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The singer and businessman is a frequent guest on the TV show. the site found out from Andrey Kovalev why he likes the project, as well as which of the participants he communicates with real life. Plus, the singer talked about his business, relationship with his son and his desired birthday present.

Andrey Kovalev
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Andrey Kovalev is known and respected by many - he is a businessman, famous in wide circles, who managed to amass a huge fortune and for many years remained at the top of the ranking of the richest people in Russia. Andrey also plays music, opens his own food platforms and conducts serious financial affairs. It seems as if Kovalev's whole life is devoted to work, but in reality he is very responsive and a kind person who is ready not only to communicate with people, but also to give them wise advice. Thus, Andrey was more than once among the star experts on the talk show “DOM-2. Analysis” and even communicated with participants in the television production outside the studio.

Today, June 7, Kovalev turned 61 years old. In honor of the significant date, Andrei answered the most tricky questions from the site and explained why he launched an unprofitable, at first glance, project, how he copes with envious people, and why he is so attracted to DOM-2.

Andrey, what is the most important gift you dream of receiving today?

I have already received all the gifts I could, including very expensive ones. Let them just tell me good words- this is the most important thing! And gifts are absolutely not important. I know that friends and artists will come to my birthday, I will be glad to see everyone. I celebrate two days - June 7 and 8, because I know that all my many fans will come to congratulate me.

Don't you have a life partner now?

No, I'm single. But here we hugged one blonde girl at DOM-2, she’s very pretty, I was really worried! I don’t know, maybe I’m revealing some secret now, but we are already corresponding. Let her name remain a secret.

Kovalev corresponds with a blonde from reality, whose name he carefully hides
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If you realize that she is “the one,” will you take her from “HOUSE-2”?

Certainly. Or maybe I’ll come to her for a project. We'll give it a blast there! We must show what beautiful love is!

You are already a frequent visitor to our studio. What attracts you so much to reality?

As the main specialist in our country in the field of relations between men and women, I am very interested in all open passions and contradictions. Plus, there are certain models of behavior that everyone should understand: for example, hitting a woman is wrong. Well, it’s not good to beat a woman, and there is no other option! And I’m interested in conveying this to others, I like to understand what happiness is built from. After all, for the sake of this happiness, you can forgive some small things, for example, betrayal. I help you figure out a lot of things, and I’m pleased when everyone comes up to me after the program.

Do you communicate with any participants after filming, besides that same blonde?

Certainly. One day Roma Kapakly came up to me and said: “Andrey, I really want to come to your business lecture, because I want a career, but I don’t understand anything about it yet. I want to earn a million rubles a month.” And I invited him to a lecture that I would give myself.

“DOM-2” is interesting to me, and he is interested in me, because after filming, when the cameras turn off, everyone, as a rule, comes up and says how much they liked it, taking photographs as a souvenir. We need each other - people who are wise in life and experience, like me, and young people who lack experience, but want to get it.

Andrey is a frequent guest of “DOM-2”
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Have you ever thought that many people, knowing about your wealthy financial situation, simply want money from you, and not life advice?

I am already an adult and wise man life experience. Of course, it is noticeable that many people need something from me. But believe me, there are a huge number of people who sincerely love me without any money - they don’t need anything from me. We're just friends because we feel good together. And there are a lot of such people. Of course, I notice that sometimes people's attitude towards me is measured by the amount of money I have. But it's so funny!

And in family relationships what are you?

I am single, but I have a son, he is four years old, whom I love madly and constantly spoil. We have a counterweight: my grandmother, who is reserved, and me. Nikita is a smart and developed boy beyond his years. For example, I started reading at the age of seven, and Nikita - at the age of three.

Sometimes he and I can just talk about adult topics. I find it interesting to be with him, and in my insanely busy schedule I just find time to chat with him. It was nice when the nanny took him to bed last night, and he said: “I want to sleep with dad!” Dad is like, “Ah-ah!”, but we have a meeting, we have to run.

