Sergei Mikhalok: “I was a drunk and a junkie, but I became a boxer and a jock. Before there was a drunk and a junkie, and now a boxer and a jock

Some musicians will forever remain for listeners something more than just bearers of culture and rock. Some of them have an active civic position, openly express their opinions and do what they believe in. This can be safely said about a person like Sergei Mikhalok.

Childhood of a musician

Due to the fact that his father was in the military, the family moved to Germany. Sergei himself was born in the capital of Saxony, Dresden, in 1972. Later they lived together in Siberia and only at the end of the 80s returned to Belarus. From childhood, Mikhalok Jr. began to participate in various creative competitions... Sergei Mikhalok, whose biography began in the GDR, became famous in certain Belarusian circles. His teachers also noted the boy's amazing ability to music in the absence of discipline. Despite this, he was a clear favorite of the teaching staff. As expected, he entered and graduated from the University of Culture and Arts.

Creation of "Lapis"

In early 1990 Mikhalok became the founder cult group famous in the countries the former USSR until now - "Lyapis Trubetskoy". The name of the team was given by the name of the hero "12 chairs". At first they played as an amateur, then began to participate in serious festivals. The turning point was the meeting of the group with the future director - Kolmykov. After that, they began to receive royalties and travel on buses. At the same time, Sergei Mikhalok began to cooperate with the Bamboo Theater. At first, the group's cassettes were sold in small quantities. Everything changed after recording in the studio under the direction of Kravtsov, who advised to expand the group with several more musicians to improve the sound. The band soon released their first album. The Belarusian audience appreciated him very favorably, which manifested itself during the presentation of awards at Belarusian rock competitions. However, in the mid-90s, creativity faded away.

Birth for the Russian public

An explosion in popularity comes for Mikhalka's group when his cassettes arrive in Russia. Sergei Mikhalok, whose biography becomes known to the public, at that time is the object of the struggle of many studios. His new album was composed of old and new songs, receiving famous name"You threw it." The CIS countries received it with enthusiasm. The collective releases its first video for the song "Ay", which instantly took off in the charts. Then, without the participation of "Lapis", a disc with their remixes and archival recordings are released. The new work, published later, rehabilitates the group in front of the Belarusian fans. They conquer more and more wide circle admirers.

2000s

The beginning of the new century did not go very smoothly for "Lapis". Their new album did not receive wide public recognition, as the compositions began to have a fundamentally different sound. Although some critics have called it the best album of the decade.

Mikhalok Sergey Vladimirovich again became a VIP person in show business after the video for the song "Doves", which received the widest rotation on MTV. Then the musicians decided to take part in the "Children of the Sun" project, which promotes optimistic songs performed by both famous and new performers. The main directions of the group were reggae and "gypsy".

The Sochi video has once again proved to the audience that Mikhalk's talent is inexhaustible. A new round of popularity and global fame in the CIS spurred the musicians to write the next album "Youth", which became the most successful for long years the existence of the team.

"Golden Eggs"

In the mid-2000s, Sergei Mikhalok released a scandalous album, distinguished by its independent sound. The influence of reggae and ska-punk on the band's work seems obvious. In addition, now Mikhalok also becomes the author of soundtracks for the film "Men Don't Cry". He announces that given view creativity helps him to know himself from a new side. Therefore, later the album of the same name with music for TV shows is also released.

Creativity changes

The album "Capital" became the banner of a sharp change in the style of the group. Now the social overtones are becoming more and more obvious in their music. The video has won numerous awards. In it, Sergei appeared in the form of a certain pseudo-Buddhist deity with a heart in the form of a pig. It reflects the destructive power of globalization.

Contemporary creativity

The song "I Believe" became a breakthrough for "Lapis" in musical career... Numerous viewers and listeners declared this track the best for last years the work of the group. The next mark for such a great musician as Sergei Mikhalok was the album "Rabkor", where his civil position... At that time, Belarus openly announced the list of groups banned in the country. "Lapis" also got into it, which served as the cancellation of a number of concerts at home.

In March of this year, the group announced the termination of creative activity after the spring-summer concert session.

