Yuri Shatunov's story - from boarding school to resounding success with "Laskovy May"

Childhood Yuri Shatunov was marred by a lack of parental love and affection. Or rather, a complete absent. He ended up in a boarding school and was understandably a troubled teenager. But fate brought him together with the people who helped a boy deprived of family comfort to find his own happiness. As a vocalist "Tender May."Shatunov was no longer suffering from a lack of attention. admirers literally followed their idol around! However, at the height of his popularity, the "blue-eyed handsome man singing about white roses" was suddenly disappeared. How fate the guy from boarding school that the whole country listened to?

Early years: difficult childhood, boarding school

Yura was born in 1973 year in the small town of Kumertau. His parents, Vera Shatunova и Vasily KlimenkoYura grew up with his grandparents, but when his grandmother died, his mother took him away. When his grandmother disappeared, his mother took him away, but at that time she had a new man who could not accept another man's son. Soon the boy started run away out of the house. For a while he stayed with Aunt Ninahis mother's sister. According to her recollections, Yura had no musical training, but he was an excellent musician. rumour since birth. The boy could easily play any tune on the guitar or harmonica, and often put on entertaining performances for the neighbours!

Vera Shatunova was exclusively preoccupied with her private life, and so placed her son in a boarding school. It happened in 1982 in the year when Yura was barely ten years old. Alas, the woman soon passed away. Since his father had a new family, no one was interested in the boy's upbringing... The only person whose doors were always open to him remained Auntie Nina.

In the mid-1980s, Yura started run away from the boarding school, and eventually the police took an interest in the young man. homeless person. It is not known how the fate of the future artiste would have turned out, if not Valentina Tazekenova: she took pity on the boy and, under her own responsibility, registered him in the orphanage of which she was the director. Soon the woman was transferred to Orenburgwhere she went with her ward. It was momentous for Yura's turn...

The road to a better life: the emergence of "Tender May"

Valentina didn't lose sight of talent Yura, and soon offered him a role vocalist to the musical group at the boarding school! The musician also played an important role Slava Ponomarev - a former pupil of Tazekenova: he saw in Shatunov not only beautiful vocals, but also attractive appearancewhich he thought would be the one to hit the ground running. And he did not fail: success "Tender May" was almost instantaneous, and all thanks to the participation of Yura...

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The first performance took place at the Orenburg House of Culture in 1986 year. Sergey KuznetsovHe ran a music studio at the boarding school and wrote songs, which Yura sang touchingly and tenderly in public.

At first, the domestic boy band conquered the expanses of Orenburg, and soon its popularity spread to other cities! Through the efforts of a certain Victor Bakhtin, the records of the orphanage children fell into the hands of the very man himself Andrei Razin - to the then manager of Mirage! Razin was hooked not only by Shatunov's vocals, but also by the sad history of the band, and the very concept The project - handsome boys from boarding school singing about youthful love... This could not help but appeal to the public of those years.

A resounding success

Towards the beginning of the 1990-х the band already had over ten albums to their credit! Hits such as "Grey Night." и "White Roses."The romanticised melodies of "Tender May" were loved all over the world. The romanticised melodies of "Laskovy May" were loved all over the world. Russiaespecially girls who were literally crazy about the charming blue-eyed vocalist. Such excitement resulted in a lot of rumours and legends concerning Shatunova. For example - some saw in the lad an obvious resemblance to the Elvis Presleywhich is why they even considered him extramarital the son of the king of rock 'n' roll!

At that time, a group of boys-kindergarteners was something completely new and fresh for the country. The success was deafeningand many critics called "Tender Mai" the first domestic boy band.

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There was even a tour of U.S.A.However - it turned out to be the last for the collective: soon Shatunov makes a decision go away from the group. The 18-year-old the guy felt that he couldn't be in the image of a boarding school boy anymore. Yuri wanted to move on, but had no idea where exactly....

Life after - where did the idol of Soviet youth disappear to?

Which is to be expected, after of Yura's departure "Tender May." ceased his existence. The guy himself took on the appearance of a hermit, and for a while. "laid low." in Sochi, where he enjoyed a long-awaited holiday from exhausting rehearsals and touring.

However, along with this, his popularity began to decline rapidly, and soon a terrible misfortune occurred: his mate's Mikhail Sukhomlinov was gone. An unknown person drove a car at the moment when Yura and Misha were leaving the entrance. Fire started, resulting in Mikhail perished... Later the madman was detained: it turned out that he had mental problems, and his goal was not Sukhomlinov at all, but the Shatunov.

Yuri eventually recovered from the incident and returned to the stage. Under the leadership of Arkady Kudryashovand the singer moved to Germanywhere he earned a new army of fans. In the late 1990s, he trained to be an actor. sound engineerand soon began a string of solo albums. В 2021-м he recorded a joint track with a blogger Dane Milohinwhich has been dubbed "Don't give up.". Unfortunately, what these two have in common one story - childhood at boarding school.....

В 2005 the year Shatunov met Svetlana. Shortly after the birth of her son. Dennis The couple married, and in 2013, a baby girl was born Estella.

Alas, the life of an artist is full of scandals. And sometimes they come from places where you don't expect them at all.... Andrei Razinwho helped Yuri climb to Olympus and became godfather to his son, forbidden Shatunov to perform old cloggers of "Tender May." This is due to the fact that back in 2006 Razin bought the rights to the almost 30 songs groups. All in all, it's a very long and convoluted story, shrouded in myths and controversy.....