A unique person who does not fit into traditional patterns and frameworks of life - Andrey Kovalev - is a musician, poet, entrepreneur, producer, TV presenter, public and political figure. In addition, he, being the frontman of the "Pilgrim" group, organizes rock festivals. And in 2018, he acquired the property of the Grebnevo estate in the Moscow region, once the former residence of the princes Golitsyn, Bibikov and Trubetskoy. The musician and entrepreneur are planning to organize a private museum here, on the basis of which various festivals can be held.
Andrey Kovalev has recently been a frequent guest of various television projects and talk shows. And his musical fertility is expressed in annual compositions, the number of which is certainly no less than three. On the music channels of domestic television, show business stars regularly use his songs at various concerts and festivals.
Biography and career of Andrey Kovalev
On June 7, 1957, the future musician and entrepreneur was born into a family of a military man and an opera singer in the capital. In childhood and adolescence, Andrei attended, along with a secondary school, a music school. And after receiving a certificate of secondary education, at the insistence of his father, he entered the road institute, which after the second year he dropped out in favor of the Stroganov Art School.
During his studies, Kovalev discovered his next hobby in the form of music, and, having switched to it, gathered a team of like-minded people and organized a musical group "Pilgrim".
But no amount of creative activity could satisfy in a talented young man his irrepressible thirst to become a successful businessman. In this "role" he made his debut with a furniture company in the late "eighties". And then there was the state post of deputy head of the Forestry Department and a post in the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy.
Andrey Kovalev succeeded in his commercial activity, creating business centers on the basis of empty and abandoned industrial premises, which in the dashing "nineties" could be purchased for almost nothing. The so-called "service" business, when unprofitable enterprises were bought up and reconstructed for subsequent resale to specialized holdings, both in our country and foreign partners, was very well mastered by Kovalev. This business path was taken with the First Macaroni Company, a small "rock empire" and other commercial projects of an enterprising businessman.
And as a result, Andrey Kovalev is ranked 23rd in Forbes (2011) among the list of the largest domestic rentiers. And two years later, the period of "pure creativity" begins, which today is at the peak of its realization.
The musical group "Pilgrim", founded in 2005, is focused on lyrical ballads, patriotic motives and even heavy metal. Stars of Russian and foreign show business are often involved in cooperation. So, for the filming of the video for the rock ballad "The Roar of Motors", he invited Pamela Anderson, who played the role of the oligarch's bride, stolen from under the aisle by the biker Kovalev. And in 2011, a lyric album was recorded in a solo performance "My Woman", the presentation of which took place at the Variety Theater.
The discography of the singer Andrei Kovalev today has dozens of albums as part of the Pilgrim group and in solo performance. The last works of the artist in this role include the following: "Revolvers and Dolls" (2013), "Songs of Love" (2014), "Martha" (2014), "Kill the Dragon" (2015).
The personality of Kovalev is interesting to fans of his talent both in the role of a radio and television presenter, as well as a poet, behind whose shoulders there are already four collections of poems. Currently, the fifth book of poems is being prepared for publication, which should become a "kind of surprise" for the interested public.
The personal life of the singer
A successful businessman with a creative nature, by the very definition of the order of things, does not have a deficit in female attention. And therefore, two marriages (one official and one civil), and two children cannot today be considered the logical conclusion of his romantic aspect of life.
The first wife of Andrei Kovalev was a certain Tatiana, who gave birth to his daughter Julia in 1990. The family broke up for unknown reasons.
The second darling of a talented person was Maria Bulgakova from Odessa. She became the mother of their joint son Nikita.
Many rumors have recently been around the person of Kovalev associated with his desire to become the guardian of Anna Kalashnikova's son. The musician himself explains his desire precisely by the fact that, being the boy's godfather, he wants to replace his parent for purely ethical and humane reasons.
