Singer Raven Biography

Alena Vorona: "Creativity lives by me" there are people who have some attractive power. It is interesting to communicate with them, and sometimes it seems that you fall in love with them. Or - it does not seem, but really the second version happens in the background of the first seemed to me some faded. He listened - and forgot and six months later unexpectedly, he collided on organizational issues with a certain Alena Korona.

And I learned that it has the most direct relationship to the group of the same name. And after some time, Alena invited me to a charity concert, which she herself organized in order to raise funds for the treatment of a sick child. Two weeks later, I ended up at another event that she had arranged - the “Day of my native language”, in which famous Belarusian musicians participated.

Alena Vorona's activity is a living confirmation of the famous aphorism: a talented person is talented in everything. Alena is the author and performer of his own songs, a good organizer and, as it turned out, a wonderful person. Despite the significant difference in age, we quickly found a common language and easily switched to "you". At some point, I suddenly realized that I could not help but take her interview.

Alena Vorona, a hairdresser-stylist by profession, turned out to be a very interesting interlocutor, erudite in different fields of cultural life. Gennady Shostak: In the Slavic epos of the crow, it was a harbinger of misfortunes. Immediately I recall the famous song, blessed, including many rockers: “Black raven, black raven, you do not eat Alena Vorona above me: this is a very frequently asked question.

Let's start with the fact that we initially did not think about some epic. I was just dyeing black, I had black hair, we lived in the style of rock and roll, we walked in sneakers, dark clothes, torn. The jeans and there were such an appearance. It comes to me with such a stream, and I really feel that this is something from the other world sometimes. Apparently so.

I first heard your group on the Planeta website. Your cover version of the song "Gray" was presented there. As I know, the first composition you wrote an album. By the end of last year, he was almost ready. What is his fate? Alena: After the "trumpet", many learned about us. They had a request that we did not use all the arrangements they do. Those songs that have already been recorded remained.

Some of these records, including a cover on the Gray, I did it myself, without the help of musicians. And the album, which we almost finished with the first composition, decided to freeze. Firstly, the musicians were a little jealous of the fact that I could let somewhere the fruits of their work. And secondly, I changed the style of playing a little, changed the composition.

And, of course, we are now playing differently. Therefore, I do not see the point in the album, which, in my opinion, is a little behind in quality from what we are doing now. Alena: I still have folk notes in the voice if we take, for example, the song "Daistal" "got", it sounds like this, but I never associated myself with a folk. We just play how it will fall on the soul, how it turns out, how it turns out.

We do not adhere to a specific style, play the soul. And the soul is such a thin string that sounds differently. I can play hard hardcore. And you know that I also play in acoustics, and all the songs are different. And, it seems to me, this is a big plus for the group, when people listen, and there all the material is different, interesting - there is no monotony that arises when you adhere to a specific style.

Or are you through them? Alena: Do you want to ask if I studied from any of them? GS: Did you listen to them a lot? Alena laughs: it is very difficult to answer this question. Because I grew up on the music that my brother listened to, and he was 5 years older than me. And also on the music that my parents listened. I will not say that I studied with them. But in adolescence I myself loved Zemfira very much.

I still had a nickname Zemfira to the crow, I was compared with her. Because she also sang along in one cover-braid, baked the whole of Zemfira. And if there was some kind of school, then most likely it was a school of Zemfira. Yanka Diaghilev and other more serious performers who carry some moral background with them were heard by me much later, when I played, wrote my material.

In fact, in my environment there were no people who listen to such music. Somewhere around the age of 18, I began to listen to her and, in principle, I do not think that this somehow influenced my work. GS: It seemed to me that from Bashlachev and Yankees you inherited this nervousness of Alena: I just laughs myself. How did you get there? Share your impressions.

Alena: I found out about this festival literally on the last day and submitted an application. I was invited.The organizers paid us the trip and took on the solution of visa issues. There we were settled in the hotel in general everything was cool organized! GS: I had to read a lot of reviews of Russian and Ukrainian authors to Belarusian releases at one time. And, you know, many strive to fasten a certain political background to them.

In other words, they see a black cat in a dark room, even when it is not there and cannot be there. Does it bother you? Alena laughs: no, he does not bother me. That is, the very name of the song influenced such a rating of attendance. They enter the page from Canada, from Germany - no longer ours. Perhaps they thought that I belonged to the opposition, but probably disappointed, listening to the song to the end.

Because in fact, if you listen to the words, there is absolutely nothing opposition. We are talking about the struggle against oneself, about some internal contradictions was influenced by the fact that sometimes even the closest people do not understand you. And when you tell the truth, they usually do not believe you. And vice versa, they mainly believe when you are deceiving.

And I am a person who loves the truth very much. I can’t even lie in the little things. This happens very rarely. Basically, I only tell the truth. Somewhere it even annoys me when people do not believe when they argue, they think that I am not true. Even when it comes to my inner world. How can another person know my inner world? That's why the song was written: where is my true?

Why did someone hide her? People see her differently, you know? GS: If you are offered to speak at some event organized by one or another political party, how will you react to this?