The golden composition of the group “HI-FI” and where the participants are now

This term has other meanings, see Hi-Fi (meanings).

Hi-Fi (band) Hi-Fi (band)
Hi-Fi

(English
Hi
gh
Fi
delity - high fidelity sound reproduction
) is a Russian musical group founded by composer and arranger Pavel Yesenin, as well as producer and lyricist Eric Chanturia.
The name of the group was invented by the famous image maker Alisher[1]. The band's songs have repeatedly topped the Russian charts[2][3]. In 2005, the group became a laureate of the Muz-TV 2005 Award in the category “Best Dance Project”[4].

Story

Pavel Yesenin himself planned to become the soloist of “Hi-Fi”, but deciding that touring life would not leave time for composing music, he abandoned this idea, and Mitya Fomin became the frontman of the group. However, Yesenin did not like Fomin’s vocals, and he began to sing for him on the group’s recordings.

The official founding date of the group is August 2, 1998[1]. From this day on, artists Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko began working together on filming a video clip for the song “Not Given”. It is noteworthy that until this moment the participants had not crossed paths with each other and were not acquainted: Fomin worked as a pediatrician, Pronkin as a stripper in a gay club, Oleshko as an employee of a karaoke bar.[6]

Debut album First Contact

consisted of songs by the group “Orbita”, recorded in Germany and Novosibirsk, performed by Pavel Yesenin.
Mitya Fomin was also a member of “Orbita” as a dancer. K: Wikipedia: Articles without sources (type: not specified) [ source not specified 2269 days
]

At the beginning of 2003, Oksana Oleshko left the group: she decided to leave show business and devote herself entirely to her family. Two weeks later, a new soloist was found, she became the professional model Tanya Tereshina. In May 2005, due to a conflict with the producers, Tereshina left the team and decided to pursue a solo career. At the beginning of 2006, Katya Li, a student of the jazz department of the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts, was appointed to the role of soloist.

At the end of 2008, against the backdrop of the decline in Hi-Fi’s popularity, Mitya Fomin, tired of “animating” Pavel Yesenin, left the band for a solo career. He is replaced by a new member - Kirill Kolgushkin, but Timofey Pronkin becomes the de facto leader of the group.

In February 2010, Ekaterina Lee announced her departure from the team for “greater self-realization on stage”[7]. Later she became the lead singer of the Fabrika group instead of the departed Sati Casanova. In March 2010, after passing the casting, a new soloist Olesya Lipchanskaya joined the team.

In April 2011, Kirill Kolgushkin announced his intention to leave the team[8]. In February 2012, Vyacheslav Samarin became the new soloist of the group. The band’s repertoire included his song “Don’t Leave,” for which a video was shot. However, Vyacheslav left the group in October of the same year.

Today the Hi-Fi group is a duet of Timofey Pronkin and Olesya Lipchanskaya.

Compound

In 1998, Pavel Yesenin and Eric Chanturia became the founders of a new musical project. The exact date of creation is August 2, 1998. On this day, work began on the first video clip “Not Given”.

Mitya Fomin

The members of the group were Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin and Oksana Oleshko. Initially, one of its creators, composer and arranger Pavel Yesenin, applied for the role of the group’s lead singer. However, he abandoned this idea, not wanting to change his main activity to frequent tours with an irregular schedule. Mitya Fomin became the central figure of HI-FI.

It is interesting that the members of the group never communicated with each other before its founding. Fomin studied at a medical university in Novosibirsk, and then moved to the capital to apply for admission to VGIK. At this time, fate brought him together with Yesenin and Chanturia.

Timofey Pronkin

In an interview for the Internet portal Starhit.ru, Mitya said that meeting the future participants of HI-FI in 1998 did not inspire confidence. Different people who don’t know each other won’t be able to achieve anything in show business, Fomin thought. Soon the HI-FI frontman gained incredible popularity. During his ten years of work with the group, four albums were released.

Oksana Oleshko also came to the team at the invitation of the producers. By profession, Ksyusha is a ballet dancer. She came to Moscow from sunny Tbilisi, worked in ballets of such stars as Dmitry Malikov, Oleg Gazmanov, Andrei Gubin, Nikolai Karachentsov. In 1998, Oksana met Eric Chanturia, who offered to participate in the HI-FI group. Despite the fact that Oleshko had never practiced vocals professionally, she accepted the producer’s offer.

