Seagull Victor Biography

The real name is Viktor Grigoryevich Sigal. Born on December 11 in Odessa. Soviet and Russian composer, songwriter, singer, musician. Victor Sigal, who became widely known as Viktor Chaika, was born on December 11 in Odessa. Father - Grigory Naumovich Sigal, surgeon -traumatologist. Mother - Larisa Efimovna Sigal, teacher of history. From early childhood he was engaged in music.

He graduated from a music school in the violin class. In parallel, he studied the game on percussion instruments, piano, vibrophone, guitar. From the age of age he began playing jazz and rock groups of Odessa. As a high school student, he created his own group. Urequent service in the army was held in Moscow. Nearby was the Moskvorechye recreation center, where he began to study in a jazz studio, in which I.

Farmakovsky, O. Chilap and other talented musicians studied at different times. After demobilization, he entered Moscow State University of Culture and Arts at the pop department. Then he got the first family and to keep it to be taken up for any work - he carried newspapers, gave music lessons, played in the evenings in the restaurant on the violin. He passed the final exams at the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, as he was invited to his group “Arsenal” by Jazzman Saxophonist A.

For several years, Victor worked in the group as a drummer in his year.

He took part in the recording of the album “DIY”. It was considered one of the best drummers in the country. In October, the ensemble “Funny Guys” left the drummer Yu. Kitaev, and the artistic director of the ensemble Pavel Slobodkin invited Victor Sigal to his place. Victor worked in the “Funny Guys” until February, until he changed him. Leaving the group, Victor Sigal began to work closely with Alexei Glyzin.

For him, Chaika wrote his first song “Winter Garden”, which was premiere at a concert organized by Alla Pugacheva for the Children's Day. Having written several songs for the solo project of Glyzin, he became the musical director of the Glass group. For three years of fruitful cooperation, Sigal wrote about twenty songs for Glyzin, including the “Winter Garden”, “Ashes of Love”, “You are not an Angel”, etc.

During this period, he took the creative pseudonym Chayk so translated the surname of Sigal from English. For her, the seagull recorded the album "Beautiful Girl". Songs fell into musical hit parades. Viktor Chaika received several diplomas of the Festival "Song of the Year" as a composer and as a poet poet. In the year, Victor Chaika first went on stage as a vocalist with the song “Mona Lisa”.

With Allegrova, the seagull worked for a long time and fruitfully. He recalled the acquaintance with the singer: “I remember, on the“ song of the year ”, Larisa Rubalskaya came up to me and gave me a four -folded piece of paper. I turned the sheet and, while starting and warming up the car, wrote a“ transit station. ”At that time, Ira and I wrote down our first joint song“ Babnik ”.

He showed her "transit", which she really liked. " By the way, because of working with Victor, Igor Nikolaev was offended by the singer. In the fall of the year, the singer and composer tried himself in a new role, becoming a tourist manager of the Swedish duo Yaki-DA. In January, the Soyuz studio was released by the solo album of Viktor Chaika himself, entitled “Where are you going?

In the year, Victor launched a large producer project “Child of Vice” for Boris Moiseev. He wrote not only the music for the songs of the album, but also the texts. The program was widely successful. Throughout the year, a tour of the cities of Russia has passed. The composer recalled: “He first caught fire, and then changed his mind. He was afraid that the new image could be too scandalous and scared his fans.

And I offered the Bore program. When we prepared a concert, we walked along closed clubs with Moiseev. True, everyone was warned there in advance that I was a composer, I work on new material, and there’s a natural to not fit with excellent proposals.” Victor Chaika wrote several songs for the singer of Aziza, and soon recorded his second solo album. In the year, he went on tour in the United States with a program, which included songs from solo albums and written by him for other performers.

Returning to Moscow, the singer and composer began to work on a new solo album and material for the album of the singer Olga Favorskaya. None of these projects saw the light due to a critical assessment of his work by the author himself. The songs corresponded several times, but were never recorded. At the beginning of X, the seagull lived mainly in the USA and wrote songs for emigrating Russian performers who emigrated abroad.

A plastic surgery to rejuvenate the face was shot in the video for the film “Male Plastic” from the documentary cycle “Extraordinary Stories”. In honor of the summer anniversary of Viktor Chaika in the GCZ “Russia” on December 13 and 14, large -scale concerts were held, in which all the stars for which he wrote songs took part. The continuation of the creative career was to participate in the Russian-Chinese project, the multi-part film "The Last Secret of the Master."In the year, together with the poetess Polina Solovyova, he recorded the song “Click to me”, which became the title for his album of the same name.

In M Chaika, the soundtrack wrote to the series "Family of the Traffic Following", in M ​​- to the animated film "The Tale of Peter and Fevronia" was performed by singer Valery. In the year, the couple had a son Alexei Viktorovich Sigal. With the wife of Irina, they moved to Moscow, where they literally had to survive. I had to get divorced to both enter fictitious marriages.

You would see the face of the registry office workers: Irina was already pregnant when we submitted the documents for divorce. Then we got married again, I adopted my own son, ”said the seagull. Together lived for 27 years. Get divorced with a scandal. After that, the first wife under the pseudonym Nora Filippova wrote a book about Victor called“ Not a Wife ”, in which he made a lot of accusations to him, that is, the Seagull himself said:“ The first wife was honest, to my artists.

And I will not say that a saint - love happened. But I tried not to cross the line. He understood: if you begin to build relationships with the artist, you will have to become part of her retinue. And I never wanted this to a freedom -loving person. "According to Viktor Chaika, the first wife who dreamed of becoming a singer was offended by him for not making her a pop star.

He got married in a year, playing a magnificent wedding. The couple had a daughter Ekaterina Viktorovna Sigal. They divorced in a year. As Chaika said, with Tatyana they turned out to be too different people. They parted without controversy and scandals. I immediately told Tanya that there is no need to apply for alimony, I myself will provide a child. Now he and her daughter live in the USA.

Previously, I often wound up to them, but now I communicate with my daughter mainly by phone, ”the composer said. They continue to communicate with the former Testem Nikolai:“ Despite everything, they remained native people, because we have a Katyushka, my granddaughter. ”The third wife is Polina Solovyova in the marriage of Sigal. She was 32 years younger. They decided to get married.

Then I realized that the age is not important. ”Irina Allegrova gave a dress for Polina. In December, it became known that Victor and Polina would become parents.