The personality of Sergei Mikhalk

Mikhalok Sergey, whose height is 172 centimeters, in recent times has changed a lot in appearance. V early years the existence of the group, he weighed almost 110 kg. He wore with flowers, which gave him a very funny look. Now there can be no question of a flabby look. Even before the release of the "Golden Eggs" Sergei shaved his head bald, talking about the cardinal changes in his personality. The desire for self-development led him forward. Indeed, Sergei Mikhalok before and after is absolutely different people... He goes in for sports, martial arts, goes to the gym, eats healthy food. According to his diet, the first 10-15 kg can be lost at home, calculating meals according to its quality, not quantity. Mikhalok says that a person is what he eats. Human chips break easily and crumble.

Previously, the musician was known for his addiction to alcohol and drugs. Now he doesn't drink at all. And he remembers those distant connections with drugs as a bad dream.

When Sergey lost more than 20 kg, there was a need to start swinging, since the body did not look very aesthetically pleasing. So began his long journey in bodybuilding. In the mid-2000s, Mikhalok became a recluse. He trained for a long time, rode a bicycle, jumped rope, did push-ups, pulled himself up. He believes that it is necessary to constantly improve in order to bring something useful to the masses. His example also benefited the rest of the group. Many people started going to boxing and other types of wrestling. Now striving for healthy way life is an absolutely natural part of the existence of a collective.

Sergey Mikhalok: personal life

The first wife of Sergei was the soloist of the group "Mantana" Alesya Berulava. However, the relationship came to naught due to the stormy characters of the spouses. The second time Mikhalok married an actress Her gentle character and desire for home still keep warm and kind relations in their family.

Mikhalka has two sons - Pavel from his first marriage and Makar from his second. He thinks they don't have to continue creative profession father, but has the right to do what they themselves consider necessary.

The lead singer of the Lyapis Trubetskoy group is a difficult person with clear political views... Because of this, he repeatedly had problems with the authorities. However, one cannot dismiss the fact that it is precisely for the strength of character and directness of views that the singer and the author are so respected by his devoted fans. He is a reflection of his era and the voice of his people.

90s. Mikhalok works at the Bambuki Theater as a director, screenwriter and actor. "Lyapis Trubetskoy" was created, but it is more entertainment than work. In those years Mikhalok was a regular in the "attic" in the GUM area - workshops that were given for the preparation theses students of the fifth year of the Academy of Arts, and in which the Minsk bohemia gathered. We drank a lot. And not only. In those same "dashing 90s" Mikhalok transferred clinical death from an overdose of the then popular drug "Jeff".

1996 year. A concert in the Palace of Culture of Trade Unions, after which "lapis" sounded from each iron. Presentation of the album "Smärotnaye vaselle". The main hits of that time were "Wounded Heart", "Chayachki", "Blind Guslar", "Green-eyed Taxi", as well as a reworked song from "The Adventures of Buratino", which "Lyapis Trubetskoy" practically did not perform anymore. From that moment on, one might say, "lapis" sounded from each iron.

During the legendary concert at the Trade Union House of Culture, after which the lapis woke up famous.

If you turn into a flower in a field,

I will find your petals as a bee.

At least hide, at least do not hide

You are still mine.

Doo-doo-doo

In 1996, Lyapis Trubetskoy received Grand Prize at the time of the very authoritative festival "Rock Coronation". Music critics they raised a fuss about the fact that it was impossible to call the music played at that moment by "Lyapis Trubetskoy". Articles in the press really hurt

Festival "Rock Coronation". Oleg "Jagger" Minakov presents the rock crown to Sergei Mikhalk

I read poems to you aloud,

I bought expensive cookies

I walked your stupid, stupid dog

Do you remember, he gave me a foreign chewing gum.

But you, you, you threw, you,

You, you threw, you.

year 2000- Mikhalok stopped drinking hard drinks, except for a couple of breakdowns.

Then he drank beer, dry wine. Well, there were breaks for hashish there, marijuana, - he once admitted in an interview.

In 2000, a joint project with the artist Alexei Khatskevich appeared, "Sasha and Sirozha", in which Mikhalok brought the idea of ​​clownery to the point of absurdity. The comic characters Sasha and Sirozha had real prototypes whom Aleksey Khatskevich met in art school... They were brothers from the village. Mikhalok introduced the word "sorcerer" (which means a redneck) into the everyday life of young people.