Oksana Oleshko

For the girl, this project turned out to be an opportunity to discover new facets in herself and engage in creativity: Oksana wrote the words for the songs of Chanturia’s ward, Batyrkhan, and also appeared on the cover of Playboy.

Like the rest of the participants, Timofey Pronkin was not associated with music before joining HI-FI. As a professional dancer, he knew what the stage was, but he had never studied vocals. By the way, Timofey is seriously passionate about design and opened a printing services company.

Composition of the group

The first and golden composition of the group

It’s hard to believe that the participants once met only at the recording of the first video clip in 1998. Producers P. Yesenin and E. Chanturia invited beginner performers to the project who had no previous vocal experience:

• Mitya Fomin was going to study at VGIK;
• Timofey Pronkin worked as a dancer in another group;
• Oksana Oleshko, a ballet dancer, accompanied the performances of the stars on stage with dance.

The beginning of star trek

Within five years, popularity reached its peak, the group was awarded awards, including the Golden Gramophone, and not a single significant event was complete without HI-FI. Video clips “Not Given” and “Stupid People” occupied the top lines of the charts on music channels.

The first line-up of the team became gold, but changes began. In 2003, Oksana Oleshko left the project and devoted herself to her family and children.

The vocalist's place was taken by model Tatyana Tereshina. In 2009, Fomin announced his resignation. The founder of the group, Pavel Yesenin, did not like his voice, who recorded the songs himself, and Mitya, being the front.

First cast

Fomin began to develop his own vocal career and other projects. Today we know that Mitya has quite successfully realized his creative potential. The group was replenished with a new vocalist, but found itself in a state of crisis.

Tatyana Tereshina with the participants of “HI-FI”

Video clips

Music

Until 2003, the HI-FI group released many songs that became hits (“The Princess’s Song”, “Brother”, “He”, “I Love”, “Black Raven”, “The Seventh Petal”). The clips have repeatedly become chart winners on Russian music channels. In 2002, a video for the song “The Seventh Petal” was released. In its original version, the song existed in English. The chorus for the Russian version was written by Zemfira.

The first composition of the group "Hi-Fi"

Already in 1999, HI-FI received the first Golden Gramophone award for the composition “Black Raven”. The following songs won the same award: “Follow me” in 2010, “And we loved” in 2002 and “The Seventh Petal” in 2004.

In 2003, Oksana Oleshko announced her decision to leave the stage. This concerned not only the HI-FI group, but also show business in general. The ex-vocalist of the pop group preferred family life. Oleshko married the lead singer of the Na-Na group, Vladimir Levkin, but the marriage broke up. Oksana's second husband was businessman Anton Petrov. The singer gave birth to two daughters, but this time there was a divorce. The father of the third child, Oksana's son, is businessman Sergei Tsvitnenko.

Song “And we loved” by the group “Hi-Fi”

Also in 2003, the producers found a replacement for Oleshko. For two years, Tatyana Tereshina became the new soloist of HI-FI. But later she left the group, pursuing a solo career. After Tereshina left, the group members changed periodically. Among them: Katya Li, Olesya Lipchanskaya, Marina Drozhdina.

2005 was marked for the group by winning the “Muz-TV Award” in the “Most Fashionable Group” nomination. This is the largest award in the history of the team.

Song "Besprizornik" by the group "Hi-Fi"

In 2009, Mitya Fomin left the HI-FI group. Now he has a solo career. The producers decided to replace the lead singer with Kirill Kolgushkin. The new soloist was never able to become the leader of the group; this privilege went to Timofey Pronkin.

During his solo career, Mitya Fomin achieved no less success than the legendary pop group. A year after working outside the team, the video “Everything will be fine” was shot. The audience appreciated Fomin's work, and soon the song was playing at the top of the radio charts.

Song "Stupid People" by the group "Hi-Fi"

In addition, the singer worked thoroughly on the hit “Everything will be fine”: he was the director. The song brought Mitya an award from the Golden Gramophone. In 2010, the first album “So It Will Be” was released. Mitya Fomin also began working as a TV presenter at Muz-TV.

