Igor Burnyshev is better known to music lovers as Garik Burito, the lead singer of the pop group of the same name. He is a talented vocalist, poet, composer, clip maker. Who is he and where is he from? How did you come to the world of music? Is he married and does he have children?
Igor Burnyshev is the creator, ideological inspirer, soloist and songwriter of the Burito group. His work cannot be attributed to any particular genre - it includes elements of pop music, rock, hip-hop and r & b. The name of his group was not given by a Mexican dish, as many think. It was formed from three Japanese characters for the words "warrior", "justice" and "sword". Despite his popularity, Garik Burito is rather closed to the press. Where is he from, how did he come to music? What's going on in his personal life?
Biography of Burito soloist
Igor Burnyshev was born in early June 1977 in the capital of Udmurtia - the city of Izhevsk. Despite the fact that the boy's family was far from art - his mother was an assembler, and his father was a milling machine - his artistic abilities were manifested from early childhood. Igor loved to sing, took part in the theatrical school performances with pleasure. In addition, the boy was fond of sports - he attended climbing and tourism clubs, went to Altai as part of a school group, when he became independent, he visited the Tien Shan more than once.
As the main profession, the young man chose directing, after school he entered the republican college of culture in Udmurtia, on a course in dramatic theater directing, but soon realized that he did not want to associate life with the theater and dropped out.
In 1996, Igor arrived in the capital and entered the Moscow University of Culture and Art on the course of the director of show programs and theatrical performances. In parallel with his studies, the guy worked on the radio, taught break dance to the children of one of the Moscow schools, performed in the nightclubs of the capital as a DJ under the pseudonym DMCB.
Love for music accompanied the future soloist of the Burito group all his life, even in his youth he sang to the guitar for his friends. The guy composed songs, but they lay down "on the table", as he was embarrassed to present them to the court even to his relatives. Much later, the compositions became hits, brought popularity to their creator and his musical brainchild - the Burito group.
The career of the soloist of the Burito group Igor Burnyshev
Garik Burito began his musical career as a DJ at DMCB. In 1999 he launched his own project - "Burito", but the attempt was unsuccessful, the start was postponed indefinitely. Igor realized that to launch a project, both knowledge and certain experience in show business are needed.
Since 2001, Igor Burnyshev has been pursuing his own career, postponing the development of the Burito project:
- directed show programs,
- filmed video clips for songs of Russian performers,
- taught dancing,
- continued to write poetry.
In 2005, a fateful meeting for Igor Burnyshev with the producer of the Band'Eros group, Alexander Dulov, took place. At first, he joined the group as a dance director, choreographer, but after a few months he appeared on the stage as a vocalist of the group.
For 10 years Igor performed with Band'Eros, and all the fees he invested in the realization of his dream - his own recording studio. It was opened in 2015.
Since 2012, Burnyshev has resumed work on his Burito project. His own studio opened up new opportunities, and in 2015 he left Band'Eros. The very first compositions of the new group became hits. At the initial stage, friends from the world of music helped him to develop Igor's brainchild - Elka, sister of the Meladze brothers Liana, singer Irakli and others.
Igor Burnyshev's project Burito
Igor's departure from the Band'Eros group was not a surprise for his colleagues. They themselves actively helped him develop the group for three years, introduced him to the producers, and supported him morally.
Since 2012, the group has officially reunited, it included Igor Burnyshev himself - songwriter, vocalist, director and video director, two bass players and guitarist, DJ Andrey Veretennikov, drummer, two sound engineers.
The group Burito recorded the first composition together with the singer Yolka, and it was noticed and highly appreciated by both music lovers and music critics. A year later, the collective appeared at concerts of prestigious awards, received several awards at once - "Golden Gramophone", "Muz-TV Prize", became a laureate of "Song of the Year".
In parallel with his work in his group, Igor Burnyshev continues to direct and stage music videos, writes poetry, which then becomes mega-popular song hits. He continues to collaborate with the singer Elka, performer Irakli and other vocalists.
Personal life of Garik Burito
The first time Igor Burnyshev got married when he was a student at the Moscow University of Arts and Culture. In marriage, a daughter was born, who took over from her dad a passion for music and is now also developing her own career in this direction. The marriage quickly fell apart, but Igor takes an active part in his daughter's life.
The second wife of Garik Burito was the former lead singer of the Strelki group and the presenter of the Muz-TV channel Oksana Ustinova. The young people met at the end of 2010, at a charity event in one of the orphanages in Moscow.
Oksana and Igor formalized their marriage only 3 years later, and in 2017 they had a joint child - the son of Luka.
Igor convinced his wife that she needed to develop a solo career, actively helps her in this, supports both morally and financially. Garik's wife Burito performs under the pseudonym Ustinova. Her first hit, entitled "Going into the Sunset", was written for her by her husband, and the song was recorded in his studio.