“Nikita, dad needs to earn money for new cars,” I answer him, and this is how he understands that he needs new toys. He says: “Grandma, dad went to earn money for new cars!”

By the way, about earnings. It’s no secret that you are a very wealthy person, but I remember that you once did a free tour with a rock band in Russia. Was this a losing investment?

I'll explain now. Because metal - both then and now - is not very popular genre, and young people all listen to rap, I made a special promotional tour, where the group “Pilgrim” and young teams from the regions performed. This way I gave them support - they performed on a good stage and with high-quality equipment. And it was surprising: our record was 45 thousand people. That is, if less than 10 thousand came to a free concert, we were upset. And people didn't leave! Heavy metal, the heaviest sound, but people were watching.

The only thing is that then the crisis of 2008 came, I simply physically had no time for music. In addition, my girlfriend left me, and the commercial tour, which was supposed to follow the free one, did not take place. But I implemented the idea that concerts should be free in Sunflowers Art&Food.

And there is always free entry - this will be the largest food court in the world, where they will take place free concerts, stand-ups, rap battles, performances, lectures. But at the same time, it’s a business model, it exists and it works for me! This project is not unprofitable, it is quite profitable. This is a revolution, only Kovalev could come up with this.

Andrey opened his own huge food court in Moscow
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Andrey Kovalev has long been known not only as popular artist, but also as a poet, composer, TV program host, active public figure, politician Being a singer himself, he nevertheless defends the interests of listeners and viewers of quality music. Always performing live, he also encourages other performers. His patronage is also noticeable towards young musicians, to whom he provides all possible support. Of course, for long years career, Andrei Kovalev became far from a poor man. All these qualities, coupled with a presentable appearance, cannot leave women indifferent. Among the admirers of the singer's talent, ladies are absolutely different ages. To the wife of Andrey Kovalev It is certainly difficult to withstand the onslaught of loving fans. If, of course, he has it.

Reliably known fact is that the 58-year-old poet and musician was already officially married. His first wife's name is Natalya. From the union of these two people a daughter, Julia, was born, who this moment 25 years. As they write in all sorts of publications, despite the fact that the marriage broke up, Andrei Kovalev’s first wife was not left without a livelihood - the singer, poet and musician put at her disposal his thriving business (the Ecooffice company), which is now managed by Natalya. Andrei Kovalev himself is only engaged in solo career. Taking into account the fact that today the singer is absolutely free and, in principle, looking at his photo you cannot give him his actual age, Andrei Kovalev is quite an enviable groom.

It is all the more enviable for a girl who came from the Russian outback and with difficulty and colossal efforts storms domestic show business. This is exactly how critics and spiteful critics characterize Svetlana Kuritsyna, the singer’s chosen one. I would like to note that the girl has already achieved some noticeable results in her desire to settle in Moscow. She is the presenter of one of the channels with a very large audience (NTV). And she achieved this absolutely on her own. Of course, many may not like her as a media person, however bad opinion– also an opinion. And in show business, the main thing is to be discussed, and in what context is a secondary matter.

Moreover, Andrei Kovalev repeatedly emphasized that he chose Svetlana Kuritsyna as his wife, because she, unlike socialites, has an open and kind soul. In general, the singer was captivated by the same simple naivety that brought the girl to television. In June 2013, Andrei Kovalev, as if to prove the seriousness of his intentions regarding Svetlana Kuritsyna, went with his beloved home to her parents. At that moment, he was absolutely sure that he wanted to make her his wife. Unfortunately, two years have passed since then, and there has been no news about the wedding yet. Therefore, it is unknown whether this is a real relationship or just mutual PR.

Kovalev, Andrey

Andrey Arkadyevich Kovalev(June 7, 1957) - Russian businessman and public figure. Owner of the Ecooffice group of companies, singer, songwriter, radio and television presenter, leader of the Pilgrim group, music producer, rock festival organizer, member political party"United Russia" .

Biography

Family

Andrei Kovalev was born in Moscow into the family of a military man and an opera singer. Andrei’s mother sang for 35 years Bolshoi Theater, father is a colonel Soviet army.

