Andrey Razin is a popular music producer, whose name is always associated with the Laskoviy May group. He is also an honored artist of the Republic of Crimea and executive secretary of the Moscow merchants.
Show Business
Andrei Razin was born in 1963 in Stavropol, his parents were killed in a car accident, so the boy was brought up in an orphanage. After school, he graduated from the school in Svetlograd, Stavropol Territory, where he received the specialty of a bricklayer.
The active young man could not sit still, he first went to the Far North, then served 2 years in the army in a tank unit, and then moved to Ryazan. It was there that Andrei got a job at the local philharmonic as a deputy director. Razin actively showed himself in this field, easily made the necessary acquaintances, negotiated with the necessary people, knocked out budgets from officials and constantly generated incredible creative ideas.
The next stage for Andrei Razin was work in Chita in the television and radio committee. Despite the fact that the future producer did not have a specialized education, he was able to become the first assistant director. Various popular artists often came to the city to perform. Andrei Razin was able to meet Anna Veski, who invited an enterprising and active young man to become her administrator.
Together with the singer, the young man traveled to many cities of the Soviet Union, gained excellent experience, acquired many useful contacts that were so necessary in show business. No one knows why Razin left the post of administrator at Anna Veska. But suddenly he returned to his native Stavropol region, where he got a job as deputy chairman of a collective farm.
It was there that Razin carried out an incredible scam: once he left with a decent amount of money to buy a tractor for a collective farm, but never came back. Andrey invested the entire amount in promoting his career. He decided to try his hand at producing, started looking for new and young talents.
The first famous and successful project of Andrei Razin was the "Mirage" group, here the producer tried his hand at singing, performing as the opening act for the girls.
Tender May
Since Andrei Razin worked at the Record recording studio, interesting materials regularly fell into his hands. One of these unusual finds was the album of the unknown and young group "Laskoviy May". Its participants were pupils of the Orenburg orphanage, the soloist was Yura Shatunov.
A flair told the enterprising producer that the group had great potential. Razin behaved like a "great combinator." He introduced himself to the creator of the group as an employee of the Ministry of Culture, which made it possible to bring "Tender May" to Moscow.
Andrei Razin has shown himself to the fullest as a creative and successful producer. He threw all his strength into promoting the guys, realizing that he could earn decent capital on their work. Razin recorded a million cassettes with songs of the young group, gave most of the copies to the train conductors, who distributed the products to the passengers. For a fee, the trains played songs of "Tender May", cassettes flew away like "hot cakes".
Soon, all over the country already knew about the young group "Tender May". Razin came up with the following move; it was time to organize a tour. The ingenious combinator came up with a great idea to simultaneously hold concerts in several cities. He simply created several clones of the group, while Yura Shatunov did not go on tour, but remained at the recording studio.
Andrei Razin recruited "clones" among children from orphanages, because they did not require huge fees, for the sake of fame they were ready to endlessly travel around the country and give many concerts. The groups performed under "plywood". Razin categorically forbade journalists to take photographs of the artists, so no one knew what the band members and its soloist looked like in reality.
12 collectives toured the country under the guise of the "Laskoviy May" group. Then Razin began to send artists to large cities, led by Shatunov, and "clones" continued to travel to provincial cities.
Until now, no one can beat the record of popularity of the group "Laskoviy May". 47 million concert tickets have been sold. After the producer was threatened with an article for fraud, he decided to stop the work of the team.
Income
No one can say exactly how much Andrei Razin earned at the concerts of the Laskoviy May group. For comparison, if Alla Pugacheva received 67 rubles from a concert in the late 90s, Andrei Razin was 1500-2000 rubles. Also, the Prima Donna had no "clones". Later, in an interview, Razin admitted that at the very peak of the band's popularity, he earned $ 20 million. But the former members of the group argue that the amount is understated dozens of times.
Of course, the guys from the Laskoviy May group did not immediately understand what real income they can receive from their concerts. For a long time, the producer gave them money for fashionable clothes and pocket money, that was enough. But then the guys grew up and started asking awkward questions and demanding their fees.
Realizing that the scam would soon be revealed, Razin began to actively invest his millions in the purchase of gold and real estate. Now Andrei Razin's fortune is more than $ 100 million. He still works as a producer, looking for young talents and promoting them.