Lie on your bed

head north

You will dream about summer

butterflies and clover

Hormones, singers and microphones want to sleep

Sasha and Sirozha

fall asleep too.

2003 - 2004 Mikhalok took part in the project of Lyavon Volsky "Krambambula". In the clip on main hit"Gosci", by the way, starred then very young swimmer Alexandra Gerasimenya, football player Alexander Gleb, cyclist Natalya Tsilinskaya and football player Alexander Khatskevich.

Sergey Mikhalok, Lyavon Volsky and Alexander Kullinkovich in the project "Krambambula".

Pavyali tady mulynaў we are at the museum of vaina aichynnai

Pavyali tady zhanchyn we are on kava cappuccina

Usse pa-roznamu balbochuts

I don’t want a cappuccino

And with the museum of the state potal knew a couple of kulamet

In 2003 Sergey Mikhalok officially registered the relationship of Alesya Berulava (Mantana group and Merry Poppins). And three years later, the gap occurred quietly, almost amicably. Former spouses in interviews, they constantly said that they remained relatives to each other. This year the maxi-single "Chyrvony Kalisony" is released, in which the group tries to completely go into reggae, ska and gypsy.

That Polish boogi,

then Polish vugi

And the cucaracha,

Polish boogie-woogi

Stanislaў kupiў

chyrvons kalisons

And he south to dupa

our boogies

2004 - 2005. The music of "Lyapis Trubetskoy" sounded a lot in the cinema. The hit "Men Don't Cry" even surpassed the series of the same name in popularity. Few people know that the song was dedicated to the director of the group, Yevgeny Kalmykov, who was untimely widowed.

"Lyapis Trubetskoy" with the group "Zob shi Zdub"

"There will be good luck,

Zheka, you know

Men do not cry.

And tears from the wind

and the tears from the ashes

Oh oh oh,

they must be forgotten. "

2004 year became a turning point in the life of Sergei Mikhalk. After another binge, he announced that he would not drink at all. I started to lose weight.

In 2007- the albums "Capital", "Manifesto" and "Kultprosvet", in which the "lapis" finally appeared as revolutionaries and anti-globalists. The alcoholic T-shirts were replaced by muscles, and anger mixed with self-irony appeared in the lyrics.

The video for the song "Capital" has become the most unusual in the history of the group.

In the left hand - "Snickers",

v right hand- "Mars",

My PR manager -

Karl Marx.

My face is Madonna

inside - from rotten pears.

Everyone on their knees!

Orchestra, tush!

2011. A new armor-piercing clip "Don't be cattle" to the verses of the classic of Belarusian literature Yanka Kupala. Mikhalk's statements in interviews became angrier. The prosecutor's office of Minsk drew attention to one of the interviews and summoned him “to check his statements about the Belarusian authorities”. The musicians decided not to tempt fate and moved to Moscow for a while. Moreover, the group's concerts were held mainly in Russian cities.

year 2012"Lyapis Trubetskoy" gave more than a hundred solo concerts with the Belarusian-language program "Don't be cattle!" and "Rabkor", and also performed at all major open-airs in Russia and neighboring countries.

The video for the song "Nya Byts to Cattle" was filmed against the background of historical Belarusian symbols.

year 2013- Mikhalka and Zelenkovskaya had a son, Makar.

I believe in Jesus Christ

Believe in Gautam Buddha

I believe Jah, I believe Jah

I believe Jah and I will

In 2014 The Lapis performed the song Warriors of Light, which became the unofficial anthem of the Kiev Maidan. For this song alone Mikhalok could become a tribune of the revolution for many years and rest on his laurels. But he once again surprised the fans and then released the Russian-language album "Matryoshka".

In 2016 Sergei Mikhalok finally managed to make a dent in the strange situation for his performances in Belarus. 5 years later, he performed for the first time in his homeland - first at the Ice Palace in Gomel with the Brutto group, and then with two concerts in Minsk with the Lyapis98 project. Tickets for them were sold out during the day. At the end of February - beginning of March, a tour of Belarus is planned, the final concert of which on March 8 will be big concert in the "Minsk Arena".