Divorced, daughter born in 1990

Education

Andrey mastered musical instruments even in the preschool period: “violin, cello, double bass - four hours of lessons every day.” After school, Andrei planned to enter the school at the conservatory to study double bass. However, fate decreed otherwise and he graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute. Later, fascinated by sculpture, he entered the Stroganov Higher art school, where he studied for several years.

Business and charity

In the late 1980s, Andrei Kovalev organized the Prestige company selling furniture. At the same time, he pursued a political career, was deputy head of the Forestry Department, and an employee of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy.

In the late 1990s - early 2000s, he began to create large business centers in the territories of closing Moscow factories, reconstructing them according to his own sketches. In August 2007, Andrei Kovalev bought the First Pasta Company from the Agros agricultural holding, which owned three unprofitable pasta factories in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Smolensk, as well as the Extra M and Znatnye trademarks. The transaction amount was $55 million. Later, the Ecooffice company sold the pasta production, leaving the land plots for itself.

In 2008, he created the 1Rock media holding, which included the 1Rock rock club (the current name of the club is PORT), the 1Rock magazine, a satellite TV channel, an Internet portal and a radio station dedicated to rock music. In 2010, the project was closed.

At the end of 2011, Andrei Kovalev’s company Ecooffice earned $55 million from renting out real estate, taking 23rd place in the ranking of the largest rentiers by Forbes Russia magazine. In 2013, in an interview with Forbes, Kovalev said that he was engaged in music and poetry, and his business was run by him ex-wife Tatiana.

Andrey Kovalev actively participates in charity concerts and actions aimed at social support of Moscow residents, helps students of boarding schools for orphans, pupils of Preobrazhensky cadet corps, war and labor veterans, single mothers and other representatives of categories of socially vulnerable citizens.

Music career

IN student years played bass guitar in the band "Pilgrim". The musician himself recalls:

Our own group was called "Wings of Wrath", later "Rus". At almost every festival we had a new name, and this continued until I accidentally met the same guitarist who suggested that we return the old name “Pilgrim”. And on the same day I wrote the song “Pilgrim”... We performed more and more the music of “Deep Purple”

Andrey Kovalev is called a generalist, a person whose activities do not fit into the usual framework and templates. He is an author and performer of songs, a successful radio and television presenter, and the frontman of the Pilgrim group. He is also an organizer of rock festivals, a producer, an entrepreneur, a public figure and a member of the United Russia party.

Childhood and youth

The diversified development and range of interests of Andrei Kovalev become clear after getting acquainted with his biography. The Muscovite, who was born in the summer of 1957, has musical talents from his mother, an opera singer who performed on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. And he inherited his tenacious and practical mind from his father, a military man who retired with the rank of colonel.

Businessman and musician Andrey Kovalev

The boy’s hearing was discovered at the age of 4, which his mother immediately noted. The woman did not hesitate - soon her son performed simple works on the piano. To develop his talent, Andrei was taken to music school, where he studied 4 hours a day. Soon the son pleased his parents by playing the violin, cello and double bass.

After graduating from music school, the teenager set his sights on entering the school at the capital's conservatory. But to the military dad, such passions seemed “unmanly”, and he made his “mite” - he bought his son a motorcycle. The calculation turned out to be correct: having received a school certificate, the guy entered a road transport university.

However, the creative streak reminded itself again: Kovalev became interested in sculpture. So much so that he dropped out of college and became a student at the Stroganov Art School.

During his studies, Andrei Kovalev switched to music again. Having previously mastered the bass guitar, he gathered like-minded peers and created music group. Soon it received the name "Pilgrim".

Business

Difficult times - the 1980s - distracted Andrei Kovalev from creativity. I had to look for something that would generate income and get on my feet. The young man plunged into the world of business. Towards the end of the 1980s he founded a furniture manufacturing company. Soon Kovalev became deputy head of the Forestry Department, then a place was found for him in the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy.