In 2012, Vyacheslav Samarin replaced Kolgushkin. Although he left the team that same year, he managed to make an unsustainable contribution. He wrote several songs for the group. A video was shot for the track “Don’t Leave”. From 2016 to 2022, HI-FI existed as a duo of Timofey Pronkin and Marina Drozhdina.

Song “Take Off” by the group “Hi-Fi”

The girl was previously familiar with the group’s work, but does not call herself a fan: she admired the quality of the vocals and the choreography. When she joined the group, she didn’t have to get used to the stage and learn the words of the songs: Marina knew each of them by heart, so much so did the group become a cult group at that time.

Interesting Facts

• The first soloist of the legendary pop group “VIA Gra” Alena Vinnitskaya was offered to replace Oksana Oleshko in the group. But despite much persuasion from the producers, the singer flatly refused[10].
• Before Fomin left the group, all male parts were performed exclusively by Pavel Yesenin [5] (when Mitya began singing live, it became clear that their voices were almost indistinguishable).
• The chorus of the song “The Seventh Petal”, which is in the “Hi-Fi” repertoire, was composed by the rock singer Zemfira. The song itself (the first version) was originally in English, called “Get to stand after falling” and was recorded back in 1997, for the group Orbita. Later, from this very first version, the song “Not Given” appeared. K: Wikipedia: Articles without sources (type: not specified) [ source not specified 2529 days
  ]

Notes

1. ↑ 12
   [hifigroup.ru/history/ Official Hi-Fi website]
2. [tophit.ru/cgi-bin/trackinfo.cgi?id=1082 Information about the rotation of the track “Ticket”] on Tophit.ru.
3. [tophit.ru/cgi-bin/trackinfo.cgi?id=6969 Information about the rotation of the track “In the Footsteps”] on Tophit.ru.
4. Winners of the Muz-TV 2005 Award
5. ↑ 12
   [www.afisha.ru/article/russian-pop/page48/ History of pop music from Vetlitskaya to Yolka 1991-2011]
6. Latypov B.
   [volna.afisha.ru/sounds/30-luchshih-russkih-popalbomov/ “30 best Russian pop albums”] // Poster: Magazine. — M.: Afisha Company LLC, March 5, 2014.
7. Section “News” on [www.hifigroup.ru/ official website]
8. [www.hifigroup.ru/ Official website of the group. Section “News” dated 05/18/2011]
9. [hifigroup.ru/history/complete/ History (continued)]
10. [novaya.com.ua/?/articles/2009/01/05/102033-12 Alena Vinnitskaya: “I really want a child - and there will definitely be one”]

Links

• [www.hifigroup.ru igroup.ru]
  - official website of the Hi-Fi group
• www.hifigroup.narod.ru/ — Website about the Hi-Fi group
• [www.zvezdi.ru/catalog/h/hifi.html History of the group]
• [www.theplace.ru/photos/Tatyana_Tereshina-mid2878.html Photo by Tatyana Tereshina]
• [music.yandex.ru/artist/41113/ Hi-Fi songs] on Yandex.Music

in social networks

• Olesya Lipchanskaya on Twitter
• Timofey Pronkin on Twitter
• Kirill Kolgushkin on Twitter
• Katya Lee on Twitter
• [facebook.com/kkolgushkin Official page of Kirill Kolgushkin] on the social network Facebook

HI-FI now

Each of the HI-FI performers builds a career and conquers show business. Most performers have solo careers, and some have left show business altogether.

The latest official composition of the Hi-Fi group: Timofey Pronkin and Marina Drozhdina

For 10 years there was no news about the HI-FI group, although Timofey Pronkin and Marina Drozhdina still gave concerts. Stars can be invited to cooperate; their contact details are on the official website and Instagram. There are also photos and video reports from concerts, and addresses to fans.

In April 2022, HI-FI performed at the Olympic Stadium with a gold lineup. Mitya Fomin, Timofey Pronkin, Oksana Oleshko, after 20 years, were again on the same stage and performed their favorite hits.

