Lyova BI-2

Lyova BI-2 (2009)

Ljowa BI-2 (real name Egor Mikhailovich Bortnik ( Belarusian Ягор Міхайлавіч Бортнік ); born on 2 September 1972 , Minsk , Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) is a Russian rock musicians of Belarusian origin, poet, singer and guitarist, founder of the band BI 2 .

Life

Egor Bortnik got the nickname Lyova in his childhood:

I was living in Africa with my parents at the time (my father was invited to teach radio physics at a university in the Congo). One day my father bought me a lion's tooth. I hung it on my neck and the boys nicknamed me Leo. I liked the new name very much, and now my mother even calls me Lyova.

In 1985, in the Rond Children's Theater Studio in Minsk , Egor Bortnik made the acquaintance of the other future founder of the band BI-2  - Aleksandr Uman ( Shura BI-2 ). In this studio, together with other colleagues, they decided to put on performances in the style of absurd theater . After another avant-garde performance, the theater was closed and Shura and Lyova concluded that they could express themselves much better in music. Lyova explained this choice as follows: “ We quickly understood that boys with guitars are very attractive to girls ”.

Lyova and Shura founded the band Brothers in Arms ( Russian "Братья по оружию"), which was later renamed Shores of Truth ( Russian "Берег Истины") and was later given the name BI-2 . With their concerts the band traveled all over Belarus .

In 1991, Lyova BI-2 moved to Israel with Shura . There he worked just like Shura as a security guard on a construction site and in the guard house the friends made music. Lyova later served in the Israeli army and worked as a screen designer. After Shura went to relatives in Australia at the end of 1993 , the band BI-2 practically fell apart for almost five years, although Lyova first continued working on new songs and kept in touch with Shura by telephone. In February 1998 Lyova also moved to Australia.

There he joined the band Chiron (in which Shura also played), which still needed a guitarist . Soon the band BI-2 resumed its activity; In the same year, 1998, their first album called Sexless and Sad Love ( Russian "Бесполая и грустная любовь") was released. In autumn 1998 the band prepared the album Und das Schiff sails ( Russian "И корабль плывёт"). It was never published, but the songs from it were played by Russian radio stations. The first of them, the song Herz ( Russian “Сердце”), was in permanent rotation on the radio station Unser Rundfunk ( Russian “Наше радио”) .

In September 1999, Lyova and Shura returned to Russia . The band BI-2 was supplemented by Russian musicians and began active concert activities. The following year, the band's second album, BI-2 , was released, which included songs from the album Und das Schiff sails (but with a different order of tracks and design).

In 2000 Lyova BI-2 in the film was the brother-2 by Alexei Balabanov a cameo . The band BI-2 participated in the creation of a soundtrack for this film. The song Nobody Writes to Colonel ( Russian Полковнику никто не пишет), which can be heard in this blockbuster , made the band famous. The band continued to release new albums, and by 2017 the number of their albums reached ten.

On May 17, 2017, Lyova BI-2 was arrested by Moscow police during a football game "on suspicion of storing substances withdrawn from civil law". A 0.5 gram packet of marijuana was found on him. A day later, the court ordered him to be fined 3,000 rubles for "violating the rules of conduct of spectators at official sporting events" (paragraph 1, Article 20.31 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).

Sometimes Lyova BI-2 describes himself as the grandson of Arkady Aleksandrovich Kuleshov , a famous Belarusian poet.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inna Fomina: Сначала мы купили красную ванну. 7days.ru, March 19, 2009, accessed July 17, 2020 (Russian, First we bought a red bathtub). 
2. ↑ Interfax: Солист "Би-2" оштрафован на 3 тыс. руб. после инцидента с марихуаной на матче "Спартака". May 18, 2017, Retrieved July 17, 2020 (Russian).