The name of Alexei Makarevich became known after the release of the first album of the legendary group "Resurrection". But his production activity brought him real fame. Three girls from "Lyceum" won the hearts of millions of viewers.
Start
The birthplace of Alexei Lazarevich Meerovich was Moscow, the date was November 13, 1954. The surname Makarevich, taken by the boy later, was borne by his mother as a girl. The life of Vera Grigorievna was associated with biology. The family had relation to creativity only on the line of the father, and even then it was of a technical nature. Lazar Natanovich Meerovich, who works as a factory engineer at a scientific institute, has patented several inventions. In addition to Lesha, his sister Lena grew up in the family, she was older.
After completing his studies at a secondary school, Alyosha decides to connect his life with architecture and continues his studies at the Moscow Architectural Institute. Within the walls of the university, the young man is seriously interested in music, and connects with it all his subsequent life. Together with Alexei Romanov, a companion in several musical projects, they, being successful students, went through expulsion from the institute according to the delusional Soviet instructions "about cleansing students from hairy scum" and subsequent recovery.
Back in the last century, in the mid-70s, the young man created his first team, called it "Dangerous Zone", later, in the 76th, changing the name to "Kuznetsky Most", in honor of the famous street in the center of Moscow. Even then he wrote several songs, which later became famous in the performance of "Resurrection".
Resurrection
The history of the group, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 1919, begins in the spring of 79th year. A musically gifted architect becomes the lead guitarist of the collective.
Young, ambitious, musicians without proper equipment and any kind of repertoire gathered for rehearsals in Makarevich's apartment. In 2-3 weeks, about 10 songs were created, included in the first album "Resurrection". Alexey was the author of several of them. The genres of the works were very different: ballads, beats, rock and roll, funk, psychedelia.
The album was recorded at night in the recording studio of GITIS, a total of 16 singles were recorded. The last six songs belong to Konstantin Nikolsky.
The recordings were given to the familiar editor of the Moscow World Servise radio station, which broadcast to the Western world during the preparation for the 1980 Olympics. It so happened that during this period the censorship somewhat weakened, and the songs of the Resurrection group instantly became popular.
After a short rest, the team got down to preparing for concert activities. Due to the popularity of the repertoire, the audience enthusiastically received the artists. The song "Who is to blame" for many years became the hallmark of "Resurrection", and the deeply philosophical work "Musician" met the worldview of the most serious public.
Having existed for a year and a half, having soared to the very top of fame, the project disintegrates. They all had their own reasons. Makarevich, in particular, did not receive sufficient self-realization from his activities.
Fifteen years later, in 1994, the guitarist returned to the famous collective, but not for long.
Producer
The idea to start producing activities came to the musician by accident. The adopted daughter Nastya invited him to a reporting concert at the children's stage theater, where he sang with her friends. Alexey, who was then a theater designer, looked at the girls from a professional point of view.
They were fundamentally different, each had a unique timbre, but all together it looked and sounded beautiful. In addition, the 91st year was a graduation year in an amateur team, there were no further prospects. And Makarevich promised to create a girl's alliance out of them.
At the very beginning of the activity, the producer of the newly formed group "Lyceum" was responsible for every little thing: what the girls will be dressed in, how they leave and how they look on stage, how they have a haircut, what gestures and facial expressions the singers have. Much had to be re-taught.
Alexey Lazarevich was a demanding person, at times, to the point of being boring, and Nastya and her friends worked a lot.
In the same year the first performance of the group in the program "Morning Star" with the hit of the group ABBA took place. Charismatic girls were noticed. The first independent songs were the works of the producer from the "Resurrection" repertoire. Later Makarevich wrote many songs for the Lyceum. The most famous and beloved was, of course, "Autumn". During the life of the producer, the Lyceum group released 10 albums.
Over the 28 years of the collective's existence, the composition has changed more than once, but the soloist and face is the daughter Nastya, who became a producer after the death of her adoptive father and embodied his mandate - to grow and move forward.
2002 was marked for an accomplished producer by participating in the television program "Become a Star", where his task was to select applicants for participation. As a result of the project, a young group "Other Rules" was born.
Personal life
The famous rock guitarist and permanent leader of the "Time Machine" Andrei Makarevich is Alexei's maternal cousin.
The wife of the then theatrical artist was a classmate Valeria Vernaldovna Kapralova (last name from her first husband). The adopted daughter Anastasia, when receiving a passport, took the last name and patronymic of her stepfather, who became for her not only a father, but also a leader in life. In 87, a common child appeared in the family - the daughter of Varvara. Now she works as a TV presenter and is the soloist of the "Babushka Sugar" group.
The end of the biography of the guitarist and producer Alexei Makarevich, famous in musical circles, was a sudden death from heart failure on August 28, 2014.
