ROCK CALENDAR: April 23, 1957 - Russian singer and musician Pavel Smeyan was born

The musician was very talented, handsome and charismatic – he was a friend to many. He managed to do a lot in music until he died of cancer in Dusseldorf in 2009. I remember the video for "bad Weather" from the movie "Mary Poppins), where he sang with Natalie the Saltykov (his then-wife and maybe – former... there they all very quickly changed). Great song, great duet-I'll show you this clip.

He was born in Moscow, graduated from the music school in saxophone. Began work in group "Victoria." When they took to the theater Lenkom on the old Arax, they changed the name to "Rock-Atelier". In parallel, Paul was involved in many acclaimed projects the band "Voskresenye", "SV", "Festival". He became one of the few singers whom Maxim Dunaevsky trusted to sing his songs – in the TV movie "Mary Poppins" he performed all the male vocal parts-and it turned out very well!

In 1993, he found an irresistible craving for God-and he leaves as a monk in the Valaam monastery. Because of this, Mark Zakharov has been the role of the Writer in the "Juno and Avos" is divided into two one plays, the other sings. After a year, Paul returned to Lenk. He participated in many musical projects – some became famous, others – no... but he lived a bright and interesting life.

Pavel Smeyan and Natalia Vetlitskaya-Bad weather