Golden composition of the Hi-Fi group in 2022

At the same event, “Dirty Rotten Fraudsters”, Eva Polna and “Hands Up” performed. In an interview with journalists, Mitya Fomin keeps the intrigue, but hints that the HI-FI meeting did not happen by chance and fans can expect a new song or even an album.

In addition to the three permanent performers, Marina Drozhdina appeared on stage. Later, the singer shared with media representatives that the audience reacted to her appearance not as violently as to the original HI-FI lineup, but this was not a reason to be upset. Marina plans to stay in the group for a long time.

An excerpt characterizing Hi-Fi (group)

“Well, okay,” Denisov said. And, turning to his subordinates, he made orders that the party should go to the resting place appointed at the guardhouse in the forest and that an officer on a Kyrgyz horse (this officer served as an adjutant) should go to look for Dolokhov, to find out where he was and whether he would come in the evening . Denisov himself, with the esaul and Petya, intended to drive up to the edge of the forest overlooking Shamshev in order to look at the location of the French, at which tomorrow’s attack was to be directed. “Well, God,” he turned to the peasant conductor, “take me to Shamshev.” Denisov, Petya and the esaul, accompanied by several Cossacks and a hussar who was carrying a prisoner, drove to the left through the ravine, to the edge of the forest. The rain passed, only fog and drops of water fell from tree branches. Denisov, Esaul and Petya silently rode behind a man in a cap, who, lightly and silently stepping with his bast-clad feet on roots and wet leaves, led them to the edge of the forest. Coming out onto the road, the man paused, looked around and headed towards the thinning wall of trees. At a large oak tree that had not yet shed its leaves, he stopped and mysteriously beckoned to him with his hand. Denisov and Petya drove up to him. From the place where the man stopped, the French were visible. Now, behind the forest, a spring field ran down a semi-hillock. To the right, across a steep ravine, a small village and a manor house with collapsed roofs could be seen. In this village and in the manor's house, and throughout the hillock, in the garden, at the wells and pond, and along the entire road up the mountain from the bridge to the village, no more than two hundred fathoms away, crowds of people were visible in the fluctuating fog. Their non-Russian screams at the horses in the carts struggling up the mountain and calls to each other were clearly heard. “Give the prisoner here,” Denisop said quietly, not taking his eyes off the French. The Cossack got off his horse, took the boy off and walked up to Denisov with him. Denisov, pointing to the French, asked what kind of troops they were. The boy, putting his chilled hands in his pockets and raising his eyebrows, looked at Denisov in fear and, despite the visible desire to say everything he knew, was confused in his answers and only confirmed what Denisov was asking. Denisov, frowning, turned away from him and turned to the esaul, telling him his thoughts. Petya, turning his head with quick movements, looked back at the drummer, then at Denisov, then at the esaul, then at the French in the village and on the road, trying not to miss anything important. - Dolokhov is coming, he’s not coming, we have to beat him!.. Eh? - Denisov said, his eyes flashing merrily. “The place is convenient,” said the esaul. “We’ll send the infantry down through the swamps,” Denisov continued, “they’ll crawl up to the garden; you will come with the Cossacks from there,” Denisov pointed to the forest outside the village, “and I will come from here, with my gusags.” And according to the road... “It won’t be a hollow—it’s a quagmire,” said the esaul. “You’ll get stuck in the horses, you need to go around to the left... While they were talking in a low voice in this way, below, in the ravine from the pond, one shot clicked, smoke turned white, another, and a friendly, seemingly cheerful cry of hundreds of French voices who were on the half-mountain was heard. In the first minute, both Denisov and the esaul moved back. They were so close that it seemed to them that they were the cause of these shots and screams. But the shots and screams did not apply to them. Below, through the swamps, a man in something red was running. Apparently he was being shot at and shouted at by the French. “After all, this is our Tikhon,” said the esaul. - He! they are! “What a rogue,” Denisov said. - He will go away! - Esaul said, narrowing his eyes. The man they called Tikhon, running up to the river, splashed into it so that splashes flew, and, hiding for a moment, all black from the water, he got out on all fours and ran on. The French running after him stopped. “Well, he’s clever,” said the esaul. - What a beast! – Denisov said with the same expression of annoyance. - And