The group "Tea for Two" really liked millions of fans. The team was founded in 1994. The place of origin of the group was the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
The team members were Stas Kostyushkin and Denis Klyaver, one of whom composed music, and the second was responsible for the lyrics.
Klyaver was born on April 6, 1975. He began composing music as a child, when he was 12 years old.
He studied at a music school and did not graduate from college due to the fact that he went into the army. After completing the service, the guy began to pursue a career.
His stage colleague Kostyushkin was born on August 20, 1971 in the Ukrainian hero city of Odessa, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Denis has experience as a trumpeter in a military band, and Stas worked in the youth musical theater Through the Looking Glass.
Successful start of the group
The collective "climbed" to the musical Olympus not immediately. Their first successful performance was participation in the qualifying round "Yalta - Moscow - Transit". The guys amazed the jury and other participants of the competition with their talent.
Laima Vaikule drew attention to a couple of performers, who immediately offered the guys cooperation.
Since then, the creative career of the team began to develop. Work with Lima lasted two years. During this period of time, the guys understood how to make a show.
This experience helped them in a successful career. Since the time of cooperation with the famous singer, the group “Tea for Two” has shown each performance on stage like a performance. The audience was delighted.
Contract with Centum
In the spring of 2000, the team signed a contract for production work with the Centum company. The company was a team not indifferent to the current state of modern and domestic show business.
Thanks to the participation of the company, the group shot a video clip "Farewell, Dawn". Then she began to tour, leaving time for studio collaboration. In the fall of 2002, the guys released the album "Native".
In the first month of spring 2001 in St. Petersburg, the group "Tea for Two" presented a solo program. It was an enchanting theatrical show "Kino".
The success was not long in coming, the audience was waiting for special effects, staging, a script thought out by well-known producers.
The preparation of the show required considerable effort, so the artists had to significantly reduce the number of tours. All forces were focused on work on the show program.
The audience appreciated the efforts made, so the performers enjoyed even greater popularity.
After such a successful performance in June 2001, a video clip was shot for the newly recorded composition "My Tender".
The authors of the song were Stas Kostyushkin (text) and Denis Klyaver (musical accompaniment). The clip was directed by Andrey Boltenko, a well-known Moscow-based Russian video clip creator.
The new work, which has become known as "Affectionate Mine", can rightfully be considered a breakthrough for the "Tea for Two" group. The team gained success immediately after the release of the song. She was appreciated not only by the fans of the band, but also by her colleagues on the stage.
Music critics gave the group high scores, radio stations constantly played the song. On television, she also occupied a leading position in the rating. The guys did not expect such success.
The arrival of the group's popularity
After the release of the composition, the artists began to be recognized on the street and asked for autographs - the band gained real recognition from the public.
In the middle of winter 2002, on the stage of St. Petersburg, the group "Tea for Two" sang the song "Snowstorm". Almost instantly, a script for a video clip for this composition was developed.
The author was a participant in the Gorodok program, Denis's father, Ilya Oleinikov. The clip was directed by the producer of the group Sergey Baranov and the Russian author of video clips Alexander Igudin. The new clip has found the same success as the previous video clip.
On May 16, the fifth almanac of the Tender Moya group was released. On April 28, the video clip was presented to the general public at the Metelitsa entertainment center.
The album contains 13 songs performed in the traditional style of innovative romanticism. The "parents" of most of the compositions were the founders of the group Denis and Stas.
The queen of the album was the composition "Affectionate mine". The composition for a long time occupied a leading position in the rating in domestic hit parades. In the middle of summer 2004, a new album "Ten thousand words about love" was released.
tea for two now
Now the team members work separately. In 2012, the group broke up, the guys announced their intentions to perform solo a year earlier.
Her soloists began to perform separately. They often appear in public, maintain pages on social networks, where they communicate with numerous fans.
Denis is now interested in a solo career. Stas has developed a new project A-Dessa. Video clips of artists can still be seen in the media.
