Gauguin Solntsev is sometimes called the country's main freak and the Russian Merlin Manson. Bright and shocking, he constantly experiments with his own appearance, loves to shock the public, often flashes on the TV screen as a guest of various television programs, and his personal life is constantly discussed in the press. Who is Gauguin Solntsev and what is he famous for?
Biography of Gauguin Solntsev
Gogen (Gogen) Solntsev is a person who can be called a "showman of a wide profile" - he is an actor, director, theater teacher, radio host, singer and dancer.
Gauguin's real name is Ilya. He was born in 1980 in Moscow, the son of a teacher and an employee of the Greek embassy. The parents divorced when the child was two years old, and was raised mainly by his grandmother.
Ilya began to take the first steps on the path to fame during his school years. An artistic, plastic, relaxed boy from childhood was interested in theater, participated in amateur performances, studied music and sang in the choir. And from the end of the 80s, he began to appear on television screens.
The eight-year-old Ilya's TV debut took place within the framework of the program "I'll Sing Right Now", where he parodied Arkady Ukupnik. A funny performance by a little boy to the soundtrack of the then most popular song "I will never marry you" made a good impression - and the boy soon became a real "TV star". He participated in many children's television programs: "Krugolya", "Cactus and Company", "Cool Company", "Delo Technique", and in the 90s he became one of the leading teenage programs "Under 16 and Older", which was aired at that time. on Channel One. As a high school student, Ilya took part in the work of the Children's Academy of Television and even headed the children's jury of the Russian Academy of Television.
Naturally, such a brilliant "children's" television career had to continue - and after graduating from school, Solntsev tried to enter the acting department. However, the attempt was unsuccessful - the course was already recruited, the talented young man could only be offered studies on a commercial basis, and his family did not have the opportunity to pay for tuition.
After that, Solntsev tried to "make a career" in network marketing, selling perfumes and cosmetics; I was looking for other ways of earning money, up to part-time work as a loader - and at the same time engaged in creative experiments. He performed in clubs and restaurants with original concert performances in the musical genre, conducted concerts of pop stars. He tried to tour in the provinces, performing cover versions of popular songs, but had no commercial success in this field.
At the same time, Solntsev was seriously carried away by children's and youth creative projects, but already as a teacher. He taught acting and staged drama and musical performances in an amateur theater studio at the Palace of Youth Creativity, taught authoring courses in children's TV schools and pop workshops. At the same time, he did not manage to get an official "acting" education, and Gauguin Solntsev, in parallel with his creative activity, studied directing pop shows, and also took acting courses at the Lee Strastberg Academy of Arts in Los Angeles.
During this period, he was also seriously engaged in pop music - he records songs (both new and remakes of old "hits"), prepares a concert program with his own show ballet and tours abroad. And in 2006 he made a splash at the international competition "Bravissimo" in San Marino and became the winner in the nomination "Best Musical Show".
By this time, Solntsev has often "flickered" on television as a guest of various TV programs on various channels, starred in commercials, played in a number of documentaries and feature films and is considered a prominent figure on the cultural map of Moscow.
What is Gauguin famous for
Gauguin Solntsev became known to a wide audience after he took part in the popular reality show "Dom-2" on the TNT channel. This happened in 2008. The extravagant, shocking Solntsev aroused great interest in the audience, the reality show provided him with recognition and became an excellent starting point for a new round of television career. Journalists became interested in Gauguin, he was constantly invited to shoot various television programs. Unusual appearance (Gauguin constantly experiments with the image, changing the color and length of hair, using either “vampire” contact lenses, then black lipstick or false eyelashes, changing into women's clothes, etc.), provocative behavior, readiness for scandals - all this aroused the interest of the audience.
Once again, Gauguin became famous after participating in the filming of Andrei Malakhov's show “Let them talk”: trying to attract the attention of one of the guests of the program, Gauguin made a “terrible” face and shouted “Advocat!”. This fragment instantly flew around the Internet, becoming one of the most recognizable memes of 2011 and added recognition to the showman.
The shocking young man became the "face" of the TV program "Mystical Moscow" on the channel "Moscow-24", and on the "First Sexual Radio" he became the host of a very piquant program "In bed with a star", dedicated to the details of the personal life of celebrities. And the total number of television and film projects in which he somehow "appeared" has already reached more than five hundred.
Public interest Gauguin systematically “warms up” with non-standard creative actions - such, for example, as a joint performance with a choir of grandmothers in the State Kremlin Palace, then fights with “media” persons, then attempts to find a wife through the program “Let's get married” (which resulted into a scandal with his obsessive admirer named Snezhana). And in March 2018, the hotly discussed topic was the marriage of 37-year-old Gauguin to pensioner Catherine, whose age, according to various sources, is from 62 to 74 years old. This caused a flurry of publications with speculations about whether it was a real wedding or a prank, and who this old woman is - a wealthy "sponsor" or a budget actress hired to play the role of "young".
At the same time, Gauguin Solntsev continues to actively engage in his own show projects. He continues to stage musical numbers, performs in variety and circus shows. Since 2013, the main creative project of Gauguin is the Moscow theater "Absurda", which operates on the basis of the creative center "Ostankino". Gauguin Solntsev is the founder and artistic director of the theater, teaches acting and directing according to his own methods, puts on performances and pop numbers.
