Group "Bravo". Aguzarova, Syutkin, Lenz

The history of the Moscow beat-band "Bravo", as well asany other that played an unconventional music for the official Soviet variety, is characterized by unremitting control of party and administrative bodies, as well as by constant changes in the composition, as well as by close contacts with other informal musicians.

"Postscript" - "Bravo"

So, the future leader of "Bravo" Evgeny Khavtanbegins a musical career in 1982 in the group "Postscriptum" Garik Sukachev, who then played a new wave. After some time, in 1983, Garik Sukachev leaves the team, and in the ensemble comes his first future star soloist Zhanna Aguzarova, who previously sang in the group banned by the KGB "Fly agarics".

The ensemble changes its name to "Bravo" and beginsplay a bit, speaking in the palaces of culture, institutions and schools. At the end of the year the first unofficial magnetoalbum of the band appears, but on March 18, 1984, the participants were detained by police officers right at the concert. The Bravo group gets on the banned list, and Zhanna Aguzarova, because of problems with the documents, is arrested for several months, and then expelled from Moscow.

Peak of popularity

In the group, the composition changes, and it practically stops the concert activity, doing only rehearsals and occasionally performing at home concerts.

Since 1985 the situation with unofficial music in the country is significantly softened, and musicians as an amateur collective are invited to the newly created Moscow rock lab, which has the right to organize official concerts. The team is returned to Zhanna Aguzarova, and very soon the group begins to patron Alla Pugacheva, by that time already became the first star of the Soviet stage and a popular favorite.

It is she who invites the guys to the most prestigiousmusic festivals, and then television. In 1986, "Bravo" acquired the status of a professional philharmonic, and in 1987, the "Melody" released their first official record consisting of songs with 3 magnetoalbums that were released by that time and sold in the amount of 5 million copies.

Syutkin and Lenz

The Bravo group is at the peak of popularity, butin 1988, Zhanna Aguzarova withdraws from her, preferring to pursue a solo career. The collective remains famous, gives concerts. However, due to the fact that the soloists of the "Bravo" group are constantly changing, the success of the team is not growing.

This continues until 1990., when the team comes Valery Syutkin - a talented composer, a memorable vocalist and artist. "Bravo" again takes off to the top of popularity - it gives more than 1 thousand concerts, produces albums "Dandies from Moscow", "Moscow bit" and "The Road in the Clouds", which became the most popular in the discography of the "Bravo" group.

Syutkin in 1994 again for the solo career of the team goes. He is replaced by Robert Lenz. Along with his arrival, the audience of quite a few admirers of the ensemble becomes already constant, and all the younger, which gives the group the opportunity to give an acceptable number of concerts and release new singles and albums.

Change of direction

The creative activity of the group is changing too. Now they are engaged in solo projects in parallel with the work in "Bravo", they perform songs of other authors and invite other composers to their concerts.

Musicians with invited starscelebrate 20 and 25 years of work in the Kremlin and become one of the most profitable concert groups in the country, and their participation in major rock festivals only increases the number of their fans, and among those who were not born when the Bravo group began its activities . The ensemble continues to produce albums, including those with foreign producers, but very rarely: "Fashion" - in 2011, and "Forever" - only in 2015.

Nevertheless, the collective "Bravo" is not forgotten by fans - many songs are permanent hits on radio and television.