Group "Mirage": history, discography, photo. Old group

In today's article, we will get acquainted with the once popular collective, created back in the days of the USSR and having great popularity in the vastness of our vast homeland during Perestroika. It's the Mirage band. Biography, photos of participants, the discography of the band - all this the reader will find in our review.

What do we know about the team

The group "Mirage" was a cult in the 90s of the last century, and probably did not hear about it, probably only lazy. A lot of interesting facts are connected with the team: rabid popularity; Big money; Intrigue; litigation; The names of musicians known today, who once started their way in "Mirage". But first things first.

At the mention of the group "Mirage" the first thing that comes to mind is a set of word combinations: "the legendary group", "the idol of all teenagers born in the 70's and later", "the song" Music tied us "," stadiums of admirers " "Clockwork", "soloist Tatyana Ovsienko".

However, if you dig a little deeper, it turns out that Tatyana Ovsienko is not the only vocalist of the band. A lot of well-known names passed through the collective, for which the "Mirage" group was a home for a long time. Photos of former participants - Margarita Suchankina, Natalia Vetlitskaya, Natalya Gulkina, Irina Saltykova, Roman Zhukov - appear from time to time in the chronicles of various publications. All of them somehow related to the collective, at different times, in different composition, under different circumstances.

The musical group experienced all sorts of times - both popularity and oblivion. Its creation and further development occurred at the time of Perestroika in the country, and this historic milestone also left its mark in the biography of the collective.

Group "Mirage": the old group

The organizer of the group is the composer and musician Andrei Lityagin, who in 1986 joined the group of several talented musicians. From this moment the countdown begins in the creative biography of "Mirage".

Under the authorship of Letyagin, together with the poet Valery Sokolov , 12 songs were written. For musical compositions - arranged arrangements and studio recording of the vocal part, which was performed by a conservatory student, future opera singer Margarita Sukhankina. Everything was ready for the promotion of the group - a great start promised a bright future. However, it turned out that the girl saw herself only in the world of classical music and did not intend to take part in pop projects. Sukhankina insisted that her name should not appear anywhere and should not have anything to do with pop music.

The organizer of the group had to look for a new soloist. Natalia Gulkina became her . With the participation of Gulkina, several additional compositions were recorded, and in March 1987 the first musical plate was released, which was released by the Mirage band. The discography of the band began with the album "The Stars Are Waiting for You".

The success of the music album is the feat of the head of Lityagin's collective to unveil the concert activity of Mirage, for which he invited another soloist - Svetlana Razin, who, by the way, became the author of the popular composition "The New Hero". At this time in the life of the collective takes part another famous person - Roman Zhukov (he plays the keys).

"Together again"

The band became very popular, but its soloists left the band in 1988 and created their own projects. In the "Mirage" came a new girl - Natalia Vetlitskaya. However, she did not last long - she left in a year. After it, Inna Smirnova sang for a while, but she soon left the band. However, this inconstancy did not bother Lityagin at all. With the fate of Margarita Sukhankina, he prepared another musical material for the recording of the second album "Again together". The summer of 1988 was marked by the release of the plate into the light. The crazy tours of the band began. The concert schedule was so dense that 80 concerts a month became the norm in the tour activity, which was led by the band "Mirage". The photos of the members of the collective did not descend from the posters of numerous cities of the Soviet Union.

Irina Saltykova and Tatyana Ovsienko became new faces of the band, who, however, only danced on stage and created the appearance of the songs - all the same Gulkina and Sukhankina were mentally torn on the phonogram.

The success of "Mirage" was stunning, and in 1989 the song "Music tied us" became a participant of the music festival "Song of the Year".

The wind of change

In 1990, the band "Mirage", whose history of participants has more than one vocalist, accepted a new girl into its ranks. The next soloist of the band was Ekaterina Boldysheva. A distinctive feature of "Mirage" with the participation of this girl was that the songs at the concerts were performed "live", without using a foreign soundtrack.

A crucial period for the USSR confused the cards and plans of the leader of the Lityagin group. For a while, it was necessary to postpone the release of the third music album, which was planned for that period. In the development of the collective there has been a kind of stagnation.

Only in 1997 the album of remixes of the collective with the name Dance remix appeared ", on which the voice of Margarita Suchankina again sounded. And again in the group there were changes. The composition of the soloists was completely renewed. Now young girls began to appear on stage - Evgenia Morozova, Maria Kharcheva, Nicole Ambrazaisis.

But in 2005 the group "Mirage" celebrated its majority, which was marked by an important event. In honor of the birthday of "Mirage" in SC "Olympic" was a grand concert, which was attended by musicians who ever had to do with the team.

Sukhankina and Gulkina again together?

The birthday of the band coincided with another event - Margarita Sukhankina and Natalia Gulkina decided to join forces in the same year 2005 and created a duet. First they performed under the title "Solo for Two", then decided to tour under their real names. The rights to perform compositions belonging to the group "Mirage", they did not have.

Their joint work led to the release in the same year of an album entitled "Just a Mirage", after which women began to actively tour. However, not all the duo's successes were to their liking. And the press repeatedly, here and there, there was information that the new collective is periodically exposed to threats from the unknown. In parallel, the media wrote about the constant confrontation and conflicts between the duo of Gulkin - Sukhankin and Andrei Letyagin.

However, after some time, the parties nevertheless came to a common denominator, and this resulted in cooperation and very curious events. The duet of Sukhankin-Gulkina was first called "The Golden Voices of the Mirage Group", later - "The Group of Composer Andrei Letyagin" Mirage ". In the period 2006-2007, the duo consistently released three albums, which included new studio compositions, as well as recordings from some concerts.

The four young girls were renamed "Mirage Junior", and they began to conduct concert activities parallel to the duet, while also having the right to use the musical material of the band "Mirage".

The split in the team and the departure of Gulkina

In 2010 there was a split in interpersonal relations between Sukhankina and Gulkina, which was preceded by numerous conflicts and omissions. Further cooperation was impossible, and Natalia Gulkina left the band, taking up a solo career. By the way, she did not receive any rights to the music compositions performed by the Mirage band. The official reason for Natalia's departure is the end of the terms of the labor contract, which expired in January 2011.

And again Svetlana Razina returned to the collective. But not for long. In the group, she lasted almost a year, leaving her in December 2011. What caused Razin's departure is unknown. According to rumors, she decided to pursue a solo career. The departure of the soloist from the group did not comment on either Sukhankin or Lityagin. Only some time later on the official website of Svetlana Razina information appeared with explanations about her leaving the team.

"Mirage" continued his tour activity with the remaining single soloist of the band Margarita Sukhankina.

In 2013, the album "Not for the First Time" received the status of "gold" on the basis of sales.

Life after "Mirage"

The Mirage group included a lot of musicians who later tried to make a solo career. However, no one has succeeded in bright and brilliant ups.

Tatiana Ovsienko experienced a difficult period in her life. After leaving the group, she was happy in her family life. However, the misfortune that occurred with her husband - he was accused of killing a man - was nervously shaking the nerves of the star. She told me that until the happy moment, when her husband was acquitted, she had to endure much. Her friends turned away from her, had to work hard and long to pay attorneys. However, the audience remembered some hits Ovsienko - "School time", "Captain", "Ring", "Trucker".

Irina Saltykova also tried to build a solo career after leaving the band. Beautiful and very sexy blonde, she sang simple songs and shot her eyes from the TV screen. The girl was the dream of many men. Now she is engaged in the affairs of her own fashion house "Irina Saltykova."

Natalia Vetlitskaya also failed to build a dizzying career. Now she lives in Spain and leads a rather closed way of life.