The turbulent 1990s became a severe test for state-owned enterprises, which closed in the hundreds in the capital. Andrei Kovalev did not drown in the murky waves of economic chaos and found a use for the closing factories. He reconstructed enterprises and created business centers on their basis.

In the summer of 2007, a successful businessman acquired the First Pasta Company, which was experiencing better times. It included 3 unprofitable factories - in the capital, St. Petersburg and Smolensk. The purchase cost Andrey Kovalev $55 million.

Having made the factories profitable, the entrepreneur sold them to Italian businessmen, turning his attention to other industries. In 2008-ms light hand Kovalev, who never forgot about main love– music, the 1Rock media holding appeared. It consisted of a satellite television channel, a radio station whose main focus was rock, a magazine and a rock club, which received the name of the holding. The small “rock empire” existed until 2010.

In 2011, Forbes magazine compiled a list of the largest rentiers in Russia, in which it ranked the Moscow businessman’s company in 23rd place. Andrey Kovalev managed to earn a fortune of $55 million by renting out real estate.

2 years later, Kovalev shared in an interview that he went into “pure creativity”: he composes poems for which songs appear. His ex-wife took over business affairs.

Music

Andrei Kovalev really did not forget about music. At the beginning of 2005, remembering his student years, he founded a rock band, to which he gave the same name - “Pilgrim”. The musicians included songs in the heavy metal genre into their repertoire; the theme of the compositions was patriotic motifs and lyrical ballads.

The frontman and musician of the group, Kovalev, attracts show business stars, and not only domestic ones, to collaborate. She came to Moscow to film a video clip for the rock ballad “Roar of Motors”. The star played the bride of an oligarch, who was stolen from under the aisle by a biker. Andrey Kovalev assigned this role to himself.

The “Pilgrim” team starred in an action-packed film by a Hollywood star, which was released under the title “Dangerous Tour,” and recorded the soundtrack for it.

The rock band collaborates with fellow foreign rockers. In the second album of “Pilgrim”, called “No Choice”, there was a place for a joint composition recorded by a Russian group and a quartet of cellists from Finland “Apocalyptic”. A spectacular video appeared for the song.

In the spring of 2010, the frontman presented fans with the album “7.62”, “encoding” the caliber of small arms in the title. After 6 months, music lovers, loyal fans of “Pilgrim”, received a new present - the double album “Martha”.

In 2011, Andrey Kovalev recorded the lyric solo album, calling it “My Woman.” The presentation of the album took place in April 2012 on the stage of the capital's Variety Theater, and in October of the same year, the singer and composer celebrated his 10th anniversary on this stage creative activity. The show featured the group.

Today, the musician remains faithful to his creativity and gives fans 3-5 new compositions every year. From 2011 to 2015, viewers saw on Russian music TV channels videos for Andrei Kovalev’s songs, in which show business stars shone.

They also starred in the video for the song “Road”, and appeared in the video for the song “Airports”. Later, videos appeared for Kovalev’s hits, in which they participated, and.

Andrey Kovalev proved himself as a radio and television presenter. He is also the author of 4 collections of poetry. The last one, entitled “Only Love Can Save,” was released in the spring of 2017. The poet and musician is working on his 5th book.

Andrei Kovalev also has critics. “Pilgrim” went around with devastating articles on his work and the group, reproaching the musician and his team for vulgarity and pandering to the tastes of the “stupid public.” Shenderovich was especially furious at Kovalev’s remake of the revolutionary hit “Changes.”

Personal life

A wealthy and talented artist does not experience a shortage of female attention. In his first marriage to a girl named Tatyana, a daughter, Julia, was born in 1990. And although Andrei Kovalev got married when he was far from a young man - at the age of 30, the marriage broke up for unknown reasons.

The man did not remain single for long and soon met love - the Odessa beauty Maria Bulgakova, who is much younger than him. In 2014, Masha gave her husband a son, Nikita, but the couple is in no hurry to register the marriage.

Andrei Kovalev's desire to become his son's official guardian has caused rumors and speculation. There were those who explained this desire by the musician’s paternity.

