Biography Group Amatori

In the year, Amatory became a laureate of the RAMP award in three nominations: the song “Black and White Days” won the nominations “Song of the Year” and “Clip of the Year”; And the group itself won the group "Group of the Year" in the nomination. In the same year, they became a “group of the year” according to the A1 Prize. Going in musical preferences, the guys soon began to rehearse in Svetlov’s apartment - Daniil played on drums, and Denis on the acoustic guitar for lack of another.

In the fall, they get acquainted with Eugene Pj Potekhin, who immediately becomes the long -awaited vocalist and the “real” guitarist of the group. Zhivotovsky leaves the guitar in favor of the bass, because he was poorly able to play on it, as well as solving the issue of the bassist. A little later, rehearsals moved to his apartment. In the year, PJ comes up with a name for the nameless group - Amatory.

They begin to play concerts regularly in schools and underground clubs. The first demo is recorded in the year. Gradually, the participants realized the need for the second guitarist, and after short searches, they became Sergey [gang] Osechkin. The first rehearsal with him took place on April 1 - this day later became the official date of the birth of the group. With this composition, the team played several concerts, until in June, unexpectedly for all Potekhin, he was taken into the army for 2 years.

Having lost the vocalist, the main author of the songs and the leader of the Amatory group, after short fluctuations, decided to move on. In the fall of the same year, Lexus, which became a rapper, is poured into the group. The first disk of the group is the low -term full -format album released in December “Fate forever hides,” which preceded the single “Shards”. The album receives a prize of the audience sympathies of the FUZZ Award, and the group - the opportunity to perform at the largest Russian festivals.

The team is immediately accepted for work on a new album and releases the album “Inevitability”, which was produced by Jacob Hansen. Thanks to work with Jacob, Amatory played "in the western manner." In the year, Amatory, together with the groups of Psyche and Jane Air, creates the SPBMUSIC coalition, leaving for a joint tour, actually creating fashion for Russian youth. In October, the third album of the Book of the Dead is released, produced by the same Jacob Hansen.

In the year, the second mini album of the group “Discovery”, consisting of 6 tracks, was released. In November, Amatory release the single “Breathe with me” and sign a contract with the musical label of the Federal State Institution “Nikitin”. At the beginning of next year, a clip was released on the Lid Single “Breathe with me”, which received a wide rotation on the leading music channels of Russia and the CIS.

At the end of the year, the group introduced the internal dawn Internet system, in the same year a video clip came to this single. For the summer of the year, the group planned concerts at festivals, but on July 28, vocalist Igor Kapranov announced that he was leaving the group and was going to devote himself to religion. For fans, this was a complete surprise, which caused a resonance and a large number of discussions.

After that, Igor stayed in the Valaam Monastery for some time. With him, the record of the fifth studio album “Instinct of the Doomed”, published in November of the same year, was completed. In front of the tour, a gift Internet system was released “Shards 2. In the year, the cover was recorded with the frontman of the group “Animal Jazz” for their hit “3 stripes”. In the same year, Alexander Pavlov leaves the group and during the tour he was replaced by session guitarist Ilya Borisov, who later became a regular participant in the team.

In the year, Amatory announced the suspension of activities, saying this on the official website, where she explained the decision that the musicians did not have the opportunity to go on long tours. In the same news, do they announce a tour called “The Last Concert? From the year, the group took a pause and performed only at separate festivals. From the year, the active musical activity of Amatory resumed.

Together with the new guitarist Dmitry Muzychenko, the single came out to “stop the time”, which raised a lot of noise and attracted attention to the revived group. In October, Amatory releases the album “6”, which changed any idea of ​​them.

Absolutely new music sounded on Russian scenes and the team had a lot of new fans. However, lovers of the "old" Amatory took the album very negatively. The release consisted of three full -format tracks, one of which was recorded with the Russian rapper ATL. Starting in the summer of the year, Amatory on a concert All -Russian tour. During it, the group introduced new features, first of all, that now fans themselves can determine the set list, which the group will play in the near future.

According to its participants, over the past year, none of the collective communicated with the vocalist because of his drunkenness and unprofessional behavior, and the last straw was the participation of Glory in the “Song” project on the TNT channel, or rather the words said to them about the group. Over the next months, the first concerts are gradually announced within the framework of summer festivals in the flight, invasion and chernozem, as well as the dates of the autumn tour in support of the new album.In this case, a promo-photo of the group with a new participant in a mask is used.

A few days later, the group announced the live broadcast of VKontakte and posted another photo in an updated composition without a mask. The guesses of many were confirmed by the new vocalist was Sergey Raev, an Obscure of Acacia, Triumphant, Celestial Meridian, also known for working with Shokran and Sumatra.