You fell many times, hundreds of scars on your body

You've learned to live with pain

But now your hour has come, go ahead, hit with your right

Time to win, don't miss your chance

Nobody bets on you

Nobody bets on you

Nobody puts Underdog on you

You will force yourself to respect

You will force yourself to respect

You will force yourself to respect

The world is at your feet

Seryozha, when did you realize that you are not attached to home, that you can live in other cities without sentimentality? Back in 1997, when we often visited Moscow to record the most successful album in that, past, life, "You Threw", I realized that I could travel safely if I had a circle of friends and my beloved. It was really difficult for me to live in Minsk at that time. Half of the people carried us in their arms, the other half were wildly outraged by the fact that Mikhalk was thrown into the mainstream, so dismissive of rock music. I did not have long hair and leather jackets, I haven't listened to Rainbow albums and I don't know which band Paige was in. For me, all this is tinsel and ***** [an insignificant phenomenon]. I came into rock and roll with the aim of ********** [pin up]. I've always been interested in punk culture. Do you remember the brightest punk antics? All my youth from the age of seventeen is punk and zen, two things that guide me. I wanted to enter the history department in Krasnoyarsk with friends and my first girl from Norilsk. I was a real northerner: I went on archaeological expeditions, played in a rock band, had a reputation as an informal, played volleyball and fought in the streets. In the biggest fight, more than a hundred people, Edik Petrov hit me in the face. Mine! Confused! I sat on one dude, bought him, and Edik ran away and, like the owner of a good football kick, he ***** [hit] me that the fingal did not pass for four months. In general, my parents persuaded me to enter the history department of the Belarusian State University in Minsk. I rode with the firm intention of failing my exams and going to serve in the army. But in one summer in Minsk in 1989, he met hippies and punks. I had to become a historian, I was focused on serving the system, I had conservative views - I came from a military family. But when my parents arrived a year later, I was in the psychiatric ward with an overdose of Jeff. Then, on the flat of the queen of Minsk punks, mother Lyuba, we booted braga when I received the third summons to the army. And I put on appendicitis. They cut it out for me, although I still don't know how it hurts ... With the main punk Pig from the Automatic Satisfaction group, we drank twelve bottles of vodka and sang "Green-eyed Taxi" to the piano. How do you know that you have enough drinking? I tried to quit even before the lapis took off. Boozed on last courses Institute, the birth of Pasha's first son passed in constant wild booze. Lena had a difficult pregnancy because of this. I worked as a parquet flooring assistant, received money, managed to bring a certain amount to the house, disappeared for three or four days and returned home with a broken head ... I was hanging by a thread. And because of the heavy hangover, I did not stop drinking: I got hungover - and further, further ... When I became a popular "lapis", I merged with the image, began to gain weight. In rare moments of sobering up, I ******* [went nuts] when I saw artists with me in the dressing room, whom I just wanted to break a few years ago. We scoffed at the stage and rock and roll, and then it turns out that I became a part of show business. That is, people have not figured out the irony? No, the melody is important to them, apple trees are *** apple trees [a rhyme with a prefix denoting a male genital organ]. Meanwhile, Minsk punks began to hate me, I betrayed the ideas of the underground and lost my friends. Several times I tried to go to shamans, it was coded - it did not work. I had attacks of delirium tremens, sober I could not work, I was scared, I sat at home and watched the video. If he stopped drinking, he smoked hashish. Once, leaving for a year, I went to a picnic. There I was artificially happy, I figured out for myself that it is very good to be sober. And my late friend Vadik filmed the picnic on camera. I saw the recording in the winter. I looked - in the lake, a monster was swimming in the slurry! I didn't understand that it was me! In this case, the monster behaved directly, showing a "killer whale" with a bare ass. But I didn’t see myself like that: I didn’t act naked in videos, I didn’t look in the mirror during sex, there was no selfie then. And the camera adds kilograms even more! And realizing how ugly I am, I took up my body. And thoughts of jumping off the lapis appeared after the first album.

Hero hit list

Hero hit list

Sport is for everyone. Music is for everyone. Poetry is for everyone. The leader of the Lyapis Trubitskoy group, Sergei Mikhalok, shows by his example that even at 40 you can be in excellent sports and musical shape!

