Judaism biography

About how many Jews are in show business, why the rocker Lysin and why you can’t earn money on kosher glazed cheeses in Russia, he told the correspondent of the Jewish magazine. Wherever you spit - ours everywhere - as soon as I saw a book called "Sandler's List" on the table, it became clear where I would start the interview. What kind of list is this? He has an incredibly erudite person with me, he studied the life of famous Jews all his life, thousands of biographies knew thoroughly.

And all the time I told me about them. And in my head “Sex, Drugs and Rock-N-Roll”. Of course, I had a lot of hobbies: both painting and literature, but I lived precisely with music. And the memory is not the same as his: I listen, luraking my breath, and then it turns out, I forgot something. And about 20 years ago I say: “Dad, I am stupid. Can you record all this, and I will read? Or maybe the book is published.

” For two years he bent it, he wrote for another two years, and in G. specially called provocatively: what the Jews would buy - it is clear, but it is necessary that the anti -Semites bought. After that, the idea arose to make a two -volume about Jewish scientists: biographies, by the number of commandments. I thought: there is a “Schindler list”, and we will make a “Sandler list”. Completely - "Sundler's list.

People who have changed the world. " In general, I am only interested in Judaism and music - rock and jazz. At first, my friend-journalist Valera Kucherenko took 50 biographies of legendary producers and managers who created this industry, and Joseph Davydovich Kobzon wrote to the introduction. By the way, now this work is recommended as a textbook in Gnesinka. And we are preparing a volume of “people who have changed music” - five volumes have already been written.

This was a discovery for me: after all, rock music is the British, Americans ... When we started digging, I was shocked: almost every group has a Jew: either the texts wrote, or the musician, or sound engineer ... Depeche Mode, Linkin Park, in Kiss-all the Jews ... What is rock music! Recently, I brought the Torah scroll to the Moscow Jewish Community Center and invited Oleg Gazmanov, with whom I have been friends for more than 40 years, to recording letters in Torah.

So his mother’s surname is an altshuller! Gazmanov-it turns out, Gozman, "-ov" is added. Recently, Timur Bekmambetov asked me to make a large flash mob of artists star to his last film "Ninetays", whose premiere took place literally three weeks ago. Give me, I think, before the meeting, I read about the family.

Mom is theologian, wife - Fishman! In short, wherever you spit, our guys are everywhere. Is it really the Jews are more talented than the rest? He replied: “Of course not. All nations are talented. But the Jews have one advantage: we have very deep traditions. And genetically Jews are a very musical people. ” I always say that the song and generally the music is above prayer.

When the plane is turbulence, even an atheist asks: "B-also, save me." But when a person asks for help for a long time and it seems to him that Gd does not hear him, a person begins to sing. So the blues were born. So Russian lamentations were born. Berl Lazar said many times: if there were no Torah and faith, music would be the highest degree of spirituality.

Only seven notes in various combinations make a person rejoice, cry, laugh ... At the Pink Floyd concert in the city, they are not spiritual? But a person who does not understand music is a little limited, I think. Here they give the child to a music school. What will study if he does not intend to build a career as a musician? This is magic, a sacrament that cannot be explained.

The orchestra has a colossal number of instruments, and each affects some of our internal energy, makes her accumulate and gives her some kind of way out. One person is crying for classical music, another in high rock ... - And “affectionate May”? At the same time, indeed, there is music for the head and for the legs. There is no need to think over music music, you need to break under it.

I am a professional, I want to listen to smart music even during the rest. But the beloved sister, who has reached great heights in Israel, listens only to poppyatin. And dad is Mark Bernes and the songs of Soviet composers. This does not mean that someone is better or worse. Maybe in another these people are much higher than me. An alien on the keys - at the entrance to your office it is written "there are no former rockers." Who is the rocker?

Let me say about Russian rock. Why is he not interested in anyone except the Russians? Because it is not rock. Why are they the first? Because their music is complex, deep, philosophical - primary. But in order to play steeply, you need to study in hours a day, and ours is laziness and reluctance. It seems like he wrote philosophical or pseudo -philosophical songs, learned three chords and a couple of riffs well - and says: "I am a rocker." Guys, this is not rock.

These are yard groups with interesting text material. All our stars came to his master classes. In the end, I ask the question: “Seth, tell me, we have talented musicians? One of my students is engaged in six hours a day and six hours vocals. Her usual working day is 12 hours. One day off per week. Dear stars, which of you is engaged in 12 hours a day? And who is 10 hours?

Well, and eight hours a day? ..I ask: “And who is this student? And work 12 hours a day, and a powerful teacher and talent ... And luck is Mazal, as we say. I know megatalantic hardworking children, but unknown: there is no Mazal, the stars did not agree. Handsome Yuri Loza sings in the foreground, I made such a breathtaking show behind - jumping, chattering, with my feet played on the keys - that all the girls roses wore in packs.

Yura was very unhappy. In Integral, we made a revolution in the world of music in the “scoop”. At that time, it was fashionable to wear long hair, the longer, the cooler. I also had patches. We arrived in Anapa on tour in m, in the evening with the guitarist Vitya Shchedrin drank a bottle of vodka one, the second ... I was glitched, I say: "Vit, I would shake in the morning." He replies: "Come on chat." They argued on a bottle.

In the morning I go down to the hairdresser, and for 12, it seems, cents shave me to zero. I am bald, to meet Alibasov: “Sandler, are you? He began to yell: “What did you do! They did not allow long hair to work, and this is generally a call personally to Brezhnev! They will close us! I’ll put on a hat after two to three months with a heart. ” The concert began.

I pulled the ballet leggings of the first wife, the Finnish women's boots 42 sizes were then only Kirsov soldier, motorcycle gloves and a silver costume with wings - the dad at the factory worked and brought me a silver fabric, which the planes pulled. But we had a dense scoop, when VIA went out in the costume, two lanterns shone - blue and green, and this was considered cool!

I was still a sweet tooth, ate another kilogram of sweets, and there was a lot of foil left. I chopped it finely, put it in a plastic bag, bought a petroleum jelly for six cents, smeared their heads and stacked the sparkles. In the light of the spotlights, everything shone, and the press wrote that an alien on the keys is working in the Integral group, it has a laser from his head.

In general, at the end of the concert, the whole hall, a person, gets up and begins to chant: “Bald, come on!