But friends of Kovalev and Kalashnikova claim that Andrei is Godfather boy, so he does not want his godson to grow up without a parent.

Andrey Kovalev now

In the spring of 2018, it became known that the composer and singer acquired the Grebnevo estate in the Moscow region. The complex, founded in the 16th century and completed in XVIII-XIX centuries, has historical and architectural value. It was once the residence of the princes Trubetskoy, Bibikov and Golitsyn

A private investor and the authorities of the Moscow region announced their intention to restore the estate and organize private museum, hold festivals on its basis.

The singer is a frequent visitor to talk show broadcasts and television projects. In March 2018, he became a guest of the “Word for Word” show on the “Mir” TV channel, where he was accompanied by psychic, actor, singer and composer Django, and model Emilia Vishnevskaya.

Andrey Kovalev and Elena Korikova, song "My Woman", video

Andrey Kovalev

Singer, producer, organizer

Andrey Kovalev during his creative life I tried myself in a variety of guises. He writes poetry and music, performs his own compositions, broadcasts on radio and television, and organizes rock festivals. To many fans national music he is known as the front man of the group "Pilgrim". In the mid-2000s, thanks to him, a series of festivals “Glory to Russia” took place in various cities of the country: Moscow, Orel, Nizhny Novgorod. They enjoyed well-deserved popularity: for example, about forty thousand spectators came to the festival in Zlatoglavaya. Andrey shares his skills with aspiring musicians. So, he organized the “Take Off!” festival, in which young groups try their hand. He has also created, oversees and financially provides a number of rehearsal spaces where aspiring bands can hone their skills for free. In 2011, Kovalev actively pursued a solo career, preferring to perform lyrical songs.

Family and education
Andrey was born in Moscow. His father devoted his life to serving the Motherland, becoming a colonel in the Soviet Army. Mother, Opera singer, performed arias at the Bolshoi Theater for three and a half decades. The influence of his mother in creative terms affected his son early. From an early age, Andrei mastered the double bass, violin, and cello for four hours every day. The father in his own way influenced the development of his son as a real man. He gave Andrey a motorcycle, which the young man was very happy about and even wanted to connect his life with technology. In 1979, he became a graduate of the Moscow Automobile and Highway Institute. His first job took place at an enterprise that had a secrecy regime. But Andrey never parted with his motorcycle and was even a regular participant in motocross competitions. But also creativity was not ruined: he became interested in sculpture and from the first visit became a student at the famous Stroganov School.

Music career
Andrey did not plan to study music seriously. But something happened in his life fatal love and feelings demanded embodiment in real world. Kovalev expressed them in music, and the first compositions were immediately positively assessed by professional musicians. His first success inspired him to think about a musical career. In 2006, Andrei Kovalev headed creative team group "Pilgrim". Five years later he preferred solo career. Today his performances take place in the capital’s Variety Theater and the Alma Mater club. Their halls are never empty during these performances.

Rock band "Pilgrim"
The rock group “Pilgrim” was born at a time when Andrei Kovalev was still studying at MADI. Together with like-minded people at the institute, he organizes a vocal and instrumental ensemble. Our hero started playing the bass guitar. According to the recollections of the musician himself, the group changed its names almost every festival in which it took part. There were “Wings of Wrath” and “Rus”. But one day he met a guitarist who came up with an idea that became brilliant: “Bring back the old name of the group - “Pilgrim.” That's what the musicians did. And Kovalev himself, on the same day, under the influence of this idea, created the composition “Pilgrim”.

The presentation of the video for this song took place in October 2006. The composition became debut single for the new album. Director Alexander Solokha was hired as a music video director. The video accompanying the song turned gloomy everyday life into an unreal world of the future.
Already in next year Kovalev and the group “Pilgrim” performed from Russia at the international rock festival BASINFIREFEST in the Czech Republic.

Phonogram opponent
Andrey Kovalev is one of the few modern musicians who oppose the use of phonograms. This position of his is manifested not only in the fact that he sings “live” at all his concerts. He initiated a number of concerts in support of his beliefs, such as “We are for live sound!” and “Pops without a soundtrack,” which featured performances by stars of the Russian music scene.