what has he been doing so far? - Who is this? – Petya asked. - This is our plastun. I sent him to take the tongue. “Oh, yes,” Petya said from Denisov’s first word, nodding his head as if he understood everything, although he absolutely did not understand a single word. Tikhon Shcherbaty was one of the most necessary people in the party. He was a man from Pokrovskoye near Gzhat. When, at the beginning of his actions, Denisov came to Pokrovskoye and, as always, calling the headman, asked what they knew about the French, the headman answered, as all the headmen answered, as if defending themselves, that they didn’t know anything, to know they don't know. But when Denisov explained to them that his goal was to beat the French, and when he asked if the French had wandered in, the headman said that there were definitely marauders, but that in their village only one Tishka Shcherbaty was involved in these matters. Denisov ordered Tikhon to be called to him and, praising him for his activities, said a few words in front of the headman about the loyalty to the Tsar and the Fatherland and the hatred of the French that the sons of the Fatherland should observe. “We don’t do anything bad to the French,” said Tikhon, apparently timid at Denisov’s words. “That’s the only way we fooled around with the guys.” They must have beaten about two dozen Miroders, otherwise we didn’t do anything bad... - The next day, when Denisov, completely forgetting about this guy, left Pokrovsky, he was informed that Tikhon had joined the party and asked to be left with it. Denisov ordered to leave him. Tikhon, who at first corrected the menial work of laying fires, delivering water, skinning horses, etc., soon showed greater willingness and ability for guerrilla warfare. He went out at night to hunt for prey and each time brought with him French clothes and weapons, and when he was ordered, he also brought prisoners. Denisov dismissed Tikhon from work, began to take him with him on travels and enrolled him in the Cossacks. Tikhon did not like to ride and always walked, never falling behind the cavalry. His weapons were a blunderbuss, which he wore more for fun, a pike and an ax, which he wielded like a wolf wields his teeth, equally easily picking out fleas from his fur and biting through thick bones. Tikhon equally faithfully, with all his might, split logs with an ax and, taking the ax by the butt, used it to cut out thin pegs and cut out spoons. In Denisov's party, Tikhon occupied his special, exclusive place. When it was necessary to do something especially difficult and disgusting - turn a cart over in the mud with your shoulder, pull a horse out of a swamp by the tail, skin it, climb into the very middle of the French, walk fifty miles a day - everyone pointed, laughing, at Tikhon. “What the hell is he doing, you big gelding,” they said about him. Once, the Frenchman whom Tikhon was taking shot at him with a pistol and hit him in the flesh of his back. This wound, for which Tikhon was treated only with vodka, internally and externally, was the subject of the funniest jokes in the entire detachment and jokes to which Tikhon willingly succumbed. - What, brother, won’t you? Is Ali crooked? - the Cossacks laughed at him, and Tikhon, deliberately crouching and making faces, pretending that he was angry, scolded the French with the most ridiculous curses. This incident had only the influence on Tikhon that after his wound he rarely brought prisoners. Tikhon was the most useful and brave man in the party. No one else discovered cases of attack, no one else took him and beat the French; and as a result of this, he was the jester of all the Cossacks and hussars and he himself willingly succumbed to this rank. Now Tikhon was sent by Denisov, at night, to Shamshevo in order to take the tongue. But, either because he was not satisfied with just the Frenchman, or because he slept through the night, during the day he climbed into the bushes, into the very middle of the French and, as Denisov saw from Mount Denisov, was discovered by them. After talking a little more time with the esaul about tomorrow's attack, which now, looking at the proximity of the French, Denisov seemed to have finally decided, he turned his horse and rode back. “Well, darling, now let’s go dry off,” he said to Petya. Approaching the forest guardhouse, Denisov stopped, peering into the forest. Through the forest, between the trees, a man in a jacket, bast shoes and a Kazan hat, with a gun over his shoulder and an ax in his belt, walked with long, light steps on long legs, with long, dangling arms. Seeing Denisov, this man hastily threw something into the bush and, taking off his wet hat with its drooping brim, approached the boss. It was Tikhon. His face, pitted with smallpox and wrinkles, with small, narrow eyes, shone with self-satisfied gaiety. He raised his head high and, as if holding back laughter, stared at Denisov.