Piper” written in 1982. She immediately attracted the attention of the Russian pop diva Alla Pugacheva, but Soviet ideologists did not like the song and it was postponed for almost five years. But it was during this time that a number of songs were written that brought Oleg all-Union recognition as a composer: “Saturday is Saturday” (1985), “I Don’t Want to Love Secretly Anymore” (1986) and “Green-Eyed Taxi” (1987). And in 1989, already at the international festival of Soviet song in Zielona Gora, Oleg Kvasha received the Grand Prix - “Golden Samovar” for the song “Promises, Forgiveness and Farewell.” Since 1994, he began his career as a performer of his own songs, accompanied by the group “Green-Eyed Taxi”, with which he toured all over Russia and the CIS countries from Kaliningrad to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and from Murmansk to Bishkek. In 2000 he created the dance project "KVASHA", and with this project in the same 2000 he received his first Golden Gramophone. In 2003, he became the author and performer of the official anthem for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg “ St. Petersburg - a proud white bird» .

Oleg Kvasha's songs are performed by Alla Pugacheva, Irina Ponarovskaya, Mikhail Boyarsky, Nikolai Karachentsov, Larisa Dolina, Lyudmila Senchina, Sergey Zakharov, Valentina Tolkunova, the Forum group, Anne Veski, Tõnis Mägi, Igor Sklyar, Alexander Pushnoy, Sergey Penkin, Zara, Yuri Okhochinsky, Marina Tskhai, Olga Domuschu, Global Deejays (Austria), F.R.David (France), Brazzaville (Spain), Olga Seryabkina.

Discography

Full list of songs to be confirmed

Albums

• VA - “Saturday is Saturday” (“Melody” C60 25513 007, LP, 1987) (Author of music for two songs out of ten)
• VA - “Everyone will take what’s theirs” (“Melody” C60 27861 004, LP, 1989) (Author of music for all songs, and performer of one of them)
• VA - Signal Series of Records No. 4 (“Melody”, C60 29915 001, LP, 1990) (Two songs from the album “Exactly today, exactly now”)
• Oleg Kvasha - “Exactly today, exactly now” (“Melody” C60 30309 004, LP, 1990)
• Oleg Kvasha - “Sing, tramp” (“Aprelevka”, M0116, LP, 1995)
• Oleg Kvasha - “Sing, Tramp” (“JMG Records”, CD, 1995)
• Oleg Kvasha - “Best songs of the 80s” (“MOROZ Records”, 1997)
• KVASHA - “Dance project KVASHA” (“Master Sound Records”, 2000)
• Oleg Kvasha - “There are no more chains on my soul” (“KDK-Records”, 2004)

Singles

• VA - “Ratcatcher” (“Melody” C62 27215 005, EP, 1988)
• "Juliet's Heart" (JMG Records, 1996)
• “Tired like a dog” (“KVASHA MIX UP Records”, 1997)
• “Our City St. Petersburg” (“TeleSet”, 2003)
• “Zelenoglazoe Taxi” (Global deejays feat. Oleg Kvasha club remix “Megaliner records”, 2006)
• “Saturday is Saturday” (club remix “KVASHA MIX UP Records”, 2008)
• “Plasticine doll” (club remix “KVASHA MIX UP Records”, 2010)
• “Fire and I” (“KVASHA MIX UP Records”, 2012)
• "Hot Gloria" ("KVASHA MIX UP Records", 2015)
• "Smileys" (Holographic Theater "Valley OSS", 2016)

Awards

• Laureate of the All-Russian Festival of Young Pop Song Performers (Leningrad, 1987, for the song “Pied Piper”)
• Laureate of the All-Union Festival “Song-88” (for the song “I Don’t Want to Love Secretly Anymore”)
• Grand Prix of the International Festival of Soviet Song in Zielona Gora (1989, for the song “Promises, Forgiveness and Farewell”)
• Golden Gramophone 2000 (for the remix “Green-Eyed Taxi 2000”)
• Golden Gramophone 2001 (for “Green-Eyed Taxi” as the most ordered song in the “Russian Radio Order Table”)
• Golden Gramophone 2002 (for the anthem of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg “St. Petersburg is a proud white bird”)
• Composer of the Year 2003 (for the anthem of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg “St. Petersburg is a proud white bird”)

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