Kovalev also took part in the creation of a Moscow legislative initiative that provided for informing concertgoers about the use of phonograms by performers. The bill, unfortunately, was not adopted. However, Andrei Kovalev believes that the very fact of voicing this problem is already important. In the mid-2000s, when these concerts took place, the bosses of the Russian music market, and, in particular, the central television channels stood firmly on the fact that there would never be live sound. And the journalists were convinced that the viewer comes to the concert in order to see the star, and he doesn’t care how she sings.

– And today the most rated television musical projects, as “The Voice” of Channel One, “Factor A” with A.B. Pugacheva TV channel "Russia 1" suggest only live sound. Same thing with nationals music awards– MUZ TV, RU TV. Here comes the creator" New wave“Igor Krutoy emphasized that at this year’s festival everyone would sing live, which led to half of the participants dropping out immediately. My undertakings of that time, as you see, are coming to life. Everything these days larger number performers come to the idea that we actively promoted at that time: “It should be a shame to sing under plywood,” says Andrei Kovalev.

Discs and star duets
The release of Andrei Kovalev’s first album “Salt, Tequila and a Slice of Lime” took place in 2004. The record was named after the song, which quickly became a hit. The video clip for this composition is reminiscent of Roberto Rodriguez's film Desperado. Mexican musician El Mariacho fights a biker gang. According to Andrei himself, such action is close to him, since some facts of his biography are no less intense. A Harley Davidson motorcycle and a rare Cadillac car of the musician himself were used for filming the video.
The following year, the musician’s second album, “Sky Sin,” was released. The video for the title track, as well as videos such as “ Christmas story" and "Spring of '45" were actively rotated on TV channels and were remembered by viewers.

Andrey has performed in duets with the most famous domestic performers more than once. With Sasha Project they performed “Song of Santa Claus” together, with the group “Tutsi” - “Train of Love”, with Lyubasha - the composition “Falling”, with Katya Lel - two songs at once: “ New Year's story" and "A Man and a Woman", with the rapper Loc-Dog - "The snow was falling slowly."

But perhaps the most popular for Kovalev was the duet with Diana Gurtskaya. Their composition “Nine Months,” released in 2006, is still in rotation on many radio stations to this day. The song became the soundtrack to the film of the same name, shown on Channel One. And almost immediately “Nine Months” began to top many radio charts.

Video clips
The musician starred in several video clips foreign stars. Thus, Pamela Anderson starred in “Roar of Engines” (2008), which is more of a mini-film than a video. Andrey Kovalev has been friends with the model for a long time. Pamela agreed to participate in the filming for several reasons. Firstly, she liked the composition itself. And besides, she got married twice, but she never had a real wedding. And miss the opportunity to put it on, even if only for film set, Wedding Dress, she could not.

Actor and director Dolph Lundgren starred in the 2009 video “Keep the Candle On.” Moreover, he himself proposed cooperation. The fact is that Lundgren was then filming the film “Command Performance”, where, according to the plot, terrorists take hostages on music festival. And the musicians of “Pilgrim” were invited to play themselves in the film, which the guys did with pleasure. And then they made a video from the frames of the film. In the same year, the video “Judas” was released, which Pilgrim made with the group Apocalyptica.

Andrey Kovalev has always taken a responsible approach to filming video clips. In 2011-12, no less than 12 videos were released, making their way to the main music channels not only in Russia, but also in Ukraine and Belarus. And again everyone participated in these works famous people. Thus, Elena Korikova starred in the video “My Woman,” Olesya Sudzilovskaya starred in the video “Given by God,” and Olga Budina starred in the work “Give Me Back That Fire.”

Evidence of such attention to video works was the title “Clipman of the Year”, which the RU.TV channel awarded to Kovalev and his colleagues for the largest number of video clips released in a year - nine!

