Group "Bravo". Aguzarova, Syutkin, Lenz

The history of the Moscow-based bit band Bravo, like any other that played music that is unconventional for the official Soviet music, 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" Eugene Havtan begins his musical career in 1982 in the group "Postscript" Garik Sukachev, who then played a new wave. After a while, 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 "Amanita".

The ensemble changes its name to "Bravo" and begins to play a bit, performing in the palaces of culture, institutes 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 group "Bravo" gets on the lists of banned, and Jeanne 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 has 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 variety art and national favorite.

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

Syutkin and Lenz

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

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

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 fans 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 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 along with invited stars celebrate in the Kremlin 20 and 25 years of work and become one of the most profitable concert groups of the country, and their participation in major rock festivals only increases the number of their fans, and from those who have not yet been born, when the group " Bravo "began its activities. The ensemble continues to produce albums, including with the participation of 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.