1999 year. Sergei Mikhalok acts as a kind of jester, colored shirts, funny face, beer belly, etc. The creativity of the Lyapis Trubetskoy group is accompanied by alcoholic intoxication, their music could be safely attributed to the category popular stage... "Apple trees", "Ay", "Blizzard" played from all the cassette players in the country, the group was at the zenith of fame ... By that time Sergey already weighed 107 kilograms, and realized that it was time to change something both in terms of creativity and self-development ...

The principles of the diet of Sergei Mikhalka

Sergey dropped the first 15 kilograms at home. In addition to playing sports, he changed his diet and diet. The main principle Is to find a taste in simple products, for example in a salad of tomatoes or fish. If you just force yourself not to eat what you love, then nothing will work. At the same time, you should not limit yourself in the amount of food, the main thing is not quantity but quality. Since 2000, Sergei Mikhalok has stopped drinking spirits, with the exception of a few breakdowns.

“I believe that you are what you eat. For example, you chew chips, and the same structure becomes your brain, entrails, bones ... You hit on the hump, and everything crumbles. People-Leis, in best case with dill, at worst - with pork and fat. "

After Sergei lost 25 kilograms, it did not look very good, since muscle mass was almost absent. Therefore, he began to diligently swing with iron, and is also engaged in martial arts.

In 2005, the Leader of the Lyapis Trubetskoy Group led a kind of reclusive lifestyle and completely withdrew into himself, was left alone with his thoughts. During this period, he devoted even more time to sports: Daily two-hour cyclocross around the city + Thai boxing training.

After Muay Thai, Mikhalok switched to classic boxing, which, according to Sergei himself, is a little more complicated. Usually a musician-athlete has five workouts a week, even on the road, workouts are sacred. In the toughest situations, at least one hour of boxing warm-up. , - set for 3 minutes with a break of 1 minute. Well, the main exercise is shadow boxing.

Today Sergey Mikhalk's lifestyle is intense training every morning, individual training, plus jogging, plus diet ...

“I have found excellent physical fitness, spiritual harmony and gave up such bad habits as drugs, alcohol, and smoking ... I lost weight and can complete 23 - not bad for a 40-year-old former alcoholic and a drug addict. "

Perfice Te - Improve Yourself

Metamorphoses also occurred with the group itself. Many of the team were not ready to accept the new way of thinking and new music... Now the Lapis are playing fast music requiring serious internal organization. If earlier it was possible to afford to yell "Apple tree" in a drunken state, to put it mildly, not quite hitting the notes, then with the new repertoire it is simply not permissible. Some of the guys from the group followed Mikhalk's new beliefs and became seriously interested in martial arts. So now the Lapis jokingly call themselves a pop-boxing collective.

Sergey Mikhalok. Musician, 42 years old. Minsk, Belarus.

As a child, I loved to fantasize, play war and make your friends laugh. I am still true to myself.

If you're new, it's best to fight the strongest in class right away.... Even if you fail, in the unspoken school rankings you will be praised and the rest will lag behind for a long time.

Most of all I loved the lessons of work and drawing., although I did not have time for these subjects - I burned through the form with a soldering iron, ripped off my fingers with a file, and the grater as a gift to my mother on March 8 I had the most clumsy. He also drew disgustingly - with a bold pencil, without markings, then tried to fix it - only made it worse. Therefore, I still admire workers and craftsmen, since their talents and skills are not available to me.

At the training camp for cycling in Gorny Altai, local hooligans threw stones at us and let down dogs. It amused them. I know what crowd interest is.

Parents dreamed, so that I go to the music school y, because the child of the military must be intelligent. They bought me a piano. And I wanted sambo and an aircraft modeling club. I went to the music school somehow, the piano broke. The parents called the tuner for 25 rubles, and he quickly found the problem: I hid the slingshot in the piano and forgot about it. Mom lost 25 rubles, and I got a good slingshot and got thrashed.

Military marches, parades were a holiday for me. I didn’t think about what was behind all this. I wanted my father to be sent to serve in Afghanistan. Then we would have a car, a carpet, and I have jeans and a Japanese tape recorder. I didn't think they could kill there.

I made my first tattoo as a company and drunk, for the sake of show-off, and reworked it several times later. Others were already beautiful and to the point, but in that place there was still a crooked portak and devils. Sometimes it's better to do something new than fix old mistakes.