Andrey is still actively filming videos and attracting stars again. Agata Muceniece, known from “Closed School,” starred in the video for the song “And I Keep Dreaming of Your Eyes.” And in the video dedicated to the actor Vladislav Galkin who left us, Alexey Panin and Vladimir Gostyukhin starred.

Poetry
Andrey Kovalev is known not only for his songs, of which he wrote about 700, but also for his poetry. The debut book of lyrics “Pearls and Velvet” was published in 2004. Critics immediately appreciated Kovalev’s lyrics. Thus, the famous writer Alexander Govorov in the preface to the collection was unequivocal, saying that Kovalev is a real lyric poet who will find his reader. Two years later, the second book of lyrics, “The Sky is Blue,” was published. And last year the third collection, “For You Alone,” was released.

Andrei Kovalev himself says that the engine of his creativity is unrequited love. His poems and songs are not artificial exercises; they are born from what the musician and poet himself experienced. Perhaps this is what attracts his fans.

TV and radio
In Kovalev’s varied creative life, there was also a place for hosting radio and television programs. His author’s project was broadcast on the station “Moscow Speaks”, on the channel “Stolitsa” - the program “Formula for Success”, on the radio “Popsa” - the program “Man and Woman”, and on the Public Russian Radio - “Live Sound”. Today, Andrei himself is often invited to participate in various talk shows on television and radio broadcasts.

Charity
As a deputy of the Moscow City Duma (convocation 2005-2009), Kovalev initiated a series of “Pops without a phonogram” concerts as part of City Day in 2006. Actively advocating for “live performances” by Russian pop singers, he oversaw the project “We are for live sound!” In addition, he organized the patriotic rock festival “Glory to Russia” and the festival of beginning groups “Take Off!”

Realizing how difficult it is for young musicians to break through, Kovalev set up five special rehearsal bases in the capital. Here, young groups and performers can rehearse completely free of charge, using all the necessary musical equipment. And it doesn’t matter whether the guys are going to become the second Metallica, or whether music for them is just a hobby, an outlet in harsh reality.

Kovalev invariably participates in charity concerts, the profits from which go to social support for various categories of residents of the capital. These are war veterans and large families, single mothers and orphans.

Interesting Facts

In 2005, Andrei Kovalev accused Neftyanoy Bank of having raided a blocking stake in the Auto-Prestige 1 company.

Andrei Kovalev's godsons were Stepan Menshchikov's son Ivan and Katya Lel's daughter Emilia.

On June 30, 2010, Andrei Kovalev’s unique bike was stolen, which was assembled to order for the musician at the famous European tuning studio Fred Kodlin. Fortunately, the stolen bike was soon found.

Andrey's work is interesting for all ages. Some of his fans are already in their ninth decade...

In May of this year, Andrei Kovalev accused the Chairman of the Board of Rosbank, Vladimir Golubkov, and Senior Vice President Tamara Polyanitsyna of extorting a large bribe. On May 15, these top managers of the bank were formally charged.

Andrey Kovalev – adherent healthy image life. This year he lost 25 kilograms of excess weight.

Andrei Kovalev considers love to be the main thing in his life, even if it is unrequited. He puts this feeling above his career, work and all worldly affairs.

Andrey Kovalev immediately writes the music that comes to mind to his phone. And then he records in the studio, where more than 300 compositions were created.

Andrey Kovalev is interested in unusual collecting - he collects turtles. The hobby arose spontaneously - from a gift from a friend. Today, everyone who knows Andrey knows what to give him for his birthday or bring back from a trip abroad, so the collection is constantly growing.

Discography
(In the group "Pilgrim")
"Glory to Russia" (2007)
"No Choice" (2008)
"Concert in the Rain" (DVD) (2008)
"Treezy$" (single) (2009)
"7.62" (2010)
"Martha" (2010)

As a soloist
"Salt, tequila..." (2004)
"The sky is blue" (2005)
“Nine Months”, “Ice and Fire”, “A Man and a Woman” (2007)
"Author's song", " Best songs Andrey Kovalev", "Romances" (2008)
"My Woman" (2012).