The creativity of the bard, poet, musician Timur Shaov will attract even those who are far from the author's song. Sincere, with notes of sadness and sarcasm, with a social and at the same time political orientation, in the original performance. Who is he - modern Don Quixote or one of the few realists among the bards of Russia?
In the creative piggy bank of Shaov Timur there are already more than a hundred songs, and most of them are truly folk songs, they have spread into catchphrases, and are performed at almost all bard festivals. Who is he - Timur Shaov? Where was you born, how did you come to music? What milestones of his biography are reflected in the songs?
Biography of the bard Timur Shaov
Timur Shaov is a native of Karachay-Cherkessia. He was born on July 14, 1964 in a family of creative intellectuals - the mother of the future bard was the head of the republican research institute of literature, linguistics and history, his maternal grandfather created the Nogai script, was the most famous Soviet ethnographer. Moreover, his family belongs to the Circassian principality. National traditions are sacred in the family, and his grandfather also had 4 wives of different nationalities.
Timur did not have the goal of becoming a musician or singer either in childhood or in youth. In addition to secondary education, he received an elementary musical education, but did not see this direction as his main occupation. After school, Timur entered the Stavropol Medical University for a course in gastroenterology, graduated with excellent results and worked for more than 10 years in his specialty in a rural hospital - in the village of Zelenchukskaya.
Back in his college years, Timur Shaov began to write songs. More precisely - he wrote before, but as such, he was never engaged in promoting them, as they say, "created on the table." It was only in 2002 that he took up a tightly musical career, and already being famous in bardic circles.
The musical career of the bard Timur Shaov
When, during his student days, Timur began to pay a lot of attention to music, his relatives did not approve of his hobby and even condemned him. The father once said to the future bard: "Why do you want to become a balalaika ?!" Perhaps it was this phrase that became a kind of brake on Timur's development in this direction.
For a long time Shaov did not show his creations to anyone, and only in his last year, according to him - “with nothing to do”, he performed the composition “I broke my leg” for a “wide” audience, in the circle of friends and neighbors in the student dormitory.
Since 1997, even during his work as a doctor, he began recording studio albums. To date, there are already 12 such collections in his piggy bank, among which it is important to note the following:
- "From Baudelaire to a Brothel" (1997),
- "Tales of Our Time" (2002),
- "Free Particle" (2006),
- "What Gerasim was silent about" (2010),
- "One Day of Uncle Zhora" (2015),
- "What does Freud have to do with it?" (2017).
In addition, Timur Shaov has two cassette music editions - "Family Medallion" and "Buried by the Mafia", which are recorded on a tape recorder and are not studio, but amateur.
Songs of Timur Shaov were included in several collections of author's songs - "The Results of the Five-Year Plan", "Russian Chansonniers. Timur Shaov "," Russian bards. Volume 18 "and others.
Creativity of Timur Shaov
Timur Shaov is not an ordinary bard. His songs are poignant, relevant at any time, often the emphasis in them is on the social aspects of life, moreover, with reference to political situations. Timur is sincere and frank with his listener. Critics often compare him with "akyn" who sings about what is happening around him, but in a good sense of the concept, and not in an ironic one.
It is interesting that the presentation of a theme or event in the songs of Timur Shaov can take place in different, often opposite styles - and swagger, almost like a courtyard, and sophisticated, even somewhat impressive. Not all bards manage to be as versatile as Shaov Timur.
The very form of performance of the author's song by this bard is also unusual. He sings not only with a guitar, he is often accompanied by more classical instruments in the musical sense - cello or accordion.
Timur Shaov himself doubts his "belonging" to the bards, and considers himself more of a satirist with a guitar in his hands. In addition to musical creativity, Timur is also a poet, he published two books - "Blue Notebook" and "Songs. And not only…".
There are in the creative piggy bank Shaov and work in the cinema. He is the author of music and songs for the films "From the Point of View of an Angel", "Park of the Soviet Period", and the compositions in the second film are performed by him.
Personal life of Timur Shaov
Timur met his wife Manana when he was still studying at a medical university. His wife went through all the milestones of his formation with him - she lived in a real hut after his placement in a rural hospital, supported him during a period of lack of money, when Shaov moved to Moscow to start developing his musical career.
The Shaov family of Timur and Manana has three children:
- son Bagrat,
- Bel's daughter,
- daughter Rose.
Bagrat Shaov is already working, and his choice fell on the main profession of his father, he became a resident surgeon. The eldest daughter of Timur and Manana Bela is studying at the university in the course of higher economics, and the youngest Rosa is still living under the wing of her parents, studying in an ordinary school.
A characteristic feature of all members of the Shaov family is irony and positive. In joint interviews, the spouses make fun of each other. Manana often accompanies her husband on his creative business trips, and, according to her, she is ready to go with Timur to Las Vegas, and to Orsk or any other remote town in Russia.
