Vyacheslav Dobrynin

Vyacheslav Dobrynin
Background information
Native name	Вячеслав Григорьевич Добрынин
Birth name	Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin
Born	(1946-01-25) January 25, 1946 Moscow, USSR
Genres	Pop music,
Occupation(s)	Composer, Singer
Years active	1970s–
Website	dobrinin.ru

Vyacheslav Grigoryevich Dobrynin (born Petrosian^[1] on January 25, 1946, Ryazanskaya oblast, Russia) is a popular Russian composer and singer also known as Doctor Shlyager. He was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 1996.

Dobrynin was born in 1946 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He studied at Moscow State University and received a diploma as an "art historian and theorist" in 1970. He subsequently worked at the Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum. As an amateur musician and singer he participated in different Beatles-style groups. Dobrynin started to compose songs in the late-1960s and from 1971 co-operated with the Oleg Lundstrem orchestra, "Vesyolie Rebyata", "Samotsvety" and other bands. He has written more than 1000 songs, often based on poems by Leonid Derbenyov, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Mikhail Tanich and Ilya Reznik.

In the 1980s Dobrynin started to record his own songs, and in 1990 he founded "Doctor Shlyager" band.

Dobrynin's songs are mostly dedicated to unhappy love and romantic events of a person's life. Among his most popular hits are:

• "Vsyo, chto v zhizni yest u menya", ("Все, что в жизни есть у меня")
• "Rodnaya zemlya" ("Родная Земля")
• "Ne syp mne sol na ranu". ("Не сыпь мне соль на рану")
• "Gde je ty byla" ("Где же ты была")
• "Kachaetsya vagon", ("Качается вагон")
• "Siniy tuman", ("Синий туман")
• "Dve svechi", ("Две свечи")
• "Belaya cheryomukha" ("Белая Черёмуха")
• "Na teplohode muzika igraet", ("На теплоходе музыка играет")
• "Luitza muzica" ("Льётся музыка")
• "Ne volnuites tetia" ("Не волнуйтесь тётя")
• "Kapitan Zapasa ("Капитан запаса")
• "Yagoda Malina" ("Ягода Малина")
• "Babushki-starushki" ("Бабушки старушки")
• "Koldovskoe ozero" ("Колдовское Озеро")
• "Cazino" ("Казино")
• "Ti mne ne snishsia" ("Ты Мне Не Снишься")
• "Ti razbila moe serdce" ("Ты разбила мне сердце")
• "Kto Tebe Skazal" ("Кто Тебе Сказал")
• "Ya bous tvoey lubvi" ("Я Боюсь Твоей Любви")
• "Ni minuty pokoya" ("Не минуты покоя")
• "Ne zabivaite druzei" ("Не Забывайте Друзей")
• "Napishi mne pismo ("Напиши мне письмо")
• "Pikovaya dama" ("Пиковая Дама")
• "Tak Vot Kakaya Ti" ("Так Вот Какая Ты")
• "Ya toskuyu po tebe" ("Я Тоскую По Тебе")
• "Ya svoe otgulyal" ("Я свое отгулял")
• "Nikto tebya ne lyubit tak kak ya" ("Никто тебя не любит так, как я")
• "Sumashedshiy dozd" ("Сумасшедший дождь")
• "Do Chego Ya Nevezuchiy" ("Вот Увидишь")
• "Nezhnaya" ("Нежная")
• "Nezabudka" ("Незабудка")
• "Proshay" ("Прощай")

Awards

• Lenin Komsomol Prize,
• 15-times winner of Song of the Year Russia,
• Ovation prize (1991, "best composer" nomination).
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV degree (30 January 2006)

References

External links

• Official website
• Vyacheslav Dobrynin at iTunes
• Vyacheslav Dobrynin discography at Discogs