Today we will talk about who Constantine Belyaev is. His biography will be examined below. It's about the author and the performer. His work relates to the genre of thieves' songs. Compiled a series of verses under the title "There are only Jews around."
Biography
Konstantin Belyaev was born in the village of Bolshaya Dolina, not far from Odessa. The mother of the future artist Nadezhda Alexandrovna was an employee of the state farm. My father died at the front, his name was Nikolai Zakharovich. Until 1953, Konstantin Belyaev studied special boarding school. A number of subjects in this institution were taught in English. I went to Moscow. Became a student of the Institute of Military Translators. I studied there for three years. During the post-war demobilization, almost the entire course of his institute was disbanded. Belyayev went to Almaty to the Otar station. There he taught English for a year in high school. I went to Moscow. Became a student of the Institute of Foreign Languages. He graduated from the university in 1960, receiving the specialty of an English teacher and an interpreter. By distribution I got to Sheremetyevo airport. He took the post of dispatcher-interpreter.
In custody and at large
In 1983, Konstantin Belyaev was convicted of "illegal fishing" for 4 years. The term served in the walls of the colony with a reinforced regime near Vologda, in Ustyuzhna. The investigation lasted about a year. The future musician for this period has changed 4 prisons. After his release, he was in the garage companies a night watchman. Later he became a tutor of a boarding school for orphans. In 1988 - 1993 he worked in private business. At the same time I began to actively record. In 1996 he worked for the first time at a professional studio called "Rock Academy". Soon the first solo disc was released. In 2009, our hero was operated in a Moscow hospital. After that, he was transferred to the intensive care unit. There he died in 2009, on 20 February.
Creation
Konstantin Belyaev wrote songs mainly on the poems of other authors. Also performed other people's compositions. In particular, the musician turned in songs to the work of Evgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko, as well as Igor Ehrenburg. In the repertoire of our hero about 400 songs: romances, lyrics, Odessa-Jewish. He also recorded with MV Inozemtsev at a studio called "Northern Motif". Although he preferred to work with Moscow friends Vyacheslav Samvelov, Sergei Lepeshkin and Alexander Volokitin. In total since 1966 has let out 73 concerts and an album. Constantly the restoration and digitization of old old records created by our hero is being made.