Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov: biography, photos and interesting facts

Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov is a popular Russian musician. He became famous in the rock band "Agatha Christie" together with his younger brother Gleb Samoilov. At the moment I started my solo career.

Biography of a musician

Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov was born in the second homeland of Russian rock (after St. Petersburg) - in Sverdlovsk. Soon his parents moved to the regional center.

My father worked as an engineer, and my mother as a doctor. At the age of 7 Vadim was sent to music school, then he did not yet know that this fascination was for life.

After school, at the insistence of his parents, he graduated from the Urals Polytechnic Institute. Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov graduated from the Department of Radio Engineering. Has a diploma in the specialty "Design and manufacture of equipment."

Participated in student construction teams. There he began to actively participate in competitions amateur songs. In general, during his student years he led an active social life - he played in KVN. Spent both seasons for the team of the Ural Polytechnic in the revived KVN. On the stage of the Club of merry and resourceful sang songs.

In 1987, after graduating from high school, he received a professional qualification of the designer-technologist of radio equipment.

The foundation of the group "Agatha Christie"

In the mid-80s Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov was one of the founders of the musical collective "Agatha Christie" in Sverdlovsk. Together with the guitarist and drummer Peter May and the composer and keyboard player Alexander Kozlov. The first name of the collective was VIA "RTF UPI".

Vadim became the only member of the group that played in it throughout its existence. Up until the very collapse in 2010. Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov, whose biography is closely connected with this collective, performed the functions of a vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, arranger.

Among the famous compositions of Samoilov are the songs "Never" and "Black Moon". Since 1990 (after the release of the album "Decadance") Vadim Samoilov takes over most of the functions of the producer and director of the group. At the same time it moves away from the creative process. The role of the main author of words and music goes to Gleb Samoilov, who is six years younger than him.

Work outside the group

Despite the great employment, Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov, whose photo in the 90's regularly gets on the covers of music magazines, is involved with other musicians.

In 1992 he helped Nastya Polevaya record the album "The Bride", acting as a guitarist, sound engineer and keyboard player.

In 1994, he participated in the recording of the studio album "Titanic" with the group "Nautilus Pompilius". In 1997, with the same team, he recorded the record "Atlantis".

In the late 90's - early 2000's as a producer spins several promising musical projects. The most successful are the groups "Semantic hallucinations" and "Chicherin".

Cooperates with the group "Picnic". He writes with them a tribute to the song "Invisible", and a year later the whole album - "The Shadow of a Vampire". With the team "Nautilus Pompilius" goes even to one of the festivals "Invasion".

Already after parting with "Agatha Christie" continued cooperation with the "Picnic". I went with the band on tour to the anniversary tour, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the band.

I tried myself as a composer of movies. His music can be heard in the drama of Alexei Balabanov "It does not hurt me".

After the collapse of "Agatha Christie"

The Agatha Christie group is disintegrating in 2010. The end of the team Samoylov brothers themselves explained that in time they became completely different people, with diametrically opposed life values and tastes. Therefore, it became increasingly difficult for them to find a common language within a single project.

The last, the tenth album of the band was the record "Epilogue". After this Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov (nationality - Russian) began a solo career. He presented the first results only three years later in his native city, having performed at the festival with a new project.

During the 2013-2014 biennium, He showed pieces of this program on several concert venues.

At the same time, Samoilov continued to work on his old songs. At the end of 2016 he presented in the social network "VKontakte" unpublished versions of old tracks called "Drafts for" Agatha. "

New album

In 2017 Vadim Samoilov presented a single from his new album titled "The Others". It became available on almost all popular electronic platforms.

It is worth noting that the song "Others" was written during the years of work on the album "Epilogue" in the "Agatha Christie", but it did not hit the final version of the album.

When the first solo album of Vadim Samoilov appears, it is still unknown. Fans have long been impatient.

Life outside the scene

Vadim Rudolfovich Samoilov, whose personal life always interested his fans, was twice married. From his first marriage he had a daughter, Jan.

Since the middle of 2000, he has taken an active public and civil position. In 2006, he created a charitable project called "The Hero of Our Time". His goal was to support young and young musicians. A year later, a well-known rock musician joined the Federal Public Chamber. In this body, he controls the fight against piracy, which he openly calls theft.

In 2010, along with other famous musicians and cultural figures, he met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. During the conversation, Samoilov, along with Makarevich, leader of the group "Time Machine", sang the song "For those who are at sea." The consequences of this communication were then discussed a lot. In particular, the decision to not invite Yury Shevchuk was condemned. The leader of the DDT group, according to Samoilov, who was one of the organizers of the meeting, takes a too teenage and nonconformist position.

In 2012, he was officially registered on the eve of presidential elections in Russia as a confidant of Vladimir Putin, who at that time was prime minister.

In 2015, Samoilov attended concerts in the unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic. And even was awarded the head of the regional center on the Day of the city for an active life position and contribution to the formation of a young state.

Since 2017, Samoilov is one of the members of the Russian Music Union. And he is a member of the board of this organization.