External effect and emphasis on stereotypes convince suckers of any nonsense. Once in a cultural enlightenment school, I sold the majors boxes of tea in half with bespontovaya Belarusian hemp, and to make it convincing, I even lit a joint with them and laughed loudly. They also laughed and praised the "chuyka".

I watched the first performance of "Lyapisov" on TV in the 37th department of the Durka, where he got after an overdose of "Jeff", a homemade drug from solutan. Nearby were some Georgians, an authority from Fanipol, the chief physician, orderlies, a cop on duty and several more systemic "screw" ones. Everyone was unanimously delighted. For the first time next to them there was a real "fuck from TV", as the bandit from Slutsk put it. I became the star of the department and had a pretty good two weeks in a closed semi-prison establishment.

Review of the first concert "Lyapisov" was devastating. The second - indignant: at the festival of arts we did not play a single note: a drunk bassist fell with the amp and could not get up, and for some reason the drummer threw out his sticks as soon as he entered the stage and hit the cultural workers with them. At the third concert, my friend Vasya Gagarin, an artist and a karate player, tore my accordion, and we had a fight behind the scenes of the Mogilev Palace of Culture with the whole group, for which we were removed from the program. 100 of our fans have already come to the fourth concert. Scandals and notoriety gave me the first fans. And all the following.

BRUTTO - the band of my life... Why do I say that? Because I see how the puzzle is finally being formed into a colorful and large-scale picture, from which you cannot take your eyes off.

I came to Ukraine, in Gurzuf, at the age of 18. Our Minsk gang took part there in a fight against local gopniks and bandits. Later they even made a film about this fight - two hippans were killed in it. We stayed to live in Crimea, and I set a record on the Yalta embankment when I earned 180 rubles in one evening. My repertoire was the best - Tsoi, Strange Games, Zero, Letov, Boyarsky, Antonov and Blatnyak. And our half-naked, informal beauties danced nearby. Crimea is mine.

Cord - my antipode... He poeticizes the way of life, which in real life quickly leads to the finale. Plump, fuck like a pig, be a cynic and rush like a burning train can only be a comic book hero or Cord himself - rich and successful. Those who imitate him immediately die.

I have a checkmate - a weapon of struggle... "Leningrad" has a swear word - a cheap show-off of the intelligentsia, mowing under the "thieves". A kind of "haberdashery" language of the Oberiuts.

I've been in rock since I was 15... I drank, I did drugs, I was rowdy and had orgies - I did everything to seem like a cool rock hero. But he became a real rock star only when he gave up all the bullshit, went in for sports and turned into an exemplary family man.

What i do, is a health and fitness boxing. I will not be able to enter the ring - I do not know how to defend myself normally and I move badly. In training, I work out kicks in the bag and the "paws" of the trainer, do light sparring, work with a rope, parallel bars and dumbbells. This is enough for a professional entertainer, but not enough even for an amateur boxer.

I met my wife on the train... I was drunk and wanted to throw the artistic director of her theater out of the carriage. She fought him off and saved the poor man from disaster, and me, perhaps, from prison. Then she hated "Lapis". Five years later, we met again and fell in love at first sight. The first glance doesn't necessarily happen the first time.

Hatred and annoyance- sometimes a better motivation for serious action than the desire to do good or the desire to save humanity. I saw a thousand times more good intentions than good deeds.

I love large forms- films "Metropolis", "Citizen Kane", "Brazil". The scenery, the extras, the scale impress me more than the psychology of the monologues or the impeccable actor play.

Interview- this is when you confess and wait for consolation, knowing in advance that the priest will then tell everyone about your sins, deliberately distorting the facts and savoring the nasty things. And in general, you are a Shiite Muslim, but for some reason wandered into the Seventh-day Adventist church. Giving interviews is like dressing and preening by looking in your rearview mirror.

When my father was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, doctors gave him at least 10 years of life. The feat of his mother, sister and, most importantly, his personal feat allowed him to live for another 17 years. Man does not perform feats alone. There are those for whom everything is done, and there are those who create the conditions necessary for achievement.

Wrote down Anton Kashlikov, Photo - Andrey Davydovsky.